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Comment BULLSHIT (Score 0) 691

by Woldscum (#32659914) Attached to: Louisiana Federal Judge Blocks Drilling Moratorium

John Podesta's brother, Tony Podesta is BPs lead lobbyist. John is the founder of the Center For American Progress and the former Clinton chief of staff. Hopefully they can discuss in court just how much BP stock was traded in the 4 weeks before DWH blew up when it was known by BP/USGC/MMS to be an out-of-control well, by whom, and why! I now know why Obama didn't talk with the BP CEO for so long. John Podesta's FUCKING BROTHER is BPs lobbyist.

http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/42150/

Comment Re:Interpret it correctly (Score 0) 676

by Woldscum (#32542914) Attached to: Publishing Company Puts Warning Label on Constitution

For starters it doesn't mention how the militia should be regulated, what constitutes Arms or where they have the right to keep and bear them.

Lifted from Dictionary.com. Note #4. to put in good order. Meaning training.

****A well TRAINED militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.****

reg-u-late

1. to control or direct by a rule, principle, method, etc.:
2. to adjust to some standard or requirement, as amount, degree, etc.:
3. to adjust so as to ensure accuracy of operation:
4. to put in good order:
Nintendo

Man Fined $1.5 Million For Leaked Mario Game 287

Posted by Soulskill from the sorry-about-your-luck dept.
An anonymous reader writes "A Queensland man will have to pay Nintendo $1.5 million in damages after illegally copying and uploading one of its recent games to the internet ahead of its release, the gaming giant says. Nintendo said the loss was caused when James Burt made New Super Mario Bros Wii available for illegal download a week ahead of its official Australian release in November of last year. Nintendo applied for and was granted a search order by the Federal Court, forcing Burt to disclose the whereabouts of all his computers, disks and electronic storage devices in November. He was also ordered to allow access, including passwords, to his social networking sites, email accounts and websites."

Comment Re:Get ready for network disruption. (Score 0) 316

by Woldscum (#30746402) Attached to: US Coast Guard Intends To Kill LORAN-C
As far as MCI/Worldcom/UUNET we installed Loran PRS (Primary Reference Source) and SRS (Secondary Reference Source) for the initial OC-48 SONET build out in 1993. We swapped them all out for new units that were GPS by 1996 and upgraded ALL of them yet again in 1999 for Y2K. Then about 6 or 7 years ago the manufacture (Datum) went out of business. Spares were unavailable. So all equipment was replaced yet again. Losing Loran will not be an issue. It was supposed to die in the late 1990s and has been kept on life support for almost 15 years.
Earth

Minnesota Introduces World's First Carbon Tariff 303

Posted by timothy from the hey-cut-that-crap-out dept.
hollywoodb writes "The first carbon tax to reduce the greenhouse gases from imports comes not between two nations, but between two states. Minnesota has passed a measure to stop carbon at its border with North Dakota. To encourage the switch to clean, renewable energy, Minnesota plans to add a carbon fee of between $4 and $34 per ton of carbon dioxide emissions to the cost of coal-fired electricity, to begin in 2012 ... Minnesota has been generally pushing for cleaner power within its borders, but the utility companies that operate in MN have, over the past decades, sited a lot of coal power plants on the relatively cheap and open land of North Dakota, which is preparing a legal battle against Minnesota over the tariff."
Space

Herschel Spectroscopy of Future Supernova 21

Posted by Soulskill from the that's-a-big-star dept.
davecl writes "ESA's Herschel Space Telescope has released its first spectroscopic results. These include observations of VYCMa, a star 50 times as massive as the sun and soon to become a supernova, as well as a nearby galaxy, more distant colliding starburst galaxies and a comet in our own solar system. The spectra show more lines than have ever been seen in these objects in the far-infrared and will allow astronomers to work out the detailed chemistry and physics behind star and planet formation as well as the last stages of stellar evolution before VYCMa's eventual collapse into a supernova. More coverage is available at the Herschel Mission Blog, which I run."
PlayStation (Games)

US Air Force Buying Another 2,200 PS3s 144

Posted by Soulskill from the quick-who-knows-a-good-ps3-flight-sim dept.
bleedingpegasus sends word that the US Air Force will be grabbing up 2,200 new PlayStation 3 consoles for research into supercomputing. They already have a cluster made from 336 of the old-style (non-Slim) consoles, which they've used for a variety of purposes, including "processing multiple radar images into higher resolution composite images (known as synthetic aperture radar image formation), high-def video processing, and 'neuromorphic computing.'" According to the Justification Review Document (DOC), "Once the hardware configuration is implemented, software code will be developed in-house for cluster implementation utilizing a Linux-based operating software."
PlayStation (Games)

Why Is It So Difficult To Allow Cross-Platform Play? 389

Posted by Soulskill from the all-about-the-benjamins dept.
cookiej writes "I just got the most recent version of the Madden franchise ('10) for the PS3. Can somebody explain to me why EA has separate networks for the different platforms, only allowing players to compete with people using the same console? Back in the day, there were large discrepancies between the consoles, but these days it seems like the Xbox and the PS3 are at least near the same level. After so many releases for this franchise, they've got to have a fairly standardized protocol for networking; it seems arbitrary not to let them compete. Or am I just missing something obvious? Is it just a matter of Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network not working together?"

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