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Comment Re:Why ban in cars? (Score 1) 417

by octothorpe99 (#43187093) Attached to: If I could (or had to) ban texting in one place ...

Banning texting in cars makes no sense if the "texter" is not the "driver".

And that would be where you are wrong.
Pilots by career are the safest drivers on the road. There are many reasons for this.
One of the reasons is that they know that the person in the passenger seat is another set of eyes looking out for threats and not a texting or facebook update service.
2 sets of eyes looking out for morons and other hazards is safer than one set.
Unfortunately this is not explained in driver's ed.

Sweet.. We should make it illegal to drive without a co-passenger then. Solves the too-many-cars, waste-of-fuel, fossil-fuel-induced-climate-change problems too.. Driving by yourself? ARRESTED!

Comment Re:rss feeds -- that's all I use - alternatives? (Score 0) 329

by octothorpe99 (#40537625) Attached to: Google Killing Off Mini, Video, and iGoogle

I mostly have various rss feeds on my iGoogle home page. Very, very useful to quickly see what's happening on pages I pay attention to.
(Like, Slashdot, of course.)

I don't use many of the other gadgets/toys. Well, Weather Underground, Woot watcher, Google Finance are useful, but I could live without them.

Are there alternative sites that provide a similar function?

Netvibes looks pretty decent actually.. Just created a dashboard full of rss feeds iGoogle-style. Bye google.
Apple

Submission + - Managing Macs In The Mac OS X Lion Era (infoworld.com)

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snydeq
snydeq writes: "User interest and bring-your-own-tech policies are pushing Macs beyond their traditional business niches. InfoWorld's Ryan Faas provides a Mac management guide to help you extend your existing support strategies to Mac workstations, providing tips, techniques, and a list of 22 essential Mac tools for embracing Macs as they become more prevalent in your business environment. 'Macs can no longer be managed independent of other processes and infrastructure. They must be integrated with your existing directory service. They require an efficient, scalable deployment model that hooks into asset management. They require secure, auditable patch management and a device and user management solution that secures each Mac's core OS components and apps.'"
GUI

Submission + - Microsoft is finally starting to design beautiful (designbooru.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Yes. Microsoft has a history of making really shitty, ugly products, too numerous to list. But why aren’t they congratulated for their successes (or at least, their steps in the right direction)? Consider the Zune. People made fun of it for being brown. But people clearly like brown because it was the Zune’s best-selling colour, even after more fashionable, fruitier shades were introduced.

Submission + - Researchers Successfully Create Artificial Blood (inhabitat.com)

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Diggester
Diggester writes: "Researchers at the University of Edinburgh have successfully created artificial, oxygen-carrying red blood cells that they believe could go into human medical trials in as little as two years. The cells aren’t synthetic, they are created using human stem cells, but they can be manufactured, and the researchers are currently working out a way to mass-produce them safely. If successful their findings would eliminate the need for the current mass amounts of energy and electricicity that are needed to gather, transport and store blood for transfusions. Plus, now we have something more than garlic to throw at vampires when they come knocking on Monday evening!"

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