Comment Re:Well... (Score 1) 676
Amen--Ubuntu was fine, a touch slow, but functional until I installed accelerated graphics drivers for my ATI card. Then menuing, windows, everything, became spiffy and quick.
Submission + - Congressman Orrin Hatch caught pirating software
Rocketship Underpant writes: "Orrin Hatch, the Congressman viewed by many as a shill for corporate copyright interests, recently stated that people who download copyrighted materials should have their computers destroyed as punishment. However, as Wired.com reports, Hatch's own website uses copyrighted software without permission — a Javascript menu system developed by a British company. Is Mr. Hatch accepting volunteers to go through his home and office destroying all his computers, or were his comments to Congress just a bunch of hypocritical hot air?"
Submission + - Reporter Arrested for Asking a Question (lawbean.com)
Spamicles writes: "Manchester, NH — Freelance reporter Matt Lepacek, reporting for Infowars.com, was arrested for asking a question to one of Giuliani's staff members in a press conference. The press secretary identified the New York based reporter as having previously asked Giuliani about his prior knowledge of WTC building collapses and ordered his arrest."
Submission + - Astronomers Still Puzzled by Saturn's Spokes
SteakNShake writes: Science magazine online reports that astronomers remain puzzled over Saturn's electric spokes. The spokes were discovered in 1980 when astonished observers examined the images coming back from the Voyager I probe. Explanations now center on electrical phenomena. Geraint Jones of the Mullard Space Science Laboratory in Dorking, U.K. and his colleages now suggest that Saturn's (as yet unexplained) thunderstorms produce (as yet unexplained) beams of electrons across Saturn's rings, directed by Saturn's magnetic field, and charge presumed dust particles in such a fashion that they hover over the rings. This cart-before-the-horse reasoning defies conventional understanding of electron beams directed by magnetic fields, but appears to explain some aspects of the spokes' behavior, while leaving many gaps to be filled in our understanding of this phenomenon.
