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Venezuela's Last Opposition TV Owner Arrested 433

Posted by timothy on Thursday March 25, 2010 @07:30PM from the or-in-this-case-on-air dept.

WrongSizeGlass writes "AP is reporting the owner of Venezuela's only remaining TV channel that takes a critical line against President Hugo Chavez was arrested Thursday. 'Guillermo Zuloaga, owner of Globovision, was arrested on a warrant for remarks that were deemed "offensive" to the president,' Attorney General Luisa Ortega said. This comes on the heels of last week's story titled Venezuela's Chavez To Limit Internet Freedom."

Microsoft Docs Indicate Future Xbox 360 Support For USB Storage 130

Posted by Soulskill on Friday March 19, 2010 @06:26AM from the good-thing-you-didn't-shell-for-the-big-hdd dept.

Internal Microsoft documents obtained by Joystiq indicate that its Xbox 360 console will gain support for USB storage devices some time this Spring. "According to the document, the USB mass storage device must be at least 1GB and the system will do a compatibility check. 'The system partition occupies 512 MB of space, and by default the consumer partition occupies the remainder of the device capacity, or 16 GB, whichever is smaller.' Upon inserting a blank USB storage device, 'consumers are offered two choices: "Configure now" or "Customize."' The 'Configure now' option will use 'the entire device capacity, up to the maximum of 512 MB plus 16 GB,' meaning, regardless of the overall size of the device you're using, the Xbox will only enable 16 GB of usable, non-system storage. The 'Customize' option will allow you to 'preserve some pre-existing, non-console data on the device' such as music." There have also been rumors of a new, smaller form factor for the 360, and hacker Ben Heck has given his thoughts on some leaked motherboard pictures.

Comment Re:Hauppauge HD-PVR and Snapstream BeyondTV (Score 1) 536

by Kloro on Thursday December 03, 2009 @06:21PM (#30317572) Attached to: Best PC DVR Software, For Any Platform?

I like BeyondTV for standard Definition TV, but not so much for HD television mapping the QAM channels is a real chore. There are whole threads on the Snapstream forum detailing these issues, but Snapsteam has announced that development for the BeyondTV product is pretty much dead (other than the experimental betas.) I also own a TIVO, and the QAM mapping was all done for me, I just had to turn off the channels I wasn't getting. The other thing about TIVO is that you can use a cable card with it, which, from reading the Snapstream forums, hasn't been done with BeyondTV.

Comment Ericsson did this (Score 1) 88

by Kloro on Thursday February 07, 2008 @06:56PM (#22341870) Attached to: Modu Unveils Modular, Transformer-style Phone

Ericsson did this with their line of phones in the early 2000's. You could snap on an MP3 player, keyboard, and FM radio, or a bluetooth chip. Now however, except for the keyboard and in some models, the FM radio, everything has been integrated into the phone.

Monkeys and Cognitive Dissonance 229

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday November 07, 2007 @11:00PM from the when-you're-right-you're-right dept.

Hugh Pickens writes "People deal with cognitive dissonance — the clashing of conflicting thoughts — by eliminating one of the thoughts. Psychologists have suggested we hone our skills of rationalization in order to impress others, reaffirm our "moral integrity" and protect our "self-concept" and feeling of "global self-worth." Now experimenters at Yale have demonstrated that other primates employ the same psychological mechanism. In one experiment, a monkey was observed to show an equal preference for three colors of M&M's and was given a choice between two of them. If he chose red over blue, his preference changed and he downgraded blue. When he was subsequently given a choice between blue and green, it was no longer an even contest — he was now much more likely to reject the blue. Rationalization is thought to have an evolutionary utility; once a decision has been made, second-guessing may just interfere with more important business. "We tend to think people have an explicit agenda to rewrite history to make themselves look right, but that's an outsider's perspective. This experiment shows that there isn't always much conscious thought going on," said one researcher."

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