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First Halophile Potatoes Harvested 117

Posted by timothy from the integrated-dill-is-the-next-step dept.
Razgorov Prikazka writes "A Dutch-based company from Groningen is trying to create a potato race that is able to survive in a saline environment. The first test-batch was just harvested (English translation of Dutch original) on the island Texel and seem to be in good shape. The company states that rising sea-levels will create a demand for halophile crops. I do wonder if one still has to put salt on ones potatoes when they are grown in salt water."
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Apple Plans $1 Billion iDataCenter 260

Posted by kdawson from the swimming-with-the-big-fish dept.
1sockchuck writes "Apple is planning a major East Coast data center to boost the capacity of its online operations, and may invest more than $1 billion in building and operating the huge server farm. That's nearly twice what Google and Microsoft typically invest in their massive cloud computing centers. The scope of the project raises interesting questions about Apple's plans, and has politicians in North Carolina jumping through hoops to pass incentives to win the project. The proposed NC incentives build on a package for Google that later proved controversial."
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South Carolina Seeking To Outlaw Profanity 849

Posted by samzenpus from the f@#k-those-f@#king-f@#kers dept.
MBGMorden writes "It looks like in an act that defies common sense, a bill has been introduced in the South Carolina State Senate that seeks to outlaw the use of profanity. According to the bill it would become a felony (punishable by a fine up to $5000 or up to 5 years in prison) to 'publish orally or in writing, exhibit, or otherwise make available material containing words, language, or actions of a profane, vulgar, lewd, lascivious, or indecent nature.' I'm not sure if 'in writing' could be applied to the internet, but in any event this is scary stuff."

Comment multiple candidates? (Score 1) 409

by rpeppe (#16733925) Attached to: Verifiable Elections Via Cryptography
All the examples and the explanations use a binary choice question for the election. The explanations mentioned the possibility of multiple question ballots, but the possibility of having three or more possible answers for a question wasn't raised (and the classification of ballot papers as either "inverting" or "non-inverting" would seem to make it difficult).

Is this a trivial extension to the protocol, or something that just isn't possible? Multiple party elections aren't that unusual!

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