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Comment Much alarmed (Score 1) 436

by psaunders (#19980425) Attached to: PubPat Kills Four Key Monsanto Patents
My thoughts upon reading the heading for this story (no kidding):
1. How terrible! Those poor patients...
2. Where is Monsanto hospital?
3. What made them 'key' patients, exactly? Does that express favouritism, and if so, does it violate the triage system that is so important in modern medical practice?
4. Who is Pub Pat (and what kind of a name is that, anyway), and why would he or she do such a thing?

Naturally upon reading slightly lower, I realized how far off I was. Still, for a while, the story looked promising.
User Journal

Journal Journal: SuperKendall is a corporate shill

Journal by The PS3 Will Fail
User SuperKendall is a corporate shill for Sony. This is a note to myself to remember to use some of the mod points that I get with my other account(s) to mod him down weekly. We'll start him on a program - he only gets 2 downmods from me per week. If he doesn't straighten up, we'll have to increase his dosage.

I am trying to educate these swine!
User Journal

Submission + - The world's easiest Linux (Ulteo)

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ggarron
ggarron writes: "Gael Duval, the creator of Mandrake and now fired from Mandriva, created a new Linux Distro, which is based on Ubuntu, therefore on Debian, it claims to be the easiest linux, and that it will redifine the Desktop philosophy, read more here: http://linux.go2linux.org/node/45"
Communications

Submission + - Samsung's UpStage looks to trump iPhone

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bj
bj writes: "PCWorld is running a story about Samsung's recently unveiled Upstage cell phone. Could it threaten the iPhone?

"Tired of waiting for Apple's iPhone? You might want to check out a potential rival that you can buy sooner: Samsung's innovative, super-slim, two-faced UpStage (M620), sold by Sprint Nextel. On the eve of the giant CTIA Wireless trade show here in Orlando, Florida, Sprint announced that it will begin selling the UpStage on April 1. Its price will be $300 — or $150 with a two-year contract, Sprint representatives say."
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Networking

Submission + - Remotely Connecting Two Machines for Audio

Submitted by
TFGeditor
TFGeditor writes: "Thanks to /. readers' advice from a previous Ask Slashdot ahref=http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/09 /28/2153212rel=url2html-31469http://ask.slashdot.o rg/article.pl?sid=06/09/28/2153212> , I now have a PC system optimally configured to produce professional on-air radio programs. Now I have a new problem. My radio co-host and I are in different cities located a few hundred miles apart. In order to give the show a real-time (i.e. "live") sound, we need to somehow connect him and me over the net so that we can produce a show complete with co-host banter, real-time interaction, etc. as if we were both in the same studio. How can we do this? Will Skype or other VOIP applications do this without the result sounding "tinny" (like a phone connection), or are there other apps that will do a better job? Need your advice/help."

Feed 'NSFW' Is for Babies (wired.com)

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Susie Bright calls internet writers to task for labeling links as not safe for work. Is it time to drop the flag? In Sex Drive Daily.


Communications

What are the Best Cell Phone Services in the US? 239

Posted by Cliff from the and-what-is-it-about-them-that-you-like dept.
James Hewfanger asks: "Cnet.co.uk has run an article on the five best cell phone services in the UK. These include a text-based service that gets you the number of a licensed cab company in London, Google Maps and Gmail on your phone, a service that can tell what artist and song you're listening to, an online service that backs up all your cell phone contacts and a text-based service that answers any question you can throw at it. What, however, are the five best cell phone services in the US?" Wirefly's cell phone plan comparison tool gives a good up-to-date look of all cell phone plans on the market.
Windows

Submission + - Microsoft takes a 'Patch Tuesday' break

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Phill0
Phill0 writes: "From the article:

Microsoft has no new security updates planned for Tuesday, despite at least five zero-day vulnerabilities that are waiting to be fixed.
The patch break could be a welcome respite for IT managers still busy testing the dozen fixes Microsoft released last month. Also, many IT pros may be occupied with the switch to daylight saving time, which at the behest of Congress, is happening three weeks earlier this year. Many computer systems don't have that change programmed in and require patching.
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PC Games (Games)

Submission + - PC Gaming's Future Evolution

Submitted by Dr. Eggman
Dr. Eggman writes: 1up.com is reporting on the GDC panel "PC Gaming in an Age of Connected Consoles", and their views on the PC. Unlike the usual doom and gloom about the "death" of PC games, this panel's has suggested that the death is of PC games as we know it; in that PC games will evolve. They believe PC gaming's future lies in it's strenghs like persistent-world environments, not just as MMOs but anything that has elements of a persistent nature such as Battlefield 2142. They go on to describe the PC's greatest edge over consoles: user created content and the supportive game communities built around it. The article also cited the panel's views on the weaknesses inherent in consoles' closed networks and content control.

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