Comment cool story (Score 1) 2
So your new computers that run at 500 deg C will last for a whole hour operating at 500kHz.
Revolutionary....
Comment Assisted GPS (Score 1) 328
Just don't buy one with an "assisted" GPS chip, such as the Motorola Droid. It requires a data connection to get a position fix, even with a standalone GPS application.
Comment Re:Uh, what? (Score 1) 503
A DRM riddled, unable to multi-task, underpowered tablet with no ability to expand? Lord, I hope not.
DRM riddled, unable to multi-task. Lame.
Comment Re:Not sure of the validity of the OP (Score 1) 567
Best fake article ever. Out of a hundred comments so far no one noticed this is fake. This guy already got fooled at p2pnet.
Why this fake article works is that Scientology really believes this stuff. It's in the Psych Busters propaganda video the cult puts out.
CoS Bigwig Likens Wikipedia Ban to Nazis' Yellow Star Decree 567
We mentioned on Thursday that Wikipedia has banned edits originating from certain IP addresses belonging to the Church of Scientology; reader newtley writes now that Scientology leader (CEO and Chairman of the Board of the linked, but legally separate, Religious Technology Center) David Miscavige calls the ban "a 'despicable hate crime,' and asks, 'What's next, will Scientologists have to wear yellow, six-pointed stars on our clothing?' During World War II, Hitler forced Jewish men, women and children to wear a a yellow cloth star bearing the word Jude to brand them in the streets of Europe, and in the Nazi death camps."
Comment Re:Another DDT? (Score 2, Insightful) 125
Harmless? That article refers to INDOOR USE... not the indiscriminate spraying that happened decades ago. DDT has its uses, but it is hardly harmless.
Comment Not to mention (Score 1) 315
Not only that, those electors may be violating State law, but so what?
There is not Constitutional requirement that the electors vote in any certain way or adhere to State laws or popular vote. That is why we live in a Republic, and there have many historical cases of electors not voting for the "correct" state required candidate. Sometimes by accident even.
There is not Constitutional requirement that the electors vote in any certain way or adhere to State laws or popular vote. That is why we live in a Republic, and there have many historical cases of electors not voting for the "correct" state required candidate. Sometimes by accident even.
Comment Re:Easy start to documentation: write man pages (Score 1) 92
Might I also suggest a look at Restructured Text as another alternative. Comes from the Python community. Raw text is a little easier to read IMHO and can also output to HTML, PS, PDF and LaTeX. Either way you go, one of these formats is nice in that you will easily be able to convert to most any format you'll need to publish your documentation in.
Submission + - 2004 vote count manipulated on GOP servers
hugecabbage writes: "The Free Press published an interesting article stating that not only did the Republicans alter the actual Ohio vote count during the 2004 presidential election, they also controlled how the tallies of those manipulated votes were disseminated over the web, affecting media and public perception of the returns as they occurred. FTA: 'There is more than ample documentation to show that on Election Night 2004, Ohio's "official" Secretary of State website — which gave the world the presidential election results — was redirected from an Ohio government server to a group of servers that contain scores of Republican web sites, including the secret White House e-mail accounts that have emerged in the scandal surrounding Attorney General Alberto Gonzales's firing of eight federal prosecutors.'"
Submission + - Ohio '04 elections suffer MITM attack
glassesmonkey writes: "The Free Press is reporting how the IT company that provides Rove's emails and RNC websites, also hosted Ohio's 2004 election results. The country results were sent to Ohio's Secretary of State, Ken Blackwell, and those results were hosted on a SMARTech webserver in TN. Blackwell had the IT guys switch the DNS on election night in order to accomplish a man-in-the-middle exploit on election results."
Submission + - The perfect notebook?
An anonymous reader writes: Found this site from a Slashdot post last week and spotted this review today. This is a 14" laptop that weighs only 1.5kg, had well over 8 hours battery life, can have a whole cup of water poured over it while its switched on and can have someone stand on it withou the screen breaking. The guy testing it even burried it in the snow! I know if I had 2 grand to spend, this is the machine I would go for. http://www.trustedreviews.com/notebooks/review/200 7/02/11/Panasonic-ToughBook-CF-Y5/p1
Bookmark Toon Crisis (gameshot.org)
Viral Marketing Breeding Cynicism 154
New Media Blogger writes "First Lonelygirl15, now Bridezilla. Canada's National Post provides an interesting perspective on the newest trend of using viral videos as marketing tools, and how these fake blogs or 'flogs' are having a pernicious effect on our tendency to trust what seems genuine."
