Comment Re:Huh... (Score 1) 450
Thank you!
Comment Re:While I sorta agree with what the guy is saying (Score 1) 229
To play devil's advocate using your example it'd be the same as selling "child poison" and saying there are plenty of other things you could do with it.
Comment Re:Accelerometers in phones? (Score 1) 709
Interesting idea on the both hands....
Comment Re:About Canada (Score 1) 91
Only in MDU's, otherwise Fibe 16 is the top end which is provisioned with ADSL2+.
Comment Re: Stray Ships (Score 1) 100
Waves of Mass Destruction...
Comment Hex? Not likely... (Score 1) 544
Visa doesn't do hex, and they certainly wouldn't convert spaces to binary. Most of the credit card import systems use formatted flat files. The problem is more likely an alignment issue and the credit card number itself was 4231 4885 5308 1845.
Comment Re:I wouldn't be happy (Score 1) 640
No problem. Oh, you want it for $40 still?
Journal Journal: Fun w/ domain registrations: Do you know where your email is
It seems Greg Palast has Karl Rove's email:
I have Karl Rove's emails. No kidding. He and his team aren't the sharpest knives in the drawer. They sent copies of their plans to GeorgeWBush.ORG instead of GeorgeWBush.COM addresses -- and, heh heh, they ended up in my in-box.
Maybe going outside the White House system wasn't so clever after all.
Submission + - Google's new lobbying power in Washington
*SECADM writes: Learning from Microsoft's error, Google is builds a lobbying power house in Washington.
"... Two years ago, Google was on the verge of making that Microsoft-like error. Davidson, then a 37-year-old former deputy director of the Center for Democracy & Technology, was the search-engine company's sole staff lobbyist in Washington. As recently as last year, Google co-founder Sergey Brin had trouble getting meetings with members of Congress. To change that, Google went on a hiring spree and now has 12 lobbyists and lobbying-related professionals on staff here — more than double the size of the standard corporate lobbying office — and is continuing to add people."
Submission + - FAA plan looks to clean up the skies (networkworld.com)
coondoggie writes: "On top of its recently announced plan to reduce flight delays, Federal Aviation Administration officials today launched what they hope will be pan U.S. and European Union joint action plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions from aircraft. Specifically the group announced the Atlantic Interoperability Initiative to Reduce Emissions or AIRE — the first large-scale environmental plan aimed at uniting aviation players from both sides of the Atlantic.A couple things the alliance will work on: -Trajectory-based operations on the ground to minimize aircraft flight time. -Collaborative oceanic trajectory optimization, which promises major fuel reduction at cruise.
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