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Comment Audiophile sheeple (Score 1) 2

by Hungry Admin on Thursday October 04, 2007 @08:09AM (#20849989) Attached to: James Randi $1Million Award on Speaker Cables

That's like those pricey replacement power cables that marketers say improve your audio ... without also changing the in-wall wiring, the drop from the pole pig, and so on. Now, a good UPS with filtering will actually do some good things for you, for a lot less that 7 thousand clams.

I used monster cable (or similar) for my audio setup because the conductors are thick (14 or 12 guage) and flexible, and it looks nice. The flat cable is easy to route.

One time I used RG62 coaxial cable for my speakers because it was cheap and shielded. It was useful for curing RFI* from my ham radio setup. (RFI = Radio Frequency Interference)

Submission + - James Randi $1Million Award on Speaker Cables 2

Submitted by elrond amandil on Thursday October 04, 2007 @05:29AM

elrond amandil writes: James Randi offered $1 million USD to anyone who can prove that a pair of $7,250 Pear Anjou speaker cables is any better than ordinary (and also overpriced) Monster Cables. Pointing out the absurd review by audiophile Dave Clark, who called the cables "danceable," Randi called it "hilarious and preposterous." He added that if the cables could do what their makers claimed, "they would be paranormal."

Submission + - International Public Toilets Database

Submitted by

William S.

on Saturday March 10, 2007 @03:29AM

William S. writes: "Press Release: 10 March 2007

A publicly accessible database has been set up at www.publictoilets.org . You can search for public toilets in 19 countries and find out information that includes the address and detailed information about the facility as well as geographic coordinates. A user can submit comments and enter new locations. There is a wiki, forum and mailing list linked from the main page of the database with information related to public toilets. It is hoped that public exposure to this resource will add to it's content and help expand coverage.

For more information contact:
wstan@publictoilets.org

or go to:

www.publictoilets.org"

Submission + - 1000 to 10000 e-books with help from /.

Submitted by seeit on Saturday March 10, 2007 @12:49AM

seeit writes: On November 8, 2002 slashdot mentioned Distributed Proofreaders. A few months later, DP completed its 1000th e-book.

Today, with the help of many volunteers who work on books and software, DP completed its 10,000th title.

Distributed Proofreaders, a wholly volunteer organization, was established for the purpose of producing quality transcriptions of machine-readable texts from public domain sources. Once a unique title has been completed the result is made freely available in widely used text and graphic formats via the Internet. The complete library of "DP texts" accessible from file servers throughout the world under the governance of Project Gutenberg, the founding ancestor of online archives.

True to its international nature, Distributed Proofreaders, while respecting U.S. copyright laws, does not limit itself to preserving solely English language content. Nearly 15% of completed titles, to date, represent over 20 languages beyond English. A look to DPs 10,000th title set reveals the diversity of world cultural content in the public domain. Among this commemorative collection are a French translation of Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice; the chronicle of Portuguese explorer Serpa Pinto's African expeditions; a pair of illustrated children stories from Germany; the first part of 'Species Plantarum', a 17th century Latin botanical reference work and a translation of a 17th century Guatemalan Maya manuscript.

The fifteen titles released today are not a cheer towards the past accomplishments of Distributed Proofreaders, nor are they pat on the back for deeds fulfilled on this day. What these titles so clearly represent, of their own merits, is the future and what awaits within the world's public domain yet to be rescued from obscurity and re-presented to an audience hungry to rediscover the cultural treasures of previous ages.

Submission + - followup to FFXI spyware

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Saturday March 10, 2007 @12:38AM

Anonymous Coward writes: "this is a follow up to the topic of Square-Enix scanning my computer without my permision or disclosing it before hand, here is a link to a screen shot of proof:

http://i17.tinypic.com/2h2kpbl.jpg"

Submission + - SCO says IBM hurt profits

Submitted by

AlanS2002

on Saturday March 10, 2007 @12:28AM

AlanS2002 writes: "In its ongoing litigation against International Business Machines Corp., the SCO Group Inc. on Monday said IBM hurt SCO's relationship with several high-tech powerhouses, causing SCO's market share and revenues to plummet. In a hearing before U.S. District Judge Dale Kimball, an attorney for Lindon-based SCO said IBM "pressured" companies to cut off their relationships with SCO. And "the effect on SCO was devastating and it was immediate," Mark James said. IBM on Monday argued for summary judgment on the matters of unfair competition and business interference, but SCO contends that a jury trial is needed."

Submission + - Square-Enix scans processes, fails to disclose

Submitted by

TinyTim

on Friday March 09, 2007 @11:58PM

TinyTim writes: "This is 100% verifiable. POL.exe calls Process32First and Process32Next in order to enumerate all processes running on your system. Then, for each process it attempts to use ReadProcessMemory in order to scan the memory being used by each application. I found this out because I use ProcessGuard, and have all of my services set up with protected memory, and set all applications I use to the bare minimum permissions. I noted that after the update, POL.exe was attempting to gain access to Apache, Ventrilo, MySQL, Oracle, ProcessGuard, Explorer, Norton AntiVirus, and teatimer (The Spybot S&D Resident).

Yet square-Enix says:
There has been no change in the PlayOnline software that would allow it to report on a user's active programs, or cause it to send the data back to Square Enix. We want to make this official announcement so that our members will not be alarmed or confused by a rumor that has no basis in fact.
Link(it's the sticky at the top): http://tinyurl.com/r8ns9

Since just running ProcessGuard proves otherwise, the company just lied.

Under California state law, the company has to disclose that it is scanning in it's privacy policy, or it's entire Terms of Service agreement in null and void."

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