Comment Re:Why do we sleep? (Score 1) 164
I'm guessing the 'take the batteries out' or 'throw it out of the window' sections of the brains could be an effective measure against that.
Comment Re:Protection? (Score 1) 343
I'd be curious on the use of a ~100mph airship for international cargo usage - much faster than boat, potentially much cheaper than plane. (Does it even have to be manned?) Also interesting that weight rather than bulk is the main issue. The ship in the article mentioned a ton of cargo - that is not very much.
Comment Re:3 Days Turnaround (Score 2, Interesting) 244
If this weren't a free service I'd definitely raise hell..
Are these students not paying fees, and (were it to occur in most other countries) taxpayers paying also?
Comment Re:What a nice gift to progressives (Score 1) 881
It is not verbatum copying, it is taking key points, re-wording them, and passing them off as originally sourced. That happens all the time, especially to decent blogging and discussion forums. And it happens on the low level. For example if a lazy journalist wants to make a Japan related story, they need only visit Japundit, pick something interesting, and re-word it. And in the majority of cases no attribution is given. That's what I mean by bad form.
Comment Re:What a nice gift to progressives (Score 5, Interesting) 881
Also as a publisher of a small Online Community Newspaper, I hope that Gannett and the other big news publishing companies follow suit. It's win win for me.
I often see how independent small publishers break stories, only for larger organisations to source from, but not attribute their source, several days later. This is especially true of quality blogs and online communities in niche interest or geographical areas - I run one of these. Not attributing and mandatory charging for a derivative work is not good form.
I would like to know the IP range that Murdoch companies use, in order to block them from my content.
Submission + - SPAM: The future of Shared Hosting is here!
An anonymous reader writes: Matt Heaton, President of BlueHost and Hostmonster, shares new technologies which will rock the world of shared web hosting with new products and services due in the next month, CPU Protection and CPU Core leasing. No more users hogging all the CPU. No more CPU cycle quotas. Simply, the most amazing technology to hit Shared Hosting since cPanel.
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Submission + - Google Hijacks Domain Name (youtubeislam.com) 4
rickyrick74 writes: Google is literally *stealing* someone's domain name against their will even though they own the domain name legitimately and have paid for it! The registrar is GoDaddy and they are transferring the domain name to Google for ownership against the will of the current owner without a court order. The domain name is www.YouTubeIslam.com Here's the story told in the words of the domain's current owner:
Can you imagine my shock when I opened up an email telling me our website domain name (YOUTUBEISLAM.COM) is being taken over by GOOGLE and their video site — YOUTUBE? Here is more or less what we were told:
NOTICE: Effective August 5th, 2009 Google (owner of YouTube.com) will take over your domain name: YOUTUBEISLAM.COM.
Although we have purchased the name "YOUTUBEISLAM.COM" and have renewed for several years through GODADDY.COM it seems GOOGLE has enough influence to just simply take our domain name from us — and by the way, we have even paid for it all the way through to next year.
First, their lawyers contacted us saying they were going to take our domain because we copied their logo. We didn't even come close to their logo. (look for yourself http://www.youtubeislam.com/images/logo.gif)
They next came up with saying our name was too similar to their name. We changed the name and the layout to read: YoUtuBeisLam.com and we even registered that as a trade name. We changed the logo and the images to reflect the new name.
They said they went into "arbitration" (of course we were not invited to that meeting) and then our registrar (GODADDY.COM) notified us they are "transferring" our domain name over to GOOGLE.
We have always maintained the highest of standards on our site — We never allowed any videos with inappropriate material. We did not allow videos that insulted or put down other religions. No dating or suggestive materials. No bad language. Only topics fit for all the family. We paid for the bandwidth from our own pockets to make sure everything was always as it should be without having people click and wind up on websites attacking beliefs or making fun of believers and certainly nothing to hurt people's feelings.
Whatever you think of Islam and Muslims, there is no justification for stealing a domain name without due process of law. So much for not being evil! Google has officially become the Evil Corporation it explicitly said it would not become. Shame on you Google!
You can see a video about it on their site.
