Comment Re: the contenders (Score 1) 81
âoeMultiple retina monitors that fit in your backpackâ is a killer app.
Comment Per linked article, the domain had not expired (Score 1) 35
> According to the Open Data Córdoba group (which is dedicated to tracking expired Argentine domains) Google's domain had not expired and, in fact, the expiration date was in July. But the group too was unable to explain what had happened or why.
Comment Re: I wish (Score 1) 186
You earn a dollar. You pay tax on the earnings. You buy a medium potato with the remaining 70Â.
You want a big potato. You use your credit card. The bank pays the grocer a dollar and tells you âoeYou owe me a dollar.â
Then the bank develops an allergy to maple and runs away south, shouting âoeNever mind.â
You got $1.70 worth of potatoes for $1.00 work.
US legislators say âoethat makes no sense. You owe tax on the forgiven debt.â
Canada legislators say different.
Comment Re:Well this is odd (Score 1) 46
Do you think you can get a forty-year loan from a bank?
Comment Alexa tie-in (Score 1) 109
"Alexa, add Beyond Burgers to my Whole Foods pickup box. Alexa, add Fabainaise Classic 32 ounce to my Whole Foods pickup box. Alexa, add Field Roast Herb Chao slices to my Whole Foods pickup box. Alexa, schedule my Whole Foods pickup for Saturday morning."
Comment Spam filtering, unlimited aliases, search, rules (Score 3, Informative) 65
My top priorities for email service are quality of spam filtering, support for unlimited aliases, search, and rules. I think labels work better than folders for categorization. I have not found any Amazon documentation which addresses these issues.
Comment I've been on data roaming since last Monday... (Score 1) 610
Consider switching carriers to TMobile, where there are no data overage fees.
Comment RFP: Exercise bands (Score 1) 635
I have a couple of exercise bands at my desk which I use when my hands are free.
More information about desk-friendly exercise bands, please.
Comment Add distance (Score 1) 635
Park your car not at the office park, but in some other office park 15 minutes' walk distant.
Comment Re:how else are you suppused to check the weather? (Score 2) 180
Open your curtains?
Hello curtains, is rain forecast for twelve hours from now?
Comment Re:Innocence? (Score 1) 301
Thanks for this.
Submission + - First Successful Demonstration of CO2 Capture
Anonymous Coward writes: "Global Research Technologies, LLC (GRT), a technology research and development company, and Klaus Lackner from Columbia University have achieved the
successful demonstration of a bold new technology to capture carbon from the air. The "air extraction" prototype has successfully demonstrated that indeed carbon dioxide (CO2) can be captured from the atmosphere. This is GRT's first step toward a commercially viable air capture device."
Submission + - Stem-cell bill pass in Australia
nickd writes: Having recently being passed in the Senate by only 2 votes, the bill has now been passed in the House of Representatives by 82-62. The amendment that was seeking to prevent stem cells being extracted from the eggs of aborted late term female foetuses has also been voted down. The changes will allow scientists to create and use embryos up to 14 days old for research.
Submission + - Yahoo! Shakes Things Up
PreacherTom writes: Growing strife inside Yahoo! has erupted into a sweeping management and organizational shakeup. CEO Terry Semel announced yesterday that the company will be reordered into three groups: one to focus on advertisers and publishers, another to focus on Yahoo!'s base of over 500 million users, and a third on technology and development. While Semel denies layoffs are in the future, there will be replacements in the upper echelon for the world's most popular website. The changes, the most extensive at Yahoo in more than five years, cap months of speculation about how it would respond to slowing sales growth, a slumping stock price, and a steady stream of executive departures in the past year.
Submission + - Even The Blind Get Deja Vu
zentropa writes: "Cosmos magazine is reporting that even the blind experience deja vu — backing the idea that it is caused by misfires in the brain's temporal lobe. They quote a British study where a blind man who feels like he has 'already seen' some unfamiliar situations. "Hearing and touch and smell often seem to intermingle in the déjà vu experiences," said the study subject, whose name has not been made public. "It is almost like photographic memory, without sight obviously ... as if I was encountering a mini-recording in my head, but trying to think 'Where have I come across that before?'.""
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