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Comment Re:Here's a thought... (Score 1) 856

by flukus on Thursday July 02, 2009 @06:41AM (#28555637) Attached to: Bike Projector Makes Lane For Rider

By that logic I have more of a right to the road than you/ I own a car and pay rego. I also pay tax that the council uses to maintain the roads. I bike causes much less wear on the roads I'm probably subsidizing you.

Comment Re:Better than a tail light? (Score 1) 856

by flukus on Thursday July 02, 2009 @06:00AM (#28555467) Attached to: Bike Projector Makes Lane For Rider

Actually it seems to be the opposite. Drivers will generally notice a flashing light and not cut out on/in front of you. With a solid light they frequently don't notice you at all. Maybe they only give way because they can't tell how far away the light source is, but it keeps me alive so I don't really care.

Comment Re:KTorrent (Score 1) 180

by flukus on Thursday January 15, 2009 @01:44AM (#26461971) Attached to: Hope For Fixing Longstanding Linux I/O Wait Bug

I've noticed that but I thought it was a bug in KTorrent (since the 4.0 conversion). It seems to only happen at random times and restarting fixes it for me.

Comment Are ther any good cms? (Score 1) 98

by flukus on Wednesday November 07, 2007 @10:35PM (#21276561) Attached to: Professional Plone Development

Is there such a thing as a good cms? It seems like most designs seem to breakdown when there interdependencies between data.

Then again, I've only ever used DotNetNuke, which is a complete joke of an application.

Feed New York Times: Cute Friends to Collect, and Plug in to the Internet (nytimes.com)

From feed by nytfeed on Sunday July 22, 2007 @11:13PM

With their new crop of products that plug into the Internet, toy makers are placing bets on the longstanding enthusiasm among children for collecting things.

Feed New York Times: EU Court to Rule Sept. 17 on Microsoft's Anti-Trust Challenge (nytimes.com)

From feed by nytfeed on Wednesday July 18, 2007 @12:12AM

A court will rule on Microsoft's challenge to an order that that imposed hundreds of millions of dollars of fines for what the regulators said was anti-competitive activity.

Mitochondria and the Prevention of Death 453

Posted by kdawson on Monday July 16, 2007 @10:33PM from the wrestling-the-dead-back-to-life dept.

H_Fisher writes "Research into mitochondria — small structures within a cell that have their own DNA — suggests that they may be a cause of cellular death, according to Newsweek. The article The Science of Death: Reviving the Dead reports on people who have recovered from sudden death due to cardiac arrest through the use of medically induced hypothermia. The cooling process may help stop the death of brain and heart cells initiated by the mitochondria once they are deprived of oxygen. The article goes on to probe delicately at the question of where a person's personality 'is' between death and later revival, and describes several ongoing scientific studies of near-death experiences."

Submission + - ShareSource: New web2.0 site like SourceForge 1

Submitted by

TimGws

on Monday July 16, 2007 @10:13PM

TimGws writes: "ShareSource, a new system written in Australia is now open for business. The system, similar to other sites such as SourceForge and Google Code allows for collaborative development. The site is new and funky, and also easy to use. It has been designed so that even a grandmother could report a bug!"

The Escapist 197

Posted by timothy on Friday July 08, 2005 @01:50PM from the out-the-door dept.

Stanislav Blingstein writes "Cyberpunk just got a whole lot darker. The Escapist , by James Morris, takes the genre into a gloomy alley and gives it a good kicking. The main character, Bentley Dean, is more than just an anti-hero: he seems to enjoy being bad. His cast of accomplices aren't much better, either, and some are far worse. Most are pretty cartoon-like, too. But you still can't help liking Bentley Dean. He brings a certain charm to being a hacker with a cold-blooded killing streak." Read on for Blingstein's review.

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