Engadget's top posts, 2008 (Thursday 01st of January 2009 04:59:00 AM)
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Well, the year has come and gone, and with it, our 365 -- or in this case,
366 -- days of posting. We've seen some pretty amazing stuff, gotten to play ...
(more)There once was a bear and a rabbit and they hated each other. ... (Friday 19th of December 2008 07:10:02 AM)
There once was a bear and a rabbit and they hated each other. The bear and rabbit then stumbled
upon a magical talking tree. The tree said: "I will grant you 3 wishes a piece if you will stop
fighting!"So the bear went first. "I ...
(more)StreamServe Persuasion Helps Eurocopter to Streamline Customer Communications and Boost Its Brand : Leading global helicopter manufacturer uses Strea... (Wednesday 17th of December 2008 06:45:02 PM)
StreamServe, Inc., a leading service provider of business deed Presentment (EDP) solutions for
trade communications, announced today that the Eurocopter Group in France is using StreamServe
Persuasion™ to improve the quality of its consumer documentation. ...
(more)Cancer to be world's top killer by 2010, WHO says (AP) (Wednesday 10th of December 2008 12:55:14 AM)
Cancer will overtake heart disease as the world's top killer by 2010, part of a trend that
should more than double global cancer cases and deaths by 2030, international health experts
said in a report released Tuesday. Rising tobacco use in third world ...
(more)FOSS Community Can Combat Bad Patents (Tuesday 09th of December 2008 07:30:01 AM)
An unsigned reader lets us know about a new initiative designed to help shield the open source
ms-dos state from threats posed by patent trolls. The initiative, called Linux Defenders (the
website is slated to go live tomorrow, Dec. 9), is sponsored by ...
(more)A woman finds a genie's lamp. ... (Saturday 25th of October 2008 12:10:02 PM)
A woman finds a genie's lamp. The Genie comes out and says, "You may have three wishes, but
your husband will get ten times more than what you wished for."The woman agrees. Her first wish
was that she would be the most striking woman in ...
(more)A woman finds a genie's lamp. ... (Saturday 25th of October 2008 12:10:02 PM)
A woman finds a genie's lamp. The Genie comes out and says, "You may have three wishes, but
your husband will get ten times more than what you wished for."The woman agrees. Her first wish
was that she would be the most lovely woman in ...
(more)Plug-in Hybrids May Not Go Mainstream, Toyota Says (Friday 03rd of October 2008 04:45:01 AM)
Mattnyc99 writes "Honda's challenger to the Prius — the Insight hybrid that we discussed
so lividly a month ago — got its standard unveiling today at the Paris auto show, with
club confirming it would be cheaper than the world's most popular ...
(more)Blown to Bits (Wednesday 03rd of September 2008 10:30:01 PM)
Ray Lodato writes "Few people would deny that the world has changed significantly since the
explosion of the Internet. Our access to immense volumes of data has made our lives both easier
and less secure. Hal Abelson, Ken Ledeen, and Harry Lewis have ...
(more)China Practically Unreachable By Western SMS? (Tuesday 02nd of September 2008 09:15:01 PM)
Ainsy writes "A friend of mine of late began a placement as an English pronunciation teacher in
China. She has picked up a pay-as-you go sim for use over there, only to unmask
roget's ii:
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part of speech:verb
definition:to ...
(more)The M Resort, Spa and Casino Brings Big Screen to the Sky With The Lightship Group (Broadcast Newsroom) (Wednesday 27th of August 2008 07:26:26 PM)
LAS VEGAS , Aug. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- M Resort, Spa and Casino, an all-new $1 billion resort to
be completed in March of 2009 on South Las Vegas Boulevard, has signed an whole
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cabal agreement ...
(more)Getting Human Hands Back Into Digital Design (Monday 18th of August 2008 02:30:01 AM)
Hugh Pickens writes "Using transistors to model the physicality world has become increasingly
common as commodities as diverse as cars and planes, pharmaceuticals and cellphones are almost
entirely conceived, specified, and designed on a mainframe screen. ...
(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)Virgin Galactic Shows the Finished WhiteKnight Two (Tuesday 29th of July 2008 05:15:01 AM)
Klaus Schmidt writes "Virgin Galactic today unveiled their WhiteKnight Two mothership, called
'EVE.' It is designed to carry the smaller SpaceShip Two into space. The rollout represents
another major milestone in Virgin Galactic's quest to launch the ...
(more)MIT Helps Third World With Hands-On Approach (Monday 14th of July 2008 02:35:22 PM)
Hugh Pickens writes "About 60 people from 20 nations will descend on the MIT campus July 14th
for the second annual International unfolding Design Summit to begin an complete month-long
process of creating technological solutions for the needs of people ...
