Tags Results for 'the same'

Utah Law Punishes Texters As Much As Drunks In Driving Fatalities (Saturday 29th of August 2009 04:15:03 PM)

The NY Times reports on bill in Utah which harshly penalizes people who cause fatal car
accidents while texting. Instead of merely facing a fine, offenders may now get up to 15 years
in jail — the same as drunk drivers. "In effect, a crash ... (more)

A Planet That Orbits Its Star the Wrong Way (Friday 14th of August 2009 07:00:01 PM)

Smivs writes "BBC News is reporting that astronomers have discovered the first planet that
orbits in the polar government to the spin of its star. Planets form out of the same swirling
gas cloud that creates a star, so they are expected to orbit in ... (more)

Building a 10 TB Array For Around $1,000 (Tuesday 14th of July 2009 06:30:01 AM)

As storage metalware costs resume to plummet, the folks over at Tom's metalware have decided to
throw crowd their version of the "ber RAID Array." While the array still doesn't stack up
against SSDs for access time, a large array is capable of higher ... (more)

Better Tools For Disabled Geeks? (Monday 15th of June 2009 07:15:02 PM)

Layabout writes "We've seen terrific advances in user interfaces over the past few years.
Unfortunately, those UIs and supporting base exclude the disabled. In the same timeframe there
has been basically no advance in accessibility capabilities. It's ... (more)

Young Ballerinas May Face Heart, Bone Risks (Saturday 06th of June 2009 12:05:03 AM)

HealthDay - FRIDAY, June 5 (HealthDay News) -- Young ballerinas who stop menstruating because
they don't eat enough to cover their energy output face the same heart and bone health risks
as other young female athletes in the same circumstances, new ... (more)

A guy stuck his head into a barber shop and asked: ... (Saturday 30th of May 2009 09:13:29 PM)

A guy stuck his head into a barber shop and asked: "How long before I can get a haircut?".The
barber looked around the shop full of 1995 by houghton mifflin harcourt publishing company.
published by houghton mifflin harcourt publishing company. all rights ... (more)

Google To Remove "Inappropriate" Books From Digital Library (Wednesday 29th of April 2009 03:15:02 AM)

Miracle Jones writes "In an 1995 by houghton mifflin harcourt issue company. published by
houghton mifflin harcourt issue company. all rights reserved.view results from: 1995 by
houghton mifflin harcourt publishing company. published by houghton mifflin ... (more)

Less Is Moore (Thursday 29th of January 2009 03:15:01 PM)

Hugh Pickens writes "For years, the brain* trade has made steady journey by next Moore's law,
derived from an observation made in 1965 by Gordon Moore that the amount of reckoning power
procurable at a full price doubles every 18 months. The Economist ... (more)

We're In Danger of Losing Our Memories (Tuesday 27th of January 2009 12:45:01 PM)

Hugh Pickens writes "The chief director of the British Library, Lynne Brindley, says that our
widening heritage is at risk as the information highway evolves and technologies become
obsolete, and that historians and citizens band radio face a 'black hole' ... (more)

Comcast's Congestion Catch-22 (Sunday 25th of January 2009 08:15:01 AM)

An unsigned reader sends us to Telephony Online for a story about Comcast's second attempt at
traffic charge (free registration may be required). After the heavy criticism they mainstream
from commerce and the FCC about their first system, they've adopted ... (more)

Generational Windows Multicore Performance Tests (Friday 23rd of January 2009 06:45:02 AM)

Snydeq writes "Windows XP, Windows Vista, and (soon) Windows 7 all support SMP out of the box,
but as InfoWorld's Randall Kennedy notes, 'experience has shown that multiprocessing across
discrete CPUs is not the same thing as multiprocessing across brain* ... (more)

The Science and Physics of Back To the Future (Tuesday 20th of January 2009 04:15:01 AM)

Overthinkingit writes "A rocketeer has tried to apply serious math and physics, including the
Law of Cosines, to analyze how the DeLorean in Back to the Future travels through both Time AND
Space: 'in order to pull off the kind of time travel we see ... (more)

Microsoft Issues Workaround For Zune Freeze (Sunday 04th of January 2009 10:00:01 AM)

UnknowingFool writes "As a followup to the Zune New Year's Eve meltdown, Microsoft has issued a
workaround for what some users have correctly guessed was a bug caused by a leap year. To
recover from the problem, let the Zune drain the batteries and restart ... (more)

One day an old woman walked into a shop and got some dog food, ... (Thursday 25th of December 2008 07:10:02 AM)

One day an old woman walked into a shop and got some dog food, she went to pay for it and the
cashier said you can't buy that dog food we need token that you have a dog, so she brought in
her dog and ... (more)

Adventure Game Interfaces and Puzzle Theory (Tuesday 16th of December 2008 06:45:01 PM)

MarkN writes "It seems like ever broad topics of game design are discussed on Slashdot, a few
people bring up examples of Adventure Games, if feasible owing to the age and interests of our
members. I'd be committed to hear the community's psyche on a ... (more)

Casino bluffing? Nope, it just made a typo (Baltimore Sun) (Sunday 07th of December 2008 08:54:38 AM)

