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Mozilla Thunderbird 3 Released 272

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday December 08, 2009 @06:48PM from the hot-bits dept.

supersloshy writes Today Mozilla released Thunderbird 3. Many new features are available, including Tabs and enhanced search features, a message archive for emails you don't want to delete but still want to keep, Firefox 3's improved Add-ons Manager, Personas support, and many other improvements. Download here."

Proton Beams Sent Around the LHC 115

Posted by kdawson on Friday November 20, 2009 @05:40PM from the going-in-circles dept.

feldhaus writes "The BBC reports that the first beams for over one year have been successfully sent around the complete circumference of the Large Hadron Collider. Engineers do not yet have a stable circulating beam but they hope to by 0600 GMT on Saturday."

Comment AT&T screwed us in Nov. Now Charter... (Score 1) 369

by CeePhour on Thursday February 05, 2009 @07:52PM (#26746099) Attached to: Charter Cable Capping Usage Nationwide This Month

Two months ago I left AT&T because them implemented bandwidth caps. They capped their highest tier ("6.0Mb/s", never goes over 4.8Mb/s) at 80GB a month. They have a website up at http://broadband-usage.att.com/ that kindly shows you what APPEARS to be a 150GB/month limit (that is the limit for their "6.0Mbps" U-verse service) no matter what service you have. Delve deeper into the FAQ, and you will see the real caps. Very deceptive. The rate they charge per-GB for overages is $1.

I switched to Charter for my phone and internet, hoping to be counted by their bean-counters as a lost customer, thanks to their greed. However, it appears I have just traded one evil for another.

I called Charter three times today so far. I've spoken to two "account retention" employees and one "technical support" guy (thinking he may know his ass from a hole in the ground. I was wrong.), in addition to two supervisors.

They currently have no way for their customers to monitor their bandwidth. Even the tech support guy said he has no way to view my bandwidth.

And not one of them had heard today's news.

Not one of them could offer anything other than, "Uh, well, I dunno...".

However, I present to you the comic relief provided by Charter representatives :

When told about the story on Slashdot (Charter tech support guy): "What? On Slashnet you say?"

When told about the story on DSLReports.com (Charter account retention employee): "Sir, we're cable, not DSL."

*sigh*

Way to hold the country back. Corporate greed will always win over progress.

Submission + - Men fail in the bathroom: Public wash habits worse (networkworld.com)

Submitted by

coondoggie

on Tuesday September 18, 2007 @10:25AM

coondoggie writes: "When it comes to washing one's hands in public restrooms, women beat men hands down. An observational study of US public restroom habits out today says one-third of men don't wash hands in public restrooms while 88% of women do lather up. A follow up telephone survey of 1,001 adults ages 18 and over found that both lie about the activity though men fail more there too: 92% of adults say they wash their hands in public restrooms. The story is perhaps a little more disconcerting when you realize that almost one in five small business managers read work-related e-mails and other documents in the bathroom, presumably at work according to another study. http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/19658"

Submission + - Phising Scheme uses Hacked page on eBay's servers

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 18, 2007 @10:18AM

An anonymous reader writes: It appears a new Phishing scheme doesn't use email, but eBay's own web servers. A poster on dpreview.com found the hack and reported it. But just a few hours after eBay reomved the hacked page, it has returned. The page hidden on eBay's servers when accessed using a valid eBay server address quickly redirects the user to a fake eBay login page to steal account passwords. The hacker then puts the address in public questions to sellers, when people paste or type the URL into their address bar it takes them to the fake login. Inside Job? http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1037&message=24862649

Submission + - Meteorite Causes Illness in Peru (physorg.com)

Submitted by

eldavojohn

on Tuesday September 18, 2007 @09:53AM

eldavojohn writes: "A meteorite struck in Peru on Saturday leaving cinders, rock & water boiling out of the ground. Villagers nearby reported headaches & vomiting and attributed it to the event. From the article, "Seven policemen who went to check on the reports also became ill and had to be given oxygen before being hospitalized, Lopez said. Rescue teams and experts were dispatched to the scene, where the meteorite left a 100-foot-wide (30-meter-wide) and 20-foot-deep (six-meter-deep) crater, said local official Marco Limache." It's not yet clear whether this is from the meteorite, gas trapped underground that was released or a chemical reaction between the two."

University of Florida Student Tasered At Political Rally 1819

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Tuesday September 18, 2007 @09:27AM from the slow-to-revise-taser-policy dept.

An anonymous reader writes "During a political rally at the University of Florida, an annoying student was tasered while attempting to ask Senator Kerry (D-MA) some questions regarding the 2004 election. Police are looking into whether excessive force was used to prevent the student from going over his alloted question period." There are also several YouTube videos available of the incident.

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