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Comment Re:Does this mean...? (Score 1) 181

by araphwael on Wednesday December 01, 2010 @09:30PM (#34413180) Attached to: Nook Color Rooted — Will B&N Embrace the Tablet?

Still, I recognize that purchasing from amazon/bn/whoever is jus supporting the business model of DRM, even if I strip out the DRM later Would be nice to get somebody who didn't use platform lockin techniques, but that's probably unlikely in the near term

The publisher Baen (mostly sci fi and fantasy) has many (most? All?) of their titles available without drm. O'Reilly also sells their books without drm. It is not a hardship to either support ebook publishers for good behaviour or stick to dead tree.

Comment Re:Those key fob things should be universal (Score 1) 233

by araphwael on Thursday November 11, 2010 @02:46PM (#34199820) Attached to: How Often Should You Change Your Password?

I'd be happy if my bank issued me just a paper list of one-time passwords to use with my regular password.

Lies, Damned Lies and Cat Statistics 175

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday August 18, 2010 @05:53PM from the nine-lies dept.

spopepro writes "While un-captioned cats might be of limited interest to the /. community, I found this column on how a fabricated statistic takes on a life of its own interesting. Starting with the Humane Society of the United States' (HSUS) claim that the unsterilized offspring of a cat will '...result in 420,000 cats in 5 years,' the author looks at other erroneous numbers, where they came from and why they won't go away."

Programmable Quantum Computer Created 132

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday November 26, 2009 @11:41AM from the four-out-of-five-ain't-bad dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A team at NIST (the National Institute of Standards and Technology) used berylium ions, lasers and electrodes to develop a quantum system that performed 160 randomly chosen routines. Other quantum systems to date have only been able to perform single, prescribed tasks. Other researchers say the system could be scaled up. 'The researchers ran each program 900 times. On average, the quantum computer operated accurately 79 percent of the time, the team reported in their paper.'"

What If They Turned Off the Internet? 511

Posted by timothy on Saturday October 24, 2009 @08:47PM from the very-funny-now-where-is-slashdot dept.

theodp writes "It's the not-too-distant future. They've turned off the Internet. After the riots have settled down and the withdrawal symptoms have faded, how would you cope? Cracked.com asked readers to Photoshop what life would be like in an Internet-addicted society learning to cope without it. Better hope it never happens, or be prepared for dry-erase message boards, carrier pigeon-powered Twitter, block-long lines to get into adult video shops, door-to-door Rickrolling, Lolcats on Broadway, and $199.99 CDs."

Submission + - BBC and YouTube in Deal Talks

Submitted by Algis on Wednesday February 21, 2007 @09:46AM

Algis writes: The BBC and YouTube are in the process of striking a deal between themselves, allowing BBC content to be available on Google-owned YouTube, the world's largest and most popular video sharing service. The Beeb has previously demanded takedowns of a large number of its videos that were posted to the site by YouTube users, resulting in the message, "This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by The BBC". Quite what the BBC-YouTube deal will entail is anyone's guess. It is highly, highly unlikely to include full-length current BBC shows. What could be possible is the addition to YouTube of much older shows, such as classics like 'The Young Ones' or 'Faulty Towers', in an effort to boost the shows' exposure and increase DVD sales of these shows.

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