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Comment Re:Is anyone surprised? (Score 0) 784

by djrok212 (#27273627) Attached to: Taxpayers Fund AIG Lawsuit Against US
Which banks would you be referring to that are "Well Capitalized"? Also, you do remember that AIG is not a bank, but an insurance company, who insured almost 100% of all of the CDO and a large percentage of the mortgages world wide? It would have made a lot more sense for the US government to FORCE AIG into bankruptcy and to have taken over it's insurance portfolio, but it's too late for that.
Printer

Is Your Printer Ripping You Off? 362

Posted by CowboyNeal from the or-only-its-maker dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Are original inkjet cartridges really worth the high cost? Do third party refill inks do as good a job? This article looks at printers from Epson, HP, Canon and Lexmark, with a combination of original inks and the top selling third-party options, using a whole host of different papers. A panel of printer users judged the output in a blind test — the printer manufacturers may not be happy with the results!"
Privacy

Submission + - Clean slate Internet projects mean end to privacy?

Submitted by srijon
srijon writes: this article by Steve Watson observes that recently discussed clean slate Internet projects pay scant regard to privacy. From the article:

In tandem with broad data retention legislation currently being introduced worldwide, such "clean slate" projects may represent a considerable threat to the freedom of the internet as we know it. EU directives and US proposals for data retention may mean that any normal website or blog would have to fall into line with such new rules and suddenly total web regulation would become a reality.
Though the article lacks any "smoking gun", it provides a good summary of existing efforts to clamp down on the net. Certainly Standford's clean slate white paper is alarming because it pays scant regard to privacy, stating only that the new internet should "support anonymity where prudent, and accountability where necessary."
Businesses

Submission + - Work at home options

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bdc2720
bdc2720 writes: "If you have ever considered working from home but have yet to take that first step work at home options is there to help you. Whether it be something simple like surveys or a more full time opportunity work at home options will help with up to date advice, news and reviews. http://work-at-home-options.blogspot.com/"
Nintendo

Submission + - Nintendo doesn't make games for hardcore gamers

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Anonymous Coward
Anonymous Coward writes: "I know the title of this blog post is a little strange when you consider that Nintendo is notorious in the game industry for having the most loyal and rabid fans that regularly worship at the house of Super Mario and affectionately/annoyingly refer to Nintendo's game designer/producer/muse Shigeru Miyamoto as "Shiggy." Since Nintendo defined the modern game console era, if you consider yourself a hardcore gamer, it's more than likely that you're a Nintendo fanboy (even if you don't want to admit it). http://www.gamecritics.com/node/4242"
Announcements

Easy-to-Make Material Scratches Diamond 213

Posted by CowboyNeal from the mohs-hardness-scale-so-hosed dept.
holy_calamity writes "A material tough enough to scratch diamond that can be made without resorting to massive pressure has been developed at UCLA. A regular furnace and a zap of current is enough to meld boron with the metal rhenium." Sound familiar? This is the other new material tougher than diamond, but no word yet on how they rate against each other.
It's funny. Laugh.

Submission + - Weird IQ questions

Submitted by
surinp3
surinp3 writes: "Even though we think a color is red, is it actually the same "red" to somebody else?
What is the average temperature on earth?
How many people has died during the earths existance?
Will all people have black hair and brown eyes in 1000 years?
How heavy is the moon?
What would happen if Microsoft decided to go "crazy professor" on us?
How quick are radiowaves?

There are so many more questions to be answered...

Please help us."
Movies

Digital Media Archiving Challenges Hollywood 155

Posted by CowboyNeal from the taping-over-m*a*s*h-reruns dept.
HarryCaul writes "Movies are moving to digital, but what about long-term archiving of the master source materials? Turns out it's harder for digital media than for contemporary analog. Data is being lost, and studios have to learn to cope. Phil Feiner of the AMPAS sci-tech division says when he worked on studio feature films he 'found missing frames or corrupted data on 40% of the data tapes that came in from digital intermediate houses' How to deal with it? Regular migration from old media to new media. Grover Crisp, says Sony has put in a program of migrating every two to three years. Other studios are following suit, but what about indie features? Will we lose films like we lost the originals of the 20s?"
Announcements

Submission + - Free servers for open-source projects

Submitted by
Jasper
Jasper writes: "DirectScale is giving away 10 perpetually free leases of virtual dedicated servers to open-source projects with a legitimate need for servers (e.g. for build farms). The virtual dedicated servers are equivalent to single-core x86 systems with 1.75 GB of RAM, 160 GB of local disk and 250 Mbit/s of network bandwidth, and are hosted on high-performance clusters in Amazon's datacentre. Get your proposals in now to the email address on the website!"
Communications

Submission + - RIM's failure to communicate ... or get it

Submitted by
netbuzz
netbuzz writes: "(Dear Slashdot editors: Please note that there's an update to this item that's pending from yesterday. First half is new.)

RIM's failure to communicate, or get it

Whether company executives acknowledge their sins of omission or not, this week's black eye for BlackBerry maker RIM didn't need to be so painful. Co-CEO Jim Balsillie says the outage was "self-evident" and required no further communication. His customers disagree.

http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/1435 2

As for what might have helped? A running corporate blog on the company's public-facing Web site would not only have helped customers — especially IT administrators — cope better with the outage, it would have spared RIM a good deal of bad publicity that was generated by its failure to communicate.

http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/1430 8"
AMD

The Gigahertz Race is Back On 217

Posted by Zonk from the start-yer-engines-of-commerce dept.
An anonymous reader writes "When CPU manufacturers ran up against the power wall in their designs, they announced that 'the Gigahertz race is over; future products will run at slower clock speeds and gain performance through the use of multiple cores and other techniques that won't improve single-threaded application performance.' Well, it seems that the gigahertz race is back on — a CNET story talks about how AMD has boosted the speed of their new Opterons to 3GHz. Of course, the new chips also consume better than 20% more power than their last batch. 'The 2222 SE, for dual-processor systems, costs $873 in quantities of 1,000, according to the Web site, and the 8222 SE, for systems with four or eight processors costs $2,149 for quantities of 1,000. For comparison, the 2.8GHz 2220 SE and 8220 SE cost $698 and $1,514 in that quantity. AMD spokesman Phil Hughes confirmed that the company has begun shipping the new chips. The company will officially launch the products Monday, he said.'"
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The Rules of Slashdot

1) You can't talk about the rules of Slashdot.

2) Never read the article before commenting on it.

3) Anything proprietary is bad. Anything open-source/free-software is good.

4) Information wants to be free. So IP theft is OK and encouraged.

5) All patents are BAD and should be abolished.

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