oo7tushar - Slashdot User

Comment Not disappointed at all! (Score 4, Insightful) 114

by oo7tushar on Tuesday April 21, 2009 @03:06PM (#27665095) Attached to: First Android-Based Netbook, Set-Top Box

I'm actually wanting one if it's around $100. It would be perfect for showing simple stats or doing very basic quick commands. Could even write a custom application quickly.

I'm not anywhere close to disappointed by the specs as the author of the article is.

Submission + - Arizona judge: mdb file is not a computer program (bradblog.com)

Submitted by Windrip on Thursday December 20, 2007 @12:27PM

Windrip writes: The database used in Diebold Gems software during Pima County, Arizona elections is not a computer program

The result?

Diebold's GEMS Tabulator Files, Containing Data from '06 Election, Ordered Released to Democratic Party Experts for Scrutiny, Possible Release to Full Public

Submission + - Electric Cars to Help Utilities Load Balance Grid

Submitted by

Reservoir Hill

on Sunday December 09, 2007 @11:32AM

Reservoir Hill writes: "A team at the University of Delaware has created a system that enables vehicles to not only run on electricity alone, but also to generate revenue by storing and providing electricity for utilities. The technology, known as V2G, for vehicle-to-grid, lets electricity flow from the car's battery to power lines and back. When the car is in the V2G setting, the battery's charge goes up or down depending on the needs of the grid operator, which sometimes must store surplus power and other times requires extra power to respond to surges in usage. The ability of the V2G car's battery to act like a sponge provides a solution for utilities, which pay millions to generating stations that help balance the grid. Willett Kempton, who began developing the technology more than a decade ago, estimates the value for utilities could be up to $4,000 a year for the service, part of which could be paid to drivers. A car sitting there with a tank of gasoline in it, that's useless," says Kempton. "If it's a battery storing a lot of electricity and a big plug that allows moving power back and forth quickly, then it's valuable.""

Submission + - OLPC lawsuit-bringer has past fraud conviction? (boston.com)

Submitted by d0ida on Saturday December 01, 2007 @06:51PM

d0ida writes: The Boston Globe posted an article online about LANCOR's lawsuit over the keyboard design: see http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2007/12/01/one_laptop_per_child_orders_surge/ "Negroponte said the lawsuit is without merit, because OLPC uses a keyboard programming technique developed in 1996, long before the Nigerian patent was filed. The founder of Lagos Analysis Corp., Ade Oyegbola, was convicted of bank fraud in Boston in 1990 and served a year in prison. Oyegbola insists his Nigerian patent is legitimate and said he plans to file a copyright-infringement lawsuit against OLPC in an American court."

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