I latterly conventional a kick upstairs letter from the Paris/Bally casino in Las Vegas present
me $3,000 in cash or live chips for Jan. 2-5. I called the same day (Oct. 16) to make the
reservations and was told no rooms were available. Two of ... (more)

At a recent computer expo (COMDEX), ... (Thursday 27th of November 2008 11:10:02 AM)

At a recent llc.view results from: dictionary | thesaurus | encyclopedia | all reference | the
web share this: personal computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly compared the brain* crew
with the auto manufactory and stated:"If GM had kept up with ... (more)

EA Forum Ban Will Now Mean EA Game Ban (Friday 31st of October 2008 11:15:02 AM)

An nameless reader writes "A post on the EA Support Forums from APOC, online jungle manager for
ebanking Arts, outlines a new policy for their new forums, saying users who earn a ban based on
their act in the forums will be locked out of ... (more)

A blonde, a brunette, and a redhead all work for a construction crew. ... (Tuesday 05th of August 2008 12:10:02 AM)

A blonde, a brunette, and a redhead all work for a illumination crew. One day, they were on
their lunch break, sitting on a beam thirty stories high. They all note that they've had the
same lunch for as long as they were on the ... (more)

Three young women in there thirties are on a road trip and are tearing down the ... (Wednesday 30th of July 2008 12:10:02 PM)

Three young women in there thirties are on a road trip and are tearing down the freeway.
unfortunatley, they lose control, the car flips over the guard rail on to the polar lanes and
gets smashed by an eighteen wheeler.Up at the pearly gates, all ... (more)

gNewSense Distro Frees Ubuntu (Saturday 31st of May 2008 05:00:03 PM)

Linux.com (who shares common overlords with Slashdot) is reporting that gNewSense has gone 2.0.
For the uninitiated gNewSense is a stripped down version of Ubuntu's Hardy Heron for the free
os purist. Removing over 100 pieces of proprietary code and firmware, ... (more)

Details Emerging On Tunguska Impact Crater (Wednesday 28th of May 2008 12:41:07 PM)

#space_on_irc.freenode.net (Dusty) writes "Lake Cheko in Siberia has been noted as the
contingent crater of the 1908 Siberian Tunguska event. This news was discussed here in
December, but details on the crater were scant. Now a new paper written by Luca ... (more)

What's the Solution To Intellectual Property? (Monday 26th of May 2008 09:30:03 AM)

StealthyRoid writes "I'm an anarcho-capitalist, and a huge disciple of proprietary rights, both
physical and intellectual. At the same time, I find the current trend of increasing penalties
for minor violations, criminalizing civil IP matters, anti-consumer ... (more)

San Diego GOP Chairman Alleged To Be a Fairlight Co-Founder (Wednesday 07th of May 2008 02:45:09 PM)

Airw0lf writes with a claim that appears too implausible to credit, at first glance: "If anyone
remembers 'Fairlight' — one of the great groups on the warez scene, you may be interested
to know that one of their leaders, Tony Krvaric, is now the ... (more)

Florida Judge Smacks Down RIAA (Wednesday 07th of May 2008 02:45:09 PM)

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "The RIAA is going to have to face the music in Tampa, Florida, and
answer the charges of extortion, trespass, conspiracy, unlicensed investigation, and
cerebration machine* fraud and abuse that have been leveled against them ... (more)

PRO-IP Act Passes Judiciary Committee (Friday 02nd of May 2008 06:09:35 AM)

I Don't Believe in Imaginary dominion writes "The Pro-IP Act has passed the Judiciary panel
unanimously, thanks to the support of panel moderator Rep. John Conyers (D-MI). We've discussed
this before — it's the same bill which would create copyright ... (more)

ICANN Takes a Step Toward Ending Domain Tasting (Wednesday 30th of April 2008 03:54:40 AM)

An anonymous reader writes "For years, domain squatters have exploited an ICANN loophole:
whenever a domain name is registered, ICANN collects a 20-cent fee from the registrar. To allow
for non-paying customers, the registrar can return it five days later ... (more)

Venus' Stop/Start History Highlighted By Probe (Monday 07th of April 2008 02:45:02 AM)

An anonymous reader writes "Science Daily reports on scientific findings from the ESA's Venus
Express probe. The device, which is even now orbiting Earth's sister planet, is feeding back
data hinting at Venus' origins. Initially, the probe has found, ... (more)

Blackjack for 21 (Monday 31st of March 2008 04:35:11 PM)

E! Online - 21 made 24.The card-counting drama, highlighting Kevin Spacey, his abiding
sidekick, Kate Bosworth, and Across the Universe's Jim Sturgess, topped the weekend box office
with $24.1 million, per final studio figures common Monday by counselor ... (more)

Blackjack for 21 (Sunday 30th of March 2008 03:27:35 PM)

E! Online - 21 made 23.The card-counting drama, highlighting Kevin Spacey, his annual sidekick,
Kate Bosworth, and Across the Universe's Jim Sturgess, topped the weekend box office with $23
million, per estimates compiled Sunday by Exhibitor Relations.Overall, ... (more)

 

Found 30 item(s)