Study: Antarctic Ice Melting From Warm Water Below

WASHINGTON (AP) — Antarctica's massive ice shelves are shrinking because they are being eaten away from below by warm water, a new study finds. That suggests that future sea levels could rise faster than many scientists have been predicting.

The western chunk of Antarctica is losing 23 feet of its floating ice sheet each year. Until now, scientists weren't exactly sure how it was happening and whether or how man-made global warming might be a factor. The answer, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature, is that climate change plays an indirect role — but one that has larger repercussions than if Antarctic ice were merely melting from warmer air.

Super Secret Hypersonic Aircraft Flew Out of Its Skin

ABC News: It turns out that tearing through the atmosphere at 20 times the speed of sound is bad for the skin, even if you're a super high-tech aircraft developed by the government's best engineers at its far-out research agency.

DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, has made public its  best guess about what might have caused its unmanned arrowhead-shaped Hypersonic Technology Vehicle (HTV-2) to suddenly lose contact and crash in the Pacific just a few minutes after slicing through the sky at Mach 20 last August: it was going so fast its skin peeled off.

Start Ups: How to Make Money Doing Side Hustles

If you need extra money to take care of an unexpected bill or to get out of debt, you may have considered getting a side job. Whatever your reason for needing extra money, there are plenty of side jobs you can take on to increase your income. The great thing about a lot of side jobs is you can do them in your free time. Many of the jobs are simply things people are too busy to do or have no desire to complete

Craigslist Ugly Design Due For Makeover

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Recognizable, fast-loading, but outdated as hell website seeks Senior UI / Usability / Front End Engineer. Love it or hate it, Craigslist‘s design could provide a better experience, and apparently Craig thinks so too, as this weekend the site posted a job opening for someone to make it “faster, friendlier, and easier”. It’s hoping for a brave designer who can “develop new products and features that will have CL users swooning”, “optimize internal team tools”, and who has mobile app design and platform support skills.

There’s plenty of tweaks we’d appreciate like more consistent navigation controls and better use of whitespace. But don’t expect Craigslist to ditch its famously minimal facade that’s helped it climb to 50 million classified postings and 30 billion page views a month.

FBI: Hundreds Of Thousands May Lose Internet In July

WASHINGTON (AP) — For computer users, a few mouse clicks could mean the difference between staying online and losing Internet connections this summer.

Unknown to most of them, their problem began when international hackers ran an online advertising scam to take control of infected computers around the world. In a highly unusual response, the FBI set up a safety net months ago using government computers to prevent Internet disruptions for those infected users. But that system is to be shut down.

The FBI is encouraging users to visit a website run by its security partner, http://www.dcwg.org , that will inform them whether they're infected and explain how to fix the problem. After July 9, infected users won't be able to connect to the Internet.

StartUps: Let Launchgram Bring New Product Info To You

Last week at the 10x Xelerator, Andy Sparks impelled LaunchGram.com into motion and lazy people all over the world rejoiced (or they will…eventually). This new service, in the words of Sparks, “aggregates pre-release demand signals for products coming soon.”

The way it works is that consumers can create an account at LaunchGram’s website and subscribe to news about imminently launching products of interest 
(the iPhone 5 for example).

Once users subscribe, they can receive “LaunchGrams” via email with curated updates about product release date, pre-order availability, photos and video. (LaunchGram does the dirty work here by scouring the web for the most up to date information about listed products). The same information that shows up in emails can also be viewed on product-specific pages at the main website.

SICK!! Hands on with Microsoft Research's Beamatron

Microsoft Research is continuing its trend of showing off some pretty cool demos, this time with the "Beamaton" augmented reality system. Unlike some other AR experiences, Beamatron strips away the layer of abstraction that comes from looking at the augmented world through a portal, such as the screen of a smartphone or PS Vita. Instead, the system uses a projector and a Kinect sensor on a motorized pan-tilt head to project virtual objects into the real world. Beamatron is able to create a depth map of the physical space around it using the Kinect Fusion software, allowing it to alter the projections to preserve their form on various physical shapes. What's more, the projections can react to the physical dimension of the space, such as colliding with obstacles or falling off elevated surfaces.

