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Submission + - Leanord Nimoy turns 80! (startrek.com)

ZosX writes: "Leanord Nimoy, who we all will fondly remember as Spock has turned 80 today! StarTrek.com has posted a 3 part interview with Nimoy here, here, and here.

Thanks for the memories Mr. Nimoy! May you live long and prosper!"

Privacy

Submission + - It’s Tracking Your Every Move and You May No (nytimes.com)

frnic writes: "German Telcom is tracking it's customers locations and saving the information: "In a six-month period — from Aug 31, 2009, to Feb. 28, 2010, Deutsche Telekom had recorded and saved his [German Green party politician, Malte Spitz,] longitude and latitude coordinates more than 35,000 times.""

Comment Re:Random today, but still random tomorrow? (Score 2, Informative) 395

What bothers me, is the quote:

At the end of the metastable state, the contents of the memory are purely random. The researchers' experiments with an array of flip-flop units show that for small arrays the extra layer makes the random number almost twenty times more 'random' than conventional methods

If it's "purely" random (as they put it), then how can you measure the difference between it and a "conventional" method? Wouldn't comparing a pseudo random source to "true" randomness be like comparing a finite number to infinity? In that you "know" it's more random, but it's impossible to quantify with a finite value (the twenty times qualifier)?

The Courts

Submission + - Racist Remarks Cost Imus CBS Radio Job

OhNo writes: Don Imus' racist remarks got him fired by CBS on Thursday, the finale to a stunning fall for one of the nation's most prominent broadcasters. Imus was initially suspended for two weeks after he called the Rutgers women's basketball team "nappy-headed hos" on the air last week. But outrage kept growing and advertisers kept bolting from his CBS radio show and its MSNBC simulcast, which was canceled Wednesday.

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