Comment problems of scale? (Score 0) 239
"World's Most Relaxing Music"
"Scientists played the song to 40 women"
glad to know we can determine the world's most anything by testing it on
Comment Re:Mediacom... Gulf Coast Region (Score 0) 379
mediacom, georgia, opted out (have been for a while, redirected 404s while browsing wikipedia are annoying), and got a proper 404.
Comment Re:I'm fine with nuclear power. (Score 0) 442
somebody posted this in a previous story, but since ya asked...
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2011/03/the-triumph-of-coal-marketing.html
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2011/03/the-triumph-of-coal-marketing.html
Comment Re:Dependent on the Church (Score 0) 323
No, they do it as a community, at most Eucharists. Episcopal/Anglican confession hasn't been done away with. Just format-shifted.
Comment Re:Buncha keys should go (Score 0) 968
On all the KVMs I've used, this uses a double-tap on the Scroll Lock key. Changing state twice returns it to its initial state. Not that I'm actually disagreeing that it's a fairly useless key, but using it for this purpose doesn't actually affect its functionality.
Star Wars Fans Look For Love In Alderaan Places 88
Hugh Pickens writes "The Christian Science Monitor reports that devoted fans at the recent Star Wars Convention V, many dressed as Jedi knights, stormtroopers, or the indomitable Princess Leia, sat opposite one another for a series of 3-minute speed dates, in hopes of finding a connection with a fellow Star Wars enthusiast. 'Over the course of the three events, due to size and time, we turned away about 600 participants,' says Ryan Glitch. 'Yesterday, this room was packed. We had to keep shoveling people along.' Meanwhile in the main exhibition hall, a chapel was set up to allow fans to profess their love and devotion to each other in the form of commitment ceremonies. 'I've been told that we've had two commitment ceremonies from people that met at my event,' says Glitch adding that he saw eight additional couples at the convention made up of people who had attended his speed dating sessions."
Comment Re:Old news to me (Score 0) 287
How is mid-air refueling a "living pilot no-no"? The military's been doing that for years.
Comment Re:Missing the point. (Score 0) 509
People aren't knocking RFID as a technology. The application's the problem. I wholeheartedly agree that RFID is a wonderful system for managing inventory. I rather strongly disagree that RFID is a good idea for managing people. After all, the story's not about Wal-Mart trucking their goods past DefCon.
Comment Re:I hope she goes to medical school. (Score 0) 582
the CNN article says she's going to nursing school
Comment Re:Al Capone (Score 0) 451
nah, it's what got him into a courtroom.
Comment Re:How to tell when someone is screwing with you.. (Score 0) 181
Then there are the good guys, who sit down, don't reformat the drive, work for two hours installing AVG and Ad-Aware, give an hour of instruction during that, and think it's worth maybe $20 and a Coke from their fridge.
All you good guys out there, start charging more. Honestly. You are not charging for work, you are charging for knowledge.
I do. And they pay it happily once I explain that they're not losing any data. Although I haven't used Ad-Aware in a while, it got too bloated for me to want to use. Plus, their installer was all sorts of messed up the last few times I tried to install it.
Comment oh editors (Score 0) 710
what role WINE will [play|serve|insert_verb_here] in Ubuntu's success
Windows 7 Launch Date Leaked — 23 Oct. 2009 127
Sockatume writes "Yesterday, two Acer executives in Europe separately let slip details that give us a good date for the release of Windows 7. First, Acer's vice-president for Europe discussed a new product, launching this September, that will support Windows 7's touch features. Asked whether this confirmed the Windows 7 release date as September 2009, he coyly remarked that 'when it's in store it won't have Windows 7 pre-loaded.' Microsoft would probably prefer that he had stopped there, but he added: 'We won't be actually selling [Windows 7] a day before the 23rd October.' Then, Acer's Managing Director for the UK helpfully clarified that while their product will ship with Windows Vista at launch, because it is on sale less than 30 days before the Windows 7 release date, it will be eligible for the 'upgrade program' to get a free upgrade to the new OS."
Submission + - T-Mobile, Samsung Phones to Adopt Android OS
nandemoari writes: T-Mobile is planning to use Google's open source operating system "Android" on devices that blur the line between cellphone and home PC. In addition, Samsung says they will also produce Android phones, but need to work out the kinks, first.
Both announcements come shortly after HP revealed that it is investigating the idea of using Android to power some of its low-cost netbook computers in place of Windows.
Submission + - Google's Plan for Out-of-Print Books Is Challenged (nytimes.com)
Death Metal writes: "Now millions of orphan books may get a new legal guardian. Google has been scanning the pages of those books and others as part of its plan to bring a digital library and bookstore, unprecedented in scope, to computer screens across the United States.
But a growing chorus is complaining that a far-reaching settlement of a suit brought against Google by publishers and authors is about to grant the company too much power over orphan works."
But a growing chorus is complaining that a far-reaching settlement of a suit brought against Google by publishers and authors is about to grant the company too much power over orphan works."
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