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I'm sorry, but i've looked all over the internet, even in the original Reuters article and it IS a 80% drop.

Quote from Reuters' article: Nintendo's consolidated operating profit for the April-June first quarter fell to 3.75 billion yen ($33.35 million) from 17.47 billion yen a year earlier.

and you yet linked to the yahoo!news version of it, while a perfectly working version exists on reuter http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?typ e=technologyNews&storyID=2005-07-27T231617Z_01_N27 287870_RTRIDST_0_TECH-TECH-TEENS-DC.XML

Actually it's not clear if they are building anything new in Israel, as the Updated article mentions.

8 percent is nice and all, but when Apple's just announced a 75% increase in revenue does it even rate a mention?

Microsoft stock falls 2.5% due to its "lackluster revenue outlooks" http://today.reuters.com/investing/MarketReportArt icle.aspx?type=usMktRpt

What'll be interesting is if at some point network effects kick in and Apple's marketshare really takes off. What marketshare do you need to get to before people stop worrying that "no one else has a mac"? Once Apple is past that things will get interesting!

I'd even be happy if they successfully pioneered the concept of the direct-to-DVD series.

I am pretty sure that Family Guy is pioneering the "Direct-To-DVD" concept. Much more pull and a much bigger fanbase too.

9/27/2005 can't come soon enough!

I don't think I've ever heard anything about ADM price fixing.

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does it matter? meh, probably not, but you didn't hear before, and now you have.

Is September 27th good enough for you?

The article doesn't it make it clear but the banker was in fact duped through email. A bit more information from Reuters here:

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?typ e=internetNews&storyID=2005-07-16T151736Z_01_N1618 0730_RTRIDST_0_NET-NIGERIA-FRAUD-DC.XML

If i were in the 419 business i'd seriously think about getting out. From the above link:

"The anti-fraud agency [The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission] has arrested over 200 junk mail scam suspects since 2003. It says it has also confiscated property worth $200 million and secured 10 other convictions."

..Randall Mott, who is coming over from Dell. Why the big bucks? To make it worth his while to move over to HP. RTFA here: http://yahoo.reuters.com/financeQuoteCompanyNewsAr ticle.jhtml?duid=mtfh31022_2005-07-15_23-17-48_n15 165265_newsml ..where, by the way, it points out: "Mott was not listed among the five most highly paid executives in Dell's most recent proxy statement. In Dell's fiscal 2005, the lowest salary earned by the five highest-paid executives was $522,000." (Well, his base pay at HP will be only $625,000.)

"CNN is reporting..." You mean "Reuters is reporting..."

The poster must have linked incorrectly. Here is the good link. . .

http://yahoo.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type= topNews&storyID=9066875

The actual article.

And, Lord knows, this was a slashdot-specific story, and you certainly couldn't have gotten details anywhere else before you opened your mouth.

Reuters is reporting that the death toll is now at 12, with two of London's major hospitals reporting taking care of at least 175 patients total, with at least 30 in critical or serious condition.

It looks like the cellphone network isn't the only one having trouble: Reuters' web server has ground to a halt and is throwing ASP.Net Server Too Busy errors. http://today.reuters.com/

Another bill will rear its head, although I don't know how much it will differ from the now rejected one. Read more at Reuters

While crying and moaning about dupes and rejected submissions isn't exactly constructive criticism, I have to voice my disappointment with the Slashdot editors, especially Timothy, on this one.

I feel particularly annoyed about this news bit. Why is that? Well, I happened to submit this story early tuesday morning (about 10 am GMT / 6 am EST) and it got rejected. It happens and as such is not a big deal. But the following is imho rather embarrassing.

Not only was this news piece accepted and posted on Slashdot later as someone elses submission, it was actually accepted & posted twice (becoming yet another infamous Slashdot dupe). And in this case the poster of the dupe was no other than Timothy, who rejected my submission.

