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by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 26, @07:03PM (#23546245)
Attached to: President Bush Signs Genetic Nondiscrimination Act
Balony. As usual for Bush, this is pure self-interest. He knows that he'd never make the cut.
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Submitted by bigjocker on Tuesday May 06, @06:15PM
bigjocker writes "A Florida teacher was fired after he performed a magic trick in front of his students. Apparently making a toothpick disappear is banned by Florida's Inquisition Board."
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354327,00.html
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 [+] submission, news, education

  OOXML voted an ISO standard.[->] 2008-04-02 03:57 Criffer

Submitted by Criffer on Wednesday April 02, @03:57AM
Criffer writes "ISO/IEC DIS 29500, Information technology Office Open XML file formats, has received the necessary number of votes for approval as an ISO/IEC International Standard.

Approval required at least 2/3 (i.e. 66.66 %) of the votes cast by national bodies participating in the joint technical committee ISO/IEC JTC 1, Information technology, to be positive; and no more than 1/4 (i.e. 25 %) of the total number of ISO/IEC national body votes cast to be negative. These criteria have now been met with 75 % of the JTC 1 participating member votes cast positive and 14 % of the total of national member body votes cast negative.

Subject to there being no formal appeals from ISO/IEC national bodies in the next two months, the International Standard will accordingly proceed to publication."
http://www.iso.org/iso/pressrelease.htm?refid=Ref1123
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 [+] submission, politics, microsoft

  Hardware: Palm Before the PalmPilot 2007-10-21 18:33

Posted by Zonk on Sunday October 21 2007, @06:33PM
from the deep-in-the-mysts-of-the-past dept.
Gammu writes "SiliconUser has an in-depth history of the Palm, starting with its humble roots. The Pilot (later PalmPilot and finally just Palm) saved Palm Computing. Before the release of the Pilot, the company was subsisting (barely) on revenue from connectivity packages for HP PDA's and a version of Graffiti for the Newton. This was because its first PDA hardware product had failed under the weight of feature creep and design by committee. The first article in a series follows the early days of this company-reforming product."
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 [+] story, hardware, handheld, rip, pda, palm

  IT: Man Hacks 911 System, Sends SWAT on Bogus Raid 2007-10-17 15:33

Posted by Zonk on Wednesday October 17 2007, @03:33PM
from the word-dumb-doesn't-cover-it dept.
An anonymous reader writes "The Orange County Register reports that a 19 year old from Washington state broke into the Orange County California 911 emergency system. He randomly selected the name and address of a Lake Forest, California couple and electronically transferred false information into the 911 system. The Orange County California Sheriff's Department's Special Weapons and Tactics Team was immediately sent to the home of a couple with two sleeping toddlers. The SWAT team handcuffed the husband and wife before deciding it was a prank. Says the article, 'Other law enforcement agencies have seen similar breaches into their 911 systems as part of a trend picked up by computer hackers in the nation called "SWATting"'"
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 [+] story, it, security, court, haha, wargames, brazil

  Your Rights Online: Belgium May Prosecute the Church of Scientology 2007-09-04 16:05

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday September 04 2007, @04:05PM
from the who-you-callin'-a-cult dept.
sheean.nl writes "A Belgian prosecutor recommended after a 10-year investigation that the government prosecute the church of Scientology. The church is accused of being a criminal organization involved in extortion, fraud, unfair trading, violation of privacy laws, and unlawfully practicing medicine. Both the Belgian and the European branches of the church should be brought to court, according to the authorities. The investigation was started in 1997 after former Scientologists complained about intimidation and extortion by the church. Other European countries such as Germany have problems with Scientology, but in the US it is officially recognized as a religion. Scientology has 10 million members including high-profile followers such as Tom Cruise and John Travolta." Scientology has long used heavy-handed legal and other tactics to suppress opposition on the Net.
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 [+] story, yro, censorship, media, politics, atlast, good

  Science: Easy-to-Make Material Scratches Diamond 2007-04-21 10:20

Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday April 21 2007, @10:20AM
from the mohs-hardness-scale-so-hosed dept.
holy_calamity writes "A material tough enough to scratch diamond that can be made without resorting to massive pressure has been developed at UCLA. A regular furnace and a zap of current is enough to meld boron with the metal rhenium." Sound familiar? This is the other new material tougher than diamond, but no word yet on how they rate against each other.
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  Some Mexican Classrooms Adopt Hi-Tech Teaching 2007-03-30 14:36

Posted by Zonk on Friday March 30 2007, @02:36PM
from the creepy-but-cool dept.
An anonymous reader writes "It what is believed to be the most ambitious project of its kind in the world. In a program called Enciclomedia, giant electronic screens have been attached to the walls of about 165,000 Mexican classrooms. Some five million 10 & 11 year-olds now receive all their education through these screens. 'From maths to music, from geography to geometry, black and white boards have given way to electronic screens. During a biology lesson we watch as pupil after pupil comes to the screen to piece together the human body... electronically. One boy taps his finger on the screen and brings up the human heart. He then slides his finger across the screen, taking the heart with him and places it where he thinks it belongs on the body located on the other side of the screen.'"
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  The REAL PS3 Grill 2006-11-27 15:26 twistedsymphony

Submitted by twistedsymphony on Monday November 27 2006, @03:26PM
twistedsymphony writes "A friend of mine over in Australia took the PS3 grill joke to a whole new level, he got his hands on a Japanese PS3 and turned it into a working grill. In addition to pictures of him cooking up some tasty sausages and steaks they use the opportunity to make a through disassembly tutorial.
When the final case design of the Playstation 3 was released, it was widely critsised as looking exactly like a George Foreman Grill. A few months later, Photoshopped pictures started emerging on the internet of the Playstation 3 with a grill built into it we decided this would be a great project and challenge to actually build the Real PS3 Grill.
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  The Rise of Casual Games 2006-11-27 14:53 eldavojohn

Submitted by eldavojohn on Monday November 27 2006, @02:53PM
eldavojohn writes "CNN is running a story on casual gaming. The article mentions that the latest PopCap game "Bookworm Adventures" cost $30 million. The article also claims that casual gamers play to relax and the majority of them are female, popular games are often copied by rogue programmers and that fancy graphics & music may detract from the games' appeal to the gamer. This was a new niche of computer gaming that seems to have exploded while I was busy with every MMO under the sun. Are the quick & simple games that I've somehow missed at sites like PopCap.com a multi-million dollar industry?"
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