michaela - Slashdot User

Comment Like they should worry (Score 1) 539

by michaela on Wednesday February 25, 2009 @06:56PM (#26989213) Attached to: Authors Guild President Wants To End Royalty-Free TTS On Kindle

The Author's Guild should just give it a rest.

Having just received my Kindle 2 and trying the TTS in it, nobody is seriously going to use TTS on the thing. Think robot voice with no cadence or inflection. I've worked phone menu trees with more personality.

Total Lunar Eclipse This Weekend 133

Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday March 03, 2007 @11:04AM from the umbra-and-penumbra dept.

SeaDour writes "This Saturday night, March 3rd, a total lunar eclipse will be visible from nearly all inhabited parts of the world. A great shadow will stretch across the surface of the moon, eventually casting it in an eerie red glow as sunlight filters through our atmosphere onto the lunar surface. Viewers in Europe and Africa will have the best vantage point, able to watch the entire eclipse in action, while observers in most of the western hemisphere can see it eclipsed as it rises just after sunset."

Windows Vista Keygen a Hoax 154

Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday March 03, 2007 @10:14AM from the too-good-to-be-true dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The author of the Windows Vista keygen that was reported yesterday has admitted that the program does not actually work. Here is the initial announcement of the original release of the keygen, and here is the followup post in which the same author acknowledges that the program is fake. Apparently, the keygen program does legitimately attack Windows Vista keys via brute force, but the chances of success are too low for this to be a practical method. Quote from the author: 'Everyone who said they got a key is probably lying or mistaken!'"

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