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Dad Delivers Baby Using Wiki 249

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday December 15, 2009 @05:29PM from the 9cm-edited dept.

sonamchauhan writes "A Londoner helped his wife deliver their baby by Googling 'how to deliver a baby' on his mobile phone. From the article: 'Today proud Mr Smith said: "The midwife had checked Emma earlier in the day but contractions started up again at about 8pm so we called the midwife to come back. But then everything happened so quickly I realized Emma was going to give birth. I wasn't sure what I was going to do so I just looked up the instructions on the internet using my BlackBerry."'"

Comment Re:Also why are they doing it? (Score 1) 520

by Cap'n.Brownbeard on Thursday October 01, 2009 @08:55AM (#29604417) Attached to: Wii Update 4.2 Tries (and Fails) To Block Homebrew

It's also a "problem" that PC games or even Nintendo DS games never had to deal with. There's no region locking on either platform.

Back when Quake II was released I had a copy that clearly stated on the disc "For sale ONLY in Australia". I literally had to change my timezone to install it. Please check your facts.

Submission + - Google goes green (google.com)

Submitted by

foobsr

on Tuesday November 27, 2007 @03:47PM

foobsr writes: "Google today announced it would invest hundreds of millions of dollars to make "Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal" in the near future. Larry Page stated: "With talented technologists, great partners and significant investments, we hope to rapidly push forward. Our goal is to produce one gigawatt of renewable energy capacity that is cheaper than coal. We are optimistic this can be done in years, not decades." This probably adds some new semantics to GoogleEarth."

Submission + - SaaS-turbation and the art of creating nothing (cnet.com)

Submitted by

Dave Rosenberg

on Sunday November 25, 2007 @11:37PM

Dave Rosenberg writes: "I was discussing the questionable value of many on-demand/software-as-a-service applications and called it all "SaaS-turbation" and now I think it needs a good definition. A good example of SaaS-turbation is the Live Documents service that claims to offer a product that no one really wants.

My definition (it needs work)

SaaS-turbation (Noun)
Browser based, unsatisfying, on-demand version of a desktop application"

Submission + - 1977 gets its ass kicked! (blogspot.com)

Submitted by Cap'n.Brownbeard on Thursday November 08, 2007 @05:41PM

Cap'n.Brownbeard writes: Man finds JC Penney catalog from 1977. Man pees pants. Man blogs.

"A JC Penney catalog from 1977. It's not often [that] blog fodder just falls in my lap, but holy hell this was two solid inches of it, right there for the taking... The clothes are fantastic."

One SimCity Per Child 253

Posted by Zonk on Thursday November 08, 2007 @05:30PM from the now-that's-edumacation dept.

SimHacker writes "Electronic Arts has donated the original 'classic' version of Will Wright's popular SimCity game to the One Laptop Per Child project. SimCity is the epitome of constructionist educational games, and has been widely used by educators to unlock and speed-up the transformational skills associated with creative thinking. It's also been used in the Future City Competition by seventh- and eighth-grade students to foster engineering skills and inspire students to explore futuristic concepts and careers in engineering. OLPC SimCity is based on the X11 TCL/Tk version of SimCity for Unix developed and adapted to the OLPC by Don Hopkins, and the GPL open source code will soon be released under the name "Micropolis", which was SimCity's original working title. SJ Klein, director of content for the OLPC, called on game developers to create 'frameworks and scripting environments — tools with which children themselves could create their own content.' The long term agenda of the OLPC SimCity project is to convert SimCity into a scriptable Python module, integrate it with the OLPC's Sugar user interface and Cairo rendering library. Eventually they hope to apply Seymour Papert's and Alan Kay's ideas about constructionist education and teaching kids to program."

