Strange Things I Have Found
Who has the most images online?
Image Warehouses On The Web (numbers are total images stored)
ImageShack: 20 billion
Facebook: 15 billion
PhotoBucket: 7.2 billion
Flickr 3.4 billion
Multiply: 3 billion
Picasa “billions”
ImageShack really?
Price of Prostitutes in Hong Kong
1. 大波北姑: big breasted northern girl (**thanks mtdynamics)
2. 青春陀地: youthful local (which suggests that this is hong kong, since 陀地 is cantonese slang for local)
3. 白淨馬拉: fair-skinned malay
4. 熱情寶妹: feisty filipina
5. 狂野鬼妹: wild white girl (lit: raving wild evil-ghost little-sister).
the black at the very top says: "air conditioned" (lit: cold air turned on).
狂野鬼妹: wild white girl (lit: raving wild ghost little-sister).
The inside of a Google Server
Google Server (Click for expanded view)
Google's big surprise: each server has its own 12-volt battery to supply power if there's a problem with the main source of electricity. The company also revealed for the first time that since 2005, its data centers have been composed of standard shipping containers--each with 1,160 servers and a power consumption that can reach 250 kilowatts.
So Far Conficker is a dud
By all security analysts' measure, the Conficker worm was set to release whatever vengeance it could on the world today. Luckily, according to most reports, Conficker appears not to have had much of an effect. Still, some experts are saying that it's unlikely that this is the last we'll hear from Conficker, so be sure you know how to protect your Windows PC from the Conficker worm.
