Comment ETF (Score 2, Funny) 493
Wow, these verizon early termination fees are *really* getting out of hand..
Comment Re:Old news (Score 1) 259
Not surprisingly, there is some current commentary from the developers in the Digsby forums talking about the research module:
http://forum.digsby.com/viewtopic.php?pid=23168#p23168
PaulS wrote: - The first Digsby blog post about the research module was two weeks after someone first noticed the module working. Why were people not informed *before* the module was in place? - Who on the digsby development team, specifically, suggested that an unannounced enabled-by-default research module which ran in the background would be a good idea?
Aaron (Digsby Developer) wrote: A bad management decision. I'm not going to name names, it's not my place, and we did apologies for that. The reasoning was they wanted to test it without giving other IM clients the same idea. It was a bad decision, and we know that.
Comment Can this mean.. (Score 1) 385
..that we might finally get a season 3 of Jericho??
Comment Re:I agree with the feds on this one (Score 1) 335
Entrapment is only valid if the accused did something they wouldn't have done otherwise. I don't see a jury imagining these guys wouldn't have used other means to accomplish their goal.
Comment Re:Enough Already You Twits! (Score 1) 156
ok, we'll get off your lawn, but it's "tweet," twit.
Comment Re:Headline sounds like Satan (Score 1) 156
I lol'ed
Comment Re:So Very Painfully Humiliatingly Guilty (Score 1) 1079
(Score:6, Funny)
Comment Re:A printer! (Score 1) 606
I think they should include a printer as well, one which prints out money!
Sorry, that's server-side functionality only.
Comment Re:speed is everything? (Score 1) 532
It's just like I say with sex... I may not be good, but at least I'm fast.
and like Microsoft, we'd prefer if it were bug free.
Submission + - Nothing Says "I Love You" Like 6.4 Terabit (youtube.com)
JagsLive writes: Nothing Says "I Love You" Like 6.4 Terabits Per Second (Video) (Cisco)
Clever marketing from the folks at Cisco.
Just how do you sell something as yawn-worthy for most people as Internet router specs? Well, Cisco is satirically treating its ASR 9000 router as a Valentine's Day Present.
Video : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pffeMdDSoY
Article : http://www.businessinsider.com/nothing-says-i-love-you-like-64-terabits-per-second-video-2009-2
Clever marketing from the folks at Cisco.
Just how do you sell something as yawn-worthy for most people as Internet router specs? Well, Cisco is satirically treating its ASR 9000 router as a Valentine's Day Present.
Video : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pffeMdDSoY
Article : http://www.businessinsider.com/nothing-says-i-love-you-like-64-terabits-per-second-video-2009-2
Submission + - The RIAA is trying to kill internet radio
sgeirk writes: "The Copyright Royalty Board (CRB),announced the new Soundexchange royalty rates, which could spell the end for many independent webcasters, not to mention the simulcast signals for many commercial and non-commercial radio stations. In a nutshell, rates are going to double between now and 2010. Even webcasters who stream through services like Live365 may be in jeopardy, as such firms' business models never envisioned a royalty rate this high. For more information on this story go here."
Submission + - Microsoft OneCare Last in Antivirus Tests
Juha-Matti Laurio writes: "PC World has a story reporting that Microsoft's Windows Live OneCare came in dead last out of a group of 17 antivirus programs tested against hundreds of thousands malware. The report of Austrian antivirus researcher was released at AV Comparatives Web site this week. Several free AV products was included to the test as well."
Submission + - Bill Gates on 640k (1989)
billgatesforpresiden writes: "There's an article at NewsForge about a recently recovered talk that Bill Gates gave back in 1989. He covers many other topics, including OS/2, software piracy, the history of the software industry, and his role at Microsoft. In particular, Gates talks about how in 1981, he thought that 640k would be good enough for at least 10 years. Do we finally have proof of Gates' "640k ought to be enough for anybody" quote?"
Marvin Minsky On AI 231
An anonymous reader writes "In a three-part Dr. Dobbs podcast, AI pioneer and MIT professor Marvin Minsky examines the failures of AI research and lays out directions for future developments in the field. In part 1, 'It's 2001. Where's HAL?' he looks at the unfulfilled promises of artificial intelligence. In part 2 and in part 3 he offers hope that real progress is in the offing. With this talk from Minsky, Congressional testimony on the digital future from Tim Berners-Lee, life-extension evangelization from Ray Kurzweil, and Stephen Hawking planning to go into space, it seems like we may be on the verge of another AI or future-science bubble."
Submission + - Faked Recordings Producer Comes Clean
thyrf writes: "It seems as though those independent comparisons stated by the producer of the recently uncovered Hatto music fraud took an interesting turn, the BBC reports. Since it was first revealed, William Barrington-Coupe, the late Joyce Hatto's producer and husband admitted replacing the original tracks with those of other artists. However, all is not as it seems. Barrington-Coupe claims he first began to replace snippets of certain tracks where his wife, who had cancer, could be heard groaning in pain. "It is very touching and he does go through every detail and how he did it and he makes it very credible," Mr von Bahr of the BIS music label said. As he got better at replacing the material, the sections grew longer until they in some cases ended up being the entire piece itself. Though we don't quite know why he ended up replacing entire tracks, his confession is convincing enough to call off the legal-heavies. "I don't see how either myself or the industry can get any satisfaction for pure revenge, I think the whole thing is deeply tragic story"."