Submission + - The World's Biggest Botnets

Submitted by ancientribe on Thursday November 08, 2007 @05:25PM

ancientribe writes: There's a new peer-to-peer based botnet emerging that could blow the notorious Storm away in size and sophistication, according to researchers, and it's a direct result of how Storm has changed the botnet game, with more powerful and wily botnets on the horizon. This article provides a peek at the "new Storm" and reveals the three biggest botnets in the world (including Storm) — and what makes them tick and what they are after.

http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=138610&WT.svl=news1_1

Submission + - Chinese MMO Bans Males From Playing Female Charact

Submitted by

Cap'n.Brownbeard

on Tuesday September 25, 2007 @01:46PM

Cap'n.Brownbeard writes: ""Players of the Chinese MMORPG, King of the World, may have found themselves unable to log into their accounts this past weekend. The game's publisher, Aurora Technology, has apparently frozen the accounts of all male players choosing to play as a female characters. Now, only female players can play female characters, and they're required to prove their gender via a webcam. Females wanting to play males are still allowed though." http://news.filefront.com/chinese-mmo-bans-males-from-playing-female-characters/"

Submission + - AC/DC snubs iTunes in favor of Verizon

Submitted by

schnell

on Wednesday August 01, 2007 @04:33PM

schnell writes: "The good news: AC/DC music will finally be available online. The bad news? You can only get it from Verizon (no iTunes, eMusic, et. al.), you can only get it in full albums (except for one song), and it costs more than other Vcast music. It's great to have the longtime digital holdout bands finally inking deals ... but this still smells like 'doesn't get it' to me."

Submission + - Strangest Sights Visibile Using Google Earth (pcworld.com) 1

Submitted by BethEllen on Monday July 09, 2007 @01:01PM

BethEllen writes: Hi — Saw today's post on the Chinese nuclear sub prototype visible on Google Maps. Thought you would be interested in this slide show highlighting some of the cooler, and stranger, sights found using Google Earth, including crop circles and a 1.8-square-mile scale model of a disputed region on the border of China and India. http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,134186/article.h tml?tk=pr_googe-ss Best, Beth

Submission + - Michigan Man Charged for Using Free WiFi

Submitted by Nichole on Wednesday May 23, 2007 @10:55AM

Nichole writes: Sam Peterson II was charged with Unauthorized use of computer access for using a coffee shop's free WiFi. He faced a 5 year felony charge and a $10,000 fine but apparently got off lucky and received only a $400 fine and 40 hours of community service because he was a first time offender. The video shows the officer saying, "I had a feeling a law was being broken but I didn't know exactly what." so he let Peterson go and went back to look it up.

Submission + - Bank Officers Emailing Your Info In The Clear..

Submitted by

Austin

on Wednesday May 23, 2007 @09:54AM

Austin writes: "I recently received a email from a loan officer at a major national bank regarding the final documents to my condo closing. The only problem is I am not buying a condo at all, the loan officer made a mistake in the email address domain. I replied and informed her of the mistake. The next day I received thirteen more documents, all unencrypted, non-password protected. The docs pertained to income statements, closing worksheets containing all identifying information (ssn, dob), and, this is good, complete routing instructions for the payment. If banks are going to send this information to external entities like your broker or title lawyer shouldn't they have to protect it in some manner?"

Submission + - Colorado patients' records exposed

Submitted by

Bill Wareham

on Tuesday May 22, 2007 @11:34PM

Bill Wareham writes: "From WavLength:

Future Tense has discovered that detailed, personally identifiable medical records of thousands of Colorado residents were viewable on a publicly accessible Internet site for an uncertain period of time through at least last Friday, May 18. The data included patient records from at least 10 Colorado clinics and hospitals, and one hospital in Peoria, Illinois. It's unclear how many people may have seen the records."

Submission + - Evolution in Action

Submitted by osric0 on Tuesday May 22, 2007 @11:28PM

osric0 writes: 'In the Pipeline' has a article that talks about the use of genetic sequencing right now, and how one result of this is being able to watch evolution happen, and some musings on where this is going.

Submission + - Star Wars cast: where are they now?

Submitted by solitas on Monday May 21, 2007 @11:24PM

solitas writes: A Breitbart news story interviews certain StarWars alumni about what the trilogy has done for them.

They were part of one of the biggest movies in history but almost without exception the cast of "Star Wars" faded from view after lighting up cinemas during the 1970-80s.

While George Lucas' intergalactic fairytale proved to be a launch pad for the career of Harrison Ford, other prominent members of the blockbuster franchise have not come close to enjoying Ford's iconic status.

..."Without naming names, you meet some stars and afterwards you go 'Gee, I wish I hadn't met him,'"... Oh yeah? Do: tell.

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