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Comment Re:Because this totally (Score 0) 237

Indeed this is true, and mostly the reason I do not use facebook. There is not really a way to browse people of like interests, just connections of/and friends... why the hell would I want to talk to people online i already know? So they can spam me with .gifs and farmville....????

The point: You can only connect with people you accept to a list. If you feel the need to press that said button, someone else probably thinks that about you.

Comment Re:Who has more clout these days? (Score 0) 508

wow man do you really not live in the 80's? Obama's next agenda is finical reform.... and as for NASA, damned right let the private sector fund and R&D the tech, then the gov't takes/improves it with cash. I do say we need a manned 'shuttle' for routine in-orbit missions, but a craft of better design an saftey so a launch will not be a big deal, as if it were already, and we can fix the hubble and go to the ISS. and as for you sir, politics is politics, and we dont talk politics or religion here.....

Comment Re:Agreed (Score 1, Informative) 391

it sure does, if you have an 8xxx+ card and flash 10.1 beta... i have a 7600gt agp, 195.x nvidia beta drivers, and the vdpau libs installed, for some reason i can now play youtubeHD without stutter and the flashplayer load is very much spread even over my four cores.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/adobe_flashplayer_plus_nvidia.html

Comment Re:Suicide? (Score 0) 1343

That was my first thought, when read that it was a stepchild. What if this child was abused and unwanted by the new family? It reads like a plot from CSI/law&order, but when i first read the summary I thought, "those clever bastards...." Good Luck to anyone trying to prove this to not be an act of stupidity.

Comment Re:Oh, great; there's MORE of these wackos? (Score 0) 409

I enjoy this effect of them tip-toeing around us, makes for some rather interesting situations. I've been doing personal social experiments since as long as I can remember, just simple things to see what reaction I could arouse. But I've got to say from being picked on as a child to being feared for my IQ in adult life, this is a hell of a lot more fun!

Submission + - LHC physicist arrested on terrorism charges

ErichTheWebGuy writes: A nuclear physicist working on the "large collider" experiment to simulate the Big Bang has been arrested in France on suspicion of advising al-Qa'ida on possible terrorist targets.

The 32-year-old French scientist, of Algerian origin, is being held with his younger brother after being trailed, and bugged, by French anti-terrorist police for more than a year.

A judicial source told the newspaper Le Figaro: "This is very high level." The French Interior Minister, Brice Hortefeux, said that the investigation "may perhaps show that we have prevented the worst".

The scientist, who was not immediately named, was arrested alongside his brother near Lyons on Thursday on suspicion of having contacts with al-Qa'ida in the Islamic Maghreb, or Aqim. He was said to have been suspected of giving advice on possible nuclear targets within France.
Software

Submission + - Software to diagnose faulty computer hardware? 1

Etylowy writes: Over the years I have repaired my own, family and friends PCs many, many times. While in most cases it turned out to be restoring system after malware/user/windows made a mess or simple cases of "follow the smell of smoke and molten plastic", there were some nasty ones where computer mostly works. By mostly I mean: you can boot it up, it might even work for a while but will crash way too often to blame it all on Microsoft — what do you do then? Once you strip it off any extra hardware (which with todays motherboards with pretty much everything integrated might not be an option) you are left with CPU, motherboard, graphics card, RAM and HDD. You can test HDD, you can run memtest86+ to check RAM, but how do you go about testing CPU, motherboard and graphics card trio to find which is to blame? Replacing it one by one isn't really an option. Do you know any software that would help the way memtest helps with RAM?
Software

Submission + - Adobe's iPhone Hail Mary (infoworld.com)

snydeq writes: "Fatal Exception's Neil McAllister questions whether the move to port Flash to the iPhone isn't a last-ditch effort on Adobe's part to remain relevant in the quickly evolving smartphone market. By allowing developers to compile existing Flash apps into native binaries, Adobe believes it has found a way around Apple's requirements that no non-Apple API interpreted code may be downloaded and used in an app, a clause that has also prevented Sun from porting JVM to the iPhone. The resulting apps will be completely stand-alone, with no runtimes and no Flash Player required — if Apple lets Adobe get away with it, no small feat given the how protective Apple has been about its app market. But as much as Apple has at stake here, Adobe may actually have more, McAllister writes. 'Already the idea of using Web languages and tools to build smartphone applications is taking hold. Palm has built an entire smartphone platform around the idea. Apple supports the use of Web technologies like AJAX to build applications based on the iPhone's Safari browser. And developers will soon even be able to build Web-based applications for BlackBerry handsets, thanks to a new SDK from Research in Motion. As late to the game as it is, what Adobe needs now is to convince developers that Flash is better than the other options — and that could be a tough sell.'"
Windows

Submission + - Inside the Windows 7 Launch Party Pack (pcpro.co.uk)

Barence writes: PC Pro has got its hands on one of Microsoft's Windows 7 launch party packs — yes, the one from *that* video — and can reveal all of the party goodness contained within. Brace yourselves for disappointment. Amazingly, the one bit you might actually want — the copy of Windows 7 Ultimate with the authentic not-quite-hand-signed Ballmer scrawl — is already appearing on eBay for less than the price of an unsigned edition. That's got to hurt.

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