Comment Attention seeking (Score 1) 70
[paranoia]
Is this a ploy by wikileaks to seek attention to its cause?
[/paranoia]
Comment Re:Has to have been intentional (Score 2, Interesting) 396
That assumes Amazon is solely after money, and not, you know, morals.
Comment ISPs are cable providers (Score 1) 395
[quote]But I've seen a large jump in bandwidth usage with my new Roku box for watching NetFlix on my tv. That's a lot of streaming video. Are they keeping tech like this in mind? Doubt it.[/quote]
They are precisely keeping tech like this in mind. Many ISPs also provide cable service. What happens to cable if internet streaming becomes too convenient?
Comment Re:Islam, eh? (Score 1) 469
According to modern standards. Set by governments and followed by sheep everywhere.
Wake up and smell the coffee. Lives in the past was brutally short. Marrying at a young age was not in the least out of the ordinary. Look it up.
Comment Singapore (Score 1) 129
The singapore armed forces went for open source office software about a year ago but you donÃt hear that on slashdot
Comment Re:Scratch cards and proper shrinkwrap (Score 1) 243
The games industry has no incentive at all to piss all over gamestop. They need each other, and gamestop's policies are in no way (atm) detrimental to the relationship.
Comment Mod parent up! (Score 1) 215
That's a very valid point there. While I think that while wikileaks does do a good job on the whole, there are indeed areas where they've gone overboard on this whole "expose everything" business
Copyright Scholar Challenges RIAA/DOJ Position 168
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "Leading copyright law scholar Prof. Pamela Samuelson, of the University of California law school, and research fellow Tara Wheatland, have published a 'working paper' which directly refutes the position taken by the US Department of Justice in RIAA cases on the constitutionality of the RIAA's statutory damages theories. The Department of Justice had argued in its briefs that the Court should follow a 1919 United States Supreme Court case which upheld the constitutionality of a statutory damages award that was 116 times the actual damages sustained, under a statute which gave consumers a right of action against railway companies. The Free Software Foundation filed an amicus curiae brief supporting the view that the more modern, State Farm/Gore test applied by the United States Supreme Court to punitive damages awards is applicable. The new paper is consistent with the FSF brief and contradicts the DOJ briefs, arguing that the Gore test should be applied. A full copy of the paper is available for viewing online (PDF)."
Altered Organism Triples Solar Cell Efficiency 158
An anonymous reader writes "By harnessing the shells of living organisms in the sea, microscopic algae called diatoms, engineers have tripled the efficiency of experimental dye-sensitized solar cells. The diatoms were fed a diet of titanium dioxide, the main ingredient for thin film solar cells, instead of their usual meal which is silica (silicon dioxide). As a result, their shells became photovoltaic when coated with dyes. The result is a thin-film dye-sensitized solar cell that is three times more efficient than those without the diatoms."
Google Joins EU Antitrust Case Against Microsoft 373
gubm writes "Google said it wants to help the European Commission prove its antitrust charges against Microsoft regarding the bundling of the Internet Explorer browser with Windows."
