Submission + - Wii laptop (benheck.com) 1
An anonymous reader writes: This wii laptop was 3 months in the making and cost around £300, check out the Ben heck forums for more information.
Submission + - Constitutionality of RIAA Damages Challenged (blogspot.com)
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes: In SONY BMG Music Entertainment v. Tenenbaum, defendant has filed a motion for new trial, attacking, among other things, the constitutionality of the jury's $675,000 award as being violative of due process. In his 32-page brief (PDF), Tenenbaum argues that the award exceeded constitutional due process standards, both under the Court's 1919 decision in St. Louis Railway v. Williams, as well as under its more recent authorities State Farm v. Campbell and BMW v. Gore. Defendant also argues that the Court's application of fair use doctrine was incorrect, that statutory damages should not be imposed against music consumers, and that the Court erred in a key evidentiary ruling.
Comment Re:A dream I had. (Score 1) 920
yeh. The best pizza I ever had was at a Greek restaurant in Boston.
You tell me a word and I show you it came from Greek! Pizza, from T- nevermind
You tell me a word and I show you it came from Greek! Pizza, from T- nevermind
Comment don't like the ribbon (Score 1, Funny) 251
I want my menus back!
This ribbon thing is driving me nuts!
This ribbon thing is driving me nuts!
Comment Re:Halfway Competent (Score 1) 665
And in other news, Click and Clack, also known as the Tappet Brothers, have started a PC repair service in addition to their regularly scheduled car show. Expect great things from the Car Guys as they venture into the world of IT.
Hey, it's got wires and fans right? Shouldn't be any trouble fixing them at all. Coupla whacks and you're good. But if it starts clicking when you take a turn you'd better back up and rebuild it.
Hey, it's got wires and fans right? Shouldn't be any trouble fixing them at all. Coupla whacks and you're good. But if it starts clicking when you take a turn you'd better back up and rebuild it.
Comment Re:Full (Score 2, Funny) 412
porn, SPAM, porn and porn
or should I say PORN to differentiate from canned Porn?
or should I say PORN to differentiate from canned Porn?
Comment Re:No fireworks for me this year. (Score 5, Funny) 397
You crossed the streams?
Comment Re: Sucker Punch Me (Score 1) 544
<quote>But your analogy isn't complete. It would be like me going up to you, you have a shirt on that says "Caution: You will be sucker-punched" and me saying, "OK, sucker punch me." </quote>
My shirt has a clause stating "you may opt-out of the sucker-punch by hitting me first".
My shirt has a clause stating "you may opt-out of the sucker-punch by hitting me first".
Submission + - Get your papers, Yahoo! briefcase is closing (yahoo.com) 1
dolo724 writes: I took advantage of this service once, not so much recently, but the email I received this morning says I'd better hurry and get my stuff. Even when it was available, the 30MB of space didn't seem like much. The text of the email: Dear Yahoo! Briefcase user, We will be officially closing Yahoo! Briefcase on March 30, 2009. Until then, we are offering you the opportunity to download your files back to your computer. You will need to take action before we close, after which any files remaining on Yahoo! Briefcase will be deleted and no longer accessible. To access your Yahoo! Briefcase account, click the link below: http://briefcase.yahoo.com/
Submission + - truthout blocked by AOL/Hotmail (truthout.org) 1
dolo724 writes: Subscribers to Truthout.org are finding their newsletters sent to the trash by some pretty popular ISPs. Who's in charge now?
From the article: "Currently, AOL- and Microsoft-related email providers, including Hotmail, are preventing delivery of a range of Truthout communications to thousands of our subscribers. Such communications include Truthout's regular newsletters and notifications to our subscribers from individual workstations of Truthout administrators informing those subscribers that they are affected."
Cleaning up the Most Toxic Pollution in the World 212
Hugh Pickens writes "Blacksmith Institute has published their list of the most polluted sites in the world compiled by comparing the toxicity of the contamination, the likelihood of it getting into humans and the number of people affected. For example, ninety-nine percent of the children living in and around the poly-metallic smelter at La Oroya in Peru, owned by the Missouri-based Doe Run Corporation, have blood lead levels that exceed acceptable limits. Scientific American says that despite the massive pollution, it would be relatively cheap and easy to clean up the most dangerous hazards. For $15,000, the radioactive contaminated soil from the Mayak plutonium facility on the shore of the Techa River in the Russian town of Muslyomova could be dug up, saving an estimated 350 lives. 'For about $200, the cost of a refrigerator, we are able to save someone's life,' says Richard Fuller, founder of Blacksmith."
Submission + - Iphone hack Unlocked for any SIM (swingkats.com)
drjazz writes: "It seems Erica Sadun and colleagues at www.tuaw.com along with developer team at
http://iphone.fiveforty.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
have released an app that you can download to iphone with www.ibrickr.com tool
to unlock the iphone to use with virtually any sim in USA & Europe
This should give Europeans a chance at using the iphone with locally available prepaid sims without buy a monthly phone plan
forum discussion at
http://hackint0sh.org/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=123"
