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Comment Kinda short.. (Score 1) 47

by floppypond on Friday October 14, 2011 @05:51PM (#37718876) Attached to: NASA Game Lets You Build Complex Space Networks

I just beat the game with minimal (read: no) effort in about 5 minutes. Yay!

Comment Re:Get an academic on this pronto (Score 1) 282

by floppypond on Thursday October 06, 2011 @02:06PM (#37629190) Attached to: Satellite Glitch Leaves Northern Canada In the (Internet) Dark

While I agree that would be wonderful, there are very few people up there, and I would hardly call northern Canada 'first world'.

Comment Goddamnit (Score 1) 86

by floppypond on Friday April 01, 2011 @03:50PM (#35690346) Attached to: LHC, CERN Has Found the Hugs Boson

I just about shat my pants when I read the headline, before I realized that 'higgs' was 'hugs' and it's the internet's most celebrated holiday.

Comment Re:The Irony (Score 1) 665

by floppypond on Friday May 29, 2009 @12:51AM (#28134847) Attached to: Wikipedia Bans Church of Scientology

I'm sure the good folks at wikipedia realized that this wouldn't thwart the CoS from editing articles about themselves. I'd imagine that what they really wanted to do was make a point, send a message.

Comment Re:Umm, no. (Score 4, Informative) 260

by floppypond on Monday June 09, 2008 @03:36AM (#23706197) Attached to: iPhone's Game Potential As a Threat to Java Phone Games

Since when is the US the only country that has CDMA phones?
There is only one carrier here that is GSM, all the others are CDMA. I live in Canada.

Diebold Goes 0 For 3 In Massachusetts Case 119

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday April 03, 2007 @09:17PM from the help-america-litigate-act dept.

beetle496 writes "ComputerWorld reports that last week a judge denied Diebold's request to block ES&S pact with Massachusetts. This is a follow-up to the earlier discussion here after Diebold contended that the state had erred in selecting the machines of its rival, citing accessibility provisions of the HAVA law. Quoting: 'Diebold's request for an injunction to block the execution of the contract with ES&S was rejected... The judge also denied Diebold's request to have an accelerated discovery process and to keep the state's legal team from viewing internal Diebold documents... "The suit is still there, but they went zero for three yesterday," the spokesman said.' The actual accessibility concerns have been discussed over at the TEITAC listserv, including a few telling observations from experts familiar with accessible voting and at least one state insider."

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