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Comment Re:Hotmail incompatible with me.... (Score 1) 258

by Vaticus on Sunday June 22, 2008 @09:42PM (#23899009) Attached to: Hotmail Full Version Incompatible With Firefox 3

You too??! I have noticed over the last year that hotmail 'requires' me to put my password in twice. whenever I login using firefox (any version) the first login attempt *always* fails. And I know I input it correctly! anyone else experience this?

Submission + - Cassini Spacecraft Images Seas on Titan

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 13, 2007 @07:27PM

An anonymous reader writes: Instruments on NASA's Cassini spacecraft have found evidence for seas, likely filled with liquid methane or ethane, in the high northern latitudes of Saturn's moon Titan. One such feature is larger than any of the Great Lakes of North America and is about the same size as several seas on Earth.

Submission + - Viacom sues Youtube and Google for $1billion

Submitted by

botkiller

on Tuesday March 13, 2007 @07:26PM

botkiller writes: "Caught this article on MSN, which I don't usually peruse for news, but it stuck out. Apparently Viacom is suing Google and Youtube for one billion dollars, saying that Youtube has shown 160,000 of its videos without permission. From the article: "The lawsuit, the first big attack on the Google-owned video-sharing site, may just be a negotiating ploy. But it could be the first volley in a war between Google and its old-media rivals." More at http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Investing/Dis patch/ViacomSuesYouTube.aspx?GT1=9215"

Submission + - Scientifically accurate Scifi for high-schoolers

Submitted by Raul654 on Tuesday March 13, 2007 @07:22PM

Raul654 writes: A member of my immediate family is a biology teacher at an all girls school high-school. For some years, she's been giving her students the option to earn extra credit by reading a science-related book. I've been asked to compile for her a list of scientifically-accurate science fiction novels. So, Slashdot — what are some good scientifically accurate science fiction books for high school girls?

Feed Tech Veterans Now Investing in Alternative Energy (nytimes.com)

From feed by nytfeed on Tuesday March 13, 2007 @07:12PM

Silicon Valley entrepreneurs have found a new purpose in transforming the $1 trillion domestic energy market.

Feed Vonage Loses Verizon Patent Suit (wired.com)

From feed by wiredfeed on Tuesday March 13, 2007 @07:12PM

Vonage tells customers to hold fast after patent court rules in favor of Verizon. Plus: Stocks tumble again. LG goes to Iran. And more.

Submission + - Glow in the dark, in all colors

Submitted by

Matthew Sparkes

on Tuesday March 13, 2007 @07:05PM

Matthew Sparkes writes: "Glow-in-the-dark materials that shine with the whole range of visible colors, and can even produce white light, have been developed by Japanese researchers. It's claimed that they can be used to provide readable signs without the need for electricity. This could be very useful, as the International Commission on Illumination (CIE), the international authority on lighting, has suggested buildings be fitted with emergency lighting and signs that work without power as standard."

Submission + - A spy in your alarm clock!

Submitted by

JustElite

on Tuesday March 13, 2007 @07:02PM

JustElite writes: "Would you like to know what really happened at home or at the office while you were away? Now you can see if your wife cheating you .... "

Submission + - Windows Server 2003 SP2

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 13, 2007 @07:01PM

An anonymous reader writes: The Internet Storm Center is reporting that Microsoft released Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2.

Submission + - Dogs Used to Tackle Movie, Music Piracy

Submitted by

Seumas

on Tuesday March 13, 2007 @07:00PM

Seumas writes: "Black Labradors are on loan to Malaysian authorities for a month from the MPAA, which says its members lost $1.2 billion to Asia-Pacific movie pirates in 2006."

Billion Dollar Handout To Upgrade TVs 663

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday March 13, 2007 @06:55PM from the if-we-can-send-a-man-to-the-moon dept.

db32 writes "SFGate has the story of the cutoff date for those rabbit ear antennas that some of us grew up with (Feb. 19, 2009). Now while the story of analog vs. digital TV has been beaten to death, still I think there is something more here. 'The Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration... said it is setting aside $990 million to pay for the boxes. Each home can request up to two $40 coupons for a digital-to-analog converter box, which consumer electronics makers such as RCA and LG plan to produce.' Beyond my disdain for most TV to begin with, I am blown away that with all of our current problems — homelessness and crime on the home front, war fighting and terrorism abroad — our government is seriously going to spend this much money on upgrading peoples' televisions."

Feed Mercedes Shifts, Diesel to Hybrid (wired.com)

From feed by wiredfeed on Tuesday March 13, 2007 @06:32PM

Bowing to customer demand, Mercedes is going with the hybrid flow, vowing no future Mercedes without a hybrid option, according to DaimlerChrysler's chairman. In Autopia.

Submission + - Orson Scott Card reveals World Wide Conspiracy

Submitted by

ArmedBlog

on Tuesday March 13, 2007 @06:27PM

ArmedBlog writes: "In Orson Scott Card's latest essay, "All in a Good Cause" he reveals the faulty science and absolute manipulation that went into one of the UN's newest reports."

Submission + - MIT to put its entire curriculum online free

Submitted by

DanLake

on Tuesday March 13, 2007 @06:05PM

DanLake writes: "On Tuesday, school officials revealed plans to make available the university's entire 1,800-course curriculum by year's end. Currently, some 1.5 million online independent learners log on the MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) site every month and more than 120 universities around the world have inaugurated their own sites for independent learners. MIT has more than 1,500 course curriculums available online to date.

Carson said MIT's teachers collect what they have created for their courses and make it available over the Web. Many online learners purchase text books for the courses they are monitoring and a recent MIT-Amazon link showed that about 2,000 text books were ordered by independent learners, demonstrating just how serious the learners are.

"Video and audio files are very popular," said Carson. "There are 21 courses with full video available." Typically, independent learners view videos with streaming media players and replay them on PCs, MP3s, or iPods."

Submission + - The Mysterious Methane Seas of Titan

Submitted by

Riding with Robots

on Tuesday March 13, 2007 @06:05PM

Riding with Robots writes: "The robotic space probe Cassini has seen lakes of methane on Titan before, but recent close passes by Saturn's giant moon have turned up images of bizzare seas larger than the Great Lakes of North America."

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