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Comment Re:Registry hack (Score 1) 238

by mnmn on Tuesday February 24, 2009 @04:42PM (#26974747) Attached to: Homemade PDF Patch Beats Adobe By Two Weeks

Since when has changing a registry entry become a 'hack'?

Next we'll hear of create-a-folder hack or waterfall screensaver hack.

Comment Sobering article? (Score 1) 570

by mnmn on Sunday December 28, 2008 @05:49PM (#26252235) Attached to: What Carriers Don't Want You To Know About Texting

How is it sobering when it makes me want to drink?

Submission + - Fuel Cell Car and Experiment Kit

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Monday February 26, 2007 @06:35PM

Anonymous Coward writes: "Kids can't help but get excited about saving the planet when they see their own model car zoom across the floor powered by nothing but water! Fuel-cell technology is the environmentally friendly wave of the future. The water becomes fuel before kids' eyes as electrolysis (powered by a solar cell) breaks it into its separate components of hydrogen and oxygen, creating a gas that is then stored for use by the fuel cell when it's time for the car to get going. During the building process, children from age twelve can use the included 96-page Experiment Manual as a guide to performing thirty experiments on such subjects as the effects of direct and indirect radiation, the characteristics of a solar module, constructing and loading a reversible fuel cell, and decomposition of water in the fuel cell, plus they can design experiments of their own. The kit contains everything children need to build and experiment with their fuel cell and car (except 1 quart of distilled water)."

Submission + - Modern Day Witch-Hunt in Connecticut

Submitted by zhenya00 on Monday February 26, 2007 @05:05PM

zhenya00 writes: USAToday is reporting on a story most of us are already familiar with; the case of Julie Amero, a 40 year old Norwich, Connecticut substitute teacher who has been convicted of four counts of risk of injury to a minor when the un-patched Windows 98 computer she had used to check her email began to display a flurry of pornographic pop-ups to the students in her classroom. She faces up to 40 years in prison when she is sentenced this Friday March 2.
From the article:

"Julie Amero was a victim of a school that couldn't be bothered to protect its computers, of a prosecutor without the technology background to understand what he was doing, a police "expert" who was not, and a jury misled by all of them. "Miscarriage of justice" doesn't begin to describe it."
Can this country really allow something like this to happen? Why isn't there general outrage on the front page of every newspaper? Why aren't those responsible being flooded with calls and emails from angry citizens?

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