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Curious Beijingers urged 'Don't ask' as Olympics near

BEIJING (AFP) - Avoid questions about income. Steer clear of religion and politics. And please, don't ask foreigners visiting for the

Curious Note In The Site: Command In Google

A colleague of mine has a site. When we type site: www.thesite.com and enter we get the list of webpages with title and description. But after the title we are getting a line that the site may harm your computer. Why is this ? Also they dont have a cached version of it. I am as such reluctant even to open the site becos of this warning. I have gone thru google advice on this and have asked the person to thoroughly check all pages for anything wrong with the coding. I think they are in process and also they had written to the mentioned link given in Google's pages but no response so far? Has anyone experienced this before and have idea what to do?

Curious robots could search for intelligent life on distant planets

Eve (left) and WALL-E in a scene from the film. The robots are an animated version of the research being done on making robot rovers that would cooperate intelligently while exploring faraway planets.

Reader Question: Test a site on a mobile device?

Just curious if anyone had a mobile device with web access and is willing to check the mobile version of our website. If you go to www.abwebsitedesign.com with any mobile browser, it should seamlessly redirect to the mobile version. Please let me know your thoughts.

The tax fate of your 401(k) when you move

I am curious about my tax-deferred 401(k) plans when I move. If I move from New York to North Carolina or South Carolina, will New York come after the taxes that were deferred while I am working here now? I can't seem to find the answer to this question anywhere.

Live Blogging II: Religious Upbringing

I was curious as to whether there was any religious teaching or training in your childhood years? Your story gives me hope that other areligious people who are willing to seek answers to life’s questions will find them, if they are willing to ask and seek answers.

Senate grapples with Web privacy issues

Plat'Home is a curious Japanese company that seems intent on cracking the US market with its weird brand of tiny Linux servers, says The Register.

Google Analytics And Forms

For one website, we are curious to know which keywords (organic search only) are resulting in forms being completed. For instance, Keyword A might bring double the traffic of Keyword B, but Keyword B might result in more leads...or not. Is there a simple way to do this through Google Analytics, some code we can add to a form? I thought there was, but I don't see it anywhere.

Home, but not alone

Cristal Vazquez had long been curious about what her three children were up to online. So when her 12-year-old daughter left her computer without logging out of her MySpace account two years ago, Vasquez seized the opportunity to check her viewing history. Among the list of "friends" were male names she didn't recognise, including one that was extremely flirtatious in his messages.

Rumor: Wrath of the Lich King box revealed

Tipster Nigel sent WOW Insider these curious-looking photos of what appears to be the packaging for the Wrath of the Lich King expansion.

Marriage proposals and political pitches, in bite-sized bits

If there was any lingering doubt that the curious blogging phenomenon called Twitter has gone mainstream, it dissipated the moment that Stephen Harper signed up.

Strange sex life of melons exposed

A French study reveals the genetic underpinnings to the curious reproductive system of melons, called andromonoecy, in which individual plants carry both male and bisexual (hermaphroditic) flowers.

BlogTalkRadio: For Business

In the past two years, BlogTalkRadio has become one of those curious Internet sensations -- millions rave about it, but few understand how it'll make enough money to survive. The company offers a free, eponymous service that lets anyone with a telephone and a computer host a live radio talk show that's broadcast over the Internet -- no downloads or special equipment necessary. Some 3.2 million people listen in each month to amateur broadcasters and guests, who have included movie star Brad Pitt, author Salman Rushdie, and U.S. Presidential hopefuls Barack Obama and John McCain.

Naked cyclists protest oil dependence

ST. LOUIS, Aug. 4 (UPI) -- Hundreds of nearly-nude bikers and curious onlookers have descended on St. Louis for a 10-mile ride protesting U.S. dependence on oil, participants said.

