Comment Two: (Score 1) 674
Armenian around town, English in my head.
Comment It's so disappointing. (Score 5, Insightful) 276
I dislike immensely a system that prohibits someone from speaking openly about a nations problems to it's very legislators.
Submission + - Mobile Phones Vs Supercomputers of the past (walkingrandomly.com)
An anonymous reader writes: The recently published Top 500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers is based on the Linpack benchmark developed decades ago by Jack Dongarra. This same test has been ported to Android mobile phones which means that we can compare the performance of our phones against that of the supercomputers of the past. For example, a tweaked Motorola Droid can hit 52 Mflop/s which is more than 15 times faster than the CPUs used in the 1979 Cray-1.
EU To Monitor All Internet Searches 340
Xemu writes "The European Parliament is issuing a written declaration about the need to set up an early warning system to combat sexual child abuse. However, the substance of the declaration is to extend the EU data retention directive to search engines, so that all searches done on for example Google will be monitored. If you are a citizen concerned about the right to privacy and freedom on the Internet, you can help by sending e-mail to the MEPs from your country and explaining the issue to them."
Submission + - Police officers seek right not to be recorded (gizmodo.com) 1
linzeal writes: When the police act as though cameras were the equivalent of guns pointed at them, there is a sense in which they are correct. Cameras have become the most effective weapon that ordinary people have to protect against and to expose police abuse. And the police want it to stop. Judges, juries and legislatures support the police overwhelmingly on this issue with only a few cases where those accused of "shooting" the cops being vindicated through the courts.
Comment Re:Obstruction of justice (Score 1) 597
I am an American living in a former Soviet Bloc country (Armenia). It is obvious that I am not from here to anyone who looks at me, but I have never had an issue with NOT carrying a passport here.
Some places have been down that road and are not eager to return.
Comment That ... (Score 1) 853
poor bastard.
Comment My dream... (Score 1) 1582
I hope to achieve 'The April Fool' before slashdot finally slashdots itself and becomes a blackhole.
Comment Since everyone else seems to know (Score 1) 194
Long tail theory is that selling large numbers of unique items at low levels is profitable.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Long_Tail
Comment Re:Assault (Score 2, Informative) 324
Well, I'm going to guess that since he ran for office he probably votes. From the article:
"Terrill bought his bar four years ago knowing nothing about the restaurant business. He ran unsuccessfully for lieutenant governor of Georgia in 2006. He's had ongoing problems with people breaking into his bar and stealing things, but it was the day care center problems that spurred him on to create the robot."
The robot also seems to have attracted some attention so maybe people in the city will be asking their officials why there aren't more police around these areas...
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