Comment Re:Hilton sucks. (Score 1) 157
You forgot the $16/day they charge for parking too.
Comment Sounds like something I've seen on TV before (Score 1) 107
So what makes the "super sexed" males so, well, sexy and irresistible to the females? Yuval and his team are using a high-protein, bacteria enhanced "stud" breakfast to feed to the males before they're released. The formula should significantly improve their sexual performance.
All natural male enhancement that works? And is legit?
Chevrolet Volt In a Gasoline-Only Scenario 594
s122604 sends in a performance review of the Chevy Volt, paying particular attention to what happens after the initial plug-in capacity has been depleted. This reader adds, "The review indicates that the performance is adequate, and perhaps better than anticipated. If the Volt can deliver technically, especially with the possibility that it could retail for less than expected (WSJ subscription may be required), does GM have a potential hit on its hands?" "How well will General Motors' Chevrolet Volt drive once it gets past its 40 mile all-electric driving range and starts to rely on power generated by its gasoline engine? That's been a question for both critics and fans of the Volt, and with just 11 months to go before this car hits the market, I got the answer."
Ocean-Crossing Dragonflies Discovered 95
grrlscientist writes "While living and working as a marine biologist in Maldives, Charles Anderson noticed sudden explosions of dragonflies at certain times of year. He explains how he carefully tracked the path of a plain, little dragonfly called the Globe Skimmer, Pantala flavescens, only to discover that it had the longest migratory journey of any insect in the world."
Scientists Say a Dirty Child Is a Healthy Child 331
Researchers from the School of Medicine at the University of California have shown that the more germs a child is exposed to, the better their immune system in later life. Their study found that keeping a child's skin too clean impaired the skin's ability to heal itself. From the article: "'These germs are actually good for us,' said Professor Richard Gallo, who led the research. Common bacterial species, known as staphylococci, which can cause inflammation when under the skin, are 'good bacteria' when on the surface, where they can reduce inflammation."
Comment Re:OBD - On-Board Diagnostics (Score 1) 478
Misfire can be caused by anything. Thankfully the OBD isolated it down to Cyl 4 (or it thinks its cyl 4). I would start with the simple things like put new spark plugs/wires and clean out the intake first. If that failed, then pay real money to have it diagnosed. Atleast you won't be kicking yourself for paying $100 diagnostic for a $25 part.
Comment Re:AM radio! (Score 1) 635
Correction: Too far off the ideological fringes to make it to FM radio.
Comment huh? (Score 1) 3
Submitter, your humor is even beyond me.
Grump
Comment What happened to... (Score 3, Funny) 264
What happened to good ol parenting and talking the kid through the procedure with soothing words like, "just one more and we'll be done"
Comment It was OK but my girlfriend complained (Score 1) 523
It was OK but my girlfriend complained of the music. She felt that hallelujah was not appropriate for porno music.
Submission + - HTC TyTN II PDA Phone lacks video performance 3
Anton Nilsson writes: "Taiwaneese PDA giant HTC released their latest flagship PDA phone called HTC TyTN II (also known as Kaiser, Tilt and MDA Vario III) but recent discoveries show that maybe it's not so much a powerhouse after all. Due to lack of proper driver support for the video part of the Qualcomm MSM7200 chipset users are left with a seriously handicapped unit with very poor support for gaming, video and photo. Granted, the phone is mostly intended for business users who will rarely see the effects of these issues but it's still leaving thousands of customers who want to fully utilize the phone with a slightly bitter taste in their mouths.
A petition for driver support has been posted and almost 4000 people have signed it. It has been sent to HTC on numerous occasions yet when contacted HTC still claims to be unaware of any such issues.
You can check out the petition here:
http://www.petitiononline.com/tytn2vid/
Potential buyers of this much hyped set beware until these issues are resolved."
A petition for driver support has been posted and almost 4000 people have signed it. It has been sent to HTC on numerous occasions yet when contacted HTC still claims to be unaware of any such issues.
You can check out the petition here:
http://www.petitiononline.com/tytn2vid/
Potential buyers of this much hyped set beware until these issues are resolved."
Submission + - Free, legal music for college students
theundergroundjazzman writes: "A former Napster executive intends to set up a new music provider in a bid to challenge iTunes:
"Mike Bebel has a plan for inducing young people to pay for downloaded music: Give them all the songs they want for free while they're still in college, then start charging them a fee when they're out of school and gainfully employed...""
Submission + - Google Responds to criticism - by deleting it
Matt423 writes: Information week reports about changes to Google Groups:
Google Groups users, however, detest the changes, at least those who have gone to the effort of posting. While there's probably a silent majority that ranges from neutral to enthusiastic about the new interface and features, the users posting their opinions online have few nice things to say.
A person posting as "Matty F" wrote, "This new version of Google Groups is almost completely unusable. Can we have the old one back please?" Such sentiment reflects a common theme among the disgruntled users.
Another poster identifying himself as "Rich Jordan" wrote, "I'll have to add my dismay over this change. The new interface is ugly and slow compared to the previous one, and much, much less intuitive."
"The new interface is really awful," a person with the user name Gabriele complained.
Google apparently rushed into action today and apparently deleted or scattered hundred of posts that were critical including one thread that had almost 100 posts.
http://www.informationweek.com/industries/showArti cle.jhtml?articleID=197000377
http://groups.google.com/group/Google%20Groups-Bas ics/browse_thread/thread/12b929f18ed762a7
Submission + - GoogleTV LEAKED?
Greg Denton writes: I found this video, which features somebody accessing GoogleTV. It looks like an on-demand television service from Google which is surprising given their recent press-statement positioning of YouTube, but I guess they're going after NewsCorp. Exciting!
GoogleTV Beta Video on YouTube
Submission + - DVDx developer labdv.com is gone
BillyBurrito writes: "The developers of DVDX, currently Version 2.6. as of Dec 4, 2006, Business Plate Forme (BPF) at http://labdv.com/ seem to have been facing some serious server uptime problems for the last month or so. Right now, as of 10 pm pacific time (-7:00) on 17 January they are offline with no host server listed in DNS to serve web pages. The real sadness is the product they developed has been around for several years and is the basis of many current DVD copying packages. Perhaps it is only a momentary status, but as their front page used to say, "DVDx web hosting is very expensive because DVDx is very popular" Perhaps someone can help get them back online.
brk@mail:~$ host labdv.com
labdv.com mail is handled by 10 relay1.labdv.com.
labdv.com mail is handled by 20 relay1.bpf-pro.com.
whois info:
reg_created: 2001-03-20 09:09:03
expires: 2008-03-20 14:09:03
created: 2002-09-16 10:56:02
changed: 2007-01-16 16:53:51"
brk@mail:~$ host labdv.com
labdv.com mail is handled by 10 relay1.labdv.com.
labdv.com mail is handled by 20 relay1.bpf-pro.com.
whois info:
reg_created: 2001-03-20 09:09:03
expires: 2008-03-20 14:09:03
created: 2002-09-16 10:56:02
changed: 2007-01-16 16:53:51"
