[Still technically a maybe, but nonetheless, fuck. -k]

Apple to ditch IBM, switch to Intel chips | CNET News.com

[ Responsive environments are cool as fuck. -k]

SENSACELL

] The measure approved Thursday would require store owners
] to determine which games are too violent or sexually
] explicit for anyone under 18. Anyone selling them to a
] minor could be fined.

[ Let me get this straight.... is this saying that the stores need to set policied on which games shouldn't be sold to minors, but if it's determined after the fact that they were wrong, then they get fined? What total horseshit. ]

This is just golden:

] The sponsor, Sen. Deanna Demuzio, denied the measure
] would interfere with free speech rights.
]
] "Video games are not art or media," she said. "They are
] simulations, not all that different from the simulations
] used by the U.S. military in preparation for war."

[ I think they're both art and media, as well as simulations. I also think this Senator is an extremist who's letting her false sense of morality get in the way of whatever intellect she actually has. ]

But the saddest thing in this entire article is:

] "I'm going to vote for this bill, but I'm voting for it
] for one reason: because this is a political bill,"
] said Sen. Mike Jacobs. "If I vote against it, it will
] show up in a campaign mail piece

[ Yeah, that's total bullshit. Welcome to the end of respectability... stupid stupid stupid public. -k]

Senate OKs Video Game Restrictions

] Yet long before the sentence was handed down many
] concerned Australians had elevated Corby to martyr
] status. But a martyr to what cause? There are 155
] Australians in foreign jails on drugs charges, two facing
] the death penalty.

] Death sentances for pot are not just.

[ I should say fucking not. ]

] However, it is absolutely clear that pot smugglers from Austrailia
] are not funding military juntas in Myanmar

[ Particularly not with 10 pounds of weed in the hands of a girl who, by all accounts, isn't likely to be part of organized crime. ]

The Government of Austrailia is likely to negotiate treaties that allow its citizens to be extradicted back home to be tried for crimes committed in other countries.

[ I'm not so sure. I'm not an expert on south-east asia, but any country in which it's possible to be executed for having marijuana would seem to be not very likely to have any interest in looking weak by permitting such extradition. The hardliners would make it appear like they were letting horrible deviant criminals get off clean, by going back to their country for a slap on the wrist. I just don't see it.

Ultimately, it looks like in this case they essentially used the "This was in your bag, thus it's yours. End of story." argument. All the news stories indicate that the judges discounted damn near everything else. Apparently the fact that she has no criminal record and was composed get her off "lightly".

Interestingly, the proscecutor indicated that they were going to appeal, because Corby deserves a life sentence. Does anyone else think that if you're going to issue a life sentence, you may as well just kill them? I hope the guy was grandstanding, because I just can't countenance anyone having that opinion for real. Completely asinine.

It seems like anyone travelling in that region should have some idea of the laws, and know that that much was pretty much guaranteed to be found. She's either monumentally stupid or she got set up. Assuming the latter, I'd be about ready to hire some serious PI's to track down whoever put it in there. That way, even if new evidence doesn't get you out, you can have them dealt with as slowly and painfully as possible. -k]

Corby verdict the inevitable - Editorial - Opinion - smh.com.au

] Odilia Bermudez, PhD, MPH, studied the reported diets of
] a large nationwide sample of American adults. Among
] respondents to the 1999-2000 National Health and
] Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), more than two
] thirds reported drinking enough soda and/or sweet drinks
] to provide them with a greater proportion of daily
] calories than any other food. In addition, obesity rates
] were higher among these sweet drink consumers. Consumers
] of 100% orange juice and low fat milk, on the other hand,
] tended to be less overweight, on average.

[ If you want to lose weight, cut out soda. -k]

Preliminary Data Suggest That Soda And Sweet Drinks Are The Main Source Of Calories In American Diet

] Mattel is suing to shut down a BBQ joint in Quebec called
] "Barbie's," on the grounds that very stupid children
] might wander alone into the bar/restaurant and order ribs
] under the mistaken impression that they have something to
] do with the Barbie dolls. Mattel: "we think our customers
] are morons(TM)".

[ Heh. -k]

Boing Boing: Mattel: kids will mistake BBQ joint for a Barbie doll

] California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger dispatched a
] road crew to a residential street in San Jose to create a
] pothole, which he later turned up and filled, grinning
] for news-cameras and declaring his willingness to
] increase funding for transportation projects. The
] Potemkin pothole was later sealed by a roadcrew with a
] gigantic roller truck...

[ Nice. -k]

Boing Boing: Schwarzenegger creates, then fills Potemkin pothole

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[ Color me skeptical. Not to mention, it's pretty damn bulky to wear all the time. I know it says you only have to do that for the first week, until it gets a baseline, after which you just put it on when you do major activity, but still, if it's truly accurate, I'd rather have something that I don't have to take off all the time.

The other major down side is that you can't just buy one... you have to get it from specifically licenced clubs, and it's a whole program they want you to sign up for... which means it's too expensive. It needs to be way *WAY* simpler. -k]

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This shit is fucking spot on.

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] Banks love it when you use plastic, so it%u2019s no
] surprise that biggie JP Morgan Chase is working to make
] it easier for you to use their credit cards. New
] %u201Cblink%u201D cards to be tested in two U.S. cities
] later this year will use RFID to let you wave your card
] at a point-of-sale terminal instead of swiping it, a
] system that will be familiar to anyone who%u2019s used
] Mobil%u2019s Speedpass to buy gas. Chase says the system
] will be as secure as traditional POS terminals; we give
] it about a week before the RFID crackers prove them
] wrong.

Chase to issue RFID credit cards - Engadget - www.engadget.com.