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Journal Journal: Piracy worked for us

Journal by dorianm on Saturday February 17, 2007 @11:07AM

Piracy worked for us, Romanian president tells Gates

Reuters
Thursday, February 1, 2007; 9:45 AM

BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Pirated Microsoft Corp software helped Romania to build a vibrant technology industry, Romanian President Traian Basescu told the company's co-founder Bill Gates on Thursday.

Basescu was meeting the software giant's chairman in Bucharest to celebrate the opening of a Microsoft global technical center in the Romanian capital.

Journal Journal: The co-inventor of the TV remote, Robert Adler, passed away

Journal by mennucc1 on Saturday February 17, 2007 @09:41AM

CNN reports that Robert Adler, who co-invented the device that made the couch potato possible, died Thursday at 93. Adler was a prolific inventor, earning more than 180 U.S. patents. He was best known for his 1956 Zenith Space Command remote control, which helped make TV a truly sedentary pastime. Few people today would imagine that that remote was ultrasound

Comment Re:Yet another case that begs the question (Score 1) 293

by breakitdown on Tuesday February 06, 2007 @01:56AM (#17900824) Attached to: Court Rules GPS Tracking Legal For Law Officers

There are judges on call for such things. And if there wasn't, or someone wanted it from a different judge etc., judges can sign warrants when they aren't at court.

The Next Three Days are the x86 Days 589

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday August 02, 2006 @09:20AM from the those-are-the-days dept.

Pinky wrote in to note that "Today, tomorrow and the next day are the only days we'll get dates like this: 2/8/6 3/8/6 4/8/6 like the x86 computers :-)" And yes folks, in the August news cycle vortex, even this strikes my fancy. In recent years we've seen numerical giants like 3/1/4, 6/6/6 and 1/2/3, but now really, what do any of us have to look forward to? Is our future dull and meaningless without cool numbers in dates? Oh the humanity of it all ...

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