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Comment Re:Not as simple as teaching how to ... (Score 2) 328

by afairch (#48395819) Attached to: Former Police Officer Indicted For Teaching How To Pass a Polygraph Test

If that is the way you feel, by all means lobby your congressperson or start a petition to have the laws defining a criminal conspiracy overturned or changed - that is your right, but the simple fact is that, despite your feelings, these laws exist now. Therefore if a person runs afoul of them at this point in history, they have committed a crime.

Comment Re:All the collector's value of an AOL CD (Score 1) 46

I used to have a collection of install media for Red Hat dating back all the way to 3.0.3, and Debian dating back to at least 1.3. In addition, I used all of those free floppies that AOL used to mail out to install Debian, Slackware, and various BSDs - nothing like the fun of downloading 1.44 MB files over a dial-up connection, dumping them off to a disk with dd, and doing it all over again when, inevitably, one of them was corrupted. Eventually I got tired of them collecting dust and taking up space, so I just dumped them all.
Science

Sweet, Sour, Salty, Bitter, Protein ... and Now Fat 210

Posted by timothy from the visit-the-chiba-clinic-for-an-upgrade dept.
ral writes "The human tongue can taste more than sweet, sour, salty, bitter and protein. Researchers have added fat to that list. Dr. Russell Keast, an exercise and nutrition sciences professor at Deakin University in Melbourne, told Slashfood, 'This makes logical sense. We have sweet to identify carbohydrate/sugars, and umami to identify protein/amino acids, so we could expect a taste to identify the other macronutrient: fat.' In the Deakin study, which appears in the latest issue of the British Journal of Nutrition, Dr. Keast and his team gave a group of 33 people fatty acids found in common foods, mixed in with nonfat milk to disguise the telltale fat texture. All 33 could detect the fatty acids to at least a small degree."
Bug

Calendar Bug Disables Older PlayStation 3 Models 342

Posted by Soulskill from the probably-just-ubisoft-drm-kicking-in dept.
JohnWilliams writes "The Sony PlayStation Network appears to be inaccessible to older ('phat') PS3 units. Players cannot play games that require a connection, even in single-player, offline mode, e.g. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Also, the system date resets to January 1, 2000. Sony is 'looking into it.' Speculation abounds that it is a bug related to 2010 being incorrectly flagged as a leap year. The newer PS3 Slim models seem to be working properly."
Earth

Technology Scans Giant Fish Schools 31

Posted by timothy from the for-great-harvests dept.
rhettb writes "Employing a new technology, MIT engineers have studied the origins of a mass gathering of hundreds of millions of fish and their subsequent migration. This is the first time a mass migration of animals has been studied from beginning to end, according to their paper published in Science. Until now biologists have depended on theory rather than data from the field, employing computer simulations and experiments in the lab. The MIT engineers employed a new technology, Ocean Acoustic Waveguide Remote Sensing (OAWRS), to record the mass migrations in detail. Developed by Makris and his team in 2006, the OAWRS is able to take images of an area 62 miles (100 kilometers) in diameter every 75 seconds. The system relies on sending sound waves that locate objects by bouncing off of them."

Comment Re:With RedHat. (Score 1) 192

by afairch (#26974903) Attached to: Red Hat Returns To the Linux Desktop

[Alt] + Left mouse button anywhere on the window will allow you to move it so the buttons will be visible.

From a command line, 'cat /proc/cpuinfo' will give you processor information, including speed, alternatively you could issue the command 'dmesg' and find the information there. 'cat /proc/meminfo' will give you memory information, you can also get this from using 'top' (also from a terminal window)

You can get the hard drive information from 'dmesg' as well. The 'gparted' program suggested earlier is probably a better idea, so if you don't have that installed, try 'sudo apt-get install gparted', or the add/remove programs application.
Communications

Obama Staffers Followed Palin's Email Lead On Inauguration Day 407

Posted by timothy from the why-mess-with-success dept.
theodp writes "Using Yahoo's free e-mail service to conduct government business was good enough for Sarah Palin. And now the Washington Times reports that Obama staffers turned to Gmail on Inauguration Day to conduct their business. Those wishing to contact members of the incoming Obama administration were instructed to contact staffers at wh.LASTNAME@gmail.com until official White House e-mail addresses became available."

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