Democrats Crowdsourcing To Vote Palin In Primaries 1128

Posted by timothy on Thursday December 30, 2010 @05:50PM from the can-you-see-the-primary-from-here? dept.

SharpieMarker writes "In what could be the most extreme and influential crowdsourcing project ever, Democrats are beginning to organize to purposely vote for Palin in the 2012 Republican primaries. Their theory is by having Palin as an opponent, Obama will have the best odds at winning reelection. Recent polls have shown that Obama comfortably leads Palin by 10-20 points, but Obama is statistically tied with Romney and barely ahead of Huckabee. They even have a state-by-state primary voting guide to help Democrats navigate various states' rules for voting Palin in Republican primaries."

Barack Obama Sworn In As 44th President of the US 1656

Posted by timothy on Tuesday January 20, 2009 @02:11PM from the worst-job-in-the-whole-world-but-the-best-perks dept.

Just before noon today, Eastern time, Barack Obama was sworn in before the US Capitol building as the 44th President of the United States (Whitehouse.gov has already been updated to reflect the new President), and offered an inaugural address which outlined some of the challenges that the country currently faces, both within the country's borders and abroad. Obama's election has been called "a civil rights triumph," and his candidacy has inspired perhaps the most visible political involvement of young voters of any candidate since John Kennedy. Here's your chance to discuss the newest occupant of the White House and what you'd like to see happen over the course of his presidency.

Submission + - SCOTUS Case May End Sale Prices

Submitted by on Monday March 26, 2007 @11:55AM

An anonymous reader writes: If you own a mom & pop store, and can't get rid of some of your inventory, you can always clear out some shelf space by holding a sale. If the Supreme Court sides with business interests in a case they heard today, however, such sales may no longer be possible.

Since 1911, it has been illegal for manufacturers to force retailers into price manipulating agreements that forbid the retailer from selling the manufacturer's product for less than a certain price. This means that individual retailers get to decide how much they sell their products for, and the market gets to decide what the prices should be. Today, however, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case seeking to overturn this longstanding rule. Should the Court do so, it would drive up consumer prices as retailers could be forced into agreements that prevent them from offering discounts or trying to offer lower prices than their competitors. This case is particularly salient in the era of internet shopping. Thanks to Google, consumers are now able to shop around to multiple retailers and find the best price for whatever goods they are seeking. If the Supreme Court overturns the 1911 ban on price floors, internet consumers would no longer have this advantage.

Journal Journal: Google's YouTube strikes deal with NBA 1

Journal by TopShelf on Monday February 26, 2007 @05:32PM

Google announced today a partnership with the National Basketball Association to provide a new "NBA Channel" on YouTube, featuring game highlights and videos featuring NBA players. The new arrangement isn't as extensive as that between Google and the National Hockey League, which provides full games for online viewing

Submission + - Building an energy efficient always-on PC?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 21, 2007 @09:24PM

An anonymous reader writes: Like many Slashdotters, I find it necessary to leave my home PC running 24/7, for things like web or ftp servers, bittorrent, or simply to make sure I don't miss any messages on IRC or my instant messaging client. It has been about 3 years since I built my current PC, and keeping it running all the time uses a lot of juice. With my next PC I would like to do what I can to keep the power-consumption to a minimum, without sacrificing processing power or other features. What should I look for when choosing components for my PC, and what other ways are there to keep the power consumption down?

Journal Journal: DesktopLinux: Vista and Mepis Compared, Mepis Wins.

Journal by twitter on Wednesday February 21, 2007 @05:20PM

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols has a very cool comparison of Mepis and Vista on a year old HP Media PC. He explains dual booting and walks away with a shocker, Mepis has better hardware support and more "wow". The biggest Vista problems, drivers and DRM, conspired to keep him from playing his CDs and getting Aero. Mepis worked everything but a Winmodem and he was able to get fancy 3D graphi

Peter Gabriel Wants You to Re-Shock the Monkey 312

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday October 19, 2006 @12:40AM from the daddy-wants-more-cowbell dept.

PreacherTom writes "The party line for the music industry has been clear: discourage music downloads at all cost. However, singer Peter Gabriel is taking things in a different direction. In order to promote his own label, he is actually encouraging people to not only download his music, but also adapt it into something more modern. In doing so, he actually posted a sample pack of Shock the Monkey consisting of vocals and other pieces of the original multitrack recording. Some in the music business would call this the commercial equivalent of hiring kidnappers to babysit. In actuality, Gabriel is pleased with the results."

Logitech Buys Slim Devices 80

Posted by pudge on Wednesday October 18, 2006 @08:13PM

Logitech today announced the purchase of Slim Devices, longtime makers of network audio players SliMP3, Squeezebox, and the new Transporter. A couple years back Logitech bought Harmony Remote, becoming the makers of all my wireless control devices for my entertainment center (Bluetooth mouse, remote control, and PS2 controllers). Now they make my Squeezebox, too.

IE Market Share Drops to Lowest Level in Years 386

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday October 11, 2006 @05:54PM from the bruised-but-not-beaten dept.

Cultural Mosaic writes "Browser market share figures for September were released yesterday, and the numbers showed a big dip for Internet Explorer, as it dropped to just 82.10%, its lowest market share figure in years. Ars Technica notes that 'it's no surprise that Internet Explorer has been losing ground steadily over the past couple of years. There have been no significant innovations in the browser since XP SP2 was released over two years ago, and most of those were security tweaks.' Firefox grew from 10.77% in June to 12.46% while Safari jumped to its highest figure ever, 3.53%. I wonder how the release of Firefox 2.0 and IE 7 later this month will change the game?"

Comment Home Theater PCs (Score 5, Interesting) 557

by uberhombre on Wednesday October 11, 2006 @04:30PM (#16399111) Attached to: New Copy Protection to Make Playing DVDs on a PC Difficult

This will lock out people that use their PCs as Media Center PCs to play DVDs, watch TV, etc., and they usually spend quite a bit of money on tvs, dvds, sound systems, so this may not play out too well.

Wal-Mart Trying to Trademark the Smiley Face 317

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday May 08, 2006 @11:41PM from the :)-prior-art dept.

Ellis D. Tripp writes to tell us BBC News is reporting that mega-retailer, Wal-Mart, is now fighting it out with a man who claims to have invented the 'smiley face' logo, and has been marketing it since the '70s. From the article: "Until now the smiley face had been considered in the public domain in the US, and therefore free for anyone to use. Wal-Mart spokesman John Simley told the Los Angeles Times that it had not moved to register the trademark until Mr Loufrani had threatened to do so."

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