ulbador - Slashdot User

Comment: Re:HA! (Score 1) 176

by ulbador on Monday December 19, @09:06PM (#38429438) Attached to: AT&T Officially Ends Plans To Acquire T-Mobile USA

I have a friend who spends about half the year overseas and and he was stuck with AT&T for this very reason. At the same time, he recently switched because Verizon is WAAAAY more competitive with their global market than AT&T (if you have a CDMA phone with GSM)

Comment: Re:The Writing is On the Wall (Score 1) 282

by ulbador on Wednesday June 30 2010, @03:34PM (#32749816) Attached to: France Says D-Star Ham Radio Mode Is Illegal

Ha. The phone system in my community of 300,000 people went down for 4 days a few months back. Guess who provided all emergency communications...

iPhone “Don't Text Me” app stops distr-> 0

Submitted by coondoggie on Friday April 16 2010, @10:23AM

coondoggie writes "Tired of your annoying friends texting you, especially while you’re driving? Well, there’s now a free iPhone application for that. "DON'T TEXT ME" was released today by Dr. Sev LLC App Developers along with software developer Oscar Zeballos of Renegade Applications and is available at the iTunes Apple Store."
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GE mosquitoes become "flying vaccinators"-> 0

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angry tapir

on Monday March 15 2010, @07:55PM

angry tapir writes "In a classic tale of 'using their powers for good instead of evil', scientists have capitalised on the ability of mosquitoes to transmit pathogens by co-opting it to deliver vaccines instead. Researchers from the Jichi Medical University in Japan have genetically engineered the Anopheles stephensi strain of mosquitoes — most infamous for their role in spreading malaria — modifying their saliva gland to deliver a vaccine protecting against the parasite, Leishmania."
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Falling faster than sound-> 0

Submitted by Dthief on Monday March 15 2010, @07:42PM

Dthief writes "But now Fearless Felix, as his fans call him, has something more difficult on the agenda: jumping from a helium balloon in the stratosphere at least 120,000 feet above Earth. Within about half a minute, he figures, he would be going 690 miles per hour and become the first skydiver to break the speed of sound. After a free fall lasting five and a half minutes, his parachute would open and land him about 23 miles below the balloon."
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Mickey Mouse infringed in 900 A.D.->

Submitted by

Nerdposeur

on Friday June 15 2007, @12:54PM

Nerdposeur writes "Can the Disney copyrights trump this? The Discovery Channel reports on a Mickey Mouse look-alike that dates back to the Iron Age. Oddly enough, this thing is supposed to represent a lion.
From TFA:
"Similar shaped jewelry representing lions originated in France around 700 A.D.," he said. "After 200 years, some French artist, who probably never saw a lion in his entire life, came up with this fantasy version.""
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