Comment Play Station Plus subscribers compensation (Score 0) 386

by lostkeyes on Thursday May 12, 2011 @04:47PM (#36111970) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How Should Sony Compensate PSN Users?

Has anyone heard of a different compensation package for ps+ customers? I understand that there is no way to secure the data that has already been compromised and they need a plan or securing all data going forward but as a PS+ subscriber I just lost a month of a subscription I paid for. I would at least like my subscription extended.

Comment Give it away at freecycle (Score 0) 970

by lostkeyes on Thursday December 03, 2009 @06:17PM (#30317472) Attached to: What Do You Do When Printers Cost Less Than Ink?

Freecycle.org http://freecycle.org/ is a great way to give any gear away. Each city has their own group. It sends out alerts and people respond. Most of the time they will come pick up the equipment from you as long as it still works. I know that a lot of under served schools in my area use the service.

Journal Journal: FCC investigating Comcast's traffic management practices

Journal by B_un1t on Wednesday January 09, 2008 @01:45PM

Comcast announced today it will comply with an FCC probe aimed at investigating how the giant ISP manages traffic on it's network. The FCC is responding to many complaints filed by consumer groups claiming Comcast is blocking P2P/Bittorrent traffic.

Feed Engadget: Switched On: Rainforest fire (Part 1) (engadget.com)

From feed by engfeed on Tuesday November 27, 2007 @04:12PM

Filed under: Features, Misc. Gadgets

Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On , a column about technology, multimedia, and digital entertainment.

Naming a product "Kindle" might be a bit unusual for a company named after a giant waterway. Did Amazon have visions of Farenheit 451 for its electronic book reader? Perhaps, at $399, the product is aimed at those who have the kind of paper to burn that is legal tender for all debts, public or private and not involving iPhones.

Regardless, Kindle is far from the epilogue for paper-based books and won't materially alter the course of Amazon's river of reading revenue for some time. On the other hand, the grapheme-strewn box of Kindle notes the word can also mean to "inspire" or "stir up." And the oddly-shaped tablet's wireless commerce capabilities herald big changes for several related industries.

Kindle, as Sony recording artist and pop chart fugitive Billy Joel might have said in 1989, didn't start the fire. Amazon has become the second player to enter the embryonic electronic ink-based book reader market in the U.S. after Sony's introduction of its Switchie award-winning Reader. Both products offer excellent readability using electronic ink display technology and are tied to stores controlled by their manufacturers.

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Comment 2001 statement from Dr. Powers (Score 0) 846

by lostkeyes on Tuesday February 08, 2005 @05:45PM (#11611407) Attached to: China to Pioneer Melt-Down Proof Reactors

The Pebble Bed Modular Reactor is not proliferation resistant.the Pebble Bed Modular Reactor is tailor made for the facile production of weapons grade plutonium.

As currently designed, the Pebble Bed Modular Reactor does not conform with the defense in depth regulatory philosophy of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and could not be certified.

- Dr. D. A. Powers
Trip Report HTGR Research Conference
Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards
October 10 - 12, 2001

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