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Comment Re:Massacre or fight for freedom (Score 1) 99

by weaseldaddy on Thursday May 21, 2009 @07:52PM (#28047725) Attached to: Timeglider Software Outlines Rosenberg Spy Case

The hangings were public. How many people were taken in the night, and their bodies ended up in unmarked graves? According to this USAID report there are around 300 mass graves in Iraq that can be tied to the Baathist regime. http://www.usaid.gov/iraq/pdf/iraq_mass_graves.pdf

Comment Re:Prediction (Score 1) 403

by weaseldaddy on Thursday May 21, 2009 @07:44PM (#28047631) Attached to: Right-to-Repair Law To Get DRM Out of Your Car

Washington warned against the formation of political parties in his farewell address at the end of his second term as president. Madison in Federalist Paper #10 warned about unchecked factions; he believed a plethora of divisions would serve to keep a group from becoming a majority and having a controlling share of power.

Mars Rover Spirit Reaches Winter Tilt 88

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday February 26, 2008 @05:21AM from the playing-pinball-on-the-fourth-planet dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Mars rover Spirit has been inching carefully down the north slope of the feature 'Home Plate' to tilt its solar panels into the sun to survive the long Martian winter. On Friday, it reached a tilt of 29.9 degrees, probably the final tilt it will reach for the winter. Although it's used the tilt strategy to increase power over the Martian winter twice before, this year it's especially critical, since a global dust storm last summer has left the solar-powered rover covered with dust and starved for power. Geoffrey Landis, one of the MER scientists, commemorated Spirit's trek to the winter haven with a sonnet on his blog. (The second of the two rovers, Opportunity, is at a landing site that's not as far into the southern hemisphere, and hence has less need to find a tilted surface.) OSU has a website explaining some of the software used to visualize the terrain to optimize the tilt, and for the latest news, the ongoing log of the rover status is updated weekly."

Judge Makes Lawyers Pay For Frivolous Patent Suit 263

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday February 25, 2008 @04:17PM from the not-making-partner-anytime-soon dept.

Gallenod writes "The Denver Post is reporting that the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld the decision of a Federal judge who threw out and reversed a jury decision in favor of a patent infringement claim and ordered the plaintiff's lawyers to pay the defendants' court costs. U.S. District Senior Judge Richard P. Matsch sanctioned the plaintiff's attorneys for 'cavalier and abusive' misconduct and for having a 'what can I get away with?' attitude during a 13-day patent infringement trial in Denver. With the Appeals Court in agreement, could this case be the 'shot heard round the world' in the revolution against patent trolls?"

Submission + - Enthusiast System Architecture Launched By NVIDIA (hothardware.com)

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MojoKid

on Monday November 05, 2007 @07:21PM

MojoKid writes: "NVIDIA has just introduced a new open-industry standard for real-time monitoring and control of PC power supplies, chassis, and water cooling systems. Dubbed ESA, which stands for Enthusiast System Architecture, the company hopes the standard will be adopted across the industry. A new wave of ESA compliant hardware that can be monitored and controlled via a standard interface could ensue, like smart health-monitoring power supplies and other components, that would increase system stability and reliability."

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