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Comment Salad dressing! (Score 1) 393

by akratic on Wednesday June 03, 2009 @05:29PM (#28201645) Attached to: If life gives you lemons, you should make ...

Use lemon juice in place of wine vinegar in an Italian dressing.

Marcella Hazan says that a salad dressing requires four cooks: a judicious cook with the salt, a prodigal with the olive oil, a miser with the acid, and a patient cook to toss. The ingredients should be poured on the salad separately, then tossed. Pre-mixed "Italian" dressing is as Italian as chicken tikka masala is Indian.

Comment Re:If he didn't want them read... (Score 1) 812

by akratic on Wednesday April 30, 2008 @12:52PM (#23252466) Attached to: Post-Suicide Account Cracking?

You're assuming that the death was a suicide. The OP says that the reason for looking through the accounts is to find out whether the death was a suicide or an accident.

Submission + - Study finds P2P has no effect on legal music sales

Submitted by

MBrichacek

on Monday February 12, 2007 @07:52PM

MBrichacek writes: "A new study in the has found that illegal music downloads have had no noticeable effects on the sale of music, contrary to the claims of the recording industry. Analyzing data from the final four months of 2002, the researchers estimated that P2P affected no more than 0.7% of sales in that timeframe. The study reports that 803 million CDs were sold in 2002, which was a decrease of about 80 million from the previous year. The RIAA has blamed the majority of the decrease on piracy, and has maintained that argument in recent years as music sales have faltered. Yet according to the study, the impact from file sharing could not have been more than 6 million albums total in 2002, leaving 74 million unsold CDs without an excuse for sitting on shelves."

Submission + - VeriSign implants 222 people with RFID chips

Submitted by

cnet-declan

on Monday February 12, 2007 @07:40PM

cnet-declan writes: "Anyone remember VeriChip, a company that came up with the idea of implanting chips in humans for tracking them? They've been behind ideas like RFID tagging immigrant and guest workers at the border, and they've persuaded a former Bush Health Secretary to get himself chipped. In this CNET News.com article, we offer an update on how successful the idea has been. It turns out that, according to IPO documents, 222 people have been implanted, with sales revenue of $100,000."

Norway Outlaws iTunes 930

Posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday January 25, 2007 @10:37PM from the run-out-of-town dept.

haddieman notes that while many people are getting more and more annoyed at DRM, Norway actually did something about it. The PC World article explains: "Good intentions, questionable execution. European legislators have been giving DRM considerable attention for a while, but Norway has actually gone so far as to declare that Apple's iTunes store is illegal under Norwegian law. The crux of the issue is that the Fairplay DRM that is at the heart of the iTunes/iPod universe doesn't work with anything else, meaning that if you want access to the cast iTunes library, you have to buy an iPod."

Submission + - US Military Tests out Non-Lethal Heat Ray

Submitted by

URSpider

on Wednesday January 24, 2007 @11:54PM

URSpider writes: "CNN.com is reporting on a US military test of a new antipersonnel heat ray. The weapon focuses non-lethal millimeter-wave radiation onto humans, raising their skin surface temperature to an uncomfortable 130 F. The goal is to make the targets drop any weapons and flee the scene. The device was apparently tested on two soldiers and a group of ten reporters, which makes me wonder how thoroughly this thing has been safety tested ..."

Submission + - The Insanely Great Songs Apple Won't Let you Hear

Submitted by

FunkeyMonk

on Wednesday January 24, 2007 @11:38PM

FunkeyMonk writes: "Slate.com has an article by Paul Collins explaining that the iTunes music store has thousands of tracks that you can't buy in the U.S. From the article:
The iTunes Music Store has a secret hiding in plain sight: Log out of your home account in the page's upper-right corner, switch the country setting at the bottom of the page to Japan, and you're dropped down a rabbit hole into a wonderland of great Japanese bands that you've never even heard of. And they're nowhere to be found on iTunes U.S.

The article goes on to mention a few workarounds if you want to purchase foreign tunes. But this brings up a good point — why shouldn't iTunes be the great mythical omniscient music repository where all the world's music is available instantly? Is this a case of **AA greed, or simply a marketing decision?"

Dell Sells Open Source Computers 341

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday January 23, 2007 @10:51PM from the ahhhhhh dept.

Lo5 writes with the excellent news that Dell is selling desktop computers without Windows preinstalled. They are called "n Series"; you can choose from Dimension E520, E521, or C521 desktops. The hard drive comes unformatted.

Submission + - Over One Fifth of Windows Installs Non-Genuine?

Submitted by

snib

on Tuesday January 23, 2007 @03:24PM

snib writes: "Microsoft disclosed Monday that, according to reports collected by the notorious Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) tool on millions of users' PCs, 22% of all Windows installs do not pass its validation tests and have therefore been deemed non-genuine. From the article: 'Since WGA launched in July 2005, over 512 million users have attempted to validate their copy of Windows, Microsoft said. Of those, the non-genuine rate was 22.3 percent. 56,000 reports have been made by customers of counterfeit software, which grants that user a free replacement copy of Windows.'"

Submission + - Democrats Propose Mandatory DRM for Podcasts

Submitted by Knytefall on Monday January 15, 2007 @01:06PM

Knytefall writes: Joe Biden, Dianne Feinstein, and two GOP senators are sponsoring a bill called the PERFORM Act that would require podcasts with music and satellite radio to be locked-up with music industry-approved DRM software, according to a Cnet report and a statement from Sen. Feinstein's office. "All audio services — Webcasters included — would be obligated to implement "reasonably available and economically reasonable" copy-protection technology aimed at preventing "music theft" and restricting automatic recording." Do you really want the RIAA designing software and hardware?

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