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It looks like the city of Beijing was suitably impressed with Nissan's still-in-development transportation safety system, as the city's now tasked the company with installing the system in time for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. According to The Wall Street Journal, the system, dubbed Star Wings, will rely on an existing Beijing system to collect traffic data, which Nissan will then turn around and transmit to drivers via an unspecified wireless network. That'll allow drivers to determine the quickest route to take which, in theory, should reduce congestion in the city, something Beijing's been trying to get under control in time for the Olympics. While that's not all that far away, Nissan seems confident that it can make a difference, saying it hopes to put the technology into a fifth of Beijing's 3 million cars by August of 2008 -- an ambitious goal it believes in can achieve in part by working with rental car companies and taxi fleets.

 

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There’s been a lot of buzz lately that Facebook has surpassed MySpace as the hot social network du jour — and it looks like Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal has confirmed it by saying he’s looking into the social networking site to determine its liability for letting sexual predators use the site. This comes just months after similar claims from Blumenthal about MySpace. All in all, it still looks a bit like a witch hunt, blaming the service provider for the types of people who use it. Does Blumenthal blame public libraries for letting sex offenders enter the premises? Of course not, because it’s not the library’s responsibility. Hopefully, Facebook will follow MySpace’s path in identifying potential predators and getting rid of them, but it hardly seems like an issue that should involve liability for the company. Does Blumenthal want to sue AOL for letting sexual predators get online in the first place? It’s good that people want to stop sexual predators and it’s no secret that stopping sexual predators is a very complex problem — but blaming social networks (or any tool) isn’t the answer.

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And that's a GOOD thing. Last year, this quarter, they lost $237.8 million. The improved performance was attributed to a half-million new subscribers which helped revenue grow 50%. Oh just let them do their little get together with XM already. Clearly, they are eating shit while people go out and buy MP3 players. [NYTimes]

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A 20-year old student in Shanghai's Yangpu District perished after being "electrocuted by his computer." Reportedly, the man removed the external case from his desktop to prevent it from overheating in the non-air conditioned room, and when his legs came into contact with the innards, the resulting shock left him deceased. Initial investigations by local police confirmed that he was indeed electrocuted, yet there was no reason given as to why the individual refused to switch on the cooling system.

[Via The Raw Feed]

 

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Another collection of hit-and-mostly-miss public domain transfers of fun B-Westerns, Legends of the West, Volume 4 offers 32 features, most running about an hour apiece, spread over eight single-sided dual layered DVDs for just $9.95 retail. Genre fans will find more than enough to like to justify the low price, even if the experience is rather like picking through someone else's garbage, or grabbing a sofa off the curb to stick in your apartment.

This volume is notable for its thankful absence of TV movies and horrible panned-and-scanned widescreen Westerns from the '60s and '70s, and for its overwhelming majority of Roy Rogers pictures, which will please fans of that star. Unfortunately, most of these are cut versions edited to run in one-hour timeslots in syndication, and Roy's later Trucolor films are presented here in black and white.

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