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An Inconvenient Truth 1033

Posted by jamie on Tuesday November 21, 2006 @11:22AM from the conveniently-packaged dept.

There's a movie teaser line that you may have seen recently, that goes like this: "What if you had to tell someone the most important thing in the world, but you knew they'd never believe you?" The answer is "I'd try." The teaser's actually for another movie, but that's the story that's told in the documentary "An Inconvenient Truth": it starts with a man who, after talking with scientists and senators, can't get anyone to listen to what he thinks is the most important thing in the world. It comes out on DVD today.

Comment Yahoo mail beta not an improvement (Score 1) 262

by getusout on Thursday September 14, 2006 @11:21PM (#16110699) Attached to: Yahoo! Mail Beta Goes Public

I tried it out for a while about a month ago. My first experience with it was that it was slow and clunky but I forced myself to use it for a while with the hope that it would grow on me. One thing I noticed is that when I connected to it from a mobile device, it all fell apart and forced me to go back to the pre-beta yahoo web client. I have to wonder what happens if/when the beta becomes the only option. Gmail, in contrast, detects and works nicely with mobile (handheld) devices. All in all, it was really the culmination of a lot of little things that changed that I didn't like combined with the terrible slowness that caused me to finally give up on it and switch back to the pre-beta version. I use yahoo mail A LOT, but I've been playing with gmail some lately and though it seemed a little weird at first, it's starting to make sense to me and I'm starting to like it better. I've thought of switching over completely but am heavily invested in yahoo mail. If yahoo makes what's in beta now the only option, then it'll certainly encourage me to go ahead and switch. I'd much rather see yahoo go with a simpler, lightweight, faster webmail client than this horribly slow new piece of bloatware they came up with.

Texas to Provide Online 'Bordercams' 730

Posted by Zonk on Friday June 02, 2006 @10:03AM from the where-do-I-live-now dept.

Dr_Barnowl writes "The BBC reports that Texas intends to erect a network of online webcams at its border to Mexico. The intention is apparently to use viewers as a kind of distributed processing network, with a free phone number to report border-jumpers." From the article: "'A stronger border is what Americans want and it's what our security demands and that is what Texas is going to deliver,' Mr Perry said. The cameras will cost $5m (£2.7m) to install and will be trained on sections of the 1,000-mile (1,600km) border known to be favoured by illegal immigrants " Hey, it's working for Britain, right?

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