Walmart Caves On DRM Removal

cmunic8r99 writes in with an email he received from walmart.com yesterday evening about the pending shutdown of their DRM services (which we discussed a while back). Walmart has reconsidered and won't be shutting off its DRM servers after all. They are still moving to an all-MP3 store, but won't break all the DRMed music its customers have already downloaded; this because of "feedback from the cus

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Judge Tosses Telco Suit Over City-Owned Network

tsa sends along news of the city of Monticello, Minnesota, which was sued by their local telco, Bridgewater Telephone Company, because the city chose to build a fiber optics network of their own. The judge dismissed their complaint of competition by a governmental organization. Quoting: "The judge's ruling is noteworthy for two things: (1) the judge's complete dismissal of Bridgewater Telephone Co

Are You Crazy? [pic]

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Canada, oh my god.

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Telling A 15 Billion Year Story In 3 1/2 Minutes

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clipper's remarks: In conventional internal combustion engines, multiple pistons are connected via rods to a crankshaft that, via the transmission, drives the wheels. Free-piston engines do away with the crankshaft: the pistons aren't connected to anything. Instead, two opposing pistons just shuttle back and fort

Real 3-D Cameras on the market soon

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clipper's remarks: "Why do you think there is such resistance to studies like yours?

Because we're pushing through the boundaries of science, working against assumptions and perceptions that have been fixed. A lot of people hold this idea that, well, when you die, you die; that's it. Death is a moment

Women: Just so darn tempting.

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Autumn in Canada

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clipper's remarks: Simply beautiful ^_^

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clipper's remarks: "This position holds that our ancestors suffered the unshakable illusion that their minds were immortal, and it’s this hiccup of gross irrationality that we have unmistakably inherited from them. Individual human beings, by virtue of their evolved cognitive architecture, had trouble conceptua

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36 Hours in Milwaukee

Beyond the beer and bratwurst, this city has 95 miles of bike lanes, lush parks lacing the shores of Lake Michigan and a revitalized riverfront.

Oh. God. Why.

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Some Weird Houses We Haven't Seen

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clipper's remarks: I really like the piano & violin design.

FUCK!!!

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Forget black holes, could the LHC trigger a “Bose supernova”?

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clipper's remarks: Nobody is exactly sure how these explosions proceed which is a tad worrying for the following reason: some clever clogs has pointed out that superfluid helium is a BEC and that the LHC is swimming in 700,000 litres of the stuff. Not only that but the entire thing is bathed in some of

Through superstition, conspiration people regain control

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clipper's remarks: Interesting. the ability of the human to seek and locate pattern, is misused as an answer to the emotional stress that the unknown and other fears impose.

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clipper's remarks: Moreover, we need to become responsible versus petty humans; in the words of the article

"When you see nothing but junk, create quality. Where quality is hard to find, curate it, adding your own seal of approval with a link. When you read inaccuracies and misunderstandings,

Old Blighty, the birthplace of English

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clipper's remarks: "Collins' editors know that old words die hard — and that some people will vilipend (regard with contempt) any execution without a fair trial. So they've offered the chance of a reprieve. They have made public 24 words that face deletion because editors could find no example of their use

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FUCK!!!!!!

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The Dumbing Down of the GOP

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clipper's remarks: Man-made global economics change.

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clipper's remarks: She's not a barracuda; she's an eel.

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clipper's remarks:

Frank Schaeffer is the author of CRAZY FOR GOD-How I Grew Up As One Of The Elect, Helped Found The Religious Right, And Lived To Take All (Or Almost All) Of It Back.

Beautiful essay. I just sent it to my parents to shore them up in their hard decision to abandon the

Justice Dept Firings WERE Political. No, really?

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clipper's remarks: I know it may be shocking. But the news has been lost with the sky falling and all...

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clipper's remarks: Richard Ridgway, a senior researcher at Battelle, says that the technique could be used to send huge files across college campuses, to quickly set up emergency networks in a disaster, and even to stream uncompressed high-definition video from a computer or set-top box to a display.

I'm a lizard. I will eat you.

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clipper's remarks: Funniest picture i've ever seen!

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clipper's remarks: Astonishing comments from a Palin rally crowd in Ohio. "He thinks we white people are trash." "He's related to a terrorist." "He supports terrorists." "He's a wolf in sheep's clothing."

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clipper's remarks: When there is nothing quantifiable to possess, we would neither know what the share of each individual is nor think of equality; if there was no notion of equality, we would not care that some have more than the others. Fortunately or unfortunately, there is always something to be possessed

McCain in 2000: Attack ads are sign of no vision

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clipper's remarks: New DNC response ad

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clipper's remarks: Imagine if what makes the human so capable relative to its ape ancestors is only a small number of mutations, where could just a few more mutations put us.

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20 Winning Pictures: It's a Small, Small, Small, Small World

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