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This is real.

You’re not dreaming. There is such a thing as a Nutella Bar. Yes: an eatery devoted to Nutella.

It’s in Chicago at a place called Eataly Chicago. That’s a newly opened 63,000-square foot food theme park. You can get all sorts of food there, especially Italian food. There are eight restaurants, a butcher shop and a grocery store. The prize jewel is a stand-up bar where you can purchase pastries with Nutella on them. The business will open to the public on December 10.

Who’s up for a road trip to Chicago?

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There have been tons of revelations about the National Security Agency since Edward Snowden began leaking documents in June. So many, in fact, that it's kind of hard to keep track of all the important stuff we've learned.

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With its built-in Wi-Fi, the Smart Power Strip allows users to remotely control their plugged-in home appliances via a smartphone app. From the iOS or Android app, users can remotely switch an appliance on or off. Other app functions include programming a timer to turn the appliance automatically on and off at a certain time, setting up a push notification reminder when appliances have been on for too long, and monitoring the specific energy consumption of different electronics.

Still in the early stages of development, creator Roger Yiu launched the Smart Power Strip on Kickstarter. The initial Smart Power Strip prototype features three U.S. power sockets, but the final model will include a fourth outlet. Yiu is also open to accommodating international backers interested in EU, UK, Australian and other plugs Read more...

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Today, at a small dress-up party I kissed my partner. She was dressed as a sailor so I joked that the kiss tasted like seamen. She began crying and admited she had given 2 dudes a blow job at the party. Including me there were only three dudes there. We had only been at the party for 35 minutes. FML

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Jimmy Fallon, Rashida Jones and Carrie Underwood perform a holiday medley with some of the year’s most popular songs.

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New submitter TheRealHocusLocus writes "The FCC is drafting rules to formalize the process of transition of 'last-mile' subscriber circuits to digital IP-based data streams. The move is lauded by AT&T Chairman Tom Wheeler who claims that significant resources are spent to maintain 'legacy' POTS service, though some 100 million still use it. POTS, or 'Plain Old Telephone Service,' is the analog standard that allows the use of simple unpowered phone devices on the wire, with the phone company supplying ring and talk voltage. I cannot fault progress, in fact I'm part of the problem: I gave up my dial tone a couple years ago because I needed cell and could not afford to keep both. But what concerns me is, are we poised to dismantle systems that are capable of standing alone to keep communities and regions 'in-touch' with each other, in favor of systems that rely on centralized (and distant) points of failure? Despite its analog limitations POTS switches have enforced the use of hard-coded local exchanges and equipment that will faithfully complete local calls even if its network connections are down. But do these IP phones deliver the same promise? For that matter, is any single local cell tower isolated from its parent network of use to anyone at all? I have had a difficult time finding answers to this question, and would love savvy Slashdot folks to weigh in: In a disaster that isolates the community from outside or partitions the country's connectivity — aside from local Plain Old Telephone Service, how many IP and cell phones would continue to function?"

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This is what happened:

Scene: A Silicon Valley church basement. Folding chairs, coffee, cigarettes tucked behind ears. Jon EVANS, a tall man with a shaved head and an Arsenal FC T-shirt, steps forward to the podium. He has a slight Canadian accent.

Jon: Hi, my name's Jon, and I'm a Yahoo! user.

Room, in unison: Hi, Jon!

Jon: I guess…I mean, this is so embarrassing, obviously…I guess my story's like a lot of yours. I got into Yahoo! when I was young, because back then it seemed really cool. If only I had known then what I know now. But I went for a six-month trip across Africa and Yahoo was the only web-mail service that could access my Unix shell account via POP. Gmail didn't exist yet, Hotmail was a joke, and I was sending friends emails from Cameroon and Zimbabwe, they were amazed, they were jealous. So I got hooked. And then…

He falls into grim silence for a moment.

Moderator (a pale, gaunt woman with nails bitten to the quick): Then what?

Jon: Then I guess I went all the way down the rabbit hole. I registered my domain with them. I used them to host my vanity site. I was in so much denial that when they bought Flickr, you're not going to believe this, but when they bought Flickr I was excited about it. I thought it would be great.

(Hollow laughter echoes through the room.)

Jon: Now, though – I mean, you all know what it's like to be a Yahoo! user now.

Pained yet sympathetic expressions ripple across the crowd.

