Comment Re:First (Score 1) 327
You don't receive any income after you're dead, which is all that's been extended since 1976.
Comment Re:Not terribly novel (Score 1) 111
I think you mean the 1870s.
Comment Re:Antidepressants can make people suicidal (Score 1) 182
Pharmaceuticals mostly get into the water through people's urine. The only way you could avoid that would be to not take them (or some really expensive solution, like distilling all the wastewater).
Comment Re:I like holding the mouse over fake holding one! (Score 1) 292
For one, I find that the teflon pads on my mouse glide across the surface of my desk more easily than does the skin on my hand.
Comment Re:Grandfathered in (Score 1) 875
Think about it. That would actually result in people exhaling CO2 that wasn't already part of the biosphere. Plus, I imagine a power station would emit far more than even a very large greenhouse would consume.
Comment Re:Domestic vs. Foreign (Score 1) 776
As a member, I'm okay with my organization of half a million spending more time on all the other amendments when there's an organization of 4 million (the NRA) that focuses on the second amendment alone.
Comment First Post! (Score 1, Funny) 460
Dvorak IS faster!
Comment Correction (Score 1) 314
The sun is directly overhead at 1 PM for most of the year due to Daylight Savings Time.
Submission + - FCC Rules Against Comcast P-to-P Throttling (computerworld.com)
CWmike writes: "In a big win for net neutrality advocates, the FCC has ordered Comcast to stop interfering with peer-to-peer traffic on its broadband network. FCC Chairman Kevin Martin, a Republican, joined the commission's two Democrats to approve the order. "Would you be OK with the post office opening your mail, deciding they didn't want to bother delivering it, and hiding that fact by sending it back to you stamped, 'address unknown — return to sender?'" Martin said. "Or, if they opened letters mailed to you, decided that because the mail truck is full sometimes, letters to you could wait, and then hid both that they read your letters and delayed them? Unfortunately, that is exactly what Comcast was doing with their subscribers' Internet traffic." Comcast must stop slowing P-to-P traffic by the end of the year, and come up with a new network management plan. If Comcast refuses, the company could be subject to an injunction and other regulatory penalties."
Submission + - SPAM: FCC Rules Against Comcast P-to-P Throttling
narramissic writes: "In a win for net neutrality advocates, the FCC has ordered Comcast to stop interfering with peer-to-peer traffic on its broadband network, saying the cable provider was 'invasive' in its traffic management. Comcast's slowing of BitTorrent and other P-to-P traffic was 'discriminatory and not narrowly tailored to address Comcast's concern about network congestion,' said FCC member Michael Copps."
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Submission + - Hans Reiser Trial Update (wired.com)
eldavojohn writes: "The Hans Reiser trial ended its second day today and the developments have been interesting. The prosecutor is alleging that Reiser convinced his son to help cover up Hans murdering Tina. Some of the most suspicious evidence against Hans arose at the very end of the day: "Hora ended the day's session by telling jurors that the defendant's small Honda Civic went missing for two weeks, until authorities discovered it after a lengthy manhunt two weeks after Nina Reiser vanished. "When they looked inside the car, it's missing the front passenger seat," Hora said. "It's gone. It's not there." In an impromptu news conference outside court, defense attorney DuBois said Reiser had removed the seat because his client was in financial straits and was living in the 1988 vehicle." Hopefully the real murderer of Nina can be found and convicted."
Submission + - Subliminal Advertising Being Used on Australian TV (abc.net.au)
Ben de Luca writes: "Channel 10 one of the 3 largest free to air commercial broadcasters has been using subliminal advertising through out its programing, mediawatch (http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/transcripts/s2082405.htm) has a transcript of their program describing the advertising here. Subliminal advertising is illegal on Australian TV, but it seems likely that there will be few complaints due to its subliminal nature."
Submission + - Seagate's 1TB Barracuda 7200.11 Drive Tested (hothardware.com)
MojoKid writes: "Seagate was surprisingly late to join the small, but elite club of storage
manufacturers shipping
one terabyte (1TB) class hard drives. First out of the gate was Hitachi, who
made it to market several months beforehand with a high-density five-platter 1TB
hard disk design. While Hitachi's performance, thermals, and acoustics have all
been tested to be fairly solid, many high-end buyers have been waiting for other
manufacturers, namely Western Digital and Seagate, to get into the mix as well.
This review shows that,
the Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 is one of the most advanced consumer level
hard disks on the market. The drive showcases second generation perpendicular recording, 32 MB of
cache, excellent multi-tasking performance, very light power consumption and
noise production, and let's not forget the massive 1 TB amount of storage space."
Submission + - Did 'crowdsourcing' impede Fossett search?
netbuzz writes: "The much-publicized participation of 50,000 amateur searchers using Amazon's "Mechanical Turk" project may have been more than futile, it may actually have gotten in the way of professionals trying to find Steve Fossett's airplane, according to an officer in the civil air patrol. "In hindsight, I wish (they) hadn't been there," she says at the very bottom of a Wired story that otherwise focuses on the feelings of the virtual searchers that they may have been wasting their time. Believers in the wisdom of crowds sometimes forget that even the best-intentioned of them can be unruly.
http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/21640"
http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/21640"
Submission + - FTC Announces Crackdown on Do Not Call Violators (techluver.com)
Tech.Luver writes: "The Federal Trade Commission today announced a law enforcement crackdown on companies and individuals accused of violating the requirements of the National Do Not Call (DNC) Registry, resulting in six settlements collectively imposing nearly $7.7 million in civil penalties, along with an additional complaint that will be filed in federal district court.
The actions, brought by the Department of Justice (DOJ) on the FTC's behalf, are against companies ranging from adjustable bed seller Craftmatic Industries, Inc. (Craftmatic) to alarm-monitoring provider ADT Security Services (ADT) and lender Ameriquest Mortgage Company (Ameriquest), and bring to 34 the number of cases filed by the FTC to enforce the DNC Rule, which was implemented in 2003. To date, more consumers have put more than 145 million numbers on the Registry, indicating they do not want to receive calls from telemarketers at home.
( http://techluver.com/2007/11/07/ftc-announces-law-enforcement-crackdown-on-do-not-call-violators/ )"