It seems he initially didn't think this particular news was important and rejected my submission. I knew it was an important bit of news to anyone who follows physics and nuclear stuff, a category which many slashdotters fall into. Potentially and on the long run this could be important news to everyone on the planet who uses electricity.

Anyway, the next day Timothy seems to have decided that a less comprehensive and informative submission on the same subject is worth posting, and as icing on the cake, he does it without even bothering to check the site's own news from yesterday (the already posted story was actually still on the frontpage!) thus creating a dupe story.

Only on Slashdot do you find editors who don't even read their own site's frontpage when posting a news story (to avoid dupes), nor remember that they rejected the very same story yesterday. We're all human and mistakes happen. And I'm sure the editors get swamped by a huge number of submissions, which probably aren't exactly a joy to wade through trying to pick the worthy ones.

However, these sort of things seem to happen a bit more often than they could or should. Perhaps the editors could put a little more time and effort into the process, since many of the previous, similar mistakes seem rather easily avoided (at least to a /. reader like myself).

Ps. Here's my original Slashdot submission about this story just for reference (with a forgotten BBC link added):

After 18 months of wrangling over the construction site of the ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor) the participants (China, EU, Japan, Russia, South Korea and USA) finally agreed upon Cadarache in France over Rokkasho-Mura in Japan. Japan withdrew its bid after getting a concessions package deal. The 10 billion ($12bn) project will be the 2nd most expensive joint scientific project after the ISS and hopefully a gateway to a commercial fusion reactor prototype. Construction should begin this year and be completed in 2015.

The Dolan family, who controls CableVision, have just proposed a $7.9B leveraged buyout of the cable assets. To get the cash, they are planning on selling $4.25B in junk bonds. This would be the second largest junk bond offering in history, after the RJR ("Barbarians at the Gate") junk bond.

1) Grease palms of local gov't officials.
2) Be deemed to need certain land to better the public.
3) Profit.

Actually, according to Reuters, the Russian officials only said that the spacecraft was not delivered to its planned orbit, and that they don't know if it is in some other orbit or has crashed. So Fox overstated the failure report, which only said that the craft is not in the planned orbit with a flaky transmitter, but is actually somewhere else, due to the launch vehicle failing. This is consistant with the report of a weak signal, and the search for it both in orbit and on the ground.

Looks like the mission got off to a rocky start: Solar sail space launch failed.

For those of you unwilling to read the article, it basically says that the Russian rocket carrying the spacecraft malfunctioned and didn't reach its planned orbit. The solar sail craft appears to be in a lower orbit, unharmed.

Link to Cuban story

Perhaps this cleaning of the administration is being done in order to facilitate a more military-centric NASA. There has been much speculation (see References) that the US military will begin to weaponize space. A NASA that is less interested in scientific discovery will of course be beneficial to the Pentagon, as they have the capabilities and know-how to design, implement, launch, maintain and control this upcoming space-based weaponry.

References: http://www.reuters.com/audi/newsArticle.jhtml?type =technologyNews&storyID=8522373
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/a4a4e198-c8cf-11d9-87c9-0 0000e2511c8.html
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7896613/

Poetic justice?! Hardly!

The only good that could come of this would be the remote chance that it could convince MS that software patents are a terrible idea and prod them into backing Red Hat and Oracle's push to reform patents in the US and Europe.

"the main system and its backup were swamped with error messages, Reuters reports"

Which is kinda funny, since it was *probably* a reuters feed that was spewing the errors in the first place....

As seen on /. a while ago

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?typ e=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=2005-05-19T171502Z_01_L1 9104638_RTRIDST_0_ODD-ODD-RUSSIA-LAKE-DC.XML

There are always exceptions or opt-outs when it comes to US dealings in the UK, the Brits tend to take it up the ass (arse) when it comes to these things.

The UK even has a non reciprocal arrest warrant with the US, a British citizen only has to be indicted in a US court and the British government is obliged to extradite them to the US. Of course this is only used for dangerous terrorists.

