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Geek Squad Sends Cease-and-Desist Letter To God Squad 357

Posted by samzenpus on Monday August 16, 2010 @10:16AM from the who-would-jesus-sue dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A Wisconsin priest has God on his car but Best Buy's lawyers on his back. Father Luke Strand at the Holy Family Parish in Fond Du Lac says he has received a cease-and-desist letter from the electronics retailer. From the article: 'At issue is Strand's black Volkswagen Beetle with door stickers bearing the name "God Squad" in a logo similar to that of Best Buy's Geek Squad, a group of electronics troubleshooters. Strand told the Fond du Lac Reporter that the car is a creative way to spur discussion and bring his faith to others. Best Buy Co. tells the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that it appreciates what Strand is trying to do, but it's bad precedent to let groups violate its trademarks.'"

Comment 40ft / pixel resolution is not tha high resolution (Score 2, Informative) 65

by clevelandguru on Sunday June 20, 2010 @03:41PM (#32634080) Attached to: German Radar Satellite Lifts Off Tonight

At 40ft per pixel resolution, a normal 2 floored house will show as a single pixel above ground.

Submission + - India planning to set up a BPO in prison (indiatimes.com)

Submitted by clevelandguru on Tuesday May 11, 2010 @09:25PM

clevelandguru writes: India is planning to set up its first BPO behind bars. In a public-private partnership with global IT firm Radiant Info Systems Ltd., 200 — 250 inmates will be employed in a BPO unit within the Hyderabad's Cherlapally Central Jail. The work would be in bank-related data entry.

Comment Re:Light vs Heat (Score 3, Informative) 225

by clevelandguru on Thursday April 16, 2009 @11:00PM (#27607023) Attached to: A Monster LED Array For Irresponsible Fun

Light has energy that gets converted to heat when it hits a material. Just like the heat generated on earth by the sun light.

gOS Gadget Aims Ubuntu At Cloud Computing 36

Posted by timothy on Thursday January 08, 2009 @03:20PM from the prettification-always-welcome dept.

DeviceGuru writes "The gOS project has released version 3.1 of its Ubuntu-based Google-centric distribution. The release draws its packages from the Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) repositories, but adds a bright green theme and a few alterations in default applications, but more importantly adorns its desktop with numerous gadgets based on the Mozilla Prism project along with an animated application-launch icon set based on the wbar project."

Submission + - Ubuntu Media Center to use Elisa instead of MythTV

Submitted by clevelandguru on Wednesday May 16, 2007 @02:42PM

clevelandguru writes: Canonical is working on a Media Center Editon of Ubuntu. Recently, the Ubuntu Media Center Team made a decision to use Elisa instead of MythTV. Elisa is still in development and lacks lot of features that are in MythTV, but It has a very impressive user interface. Here are some screenshots of Elisa. Elisa uses GStreamer Multimedia Framework which is legally appealing compared to FFmpeg that MythTV uses.

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