Comment Re:Overheating? (Score 1) 182
I doubt it. I won't be purchasing from global scale technologies again. I ended up with two GuruPlugs that are useless due to overheating.
Comment Re:Yeah, there are (Score 5, Informative) 412
The problem isn't that they give you a discount when you order multiple services, it's that the base 'advertised' price is the one you get when you have multiple services. They charge 'extra' when you only get one service. They say High speed internet is only $39.99/month. Then they say, oh yeah, that's only if you already have cable. Otherwise its $49.99/month. The bill shows up as:
$39.99 High speed internet
$10.00 Fee
Journal Journal: Attention iPhone Users! 20
If any of you are using an iPhone and are willing to help test out some Slashdot handheld crap, shoot me off a note... my email is the same address as always, and if you can't guess it, you probably can't help anyway ;) I've built a stylesheet and Tim put together a few little options that we think will make a few bits of Slashdot look nice on an iPhone (or really most lower resolution displays) but unfortunately none of us actually HAVE one yet... so anyway, let us know. Or
Feed Science Daily: Rolls-Royce Acquires License To Use Iowa State Discovery That Improves Jet Engin (sciencedaily.com)
Rolls-Royce Corp. has acquired exclusive rights to use a coating invented by Iowa State University researchers that helps turbines stand up to the heat in jet engines. The unique bond coating will be applied to engine turbine blades made of nickel-based superalloys. Those superalloys are designed for strength but need help withstanding metal temperatures approaching 2,100 degrees Fahrenheit inside the hot section of a jet engine.
Journal Journal: Nazi Documents Released to the public
According ot CBS News, 50 million pages detailing the lives of some 17 million victims of the holocaust have been released to the public. They detail everything from Gestopo warrants for arrest, to the movements of the victims from their homes to the death camps. It was chilling reading of how on Hitler's birthday, a prisoner was shot and killed every two minutes. Strange also was the intricate details they kept of the prisoner's health recording small things like lice.
Sadly, after a back
Sadly, after a back
Feed Science Daily: Prototype Indoor Climate System Enables User To Control Personal Environmental P (sciencedaily.com)
Syracuse, N.Y.-based company CollabWorx Inc. and collaborators from the Syracuse Center of Excellence in Environmental and Energy Systems (Syracuse CoE) and Syracuse University have developed a working prototype of an indoor climate control system that has the ability to make "smart" decisions in response to changing conditions within an office or building based on interaction with the human occupants.
Linux Computer in USB Key Form-Factor 149
PMBjornerud writes "A start-up located in the French Alps near Grenoble is readying a tiny ARM-based Linux single-board computer (SBC) in a USB key form-factor. Calao's USB-9260 USB key-sized SBC measures 3.3 x 1.4 inches (85 x 36 mm). It is based on an Atmel AT91SAM9260 processor, an SoC (system-on-chip) powered by an ARM926EJ-S core clocked at 190MHz. The SoC targets "advanced applications such as GPS application processors," according to Atmel. Here is a Spec sheet PDF. With a 10/100 Ethernet port, firewall usage springs to mind. Other interfaces are 2 USB host ports and room for an expansion card. Which should allow some creative uses. "
W3C Bars Public From Public Conference 169
xk0der writes "Danny Weitzner, one of the W3C's policy directors and event co-chair, repeatedly claimed in a follow up telephone conversation that, by "public," the W3C actually means "closed to the public." Weitzner was the person who personally barred my colleague from entering the conference."
The story is worth a read- it's very strange. Personally I think this guy is just vying to replace Tony Snow at the White House.
Feed Children Of Smokers Have More Than Five Times Higher Levels Of A Nicotine Toxin (sciencedaily.com)
Children who have at least one parent who smokes have 5.5 times higher levels of cotinine, a byproduct of nicotine, in their urine, according to a new study.
Feed A Safer Food Supply: Sandia And FDA To Make It So (sciencedaily.com)
Like Johnny Appleseed of yore, the Food and Drug Administration is scattering food-defense programs across the US so that the country's million or so food processors can better secure their food against possible contamination by terrorists. The downloadable program, called "CARVER + Shock," helps companies of any size determine vulnerabilities along their food-processing chain.
Feed Men should exercise to reduce their risk of broken bones in later life (sciencedaily.com)
Serious fractures are common among older people and can have devastating consequences, particularly if a hip is broken. It is already recommended that women should take exercise to reduce the thinning of their bones, but now research shows that men too can help avoid fractures if they participate in sport or other vigorous activity.
Microsoft Evasive on 360 Hardware Changes 106
From all reports Microsoft has upgraded the Xbox 360 consoles coming from their factories, and modified the consoles heading back to consumers from service calls. The trouble is, they're having a hard time admitting it. The company has always maintained there aren't any excessive heat problems with their console, so admitting now that they've added extra heatsink capabilities would be ... somewhat embarrassing. Dean Takahashi at the San Jose Merc has an interview with Todd Holmdahl, the 'hardware guy' at Microsoft: "We're very proud of the box. We think the vast majority of people are having just a great experience. You look at the number of games they are buying, the number of accessories they are buying, the Live attach. They love the box. They continue to buy the box. That said, we take any customer issue very seriously. We continue to look into these things very deeply. You have seen we have made some changes to our customer service policy."
Feed News: Report: 19 million Americans interested in buying iPhone (macworld.com)
Feed Cops smash paedophile ring (theregister.com)
700 suspects, 200 in UK
A detailed investigation by British police has led to the collapse of a paedophile ring involving 700 people, 200 of them in the UK.
Ohio Audit Reveals More Diebold Problems 222
armb writes with a link to a Wired Blog entry about irregularities found in Diebold databases from the state of Ohio. The election in question here is November 2006, and the corruption of the entries may raise doubts about accurate tabulations. "Vote totals in two separate databases that should have been identical had different totals. Although Diebold explained that this was part of the system design for separate vote tables to get updated at different times during the tabulation process, the team questioned the wisdom of a design that creates non-identical vote totals. Tables in the database contained elements that were missing date and time stamps that would indicate when information was entered. Entries that did have date/time stamps showed a January 1, 1970 date. The database is built from Microsoft's Jet database engine. The engine, according to Microsoft, is vulnerable to corruption when a lot of concurrent activity is happening with the database, such as what occurs on an election night when results are uploaded and various servers are interacting with the database simultaneously."