Same happends with data protection, there are no concerns about the handling sensitive data in foreign call centers so the US isn't a problem in terms of data protection.

I'm guessing you are making reference to this..

"LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Two of the key unions representing actors have asked their members to authorize a strike against the video game industry after talks on a new master agreement between the two sides broke down."

I can see in some games where the voice is important (Lord of the Rings for example) but in many other games, I really don't care who is doing the voices. The game play is generally what matters most to me.

Also from the article...

"The games industry said the biggest sticking point was residuals, or ongoing payments to actors and actresses for each copy of a game sold to which they contributed, including their voices and likenesses.

The unions wanted residual payments on games that sell more than 400,000 units, while the game publishers wanted only to make single up-front payments to talent.

Results of the strike vote are expected on June 7."

If an actor wants to push for higher residuals, that's fine too, but they should be prepared for someone else to step in and do this at a cheaper price. How long until voice overs are out sourced?

Rather than starting a whole "union: good or bad" debate, I'll just state (my opinion) that I feel unions, while in the past they may have done some good, are actually a driving force in outsourcing jobs. They are by no means the only factor, but the overhead has to be passed on to a consumer at some point and consumers will choose products with a lower price if the quality is acceptable.

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Well here's is one exampleUS Congress Evacuated

And another... Radar operators will sometimes find dead birds lying below a Radar dish. (atleast birds can see and hear windmills).

And when it comes to aiming things at other celestial bodies

The Earth rotates... the moon moves around the Earth... Aiming this type of thing requires realigning flawlessly automatically all the time, Plus your target is only visible half the day.

Nuclear power is far safer and more reliable than this

'Star Wars' earns $108.5 million in 1st US weekend http://www.imdb.com/chart/

However, all you need to do is allow a simple, on the record yes/no vote - should the period of $LAW be extended another 5 years?

That way, unpopular laws (55MPH, PATRIOT, CAN-SPAM) can be allowed to expire, and good laws (murder) can be renewed with little effort.

This is a brilliant idea! It's too bad it isn't already written into the PATRIOT Act - gosh, I sure wish they had done that.

The DPP study showed that exercise and diet were two critical ways to prevent diabetes. As it is, Type II diabetes is being seen in children, when a generation ago it was a disease of older people.

Diabetes can be controlled, but it is still a life-threatening illness. I made the mistake of thinking that I was "too old to run." I became a diabetic as a result of that stupidity.

This shoe may be a form of "pinhead responsibility," but pinhead responsibility is better than no responsibility whatsoever. If it enables parents to control TV and exercise in their children, then it will be useful.

Is it a weak solution to the problem? Certainly. Can it be hacked by the child? More than likely. But at least it's a start. It sure beats kidney failure, heart disease, blindness, stroke, impotence, and death. It certainly beats the cost of all those little kids spending their lives as diabetics.

Heck, it beats having to pass up deserts. Unless you are a diabetic, you have no idea how this disease sucks.

Does it run Linux? I'm sure someone will find a way, and it might even improve the system!

I've seen people say the controller is wireless, but in this picture I see four usb ports where controller ports would normally be. This leads me to believe that the new controllers will be usb2.0. It could be for peripherals, but that's an awkward way of laying them out (rather than vertically stacking two ports at a time). If it is for controllers, does that mean there'll be PC support for them?

From here, the PS3 looks like the most high tech George Foreman Grill in history.

With US real wages fall at fastest rate in 14 years and unemployment for engineers above the national average it remains an outrage the the richest Americans are calling for lower pay for American workers and targeting tech workers for special competition from non-immigrant guest workers.

Blah, the article was about DSL, which was invented at Bell Labs , as you can learn from Jimmy Wales who's from Alabama. I understand that Euros would have trouble with this technology from the 80s. Rather than inventing cool stuff they're better at killing each other, and then maybe eating one another. Well, at least I just got to celebrate V-E day. That stands for Victory in Europe, but it could mean Victory over Europe just as well. Losers. Here's looking forward to V-J Day.

