Comment What? (Score 1) 457
He was speeding as a result of a post on an online message board?
Comment For what it's worth (Score 2, Insightful) 791
In 2004 the Dutch laboratory TNO investigated the influence of UMTS and GSM radiation on two groups of people, one with health complaints they ascribed to GSM base stations and one without. The tests were double blind.
For both groups a small, but statistically significant relationship was found between exposure to "UMTS-like" radiation and the sense of wellbeing reported by the subjects.
This result was a disappointment to the Dutch government, that had commissioned this investigation. They had subsequent research done by a Swiss institution which did not confirm the findings.
Anayway, the city of Hoofddorp, where I live, forbids the placement of cellular base station antennas on top of residential buildings. I support this policy; better safe than sorry.
Comment Death to the pond scum! (Score 2, Funny) 139
>poof<
Comment Re:This isn't sensationalist, it's the truth (Score 4, Informative) 543
How can you ripoff something that is freely given to all to use as they see fit as long they follow it's simple terms?
By refusing to follow those terms?
Submission + - Man jailed after using LimeWire for ID theft (idg.com.au)
angry tapir writes: "A Seattle man has been sentenced to more than three years in prison for using the Limewire file-sharing service to lift personal information from computers across the U.S. The man, Frederick Wood, typed words like "tax return" and "account" into the Limewire search box. That allowed him to find and access computers on the Limewire network with shared folders that contained tax returns and bank account information."
Comment Re:So we still have... (Score 3, Funny) 756
I'm sure we'll develop something that can shift us around the universe - even if it's just building a generation-ship, but will it be big enough to take *everyone*?
Then it should be a lot bigger than the previous one.
According to ancient sources, it only had space for one family and one pair of each animal species (or seven pairs for clean beasts and fowl)
See Genesis 7...
Submission + - Undercover cameras catch PC repair scams (pcpro.co.uk)
Barence writes: "With help from readers of PC Pro, Sky News in the UK launched an undercover investigation into rogue PC repair shops. As a result, Sky's cameras caught technicians scouring through private photos, stealing passwords and over-charging for basic repairs. It was a simple enough job: "To create the fault, we simply loosened one of the memory chips so Windows wouldn't load. To get things working again, one needs only push the chip back into the slot and reboot the machine. Any half-way competent engineers should fix it in minutes." But these technicians had other ideas, stealing photos and documents, as well as login details for email and bank accounts. The eye-opening story is currently running on UK TV, and this PC Pro article has the full report."
Submission + - Microsoft backs down over IE8 default setting (pcpro.co.uk)
Barence writes: "Internet Explorer 8 will no longer replace the default browser when a user selects the "Use express settings" option during installation. Back in May, Mozilla and Opera accused Microsoft of force-feeding users Internet Explorer 8 through the Automatic Updates process. The object of their ire was the "Use express settings" option which automatically sets Internet Explorer 8 as the default browser. The option was already ticked when Automatic Updates offered users the choice to upgrade their browser. "We heard a lot of feedback from a lot of different people and groups and decided to make the user choice of the default browser even more explicit," notes Microsoft in a blog post."
World's Biggest Alarm Clock Shakes You Out of Bed 100
tugfoigel writes "Built by "Kevin" for a contest, this computer-controlled alarm clock is touted as the world's largest. To be more specific, he 'mounted a large air cylinder to the head of [his] bed and a valve, controlled by a computer, which [he programmed] to wake [him] up in the morning.'"
Comment Re:Why must Sun (Score 1) 169
...copy Microsoft's mistakes?
Well, they DIDN'T.
The default behaviour of OpenOffice.org with a document containing macros is that the user has to explicitly allow them to run.