In the demo below, a virtual remote controlled car reacts to driving over ramps or people's feet as you'd expect a real car to, and is even stopped by physical walls. In terms of practical use, Microsoft mentioned that they could see the system used to project notifications onto surfaces of a room, making sure that they are always in an individual's line of sight. While we're not too keen on being unable to escape notifications, we'd gladly take that car for a spin.

New App Allows You to Explore Alien Planets

Many wonder about what goes on beyond the stars and the planets orbiting around us, and thanks to Kepler Explorer ,free for iPad and iPhone, you can now look through over 2,300 alien planet candidates, which were discovered by NASA’s Kepler Mission. So far, around 2,300 alien planet candidates in about 1,800 distant planetary systems have been discovered. 

The app first leads you through a drop-down menu, which lists all the discovered planetary systems that you can then move a slider to show planets’ orbits around their respective stars. Your also able to play with different possible compositions of the planet's body and atmosphere, using elements such as iron, rock, water and hydrogen to try out combinations consistent with the Kepler Mission’s findings.

Most of the planets are inhabitable to life, but some of the planets are Earth-sized temperate objects, meaning you could be scoping out an alien's home.

Source: Mashable

Google to split stock to keep power with founders

NEW YORK (AP) — Google improved its short-term finances even as it seeks to preserve its long-term interests.

The online search leader reported a 61 percent increase in its net income for the first three months of the year and announced plans to issue a new class of stock to shareholders. The new shares won't have any voting power and will help Google's senior leaders keep control years from now.

Under the plan, expected to win approval in June, all current stockholders would get one share of the new Class C stock for each share they now own. This effectively splits Google's stock price in half.

Employees given Google stock in the future would get the non-voting stock, allowing voting power to remain with existing shareholders. The same would hold true for companies that Google buys using its stock.

Stock splits reduce prices for each share, allowing smaller investors to participate. Although Google said investors had been clamoring for one, the decision announced Thursday seemed driven more by a desire to retain control.

Without change, senior leaders would eventually lose their voting power. CEO Larry Page and fellow co-founder Sergey Brin said that would undermine "our aspirations for Google over the very long term."

Since it went public in 2004, Google's founders have emphasized a need to insulate management from short-term pressures. That's a view now commonly held by the newest generation of freshly public — or soon-to-be public — tech companies such as Zynga Inc. and Facebook Inc.

Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson FEEDS 3.5 MILLION KIDS IN AFRICA!!

50 Cent is back from feeding kids in Africa and took a moment to reflect on his trip and how it changed him:

Rick Santorum Calls Obama “A Snob” For Wanting All Americans To Go To College

CALLED OBAMA A "SNOB" FOR RECOMMENDING SCHOOL.... SMH

Speaking to a tea party group in Michigan on Saturday, former senator Rick Santorum accused President Obama of being a “snob” because he wants “everybody in America to go to college.”:

Lakeside Post/ DramacydalEnt: Whether intentional or not, ESPN’s since-deleted headline about Jeremy Lin was distressing and shows RACISM is still here.

Wow....Thats pretty much all I can come up with as I think about Jeremy Lin's impact on the N.B.A as well as the New York Knicks. AND, WOW is how I feel about ESPN'S Copy Editor's remark's made towards Jeremy Lin's Friday night performance. "CHINK IN ARMOR" I mean REALLY? And now is the point of "FIREABLE OFFENSE" or not?

TOP 8 SECRET SOCIETIES IN THE WORLD! Lakeside Post/Dramacydal Ent **EXCLUSIVE**

George Bush "Skull & Bones"

No matter what their supposed purpose, there’s something inherently sinister about a secret society. Though most are formed with relatively realistic political and religious goals in mind, their focus on mystery and secrecy has made them the target of countless criticisms and conspiracy theories involving everything from aliens and the occult to world domination. Of course, the reality is usually much more innocuous, but that doesn’t mean that the groups don’t have some fascinatingly weird practices, or that they haven’t had an impact on world events.

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Mayweather vs Pacquiao "2012"?

SAFE HOUSE FEB 10 2012: SEE THE OPENING NIGHT HERE!! **EXCLUSIVE**

Safe House: FEB 10 2012

When a group of rebel soldiers from the neighboring region destroy a CIA-operated safe house, the facility's young house-sitter (Ryan Reynolds) escapes with the rogue ex-CIA agent  (Denzel Washington)  who is being hidden there, and the two men battle their way across South Africa in order to reach another secure location.

