Comment Re:Yet another reason... (Score 1) 457
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Bet you $100.00 they are not asking white people. There are a lot of illegal Canadians running around!
Plus Europeans and other Mediterranean types who can pass for US native.
Comment Re:Yet another reason... (Score 1) 457
You weren't allowed to wait in the house for an extra 30 minutes?
Comment Re:No, Mr Bond, I expect you to die... (Score 1) 457
Indeed - I can see Bond entering, say, Devil's Point in pursuit of his nemesis... and perhaps staying for a pint of New Belgium and some fire dancing.
Comment Re:What is the nature of the extra information? (Score 1) 389
mod parent funny
Submission + - Does Google Search Over SSL Do Any Good?
An anonymous reader writes: Now that Google offers SSL for search, will it do any good? Most of my searches are from the search bar in my browser, which defaults to the non-SSL version. I actually spent about half an hour playing with keyword.URL and google.xml to no avail, until I finally found that someone had made an extension to add Google SSL to the list of search providers. But looking at google.xml only made me wonder if Google Suggest is going to leak all my half-typed search terms, given that suggestqueries.google.com doesn't appear to use SSL. So is there any setting that actually protects your searches from eavesdropping, except for visiting the Google homepage over SSL every time? Do I have to turn off suggestions somewhere?
Submission + - Apple Fueling Online Equivalent of White Flight
theodp writes: Until recently, notes the NYT's Virginia Heffernan, people who found the Web distasteful — ugly, uncivilized — were nonetheless forced to live there. Not anymore. 'With the purchase of an iPhone or an iPad,' explains Heffernan, 'there's a way out, an orderly suburb that lets you sample the Web's opportunities without having to mix with the riffraff. This suburb is defined by apps from the glittering App Store: neat, cute homes far from the Web city center, out in pristine Applecrest Estates. In the migration of dissenters from the 'open' Web to pricey and secluded apps, we're witnessing urban decentralization, suburbanization and the online equivalent of white flight. The parallels between what happened to cities like Chicago, Detroit and New York in the 20th century and what's happening on the Internet since the introduction of the App Store are striking.'
Submission + - Hackers Can Delete Facebook Friends (computerworld.com)
CWmike writes: A bug in Facebook's Web site lets hackers delete Facebook friends without permission. The flaw was reported on Wednesday by Steven Abbagnaro, a student at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York. But as of Friday morning, Pacific time, it had still not been patched, based on tests conducted by the IDG News Service on a reporter's Facebook friends list. The security researcher is not going to release the code used in his attack until after Facebook fixes the flaw, but he says that technically competent hackers could figure out how to pull off the attack. That's because Abbagnaro's code exploits the same underlying flaw that was first reported by M.J. Keith, a senior security analyst with Alert Logic. Last week, Keith discovered that Facebook's Web site was not properly checking code sent by users' browsers to ensure that they were authorized to make changes on the site. Facebook's security team has been under siege lately, with worm attacks and site flaws popping up on a regular basis. These security issues come as the social network has been hit with intense criticism for not adequately protecting users' privacy, and inappropriately sharing user data with advertisers. Users have been quitting the social network and a campaign proclaiming May 31 as Quit Facebook Day has gained some traction. According to the results a new Sophos poll, more than half of Facebook users are considering dumping the site because of privacy concerns.
Submission + - Can musicians really jam online in real-time? (laptoprockers.eu)
atlanticbreakers writes: With Google's fiber networks experiment we are able to access the internet 100 times faster in the future than we're doing today. These ultra high-speed access gives people new possibilities to collaborate over the internet. Think about musicians and bands for instance. CNN's tech columnist Pete Cashmore predicted that real-time collaboration will be big this year. He was right. Real-time jamming isn't something from the future. It's here and already happening.
But some people will say it's impossible to jam in real-time on the Internet due to latency problems. Chris Chafe, who's music reseacher and director of Stanford University, says he solved this problem with his hardware solution called 'JamLink'.
