Comment Re:Kill!!! (Score 1) 855
If doctors were always listened to there would be no obese people since they are always told to exercise and eat healtier.
Comment Re:Great idea - it can replace the Gas Tax! (Score 5, Insightful) 713
Wouldn't increasing the gas tax thereby further increasing the value of low gas mileage vehicle be preferable? I mean doesn't this just help the pocket book of SUV driving suburbanites vs hybrid driving people?
Comment Witness Chair (Score 5, Funny) 314
Those witness stand chairs are bolted down right?
Submission + - Google building their own switches (lightreading.com)
mrand writes: An analyst tracing optical components has come to an
unexpected conclusion: in order to lower its cost and power consumption, Google appears to be designing and manufacturing its own multi-port 10 Gbps Ethernet switch, likely centered around an off-the-shelf component from Broadcom.
Submission + - Greatest Intel Processor Decoder Ever!
An anonymous reader writes: According to EE Times, Intel has launched a tool ( ARK.intel.com ) to help its customers decode the myriad of different processors and chipsets that they make:
"The ARK (for Automated Relational Knowledgebase) site is intended as a way to navigate to detailed information such as data sheets on Intel's main processor and chip-set products. It sports a Google-like interface as well as pull-down menus that list lists more than 30 processor families and 50 chip sets. Drill down to the next level and you get a listing of as many as 20 individual products in the family, summary information on the family and links to data sheets and platforms using the chips."
Apparently, the one small catch is that one must register at welcome.intel.com first, but it seems like a small price to pay for the keys to the (silicon) kingdom!
"The ARK (for Automated Relational Knowledgebase) site is intended as a way to navigate to detailed information such as data sheets on Intel's main processor and chip-set products. It sports a Google-like interface as well as pull-down menus that list lists more than 30 processor families and 50 chip sets. Drill down to the next level and you get a listing of as many as 20 individual products in the family, summary information on the family and links to data sheets and platforms using the chips."
Apparently, the one small catch is that one must register at welcome.intel.com first, but it seems like a small price to pay for the keys to the (silicon) kingdom!
Submission + - Cellphones to provide traffic map without GPS
Journal Journal: Spanish court fines web admin due to 3rd party comments
The administrator of the popular spanish humour site Frikipedia (wiki) has been found guilty of damaging the honor of Pedro Farre (an lawyer on the side of SGAE -spanish RIAA-)[1]. The crime was allowing anonymous comment (usual wiki page) in a humour site, what leaded to some parodies of the you-know-we-love-them members of the spanish RIAA (SGAE).
Submission + - Forgotten memory cards nearly flip election result (indystar.com)
CorporalKlinger writes: Many of America's larger election districts have already switched to electronic touchscreen voting. Despite all of the usual complaints about software security and lack of paper records for auditing purposes, one of the less insidious flaws with digital election recording came to light in Indianapolis this week: the ease with which an election could be flipped if officials simply 'forgot' to count votes on memory cards from specific districts. 'Two computer memory cards inadvertently left inside voting machines on Tuesday held enough votes to give the victory to Democrat incumbent Angela Mansfield in the race to represent City-County Council District 2. Tuesday, with all precincts reporting, [Republican candidate Schumacher] was listed as the winner on the Marion County Election Board's Web site. By 2 p.m. Thursday, after the memory cards were retrieved and the votes on them counted, [Schumacher] had 5,591 votes compared to Mansfield's 5,900. The reversal of fortune for Schumacher would leave the GOP with 16 seats and give the Democrats 13.' It leaves one to wonder how many other election results may be in error from November 6th due to mistakes such as this.
Submission + - Warner Bros. bans previews in Canada
Shambly writes: In an article by the cbc
Warner Bros announces that it will cancel all previews of Movies in Canada citing its reason it says "Recently, the U.S. International Intellectual Property Alliance put Canada on a watchlist of countries it believes responsible for illegal filming and copying of movies. The group alleged that the recording, movie and software industries lose $225 million a year due to illegal trafficking in Canada."