(more)WHO launches safety checklist for surgical teams (AFP) (Wednesday 25th of June 2008 01:39:21 AM)
The World Health orderliness unveiled Tuesday a safety checklist to be used in overhead rooms
around the world aimed at reducing the risks of complications resulting from major surgery.
More: - Read the ...
(more)"Intrepid" Supercomputer Fastest In the World (Friday 20th of June 2008 08:55:00 AM)
Stony Stevenson writes "The US board of Energy's (DoE) high doing balancing the books* system
is now the fastest supercomputer in the world for open science, according to rule to regulation
to regulation to the Top 500 list of the world's fastest computers. ...
(more)Developing countries' needs to fore at world health summit (AFP) (Saturday 24th of May 2008 05:55:01 PM)
The World Health Assembly on rod called on the world's industrialised nations to promote
experimentation into diseases that plague third world country countries.
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(more)Swiss Bank Secrecy Under Renewed Attack (Sunday 30th of March 2008 10:00:05 AM)
Stanislav_J writes "All you wealthy Slashdotters better start making alternate arrangements for
stashing your millions. Switzerland's storied role as discreet banker to the world's
tax-avoiding wealthy is under threat like never before, and this time ...
(more)The Wrath of the Apple Tribe (Monday 24th of March 2008 03:45:04 AM)
Retold Fallacy writes "If you've ever written about Apple stuff with even a hint of negativity,
you'll and when there is no value or sympathy Salon's excerpt from Farhad Manjoo's True
Enough, about why the Apple tribe is so rabid. 'There are many tribes ...
(more)Best Laptop for Going Around the World? (Thursday 07th of February 2008 06:15:05 PM)
Mitbeaver writes "I'm birth prevention a round-the-world trip. 6+ months in third world country
countries, including Everest base camps 1 & 2, the deserts of Namibia and lots of places in
between. I want to bring existence to write (blogs or the Great ...
(more)AT&T's Plan to Play Internet Cop (Thursday 17th of January 2008 06:30:02 PM)
Ponca City, We Love You writes "Tim Wu has an interesting (and funny) article on Slate that
says that AT&T's recent proposal to examine all the traffic it carries for possible violations
of US intellectual holdings laws is not just bad but shared seppuku ...
(more)There once was a bear and a rabbit and they hated each other. ... (Sunday 16th of December 2007 11:00:05 PM)
There once was a bear and a rabbit and they hated each other. The bear and rabbit then stumbled
upon a magical talking tree. The tree said: "I will grant you 3 wishes a piece if you will stop
fighting!"So the bear went first. "I ...
(more)CDN Forces Reactor Online Against Safety Regulations (Thursday 13th of December 2007 07:30:03 AM)
Socguy writes "The Canadian dominion has passed legislation that will reopen an Ontario nuclear
reactor that produces most of the world's supply of critical medical isotopes, even though the
site has been shut down for safety maintenance. Witnesses and ...
(more)UN poverty goals on health out of reach, WHO says (Monday 29th of October 2007 04:05:18 PM)
The world is likely to fail to meet the
United Nation's Millennium Development Goals related to
health,
the head of the World Health Organization said on Monday at a
global forum on health
study for poor nations.
...
(more)Famous Criminal Opines that Technology Breeds Crime (Monday 22nd of October 2007 12:30:04 AM)
Jcatcw writes "In an account with Computerworld's editor in chief, Don Tennant, Frank Abagnale
spoke about his life of crime and crime prevention. Abagnale is a notrious criminal, whose
exploits were portrayed in the movie 'Catch Me If You Can.' Abagnale ...
(more)Brunette Meets Genie (Friday 19th of October 2007 01:00:00 AM)
A swart is walking through the country, when she finds a bottle. She rubs it and, you guessed
it, a genie appears.
The genie says, "You are allowed three wishes. But, I must warn you, any
one thing you get, all the blondes in ...
(more)A preacher was completing a temperance sermon: with great expression he said, ... (Wednesday 19th of September 2007 04:15:04 AM)
A preacher was completing a temperance sermon: with great expression he said, "If I had all the
beer in the world, I'd take it and throw it into the river."With even greater emphasis, he
said, "And if I had all the wine in the world, ...
(more)A Telescope as Big as the Earth (Saturday 08th of September 2007 03:23:57 AM)
Roland Piquepaille writes "A week ago, seven telescopes around the world were linked together
to watch a distant galaxy called 3C273 in real time and create a single world telescope. The
data from these telescopes, which are located in Australia, China ...
(more)Wikileaks Breaks $3 Billion Corruption Story (Sunday 02nd of September 2007 09:00:03 PM)
James Hardine writes Wikileaks, the website for whistleblowers, has broken one of the world's
biggest corruption stories in the international press (Guardian, BBC, Forbes, Sydney Morning
Herald). The site has leaked a secret report on looting by ex-president ...
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