But some people will say it's impossible to jam in real-time on the Internet due to latency problems. Chris Chafe, who's music reseacher and director of Stanford University, says he solved this problem with his hardware solution called 'JamLink'.
Submission + - Facebook page that led to Pakistani ban is gone (skunkpost.com) 1
crimeandpunishment writes: The controversial Facebook page that led to the site's blockage in Pakistan has been removed. But Facebook says it took no action on the "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day" page. Now the question is whether this will lead to the Pakistani government lifting the ban. Since banning Facebook, Pakistan also banned YouTube for content considered offensive to Islam....but it didn't cite any specific content when it ordered the YouTube ban.
Submission + - Ninth suicide at iPhone factory. (bbc.co.uk)
__aapspi39 writes: A ninth employee has jumped to his death at Taiwanese iPhone and iPad manufacturer Foxconn, China's state media reports. The 21 year old worker was the the eighth fatality this year. This raises questions as to whether the shiny finish of the lifestyle statements available from mega corporations are tarnished by such information, and whether the mistreatment of workers deserves to be highlighted when considering such firms.
Submission + - ImageLogr Scrapes "Billions" of Images Illegally (thomashawk.com) 1
PurpleCarrot writes: In what must be one of the largest attempts to scrape images from the web, the site ImageLogr.com "claims to be scraping the entire 'free web' and seems to have hit Flickr especially hard, copying full-sized images of yours and mine to their own servers where they are hosting them without any attribution or links back to the original image in violation of all available licenses on Flickr." The site even contains the option to directly download images that ImageLogr has scraped. What makes this endeavor so amazing is that this isn't a case of "other people gave us millions of infringing images, help us remove the wrong one's" but one of "we took all the images on the webz, if we got one of yours, oops!" The former gets some protection from the DMCA, whereas the latter is blatant infringement. The site has caused a flurry of activity and has since shut off its site, being replaced with the following message: "Imagelogr.com is currently offline as we are improving the website. Due to copyright issues we are now changing some stuff around to make people happy. Please check back soon."
Submission + - Russian man aims to reinvent 'Taser' technology (wired.co.uk)
Lanxon writes: A Russian man is hoping to overhaul the technology within Taser-type weapons — transforming them from single-shot, short-range devices that stun for a few seconds, into more effective long-range, rapid-fire weapons — by modifying the wires and the type of shock they generate, reports Wired. Non-lethal weapon developer Oleg Nemtyshkin's design uses bare wires, rather than the insulated wires favored by Taser and other stun gun makers. These wires weigh only about one sixteenth as much as insulated wire, providing less drag on the darts and improved accuracy. Nemtyshkin demonstrated his bare wire technology with a prototype – "Legionary" — in 2001. His latest version is the S5, and a video of the weapon in action shows it firing repeatedly — almost as fast as the trigger can be pulled.
Submission + - Heart Chamber Orchestra: Where ECGs become musical (wired.co.uk)
Lanxon writes: If you like your music to come from the heart, you need look no further than the Heart Chamber Orchestra — a collaboration between 12 classical musicians and the electronic duo Terminalbeach. Each musician is hooked up to an electrocardiogram, which monitors their heart rate and feeds it into a computer. The information is then used in real-time to create a musical score, which is sent back to the musician to play. When the musician is playing that, his or her heart rate influences the next bar, creating a feedback loop that evolves over the course of the performance.
Comment Re:Stuff you'll never see in the USA (Score 1) 341
However, considering the 2nd amendment and all, with half the population packing heat, Americans must be pretty stupid bunch of nancies not to revolt.
We're not hungry enough yet, and most of us still have roofs over our heads. Give it a few years, when the benefits are finally exhausted you'll see things get interesting in a hurry.
Comment Re:The downside of a DNA database (Score 1) 341
Now why would the US government, who just injected themselves into my healthcare
You have healthcare? Lucky S.O.B.
