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Submission + - Google: Orkut will co-exist with Google+ (arnnet.com.au)

Submitted by splitenz on Friday July 08, 2011 @05:45PM

splitenz writes: Google's other social networking site, Orkut, which has been around for about seven years and has tens of millions of users worldwide, will continue to operate alongside the new Google+ for now.

However, Google is leaving its options open regarding the possibility of fusing the two through some sort of integration further down the road.

Comment Re:I fail to see what is newsworthy (Score 1) 456

by s0ckratees on Thursday July 29, 2010 @02:09PM (#33072940) Attached to: Man Wants to Donate His Heart Before He Dies

And if you make it opt-in and someone gets into an accident and can't be identified for whatever reason (do you always carry your ID when you leave the house?) his wishes aren't going to be respected.

Not really, most likely hospitals will be instructed not to get organs from persons whose identity (and hence preference) cannot be confirmed. Anyway, if default is to harvest, then there would be more than sufficient organs available from identifiable people.

Comment Re:There is no way NASA mixed the measurement syst (Score 1) 244

by s0ckratees on Tuesday April 27, 2010 @09:23AM (#31998364) Attached to: The Big Technical Mistakes of History

Oh I dunno. I would be hard put to find something sillier than a inches/cms mixup on a mission of that importance.

Hacking Esquire's E-ink Cover 205

Posted by kdawson on Monday September 08, 2008 @07:50PM from the be-one-of-the-hundred-thousand dept.

ptorrone writes "I picked up the Esquire E-inked cover today and took a bunch of high res photos, for the makers out there. It has a programming header, 5-pin ISP, a Microchip PIC 12f629 which is flash programmable, 8 pin, 6 lithium coin cell CR2016s, 3 volts each. Two E-ink screens with flex connections — looks like it was made to be reprogrammed and different screens. The top screen has 11 segments, the bottom has 3. It was designed 2008-06-04. The PCB was made by Forewin, half thickness, 2 layer board (FR4). I think someone out there will likely reflash the PIC and make the segments go on / off at different times and perhaps put other displays on it, there's a little bit of hacking to be had but not that much really."

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