“Dès que nos instances auront validé le résultat [du] vote, (…) je veux dire à tous très simplement que je serai le premier secrétaire de tous les militants du parti socialiste car aucun militant ne doit manquer au parti” a déclaré Martine Aubry à l’issue du second tour qui la place en tête de l’élection du premier secrétaire du PS avec 42 voix d’avance. (et là j’apprends qu’on ne féminise pas “premier secrétaire” ?)

À lire sur LeMonde.fr :  PS : Royal reproche à Aubry de “s’autoproclamer” élue

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Subject says it… Why on earth did Nvidia disable manual fan speed control in the latest 180.48 WHQL?? I had severe issues with stability a few months ago and I resolved those crashes by specifying the fan to run at 100%. See system specs for configuration… anybody else facing the same issue here?

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers put Carnell "Cadillac" Williams in drive in the Motor City.

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Hello girls and boys!

Let us give you a taste of what we do in our free time (ie. when not dealing with audio locks and broken accumulators): Below is the beer-carrying robot of Elmar, a robot which is in a development phase, still with no real hands, but already working “ears” and “legs”:

A nice demo video of the robot is here, and guess what would be on the table instead of the Aspire One, if… The first correct guesser gets one free Dock Connector, so that he/she can build a Mic or something better.

      

Oy vey: after shifting more dates than an old lady working in the produce section, it appears that Richard Kelly's thriller The Box has been bumped once more, from next March to next November. Usually, this would be a bad thing, but I'm still seriously intrigued by this adaptation of Richard Matheson's short story, in which a young couple (James Marsden and Cameron Diaz) are given a mysterious box that can make them wealthy, but at the cost of killing a stranger the moment they use it.

The film is completed enough to merit a PG-13 from our pals over at the MPAA (for "thematic elements, some violence and disturbing images"), so it's not post-production woes holding the film up. One suspects this is a much less sprawling film than his Southland Tales, which we'll come back to soon enough. Is it part of WB's strategy to spread out product as the strike catches up to them, as they had by moving Harry Potter from this week to next summer?

Man, if I could just kill a stranger to get some answers...

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