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+ - AT&T, Verizon Attempting to Get Government Approval to Cut Off Competitors.->

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes "In Michigan, Senate Bill 636 will remove any remaining requirements of AT&T and Verizon to lease lines to other providers, effectively killing all competing phone and internet providers, including wireless providers, which rely on leasing any connectivity from AT&T or Verizon. Readers should not be fooled by the title of the bill into thinking it only applies to a hard-wired phone line coming into their home or office. What the consumer calls a landline differs greatly from what the law calls a landline."
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+ - Newly Discovered Greenhouse Gas is 7,000 Times More Powerful Than CO2

Submitted by Hugh Pickens DOT Com
Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes "Suzanne Goldenberg writes at The Guardian that researchers at the University of Toronto's department of chemistry have identified a newly discovered greenhouse gas, perfluorotributylamine (PFTBA), in use by the electrical industry since the mid-20th century, that is 7,000 times more powerful than carbon dioxide at warming the Earth. "We claim that PFTBA has the highest radiative efficiency of any molecule detected in the atmosphere to date," says Angela Hong. Concentrations of PFTBA in the atmosphere are low – 0.18 parts per trillion in the Toronto area – compared to 400 parts per million for carbon dioxide but PFTBA is long-lived. There are no known processes that would destroy or remove PFTBA in the lower atmosphere so it has a very long lifetime, possibly hundreds of years, and is destroyed in the upper atmosphere. ""It is so much less than carbon dioxide, but the important thing is on a per molecule basis, it is very very effective in interacting with heat from the Earth." PFTBA has been in use since the mid-20th century for various applications in electrical equipment, such as transistors and capacitors. "PFTBA is just one example of an industrial chemical that is produced but there are no policies that control its production, use or emission," says Hong. "It is not being regulated by any type of climate policy.""

Comment: Re:Jackpot (Score 2) 313

If it seems like an honest mistake, I send it back. I've been sent the wrong order by amazon twice, and I contact them, arrange to get paid for shipping and send it back. My personal honesty and integrity are more important than a few dollars.

If I'm sent something out of the blue I did not order with an invoice I will keep it and ignore the invoice as this is a scam.

I was shocked that people would post in public that they are dishonest - and brag about it.

Cultivate virtue for a better life, and a better world.

Comment: Re: If they are SO REALLY CONCERN about religion . (Score 1) 597

by DoctorFrog (#45664439) Attached to: New Documentary Chronicles Road Tripping Scientists Promoting Reason

Our problems are traditional and societal, not legislative and institutional. The CofE gets to appoint Lords; imagine if the Baptist Church got to directly appoint a number of Senators! Faith schools are also directly supported by tax monies in the UK.

Comment: Re: If they are SO REALLY CONCERN about religion (Score 1) 597

by DoctorFrog (#45664377) Attached to: New Documentary Chronicles Road Tripping Scientists Promoting Reason

Mammon on the other hand he doesn't serve either. He could make a lot more money than he does, but he often waives speaking fees and he donates to charities. Simply making a good living, even a very good living, is not the same as worshipping money.

+ - Simulations back up theory that Universe is a hologram->

Submitted by ananyo
ananyo writes "A team of physicists has provided some of the clearest evidence yet that our Universe could be just one big projection.
In 1997, theoretical physicist Juan Maldacena proposed that an audacious model of the Universe in which gravity arises from infinitesimally thin, vibrating strings could be reinterpreted in terms of well-established physics. The mathematically intricate world of strings, which exist in nine dimensions of space plus one of time, would be merely a hologram: the real action would play out in a simpler, flatter cosmos where there is no gravity.
Maldacena's idea thrilled physicists because it offered a way to put the popular but still unproven theory of strings on solid footing — and because it solved apparent inconsistencies between quantum physics and Einstein's theory of gravity. It provided physicists with a mathematical Rosetta stone, a 'duality', that allowed them to translate back and forth between the two languages, and solve problems in one model that seemed intractable in the other and vice versa. But although the validity of Maldacena's ideas has pretty much been taken for granted ever since, a rigorous proof has been elusive.
In two papers posted on the arXiv repository, Yoshifumi Hyakutake of Ibaraki University in Japan and his colleagues now provide, if not an actual proof, at least compelling evidence that Maldacena’s conjecture is true."
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Comment: Firefox: The most unstable software in common use. (Score 0) 206

by Futurepower(R) (#45660839) Attached to: Firefox 26 Arrives With Click-To-Play For Java Plugins
I first reported the Firefox memory-hogging instability bug in Firefox version .9, whatever it was called then. Now, years later, Firefox still grabs more and more memory until it becomes unstable.

The memory-hogging instability occurs when many windows and tabs are open, as is likely for anyone doing extensive research.

+ - Oracle Wants $1 Billion From Google->

Submitted by walterbyrd
walterbyrd writes "Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL) is suing Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) for more than $1 billion in damages. Oracle claims that Google has infringed on its patent and has used code developed by it to develop the Android operating system. Android operating system is used in a majority of smartphones and tablets with estimates of its market share putting the figure at 70+% and above. The earlier claim of $6 billion was not found sustainable. The courts will now decide whether the case should be pursued further.

In other news, Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL) has announced that it will integrate OpenStack capabilities in its own products."
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+ - Guilty Verdict In First Ever Cybercrime RICO Trial->

Submitted by clm1970
clm1970 writes "A young Arizona identity thief is the first person in the U.S. to be found guilty of federal racketeering charges for facilitating his crimes over a website. The precedent could mean that even the most casual user of a site used primarily for illegal activity could be punished as harshly as the most serious offenders."
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+ - Dell launches its first Chromebook->

Submitted by sfcrazy
sfcrazy writes "Dell has also joined the club of Microsoft partners who now offer Linux-powered Chromebooks. Dell has launched its Chromebook 11 and is pushing the laptop in a market that Microsoft would cringe to continue to own; which is slipping out of its hands. The Dell Chromebook 11 is powered by 4th Generation Intel Celeron 2955U processor, features a 11.6-inch, edge-to-edge glass screen (maximum resolution of 1366×768) and is powered by Intel HD Graphics and can run for up to 10-hours on battery."
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+ - How to Keep Birds From Crashing Into Planes->

Submitted by sciencehabit
sciencehabit writes "Birds routinely delay flights, and in the worst case, collide with windows and engines and cause crashes. Bird strike, as the problem is called, costs the airline industry about $1 billion per year, and engineers have tried to reduce it using everything from loudspeakers and flares to dogs and lasers. Now, DNA sequencing has been added to the arsenal—not the DNA of the birds but rather that of their poop. The DNA sequences of insects and seeds—and for large predatory birds, prey such as small mammals or lizards—reveal the food that attracts the birds to the airport in the first place. Then you simply remove the food--and presto, no more birdstrike."
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Comment: Re: Fireworks in 3...2...1... (Score 1) 1140

Da fuk? What bible are you reading? My version of the bible is a veritable smorgasbord of homophobia, genocide and misogyny. If the bible is a algorithm for happiness, one wall and no roof make a house!

Please sit down and instead of selectively reading your bible, start at the beginning and start reading it straight through... Also understand that the bible you have is a highly manufactured document that was crafted out of lots of different and conflicting sources. There are lots of <i>other</i> bibles out there with lots of other scriptures that say lots of other, albeit equally crazy things.

grep me no patterns and I'll tell you no lines.

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