Well, at least the name doesn’t sound as goddamned sissy as most of the hybrids we’re able to buy back at home. At the Popular Mechanics blog, Brittany Marquis says:
The diesel-electric hybrid hype has met its match: the U.S. Army. After focusing on hydrogen fuel cells in its original version of “The Aggressor,” a high-performance, [...]
Steve Ballmer of Microsoft has sent me one of the best gifts I have ever received! It is called “Surface.” It is a coffee-table shaped computer that responds to touch.In addition to thumbing through thousands of my favorite family photos, I can listen to my music collection watch videos, etc. My children have also had [...]
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Bring it on, AACS-LA.[The New Freedom]
So… how do you DMCA a tattoo off of a person? I talked earlier about how a certain number is being threatened with copyright infringement. And I wonder how Rich plans to tell people that it’s a “09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0 tattoo”? Is a magazine permitted to print photos of this tattoo? [...]
Welll if I wanted anything to read, it was easy to find something on Digg today. Users on Digg posted article after article that really only listed the decrypt key (hex number) for HD-DVDs.
After hours of fighting it Keven Rose posted the below post, and Digg went off-line.
Today was an insane day. And [...]
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Support Intelligence, a network security company in San Francisco, is running “30 Days of Bots,” a project that posts the names of big companies whose networks have been infected with spam-spewing bots.Since March 28, the list identified more than a dozen corporations, including 3M, Aflac, AIG, Bank of America, Conseco and Thomson Financial.Not all companies [...]
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RUSirius over at the the Playstation 3 Forums wrote this post, and it was so informational, I thought I’d share. First off, the information is pretty much common sense if you think about it. But I didn’t write this, so sure go ahead and debate it if you want, but I’m not going [...]
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Khaled Hassounah, director of Nicholas Negroponte’s One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program in Africa and the Middle East, has spent the last year touring schools in Nigeria. He and his team chose a school 10 miles outside Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, to deploy the company’s first child-friendly laptops in the region.
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Blu-Ray and DVD-HD — the two new high-def video formats that have been crippled into uselessness through ridiculous anti-copying measures — are selling so poorly that a new disc can get on the weekly top ten by selling as few as 880 copies.
While we should note that the VideoScan numbers are not all-inclusive (for example, [...]
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The Toyota Prius has become the flagship car for those in our society so environmentally conscious that they are willing to spend a premium to show the world how much they care. Unfortunately for them, their ultimate ‘green car’ is the source of some of the worst pollution in North America; it takes more combined [...]
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I’ve been following the OLPC (or $100 Laptop) for a while, and I’ve been impressed on how close they’ve kept to the original specs. The current short run development costs are $148 each. Plus the specs that Paul will get into are pretty impressive, for that small cost.
Last week at the Game Developer’s [...]
