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Comment Re:Well, that's an easy one to answer (Score 1) 188

by jplkeekif (#24394859) Attached to: Nintendo Battles Makers of the R4
Good argument, but one of the problems with it is that the R4 doesn't allow you to backup any of the cartridges you own, so you'll never be playing a backup copy of your own game, instead you'll have to go online to grab a copy that somebody else ripped and doing this would mean that you're contributing to sites that distribute copies of games.
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White House Must Answer For Missing Emails 256

Posted by Soulskill from the show-me-the-deleted-emails dept.
Lucas123 writes "A District Court judge this week ruled in favor of a Washington-based watchdog group, allowing them to question White House officials about missing emails involving controversial issues. The subjects include the release of the identity of a former CIA operative, the reasons for launching the war in Iraq and actions by the US Department of Justice. The group had filed suit [PDF] last May against the White House Office of Administration, seeking access to White House email under the federal Freedom of Information Act. The discovery ruling is bringing to light issues of email retention in businesses and other private organizations. We've previously discussed the White House's difficulties with email."
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Scientists Find Solar System Like Ours 173

Posted by Zonk from the hello-up-there dept.
mlimber writes "The NYTimes has up a story about the discovery of a solar system that is analogous to ours. Of the 250 or so exoplanets found thus far, 'few of them are in systems that even faintly resemble our own. In many cases, giant Jupiter-like planets are whizzing around inside the orbit of Mercury,' whereas in this new system, 'a planet about two-thirds of the mass of Jupiter and another about 90 percent of the mass of Saturn are orbiting a reddish star about half the mass of the Sun, at about half the distances that Jupiter and Saturn circle our own Sun.' The researchers used gravitational microlensing to detect the planets, and two of the lead authors of the paper to be published in Science are amateur astronomers, one of whom describes herself as 'an ordinary New Zealand mother.'"

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