threesixeightsix - Slashdot User

Comment Run for it (Score 1) 238

by threesixeightsix on Sunday January 27, 2008 @09:31PM (#22203890) Attached to: Cell Phone Radiation Detectors Proposed to Protect Against Nukes

I'm not really convinced. Shouldn't our governments be tracking it anyway? All I got when I read this was a vision of a nuclear bomb going off about half a mile off, you see it coming, and your phone starts to bleep - warning - dangerous levels of radiation. Useful! A better warning might be... run like hell...!

Submission + - Internet Archive Challenges Google (nytimes.com)

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richards1052

on Monday October 22, 2007 @02:41AM

richards1052 writes: "The Internet Archive, whose main claim to fame is the Wayback Machine, designed to archive the internet's web history, has created a new project: the Open Content Alliance. It's purpose is to open the nation's library collections to universal web search. A number of major library systems, including the Boston Public Library and Smithsonian, have refused to sign up with competing ventures by Microsoft and Google because they do not provide for universal access to digitized books. These commercial ventures prohibit books being accessed by competing search engines. So far, 80 libraries and research institutions have signed on with Open Content Alliance. They must pay for the scanning of their books while Google and Microsoft offset that cost for their participating institutions."

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