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Comment: Re:G+'s biggest strength may be its biggest weakne (Score 1) 360

by cyxxon (#37121706) Attached to: Facebook Says That Google+ Has No Users
That is actually what I have begun to think as well. That and the fact that I actually have to select circles to share with for every post. On Facebook, I simply set a relatively sane default (all friends minus the people from work who are just coworkers, not friends). Anybody who should see even less than that I put into the aforementioned coworkes group for a week so they think I accepted them, then I silently delete them again. At the very worst, some not so good friend suddenly sees I play WoW, am an atheist, like the Suicide Girls or drink beer. Well. I can live with that, as at least my boss knows 2 of the 4 and probably suspects the other 2 and wouldn't give a damn. My parents, they know all 4. But on Google+ I have to think who exactly shall read whatever I post every fricking time. Sounds good on paper, in practice, not so much. I for one am waiting how this pans out...
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Bussard Fusion Validated at EMC2fusion.org->

Submitted by dch24
dch24 writes "Ever since Robert W. Bussard did his Google Tech Talk: Should Google Go Nuclear?, the question of whether Polywell Fusion generation will make net power has hung in the air. Today, EMC2fusion.org updated their web site with results from the efforts of a world-class team of physicists to verify Bussard's papers.

Bussard's experiments were WB-6; he lost the battle against cancer in 2007. EMC2fusion then built WB-7 and validated Bussard's experiments (with technical data given to the government sponsors but not to the public). Now the EMC2fusion site has pictures of WB-8 and plans for WB-D. The results are still unpublished, but this acknowledges that WB-7 was a success, and that EMC2fusion is moving forward with plans for a net power machine."

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MP3 player tax proposed in Canada->

Submitted by Interoperable
Interoperable writes "The status of sharing music in Canada is, to some extent, ambiguous. This is partly due to a levy imposed on blank media, CD-Rs and cassette tapes, that compensates artists and the recording studios for a loss of revenue due to copying. Legislation proposed by the NDP and supported by the Bloc Quebecois would extend that levy to cover MP3 players with the intent of decriminalizing audio file sharing for Canadian citizens. The proposed legislation, however, faces opposition from the governing Conservative party; the Liberal party has agreed to discuss the proposed bill."
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LG green refrigerator fraud->

Submitted by krungthepsurfer
krungthepsurfer writes "The Australian consumer advocacy group, Choice, has discovered that two models of so-called "green" refrigerators sold by LG Electronics were not as green as was claimed. The models were fitted with a device designed to switch to a lower energy use mode when laboratory test lab conditions were detected."
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Comment: Hm. It sure wouldn't hurt to update it a little... (Score 1, Interesting) 325

by cyxxon (#30776608) Attached to: Wii Hardware Upgrade Won't Happen Soon
I don't own a Wii myself, I own a Xbox 360, on which I rarely play though. One of my best friends owns a Wii though, and of course we throw in a game or two when we are at their place. And everytime, after some minutes, I am at the point where the graphics really get to me. Not that it doesn't have the latest whatchamacallit-shaders, huge textures, hardware geometry tesselation and all that, no, but that that it simply does not do antialiasing and / or HD. It is just all so freaking jaggy it is a pain to look at (on a 52" LCD in this case). I personally might buy a Wii HD if it came out if it added nothing to the feature list but a very good upscaling algorithm to 1080p and HDMI. That's all.

Comment: Re:Germany still censored (Score 1) 300

by cyxxon (#30751064) Attached to: Google.cn Has Already Lifted Censorship
(Hardcore) porn may not be distributed to minors, and "Yes I am over 18!" links on the homepage have been found not enough to make sure the minors don't see it, it has to be "real" age verification. Even services that you had to enter our personalausweis number (personal id card) which has the birthdate encoded into it were verboten, since the algorith was rather trivial to fool...

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