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Comment Sounds familiar (Score 1) 411

by davron05 on Friday September 18, 2015 @01:12PM (#50550517) Attached to: Volkswagen Ordered To Recall 500K Vehicles Over Its Own Malicious Programming

How is this different from certain phones allowing the CPU to run on full power only when a benchmark is detected to be running? Are they going to be recalled as well?

Submission + - Art Project causes Atlanta Police to close Highway & Call Bomb Squad (ajc.com) 2

Submitted by McGruber on Tuesday February 03, 2015 @03:21PM

McGruber writes: Yesterday, a ridiculously huge commotion and massive traffic jam occurred when Atlanta Police closed the downtown connector (Interstates 75 & 85) and called out the bomb squad to detonate a "suspicious device" taped to a bridge. Today, Georgia State University officials announced that the suspicious device was a student camera, "one of 18 used by students in an art project and deployed at various locations in the city.” (http://www.ajc.com/news/news/georgia-state-student-project-closed-downtown-conn/nj3xc/)

PetaPixel has (http://petapixel.com/2015/02/02/looks-like-someones-solargraphy-camera-just-got-blown-atlanta-bomb-squad/) additional information about Solargraphy, the style of pinhole photography apparently being done by the Georgia students.

Submission + - Hundreds Apply for FAA Drone Licenses (itworld.com)

Submitted by itwbennett on Tuesday February 03, 2015 @03:17PM

itwbennett writes: The Federal Aviation Administration has issued eight more commercial drone licenses, the latest approvals for several hundred applications it has received. The newest licenses went to companies planning to use drones for video and TV production, aerial photography and surveying and inspecting flare stacks in the oil, natural gas and petro-chemical industry.

Comment Re:Box art? (Score 4, Informative) 472

by davron05 on Thursday September 14, 2006 @03:21PM (#16108219) Attached to: Microsoft Launches the Zune

This video also came to my mind and I was very suprised when I have seen how Zune's box will look like. I thought "man, Microsoft finally learned something". The box looks very stylish to me.

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