Cosmic Mystery: NGC 7008 by Dietmar Hager

Over the weeks we've taken a look at some very curious objects which have often raised some wonderful questions. One such question dealt with what could be observed should a supernova event involve a planetary system. In this case, it's not quite the explosive mass destruction scenario - but a planetary nebula that consumed its planets…

Napster bullish on user engagement

Investors bearish on Napster salesNapster continues to bumble along as one of those curious technology oddities haunting the NASDAQ exchange.…

Is disability income taxable?

I've been on short-term disability for three weeks, and I was curious if the money I received is taxable? I get 65 percent of my pay and my employer pays the premium, but it's part of my current earnings. I talked with the disability company and they said they would be issuing a W-2. Does this mean it's taxable? If this is true, I know the IRS matches W-2s with the tax return.

Saskatoon police officers hold their noses long enough to save trapped skunk

SASKATOON - Some Saskatoon police officers held their noses long enough to save an overly curious skunk that had gotten its head stuck in a paper cup.

Solar Systems Like Ours Are Likely To Be Rare

KentuckyFC writes "Astronomers have discovered some 250 planetary systems beyond our own, many of them with curious properties. In particular, our theories of planet formation are challenged by 'hot Jupiters,' gas giants that orbit close to their parent stars. Current thinking is that gas giants can only form far away from stars because gas and dust simply gets blown away from the inner regions. Now astronomers have used computer simulations of the way planetary systems form to understand what is going on (abstract). It looks as if gas giants often form a long way from stars and then migrate inwards. That has implications for us: a migrating gas giant sweeps away all in its path, including rocky planets in the habitable zone. And that means that solar systems like ours are likely to be rare.

String for new iPod touch model appears in beta firmware

As you probably know, each successive iPhone and iPod touch firmware release is immediately pounced upon by curious folks who scour it for changes and hints. The beta release of the iPhone 2.1 firmware turned up GPS and push e-mail hints, and some further exploration has uncovered even more juicy tidbits. iPhone Atlas has the details of one such discovery: a reference to what could be an upcoming iPod touch revision.

Weird Google Cache Results

I have had some strange Google cache results show up for some of my websites recently. I am curious if anyone else has experienced this. One of the issues that I find odd is that my home page is still found in Google for various keyword phrases, yet when I check the cache of the page it shows that the cache cannot be found. At other times when I check the cache I get a result that looks like this - cache:890Mr57t4wUJ:www.mydomain.com/ keyword

eBay Sets up Shopper Community to Conduct Market Research

eBay is using a service called Communispace to set up and gather data from an "online community of curious, active, and informed online shoppers." An AuctionBytes reader forwarded an email that said Communispace would manage and facilitate Shoppers Connection on eBay's behalf. The email said potential participants in the community would:

How To Encourage a Young Teen To Learn Programming?

Anonymous Hacker writes "I'm in a bit of a bind. My young teenage son is starting to get curious about computers, and in particular, programming. Now, I'm a long time kernel hacker (Linux, BSD and UNIX). I have no trouble handling some of the more obscure things in the kernel. But teaching is not something that I'm good at, by any means. Heck, I can't even write useful documentation for non-techies. So my question is: what's the best way to encourage his curiosity and enable him to learn? Now, I know there are folks out there with far better experience in this area than myself. I'd really appreciate any wisdom you can offer. I'd also be especially interested in what younger people think, in particular those who are currently in college or high school.

Refinancing to ARM may be risky

I have a 30-year mortgage at 6 percent and have been prepaying $100 a month since November 2003. I was curious about getting a LIBOR adjustable-rate mortgage that resets the payment monthly. Is that a bad idea?

Apple cuts iPhone 3G cost by over $50, says iSuppli

It seems that whenever Apple releases a new product, it quickly gets disassembled (or run over by a car) by companies that are curious about the innards of the product. One of those companies is market intelligence firm iSuppli, which releases cost analyses of Apple products a few days after their release. iSuppli released a preliminary estimate for the iPhone 3G several weeks ago, but has completed a new, real dissection now that the device is officially out. The company believes that it shows that Apple has managed to cut over $50 of manufacturing costs the second time around, leading to a tidy profit margin on each unit sold.

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