Nullav - Slashdot User

Celebrate the 20th anniversay of the Game Boy-> 0

Submitted by Zcomuto on Friday September 24 2010, @09:29PM

Zcomuto writes "On 28th of September, it'll be exactly 20 years since the original Game Boy praised our lands! Bringing us fantastic entertianment such as Pokémon, Mario Land, Tetris and more! I propose that on this day, we — the public — collect our dusty ol' Game boys (Be they original, pocket, color — even Advance) and play them on the get-go to show that we still care and appreciate what the magical device has given us all. Leave your PSP, DS and mp3 players at home and be proud to show your retro side to the public!"
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Comment: Re:My proposal (Score 1) 755

by Nullav on Friday October 24 2008, @08:19AM (#25496243) Attached to: Alternatives to Daylight Saving Time?

So shift work/school schedules in Winter to make people start/end their days at different times; going to sleep at 22:00 instead of pretend-21:00 isn't going to kill you. This would also eliminate countless scheduling problems.
Car analogy: Moving the road to get to work.

Germany moves to ban Scientology-> 0

Submitted by on Saturday December 08 2007, @04:52AM

An anonymous reader writes ""German federal and state interior ministers declared the Church of Scientology unconstitutional on Friday, opening the door for a possible ban on the organization.
Earlier this week, a Berlin district set up an office to deal with complaints about Scientology.
Koerting said Germany's domestic intelligence agencies should continue gathering information on the legality of Scientology's activities in Germany so that a decision could be made on what to do about it next year.""
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Wikileaks coup: Guantanamo and rendition manuals-> 0

Submitted by James Hardine on Tuesday December 04 2007, @01:44AM

James Hardine writes "The Washington Post is reporting that Wikileaks has released another manual for Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay together with the US military's rendition operations manual. This release follows from the Wikileaks release of the 2003 SOP Manual as reported in Slashdot and the New York Times last month. Wikileaks compares the two manuals (2003, 2004) and reveals damning changes in official US detainee policy in exquisite detail. Who knew that diff could be such a powerful political weapon?"
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NJ Spammer Gets Two Years Jail for AOL Spam Scam-> 0

Submitted by

Tech.Luver

on Saturday November 03 2007, @03:28AM

Tech.Luver writes "Nov 02, '07 — A New Jersey man was sentenced to more than two years in prison on Friday for helping send "spam" e-mails to more than 1.2 million America Online subscribers. Todd Moeller, 28, was sentenced 27 months in prison in a federal court in New York after he was caught making a deal with a government informant to send junk e-mails — known as spam — advertising a computer security program in return for 50 percent of the profits, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Manhattan said. ( http://techluver.com/2007/11/03/nj-spammer-gets-two-years-jail-for-aol-spam-scam/ )"
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Study Says P2P Downloaders Buy More Music 158

Posted by Zonk on Saturday November 03 2007, @12:17AM
from the not-all-that-kooky dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Michael Geist posts to his site about a study commissioned by the Canadian government intended to look into the buying habits of music fans. What the study found is that 'there is a positive correlation between peer-to-peer downloading and CD purchasing.' The report is entitled The Impact of Music Downloads and P2P File-Sharing on the Purchase of Music: A Study For Industry Canada, and it was 'conducted collaboratively by two professors from the University of London, Industry Canada, and Decima Research, who surveyed over 2,000 Canadians on their music downloading and purchasing habits. The authors believe this is the first ever empirical study to employ representative microeconomic data.'"

Average number of links on a web page-> 0

Submitted by flatbush52 on Friday November 02 2007, @11:23PM

flatbush52 writes "According to Uclue, the average website includes 62.5 links. Actually, the figure is really according to IBM, Microsoft, and HP researchers who studies a few hundred million pages. But Uclue is the one who puts it into perspective in a nicely done write-up. The figure includes all links on a page, including anchor tags, image links, advertising, etc. Because of the heavily skewed nature of the web, with a small number of sites housing thousands upon thousands of links, there's a sizable discrepancy between the mean and median figures, which is also discussed in the Uclue article. By the way, Uclue is the same group who gave us the controversial estimate on the Enegy Use of the Internet a few weeks ago...they're getting to be an interesting little operation."
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20/20 airing Hans Reiser interview on eve of trial 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 02 2007, @10:31PM

An anonymous reader writes "ABCNews 20/20 television magazine will broadcast an interview tonight with Hans Reisier, the author of the Linux ReiserFS filesystem, who is accused of killing his wife, although no body has been found. Jury selection is complete, and the trial is schedule to begin next week."

P2P file-sharing study released by Industry Canada 0

Submitted by Techie Coward on Friday November 02 2007, @08:20PM

Techie Coward writes "Industry Canada has released a study regarding the effect of P2P file-sharing on CD purchases. The study concludes that P2P file-sharing does not have an overall positive or negative effect on CD sales. Additionaly, the study finds that among those who do download, those who download more purchase more CDs, and that the price of CDs has no overall effect on CD sales."

Pipe bomb locks down Ariz. nuke plant-> 0

Submitted by

christ_the_conqueror

on Friday November 02 2007, @05:38PM

christ_the_conqueror writes "Security officials at the nation's largest nuclear power plant detained a contract worker with a small pipe bomb in the back of his pickup truck Friday, authorities said."
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