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Florida Man Sues WikiLeaks For Scaring Him 340

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday January 13, 2011 @12:03PM from the don't-watch-the-news dept.

Stoobalou writes "WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been accused of 'treason' by a Florida man seeking damages for distress caused by the site's revelations about the US government. From the article: 'David Pitchford, a Florida trailer park resident, names Assange and WikiLeaks as defendants in a personal injury suit filed with the Florida Southern District Court in Miami. In the complaint filed on 6th January, Pitchford alleges that Assange's negligence has caused "hypertension," "depression" and "living in fear of being stricken by another heart attack and/or stroke" as a result of living "in fear of being on the brink of another nuclear [sic] WAR."' Just for good measure, it also alleges that Assange and WikiLeaks are guilty of 'terorism [sic], espionage and treason.'"

Woman Sues Google Over Street View Shots of Her Underwear 417

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday December 21, 2010 @12:49PM from the airing-your-clean-laundry dept.

Kittenman writes "The Telegraph (and several US locals) are covering a story about a Japanese woman who had her underwear on the line while the Google car went past. She is now suing Google: 'I was overwhelmed with anxiety that I might be the target of a sex crime,' the woman told a district court. 'It caused me to lose my job and I had to change my residence.'"

Split Screen Co-op Is Dying 362

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday December 21, 2010 @04:41AM from the just-like-lan-parties dept.

kube00 writes "Split-screen co-op and local multiplayer are becoming things of the past. What happened to cramming a bunch of gamers into a room with two TVs and doing a system link match in Halo? Where have the all-night GoldenEye matches gone? Like the arcades of gamers' youth, the local multiplayer and co-op bonding experience has been replaced with individual gamers and a network."

4chan Declares War On Snow 201

Posted by samzenpus on Monday December 13, 2010 @03:16PM from the common-enemy dept.

With all the recent hacktivism in the news, Anonymous has decided to take on a new and powerful enemy: snow. On Sunday the group announced that it will "do everything in its power to shut snow down by attacking the Weather Channel and North Face websites, boycotting outerwear, and voting for the sun as Time’s 2010 Person Of The Year." I'm sure there are a lot of people in Minneapolis right now that would wish them luck.

AVG 2011 Update Causes Widespread Problems For 64-Bit Windows 318

Posted by timothy on Thursday December 02, 2010 @05:00PM from the now-that's-a-bricking dept.

phx_zs writes "Last night's mandatory update of AVG 2011 Free edition has caused most 64-bit Windows 7 PCs to fail while loading Windows. On their website they have an FAQ with instructions on how to repair the problem using a boot CD or USB device."

Salad Spinner Made Into Life-Saving Centrifuge 87

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday May 04, 2010 @10:49AM from the kitchen-and-lab-equipment dept.

lucidkoan writes "Two Rice University students have transformed a simple salad spinner into an electricity-free centrifuge that can be used to diagnose diseases on the cheap. Created by Lauren Theis and Lila Kerr, the ingenious DIY centrifuge is cobbled together using a salad spinner, some plastic lids, combs, yogurt containers, and a hot glue gun. The simple and easily-replicated design could be an invaluable tool for clinics in the developing world, enabling them to separate blood to detect diseases like anemia without electricity."

Comment Re:Instant Basic (Score 1) 548

by tsackett on Wednesday March 10, 2010 @01:10PM (#31427956) Attached to: The Value of BASIC As a First Programming Language

There's a picture of the second (1982) edition at amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Instant-BASIC-Freeze-dried-Computer-Programming/dp/0918398576/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1268240739&sr=1-9

The original goes back to 1977. I've actually got a copy of it around somewhere. I should put up a tribute page.

Comment Instant Basic (Score 1) 548

by tsackett on Wednesday March 10, 2010 @03:45AM (#31423766) Attached to: The Value of BASIC As a First Programming Language

Anyone else remember learning to program with the book "Instant Basic"? It was formatted like a Trader Joe's advertisement, with lots of Victorian clip art, and it let a lot of us learn the basics of programming -- conditional branching, loops, variables -- without actually having access to a computer.

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