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Comment Re:Idiots (Score 0, Troll) 475

The problem with irradiating produce is that it destroys the nutrients in the produce. It also renders it non-living. Sure, it still looks the same, and that is the point they try to push in order to make this irradiation bs fly. But what is the point of eating fruits and veggies that are dead and devoid of nutrients? It would lead to mass malnutrition and many health problems over time (for those of us who actually do eat healthy and do not suffer from such health issues). Those who are susceptible to food borne illness (many of which actually come from factory farming of animals, not the produce itself), already have compromised immune systems, likely also due to lack of nutrition in the first place.
Windows

Submission + - Top 5: Windows 7 features that IT pros will love (computerworld.com.au)

swandives writes: "Speaking from Microsoft's Tech Ed event on the Gold Coast in Australia, Windows 7 commercial group lead and the woman who has overall responsibility for the launch of Windows 7 in Australia, Sarah Vaughan, outlines the top five features of Windows 7 that will make the lives of IT professionals easier."
Enlightenment

Submission + - Random access quantum optical memory (anu.edu.au)

nuur writes: Reseachers at the Australian National University have developed a new form of optical memory that allows random access to stored optical quantum information. Pulses of light are stored on a kind of "optical conveyer-belt" that is controlled with a magnetic field. By manipulating the magnetic field, the conveyer-belt can be moved allowing recall any part of the stored optical information. The research is published in Nature.

Comment Re:They both SUCK (Score 1) 314

I totally agree that both sites need a complete overhaul, especially when one is looking for support. When typing in simple terms and phrases into their search, I rarely, if ever, find the solutions I am seeking. It will often result in a bunch of links to unrelated stuff, sending you in circles. You can click on several links of different titles, and they send you back to the same pages over and over.

However, if I type the same search terms into google, I will generally find the solution I'm seeking (sometimes after some slight refinement to the terms) in a tech support forum, usually written by someone who had to figure it out themselves, because they also couldn't find any answers on these crap web pages... And don't even get me started on HP's godawful website.

I also find it rather amusing that at the bottom of whatever article you may have linked to, they ask if its helpful? Why or why not? To which I often just write "The information was not relevant to my search query of x" ...
Networking

Submission + - Unethical Private ISP (ntc-com.com) 2

An anonymous reader writes: I've backed myself into a corner this semester: I signed a lease for an apartment without first researching which ISP's were available there. It turns out that one company, NTC Cable, has a monopoly on the ethernet wired in the building. Since they are my only option for cable internet, I read up on their policies. Apparently, they charge by the connection to each room of the apartment; at the time of writing their rate is ~$32/month and routers are against their Terms of Service. This means that in order for my roommates and I to connect our four laptops we would be paying in excess of $120/month. NTC also states that gaming devices and handhelds also need their own connection. This is ridiculous and ought to be considered usury; I'm wondering what recourse I have in this matter. How might they be detecting individual devices, and how might I circumvent this detection. I thought of using an old desktop as a wireless access point and routing our laptops through that, but would that be detectable?

Comment Re:Schools/Universities (Score 1) 548

I've been to quite a few different DMV's in CA, and you're lucky if you can get in and out of there in under an hour even with an appointment. At most DMV's in CA you'll find the staff to be rather confused and slow, and they use the simple take a number and we'll call you system. There is the exception of one DMV in Daly City, that for some reason is run far more efficiently than the rest. In fact, they have over 20 windows to help people and a 5-tier numbering system to efficiently route people with screens displaying the numbers being called and the window to report to. I went in there to renew my driver's license and take a new picture without an appointment, and was done in 10 minutes! Why can't they all be like that. I was commenting on how efficient this DMV is with the woman who was helping me, and she mentioned that she lives right next to the one in San Francisco, but wouldn't ever want to work there. I also live right next to the one in San Francisco, but was able to drive out to the one in Daly City, take care of business and be back home before I'd even get any help at the San Francisco one. She told me to keep it a secret... Oops...

