Comment Re:I'm not clear (Score 1) 780
Under the 14th Amendment, the Bill of Rights also applies to the states.
Comment TMBG (Score 1) 123
Why does the voorwerp shine? (The voorwerp is a mass of ionized gas.)
Comment Re:Simple Solution (Score 1) 553
Yeah, you'd need over 9,000 million.
Comment Re:Both Good and Bad (Score 2, Insightful) 286
Religon's biggest long-term effect in the CIV4 was just to give AI Civ's one more thing to get pissed off at you about. There was no winning with it either, as no matter which you picked, you'd tick somebody off.
So it's just like real life, then.
How the Internet Didn't Fail As Predicted 259
Lord Byron Eee PC writes "Newsweek is carrying a navel-gazing piece on how wrong they were when in 1995 they published a story about how the Internet would fail. The original article states, 'Nicholas Negroponte, director of the MIT Media Lab, predicts that we'll soon buy books and newspapers straight over the Intenet. Uh, sure.' The article continues to say that online shopping will never happen, that airline tickets won't be purchased over the web, and that newspapers have nothing to fear. It's an interesting look back at a time when the Internet was still a novelty and not yet a necessity."
Comment Re:Long time coming (Score 4, Informative) 112
Uematsu did a little bit of the Chrono Trigger score, but the majority of it was by Yasunori Mitsuda
Submission + - Bing Adds Street View, Apps, and More (pcmag.com)
mikemuch writes: Thought it's still far behind Google in overall search volume, you have to give poor little Microsoft credit for continuing to add capabilities to its search engine. Today's release adds street view--called Streetside--that takes advantage of Microsoft's photo-stitching PhotoSynth technology. Not only is Microsoft itself using Photosynth, but users can also upload their Photosynths so that anyone on the web can, say, duck inside a house for sale, or into the Met to check out a Rembrandt. Beyond street view, Bing now also gets apps that third-party developers can add for map overlays that do things like showing where Twitter tweets were tweeted, webcams, news stories, and even grafitti tags.You can try the new features out for yourself at www.bing.maps/explore. You can also read more about the announcements or view a slideshow of Bing Streetside and Apps at PCMag.
Submission + - Cameroon the new Hong Kong of malware? (theregister.co.uk)
garg0yle writes: According to McAfee, more than a third of Cameroon domains (TLD of .cm) is infested with viruses or other not-so-fun party treats. Given that it's very easy to mis-type .com as .cm, this puts the computers of a lot of fat-fingered typists in peril. Second place on the most-infested domains list goes to China (.cn), while Hong Kong (last year's "winner") is now comfortably middle-of-the-pack.
Submission + - FCC Lets Radar Company See Through Walls (commlawblog.com)
DesertNomad writes: Attorney Mitchell Lazarus over at CommLawBlog gives a good overview of a new radar technology and the challenges of getting regulatory approval, which seemingly can be just as difficult as developing the technology itself.
Why Won't Apple Sell Your iTunes LPs? 306
jfruhlinger writes "Over the weekend there's been a bit of controversy over the fact that Apple has effectively shut indie artists out of the iTunes LP market by charging $10,000 in design fees. But the real question is why Apple is in charge of designing the new iTunes LP at all, since the format is based on open Web design technologies. There's at least one iTunes LP already available outside the iTunes store. Why won't Apple sell it?"
Comment Re:I've heard that before.... (Score 2, Insightful) 158
Gretchen, stop trying to make Superfetch happen. It's not going to happen.
Comment Re:Citation Needed (Score 5, Insightful) 616
I wonder if any of these ELF people understand physics
Oh, there's no need to wonder. The answer is: No, they don't.
Why Is It So Difficult To Allow Cross-Platform Play? 389
cookiej writes "I just got the most recent version of the Madden franchise ('10) for the PS3. Can somebody explain to me why EA has separate networks for the different platforms, only allowing players to compete with people using the same console? Back in the day, there were large discrepancies between the consoles, but these days it seems like the Xbox and the PS3 are at least near the same level. After so many releases for this franchise, they've got to have a fairly standardized protocol for networking; it seems arbitrary not to let them compete. Or am I just missing something obvious? Is it just a matter of Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network not working together?"
Submission + - Google caught editing PageRank results
Green Monkey writes: Google has been caught manually editing the PageRank of certain pages to 0, causing them to vanish from Google search results. For example, what was last week Google's #2 result on the Megan Meyer affair has now vanished completely from search results. It's obvious that this is due to direct interference from Google — these are Wiki-based articles where the main article has vanished and yet the Talk page still appears in the results. More details at Digg story, as well.
Submission + - Google just another evil megacorp? (groklaw.net)
An anonymous reader writes: Google makes prospective employees outside the USA sign a non-disclosure agreeement which specifies that any disputes arising will be adjudicated in California courts — thereby ensuring that it will win any such disputes regardless of the merits, since many overseas employees cannot get visas to come to the United States. Details on
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