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Submission + - Facebook Study Shows Mondays Really Do Suck (facebook.com)

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cwrinn
cwrinn writes: "The USA Gross National Happiness (http://apps.facebook.com/usa_gnh/) Prototype App on Facebook (www.facebook.com) contains interesting trends. One that caught my eye, however, was the repetitive cycle when you zoom in to see the days of the week. Notice how it starts low on Monday and steadily climbs throughout the week, then spikes to a peak on Friday, drops slightly over the weekend, but then plummets on Monday? Scientific evidence that Monday sucks."
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Submission + - Windows 7's XP Mode is RTM

Submitted by Sammy
Sammy writes: Microsoft today announced that the code for Windows XP Mode has been finalized and the company is now preparing to release it in exactly three weeks. "Thanks to everyone's feedback, we're happy to announce that Windows XP Mode has RTM'd today. We expect to make the final release of Windows XP Mode available via the Microsoft Download Center on October 22nd. OEMs will be able to offer Windows XP Mode on their PCs based on their manufacturing schedules." Windows XP Mode is aimed at small and mid-sized businesses that are migrating to Windows 7 Professional, Windows 7 Ultimate, or Windows 7 Ultimate and that need the ability to run Windows XP productivity applications which are incompatible with Vista's successor. While Microsoft insists that many Windows XP applications will be compatible Windows 7, or at least every one that is compatible with Vista, the company says Windows XP Mode can be used as a last resort for those that are not.

Comment Will it help the internet? (Score 0) 183

by otterpopjunkie (#29573111) Attached to: "Time Telescope" Could Boost Fibre-Optic Communications
I was under the impression optical data transmission for backbone lines was not limited by the transmission speed of the fiber, but rather the switching ability of both ends of the line to process/re-route the packets. This doesn't seem like something that would help with that. Yeah we can increase bandwith by 2.7X, but can we handle the optical->electronic processing at the other end? Split the line and add more devices I suppose?
And no, I don't have a link to a white paper handy.
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Supermarket Bans Jedi Knight Screenshot-sm 169

Posted by samzenpus from the allowed-in-this-store-you-are-not dept.
The employees at Tesco seem to be immune to mind tricks, and have kicked out the founder of the International Church of Jediism. Daniel Jones, 23, who founded the religion based on the Star Wars movies, was asked to leave because his robes were against store rules which forbid the wearing of 'hoodies' in their premises. "I told them it was a requirement of my religion but they just sniggered and ordered me to leave," he told The Daily Telegraph newspaper. "I walked past a Muslim lady in a veil. Surely the same rules should apply to everyone." It's exactly this kind of stuff that turns young Jedis to the dark side.
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Submission + - Spyware prank exposes hospital medical records (cio.com.au) 1

Submitted by cheerytt
cheerytt writes: Let this be a very good lesson to all broken-hearted geeks out there! A 38-year-old Ohio man is set to plead guilty to federal charges after spyware he meant to install on the computer of a woman he'd had a relationship with ended up infecting computers at a children's hospital. Spyware was sent to the woman's Yahoo e-mail address in the hope it would be used to monitor what his former girlfriend was doing on her PC. But instead, she opened the spyware on a computer in the hospital's pediatric cardiac surgery department. The spyware sent more than 1,000 screen captures via e-mail, including details of medical procedures, diagnostic notes and other confidential information relating to 62 patients. The man will pay $33,000 to the hospital for damages and faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison. Ouch!

Comment Re:I enjoy nuclear power (Score 0) 575

by otterpopjunkie (#28775333) Attached to: First New Nuclear Reactor In a Decade On Track
The moral thing to do is gain power using white lies, then secretly develop plans for nuclear support across the country. Appeal to ignorant people, wink at the smart people, then play your cards so the job gets done right. But you damn well better do it right - and by that I mean safely. One more accident and it'll be 60 years before people aren't afraid to try it again.

Unless he wants another term, in which case keep it on the DL for now.

Comment Re:Problem with wind and solar? (Score 0, Flamebait) 412

by otterpopjunkie (#28698145) Attached to: Expanding the Electricity Grid May Be a Mistake
I could see this having small localized effects when massive hillsides are covered in these things (beyond all the dead birds lying around), but if you can grasp the massive amount of kinetic and potential energy of the earth's weather systems - and the sun beating down on the planet, then suddenly even a few hundred windmills seem insignificant.

Comment Re:DotA - fun game, horrible community (Score 1) 173

by otterpopjunkie (#28629347) Attached to: New RTS Based on DotA Offers Native Linux Client
I agree with parent. While there are immature players in any online game I've noticed it's particularly harsh in DotA. That's why I often host noob-only games even when I'm not playing, because there's so few hosted games for people to just play for fun or to learn. For the most part, there aren't too many regular players joining these games with malicious intent, but when that happens I banlist them.

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