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Blogger.com Banned In Turkey 262

Posted by timothy on Sunday October 26, 2008 @06:10AM from the no-longer-young-turks dept.

petermp writes "A Turkish court has blocked access to the popular blog hosting service Blogger (Blogger.com and Blogspot.com, owned by Google), since Friday, October 24th, 2008. According to BasBasBas.com, a Dutch blogger based in Istanbul, who alerted readers about the issue: 'It is suspected that the reason for this has something to do with Adnan Oktar, by some considered the leading Muslim advocate for creationism, who has in the past managed to get Wordpress, Google Groups, as well as Richard Dawkins' website [banned].'"

Comment Re:"extra hardware"? (Score 1) 530

by Dopefish128 on Friday May 16, 2008 @01:48AM (#23429394) Attached to: Microsoft and OLPC Agree To Put XP On the XO Laptop

Maybe the other way around. XP won't install onto removable media without special drivers. It's possible to do but /not/ fun.

Also, there are legal concerns. Apparently the EULA has language to prevent it, but I don't exactly have a copy on me to check.

Star Trek XI - What We Know 341

Posted by Zonk on Thursday October 05, 2006 @06:05PM from the younger-space-babes-beware dept.

Jean Lucy writes "TwitchGuru has an article outlining in detail what is known about Star Trek XI. The film is in the early stages of production, led by J.J. Abrams (creator of Lost), and the movie will most likely be a prequel featuring Kirk and Spock in their younger years. No word of Matt Damon to play Kirk, though..." From the article: "As reported in early September, even former Star Trek actors are saying that CBS has kicked Rick Berman off the Trek bandwagon. This helps to allay the fears of those who say that 'they' will screw up this movie as 'they' have been doing for the past several years. As Anthony Pascale put it to me, however, 'There is no they any more. Everyone who has worked on Star Trek previously, from the top executives at the studio to the guy who sweeps the floor on-set, is gone. There's now a totally different production team running Star Trek. This is what people have been asking for now for years.'"

Athens Breeding "Super Mosquitoes" 458

Posted by Hemos on Wednesday July 05, 2006 @11:15AM from the all-the-better-to-suck-your-blood-with dept.

Chemisor writes "Air pollution and cramped housing conditions in Athens, Greece, are creating a new breed of mosquitoes which are bigger, faster, and can smell humans from farther away. The super insects have color vision and detect humans from 25-30 meters, which is about 50% farther than the ordinary mosquitoe. Beating their wing 500 times a second provides them with extra speed, and the larger bodies (by 0.3ug) presumably allow larger bloodsucking capacity." And in a similar vein (har har) New Scientist had a piece about what mosquitoes like or hate about people.

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