Comment google voice (Score 1) 221
Why don't you just use google voice to transcribe? Google Voice has a feature to transcribe your voice mails, not sure how long each message can be but maybe you can automate it somehow?
Comment WTF? (Score 1) 3
I tried running it and it does not work. Anyone have any ideas?
Comment Re:Wasted argument (Score 1) 572
How many Aunt Millies install Windows?
How many Users install Windows?
Ubuntu Moves To Yahoo For Default Firefox Search 370
An anonymous reader writes "Starting in Ubuntu's Lucid Lynx release, Firefox's default search engine will be switched from Google to Yahoo. The switch was made after Canonical 'negotiated a revenue sharing deal with Yahoo.' Google will still be available as a choice. Since Yahoo search is now powered by Microsoft's Bing, this would seem to mean that Microsoft will be paying people for using Ubuntu."
Comment Re:Why on earth going propietary? Oh, it's Apple.. (Score 1) 332
Get your cables from monoprice.com*, and stop getting them from places
that mark them up 1000%+. not quite $1US cables but certainly cheaper
than $10US.
* I dont work for them, just a very happy customer.
* I dont work for them, just a very happy customer.
Submission + - Green Cement Absorbs Carbon
Peace Corps Online writes: "Concrete accounts for more than 5 percent of human-caused carbon-dioxide emissions annually, mostly because cement, the active ingredient in concrete, is made by baking limestone and clay powders under intense heat that is generally produced by the burning of fossil fuels. Now Scientific American reports that British start-up company Novacem has developed a "carbon-negative" cement that absorbs more carbon dioxide over its life cycle than it emits. The trick is to make cement from magnesium silicates rather than calcium carbonate, or limestone, since this material does not emit CO2 in manufacture and absorbs the greenhouse gas as it ages. "The building and construction industry knows it has got to do radical things to reduce its carbon footprint and cement companies understand there is not a lot they can do without a technology breakthrough," says Novacem Chairman Stuart Evans. Novacem estimates that for every ton of Portland cement replaced by its product, around three-quarters of a ton of CO2 is saved, turning the cement industry into a big emitter to a big absorber of carbon. Major cement makers have been working hard to reduce CO2 emissions by investing in modern kilns and using as little carbon-heavy fuel as possible, but reductions to date have been limited. Novacem has raised $1.7 M to start a pilot plant that should be up and running in northern England in 2011."
Comment Master Cleanse (Score 1) 865
try the master cleanse. its not a diet, rather a detox regimen. helps tremendously with energy levels. just remember the first 4-5 days are the toughest, try to do 10 days every 4-6 months but never more than 30 at a time. oh , quick tip, the salt water wash is nasty but i found that if you boil water then take 2 ounces and mix in the salt til it dissolves. You drink that and follow it with 30 ounces of water, its much easier than drinking 32 ouces of salt water. of course you should let the water cool a bit, lest it burn you. Also, I generally make a gallon at a time, and take some with me in a thermos, since the caps are usually about a cup(8oz)
cheers.
Comment Re:700 pounds -- goodbye safety standards! (Score 1) 319
I don't even want to think about what a mangled twisted pile of bloody mess a 700 pound car would be after it got plowed over by an Explorer. They'd probably have to bury the poor soul in the car, because there would be no way to separate him/her from the mess!
By that logic, all two wheel vehicles should be taken off the road, because dammit we're tired of trying to identify the bodies. Just try prying the bike from the cold dead fingers of riders across the country.
Comment Re:ScuttleMonkey doesn't even read TFS (Score 1) 300
>>> the credco is sometimes on the hook themselves for a lot of money.
The credit card companies are never liable, the company the accepted the charges is, that's what a chargeback is. It is the vendors responsibility to make sure charges are legitimate.
The credit card companies are never liable, the company the accepted the charges is, that's what a chargeback is. It is the vendors responsibility to make sure charges are legitimate.
Submission + - RIAA Complaint Dismissed as "Boilerplate"
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes: "The decision many lawyers had been expecting — that the RIAA's "boilerplate" complaint fails to state a claim for relief under the Copyright Act — has indeed come down, but from an unlikely source. While the legal community has been looking towards a Manhattan case, Elektra v. Barker, for guidance, a case in which amicus briefs had been submitted by various industry groups and the US Department of Justice (see case file, and from Warner v. Cassin, a similar motion in the same Court's Westchester division, the decision instead came from Senior District Court Judge Rudi M. Brewster of the US District Court for the Southern District of California, in a decision denying a default judgment (i.e. the defendant had not even appeared in the action). Judge Brewster not only denied the default judgment motion but dismissed the complaint for failure to state a claim. Echoing the words of Judge Karas at the oral argument in Barker , Judge Brewster held (pdf) that "Plaintiff here must present at least some facts to show the plausibility of their allegations of copyright infringement against the Defendant. However, other than the bare conclusory statement that on "information and belief" Defendant has downloaded, distributed and/or made available for distribution to the public copyrighted works, Plaintiffs have presented no facts that would indicate that this allegation is anything more than speculation. The complaint is simply a boilerplate listing of the elements of copyright infringement without any facts pertaining specifically to the instant Defendant. The Court therefore finds that the complaint fails to sufficiently state a claim upon which relief can be granted and entry of default judgment is not warranted.""
