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Posted by samzenpus from the good-things-come-in-small-packages dept.
Ernest Hemingway's micro-story, "For sale: baby shoes, never worn," is one of my favorite examples of how less is sometimes more. Sometimes a few sentences say it all; you don't always need a hundred pages to convey an idea. Most of the mail I get is brief and to the point. Others are just brief. To be honest, I appreciate the short, crazy email more than the long rants, and they can be just as funny. Read below for this week's mail snippets.
Transportation

Ford To Introduce Restrictive Car Keys For Parents 1224

Posted by kdawson from the no-you-cannot-borrow-my-keys dept.
thesandbender writes "Ford is set to release a management system that will restrict certain aspects of a car's performance based on which key is in the ignition. The speed is limited to 80, you can't turn off traction control, and you can't turn the stereo up to eleven. It's targeted at parents of teenagers and seems like a generally good idea, especially if you get a break on your insurance." The keys will be introduced with the 2010 Focus coupe and will quickly spread to Ford's entire lineup.
Operating Systems

How Kernel Hackers Boosted the Speed of Desktop Linux 380

Posted by timothy from the mild-claims dept.
chromatic writes "Kernel hackers Arjan van de Ven and Auke Kok showed off Linux booting in five seconds at last month's Linux Plumbers Conference. Arjan and other hackers have already improved the Linux user experience by reducing power consumption and latency. O'Reilly News interviewed him about his work on improving the Linux experience with PowerTOP, LatencyTOP, and Five-Second Boot."

Comment Re:This interests me. (Score 1) 374

by arabagast (#23534875) Attached to: Smartphones For Text SSH Use — Revisited
Last year, I bought a HTC P4350 smartphone, mostly for the gadget factor and the fact that it had a touchscreen and a full qwerty keyboard. After about 6 months of getting frustrated, not getting the sync to work with linux and a lot of problems with windows mobile simply hanging all the time, I downgraded to a sony ericsson el cheapo cellphone. Now I use this, connected via bluetooth to my EEE 701, giving me a lot more screen and a lot more keyboard; this probably at the same price as I paid for the HTC when it was new. I also have an Ipod Touch, that I use a lot for surfing when at home, and when I'm in near wifi (at school etc), but the typing on that touchscreen is simply to painful to keep it going for any long ssh sessions. I long for the day of foldable screens and keyboards :)
Media

Submission + - Toshiba Kills HD DVD, Official (gizmodo.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: It's official. HD DVD has been pronounced officially dead by Toshiba on Tuesday February 19, 2008, even before the press conference has started: 'Toshiba Corporation today announced that it has undertaken a thorough review of its overall strategy for HD DVD and has decided it will no longer develop, manufacture and market HD DVD players and recorders. This decision has been made following recent major changes in the market. Toshiba will continue, however, to provide full product support and after-sales service for all owners of Toshiba HD DVD products.' The Format War is over.
Slashdot.org

A Brief History of Slashdot Part 2, Explosions 216

Posted by CmdrTaco from the are-we-there-yet dept.
When last we left off, Slashdot had grown beyond my ability to maintain it as a hobby, as well as beyond the simple DEC Alpha Multia 166 that had served it so well for the first week or two, and then immediately buckled under the traffic. Here in Part 2, we ride the wave of Slashdot's growth from early '98 until whenever my wrists get tired enough that I stop yakking until next week.
Media

Ex-HP CEO Carly Fiorina Hired By Fox News 256

Posted by CmdrTaco from the definitely-a-downgrade dept.
neutrino38 writes "The International Herald Tribune reports that Fox News hired Carly Fiorina, ex-HP CEO. Such an interesting move will certainly bring support to those who viewed her as the over-hyped CEO who killed the original corporate engineering culture know as 'the HP way.' The article, off course, does not elaborate on this aspect of things. Slashdot has previously reported her demise from HP and some comments mentioned some HP employee dancing in the cubicles then."

Feed US college hit by shooting (theregister.com)

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32 killed at tech college

Blogs written by students at Virginia Tech University have expressed fury at how police and university authorities dealt with the shooting there yesterday.
Censorship

Web Censorship Proposed For Norway 338

Posted by kdawson from the great-firewall dept.
Aqwis writes "A Norwegian Web filtering system (link in Norwegian), comparable to the Great Firewall of China, has been proposed to the Norwegian legislature. It would, if enacted, block all Web sites and servers that contain hate material (racial hate, pro-Nazi sites, hate towards the government, etc.), most kinds of pornography (not only child pornography), foreign gambling sites, and sites that share copyrighted or other material that it is not legal to share (such as most BitTorrent sites and services such as LimeWire). Reactions have been mixed; however they are mostly negative."

A Security Guide For Non-Technical Users? 274

Posted by Cliff from the advice-that-anyone-can-understand dept.
kin_korn_karn asks: "Like many of you, I am the family IT department. I cannot convince my parents to follow proper PC security procedures. I'm not talking about enterprise-level things such as card swipes and fingerprint scanners, just simple measures like logging off of the PC when it's not in use. They, like many people of their generation, seem to be willing to sacrifice security for convenience, as long as their real data isn't being impacted. I can't seem to get it through to them that it's only a matter of time until they are. Since my own arguments aren't working, I need documented proof to back it up. Can Slashdot offer up some kind of arguments or information that I can use?"

Krita 1.6 — State of the Art 212

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the headed-in-the-right-direction-anyway dept.
brendan0powers writes to tell us Linux.com is reporting that while Krita 1.6 may have been released with the rest of the KOffice suite this week it is anything but a run-of-the-mill piece of productivity software. Krita is a 'fully-loaded raster graphics workhorse' definitely capable of standing up to most anything else available. Linux.com and Slashdot are both owned by OSTG.

FTC's Game Teaches Social Networking Skills 76

Posted by kdawson from the just-say-no dept.
narramissic writes, "Your tax dollars at work. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has launched an online quiz-show style game called Buddy Builder to test young users' abilities to spot potential threats on social networking Web sites. Naturally, the teen audience this is intended to reach is not going to go near the game except as a joke."

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