Bill Clinton parties with porn stars in Monaco by: TMZ Wednesday, May 23, 2012 The two porn stars on former President Clinton's arms are Tasha Reign (left) and Brooklyn Lee — Adult Video News' "Best New Starlet" in porn. Photo Credit:Twitter Bill Clinton just out-Clinton'd himself — posing with two famous porn stars in Monaco moments ago ... and one of them's a real up-and-comer. ... The two porn stars on Bill's arms are Tasha Reign (left) and Brooklyn Lee — AVN's "Best New Starlet" in porn. Brooklyn — who just posted the pic on her Twitter account — also just won the award for "Best Sex Scene" in "Mission Asspossible." As for Tasha's film credits ... those include "Baby Got Boobs 8" and "Farm ... Continue reading →

Novelists may have made the work of Leonardo da Vinci fodder for the popular imagination, but it may take a scientist to truly appreciate and appropriate the master’s style. Such is the case with CERN’s Dr. Sergio Cittolin, who, when he’s not frittering his time away on physics, likes to do drawings of the LHC in the da Vinci tradition. As he explained to Symmetry magazine: As a naturalist, da Vinci probed, prodded, and tested his way to a deeper understanding of how organisms work and why, often dissecting his object of study with this aim. "I thought, why not present the idea of data analysis to the world within the naturalist world of Leonardo?" Cittolin says. In the drawing below, the CMS detector is ... Continue reading →

In early May, at a suburban home in Chattanooga, Cindy Faulkner began unpacking one of several boxes, removing lingerie, blindfolds, massage oils, and dildos to display for the half dozen women gathered. Faulkner is a sales consultant with Ohio-based Pure Romance, the Amway of vibrators, and she was the guest of honor at a party of the sort one might normally associate with Tupperware. Before Faulkner could even finish unpacking, two of the guests began asking her about the Fifty Shades of Grey books, the bestselling erotic romance trilogy written by overnight British sensation E.L. James. Did she have any of the toys featured in their favorite scene, including a tickle and whip (a leather riding crop with a feather on one end), blindfolds, and ... Continue reading →

May 24, 2012 What the final decision on Oracle v. Google really means The jury decided yesterday that Google did not infringe on Oracle's patents related to Android. Fantastic news -- but the wider view offers little comfort Follow @infoworld As James Niccolai reported yesterday, the jury in the Oracle-Google trial has found than none of the eight remaining claims in the two remaining patents was infringed by Google in Android as Oracle had alleged. From great heights of disaster, the case has been reduced to potential statutory damages on infringement of nine lines of code that the judge himself implies are trivial and obvious. Rather than the original $6 billion damages, it's doubtful Oracle can hope for more than $32 million according to Steven ... Continue reading →

Autonomy founder Mike Lynch (Credit: HP) If Meg Whitman has a clue about how to restore a one-time Silicon Valley legend, she's doing a great job of keeping the plan to herself. Nine months after her appointment as Hewlett-Packard's CEO, the Whitman era began in earnest today with the announcement that HP would fire 27,000 employees. Twenty seven thousand employees. And among the casualties is one Mike Lynch, the brilliant English computer scientist who founded Autonomy, a company once described by the Financial Times as "the doyen of European software." Autonomy's software sifts through and categorizes patterns found in unstructured and semi-structured information as opposed to the data residing in columns and rows. It's propeller head stuff -- hey, Lynch is a Cambridge-educated propeller head ... Continue reading →

As we delve more into building sites and applications with HTML5 and related APIs, we’re finding certain inevitable issues arising from security practices – or lack thereof – when managing these new technologies. The more complex and secure our applications and sites need to be, such as for finance and banking, the earlier we need to understand where the risks are and implement a plan appropriate for our given projects. Revisiting HTML5 In order to make some sense out of which parts of HTML5 can be used with confidence and to identify the areas where risk might occur, let’s revisit what makes up what we’ve been calling HTML5 for these past couple of years. Structural semantics: Additional elements and attributes for enhancing the structuring of ... Continue reading →

Ted Kaczynski — the domestic terrorist known as the Unabomber, who is serving life in prison for sending deadly mail bombs — will not be able to attend his 50th class reunion at Harvard College. But he did contribute a bizarre entry to the alumni report for the class of 1962.While many of his classmates sent in lengthy updates on their lives for the 2½-inch-thick “red book,” the entry for Theodore John Kaczynski contains only nine lines.The listing says his occupation is “prisoner,” and his home address is “No. 04475-046, US Penitentiary — Max, P.O. Box 8500, Florence, CO 8126-8500.”Under the awards section, the listing says, “Eight life sentences, issued by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California, 1998.”He lists one ... Continue reading →

After more than a week of deliberations, the jury in Oracle v. Google finally came back with a verdict over patent infringement on Wednesday. There is an obvious winner and an obvious loser here, but let’s reflect on some of the major wins and losses that have emerged thanks to proceedings at the U.S. District Court of Northern California in San Francisco over the last several weeks. See also: Jury strikes a blow against software patents | Google kicks Oracle in its patent teeth | Jury clears Google of infringing on Oracle patents | Oracle v. Google jury stumbling over tech terminology, illness | Copyrights, APIs, and Oracle vs Google | CNET: Complete trial coverage WINNERS Google: The obvious winner from the patent round and ... Continue reading →