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Other news by 2007 every Indian can be Subscribers of Broadband

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=tech nologyNews&storyID=8386370

Could they do something like this: http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=tech nologyNews&storyID=8162328/

Scaled for peak traffic loads and monitored 24x7 by Reuters Technical Operations, Reuters Messaging provides you with a business-critical, fully hosted instant messaging and presence service you can count on. The service is based on Microsoft's implementation of the industry-standard Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and is simple to install and administer throughout your company.

Seriously, was this monster created because Airbus saw a genuine need or was it created just to try to one-up their evil, American rival?

If it was created for the former, they probably need to do more market research.

Given the current market conditions of the airline industry plus the rising cost of fuel oil, this plane is the wrong design in the wrong place at the wrong time.

like its recent major DNS outages. And Comcast wants to buy Adelphia? I don't think Adelphia people will be happy with that if Comcast can't handle its own issues.

They probably hate them for the same reason I dislike them - most blogs are a waste of time. They're more fiction than news - and bad fiction at that. Blogs aren't a source of news - they're a natural extension of the `my first homepages` sites which once littered the web. You remember those. Photos of fat little nerds and their dumpy girlfriends, a photo of their cat and an cheesy animated `under construction` .gif that vanished along with their site when they were asked to pay their next months internet access. Sure, some of them are good, I guess, but the sort of people with something to say would have - indeed did - do so before the current trend for blogging took off.

How would blogs replace news? I check out 6 or so news related websites every day (for the record, they are http://news.bbc.co.uk/ http://www.guardian.co.uk/ http://news.independent.co.uk/ url:http://news.google.com/news> http://www.reuters.com/newsChannel.jhtml?type=worl dNews http://slashdot.org/) in addition to following links mentioned in those stories, links from emails etc. I also check out the papers from time to time.

How do I get close to that range and quality of information from looking at blog sites? Which bloggers have anything approaching the same reputation?

#1 - Sony's not about to cave.

#2 - Apple's already backing Blu-Ray. Check out the list of companies. They aren't alone.

Sony is sure to put Blu-ray drives in their PS3. They're equally as likely to release a bunch of movies in this format. They may have some olive branch to offer the HD-DVD association, but they're not saying they're stopping BD-DVD to create a single standard. Here's the story you may be talking about. From what miniscule information is there, it may just be that they're doing either (a) a PR move to make it look like they tried, or (b) offering up their tech with some modifications, pricing, or other tricky business. Either way, it's a pretty safe bet that Blu-ray is going to end up in PS3's at the very least, and it may just be Sony saying "we think we've already won, how about you save face by playing nice with us, we'll call Blu-ray HD-DVD if you like".

In any event, it'll be well over a year before Apple has the option of putting a Blu-ray disk reader in a machine, let alone a writer, so they simply will use dual-layer DVD+-RW drives for some time.

Dell is evaluating AMD products for their server lines, not pc's. The reason this seems a likely move is that AMD is releasing dual-core opterons on the 21st, the day of Intel's conference call. Intel hasn't roadmapped dual-core server chips for at least six months. Because of lower power consumption, savings on software licensing, and increased performance/footprint, AMD Opteron dual-core processors will definitely be advantageous to server customers. Whether or not those customers are brighter than "the average dell customer"...well, yeah.

Steve Jobs rocks, homage to you

Goldman Sachs was right; a super-spike in oil prices to over US$100 bbl was not ony was possible but it has had far-reaching consequences for the economy and our culture.

After they signed an agreement with OnStar and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Google can now track private vehicles willing to be part of a car pool in this era of $5 gal gasoline. Registered users can offer or receive rides and collect or provide instantaneous electronic payments for their cost of the ride, minus a few percent for the new consortium.