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Submission + - The definitive evisceration of The Phantom Menace. (youtube.com) 4

cowmix writes: "When TPM came out ten years ago, its utter crappiness shocked me to the core and wounded a entire generation of geeks. My inner child had been abused and betrayed. I moped around, talking to no one, for almost two weeks. I couldn't bring myself to see #2 or #3, whatever they were called. Now, a decade later, comes "Star Wars: The Phantom Menace Review" the ultimate seven part, seventy minute analysis of this mother of all train wrecks. Not only does it nail how the film blows, but tells us why. Time, apparently, does not heal all wounds."
Politics

Submission + - Prosecutors Want "Open Source" AIG Investigation (nytimes.com)

VValdo writes: As you may recall, the citizens of the US shelled out about $85 billion to bail out AIG and its creditors (Goldman Sachs in particular) last year. But as 80% owners of AIG, we still don't know what happened exactly. That may change. In an NYTimes Op-Ed, former prosecutors (including former NY governor Eliot Spitzer) are calling for the US Treasury to force to AIG release its treasure-trove of emails to the public before allowing AIG to "break free" of our control. As the prosecutors put it, "By putting the evidence online, the government could establish a new form of "open source" investigation. Once the documents are available for everyone to inspect, a thousand journalistic flowers can bloom, as reporters, victims and angry citizens have a chance to piece together the story." Good idea?

Comment Re:Beware Google's penchant for auto-updates... (Score 1) 197

Oh, and I also discovered a file at /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.google.keystone.daemon.plist, which runs "/Library/Google/GoogleSoftwareUpdate/GoogleSoftwareUpdate.bundle/Contents/MacOS/GoogleSoftwareUpdateDaemon" and can be disabled in the same manner described above.

(BTW-- I have a few google apps including Google Earth installed, so I'm not sure which installed what. But this is what I've found so far...)

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Comment Re:Beware Google's penchant for auto-updates... (Score 1) 197

The OP might not be completely wrong,

If you have a mac, it may install a launchd agent at /Library/LaunchAgents/com.google.keystone.root.agent, which runs "/Library/Google/GoogleSoftwareUpdate/GoogleSoftwareUpdate.bundle/Contents/Resources/GoogleSoftwareUpdateAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/GoogleSoftwareUpdateAgent -runMode ifneeded" on every start up and hourly.

I believe you can shut this behavior off by deleting the file or adding this after "<dict>":

<key>Disabled</key>
<true/>

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Biotech

Genentech Puts Words In the Mouths of Congress Members 229

theodp writes "In the official record of the historic House debate on overhauling health care, the speeches of many lawmakers echo with remarkable similarities. Often, that was no accident. Statements by more than a dozen lawmakers were ghostwritten by Washington lobbyists working for Genentech. E-mail obtained by the NY Times shows that lobbyists drafted one statement for Democrats and another for Republicans. Genentech, a subsidiary of Swiss drug giant Roche, estimates that 42 House members picked up some of its talking points — 22 Republicans and 20 Democrats, an unusual bipartisan coup for lobbyists. ... The statements were not intended to change the bill, which was not open for much amendment during the debate. They were meant to show bipartisan support for certain provisions, even though the vote on passage generally followed party lines. ... Asked about the Congressional statements, a lobbyist close to Genentech said: 'This happens all the time. There was nothing nefarious about it.'"

Comment Re:Advertising (Score 5, Funny) 323

Coming soon...

"Well, well, well. What do we have here?" Crockett exclaimed.

"Looks like pure uncut Pepsi(TM)," said Tubbs.

"The Microsoft(TM) doesn't fall far from the tree, does it, pal? Well... we got here in the nick of Newsweek(TM). Get immigration on the iPhone(TM) and tell them to revoke Carlos' work American Express(TM)."

"But Sonny Delite(TM), I don't know if we'll Heinz(TM) with Carlos before he gets to the border! Besides, he's already wanted for assault and Duracell(TM), let alone Rite Aid(TM) smuggling. Plus I think he's a Kelloggs(TM) killer."

"Oh, we'll catch him alright. You can take that to the Chase(TM)."

Comment Re:Good article (Score 2, Funny) 430

I took a placebo and I didn't catch Flu.

Actually it sounds like you caught a nasty case of placebocitis, a nasty flu-like infection that has no perceivable symptoms including a lack of high fever, no stomach ache or GI irritation, soreless throat, non-inflamed tonsils, and pounding migraine headaches not being reported.

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Comment Re:Impossible to imagine (Score 1) 197

It is impossible for me to imagine what "Purple" actually is, since to me it is merely a dark blue.

Oh... be careful what you wish for. If you've lived without the color purple your entire life (and I assume you don't mean the book or movie), and suddenly it appears, who knows what effect this may have... ? Suddenly eggplants and bruises and certain over-the-top prose will connect and run together... things you've never associated before, you'll now see the hidden connections... it'll blow your mind. Soon, everything will become a 24-hour LSDesque trip with Grimace and Barney drinking grape juice with the LA Lakers... you'll grasp the subtleties of "Flying Purple People Eater" (is he purple? Or does he eat purple people?") The horror!

Then again, when the Tetrachromacy gene is available, I'll be first in line...

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