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Comment It's a trap! (Score 3, Interesting) 201

No really, they are publicly scrapping the ID card compulsion, but they are still planning to build and populate the back end database which was the real bad idea behind the ID cards anyway. I imagine they will make it a requirement of new passports or renewals that you have to give the same information they would have requested for the ID cards, they're just hoping enough people fall for the con that because they don't have to have an ID card anymore the problem has gone away.

Role Playing (Games)

World of Warcraft 3.1 Patch Brings Dual-Specs, New Raid 204

On Tuesday Blizzard rolled out the first major content patch for World of Warcraft since the launch of Wrath of the Lich King last November. The 3.1 patch includes the long-awaited dual-specialization feature, which allows players to quickly and easily switch from one set of talent choices to another. Action bars and glyph choices change as well. The patch also includes a new end-game raid dungeon, Ulduar, which expands upon the variable difficulty modes Blizzard has recently experimented with. The instance contains 14 bosses, 10 of which have an optional "hard mode" that players can attempt for better rewards. In addition, the patch contains a host of class balance changes, bug fixes, and UI improvements. You can see the full patch notes at Blizzard's website, and a brief trailer is also available.
Hardware Hacking

D.I.Y. Home Security 377

theodp writes "The NYTimes reports that pre-wired home security installations by alarm companies are on the way out. Thanks to wireless window and door sensors and motion detectors, installing and maintaining one's own security system is becoming a do-it-yourself project, with kits available from companies like InGrid and LaserShield. Time to start cranking out some new iPhone and Android apps, kids?"

Comment Re:So what's the bottom line? (Score 1) 460

How so? if two people travel 40 miles @ 40MPG and take separate cars they consume 2 gallons, if they take the same car they only consume 1 gallon. Overall consumption has doubled by them taking their own car vs carpooling.

Basically, there is a correlation between passengers and number of vehicles on the road. If you increase the number of vehicles on the road for the same number of passengers you are obviously increasing consumption for the same distance. I am looking at Average distance over Total Consumption, the reason I do this is to look at everyone's MPG rather than each individual vehicle.

Passenger MPG = distance travelled / ( gallons used / passengers )

As you say in your first line consumption doubled, but then you have doubled the number of people travelling, so passenger MPG remains the same.

It's funny.  Laugh.

Submission + - A conservative answer to Wikipedia

WillKnight writes: "NewScientistTech has a blog post about a conservative alternative to Wikipedia called (appropriately enough) Conservapedia. Described as a "a much-needed alternative to Wikipedia, which is increasingly anti-Christian and anti-American", it features creationist thinking on evolution and lend support to critics of global warming. That is, until a bunch of science bloggers discovered it and decided to correct all the factual errors."
Biotech

Submission + - well-preserved flu pandemic victim to be exhumed

mid-devonian writes: "The Guardian Unlimited reports that permission has been granted to exhume the famous diplomat and politician Sir Mark Sykes, who died from bird flu in the 1918-19 pandemic. His body lies in a lead coffin in an English churchyard, and John Oxford, a professor of virology at Queen Mary's College London, believes that the body will be very well preserved, providing a unique opportunity to investigate the mechanism by which bird flu kills."

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