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Comment Time Warp (Score 1) 244

by Rock on Sunday July 10, 2011 @09:41AM (#36710892) Attached to: <em>Space Invaders</em>: The Movie

The plot is obvious. Appropriate "Time Warp" from The Rocky Horror Picture Show. With lyrics like:
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All:
Let's do the time-warp again.
Let's do the time-warp again.

Narrator:
It's just a jump to the left.

All:
And then a step to the right.
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It's a natural fit!

Comment seriously? (Score 1) 332

by Rock on Sunday July 18, 2010 @09:31PM (#32946566) Attached to: WSJ's Mossberg Calls For a Tougher Broadband Plan

"He also noted that Americans pay more per unit of broadband speed than our competitors. He called on the government to devote time and resources to making sure Americans have the broadband access they need to stay competitive in the 21st century global economy."

Darn straight! A truly advanced nation needs faster, cheaper porn!

(I can't take anything seriously said by a Murdoch man.)

Submission + - Every British Citizen to Have a Personal Webpage 1

Submitted by

Hugh Pickens

on Saturday March 20, 2010 @11:12AM

Hugh Pickens writes: "The Telegraph reports that British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is about to announce that within a year everyone in Great Britain will be given a personalized webpage for accessing Government services as part of a plan to save billions of pounds by putting all public services online. The move could see the closure of job centers and physical offices dealing with tax, vehicle licensing, passports and housing benefit within 10 years as services are offered through a single digital 'gateway. [This] "saves time for people and it saves money for the Government — the processing of a piece of paper and mailing it back costs many times more than it costs to process something electronically," says Tim Berners-Lee, an advisor to the Prime Minister. However, the proposals are coming under fire from union leaders who complain that thousands of public sector workers would be made jobless and pointed to the Government's poor record of handling personal data. ''Cutting public services is not only bad for the public who use services but also the economy as we are pushing people who provide valuable services on the dole," says one union leader."

Submission + - Memorizing language / spelling techniques? 2

Submitted by NotesSensei on Saturday March 20, 2010 @12:38AM

NotesSensei writes: My kids are learning Chinese in school. While grammar is drop dead simple writing is a challenge since there is no relation between sound and shape of the characters. I would like to know if there good techniques (using technology or not) to help memorize large amount of information, especially Chinese characters. Most of the stuff I googled only helps on learning speaking.

Full Body Scanners Violate Child Porn Laws 751

Posted by samzenpus on Friday January 08, 2010 @02:33AM from the think-of-the-children dept.

gandhi_2 writes "The Guardian has a story about an ongoing legal battle over the use of full body scanners in the UK. The Protection of Children Act 1978, includes provisions in which it is illegal to create an indecent image or a 'pseudo-image' of a child... which a full body scanner does."

Net Users In Belarus May Soon Have To Register 89

Posted by timothy on Monday January 04, 2010 @03:59AM from the not-just-register-their-displeasure dept.

Cwix writes "A new law proposed in Belarus would require all net users and online publications to register with the state: 'Belarus' authoritarian leader is promising to toughen regulation of the Internet and its users in an apparent effort to exert control over the last fully free medium in the former Soviet state. He told journalists that a new Internet bill, proposed Tuesday, would require the registration and identification of all online publications and of each Web user, including visitors to Internet cafes. Web service providers would have to report this information to police, courts, and special services.'"

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