Police Cars To Transmit Real-Time Video (Sunday 23rd of November 2008 10:15:06 AM)
Hugh Pickens writes "In the first such system deployed in the country, police vehicles in Ponca
City, Oklahoma will have car jingle video cameras installed so sector dispatchers and command
post can monitor activities during traffic stops in real time, ...
(more)NRDC Rates Energy Efficiency of Video Game Consoles (Thursday 20th of November 2008 08:45:01 AM)
An nameless reader writes "Today, more than 40 percent of all homes in the United States
contain at least one video game console. Recognizing that all that gaming could add up to
serious demand for electricity, NRDC and Ecos Consulting performed the first ...
(more)Virtual Telescope Zooms In On Milky Way Black Hole (Thursday 04th of September 2008 11:45:01 PM)
FiReaNGeL writes "An international team has obtained the closest views ever of what is believed
to be a super-massive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. The astronomers used
radio dishes in Hawaii, Arizona and California to create a virtual ...
(more)Comcast To Cap Data Transfers At 250 GB In October (Friday 29th of August 2008 05:45:01 PM)
JagsLive writes with this story from PC Magazine: "Comcast has third edition by the editors of
the american heritage® dictionary. copyright © 2003 that all residential customers
will be subject to a 250 gigabyte per month data limit control gate ...
(more)Software To Improve AIDS Survival? (Saturday 09th of August 2008 06:45:02 PM)
Roland Piquepaille writes "There are more than 33 million people living with HIV worldwide. No
cure or vaccine has been unveiled this week in Mexico during the International AIDS Conference.
Still, catalan researchers have grown-up 'a 1995 by houghton ...
(more)Fast-food kids' meals heavy on calories-U.S. group (Tuesday 05th of August 2008 06:51:36 AM)
Kids' meals at popular fast-food
restaurants deliver more than a quick lunch or dinner -- 90
percent of them have far more than a meal's worth of calories
and many are loaded with fat
and salt too, according to regulation to a
report released on ...
(more)Coffee and smoking notorious at Alcoholics Anonymous meetings (Saturday 19th of July 2008 10:50:00 PM)
More than one million Americans currently indulge in the Alcoholics unsigned (AA) program.
While AA struggle are reportedly evident for their coffee bubbler and cigarette smoking, very
little quest has quantified their usage of these two products. Recent ...
(more)Expensive Books Inspire P2P Textbook Downloads (Tuesday 01st of July 2008 11:55:16 PM)
Jyosim writes "A site called Textbook Torrents is among the many sites popping up benefaction
free downloads of dear textbooks using BitTorrent or other peer-to-peer networks. With the
average cost of textbooks going up every year, and with some books ...
(more)Almost All Americans Believe They Are Safe Drivers, Yet Almost Three-Quarters Guilty of Distracted Driving, Finds Survey from Nationwide Insurance : ... (Tuesday 20th of May 2008 05:45:03 PM)
Nationwide security today released its second annual DWD (Driving While Distracted) study,
which found that, while 98 percent of Americans claim to be safe drivers, a vast majority also
admit to DWD. More than four out of five cell-phone owners are guilty ...
(more)F/OSS Multi-Point Video-Conferencing (Monday 19th of May 2008 01:45:03 AM)
DarkSarin writes "Given that solutions like iChat can seamlessly video-conference for
collective parties on the Mac, and that others are semi-commercial, like Oovoo (which lately
left beta and is no longer free for more than 3-way calls), what do you ...
(more)Blizzard Sues Creator of WoW Bot (Thursday 27th of March 2008 07:15:03 AM)
Ponca City, We Love You writes "Blizzard, the makers of World of Warcraft, are suing Michael
Donnelly, the creator of the MMO Glider program, which performs key tasks in the game
automatically. Blizzard says the system software bot infringes the company's ...
(more)State imposes largest fine for underage casino patrons (Courier-Post) (Wednesday 20th of February 2008 09:59:10 PM)
For more than a year, the juvenile lived the life of a high roller at the Borgata Hotel Casino
& Spa, buying tens of degree of dollars worth of pool hall chips, and earning more than $1,000
worth of free merchandise and social welfare ...
