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  1. The YouTube video on How To Build a Web 2.0 Government? · · Score: 1

    is fairly conservative, as youtube videos go. Most of the message could have been delivered as audio. There were some video details, there were three books on stage right which seemed to have John F Kennedy written on the spines. On the left there was a book I couldn't read and some writing on the flower pot, To Bara... There is more I couldn't make out.
    It's a start.

  2. It's a 10! on Seinfeld-Windows TV Ad Anything But 'Delicious' · · Score: 1
    It's a setup. All those associations. Those knowing head nods. It's leather.

    Speak softly and carry a big churro.

    Did you notice before the resemblance between the windows logo and the del.ico.us logo.

    http://delicious.com/tag/gates

  3. Except it wasn't a nature article on Gene Found to Explain Repeated Mistakes · · Score: 2, Informative

    Science. 2007 Dec 7;318(5856):1642-5.

            Genetically determined differences in learning from errors.

            Klein TA, Neumann J, Reuter M, Hennig J, von Cramon DY, Ullsperger M.

    http://tinyurl.com/2z5dzt

  4. Re:lucky me on UCLA Hacked, 800,000 Identities Exposed · · Score: 1


    who knows what the future holds?

    Extrapolating from the data in the link above there will be many more incidents in the future, perhaps 600 next year.

  5. Re:The micro$oft connection on Facebook Opening Up For The Public · · Score: 1

    well so much for moderation. The link refers to the new "association" of microsoft and facebook whereby microsoft will be advertising on the facebook. The op is trying to suggest that it would benefig ms to have a larger group of people to show their advertisements. It wouldn't be the first time that a company tailored their product to suit a large corporation.

  6. The micro$oft connection on Facebook Opening Up For The Public · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    Perhaps micro$oft would like a larger audience for their facebook page.

  7. Worried about privacy? Check Craigslist on Facebook Scrambles after Unexpected Privacy Fumble · · Score: 1


    Actually check out the Craigslist sex baiting scandal, reported on waxy.org

  8. Fractional errors? on When Bugs Aren't Allowed · · Score: 1

    TFA cites a particular NSA biometric identification program which has "0.00" errors per KSLOC

    And what would 0.34 errors look like?

    or perhaps they had less than 5 errors in a thousand LOC.

  9. iSPOTS (i for Institute?) on MIT Mapping Students WiFi Access in 3D · · Score: 1


    Here is the link to the MIT site

  10. Re:Er...where was this demo, exactly? on New Technology Could Kill WiMax? · · Score: 1


    It's the WTVJ (was WCIX) tower here

  11. 30/30 Winchester on Happy 60th Birthday IBM Research · · Score: 1


    It was named after the rifle or more likely the cartridge. The hard drive had two 30 MB spindles. The cartridge was 0.30 inches in diameter and contained the equivalent of 30 grains of smokeless powder.

  12. /. also delays publication on Hackers Forced Announcement of 10th Planet Find · · Score: 1

    10th planet Sunday July 31, @09:01PM Rejected

    It's curious that a rumor of a hacker is more interesting than the planet itself.

    .sigfree

  13. Re:They did 20,000,000 on Sept 27, 2001 on 19 million Amps · · Score: 1

    It's the same people. They just got $68 million and moved to another Nevada location and fired up another tuna can. Not bad for four years work.

    Did anyone notice that a 10th planet was announced the same day but somehow /. ran this tuna can story instead.

    .sigless in san diego

  14. mod parent down on U.S. Scientists Create Zombie Dogs · · Score: 1

    It looks real. The blurb says

    This disturbing film records the successful experiments in the resuscitation of life to dead animals (dogs), as conducted by Dr. S.S. Bryukhonenko at the Institute of Experimental Physiology and Therapy, Voronezh, U.S.S.R. Director: D.I. Yashin. Camera: E.V. Kashina. Narrator: Professor Walter B. Cannon. Introduced by Professor J.B.S. Haldane.

    Cannon and Haldane are super-respectable physiologists. Bryukhonenko S shows up in PubMed.

    And yet it didn't catch on and get developed. In those days there wasn't a medical specialty called emergency medicine to run with it. We shall see...

