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Comment Re:No one on Moller yet? (Score 3, Interesting) 90

by Egotistical Rant on Saturday November 15, 2008 @02:06AM (#25768855) Attached to: Pentagon Clears Flying-Car Project For Takeoff

I remember reading about Moller's Skycar in Popular Science when I was a kid...about 30 years ago. It's a pretty well-documented fraud now.

Comment Re:My guess as to how it's done... (Score 5, Informative) 326

by Egotistical Rant on Wednesday November 12, 2008 @07:24PM (#25740465) Attached to: Boot Windows Vista In Four Seconds

This is EXACTLY what it does. The "more images for this article" section at the given link has a flowchart of the process...it's just a reboot and suspend.

A Wikipedia Conspiracy and the Wall Street Meltdown 485

Posted by kdawson on Sunday October 05, 2008 @05:14PM from the controlling-the-public-discourse dept.

PatrickByrne writes "This is The Register's world-class investigative piece concerning one aspect of the meltdown on Wall Street ('naked short selling') and how the criminals engaged a journalist to distort Wikipedia to confuse the discourse. The article explicitly and formally accuses a well-known US financial journalist, Gary Weiss, of lying about his efforts to distort a Wikipedia page under assumed names, and accuses the Powers That Be in Wikipedia (right up to and including Jimbo Wales) of complicity in protecting Weiss. This is not another story about a 15-year-old farm kid in Iowa pretending to be a professor. This is like the worst Chomskian view of Elites manipulating mass opinion. But it is all documented." We discussed the alleged Wikipedia manipulation when The Register first wrote about it last December. The submitter is the CEO of Overstock.com and a major player in this drama from the beginning.

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