Random Links Thread

[mrwicked]

^ haha exactly.

buddy of mine sent that to me.

its like the deep dark recesses of youtube.

[Tank]

that video needed some tad in it.

[gotbeer]

Time Warner Cable customers who bought modems may have to pay rental fee after Charter takeover

It's like they want people to cut the cord.

[Redondo]

Police searching for mates driving a motorized picnic table

[Redondo]

As lavish as ever, Dubai's Fire Service might soon use jetpacks to fight fires

[Redondo]

Intel's 72-core processor is coming to desktop computers next year

 

You think your PC gaming rig has a powerful processor? You haven’t seen anything yet. PC World reports that Intel wants to put its so-called Knights Landing chip into a limited number of workstation desktop computers starting next year. Knights Landing, which Intel says is its most powerful chip to date, is a 72-core processor with 8 billion transistors. Next year will mark the first time it’s been used in workstations.

 

“A limited number of workstations will ship in the first half of next year from Intel, which will also control initial distribution,” PC World writes. “As usage expands, hopefully PC makers and other partners will sign on to sell Xeon Phi desktops… The Knights Landing chip can deliver over 3 teraflops of peak performance, which is roughly in the range of some high-performance graphics chips used in the world’s fastest supercomputers.”

[gotbeer]

Police: 2 Minnesota girls missing since 2013 found at farm

 

Good that they were found.  But this is quite troubling.

 

 

Police believed an underground network of family court critics was hiding the Rucki sisters.

 

[Tank]

Intel's 72-core processor is coming to desktop computers next year

 

The Knights Landing chip can deliver over 3 teraflops of peak performance, which is roughly in the range of some high-performance graphics chips used in the world’s fastest supercomputers.”

 

 

i'm calling bull on this being a real word.

[nate]

i'm calling bull on this being a real word.

 

It absolutely is!  A flop is a floating point operation.  A teraflop would be 1 trillion floating point operations per second.

[arch stanton]

It's also a dive I invented at the pool last summer.

[gotbeer]

Freak is too kind of a word.

 

'I Am So Happy': Man Undergoes Surgery To Look More Like A Parrot (Photos)

[Redondo]

^^^ That is so bizarre. I always wonder where people like that get the money to do that to themselves.

[Tank]

well, this is unexpected.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/11/16/why-the-nra-opposed-laws-to-prevent-suspected-terrorists-from-buying-guns/

[Redondo]

TOO MUCH POWER?
Mizzou students want to help choose school leaders

This is going too far IMO.

[Redondo]

well, this is unexpected.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/11/16/why-the-nra-opposed-laws-to-prevent-suspected-terrorists-from-buying-guns/

 

That is scary.

[Redondo]

• Dentist arrested for child porn, accused of treating drug dealer in exchange for meth

John Wolf was arrested at his home Friday. Federal prosecutors say the Manhattan dentist provided services to a drug dealer in exchange for methamphetamine he uses and also distributes. They say the 59-year-old provided a flash drive containing pornography to an undercover agent and told the agent he used his office to view and distribute the illicit images.

 

 

 

 

 

The comments are worth reading

Edited November 21, 2015 by Redondo

[Redondo]

Astronaut Scott Kelly's 'UFO' photo generates extraterrestrial buzz

[Redondo]

 

 

Texas woman suffers non-life threatening injures after driving off parking garage

[arch stanton]

Maybe she didn't have enough stickers and was trying to avoid Mike at the toll booth.

[gotbeer]

And you say us Asians don't know how to drive. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We are equally as bad.

[Redondo]

Here's the income required to be among the top earners in San Francisco

 

San Francisco's top earners are insanely wealthy.

 

We decided to find out just how much you have to make to compete with the richest of the rich in the San Francisco metro area, and what income would put you in the middle of the pack.

 

Here's the household income required to be in the:

 

Top 1%: $558,046

Top 5%: $349,693

Top 10%: $238,855

Top 25%: $141,790

Top 50%: $78,086

 

[Redondo]

Click here to see if you can spot the 5 telltale signs of a fake email.

[Redondo]

• Toddler dies after siblings lock her in oven

 

Two Houston 3-year-olds who were left home alone Thursday locked their 19-month-old sister in an oven, turned it on and killed her.

 

Child Protective Services records reviewed by KTRK show one child put J’Zyra Thompson in the oven and the other made it “hot.” The baby reportedly kicked the oven door while inside. Attempts to resuscitate Thompson, who had multiple burns, were unsuccessful.

 

J’Zyra’s mom, Racquel Thompson, left her four kids – all under the age of 5 – home alone while she and a boyfriend got food at Domino's Pizza and filled a prescription at Walgreens, police said.

 

Frederick Price is the father of at least two of Thompson’s children, and said he may be J’Zyra’s dad, but never took a paternity test to find out. He told KTRK that he hadn’t seen the children in months after failed attempts to contact Thompson.

 

“She was a cute little baby, I just didn’t know if that was my daughter or not,” Price said.

[Redondo]

Kyle Busch wins Sprint Cup championship

Despite missing the first 11 races of the season after suffering a broken leg and foot in the XFINITY Series season opener at Daytona, Busch sealed his first Sprint Cup title with a 1st-place finish in Sunday night's NASCAR finale.

[Tank]

 

• Toddler dies after siblings lock her in oven

 

Two Houston 3-year-olds who were left home alone Thursday locked their 19-month-old sister in an oven, turned it on and killed her.

 

Child Protective Services records reviewed by KTRK show one child put J’Zyra Thompson in the oven and the other made it “hot.” The baby reportedly kicked the oven door while inside. Attempts to resuscitate Thompson, who had multiple burns, were unsuccessful.

 

J’Zyra’s mom, Racquel Thompson, left her four kids – all under the age of 5 – home alone while she and a boyfriend got food at Domino's Pizza and filled a prescription at Walgreens, police said.

 

Frederick Price is the father of at least two of Thompson’s children, and said he may be J’Zyra’s dad, but never took a paternity test to find out. He told KTRK that he hadn’t seen the children in months after failed attempts to contact Thompson.

 

“She was a cute little baby, I just didn’t know if that was my daughter or not,” Price said.

 

 

oh my. wow. i'm guessing the other three kids won't be in that home much longer.