Comment Re:Who cares (Score 1) 514
The sky is an eerie dark shade of brightness right here, near but not under the path of the current solar eclipse, high in the sky, but as if the brightness setting of a monitor has been turned right down, none of the hue of sunset. I believe this makes a good analogy to the GP's point.
Comment Re:Postal addresses identify houses!I (Score 1) 222
I think you identified they key point well: It's not what PII is, or what something judged 'not-PII' is, it is what is done with any piece of information collected. That should be well defined, and if usage of PII or non-PII data is in breach of an agreement (for example whether and IP address is PII or isn't PII, if a service decide to sniff me on an IP address, as an example, as a result of my using their service, that should be changeable, rather than whether or not an IP address is PII).
Submission + - Do your company provide private home-folders? 2
fluor2 writes: Most companies provide a home dir which is pretty much private for the user. Here, the user can store documents only intended for private storage. E.g. internal job applications, personal letters to the boss and other similar data. The boss tells us, the IT department, to get rid of the home directory for our users.
Arguments are that we do no longer want to store any "private data", thus we can open up most of the data at all levels in our company. Private data should be stored on the local disk (a separate C:\Private or similar), or on private USB equipment or similar. In conclusion: out of sight from the company. I personally fear that people will bring private equipment into work and thus increase the chances of 3rd party driver crashes and similar. And I do not want people to spend time on backing up private data. After all, it's only a few gigs at average per user.
What is Your company's policy on home-folders?
Arguments are that we do no longer want to store any "private data", thus we can open up most of the data at all levels in our company. Private data should be stored on the local disk (a separate C:\Private or similar), or on private USB equipment or similar. In conclusion: out of sight from the company. I personally fear that people will bring private equipment into work and thus increase the chances of 3rd party driver crashes and similar. And I do not want people to spend time on backing up private data. After all, it's only a few gigs at average per user.
What is Your company's policy on home-folders?
Submission + - Can urine rescue Hydrogen-Powered cars? (greencarreports.com)
thecarchik writes: "It takes a lot of energy to split hydrogen out from the other atoms to which it binds, either in natural gas or water. Which means energy analysts are skeptical about the overall energy balance of cars fueled by hydrogen. Ohio University researcher Geraldine Botte has come up with a nickel-based electrode to oxidize (NH2)2CO, otherwise known as urea, the major component of animal urine. Because urea's four hydrogen atoms are less tightly bound to nitrogen than the hydrogen bound to oxygen in water molecules, it takes less energy to break them apart:"
Submission + - Google OS Announced 12
shystershep writes: "Rumors have been floating around for years that Google was planning an OS to compete with Window. As of Tuesday night, it is official: "So today, we're announcing a new project that's a natural extension of Google Chrome — the Google Chrome Operating System. It's our attempt to re-think what operating systems should be. Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010." It is separate from the Android mobile OS, will run on both x86 and ARM processors, and is aimed primarily at web use. Other than that, details are scarce."
Submission + - Google announces open-source Chrome OS
geog33k writes: "Google has announced a new open-source OS that will first target netbooks. Quoting Sundar Pichai, VP Product Management and Linus Upson, "Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010.""
Submission + - The Google OS is Announced (blogspot.com) 2
popdookey writes: "It's true, it's real, and it's announced. Google will have an OS aimed at netbooks, and it will co-exist with Android. It will be fast booting, all applications will run over the web, and they will be supported through any standards-compliant web browser. The announcement is here, http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/introducing-google-chrome-os.html"
Submission + - Google Plans to Introduce a PC Operating System (nytimes.com)
kraksmoka writes: ""In a direct challenge to Microsoft, Google is expected to announce on Wednesday that it is developing an operating system for a personal computer based on its Chrome browser, according to two people briefed on Google's plans. The details of the technology could not be learned, but Google plans to make the announcement on a company blog on Wednesday afternoon, this person said.... in a recent interview, Marc Andreessen, who developed the first commercial browser and co-founded Netscape, compared Chrome into an operating system, "Chrome is basically a modern operating system," Mr. Andreessen said. Google has also long customized a version of the Linux operating system for use internally." Our desktops may never be the same. . ."
