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Comment Re:Blah (Score 0) 725

by countach44 (#32768420) Attached to: Unique ID In India Causes 'Fear of the Beast'
Whoops... sorry I misread your reply. My original post said "shooting at" - but the quote had "shouting at" An unfortunate part of the pro-life movement is that as in any cause fueled by activism, people can get excited. Many people don't realize that yelling at people won't make them change their minds. However, I would think that most pro-life people would rather spend their time trying to find ways to get rid of abortion instead of try to silence other people who make them look bad. Whether or not that's a wise strategy, I really don't know. One could argue that getting rid of loud crazies can really help your cause.

Comment Re:Blah (Score 0) 725

by countach44 (#32761342) Attached to: Unique ID In India Causes 'Fear of the Beast'
Only takes a few bad apples to spoil the bunch, huh? Not all Christians I know run around shooting abortion doctors and tell everyone they're going to hell. Actually, none of them do... Also, Re: rights - a lawyer once told me "If you feel like someone is passing a law that's forcing their beliefs on you, that's too bad - because that's what law is." Regardless of what your stance is, he does have a point there. When someone passes a law regulating a business - are they impeding on your right to do business? If someone passes a smoking ban - are they impeding your right to smoke? And if those aren't their rights, are you then forcing your beliefs on them regarding what rights their rights are? Just some food for thought.
Earth

German Airports Use Bees To Monitor Air Quality 44

Posted by samzenpus from the smog-honey dept.
The Düsseldorf International Airport and seven other airports in Germany have come up with a unique way of monitoring air quality; they use bees. The airports test the bees' honey twice a year for toxins, and batches that turn up clean are bottled and given away. From the article: "Assessing environmental health using bees as 'terrestrial bioindicators' is a fairly new undertaking, said Jamie Ellis, assistant professor of entomology at the Honey Bee Research and Extension Laboratory, University of Florida in Gainesville. 'We all believe it can be done, but translating the results into real-world solutions or answers may be a little premature.' Still, similar work with insects to gauge water quality has long been successful."

Comment Sun Ray for classrooms, labs with PCs (Score 0) 411

by countach44 (#26600465) Attached to: Best IT Solution For a Brand-New School?
Sun Rays are a nice, lightweight solution perfect for an in classroom workstation. They do have great performance and I've seen them do some pretty heavy loads. (http://www.sun.com/software/index.jsp?cat=Desktop&subcat=Sun%20Ray%20Clients&tab=3) For more intense applications, maybe a lab with windows PCs would be good. That way you can expose students to both Linux and Windows, as well as applications such as Photoshop, etc...
Movies

Submission + - Google Throws Lead Paint on Movie Download Market 6

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: As promised Google shut down its video store Wednesday — and its DRM made sure all movie files purchased from the store ceased to funtion. This has sparked a firestorm of negative commentary from the Digerati who see it as pure theft. Cory Doctorow called it "...a giant, flaming middle finger, sent by Google and the studios to the customers who were trusting (as in dumb) enough to buy DRM videos". John Dvorak called it "old bait-and-switch tactics" where vendors make promises, but build-in the ability to reneg on those promises if they choose to do so later. Both Dvorak and Doctorow call for the judicial system to step in, but MP3 Newswire says that the abuse to consumer trust will do more damage to the paid download market than anything the courts could inflict. "As a consumer, if you purchase a digital movie file online only to have it unexpectedly repossessed you will probably think twice before ever buying any such download again. If you do consider it again it certainly won't be for the same price as before. Experience made these downloads worth far less to you. So what are feature film downloads that can be revoked at any time worth in the market place? To some Google Video customers the value of a movie download dropped all the way down to zero."
The Internet

Submission + - Travelocity Fined $182K for Allowing Trips to Cuba

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NewYorkCountryLawyer
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes: "For the first time, an online travel agency has been fined for booking trips between the U.S. and Cuba, in violation of a United States embargo. Travelocity paid federal regulators $182,750 this month to settle a complaint brought by the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control, which said the company violated the prohibition nearly 1,500 times between January 1998 and April 2004. The complaint alleged that Travelocity "provided travel-related services in which Cuba or Cuban nationals had an interest by arranging air travel and hotel reservations to, from, with or within Cuba without an OFAC license.""
Security

The Java Popup you Can't Stop 480

Posted by CmdrTaco from the once-you-pop dept.
An anonymous reader writes "In his brand new hackademix.net blog, Giorgio Maone, known as the author of the NoScript security extension for Firefox, reveals how popup blockers can be easily circumvented using Java. Worse, popups opened this way are really evil, because they can be sized to cover the whole desktop (the wet dream of any phisher) and cannot be closed by user (the wet dream of any web advertiser). Impressive demos available, all cross-browser and cross-platform, in the best Java tradition: 'Write once, hack anywhere' "
Hardware Hacking

Submission + - How a Motherboard is Made (extremetech.com)

Submitted by countach44
countach44 writes: Gigabyte Technology, one of the largest motherboard manufacturers in Taiwan, hosted a factory tour at its facility, inviting journalists out to give them a brief overview of the company and explain how their factory worked.

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