Many Americans think of France as a romantic free-for-all, but in fact it can be quite difficult to get a divorce there without proof some
specific harm done by one spouse to another -- like, say, adultery.
Microsoft's Polish business unit decided to spice things up a bit by Photoshopping a white guy's head onto a black man's body (though his hands were left alone).
In a baffling study, British scientists have determined that those most likely to establish a multitasking workflow are exactly the people who are bad at multitasking.
"We suspect that using mobile phones a lot, particularly tools like predictive texts for SMS, is training them to be fast but inaccurate," says Professor Michael Abramson, an epidemiologist at Monash University in Australia who studied the performance of prolific texters, aged 11 to 14, on IQ-type tests.
Sidekick: The Good News & the Bad News Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
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