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Submission + - The Creepiest TV Moments of Google's CEO (gawker.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Google CEO, Eric Schmidt, has been a creepy, arrogant-sounding disaster in the press lately, especially on TV. Google issued a retraction in which Schmidt said "I clearly misspoke" on CNN, when he told the hosts of Parker Spitzer that they could "just move" to evade Google's Street View cameras. Time and time again Schmidt has managed to snatch PR defeat from the jaws of victory. The article contains several more links to other legendary Google cock ups, and a video making Schmidt look cynical, creepy and out-of-touch.
Google

Submission + - Google CEO: Don't like Street View? 'Just Move' (computerworld.com)

Submitted by CWmike
CWmike writes: Google chief Eric Schmidt started a firestorm in a CNN interview on Monday when responding to questions about what Google knows about people. Schmidt said that if people don't like having their homes photographed for Google Street View for the world to see, they can 'just move.' 'With Street View, we drive by exactly once, so you can just move,' said Schmidt, eliciting uncomfortable laughter from interviewer Kathleen Parker of the Parker Spitzer show. 'The point is, we only do it once. This is not a monitoring situation.' Those few sentences stirred up the blogosphere, and news sites erupted with stories, such as the San Francisco Chronicle's, which called Schmidt's statement an 'epic gaffe.'

Comment Re:I know it's silly to ask, but... (Score 1) 272

by andolyne (#32454816) Attached to: Study Finds That "Extreme Gamers" Play 48 Hours a Week

It's likely the weekends you're forgetting.

When my wife is away on the weekend and i've got nothing else to do (read: friends are busy), I could easily do 10-15 hours a day. Then that just leaves 3-4 hours a night during the week.

Normally, though, it's not that much... and it takes an mmo for me to have that much interest in a game - most other games I'm "finished" in 20 hours and bored.
Games

Submission + - License an Abandonware Game? (slashdot.org) 3

Submitted by WolverineOfLove
WolverineOfLove writes: I'm recreating a 1980s abandonware game with copyrights that have been seemingly unused for the past 18 years. The situation is detailed in a Slashdot Journal entry I just wrote, but in short: Is it worth dealing with all the copyrights and paying money if I want to recreate an abandonware title as an open source game? I know there are legal implications to certain decisions I might make, but there is a real possibility that this game's copyright holder will do nothing with the rights, and I'd much prefer preserving it for others than letting it fade away.
Networking

Researchers Beam 230Mb/sec Wireless Internet WIth LEDs 218

Posted by timothy from the binded-by-the-light dept.
MikeChino writes "A group of scientists from Germany's Fraunhofer Institute have devised a way to encode a visible-frequency wireless signal in light emitted by plain old desklamps and other light fixtures. The team was able to achieve a record-setting data download rate of 230 megabits per second, and they expect to be able to double that speed in the near future. While the regular radio-frequency Wi-Fi most of us use currently is perfectly fine, it does have its flaws — it has a limited bandwidth that confines it to a certain spectrum and if you've ever had someone leech off of your connection, you know that it also leaks through walls. LED wireless signals would theoretically have none of these downsides."

Submission + - Twitter Security: Are they serious?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Twitter's Director of Trust and Safety announced that they are rolling out a URL shortening service to help deal with malicious links. Twitter's growth rate has slowed by tenfold while the malware rate has increased by tenfold according to a recent report from Barracuda Labs. Is Twitter really rolling out a URL shortening service for the sake of security or is this just an excuse to compete with their partners like bit.ly?
Google

Submission + - Google, Italian Culture Ministry sign book pact (goodgearguide.com.au)

Submitted by
angry tapir
angry tapir writes: "Google and the Italian Culture Ministry have signed an agreement for the digitization of books held in Italy's two main national libraries, the first such pact between the U.S. company and a national government. Works by authors such as Dante, Machiavelli, Petrarch, Leopardi and Manzoni, whose ideas helped to forge Western culture, will be included in the project, which will scan public domain books published prior to 1868"

Submission + - Supreme Court Hearing on Monsanto Alfalfa (medicalnewstoday.com)

Submitted by Darkfell
Darkfell writes: "The U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether a lower court acted hastily and incorrectly by banning the cultivation of biotech alfalfa despite extensive scientific evidence documenting the safety of the crop. A coalition of agricultural organizations filed on March 8 a joint friend-of-the-court brief to the Supreme Court in support of the petitioners in "Monsanto Co. v. Geertson Seed Farms." "

Submission + - Usage of BCC in emails

Submitted by foyles
foyles writes: I'm wondering if there is some best practice or etiquette regarding the usage of bcc in the emails. My only usage is when I'm distributing something to a lot of people, maybe unrelated and of course for privacy I do nont want to disclosure email addresses. So, I'm thinking in my contacts privacy concerns. But in the work environment you can use it for gossiping. I have to admit that I used but stopped with the practice: didn't like it the taste afterwards. Besides, is there any way to know if you receive an email, it it has been bcc to someone else? may it would be good practice to ask email server programs to inform that there are bcc recipients? (not disclosing the addresses, but at least you are informed of that). Of course that will not limit gossiping, still you can forward or print and handle, but it will limit somewhat the practice

Submission + - BBC Lowers HDTV bitrate, users notice

Submitted by aws910
aws910 writes: According to an article on the bbc website, BBC HD lowered the bitrate of their broadcasts by almost 50% and are surprised that users noticed. From the article: "The replacement encoders work at a bitrate of 9.7Mbps (megabits per second), while their predecessors worked at 16Mbps, the standard for other broadcasters". The BBC claims "We did extensive testing on the new encoders which showed that they could produce pictures at the same or even better quality than the old encoders..." I got a good laugh off of this, but is it really possible to get better quality from a lower bitrate?
Idle

Submission + - Monkey Bruce Lee Bests His Master (telegraph.co.uk)

Submitted by lazylocomotives
lazylocomotives writes: Lo Wung, 42, trains monkeys to entertain people near a mall in China. Said monkeys bested their surprised master in front of an amused crowd in Nshi, China. "I saw one punch him in the eye — he grabbed another by the ear and it responded by grabbing his nose. They were leaping and jumping all over the place. It was better than a Bruce Lee film," said Hu Luang, a photographer. RTFA is recommended — there's a particularly funny photo included.

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