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Comment Re:Enjoy it while it lasts (Score 2, Informative) 192

by Rune69 (#25558907) Attached to: MTV Launches Music Video Site

I heard they had to form a committee to research what exactly music videos are and whether they are relevant to the company's core business.

It's actually worse than that. They paid a consultant $2 million so that he could, after months of research, tell them that their core business should be music television.

And no, I am not joking. I was in the meeting, trying not to piss myself laughing.
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Posted by samzenpus from the the-old-ball-and-chain dept.
Being in a relationship is not easy, more than half of all first marriages fail in this country. That statistic doesn't improve if you spend most of your time reading your favorite website and not tending to the needs of your family. Instead of asking me to help fix your relationship maybe you should try playing with your kids, talking to your wife, and not staring at a computer screen all day. You should realize that the help link doesn't provide help with your life. It's mostly for getting passwords and stuff. Below you'll find a collection of people that should have reached out to Dr. Phil and not Dr. Sam.
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Judge Suppresses Report On Voting Systems 192

Posted by kdawson from the tell-me-but-don't-tell-them dept.
Irvu writes "A New Jersey Superior Court Judge has prohibited the release of an analysis conducted on the Sequoia AVC Advantage voting system. This report arose out of a lawsuit challenging on constitutional grounds the use of these systems. The study was conducted by Andrew Appel on behalf of the plaintiffs, after the judge in the case ordered the company to permit it. That same judge has now withheld it indefinitely from the public record on a verbal order."
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Like we said recently, we (Intel and OSTG) have regrouped and returned. Intel has listened to what you guys asked about, and has put together an excellent roster of engineers and IT experts to respond and discuss the technologies that matter to you -- and them. We're going to be starting things out with a focus on areas of Intel expertise such as Quad Core Performance, Virtualization and Data Center Efficiency. Eve
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Like we said recently, we (Intel and OSTG) have regrouped and returned. Intel has listened to what you guys asked about, and has put together an excellent roster of engineers and IT experts to respond and discuss the technologies that matter to you -- and them. We're going to be starting things out with a focus on areas of Intel expertise such as Quad Core Performance, Virtualization and Data Center Efficiency. Every two weeks we'll have new engineers and IT experts lined up to correspond with the Slashdot community. This is a great way for the Slashdot community and Intel to learn from one another. It's good stuff -- and this Opinion Center will rock.

Thank you -- Slashdot and Intel

Simple Computation Using Dominos 131

Posted by CowboyNeal from the houses-of-cards dept.
An anonymous reader writes "When silicon fails to beat Moores law, maybe dominos can help. This guy has created a half adder in dominos as a proof of concept for domino computation. If he intends to make a full domino computer he's going to need an awful lot of dominos."
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Secure Private Key Storage for UNIX? 95

Posted by Cliff from the kernel-level-key-ring dept.
An anonymous reader asks: "Microsoft Windows, from 2000 forward (except ME) offers secure certificate and private storage at the OS level in what is called a protected store. Offline, it's encrypted by a combination of the user's password and a session key stored on the filesystem. When the OS is running, the private keys stored are available to the logged in user, optionally encrypted with another password. The keys are stored in protected memory, so no applications can access them without going through the Microsoft CAPI calls. This code also is FIPS 140-1 level 1 (the best one can get for software cryptography modules) compliant." Does any other OS provide this kind of feature at the OS-level? If so, who? If not, why?
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Submission + - iPod as flight data recorder

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udamahan writes: "Flight Global reports small aircraft manufacturer LoPresti is introducing a system that uses an iPod as a flight data recorder. The company states that they chose the iPod for its size, low power requirements, and the "thousands of developers passionate about writing applications for the iPod." The article notes that data recorders are typically used for maintenance, flight/safety analysis, or, assuming proper protection, crash investigation."

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