Comment Re:It has been seen before (Score 3, Interesting) 236
Whenever I see something submitted by theodp, I make a bet with myself about
Do you usually win?
Comment Re:Nice to have them with 13.1 14-15 and 17" scree (Score 3, Informative) 119
Not in Economy on any of the international flights I've been on.
A number of airlines actually do have limited in-flight power in economy these days, such as Delta and Continental. A good website for finding out which airlines have this feature on which equipment is SeatGuru.
Comment Re:currently in practice (Score 2, Informative) 139
United states has one of the highest infant mortality rate in the world
You may want to check some actual facts. As of 2009, the US was 46th out of 224. This definitely isn't something to brag about, but it's nowhere near the "highest". It's not even 3x the lowest...
Comment Re:Forgot your meds, did you? (Score 3, Informative) 192
AND I see no way to turn it off.
If you have adblock plus installed (and you should, really), this filter will take care of the problem:
slashdot.org##div.chatter
Comment Re:Deliberately bad? (Score 1) 279
Let me get this right-- you purchase this offset so that you can deliberately write bad code?
This model has worked well for cheat offsets, too.
Comment video source? (Score 3, Insightful) 240
If you still need a cable to connect your video sources, what's the point?
Comment Re:Bad Math (Score 1) 541
Or he'll pump the surplus electricity into the grid, and get paid for it.
False. According to his one-month update:
In California, you cannot sell excess power to the local utility. In other words, you can't do better than a zero dollar bill--if you're a consumer. I can sell power to the utility, but only if the net result over a year is zero.
Comment Re:Errr (Score 4, Interesting) 307
As opposed to a non-binary computer?
Also, yes.
International Spam Ring Shut Down 243
smooth wombat writes "An international spam ring with ties to Australia, New Zealand, China, India, and the US is in the process of being shut down. Finances of members in the US are being frozen using the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 while the FBI is pursuing criminal charges. The group sent spam advertising male enhancement herbs and other items using a botnet estimated at 35,000 computers, and able to send 10 billion emails per day. The Federal Trade Commission monitored the group's finances and found that they had cleared $400,000 in Visa charges in one month alone."
Comment Re:Linux is great, but... (Score 1) 252
My main question is who can modify the source of the software they're using, and how are they verifying that the binaries are unmodified.
I realize this is slashdot, so I shouldn't have read the article, but...
All political parties have access to the source code, and digitally sign the executable code, and thus can confirm, at any individual machine, that the running software is the official one.
Submission + - Prius more environmentally damaging than a Hummer
An anonymous reader writes: According to this story from Central Connecticut State University the Prius takes more energy to manufacture than a Hummer, requiring 50% more energy to produce. In addition, they calculate that the Prius costs $3.25 per mile over it's expected lifespan of 100,000 miles compared to $1.95 per mile for the hummer.
iFilm Infringement Could Blunt Viacom's YouTube Argument 119
Radio Silence writes "Infringing videos on iFilm could undermine Viacom's case against YouTube. Although it's arguably not a nest of infringement like YouTube, iFilm appears to host more than a handful of videos for which its corporate parent Viacom does not own the copyright. More importantly, Viacom isn't engaging in the kind of proactive infringement identification practices it expects of YouTube, which may cause problems for them in court. 'if Viacom isn't willing to take the same steps with iFilm that it wants YouTube to take with copyrighted content, Viacom may have a harder time making its case before the judge presiding over the case. "It would have some persuasive value with a judge if YouTube says 'look, they're ranting and raving about all this infringement occurring on my site and they're not doing anything about it themselves,'" said copyright attorney Greg Gabriel.'"
