It’s the ultimate social networking scenario: who’s been having sex with whom? I remember a health class exercise to demonstrate the power of viral transmission of STDs: the teacher secretly told one of us we were “infected” and then asked each of us to shake hands with three[...]
The pub: Fingerprint first, then your beer
(picture from the Guardian) This article from Friday’s Register, Beer Fingerprints to go UK-wide, tells us that South Somerset District Council‘s pilot scheme of fingerprinting patrons of local pubs seems to have led to a 48% drop in alcohol related crime between February and September 2[...]
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Lots of computers, one problem
For the wish-list: I’d love to find a comparison/breakdown of the infrastructure and uses of : share nothing clusters SMP (Symmetrical Multi-Processing) grid computing (Globus-based) map/reduce implementations (This list is subject to grow)[...]