Chineseyes - Slashdot User

Comment Re:so? (Score 1) 608

by Chineseyes on Tuesday December 09, 2008 @07:33AM (#26045151) Attached to: Obama's "ZuneGate"

Actually I like MSNBC, although I do feel there are times when they lean a little too far left and may one day face the danger of becoming the left wing version of foxnews, I just think stories like this are completely irrelevant.

Submission + - UK to Allow Creation of Human-Animal Hybrid Embryo

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Anarchysoft

on Thursday May 17, 2007 @08:24PM

Anarchysoft writes: "The United Kingdom has lifted a ban preventing the creation and use of hybrid embryos in scientific testing. The hybrids are 99.5% human and 0.5% animal and can be used to grow stem cells. The nearly human embryos would be terminated before being grown 14 days per law."

Submission + - Microsoft bans modified Xbox 360s from Xbox Live

Submitted by on Thursday May 17, 2007 @08:04PM

An anonymous reader writes: Microsoft has now officially started banning Xbox 360s that have had their DVD drive firmware modified from Live, possibly using information brought in by the Crackdown-originated Halo 3 beta downloads. Scene site forums have already collapsed under traffic, and Microsoft has officially confirmed that they are banning modded Xbox 360s to keep the online playing field fair and level.

Submission + - The distributed search for Jim Grey

Submitted by on Saturday February 03, 2007 @01:42PM

An anonymous reader writes: The search continues for Jim Grey, with a collaboration between Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and NASA. A combination of sattelite, radar, and aerial footage has been collected over the past several days, and volunteers have been asked to sift through this data SETI@Home style using first Google Earth, then Amazon's Mechanical Turk — looking for anything that looks like Grey's boat. It pays to have good connections, but more importantly I believe this could lay the groundwork for making such innovative search efforts generally available. This is an application of distributed computing/thinking that could really save some lives.

Journal Journal: Vista - Gates Reality Distortion Field 10

Journal by tomhudson on Saturday February 03, 2007 @01:40PM

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16934083/site/newsweek/from/RS.2/

NEWSWEEK: If one of our readers confronted you in a CompUSA and said, "Bill, why upgrade to Vista?" what would be your elevator pitch?

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