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Comment Re:And you know what would help even more? (Score 1) 439

by copious28 on Friday March 08, 2013 @10:24AM (#43115997) Attached to: City Councilman: Email Tax Could Discourage Spam, Fund Post Office Functions

http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2013/03/04/how-the-postal-service-is-being-gutted.aspx

Comment Great! (Score 1) 289

by copious28 on Friday January 13, 2012 @02:36PM (#38690282) Attached to: TSA Makes $400K Annually In Loose Change

We can show up at solyndra with the change in jars to pay executives their retention bonus!

Comment Anonymity (Score 1) 223

by copious28 on Saturday June 19, 2010 @02:27AM (#32623220) Attached to: Italian MEP Wants To Eliminate Anonymity On the Internet

Dont we all...who needs anon anyway? (Maybe I should post this comment anonymously? :/)

Comment Re:Red light cameras in St. Louis, Missouri (Score 1) 976

by copious28 on Monday April 12, 2010 @09:04PM (#31826148) Attached to: Red-Light Camera Ticket Revenue and Short Yellows

I think that is the point: the ticket is NOT going to court. It is going to collections/credit reporting agency. I would say that you can dispute those items on your report very easily, and they have to have proof that you were responsible for the transaction.

Hadrosaur Proteins Sequenced 81

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday May 06, 2009 @09:39AM from the don't-tell-hammond dept.

jd writes "In a follow-up study to the one on proteins found in a T. Rex bone, the team responsible for the T. Rex study sequenced proteins found in an 80-million year old Hadrosaur fossil. According to the article, the proteins found confirm the results of the T. Rex study, proving that what was found in T. Rex was not a result of modern contamination, as had been claimed by skeptics, but was indeed the genuine thing: real dinosaur protein. Furthermore, despite the new fossil being 12 million years older, they claim they got more out — eight collagen peptides and 149 amino acids from four different samples. This, they say, places the Hadrosaur in the same family as T. Rex and Ostriches, but that not enough was recovered to say just how close or distant the relationship was."

$100 Linux Wall-Wart Now Available 464

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday February 24, 2009 @02:25PM from the not-to-be-confused-with-wal-mart dept.

nerdyH sends us to LinuxDevices for a description of a tiny Linux device called the Marvell SheevaPlug. "A $100 Linux wall wart could do to servers what netbooks did to notebooks. With the Marvell SheevaPlug, you get a completely open (hardware and software) Linux server resembling a typical wall-wart power adapter, but running Linux on a 1.2GHz CPU, with 512MB of RAM, and 512MB of Flash. I/O includes USB 2.0, gigabit Ethernet, while expansion is provided via an SDIO slot. The power draw is a nightlight-like 5 Watts. Marvell says it plans to give Linux developers everything they need to deliver 'disruptive' services on the device." The article links four products built on the SheevaPlug, none of them shipping quite yet. The development kit is available from Marvell.

Comment Re:How could 63% of people be wrong? (Score 1) 562

by copious28 on Friday October 31, 2008 @10:38PM (#25592189) Attached to: Poll Finds 23 Percent of Texans Think Obama is Muslim

Yeah, watch it. Texas is G-d's gift to the Union. But, for the record, my Dad think that Obama is a Muslim and hates America. His proof are a picture of Obama not putting his hand over his heart at a saying of the Pledge of Allegiance and pictures/reports of Obama taking the American flags off his jet. Of course he also believed the Swift Boat Veterans about John Kerry.

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by kellyabbot on Wednesday August 29, 2007 @12:34PM

Link to Original Source

Feed Engadget: More details revealed on Dell's Latitude XT tablet (engadget.com)

From feed by engfeed on Friday August 03, 2007 @01:33PM

Filed under: Laptops, Tablet PCs

Strange how quiet Dell's been about that Latitude XT of theirs -- outside the buzzsaw experiment. Well fine, if Dell don't want to talk about it, we'll talk about it for 'em. In addition to that photo above, here's some more dirt on what the first Dell tablet will come equipped with:

Single or dual-core Intel ULV CPUs (with integrated graphics)
LED-backlit WXGA 1280 x 800 display option
Outdoor viewing WXGA 1280 x 800 display option
Ten and touch support (digitizer and touchscreen)
(3) USB 2.0 ports, Ethernet (duh), 1394, VGA out
WiFi options up to 802.11n, optional Bluetooth
Optional 3G (HSDPA, EV-DO Rev. A)
ExpressCard slot, optional Smart Card slot, fingerprint reader

Exact date of release has been hard for us to hammer down, but it looks like Dell's still on track for Q3. Obviously, we'll keep you posted.

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