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Comment Re:Efficiency doesn't matter (Score 1) 326

by jurgemaister (#32180012) Attached to: Possible Breakthrough In Hydrogen Energy
Actually, methane is a really good idea. Normal petrol fueled cars run fine on methane gas if you install a pretty cheap injection kit. Also, burning gas in stead of petrol leaves close to zero particles in the air, and drastically reduces the emission of NOx gasses.
Infrastructure is not very hard to achieve, and is actually already in place in parts of Europa.

Comment I don't use them pieces of metal (Score 1) 594

by jurgemaister (#32124246) Attached to: On Pennies:
I hardly ever use coins or paper money anymore. I pay everything with my bank card/VISA (debit), and most people I know don't use cash either. I live in Norway and this is common practice here (and the rest of Scandinavia I assume), but the rest of Europe seems to be lagging a bit behind. Honestly I can't see the point in paying with coins when you can get a portable bank terminal into pretty much everything these days. And for the big bills (larges one in Norway is 1000NOK ~ $160) only criminals use them anyway. And then there is the production and distribution cost of physical money. Digital money is so much cheaper :)
The Almighty Buck

Activision Hit With $500m Suit From Modern Warfare 2 Devs 77

Posted by Soulskill from the pow-right-in-the-kisser dept.
Dragoniz3r writes "Activision has been served a lawsuit from 38 plaintiffs, including present and former Infinity Ward employees, demanding up to half a billion dollars. The plaintiffs are seeking compensation for 'unpaid bonuses, royalties, profit-sharing, and future profits from games such as Modern Warfare 3, and punitive damages.'"
Iphone

Submission + - Apple buys Skype

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: You might remember the problems of eBay/Skype separation. Well, it turns out there was a good reason for that move. Skype founders (Netherlanders) have been seen with Steve Jobs in a coffee shop of Amsterdam enjoying their time with the help of very natural products. It's confirmed that the upcoming iPhone (labelled iPhone High) will support HD videocalls with Skype, with a resolution of 720x480 (new screen size). The new version of the popular device will be the greenest ever built by Apple.
Science

World's Smallest Superconductor Discovered 72

Posted by samzenpus from the none-more-small dept.
arcticstoat writes "One of the barriers to the development of nanoscale electronics has potentially been eliminated, as scientists have discovered the world's smallest superconductor. Made up of four pairs of molecules, and measuring just 0.87nm, the superconductor could potentially be used as a nanoscale interconnect in electronic devices, but without the heat and power dissipation problems associated with standard metal conductors."
Spam

Submission + - Spam Filters Force Magazine Name Change (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by krou
krou writes: After 90 years of publication, a Canadian history journal is being forced to change its name because of spam filters. The Beaver, which chose its name because of Canada's iconic dam-building creatures, has been forced to change its name to Canada's History, because 'attempts to reach a new online audience kept falling foul of spam filters — particularly in schools — because beaver is also a slang term for female genitalia.' They 'also noticed that most of the 30,000 or so visitors to their website per month stayed for less than 10 seconds', and they probably correctly suspected that those visitors were not interested in 'learning about the trade in beaver fur which built Canada's early economic fortunes'.
Microsoft

Submission + - Is Microsoft Bing Trying To Kill Open Office? (katonda.com)

Submitted by hemantm
hemantm writes: If you try to search for OpenOffice on Bing, it will not show you the actual OpenOffice.org website but will show pages from random websites like OpenOffice.com or other non-OpenOffice.org websites. ..........
Censorship

Submission + - Thanks readers for not expressing yourself (newenglishreview.org) 1

Submitted by
santosh maharshi
santosh maharshi writes: "Richard Dawkins has recently learned that he should thank his readers for not expressing themselves.

He ran a website for people of like mind, but noticed that many of the comments that appeared on it were beside the point, either mere gossip or insult. So he announced that he was going to exercise a little control over what appeared on it — as was his right since it was, after all, his site. Censorship is not failing to publish something, it is forbidding something to be published, which is not at all the same thing, though the difference is sometimes ill-appreciated.

The torrent of vile abuse that he received after his announcement took him aback. Its vehemence was shocking; someone called him ‘a suppurating rat’s rectum.’ He replied to this abuse with admirable restraint:

"Surely there has to be something wrong with people who can resort to such over-the-top language, overreacting so spectacularly to something so trivial".

"

Submission + - Ubisoft’s New DRM Cracked in Under 24-Hours (infoaddict.com)

Submitted by guantamanera
guantamanera writes: Ubisoft made serious waves when they announced a new DRM policy for all new PC titles, beginning with Silent Hunter 5 and Assassin’s Creed 2. The new scheme UbiSoft hoped would thwart piracy requires all legitimate users to have a permanent Internet connection that continuously authenticates a copy of the game. Additionally, save game files are now stored on UbiSoft servers.
Ubuntu

Submission + - Ubuntu - Redesigned logo and new theme (digitizor.com)

Submitted by kai_hiwatari
kai_hiwatari writes: In what may be the biggest visual change since it started in 2004, Ubuntu has finally ditched its brown theme and has come up with a purple-ish theme, which reminds me of Mac OS X. According to the Ubuntu Brand Wiki, the new style of Ubuntu is driven by the theme “Light”. The boot screen has also received a major overhaul in the looks department.
The Ubuntu logo has also got a new designed.
The new design is to be shipped with the upcoming Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx due in April this year.

Comment Chicken or the egg (Score 1) 193

by jurgemaister (#31327268) Attached to: "Patent Markings" Lawsuits Could Run Into the Trillions
One could start to wonder: What causes the US legal system to be all screwed up? Is it lobbyists who pay off politicians to make crazy laws who then gets transfered to the legal system, or is it court precedence that eventually turns into laws? I for one wonder how much time and resources the US courts waste every year on people suing each other for the pure benefit of earning some easy cash. I'm sure I could sue a tool manufacturer for not placing a warning on the hammer, that it could hurt my finger if i miss the nail. It's sorry to see such degeneration of what some might call "civilization". What ever happened to common sense?
AMD

Submission + - AMD 890GX chipset first to integrate SATA 6G (pcper.com)

Submitted by Vigile
Vigile writes: AMD might be at disadvantage in terms of processor performance but their chipset division is still making strides to improve over what Intel offers. The new AMD 890GX chipset not only integrates a slightly improved ATI Radeon HD 4290 graphics core but also is the first chipset to natively support SATA 6.0 Gb/s storage technology via the new SB850 south bridge. The 890GX will be the first to officially support AMD's upcoming 6-core 'Thuban' processors due out later this year. The 890GX graphics core also includes AMD's UVD2 (unified video decoder) technology that accelerates the decode process of two independent video streams on picture-in-picture Blu-ray titles making it great for HTPCs as well.

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