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Comment Re:I recently needed to learn how to set a live tr (Score 3, Interesting) 249

Well, you could try wiggling out of this one on a technicality, insisting on an article that is provably wrong in key facts and has been for more than a week, rather than one where that exact situation occurred but the article was later corrected after more than a week. But I'm sure you wouldn't do that, since that would be an artificial limitation.

So perhaps you should look at this version of an article about Colin Pitchfork, a convicted child killer: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Colin_Pitchfork&oldid=141669223 . Among the other false key facts presented in the article for twenty-five days (over three weeks):

* the city and the county where the murders occurred;
* the years where they occurred;
* the existence of a third murder;
* the year of Pitchfork's confession;
* the date and year of Pitchfork's sentencing;
* the name of the initial incorrect suspect;
* the affiliation of the scientist who developed the technique that identified Pitchfork;
* how Pitchfork's ruse to defeat forensic testing failed.

That's a bit more than "spelling errors and questionable references."

The Internet

Towards a World Wide Grid? 105

Roland Piquepaille writes "In recent months, the concept of 'cloud computing' was all the buzz. European researchers think about another name, the World Wide Grid, which could run on top of the Internet. In an article to appear soon, ICT Results will report about the g-Eclipse project. As the scientists said, 'the g-Eclipse project aims to build an integrated workbench framework to access the power of existing Grid infrastructures. The framework will be built on top of the reliable eco-system of the Eclipse community to enable a sustainable development.' The project started in July 2006 and was successfully completed in June 2008 for a total cost of €2.5 million, including a EU contribution of €1.96 million."
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Submission + - Amazon Tries to De-Expose Exposed Frauds?

Antaeus Feldspar writes: The man who called himself Binjamin Wilkomirski told a dramatic and harrowing account in his book Fragments: Memories of a Wartime Childhood 1939-1948, of how he survived internment in two Nazi concentration camps during World War II when he was as young as two. Unfortunately for him, his widely-praised account was exposed as a hoax; instead of being a Jewish child who was adopted after the war, he was the child of an unwed mother who was adopted before the war and spent it in relative comfort.

A look at Amazon's page for the book, however, will reveal none of this. The glittering reviews published when the book first came out are there; the five-star user reviews calling it "an incredible account of a torturous childhood" are there. The one user review which refers to the exposure of the hoax, however, has clearly been censored. The first sentence now reads "It was discovered by the publisher (Schoken) that this book was ... presented as the memoire of a Holocaust survivor." Obviously, the publisher knew that the book was presented as the memoir of a Holocaust survivor when they published it as one; why did someone at Amazon decide that potential buyers of the book should have withheld from them what the publishers actually discovered, that the book wasn't what it was presented as?
Power

Wireless Power Now A Reality 197

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CSMastermind writes "CNN is reporting on a breakthrough technology. A startup called Powercast has developed and patented a device, the size of a dime and costing 5$ to make, which allows power to be transmitted wirelessly. The device has already gained FCC approval and the company has inked deals with the likes of Phillips. From the article: 'Powercast says it has signed nondisclosure agreements to develop products with more than 100 companies, including major manufacturers of cell phones, MP3 players, automotive parts, temperature sensors, hearing aids, and medical implants. The last of those alone could be a multibillion-dollar market: Pacemakers, defibrillators, and the like require surgery to replace dead batteries. But with a built-in Powercast receiver, those batteries could last a lifetime. '"

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