Submission + - $60 Million Computer System Can't Count to 380,370
theodp writes: "For the Chicago Public Schools, the good news was that 380,730 students showed up for the first day of class. The bad news was that a new $60 million computer information system that records attendance wasn't up to the task of counting them, forcing the staff to resort to old-school pen computing per the Disaster Recovery Plan."
Submission + - You can not reverse-engineer our GPL-violations... 6
phorm writes: "If appears that Monsoon Technology, the makers of the Hava media-transmission systems, don't quite understand the GPL. As some users pointed out in their forums, their systems appear to be based on Linux and various GPL'ed software, with the output of "strings" and other tests showing signs of running busybox and others. A monsoon spokesperson on the forum has indicated that they are aware it uses GPL'ed software, and are "working" on making source available, but at the same time are dropping various threats against supposed reverse-engineering of the software by those that determined the GPL violations.
A few snippets from the Monsoon rep include: I have a little secret to let you in on — HAVA runs Linux! Yes, much of the source is GPL and we should publish those sections which we have modified per the terms of GPL. A project is underway to pull this together. A couple of observations — some of you appear to be violating the terms of the End User License Agreement
A few snippets from the Monsoon rep include: I have a little secret to let you in on — HAVA runs Linux! Yes, much of the source is GPL and we should publish those sections which we have modified per the terms of GPL. A project is underway to pull this together. A couple of observations — some of you appear to be violating the terms of the End User License Agreement
You recognize and agree that the HAVA Software including its structure, source code and the design and structure of modules or programs, constitute valuable trade secrets owned by Snappymultimedia or its licensors. You will not copy or use the HAVA Software except as expressly permitted by this EULA and, specifically, you will not
(b) yourself or through any third party modify, reverse engineer, disassemble or decompile the HAVA Software in whole or part, except to the extent expressly permitted by applicable law, and then only after you have notified Snappymultimedia in writing of your intended activities;
Seems to me that some of you have just come out blatantly admitting you are reverse engineering the firmware — or trying to. How should we handle this?
As responses have indicated, the methods used to determine the violation do not seem to constitute reverse-engineering. Moreover, the initial friendliness of the rep is severely marred by the apparent hostility of the later message, as forum members have indicated. The overall message seems to be "we have not lived up to our obligations under the license of the software which we are using, but we'll get to it... sometime. Meanwhile, do not attempt to poke around our code yourself or things will get ugly."
The owners of BusyBox have been notified of this violation, however the response is still troubling. Is this the response we should come to expect as more and more commercial software uses and misuses GPL'ed components?"
Facebook Exposes Advertisers To Hate Speech 806
NewsCloud writes "Does Facebook believe that no publicity is bad publicity? Why else would they leave a group called, "F**k Islam" open since July 21, 2007 despite more than 53,482 members joining an opposing group called petition: if "f**k Islam" is not shut down..we r quitting facebook group? Furthermore, advertisers such as Sprint, Verizon, T Mobile, Target, and Qwest wouldn't be too happy to learn that they are paying for ads on the 'F**k Islam' group pages. Shouldn't a startup like Facebook, reportedly worth more than a billion dollars and with over a hundred employees, be expected to enforce its own Terms of Use in less than six weeks?"
Man Arrested for Refusing to Show Drivers License 1972
NMerriam writes "Michael Righi was arrested in Ohio over the weekend after refusing to show his receipt when leaving Circuit City. When the manger and 'loss prevention' employee physically prevented the vehicle he was a passenger in from leaving the parking lot, he called the police, who arrived, searched his bag and found he hadn't stolen anything. The officer then asked for Michael's driver's license, which he declined to provide since he wasn't operating a motor vehicle. The officer then arrested him, and upon finding out Michael was legally right about not having to provide a license, went ahead and charged him with 'obstructing official business' anyways."
Submission + - The Stamp of Incompetence (heise-security.co.uk)
juct writes: "The electronic stamp service of the German Deutsche Post is a text-book example of how not to implement digital rights management. According to heise Security the PDF keeps you from printing the electronic stamp multiple times by phoning home. Bad luck if your printer had a paper jam the first time you tried to print. Circumventing this "copy protection" is as easy as printing into a file or making a regular photocopy. The copy protection mainly has been implemented to create some kind of barrier — regardless how feeble — to provide a legal basis for the pursuit of fraud analogous to the circumvention provisions of the US DMCA."