In regards to 2012 fanatics, here are the five scariest things that will likely happen because of climate change.

BIG DOG DOT.COM aka MEGARACER LOSES HIS #1 MW3  SPOT!!

Kim Dotcom, Founder of Megaupload.com and is at the moment battling charges stemming from Money Laundering to Copyright Infringement recently lost his #1 ranking in the critically acclaimed MW3. New Year's Eve 2012 Kim Dotcom (Kim Schmitz) MANAGED TO BECOME THE #1 RANKED PLAYER IN THE WORLD! (Call Of Duty:Modern Warfare 3). Definitely not easy to do considering it has 15 Million COPIES SOLD! Since being incarcerated due to the charges and being considered a Flight Risk, Another ranked player named Azaros has taken his spot, dropping MEGARACER to #2. Im pretty sure when the case is over he will pick up where he left off. Megaupload.com was/is the site to which an F.B.I raid was issued and 4 members of the site were jailed in New Zealand. The were accused of causing $500 Million in lost revenue to Copyright holders WORLD WIDE. READ MORE

OCCUPY OAKLAND "12"

OAKLAND, Calif. — Oakland officials assessed damage to City Hall caused by Occupy protesters while leaders of the movement claimed Sunday that police acted illegally in arresting hundreds of demonstrators and could face a lawsuit. The break-in caused a full day of clashes between police and demonstrators and ended in 400 arrests stemming from charges of Vandilism to Failure to disperse. 3 officers and 1 protester were injured.

Occupy Oakland has been the forefront as of lately in the famed "Occupy" saga, From the looks of it...They don't plan on going NOWHERE NO TIME SOON!

In regards to the "Coast Concordia" wreck...I would like to say THE CAPTAIN WAS A PUSSY!! Even though, true enough.... me myself personally I don't know HOW I would have responded but I MEAN DAMN! I AM A CAPTAIN OF A CRUISELINER WITH 4,500 PEOPLE! Everything from the "Maneuver" to the way he JUMPED SHIP MIN'S LATER leaves me stunned. But, As the story goes on NEW DETAILS KEEP EMERGING of the CAPTAIN'S NEGLECT THE WHOLE NIGHT! I mean "Booze" "Strippers" Yeah, the whole SCENARIO IS CRAZY But hey...This is WHO THEY EMPLOY...Take an In-Depth look at the story as it unfolds Couretesy of Global News...


A week after the Costa Concordia sank in shallow water two hours into a holiday cruise, transfixing the world, attention is now focused on the behavior of the captain before and after the ship hit a rock formation at 9:40 p.m.




What began as a serious tragedy off the Tuscan island of Giglio may now have some serious tabloid elements to the story.

New questions involve the role of a 25-year old blonde Moldovan, a Filipino cook, the captain’s alcohol intake, a dinner ordered after the collision, and the captain’s moves after the ship ran aground, leaving a 160-foot gash in the hull.

Captain Francesco Schettino seems to have been attentive to Domnica Cemortan, alternately described as a hostess and a dancer, for much of the evening before, during, and after the ship hit the rock, possibly dining with her as late as 10:30 p.m. The two were also together as late as midnight, according to Ms. Cemortan, at a lifeboat station, where he ordered her to leave the semi-submerged ship.

What was clarified this week: After charting an alternate course to sail closer to Giglio Island – a course that Costa Cruises denies it authorized – Schettino told investigators he “turned too late” to avoid rocks that some maritime experts say are uncharted but do show up on other nautical charts. In one animated mapping using nautical GPS positioning of the Concordia, the back half of the ship is shown grazing what is described as an exposed rock.

Transcripts of radio conversations between the Coast Guard and Schettino confirm that he left the ship while hundreds of passengers were still onboard.

In upcoming days, an accurate timeline may emerge of Schettino’s precise movements between the restaurant and the bridge as well as who he called and consulted – facts that are still murky and confused right now. The details have serious legal implications and consequences for insurance and recovery of the $450 million ultra-modern vessel.

