Comment Re:Fusion!? (Score 0, Troll) 404
Judeo-Christian nuclear abortion socialism!
I now await my Fox News story...
Comment Re:What? (Score 1) 438
a caravan is a piece of shit minivan made by Chry^H^H^H^HDaimlerChr^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HFiat.
Comment Re:err, why? (Score 3, Funny) 376
it's got electrolytes!
Comment Loss of smell is real (Score 1) 452
I am someone who lost prolly 75% of his sense of smell over the 90s. Why, I do not know.
I do find favor with extra spicy foods, as they stimulate me in ways other foods cannot.
My wife has a hyper sense of smell. I take out the garbage.
Comment VoIP, baby! (Score 1) 635
I purchased a Grandstream VoIP unit and connected the POTS line to my house copper, the ethernet end to my switch.
I purchased inbound VoIP service with les.net for a mere $1.00 a month. Outbound is $0.01/min
So, for $12/yr, I still have house POTS service.
Comment Re:Net Neutrality in Action (Score 1) 269
Shame on you, CTRC. You ruined the most popular radio station in Windsor & Detroit, CKLW. We have never forgiven you. And we'll remain deeply suspicious of anything you plan to do on the Intertubes or elsewhere.
Comment Quote: The future (Score 1) 1067
The future is like the present, only more so.
Some Schools Welcoming Patent Firm, Others Wary 55
theodp writes "Intellectual Ventures (IV) will be setting up shop at the top of a Four Seasons this week as Headline Sponsor of the Ready to Commercialize 2008 conference hosted by the University of Texas at Austin. It's the patent firm's 100th university deal, though some, such as Professor Michael Heller at Columbia University, warn against such deals. '... their individual profit comes at the cost of the public ability to innovate. The university's larger mission is to serve the public interest, and some of these deals work against that public interest.' It's a follow-up to the conference IV sponsored last summer for technology transfer professionals entrusted with commercializing their universities' intellectual property, and should help IV, a friend of Microsoft, snag even more exclusive deals (PDF)."
Comment Chinese Lego (Score 2, Interesting) 576
http://www.mocpages.com/moc.php/18382
Probably won't help with the pirates. Real pirates!
Windows 7 Trades Email and Photo Apps For Downloadable Ones 496
arcticstoat writes "Microsoft has said that it plans to remove a lot of the standard apps from Windows 7 in order to make the new OS 'cleaner.' Among the apps for the chop are Windows Mail, Windows Photo Gallery and Windows Movie Maker, which will no longer be included with the operating system as standard.
Instead, equivalent versions of the apps will be available from Microsoft's Windows Live download service as optional free downloads, much like the new BETA versions of the apps that Windows Live offers today." Meanwhile, jammag writes that "tech pundit Mike Elgan posits that the rushed-to-market Windows 7 — due in 2010, now being beta released this October — may in fact merely be Vista with new packaging.
Google's Brin Books a Space Flight 170
coondoggie writes "Google largely conquered the Earth — now it is taking aim at space. At least co-founder Sergei Brin is. Brin today said he put down $5 million toward a flight to the International Space Station in 2011.
Brin's space travel will be brokered by Space Adventures, the space outfit that sent billionaire software developer Charles Simonyi to the station in 2007. Computer game developer (and son of a former NASA astronaut) Richard Garriott is currently planning a mission to the ISS in October 2008. Garriott is paying at least $30 million to launch toward the space station aboard a Russian Soyuz spaceship according to Space Adventures." Make sure to wave when you are over Michigan, man. I'll be the one on my lawn, green with envy.
Prediction Markets and the 2008 Electoral Map 813
Electionwatch submitted a predicted electoral map of the 2008 US Presidential election, based on the bets made by the intrade prediction markets. I'm always interested in these markets and how accurate they end up being. This one calls it for Obama, but then again you probably could guess that by just watching 10 minutes of any TV "News" channel.
H.R. 4279 Would Establish Federal IP Cops 686
MrSnivvel writes "H.R. 4279, Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property Act of 2008, is gaining momentum in Congress. It passed the House a few days back. It would allow the Feds to seize hardware that has even one file coming from 'dubious origins,' e.g. downloaded from P2P. If passed into law, the bill would establish an Intellectual Property Enforcement Division within the office of the Deputy Attorney General. Rep. John Conyers says the goal is to 'prioritize intellectual property protection to the highest level of our government.'"
Ubuntu Eee Goes Gold 89
bjcarne writes in to commend Jon Ramvi and his team, who have delivered their first stable release of Ubuntu Eee, an Ubuntu version customized for the Asus Eee PC. "In December Ubuntu Eee started as a one man project, but [over] the last months several people have joined in on the development. We're trying to achieve something which [hasn't] been successful for any other Linux distribution yet: a OS targeting a single computer which includes the best applications available. This means people can buy this really cheap computer and easily get a great OS on it for free. Ubuntu Eee is just for the Asus Eee. Ubuntu Eee is smaller, faster and we're bringing people the cutting edge of technology (while being stable and free of course)."
ISO Puts OOXML On Hold 138
schliz alerts us that ISO, in response to the four appeals (Venezuela, India, Brazil, South Africa) filed in recent weeks, has put the OOXML standardization process on hold. Here is ISO's press release, which says that ISO/IEC DIS 29500 will not be published for at least "several months" while the appeals process goes forward.
Update: 06/11 10:13 GMT by KD : Reader Alsee points out that the fourth officially recognized appealing country is Venezuela, not Denmark as originally stated. The protests of Denmark and Norway are being disregarded, as they do not come from the administrative heads of their national organizations.
Update: 06/11 10:13 GMT by KD : Reader Alsee points out that the fourth officially recognized appealing country is Venezuela, not Denmark as originally stated. The protests of Denmark and Norway are being disregarded, as they do not come from the administrative heads of their national organizations.
