Comment: Re:So... (Score 1) 171
Well, it worked for Mr. Burns.
Comment: Re:I'm not clear (Score 1) 780
Under the 14th Amendment, the Bill of Rights also applies to the states.
Comment: TMBG (Score 1) 123
Why does the voorwerp shine? (The voorwerp is a mass of ionized gas.)
Comment: Re:Simple Solution (Score 1) 553
Yeah, you'd need over 9,000 million.
Comment: Re:Both Good and Bad (Score 2, Insightful) 286
Religon's biggest long-term effect in the CIV4 was just to give AI Civ's one more thing to get pissed off at you about. There was no winning with it either, as no matter which you picked, you'd tick somebody off.
So it's just like real life, then.
How the Internet Didn't Fail As Predicted 259
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from the series-of-popular-tubes dept.
from the series-of-popular-tubes dept.
Lord Byron Eee PC writes "Newsweek is carrying a navel-gazing piece on how wrong they were when in 1995 they published a story about how the Internet would fail. The original article states, 'Nicholas Negroponte, director of the MIT Media Lab, predicts that we'll soon buy books and newspapers straight over the Intenet. Uh, sure.' The article continues to say that online shopping will never happen, that airline tickets won't be purchased over the web, and that newspapers have nothing to fear. It's an interesting look back at a time when the Internet was still a novelty and not yet a necessity."
Comment: Re:Long time coming (Score 4, Informative) 112
Uematsu did a little bit of the Chrono Trigger score, but the majority of it was by Yasunori Mitsuda
Bing Adds Street View, Apps, and More->
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mikemuch writes "Thought it's still far behind Google in overall search volume, you have to give poor little Microsoft credit for continuing to add capabilities to its search engine. Today's release adds street view--called Streetside--that takes advantage of Microsoft's photo-stitching PhotoSynth technology. Not only is Microsoft itself using Photosynth, but users can also upload their Photosynths so that anyone on the web can, say, duck inside a house for sale, or into the Met to check out a Rembrandt. Beyond street view, Bing now also gets apps that third-party developers can add for map overlays that do things like showing where Twitter tweets were tweeted, webcams, news stories, and even grafitti tags.You can try the new features out for yourself at www.bing.maps/explore. You can also read more about the announcements or view a slideshow of Bing Streetside and Apps at PCMag."
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Cameroon the new Hong Kong of malware?->
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garg0yle writes "According to McAfee, more than a third of Cameroon domains (TLD of .cm) is infested with viruses or other not-so-fun party treats. Given that it's very easy to mis-type .com as .cm, this puts the computers of a lot of fat-fingered typists in peril. Second place on the most-infested domains list goes to China (.cn), while Hong Kong (last year's "winner") is now comfortably middle-of-the-pack."
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FCC Lets Radar Company See Through Walls ->
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DesertNomad writes "Attorney Mitchell Lazarus over at CommLawBlog gives a good overview of a new radar technology and the challenges of getting regulatory approval, which seemingly can be just as difficult as developing the technology itself."
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