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Comment Wikipedia depends on Google (Score 0) 166

by junge_m on Sunday April 08, 2012 @02:26PM (#39613393) Attached to: Wikipedia Mobile Apps Switch To OpenStreetMap

I hope that the powers at Wikipedia knows what they are doing: The popularity and influence of Wikipedia is directly powered by its high Google rank. Without the referals from Google Wikipedia can fade into oblivion faster than its assent.

KDE Developers Discuss Merging Libraries With Qt 196

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday October 31, 2010 @06:24PM from the merge-ahead dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A proposal has been brought up with KDE developers by Cornelius Schumacher to merge the KDE libraries with the upstream Qt project. This could potentially lead to KDE5 coming about sooner than anticipated, but there's very mixed views on whether merging kdelibs with Qt would actually be beneficial to the KDE project, which has already led to two lengthy mailing list talks (the first and second threads). What do you think?"

When You Really, Really Want to Upgrade a Tiny Notebook 104

Posted by timothy on Tuesday October 12, 2010 @09:59PM from the faint-of-heart-attack dept.

Benz145 writes "The famous Sony VAIO UX UMPC may have been cancelled a few years back by Sony, but the community at Micro PC Talk won't let it die. Modder Anh has carefully removed the relatively slow 1.33Ghz Core Solo CPU and installed a much faster Intel Core 2 Duo U7700 (a process which involves reballing the entire CPU). On top of this, he managed to install an incredibly small 4-port USB hub into the unit which allowed for the further instillation of a Huawei E172 modem for 3G data/voice/SMS, a GPS receiver, and a Pinnacle HD TV receiver. All of this was done without modifying the device's tiny external case. Great high-res pictures of the motherboard with the modded hardware can be seen through the link."

Justice Not As Blind As Previously Thought 256

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday May 18, 2010 @03:05PM from the too-pretty-for-jail dept.

NotSoHeavyD3 writes "I doubt this is much of a surprise but apparently Cornell University did a study that seems to show you're more likely to get convicted if you're ugly. From the article: 'According to a Cornell University study, unattractive defendants are 22 percent more likely to be convicted than good-looking ones. And the unattractive also get slapped with harsher sentences — an average of 22 months longer in prison.'"

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