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Comment A nice comfort (Score 1) 256

I have this at my University. If you so choose to provide your telephone number to the online database, you will receive a text. This is helpful is helpful during tornado warnings or other emergency situations. It is not often used, but it is comforting to know that if something were to occur at a time that I didn't have computer or television access, I would receive the alert immediately.

Comment Banning Facebook is not going to solve the problem (Score 1) 2

If a couple is having relationship problems due to communication via Facebook, banning them from the site is not going to solve the problem. Perhaps Reverand Miller should focus his counseling sessions on the deeper problems of trust and honesty in these relationships, rather than trying to block Facebook from the church. What's next, banning Internet completely to shield the relationship from emails or other social networking sites? There is not escaping these things. Sure, it may cause strain on relationships, but it is an unavoidable part of life.
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Is the Number Up For the Residential Phone Book? 360

Hugh Pickens writes "The first phone directory was issued in 1878, two years after Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone and for decades regulators across the US have required phone companies to distribute directories in paper form. But now the Washington Post reports that Verizon, the largest provider of landline phones in the Washington DC region, is asking state regulators for permission to stop delivering the residential white pages in Virginia and Maryland. About a dozen other states are also doing away with printed phone books as surveys show that the number of households relying on residential white pages dropped from 25 percent in 2005 to 11 percent in 2008. The directories will be available online, printed or on CD-ROM upon request but the inches-thick white pages, a fixture in American households for more than a century, will no longer land on porches with a thud each year. 'I'm kind of amazed they lasted as long as they have,' says Robert Thompson, a professor of popular culture at Syracuse University. 'But there are some people nostalgic about this. Some people like to go to the shelf and look up a number.'"
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The World's Smallest Legible Font 280

hasanabbas1987 writes "From the article: 'Well 'technically' they aren't the smallest fonts in the world as if they were you wouldn't be able to read even a single letter, but, you should be able to read the entire paragraph in the picture given above... we did. A Computer science professor called Ken Perlin designed these tiny fonts and you can fit 500 reasonable words in a resolution of 320 x 240 space. There are at the moment the smallest legible fonts in the world.'"

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