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Submission + - 14 Dead, 50 Injured In Denver Theatre Shooting (9news.com)

Submitted by beaverdownunder on Friday July 20, 2012 @05:35AM

beaverdownunder writes: A masked gunman has shot dead at least 14 people and wounded up to 50 others at a premiere showing of the new Batman movie in Colorado.

A man wearing body armour and a gas mask began shooting during the screening at a mall in the Denver suburb of Aurora.

One person has been taken into custody as police sweep the theatre and determine whether a second person was involved.

Submission + - Apple wins mobile patent on displaying lists, documents (cnet.com)

Submitted by

walterbyrd

on Tuesday July 17, 2012 @07:46PM

walterbyrd writes: "The company yesterday was granted Patent no. 8,223,134 for "Portable electronic device, method, and graphical user interface for displaying electronic lists and documents." According to the patent's description, the technology relies upon a touch-screen display and includes both the function for displaying lists and documents, and how they look on a mobile product."

Comment Re:APPLE should buy them (Score 3, Insightful) 124

by twistedemotions on Friday November 25, 2011 @02:38AM (#38163652) Attached to: Microsoft Just Can't Quit Yahoo

Apple doesn't have spiders crawling the Net or a big index of results already built up.

As far as know, since the Microsoft/Yahoo search deal, Yahoo doesn't have those things either. Microsoft handles that for them. Yahoo Search is now just a front end for Bing.

I suppose Apple could come up with a similar deal with Microsoft for iSearch. It's Yahoo's variety of other properties and brands that have the value now.

Comment Assassin droid (Score 1) 178

by twistedemotions on Friday May 06, 2011 @08:58PM (#36053652) Attached to: A New Human-Seeking Drone, Much Cheaper Than a Predator

When packed with explosives, this sounds like a perfect tool for assassination. Make it cheap, decrease noise, increase range, add some further refinement in stealthily bringing it into a location (composite materials?)....

Sony Finally Turning a Profit On PS3s 117

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday July 01, 2010 @03:51AM from the catching-up-with-moore dept.

When the PS3 launched in 2006, estimates pegged the price of producing the consoles to be as much as $250 more than the price at which they were sold. Production costs have dropped since then, but there have been several price cuts as well. Now, almost four years later, Sony Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida says they're finally turning a profit on the hardware. "This year is the first time that we are able to cover the cost of the PlayStation 3,' Yoshida said. 'We aren't making huge money from hardware, but we aren't bleeding like we used to.' In May, Sony began shipping new PlayStation 3 consoles with smaller and more cost-effective graphics chips. Now, Yoshida said, Sony is looking at replenishing retail stock that has been running on empty since January rather than cutting the price. 'When we bring the cost of hardware down, we are looking at opportunities to adjust prices if we believe that will increase demand,' he explained. 'At the moment, we are trying to catch up our production.'"

Why Time Flies By As You Get Older 252

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday February 02, 2010 @11:03PM from the like-a-banana dept.

Ant notes a piece up on WBUR Boston addressing theories to explain the universal human experience that time seems to pass faster as you get older. Here's the 9-minute audio (MP3). Several explanations are tried out: that brains lay down more information for novel experiences; that the "clock" for nerve impulses in aging brains runs slower; and that each interval of time represents a diminishing fraction of life as we age.

Comment SAP (Score 4, Insightful) 437

by twistedemotions on Tuesday May 12, 2009 @03:30PM (#27926397) Attached to: Microsoft Raises $3.8B in Bond Sale

German software company SAP appears to be a possible target.

Comment Re:It is Linux (Score 5, Funny) 188

by twistedemotions on Wednesday August 06, 2008 @07:10PM (#24504281) Attached to: No Linux IdeaPad For Lenovo's US Customers

Agreed. I can see it now: Open Sores Linpus

Comment Re:WTF? (Score 1) 52

by phreaknb on Monday May 24, 2004 @07:02PM (#9242686) Attached to: A Cox Internet Email Outage?

I agree completely. But i want to add that Slashdot is going to hell. The past 2 Ask Slashdots have been about stupid ISP issues and really arent news.

Comment Re:Swap out the platters (Score 1, Informative) 161

by lowtekneq on Wednesday February 25, 2004 @01:50AM (#8383321) Attached to: Resurrecting Dead Harddrives?

"Scratching" the platters is a non-issue. Most of the time they are made of polished Al and the magnetic element on them is pretty tough. What you have to worry about is everything from dust to finger prints. A single particle of dust in the path of the head is like a tree infront of a car.

Comment Re:From a European viewpoint (Score 1) 1185

by fearincontrol on Wednesday August 06, 2003 @11:10AM (#6625761) Attached to: Linking Dangerously

Actually, That's incorrect -- the current standard for federal regulation of free speech, set by the courts in Brandenberg vs. Ohio, states, "speech must not only be advocacy to incite imminent lawless action, but also there must be a likelihood that such action will occur."

Therefore, the mere advocacy of violent overthrow (a la the communist party, which advocates a violent revolution against the capitalist government) is not illegal -- it is the advocacy with the intent to incite imminent lawless action. Nor is "Damnit, that guy should be shot for being so stupid" unprotected -- because there isn't a likelihood that a reasonable person will actually follow the instructions.

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