Comment Re:Article comments are good too (Score 1, Insightful) 181

Notice also that he has only ONE friend (which is the default friend for SkillWho, which basically means NO friends, no recommendations, and no friends on his meetup page. He has no references, and I'm sure what he refers to as his education is complete BS as well. In this business, reputation is VERY important, and he had none, and now he'll be lucky if anyone will hire his dishonest dumb ass anywhere... I don't know why anyone would have hired him in the first place. Piece of shit got what was coming to him...
The Media

Submission + - Phony Wikipedia Entry Used by Worldwide Press

Hugh Pickens writes: "A quote attributed to French composer Maurice Jarre was posted on wikipedia shortly after his death in March and later appeared in obituaries in mainstream media published in the Guardian, the London Independent, on the BBC Music Magazine website and in Indian and Australian newspapers. "One could say my life itself has been one long soundtrack. Music was my life, music brought me to life, and music is how I will be remembered long after I leave this life. When I die there will be a final waltz playing in my head, that only I can hear," Jarre was quoted as saying. However, these words were not uttered by the Oscar-winning composer but written by Shane Fitzgerald, a final-year undergraduate student studying sociology and economics at University College Dublin, who said he wanted to show how journalists use the internet as a primary source for their stories. Fitzgerald posted the quote on Wikipedia late at night after news of Jarre's death broke. "I saw it on breaking news and thought if I was going to do something I should do it quickly. I knew journalists wouldn't be looking at it until the morning," The quote had no referenced sources and was therefore taken down by moderators of Wikipedia within minutes. However, Fitzgerald put it back up a few more times until it was finally left up on the site for more than 24 hours. While he was wary about the ethical implications of using someone's death as a social experiment, he had carefully generated the quote so as not to distort or taint Jarre's life, he said. "I didn't expect it to go that far. I expected it to be in blogs and sites, but on mainstream quality papers? I was very surprised.""
The Courts

Submission + - Girl sues ASUS for using fake CPU in her laptop (techarp.com)

crazyeyes writes: "David, in the form of a young Chinese girl , has finally slung a stone at the giant Goliath we know as ASUS. She sued the computer company for a cool 5 million US dollars after ASUS was caught using an Intel engineering sample processor in her laptop. The engineering sample is a free, uncertified processor Intel gives to companies like ASUS for test purposes. Intel maintains they must not be sold as they are not qualified parts and are often broken in some way, but the story claims that Intel is fully aware and even supports the misuse of those samples.

Coming at the back of reports of fake boxed Intel CPUs , that's pretty believable. The Chinese are obviously comfortable about counterfeiting everything from milk powder to eggs. What's a processor to them? Whether Intel actually supports their activities is something for all Slashdotters to ponder..."

Biotech

Submission + - SPAM: Is the FDA killing stem cell research?

destinyland writes: ""The FDA contends that if one cultures stem cells at all...then it's a prescription drug," says a Colorado medical advocate, arguing that revolutionary new treatments could be delayed by 20 years — even using cells extracted from your own body. According to the FDA, even therapies that simply re-inject your body's adult stem cells could be prohibited without five years of clinical trials and millions of dollars of research. How useful are cultured stem cells? "In animal models, they routinely cure diabetes.""
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Comment Re:Charging for the 'hidden' messages (Score 0) 268

You can actually witness this in action with Agnitum Outpost Security Suite (which has one of the best rated firewalls for Windows), as it detects and logs all these incidences. Suprisingly, it only happens when using Bit Torrent, and oddly enough, even after you've shut your Bit Torrent client off, for many hours (sometimes even more than a day) Outpost will continue to report and block what it calls an "RST Attack" ... This is what I have noticed on my Comcast connection. Sometimes transfers will be going at a decent speed, and then after a while, it slows tremendously, and at the same time Outpost starts churning out "RST Attack blocked" every 10-15 seconds.

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