Comment: Damn (Score 2) 393
No man pages.
US Politician Sues Facebook After Losing Election->
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Anonymous Coward writes "Majed Moughni lost Michigan’s Republican primary against incumbent Rep. John Dingell, who just so happens to be the longest-serving member of Congress. Even so, Moughni blames just one entity for his loss: Facebook. And now the attorney is suing the social networking site—not for money, but for an injunction that would halt premature account closing. Moughni, who came in fourth in the August primary, wants to know why Facebook shut down his page, cutting him off from his 1,600 friends, in June."
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Governments 'not ready' for new European privacy l->
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arisvega writes "European rules aimed at giving consumers more control over how their web browsing is tracked will possibly fail to be enforced come May, because no European government has yet drawn up the guidelines for how the ePrivacy directive will be enforced. This new directive states that websites must seek consent from users before using tracking technologies. So, slashdot, should in fact someone read here that "no EU country appears to bother making haste into applying one of these rare directives that actually benefit the EU citizen and aim at increasing the quality of life"? Note that a 'directive', per EU agreement, is a legislative act of the European Union; it is not optional."
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UK residents "healthier" than US residents->
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Coisiche writes "I wonder if an inability to differentiate between UK and England leads to an unhealthier existence. Or maybe the people behind the study that claims we're healthier in UK than US just excluded Glasgow..."
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College students can now cite sources in Wikipedia->
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orchy writes ".. thanks to an intelligent engine that matches sentences in Wikipedia articles to primary sources, and lets them quote and cite it."
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Comment: From Google Translator (Score 1) 226
"And unprecedented case. Seemingly abandoned spaceship on the streets of Moscow - it is something from the realm of fantasy. But alas, this is the true reality. Correspondent "MK" discovered orbiting Soviet "Buran" play like garbage on the outskirts of the capital. Nobody cares what was once a symbol of cosmic power of our country.
Natalia Muschinkina"
Natalia Muschinkina"
Comment: Final mission (Score 1) 119
Does it mean we won't see the D.2 version of the robot flying around?
Comment: Backspace (Score 2, Funny) 114
How does it work?
"The brown dog jumped over the lazy fo no wait that's wrong no dammit erase it no don't write erase no no you no erase e ra se back go back backspace erase it oh era no you fucking piece of shit just erase the fucking thing oh gosh how do you start again new control n new document create new fuck work thats it Im taking off this fuck--"
Apple unveils new tablet
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casals writes "Jobs just announced the new Apple's tablet, called iPad. You can see the live posting here."
For GUIs, Just the Right Degree of Realism 256
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from the insightful-line-drawing dept.
from the insightful-line-drawing dept.
mr crypto writes "User interfaces make copious use of pictures and symbols, but how abstract should images be? Lukas Mathis has an interesting blog entry on where to draw the line."