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Submission + - Galileo's Middle Finger on Display

shrimppoboy writes: The middle finger of Galileo's right hand, which, inexplicably was removed when his body was exhumed in 1737, is being put on display. Galileo spent the last nine years of his life under house arrest and perhaps displaying this finger is symbolic.

Comment Re:nice... (Score 1) 711

I'm guessing that's the point. He's either trying to 'save face', or he's concerned that if he does back down, his ability to prosecute these types of cases will be called into question. He might be hoping that it goes to some sort of committee or arraignment where they will over rule him.

Then, he could use that in a campaign for Attorney General to 'protect our children, even from themselves'.

He'll win by a land-slide.

Comment Re:Are you kidding me? (Score 1) 285

And IE7 is pile of crap how exactly?

Standards not withstanding, IE7's toolbar and tab layout are completely contrary to every windows application out there. Microsoft seems to be forgetting that 1/2 the reason people like their software is because they can find stuff, and even though there is NEW stuff, everything is where it used to be.

-No menu bar.
-a new tab button that shows up when you to go click on it to get a new tab.
-Multiple Home pages.
-WTF is a "PAGE" button/menu supposed to mean?

The list goes on.

At least I can set google as my default search engine.

Networking

Net Neutrality Opponent Calls Google a "Bandwidth Hog" 320

Adrian Lopez writes "According to PC World, an analyst with ties to the telecom industry — in a baseless attack on the concept of Net Neutrality — has accused Google Inc. of being a bandwidth hog. Quoting: '"Internet connections could be more affordable for everyone, if Google paid its fair share of the Internet's cost," wrote Cleland in the report. "It is ironic that Google, the largest user of Internet capacity pays the least relatively to fund the Internet's cost; it is even more ironic that the company poised to profit more than any other from more broadband deployment, expects the American taxpayer to pick up its skyrocketing bandwidth tab."' Google responded on their public policy blog, citing 'significant methodological and factual errors that undermine his report's conclusions.' Ars Technica highlighted some of Cleland's faulty reasoning as well."

Comment 18%? (Score 3, Insightful) 603

Who gives a shit? 18% of the people probably still think the world is flat. I bet a lot of those people said that because they're resisting buying a new TV.. or, like my Mom, who bought a new SD TV 4 years ago, and really doesn't want to buy a new one yet.

Where's this story: 82% of the people think that HD television is better than SD television. If that's not news worth, why is this?

Comment Deja Vu? (Score 1) 404

Now they just have to put this in a suit, and recapture all of the moisture, including sweat, humidity in breath, and etc..

Then we can live for years on a SPICE planet for days without water...

Comment Is this the nail in the coffin? (Score 1) 174

First, Yahoo kills their music store, and everyone with music tracks from them are now left with NOTHING. Now they lose their ad revenue deal w/ Google? If MS truly isn't interested any more (i.e.- their lack-of-interested isn't a bargaining chip), could this be it for Yahoo? What do they have left that's viable?

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