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Comment Re:Thin end of the wedge (Score 4, Interesting) 602

by Trintech (#33442976) Attached to: Newspapers Cut Wikileaks Out of Shield Law
While this is certainly true, that list is more a matter of meeting the broad definition of religion and being non-profit rather than having to meet a focused set of criteria. For instance, there are many secular institutions on that list of 'approved churches'. This is only possible because there isn't a focused criteria of things like: must worship a god(s), must hold a worship service, etc that one must meet. If, to be a journalist, one only had to meet the definition of journalism (ie. the act of reporting news) then these two cases would be the same.

Comment Re:Control Group? (Score 4, Informative) 122

by Trintech (#33439256) Attached to: Old People Enjoy Reading Negative Stories About Young
As I pointed out in another post later on, the physorg writeup of this story was much more thorough.

From the physorg article:

This study came about because a previous study by the same researchers, using this same data, had produced unexpected results, Knobloch-Westerwick said. The original study had hypothesized that people prefer media messages that portray people like themselves - people of the same age and the same gender, in this case. Overall, the original study found that was indeed true. However, the researchers were puzzled by the fact that older people in that first study seemed as equally interested in stories about younger people as they were in stories about older people like themselves.

This is what makes the study interesting and why it can't be chalked up to 'I don't like people who disagree with me'. Its too bad the summery failed to mention this.

Comment Re:I'm tired of this... (Score 2, Insightful) 412

by Trintech (#33378020) Attached to: Teacher Asks Students To Plan a Terrorist Attack

Think like the enemy is a good way to empathize. The enemy is made of people, just like us, and just like us they have their issues and problems that drive them to terrorism.

Thank you for bringing this up. Often, if you are able to actually empathize with the enemy, you realize that they are just a symptom of a bigger problem. As of late, our society has spent far too much time trying to treat symptoms (Root out and kill all terrorists) instead of tackling the real underlying problems (why they hate us in the first place).
Apple

Submission + - NAB, RIAA seek mandate FM radio in mobile devices (arstechnica.com) 1

Submitted by Trintech
Trintech writes:

Music labels and radio broadcasters can't agree on much, including whether radio should be forced to turn over hundreds of millions of dollars a year to pay for the music it plays. But the two sides can agree on this: Congress should mandate that FM radio receivers be built into cell phones, PDAs, and other portable electronics. The Consumer Electronics Association, whose members build the devices that would be affected by such a directive, is incandescent with rage. "The backroom scheme of the [National Association of Broadcasters] and RIAA to have Congress mandate broadcast radios in portable devices, including mobile phones, is the height of absurdity," thundered CEA president Gary Shapiro. Such a move is "not in our national interest." "Rather than adapt to the digital marketplace, NAB and RIAA act like buggy-whip industries that refuse to innovate and seek to impose penalties on those that do." But the music and radio industries say it's a consumer-focused proposition, one that would provide "more music choices."

Submission + - Industrial Marijuana Farming Approved in Oakland (msn.com) 1

Submitted by Trintech
Trintech writes:

The city of Oakland, California on Tuesday legalized large-scale marijuana cultivation for medical use and will issue up to four permits for "industrial" cultivation starting next year. The move by the San Francisco Bay Area city aims to bring medical marijuana cultivation into the open and allow the city to profit by taxing those who grow it. The resolution passed the city council easily after a nearly four-hour debate that pitted small-scale "garden" growers against advocates of a bigger, industrial system that would become a "Silicon Valley" of pot.

and yes, you read that right. MSNBC just compared computer chip fabrication to pot cultivation. The High Times has also written about this as well

Comment Better Summary (Score 2, Informative) 3

by Trintech (#32248244) Attached to: The Pirate Bay Forced Offline
Just in case kdawson posts this.

The Pirate Bay's website is currently suffering an outage due to a court injunction against its German infrastructure providers. The lawsuit was filed by a number of major Hollywood studios over the copyright infringement of several new blockbusters, notably Alice In Wonderland and The Bounty Hunter. Torrentfreak is reporting that site admins are already working on getting it up and moving again and hope to have it back up within a few hours.

Submission + - Lab-on-a-Chip Can Carry out Complex Analyses Quick (sciencedaily.com)

Submitted by Trintech
Trintech writes: Two years ago we read about a team of BYU engineers and chemists that created an inexpensive silicon microchip to reliably detects viruses, even at low concentrations. Now it seems a new Lab-On-A-Chip system, developed by Fraunhofer research scientists, can carry out complex analyses on the spot and will soon be ready for the market. The core element of this new chip is a disposable cartridge made of plastic which can be fitted with various types of sensors. To perform an assay, the doctor only has to place the relevant substances (reagents, etc) into the cartridge and the test then takes place automatically. It is the researcher's hope that, by using this chip, medical patients will be able to get their lab results in a matter of minutes instead of days.
Games

Submission + - Geohot brings other OS support to PS3 with custom (engadget.com)

Submitted by suraj.sun
suraj.sun writes: Geohot brings back other OS support to PS3 with custom firmware 3.21OO :

Well, Geohot promised a workaround for Sony's removal of the "install other OS" feature in PS3 firmware 3.21 and now Geohot has delivered. While it's not available to the public just yet, Geohot's 3.21OO custom firmware will apparently be simple to install and, as you can see in the video after the break, it works just as you'd expect and simply restores the "other OS" option to its previous place. Geohot even says that the custom firmware might actually enable the other OS feature on the PS3 Slim, but he hasn't yet had a chance to try it out.

Engadget : http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/07/geohot-brings-back-other-os-support-with-ps3-3-21oo-custom-firmw/

Youtube : PS3 3.21 with OtherOS : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-9wLWQ4-uA

Comment Re:Many things are hurting the PSP... (Score 1) 272

by Trintech (#27683627) Attached to: Piracy and the PSP

Third, the pirates offered a better product. Games load quickly off memory stick, and save battery life as well. And heck, you can dump your games yourself easily nowadays (insert UMD into PSP, enable USB on the UMD drive, and a little .iso file is ready for you to copy off - you don't see the contents of the disk, just the ISO file).

To be fair, I think Sony does understand this point because they are releasing Patapon 2 only for download from the online store and the PSP2 is rumored not to have a UMD drive.

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