Comment Re:Darn... no Mac Mini update (Score 1) 1079
Sounds like you might find this monitor useful.
Comment Re:30BHP and only 54MPG? (Score 1) 625
Yeah well the Fiat costs a lot more as well. Remember that these are aimed the Indian market where price is a lot more importatnt.
Submission + - A plan for (comment) spam
Sun writes: "I have just published a suggestion for a comment mechanism that will, I think, advance us an important step toward stopping comment spam in blogs. Non-spam comments welcome.
In a nutshell, commenters are asked to have their computer solve a cryptographic riddle, thus increasing the cost of posting spam to blogs as comments. The idea is not new, as such. I have seen similar suggestions for email. Unlike email, however, I believe it is feasible for blog comments."
In a nutshell, commenters are asked to have their computer solve a cryptographic riddle, thus increasing the cost of posting spam to blogs as comments. The idea is not new, as such. I have seen similar suggestions for email. Unlike email, however, I believe it is feasible for blog comments."
Submission + - Microsoft Posts Open Letter on Open XML & ODF
An anonymous reader writes: Yesterday, Microsoft posted an open letter entitled 'Interoperability, Choice and Open XML'. Although I could write a book as a reply to the letter, I think that there are /. members who are better qualified for this task. Among the contents of the letter are accusations of IBM for 'smoke and mirrors' as well as 'ODF being tied to OpenOffice' (but Open XML, at the same time, is apparently not tied to MS Office). The term 'customer' is also mentioned ten times, revealing the true root of their Open XML intentions: to keep everyone as a *paying* customer.
Submission + - Aussie executive dumps on iPhone
Mister Inbetween writes: "The second-in-charge at Telstra, Australia's leading telecommunications company, has launched a withering attack on Apple's new iPhone. "Stick to your knitting," he tells Apple. "Apple is not a mobile phone manufacturer, that's not their knitting." He says "people overreacted to it", there was "not a lot of tremendously new stuff" to it, they bungled the trademark issue and the battery replacement issue sucks."
Submission + - Canada ready to fight over Kyoto
mdsolar writes: "A friend let me know about this article http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6363677.stm saying that the canadian parliament
has voted to force the government to meet its obligations under Kyoto http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/convkp/kpeng.html.
Acording to the article "The bill gives the government 60 days to table a detailed plan for getting in line with the Kyoto targets."
For the US, a 20% reduction in emissions is needed from current levels. This could be accomplished through efficiency efforts alone if the information presented yesterday at the Great Energy Efficiency Day IV http://www.ase.org/content/article/detail/3531 are correct http://www.ase.org/uploaded_files/geed_2007/wooley _efoundation.pdf"
For the US, a 20% reduction in emissions is needed from current levels. This could be accomplished through efficiency efforts alone if the information presented yesterday at the Great Energy Efficiency Day IV http://www.ase.org/content/article/detail/3531 are correct http://www.ase.org/uploaded_files/geed_2007/woole
Submission + - Radar love--through the Zune
wile_e_wonka writes: "Searching for nearby Zunes... None found.
Searching for nearby Zunes... None found.
Searching for nearby Zunes... "Lola" found.
Sending "Hello" by Lionel Richie
Receiving "Hi There" by Killdozer
Sending "Do You Come Here Often?" by The Tornados Ridin' the Wind
Receiving "I Get Around" by The Beach Boys
Sending "Welcome To The Jungle" by Guns 'N' Roses
Sending "What Brings You Here?" by Sandra Knight . . ."
Searching for nearby Zunes... None found.
Searching for nearby Zunes... "Lola" found.
Sending "Hello" by Lionel Richie
Receiving "Hi There" by Killdozer
Sending "Do You Come Here Often?" by The Tornados Ridin' the Wind
Receiving "I Get Around" by The Beach Boys
Sending "Welcome To The Jungle" by Guns 'N' Roses
Sending "What Brings You Here?" by Sandra Knight . . ."
