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Slashback: Fairness, Radioactivity, Recovery
Ha, ha, puny earthlings! TinoMNYY24 writes "The Independent broke the story of SpaceShipOne leaving the Earth's atmosphere. The headline of the story is "'SpaceShipOne' becomes first privately funded vehicle to break through earth's atmosphere." One more step towards the X-Prize."
A data recovery success story - please send more. bigdog1 writes "I also had the IBM 75GXP data loss problem reported on slashdot. Like the guy in this article, I was not able to pay someone to do my data recovery. However, I eventually was able to get almost all of my data back using a free program, NTFS Reader. The only problem was that the file names were not in the long format. From now on I am buying an extra hard drive, but has anyone else had success stories recovering their data? Long file names?"
Too little, too late. An anonymous reader writes "I recently e-mailed paypals's public relations department and urged them to restore Freenet's paypal account. Their reply indicates that they have reexamined Freenet's account and decided not to terminate it after all. No news on the freenet project page, but here's paypal's reply:
'I apologize that your concerns were not addressed in the previous email. Our Compliance Department has reviewed The Freenet Project account in question and the service has been fully restored. If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact us again.
Sincerely,
Andrew
PayPal Account Manager'"
ultranova writes "Because PayPal has offered no explanation or apology, the project does not intend to continue advocating its usage, and has migrated to Amazon Honor System."
'Adventure Capitalist' is a much better motorcycle story anyhow. malign writes "Mary Mycio notes that the 'Ghost town' photo essay is probably faked, and notes her reasons. There go my fantasies! :(" Rumors and grumblings to this effect have been around for quite a while, but this seems the most straightforward debunking I've seen of the trip a Ukrainian woman named Elena claimed to have taken through the Chernobyl area.
(We posted two stories about the alleged trip in March.)
Corporate machinations meet the mounties. los furtive writes "The CBC is reporting that HP has agreed to pay back the Canadian Government $146 million that had been defrauded from the Department of National Defense (previously mentioned here). HP claims it was the victim of 'a complex scheme designed to exploit both parties through contracts inherited through HP's merger with Compaq Computer Corp.' In the end they decided it was more appropriate to take action against those responsible and not engage in protracted litigation with the government."
lets Slashdot readers (and others) write to their Congresscritter with one click,
In other news: Amazon sues the EFF
Shame to hear that the Chernobyl story is probably fake, even more so that Elena has a husband!
Website was featured in The Mail on Sunday - so much for background research.
I think I have that much in my couch cushions ;) (Just kidding!)
Honey, I shrunk the Cygwin
So, as long as we don't use the EFF one-click interface to send campain contributions, we're ok?
Otherwise, it's buying congressmen with one click and we're back to "Amazon sues the EFF".
Fuck. There goes a few million
I'm amazing. You aren't. SUCK IT
I don't think so. As far as I know the Amazon patent covers only buying with one click
So if I tried to corrupt a congressman with this system, then I guess Bezos could sue the EFF.
Man, that just ruined my whole day...not really, the pics were still cool. Why would anyone really care that someone thousands of miles away from them kinda lied?
We cared more that Slashdot presented it as fact when it really was fiction.
Slashdot: Fiction for nerds, stuff that doesn't matter... just doesn't have the same ring to it.
As far as the Chernobyl ride goes, I don't know. But I can vouch for the moon landing being fake. I mean myth tells us the moon is made of cheese, and not rocks and dust. Take that Armstong!
Note to self: No more arguing with the faithful.
I hate to break it to ya. But both men and women are whores. So the next time you look at your son or daughter, take a good hard look. They may not be yours. Muahahhaha
wouldn't a slash back be /..(slashdotdot)?
Wait, what is this *opinion* thing I keep hearing about?
Hurricane Ivan: A 17th century prison collapsed. All of the inmates escaped.
I bought it. This has to be one of the best trolls in recent times. Snookering a bunch of so called-technophiles and a bunch of news outlets calls for at least a beer or something.
And yeah, damned husband.
lets Slashdot readers (and others) write to their Congresscritter with one click,
In other news: Amazon sues the EFF
I don't think so. As far as I know the Amazon patent covers only buying with one click, not writing. But iANAL
Er, I take it you're not familiar with how one influences a congressman...
If the reactor building in Three Mile Island wasn't strong enough to sustain the hydrogen explosion, the ghost town could have been Harrisburg rather that Chernobyl. I could have made a site similar to Elena's. The only difference is that nobody would take it seriously.
"I grew up and lived in those parts and I know that as nice and hospitable as Ukranians (and Russians for that matter) are, they can also be liars and manipulators (learned from papa lenin himself)."
That's true of any nationality, unfortunately.
$107 million US =
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14,267 Indian programmers (for 1 year)
http://www.computerworld.com/careertopics/caree
" the boundary of space is pegged at 62 miles"
;) :D
The universe is a spheroid region, 705 meters in diameter.
Everyone knows that!