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Journal Journal: As they grow... 3

Journal by On Lawn

So, when I got married I decided I would tell my kids the truth about Santa. He was a good person who lived a thousand years ago and is dead. Now we like him so much we all act like him.

But as they've grown they seem to have convinced me he does exist. I don't correct them when they make assumptions based on their belief, I find myself going along with it rather then tell the truth.

What a softie.
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Journal Journal: This is what you need now... 3

Journal by On Lawn

Back when my wife and I were first married, we enjoyed music made from sampled sections of other music. Two of our favorite artists at that time were Thievery Corporation and Avalanche. For old time's sake we looked up one of our favorite songs in YouTube just to listen to it again.
Movies

Troubling Times for Chinese DVD Standard 22

Posted by Zonk from the fight-for-your-right-to-play-media dept.
Turtlewind writes "China's second largest home electronics retailer Suning announced today that it will stop selling new EVD products. This blow for China's home-grown video disc standard comes just days after some of China's largest DVD player manufacturers flatly denied claims by EVD Industry Alliance secretary general Zhang Baoquan that all the alliance's members would stop producing DVD equipment by 2008. The EVD standard — which was discussed on Slashdot back in 2003 — uses different encoding technology to avoid the license fees on DVD equipment. Unfortunately for EVD's backers, which included the Chinese government, the new standard failed to take off in the face of China's large existing DVD market."
Security

Submission + - TSA Now Investigating Boarding Pass Hacker

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A week after the Justice Department cleared him of any wrongdoing, Chris Soghoian, the Indiana University PhD student who created an online boarding pass generator for Northwest Airlines to highlight security holes in the government's "no-fly" list, the Transportation Security Administration has now launched its own investigation, says Wired blog 27strokeB. The TSA says Soghoian "attempted to circumvent an established civil aviation security program established in the Transportation Security Regulations," violations of which carry fines of up to $11,000 per violation. That could be a steep fine, says Washingtonpost.com's Security Fix blog: "Something like 35,000 people viewed and possibly used the boarding pass generator during the less than 72 hours that it was live on his site in November. Soghoian told WaPo: "If they decide that the only safe way for me to leave the country is by boat, then that's pretty much the end of my career here in the States. It's one thing to harass researchers, but if they can chase them out of the country, then that's a real chilling effect.
Internet Explorer

Submission + - Browser War: Firefox vs. IE vs. Opera vs. Safari

Submitted by jcatcw
jcatcw writes: Four Computerworld editors weigh in with their browser picks.

Scot Finnie says Firefox has the compatibility, customizability and convenience Internet users want. Preston Gralla takes the majority-wins approach and gets on the bandwagon with IE. Gralla's "rounding error" is Dennis Fowler's first love. Those features the others like? They're old news to Opera users. Ken I-love-everything-about-my-mac Mingis thinks quality of operation matters more than quantity of users, so he's sticking with Safari.

See the side-by-side feature comparison. Take the poll.
NASA

Submission + - NASA Finds Evidence of Water on Mars

Submitted by
SonicSpike
SonicSpike writes: "According to Reuters: "Images taken by NASA's Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft suggest the presence of liquid water on the Martian surface, a tantalizing find for scientists"..."The orbiting U.S. spacecraft allowed scientists to detect changes in the walls of two Martian craters that may have been caused by the recent flow of water, a team of researchers said in a paper appearing on Wednesday in the journal Science."

article:
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?typ e=scienceNews&storyID=2006-12-06T180759Z_01_N06416 252_RTRUKOC_0_US-MARS.xml&WTmodLoc=NewsHome-C3-sci enceNews-2

Pictures:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mars/main/index. html
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mgs/
http://mpfwww.jpl.nasa.gov/mgs/"
Programming

Submission + - UNIX tips for new users: Filters and Expressions

Submitted by
BlueVoodoo
BlueVoodoo writes: "Discover the power of UNIX filters. In this tutorial, you'll learn about the grep family in depth, including the syntax of regular expressions in many UNIX utilities. You'll also find out more about the stream editor, sed, as well as examine the awk pattern scanning language through examples and explanations.

Other Popular AIX/UNIX Articles "
Education

Submission + - Saving U.S. Science

Submitted by
beebo famulus
beebo famulus writes: "Twenty years from now, experts doubt that America will remain a dominant force in science as it was during the last century. The hang wringing has generated a couple of new ideas to deal with the dilemma. Specifically, one expert says that the federal government should create contests and prize awards for successful science ideas, while another advises that the National Science Foundation fund more graduate students and increase the amount of the fellowships. http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2006/12/06/inno vate"
Portables (Games)

Submission + - Kid has mom arrested for opening Christmas Present

Submitted by
emor8t
emor8t writes: "I always wondered what Mom would have done if she found me sneakin' a peak at my christmas presents. Thankfully, I have ninja-like stealth.

"COLUMBIA, South Carolina (AP) — A fed-up mother had her 12-year-old son arrested for allegedly rummaging through his great-grandmother's things and playing with his Christmas present early. The mother called police Sunday after learning her son had disobeyed orders and repeatedly taken a Game Boy from its hiding place at his great-grandmother's house next door and played it."

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/12/05/christmaspresent. arrest.ap/index.html"

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