Comment: Best of luck! (Score 1) 1521
Though I don't visit as often as I used to, SlashDot is still the top link in my "Daily Sites" folder. Thanks for all the hard work and best of luck in the future!
Comment: Re:Is It Wrong? (Score 1) 363
News International's share price has dropped 6%, which whilst isn't a fine, but will certainly hammer the profits of the organisation as a whole.
News Corp closed at ~15 yesterday. At the end of January, it was ~15. So, while they lost some of the gains for this year (to be expected with the scuttling of the BSkyB deal and NotW), they're not exactly going to be hard up on cash.
Comment: Re:2 questions for the TSA (Score 1) 570
The TSA has an $8.1 annual billion budget and has yet to have a single success.
The TSA actually has a new section dedicated to their successes at http://www.tsa.gov/press/goodcatch/
There are currently three stories: on March 30th they found some pot in a jar of peanut butter, on April 15th they found what appears to be a really tiny knife (or a normal knife in a gigantic DVD player) and on May 5th they found a knife in a shoe (knife not shown).
So, they have had some successes, but these are small, meaningless victories (and, in the first case, completely unrelated to safety).
Daylight Savings Time Puts Kid in Jail for 12 Days 881
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from the yeah-that's-a-woops dept.
from the yeah-that's-a-woops dept.
Jherek Carnelian writes "Cody Webb was jailed for calling in a bomb threat to his Hempstead Area high school (near Pittsburgh). He spent 12 days in lockup until the authorities realized that their caller-id log was off an hour because of the new Daylight Savings Time rules and that Cody had only called one hour prior to the actual bomb threat. Perhaps it took so long because of the principal's Catch-22 attitude about Cody's guilt — she said, 'Well, why should we believe you? You're a criminal. Criminals lie all the time.'"
Are mobile phones wiping out our bees?
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Anonymous Coward Inc. writes "Snippet from article .
"Seems like the plot of a particularly far-fetched horror film. But some scientists suggest that our love of the mobile phone could cause massive food shortages, as the world's harvests fail.
They are putting forward the theory that radiation given off by mobile phones and other hi-tech gadgets is a possible answer to one of the more bizarre mysteries ever to happen in the natural world — the abrupt disappearance of the bees that pollinate crops. Late last week, some bee-keepers claimed that the phenomenon — which started in the US, then spread to continental Europe — was beginning to hit Britain as well.""
WoW Addiction Results in Death of Toddler
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Henry V .009 writes "The Albuquerque Journal reports that Federal authorities have just charged Rebecca Wulf for allowing her 3-year-old daughter to starve to death, surrounded by "cat feces, moldy food and unwashed dishes" while Rebecca played World of Warcraft. I thought Slashdoters might want an early heads up on what is likely to become a big news story. Having worked with abused children in the past, I can say that the stories I hear of WoW addiction cases are on the level of hard drug addiction stories — in my opinion at least, this can no longer be dismissed as a 'you can be addicted to anything' issue anymore."