Jon: The things that work haven't changed in like ten years, and the things that have changed don't work any more. Or they look prettier, like the Flickr redesign, or their new NFL game reports, but then you try to use them and you realize that actually they're just more broken than ever. I used to be proud that I was a Yahoo! user. Now it's shameful. I have to hide it from all my friends. (glances at camera in corner of the room) That thing isn't on, is it?

Moderator: (hastily - too hastily) No.

Jon: Good. (under his breath) I'm totally going to bury this post on a holiday weekend when no one will read it.

Moderator: Excuse me?

Jon: Uh, nothing. Anyway, the thing is, I even know what their problem is. I'm an engineer, and a long-term user, so I can tell Yahoo!'s engineering is just terrible. I mean, maybe their engineers are pretty good and they're just hamstrung by their process and bureaucrats and what have you, I don't know about that, but the results are terrible. Paul Graham said it years ago: “Yahoo treated programming as a commodity.” I mean, consider Yahoo! Mail –

(A loud, angry groan erupts around the room.)

Jon: Last year they mixed secure and insecure JavaScript files on my inbox page for months. Months! Can you imagine Google doing that for so much as a day? Or even Microsoft? And just this week I've been getting half-a-dozen copies of every email, but the first one arrives hours late half the time, and that's if the page loads at all! For days! It's ridiculous!

Moderator: So why have you stuck with them?

Jon: I…I really don't know. Partly it was because I was uncomfortable about how much of my online information Google has, but now I've lost so much faith that I'm backing up all my mail to one of my Gmail accounts anyway, which kind of fundamentally defeats that purpose. Partly because moving would be such a hassle. But the thing is - well –

Moderator: Go on.

Jon: The thing is, I somehow still want Yahoo not to suck. Every time they say things will get better, I want to believe them, even though every time it's been a lie. Oh, we've licked the peanut butter problem, now everything will be fine. Oh, Marissa Mayer's CEO, now everything will be fine. But the truth is –

Moderator: What?

Jon: The truth is that it's not going to be fine. Not now, not ever. Because their engineering sucks, so they're like a sprinter wearing leg irons starting 50 metres behind the competition. And you know what? It's too late for even Marissa Mayer to fix that.

Moderator: So you're quitting? Cold turkey?

Jon: I–

(Chairs creak as their occupants lean forward, with bated breath, hanging on his words)

Jon: you know what, I'm going to give them one more chance. I don't even know why. Just one more. But this time, I swear, this time if it doesn't work out, I'm done.

(Disappointment is written loudly across every face in the room, including his.)

Moderator: (with deep sadness) OK. We understand. Thanks, Jon.

Jon: I'm sorry.

Image credit: Dave Ward, Flickr.

The Argentine photography collective M.A.F.I.A. (Movimiento Argentino de Fotógrafxs Independientes Autoconvocadxs) posted a gallery of Batman in his down-and-out period.

Bruce Wayne Do Santos. Ex-millonario. Ex-propietario de latifúndios subterráneos. Ex-superamigo. Removido, desalojado, desterrado, vagando por Rio City.
Una cruda mezcla de performance, comics y arte callejero.

Bruce Wayne Do Santos. Ex-millionaire. Ex-owner of underground estates. Ex-superfriend. Dismissed, homeless, landless. Wandering the city of Rio. A raw mixture of performance, comics, and street art.

(Translation by zompist.)

There are many more pictures in the gallery at Facebook. -via Metafilter

All photographs CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 - M.A.f.I.A.

You've been told a hundred times that exercise is good for you, and it's true—but it's good for a lot more than just losing weight or building muscle. Here are 10 other benefits you'll see from just a little daily exercise.

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Stuxnet's Secret Twin (4,176 words)
by Ralph Langner, Foreign Policy
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Stuxnet is a pretty nasty nasty customer, especially if you happen to be a centrifuge used in the enrichment of uranium. Amazingly, the story of the first publicly acknowledged cyber weapon keeps getting more and more interesting. Ralph Langner has spent the last several years poring over code and other details of Stuxnet's history and discovered there was an earlier version of the virus, that was even more destructive than the one unleashed on Iran's nuclear facilities. Instead of putting the centrifuge's motors in overdrive, it over pressurized them by closing valves designed to allow gas out. It sounds like a perfectly logical avenue of attack, until you realize that the potential for truly catastrophic failure would have quickly blown Stuxnet's cover.

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