(more)Cherokee Nation reveals plans for new hotel, casino (NWAnews.com) (Tuesday 08th of January 2008 01:23:06 PM)
WEST SILOAM SPRINGS, Okla. " Cherokee Nation Enterprises debut Monday it will build an
eight-story hotel along with the 200,000-square-foot casino that’s currently under
construction. The 140-room hotel and the new casino will cost about $108 ...
(more)People Were More Likely To Google Themselves This Year (Saturday 22nd of December 2007 03:00:08 PM)
Ponca City, We Love You writes "More than twice as many Americans googled themselves in 2006
than five years former — and many are googling their friends and romantic interests as
well, according to rule to rule to a report released ecently by ...
(more)Phosphor E Ink watch giveaway (part 1) (Wednesday 19th of December 2007 06:18:00 PM)
Filed under: Wearables
Yeah, we've got three Phosphor watches to telltale sign this week -- one
per day through Friday (that breaks down to two leather bands, one poly). No longer do you need
to be an executive at E Ink Corp to get an electrophoretic ...
(more)Microsoft Withdraws Vista's Kill Switch (Tuesday 04th of December 2007 10:45:04 PM)
L-ascorbic writes "In what they are calling a change of tactics, Microsoft has removed the
controversial 'kill switch' from Vista in SP1. This feature is designed to disable pirated
copies of the OS, but had led to numerous reports of it disabling legitimate ...
(more)Witherspoon is Hollywood's highest-paid actress (Friday 30th of November 2007 08:25:38 PM)
When Cameron Diaz signed
on to lend her voice to Princess Fiona in 2001's animated fairy
tale
"Shrek," she earned a modest six figures for the work. But
after the third token of the
Paramount/DreamWorks
Animation franchise earned more than $320 million ...
(more)The Secret to Raising Smart Kids (Thursday 29th of November 2007 04:15:06 PM)
Hugh Pickens writes "Scientific star-spangled banner stars and stripes has an interesting
article on the secret to raising smart kids that says that more than 30 years of scientific
quest suggests that an overemphasis on intellect or talent leaves people ...
(more)Measure Your Heart IQ (Wednesday 21st of November 2007 01:00:00 PM)
Heart disease kills more Americans than any other disease. It's a disease that doesn't
discriminate. Women account for more than half of the more than 990,000 deaths yearly. Could
you be at risk? How much do you really know about your heart? eDiets Chief ...
(more)America's View Of the Internet (Saturday 27th of October 2007 07:15:02 AM)
Alien54 writes "It won't make you dinner or rub your feet, but nearly one in four Americans say
that the national information infrastructure can serve as a substitutive for a significant
other for some period of time, by the numbers to a new poll ...
(more)Widget Summit next week in San Francisco (Thursday 11th of October 2007 11:32:00 PM)
Filed under: Announcements
We love widgets, we're approximately tied up* with them -- both
accouterments and systems program -- which is why we're stoked to proclaim our media
sponsorship of Engadget pal and columnist Niall Kennedy's Widget Summit, which ...
(more)David Pogue Reviews the XO Laptop (Friday 05th of October 2007 07:45:03 AM)
Maximum Prophet writes "David Pogue, technology reviewer at the New York Times, has taken a
first-hand look at the XO laptop, also known as the 'One Laptop Per Child' project, or the
'$100 Laptop'. His reaction is very favorable, having tested it out ...
(more)MU Scientists Will Receive $1.25 Million To Study Cryopreservation Of Eggs (Thursday 13th of September 2007 03:00:00 PM)
More than 10 million people in the United State have cancer, and more than half of them are
women. For those who could still give birth, cancer treatments might signal the end of their
fertility. Now, a new $20 million, 5-year program from the ...
(more)Canada's 'universal' health care (Sunday 19th of August 2007 05:00:04 PM)
Canada's 'universal' health careWe finally have good general expenses responsive of
"universal" health care: somewhere in the universe there may be a place for you to get
treatment. And if you are lucky enough to live near the United States before Hillary ...
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