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boot1780 writes:
The treasurer for the state of Massachusetts announced that he and his family arrested by US Customs officials and "treated like criminals" on their way back from Italy due to three peaches in his daughter's carry-on bag. "It felt like we were being interrogated and found guilty without any process, no explanation, no rundown of our rights," he said. He was told he had to pay a $300 fine or spend a night and jail, but wasn't told that paying the fine waived any right he had to an appeal. Well, they nabbed the girl with the three peaches. Any word on Osama yet?
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Anonymous writes:
One year in to his relationship with AMD, Michael Dell seems pretty satisfied, according to his remarks at the Citigroup technology conference. Key quote: "It is simply unacceptable for a company of Dell's size to only have one of those choices. So we have quite a complete spectrum of both 'A' and 'I' flavors and we'll continue to do that." He seemed to have given a thumbs up to Barcelona.
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mccaffer writes:
Finally X.Org have released the latest version which promises to drastically improve hotplug and on-the-fly output reconfiguration.
See the list of latest features:
http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/Releases/7.3
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dsinc writes:
Gamertags that feature the words "Linux" or "Unix" are deemed to be containing "inappropriate language" on Xbox Live. Screenshots and several links here:
http://enterpriselinuxlog.blogs.techtarget.com/200 7/09/04/unix-linux-banned-from-xbox-live/
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BiloxiGeek writes:
What do you think those elliptical and aligned galaxies are pointing at?
— George "DubYa" Bush
— Osama "I'm gonna get you sucka" bin Laden
— Hillary "I wear the pants" Clinton
— Waldo
— The elusive 3rd step (???) before "Step 4. Profit!"
— Cowboy "Scape Goat" Neal
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BiloxiGeek writes:
A New Jersey teenager has posted instructions on how to mod your IPhone and let you use it with T-Mobile, breaking very little of the IPhone's features in the process.
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spamking writes:
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) — Dutch students have developed powdered alcohol which they say can be sold legally to minors.
The latest innovation in inebriation, called Booz2Go, is available in 20-gramme packets that cost 1-1.5 euros ($1.35-$2).
Link to story
I can hear it now . . . "honestly mom it's kool aid.
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BiloxiGeek writes:
Well forget the DualLayer idea according to Verbatim.
After recently purchasing a LightScribe enabled burner I ran into a rather significant drawback. Yes it burns pretty much any CD or DVD media. The LightScribe feature is nice and beats the heck out of the sharpie marker and my chicken-scratch penmanship. Now for the problem; I created some iso images of a data DVD close the max of a dual layer DVD. Before I burn I run out to the local stores to find some LightScribe Dual Layer DVD-R's and find that those just don't exist.
Now I'm feeling a little ticked off (ok, I didn't research this aspect of LightScribe beforehand).
I emailed Verbatim to ask when Dual Layer DVD-R's will be available and they told me they have no plans for DL DVD media.
Quote:
The current LightScribe products are available in CD-R, DVD+R and DVD-R only.
There are no plans at this time for a DVD+R DL or DVD-R DL LightScibe product.
Unquote.
Knowing that you can save the cost of labels and ink, print snazzier looking labels for your homebrewed CD's and DVD's but will be limited to single layer capacity DVD's, would you buy a LightScribe drive and the media for your next computer, or get a 12-pack of Sharpie markers?