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Comment: Re:Cost of policing illegal traffic in recycled ca (Score 1) 740

by GregPK on Sunday January 18 2009, @03:03PM (#26508171) Attached to: Feds To Offer Cash For Your Clunker

The initial wording of the bill puts these restrictions on it.

Only in 2009 can they buy car and get the federal rebate.

They must have owned the previous car since before Dec. 31st 2008.

The new wording puts a spin on this.

The rebate goes from 1500-4500 depending on how much cleaner the new car is in comparison to the older one.

Personally, I think the US should lax up on safety regulations and work with the EU to make a worldwide standard on auto safety regulations.

That way, auto manufactures can create vehicles that meet the minimum safety requirements and produce fewer emissions than older vehicles. While at the same time offering premium demanded vehicles that offer greater safety for consumers.

A Look Back At Kurzweil's Predictions For 2009 307

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday January 06 2009, @12:42AM
from the no-one-expects-the-mule dept.

marciot writes "It's interesting to look back at Ray Kurzweil's predictions for 2009 from a decade ago. He was dead on in predicting the ubiquity of portable computers, wireless, the emergence of digital objects, and the rise of privacy concerns. He was a little optimistic in certain areas, predicting the demise of rotating storage and the ubiquity of digital paper a bit earlier than it appears it will actually happen. On the topic of human-computer speech interfaces, though, he seems to be way off." And of course Kurzweil missed 9/11 and the fallout from that. His predictions might have been nearer the mark absent the war on terror.

EU Strikes Down French "3 Strikes" Copyright Infringement Law 271

Posted by timothy on Sunday November 23 2008, @04:24PM
from the mon-dieu dept.

Erris writes "Opendotdotdot has good news about laws in the EU: 'EU culture ministers yesterday (20 November) rejected French proposals to curb online piracy through compulsory measures against free downloading ... [and instead pushed] for "a fair balance between the various fundamental rights" while fighting online piracy, first listing "the right to personal data protection," then "the freedom of information" and only lastly "the protection of intellectual property." [This] indicates that the culture ministers and their advisers are beginning to understand the dynamics of the Net, that throttling its use through crude instruments like the "three strikes and you're out" is exactly the wrong thing to do.'"

Comment: I agree, they don't need more broadband (Score 2, Interesting) 161

by GregPK on Wednesday September 10 2008, @10:07AM (#24946021) Attached to: Google Invests In Broadband For Poorer Countries

They could use it, sure.

However, countries in Africa could really use a 4 billion dollar investment into Concentrated solar power.

4 billion is all that it would take to make the necessary power for the entire continent out of sun power, mirrors, and liquid salt and some high power lines.

Once you get past the corruption anyways.

Bill could force Apple, AT&T to unlock iPhone 1

Submitted by quantumghost on Wednesday February 27 2008, @10:20PM

quantumghost writes "When T-Mobile began selling Apple's iPhone in Germany last fall, a legal skirmish ensued, forcing the wireless carrier to sell it untethered to a contract — at $1,460, no less. T-Mobile eventually persuaded a court that the two-year contract was legal. Now that same kind of European rule would be imported into the United States — meaning AT&T would be legally required to sell a contract-free iPhone — if a new Democratic proposal in the U.S. House of Representatives becomes law.

http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9879554-7.html"

Knight Foundation News Challenge Winners Announced

Submitted by

NewsCloud

on Wednesday May 23 2007, @02:09AM

NewsCloud writes "The MIT Media Lab received a $5 million grant from the Knight Foundation "to create a Center for Future Civic Media to develop, test, and study new forms of high-tech community news." Other winners included $700k to MTV for mobile youth journalists to cover the 2008 election. ChicagoCrime received $1.1M "to create a series of city-specific Web sites devoted to public records and hyper-local information" and VillageSoup received $885K "to build free software to allow others to replicate the citizen journalism and community participation." E & P also reports "Eleven other grants of between $25,000 and $340,000 were awarded...[and]...nine bloggers will each get $15,000 to blog about topics ranging from GPS tracking devices to 'out-of-the-box' community publishing solutions." Congrats to all the winners! For the rest of us, there's always next year."

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Journal: Amazing what 26 watts can do... 0

Journal by Khyber on Wednesday May 23 2007, @01:58AM

Took an old Sansui quadrophonic amplifier that pushes 26 watts per channel, hooked up 160 watt Sony 3-way car speakers (6" model) and then hooked up a second set of 180 watt Sony Xplod 2-way 6x9s to the secondary speaker set.

Taped Confession of Russian Secret-Service Agents

Submitted by

reporter

on Wednesday May 23 2007, @01:45AM

reporter writes "According to a report by the Associated Press, several agents of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) gathered in 1998 and videotaped a message for release in the event that one of them should die "accidentally". One agent in the videotape is Alexander Litvinenko, who was fatally poisoned by polonium-210. In the tape, the agents describe how the FSB has degenerated into a thug organization, planting evidence on suspects and plotting to kill them. Litvinenko expresses fear that the FSB may kill his wife and child. These Russian agents gave the videotape to Sergei Dorenko for safe keeping. He has now released it to the "Wall Street Journal". Life in Russia is starting to resemble the plot in the latest James-Bond movie ."