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Actual Reality writes:
Voters in Beverly Hills to decide whether to elect city's first Iranian-born mayor after marking their votes on bilingual English-Farsi ballots. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,257322,00.html
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icepick72 writes:
Canadian B.C. businessman Gordon Keast is suing Telus, a North American phone carrier, after the company refused to let him out of a three-year cellphone contract because he objects to Telus offering what he says is a pornography service.
Meanwhile a priest in Vancouver is urging Catholics to boycott Telus because of the adult content.
Telus is the first North American provider to directly offer such a service. While the priest is directing others regarding this issue, the businessman just wants out — should he be allowed to break his contract?
(Cue jokes: A Canadian businessman, a Telus representative and a priest go fishing ...)
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castironwok writes
"Finally, everything you've ever wanted to know about being an employee at Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo. Tastyresearch describes his (or her) past few years interning and working at the three companies. Things I didn't know from before: Bill Gates wears old shoes, Google's internal security watches you like a hawk, the office styles of each company, and how to fill your suitcase with Google T-shirts. He calls the few select companies the 'prestigious internship circle', noting 'once you have worked at one, it's a lot easier to get into another'."
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santakrooz writes:
Delphi's always been known as a solid database application development platform, it just had it's 12th birthday on Valentines day, and now the Delphi guys are coming up with a completely new database architecture. The interesting thing is that it's backward compatible, insanely extensible, single sourced between .NET and Wintel native code, and... and written completely in Delphi. Ok I know Delphi's written in Delphi and there are "wow" apps out there written in Delphi like Skype that Delphi guys always like to mention, there was a loosely supported Linux version, so my question is, what can't you do in Delphi? Or a better question is... what have Slashdot readers written in Delphi?
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ectotherm writes:
The man who invented the TV remote, helping to hasten the "couch potato" phenomenon, has died. Check out the details at http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2007Feb17/0,4670,Obit Adler,00.html