Today rescue workers said the 117,000 ton Concordia is shifting on the ocean floor by 1.5 centimeters an hour, delaying additional rescue efforts and attempts at removing the oil onboard. Relatives of the 11 dead and 21 still missing are arriving from Peru, India, and European nations.

THAT AIN'T IT!!


Between 9 p.m. and 10:50 p.m., Schettino and Ms. Cemortan, who works for the cruise line but was not employed for the cruise, were seen eating and drinking together. The two were caught on an amateur camera at 9 p.m. in a ship restaurant. Cemortan, who gave an interview to a Romanian paper Thursday, said she was dining with Schettino at 9:30 p.m., around the time the boat hit the rocks.

 Rogelio Barista, a ship cook, told Manila TV he was befuddled bY orders from the captain at 10:15 to serve food, including dessert, to Captain

"I have had 12 years of experience as a cook on a cruise ship,” Mr. Barista said, in comments translated by CNN. “I have even witnessed fires, so I wasn't that scared. But I did wonder, though, what the captain was doing ... why he was still there."

Moreover, in what is generally an industry taboo, Schettino consumed at least part of a decanter of wine, according to Italian passengers who saw him in the restaurant.

William Wright, a British sea captain interviewed on Sky News today, said that just as commercial air pilots are forbidden to drink within a certain time frame of flying, so are ship captain eight hours prior to a voyage. Drinking on board by ship captains is “absolutely unacceptable” and there is a “zero tolerance” policy, Mr. Wright said.

Tapes indicate the Concordia did not make the call to abandon ship until more than an hour after the collision. The initial warning of danger came from a cell phone call by a passenger to a relative on shore who alerted the Coast Guard. It appears that ship communications with the Coast Guard deliberately hid its plight by presenting the crisis as an electrical blackout.

New tapes show that in the meantime, chaos ensued. The crew initially told passengers the problem was an electrical malfunction, then told them to don their lifejackets and head to lifeboat stations, but tapes show that passengers were later told to return to their rooms.

“We have a message from the captain,” says a crew member to passengers in a corridor in a video released Thursday. “We kindly ask you to return to your cabins, or go for a walk if you like. We’ll resolve the electrical problem that we have with the generator. I’m kindly asking you to go back to your rooms, where you’ll be seated and tranquil.”

Cemortan, who has so far not explained why the captain was so attentive to her under such extraordinary conditions, has defended Schettino, echoing his initial story that his maneuver of the ship to shallow water saved thousands of lives and that he was not one of the first to leave.

What Schettino himself told investigators is that he tripped and fell into a lifeboat accidentally while trying to help others. What remains unexplained is how he landed in the same lifeboat as the No. 1 and No. 2 next ranking Concordia officers.

“Seems quite amazing both for myself and other people,” said Mr. Wright, the British captain. “But we need to see the investigation.” The cruise liner was commissioned in 2006 and is one of the largest cruise vessels in the Carnival fleet.   smh

 

Gamaers who download the GTA3 on their iOS or Android devices will be able to play a number of mods which were originally designed for the PC version.

Everything that Rockstar touch seems to turn to gold; whether it be the Grand Theft Auto series, an open world game based in the wild-west (Red Dead Redemption), a game about a war hero turned detective (L.A. Noire) or a game about a kid in school (Bully).

When the publisher announced that it was releasing Grand Theft Auto 3 for smart phones and other portable devices that supported two of the major software engines, few expected that the game would be so well received.

In fact, Grand Theft Auto III spent the last week on the previous year on the top of the download charts for the iOS despite a higher price point as compared to the other titles on offer. GTA 3 was priced at $2.99 which is higher than the more usual $1 price point many of the apps have.

However, gamers now have more value for their many, as if the original game was not enough, because it turns out that the game can be run a number of mods which were originally designed for the PC version of the game when it came out all those years ago.

For those who are not familiar with modding, it is basically when gamers and coders take the game’s code and tinker with it making new levels, game modes and the like. A popular mod would be Counter Strike which was made using code found in Valve’s Half-Life.

What will attract a large number of gamers to try out the mods is the fact that downloading and installing them will not void any warranties for the device. At least, in the case of iOS devices, with nothing confirmed or denied on the Android end.

So far one of the mods on offer allows gamers to replace the cars in the game with real-world models. One can expect many more exciting mods to become available for download as the modders start churning out their creations.