  15. Funny square in Florida Everglades on Google Adds Satellite Imagery for the World · · Score: 1

    It seems a little random and it looks like they (or someone) has the hi-res pictures and has dithered them.

    http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=25.381165,-81.02966 3&spn=0.642700,0.784149&t=k is a part of the Everglades without roads. They have rendered the National Park Road going to the high use tourist area (Flamingo) at lower resolution.

    It doesn't make sense to me.

  16. Nobel Prize - 1991 on Single Molecule Transistor A Reality · · Score: 1

    A single molecule switching electrical currents on and off was demonstrated in the seventies. Neher and Sakmann were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology for recordings from single channels in muscle cell membranes.

    sans sig

  17. Emergency Use on Will America's Favorite Technology Go Dark? · · Score: 1

    The only time I _really_ want the TV is during an emergency, usually weather related. It really helps to have the stream of information about school closings, shelter openings and FEMA phone numbers and also the encouragement that my local weather people and public officials can supply. I maintain a roof antenna mostly for this and the occasional Simpson re-run.

    Is it to much to ask that the government permit this public channel to remain?

    I don't buy the bandwidth argument. For the same quality service digital needs more bandwidth than analog. And the present quality is fine for the emergency needs.

    Free Sig!

  18. Re:The rebuttal summary is full of lies on China Tightens Rules For Educational BBSs · · Score: 1
    Thank-you, and I appreciate yours.

    Wired ran this today

    Free web: China has blocked off-campus internet users from accessing several bulletin boards operated by universities as part of a government clampdown on outspoken domestic websites.

    Shuimu Tsinghua, a popular bulletin board run by Beijing's prestigious Tsinghua University, was among the sites sealed to outside participants last week, the Beijing Times reported. A note posted on the bulletin board's homepage announced the move and said it had been made in keeping with a new policy passed by the Ministry of Education.

    This seems to support you and the Slashdot summary over TFA.

    xie xie

  19. The rebuttal summary is full of lies on China Tightens Rules For Educational BBSs · · Score: 1
    1. The Slashdot summary was about BBS's TFA was about chatrooms. Perhaps the AC and the rebutter have some other source but it's not revealed here.
    2. re-read 1, then de-flame.
    3. Of course, commenting with out knowledge is often a lie.
    4. Might be, then again, if you had read it you might be able to tell some truth here.
    5. Again BBS does NOT equal chat-room.
    6. Fabrication, unless rebutter is close to the team how can he know.

    and the last line, well I can see there is some truth there.

    But seriously folks, those chinese BBS's act the way slashdot can, (and does at it's best). Raising needless FUD with the lies in the summary is not going to enlighten anyone.

  20. Meanwhile in California - required RFID on House Approves Electronic ID Cards · · Score: 1


    but only if you go to school in Sutter (so far)

  21. The difference between a computer scientist and .. on How Heraclitus would Design a Programming Language · · Score: 1

    a real scientist it that a real scientist is using yesterday's computers to solve tomorrow's problems and a computer scientist is using tomorrow's ...

    let the recursion continue ...

  22. We don't need no stinking Gaia hypothesis on Coral Reefs Create Clouds to Control the Climate · · Score: 1

    Of course the world has homeostasis! Notice that the temperature, atmospheric oxygen content, etc, etc. has remained more or less constant within limits for all of recorded time.

    Homeostasis is one of the most typical properties of highly complex open systems. It comes with the territory. We are part of the system. If we get to far out of control a feedback loop will kick in and negate our activity. The system will take care of itself. The question is will we work with the system and enjoy the error signal or work against it and suffer the consequences.

  23. More to come .... on The Lost 1984 Mac Video · · Score: 1


    Thank-you Scott Knaster. Thank-you Textlab. Thanks for the trip down amnesia lane.

    Now does anyone have that athletic girl with a sledge hammer?

  24. skin-so-soft on Why Mosquitoes Bother Some And Not Others · · Score: 1


    produced by Avon skin-so-soft is a popularfolk mosquito repellent, if your friends can stand the smell.

  25. European Union says no to BPL on Michael Powell to Leave FCC · · Score: 1


    reported on the Amateur Radio Newsline