Comment MN - Easy line, easy people (Score 1) 821
Went pretty smooth out here in minnesota, but I went bright and early!!!
Submission + - There taking our beer minnesota! (startribune.com)
bchickens writes: "Shutdown forces MillerCoors to pull beer from shelves, with the state shutdown Booze and cigarettes might be a thing of the past for awhile!"
Comment Keygens for Playstation? (Score 1) 283
So now were going to be using keygens on Playstation games, wonderful! It seems that consoles have become redundant, to be honest they should just push all the controllers to a home PC system and quit charging people for meager upgrades everytime they come out with a new console.
Comment Time to rock the ladders again! (Score 1) 288
I have not touched a duke nukem game since HEAT was around. Can't wait to get in and kick ass and chew bubble gum! All out of gum!
Comment Thats why (Score 1) 473
they raised my plan! Arg! Damn them and there streaming media that has nowhere near enough titles!
Comment Re:I have a much more ambitious vision (Score 2) 1073
LOL. This censorship thing is getting way out of hand.
Comment Nom. (Score 1) 221
nom nom nom. Sounds like they could be a new weapon of mass destruction!
Comment Re:They didn’t sue them... (Score 1) 446
yeah no kidding, im very suprised.
Comment Wow. (Score 1) 693
Thats pretty cool of the teacher to offer them all a way out. With all the cheater sites out there, its no suprise to me that 1/3 of the kids cheated.
50 ISPs Harbor Half of All Infected Machines 140
Orome1 writes "As the classic method of combating botnets by taking down command and control centers has proven pretty much ineffective in the long run, there has been lots of talk lately about new stratagems that could bring about the desired result. A group of researchers from the Delft University of Technology and Michigan State University have recently released an analysis of the role that ISPs could play in botnet mitigation — an analysis that led to interesting conclusions. The often believed assumption that the presence of a high speed broadband connection is linked to the widespread presence of botnet infection in a country has been proven false."
Comment Suprised! (Score 1) 360
I am very suprised it took this long for them to realize that the phone book is a thing of the past. Only thing I ever think of when I look at a phone book is Terminator when he is killing all the Sarah Connors in order! See? Another reason not to be in the book!
Is the Number Up For the Residential Phone Book? 360
Hugh Pickens writes "The first phone directory was issued in 1878, two years after Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone and for decades regulators across the US have required phone companies to distribute directories in paper form. But now the Washington Post reports that Verizon, the largest provider of landline phones in the Washington DC region, is asking state regulators for permission to stop delivering the residential white pages in Virginia and Maryland. About a dozen other states are also doing away with printed phone books as surveys show that the number of households relying on residential white pages dropped from 25 percent in 2005 to 11 percent in 2008. The directories will be available online, printed or on CD-ROM upon request but the inches-thick white pages, a fixture in American households for more than a century, will no longer land on porches with a thud each year. 'I'm kind of amazed they lasted as long as they have,' says Robert Thompson, a professor of popular culture at Syracuse University. 'But there are some people nostalgic about this. Some people like to go to the shelf and look up a number.'"
Rural North Carolina Experiences Data Center Boom 153
1sockchuck writes "Rural counties in western North Carolina have hit the data center trifecta, landing major projects from Google, Apple and Facebook. These marquee tech companies will invest more than $2 billion in small towns like Forest City, Kings Mountain and Maiden, a town of just 3,300 residents. How did western North Carolina become a tech hub? Aggressive tax incentives and an abundant supply of cheap power, a legacy of the textile mills that once thrived in the region, which narrowly missed winning a $499 million Microsoft data center project that ended up in Virginia."
Graphene Can Be Made With Table Sugar 142
Zothecula writes with this snippet from Gizmag: "There's no doubt that the discovery of graphene is one sweet breakthrough. The remarkable material offers everything from faster, cooler electronics and cheaper lithium-ion batteries to faster DNA sequencing and single-atom transistors. Researchers at Rice University have made graphene even sweeter by developing a way to make pristine sheets of the one-atom-thick form of carbon from plain table sugar and other carbon-based substances. In another plus, the one-step process takes place at temperatures low enough to make the wonder material easy to manufacture."
Hitachi Demos a Stylus-Friendly Capacitive Touchscreen 47
dk3nn3dy writes "Hitachi Displays have developed a capacitive touchscreen which converts input from a non-conductive object into electrostatic capacitance. This enables it to be used in a diverse range of ways, such as multi-touch using several fingers, with a plastic pen for finer input, and in cold places while wearing gloves. The display is currently under development for release in the second half of 2011."
