Day in pictures: 26 March 2013 - FrontMotion Firefox. Six Nations hero Leigh Halfpenny rules out French move - Rugby News - Rugby - WalesOnline - FrontMotion Firefox. Internet meme slamming lazy workers | The Sun |Features - FrontMotion Firefox. Who, What, Why: What is "ungoogleable"? - FrontMotion Firefox. 27 March 2013Last updated at 10:56 ET The word "ungoogleable" has been removed from a list of new Swedish words after a trademark spat. But it raises the question of what can and can't be found with a search engine. Today Google appears to be the font of all data. The idea that something can't be found online is strange enough to have spawned its own adjective.
The word "ungoogleable" is in the headlines after a dispute between the search engine giant and Sweden's language watchdog. The Language Council of Sweden wanted to include "ungoogleable" - or "ogooglebar" - in its annual list of new Swedish words. But it defined the term as something that cannot be found with any search engine. Google wanted the Swedish translation to be changed to refer only to Google searches, and the Council opted to remove the word altogether to avoid a lengthy legal battle. The spat raises the question of just what "ungoogleable" means. To be ungoogleable might be a blessing or a curse. Pompeii exhibition at the British Museum captures the day the sky fell in on Sin City | Mail Online - FrontMotion Firefox.
Relics from ancient Pompeii are going on display at the British MuseumThe exhibition features 450 pieces, some never seen outside ItalyIt will feature at the museum from Thursday until September 29 By David Leafe Published: 01:03 GMT, 27 March 2013 | Updated: 09:06 GMT, 27 March 2013 The ‘parental guidance’ sign is small, discreet and in the unlikeliest of venues — not the foyer of a cinema, or a shop selling CDs by foul-mouthed rappers, but in the august splendour of the British Museum. It’s next to a marble statue of a couple making love. Awkward enough to explain to young visitors, you might think. But that’s only the half of it. Closer inspection of this artwork reveals a human-like male in sexual congress with what is indisputably a nanny goat.
Scroll down for video Horror: A family frozen in their death throes Poignant: The blackened cradle where a baby's bones were discovered in Herculaneum Frozen in time: A painting of a baker and his wife from Pompeii Victim: A cast of the Muleteer. Global internet slows after 'biggest attack in history' - FrontMotion Firefox. 27 March 2013Last updated at 09:03 ET By Dave Lee Technology reporter, BBC News The BBC's Rory Cellan-Jones explains why the attack is like a "motorway jam", alongside expert David Emm from Kaspersky Lab The internet around the world has been slowed down in what security experts are describing as the biggest cyber-attack of its kind in history.
A row between a spam-fighting group and hosting firm has sparked retaliation attacks affecting the wider internet. Experts worry that the row could escalate to affect banking and email systems. Five national cyber-police-forces are investigating the attacks. Spamhaus, a group based in both London and Geneva, is a non-profit organisation that aims to help email providers filter out spam and other unwanted content. To do this, the group maintains a number of blocklists - a database of servers known to be being used for malicious purposes.
Cyberbunker has not responded to the BBC's request for comment. 'Immense job' Continue reading the main story. 10 Space Technologies That Help On Earth -- InformationWeek - FrontMotion Firefox. NASA nurtured many innovations, from a portable communications system to an ultrasound machine for telemedicine, that have made the leap from space to Earth. 1 of 11 Two technologies with "life saving" potential are about to be induced into the Space Technology Hall of Fame in Colorado Springs, Colo. The technologies -- an inflatable satellite communication system and a compact, low-power ultrasound machine -- will be inducted into the nonprofit Space Foundation's Space Technology Hall of Fame on April 11. The Hall of Fame recognizes innovations developed for use in space that are repurposed in ways that improve life on Earth.
The GATR Inflatable Satellite Communication System is a portable, inflatable antenna that uses geostationary satellites to establish communications in remote areas. The other Hall of Fame inductee is a compact, low-power ultrasound machine (pictured here), originally conceived to support telemedicine in space. More Insights. Britain's deep freeze likely to last well into April - ITV News - FrontMotion Firefox. It is expected to stay cold and wintry for the rest of the month, through the Easter weekend and on into April. Temperatures are not expected to recover until the second half of the month.
Snow is not unheard of at Easter - statistically we are more likely to have snow at Easter than at Christmas. The last time snow fell at Easter - also the last time Easter fell in March incidentally - was in 2008. That same year there were snow flurries at the Grand National and during the Bejing Olympics Torch Relay in London. But to have such a prolonged cold spell at this time of year is a little more unusual. It is rare for the whole of March to be so bitterly cold and snowy with widespread daytime temperatures hovering around zero. It is likely to be the coldest March since 1962 - currently the coldest on record. Much of the continent has also been experiencing the lengthy cold, wintry conditions.
Last March - the warmest since 1957 - could not have been more different. HMS Edinburgh's final voyage home to Portsmouth - FrontMotion Firefox. Your Pictures: Photos from Wales - FrontMotion Firefox. A day in the life of the internet hacked and mapped | News | guardian.co.uk - FrontMotion Firefox. 5 things The Doctor's soon-to-be-revealed biggest secret could be | Blastr - FrontMotion Firefox. Wales fly-half Dan Biggar commits to Ospreys for three more years - FrontMotion Firefox. Woman sat dead in front of TV for 42 years - Daily Record - FrontMotion Firefox. THE remains of a woman have been found sitting in front of her TV - 42 years after she was reported missing. Hedviga Golik, who was born in 1924, had apparently made herself a cup of tea before sitting in her favourite armchair in front of her black and white television.
Croatian police said she was last seen by neighbours in 1966, when she would have been 42 years old. Her neighbours thought she had moved out of her flat in the capital, Zagreb. But she was found by police and bailiffs who had broken in to help the authorities establish who owned the flat. A police spokesman said: "So far, we have no idea how it is possible that someone officially reported missing so long ago was not found before in the same apartment she used to live in. "When officers went there, they said it was like stepping into a place frozen in time.
"The cup she had been drinking tea from was still on a table next to the chair she had been sitting in and the house was full of things no one had seen for decades. Vivienneclore : Taking the bike to work... Did Dr Beeching get it wrong with his railway cuts 50 years ago? - FrontMotion Firefox. 26 March 2013Last updated at 22:11 ET By Richard Westcott BBC transport correspondent Services from Edinburgh to Carlisle, via the Scottish border towns of Galashiels and Hawick, stopped when the Waverley line closed Fifty years ago, the Beeching Report was published, spelling the end for thousands of stations and hundreds of branch lines.
But now, in one corner of Britain, a new line is being laid that will restore a link cut by Beeching's axe. I still find it incredible that half a century after a rather grey civil servant from the Isle of Sheppey wrote his report about our trains, Dr Beeching remains one of the most famous, or should that be infamous, bad guys in British history. Then again, his bland-looking booklet, called the Reshaping of British Railways, did change the network forever. Beeching was recruited by the government from a very successful business career at ICI, to make the railways profitable again. Instead, it would concentrate on the things trains did well. Blood boiling.