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Comment Re:42 days off (Score 1) 417

by tomclntn2 on Friday November 12, 2010 @02:41PM (#34209286) Attached to: Palin E-Mail Snoop Gets Year In Prison

A year and a day means he can earn 42 days of "good time" for early release. In the Federal system you can earn upto 54 days of "good time" per year 5884.04 Good Conduct Time Under the Prison Litigation Reform Act

Comment Re:Limited point of view... (Score 1) 296

by tomclntn2 on Saturday March 01, 2008 @06:23PM (#22611988) Attached to: 158 Pages of Microsoft's Dirty Laundry

The navy has been dropping PowerPoint for web/data base centered briefings for some time now.

(from 2004)

"Direct database presentation is pushing PowerPoint out of the way for a U.S. Navy fleet commander. A pilot project for the Second Fleet has changed the admiral's briefs from static factual displays to near-real-time Web-based presentations that allow users to access in-depth information through extensible markup language, or XML. This step is the information equivalent of going from black-and-white imagery to color. Instead of merely being presented raw facts, the commander can delve into the briefing data to learn the subtle shades of information that make up the briefing points."

Submission + - Single-chip x86 chipsets around the corner? (linuxdevices.com)

Submitted by on Friday December 21, 2007 @04:00PM

An anonymous reader writes: Kontron, a giant among industrial single-board computer vendors, yesterday revealed a credit-card sized board apparently based on a single-chip x86 chipset that clocks to 1.5GHz and supports a gig of RAM. It targets portable devices — not x86's usual forte. Kontron isn't saying whether the board uses a Via or an Intel chip(set) — both vendors reportedly have single-chip chipsets in the works, part of their respective missions to drive "x86 everywhere." At 1.5GHz, the new highly integrated x86 SoC — whatever it is — would certainly clobber the currently available crop of 386- and 486-class X86 SoCs, and if truly battery-friendly, could even make x86 somewhat more viable as a portable device architecture.

Submission + - A Review of the $200 Wal-Mart Linux PC (lightandmatter.com)

Submitted by

bcrowell

on Saturday November 24, 2007 @08:30PM

bcrowell writes: "Wal-Mart's new $200 Linux PC has generated a lot of buzz among geeks. Although they're sold out of stores, I bought one for my daughter via mail order, and have written up a review of the system. The hardware seems fine for anyone but a hardcore gamer, but the preinstalled gOS flavor of Ubuntu has a lot of rough edges."

Submission + - New Software Premonishes Sailors of Rogue Waves

Submitted by

Reservoir Hill

on Saturday November 24, 2007 @12:06PM

Reservoir Hill writes: "Sailors have been telling stories for centuries about monstrous ocean waves that tower over one hundred feet in the air and toss ships around like corks. Once dismissed as a nautical myth, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) from ESA's ERS satellites has helped establish the widespread existence of these 'rogue' waves and study their origins. Rogue waves emerge unpredictably from calm seas but now Jose Carlos Nieto, a researcher the signal theory department of the University de Alcalá, Madrid has developed software that can detect rogue waves from radar images to provide advanced warning to ships at sea by using a mathematical model to evaluate and process the spatial and temporal dimensions of waves from the interaction between the electromagnetic energy emitted by the radar and the sea surface and displaying it in a color coded image."

Credit Industry Opposes Anti-ID Theft Method 434

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday July 03, 2007 @01:52PM from the frozen-out dept.

athloi alerts us to an opinion piece running in USA Today on the backlash against an effective tool to fight identity theft. The big three credit bureaus don't like the numerous state laws that have been passed requiring them to give consumers a simple way to freeze their credit. Watch for a push at the federal level to get a watered-down statute that pre-empts state laws. "Lawmakers across the country — pushed by consumer advocacy groups — ... have passed laws that allow consumers to freeze their credit, a surefire way to prevent thieves from opening new accounts or obtaining a mortgage in a consumer's name. Under a freeze, a consumer cuts off all access to his credit report and score, even his own. All lenders require that information, so no one can borrow money in the consumer's name until he or she lifts the freeze. It's simple, and it works. So, of course, it's under threat from the Consumer Data Industry Association, which represents the Big Three credit bureaus. They make millions gathering and selling consumer data. Freezes cut into that business."

RIAA Wants Agreements to Stay Secret 196

Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday June 30, 2007 @10:21AM from the don't-share-that-either dept.

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "The RIAA is opposing Ms. Lindor's request for discovery into the agreements among the record company competitors by which they have agreed to settle and prosecute their cases together, by which she seeks to support her Fourth Affirmative Defense (pdf) alleging that 'The plaintiffs, who are competitors, are a cartel acting collusively in violation of the antitrust laws and of public policy, by tying their copyrights to each other, collusively litigating and settling all cases together, and by entering into an unlawful agreement among themselves to prosecute and to dispose of all cases in accordance with a uniform agreement, and through common lawyers, thus overreaching the bounds and scope of whatever copyrights they might have. ...As such, they are guilty of misuse of their copyrights.'"

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