D H NG - Slashdot User

Comment Hanoi not biggest (Score 3, Informative) 59

by D H NG on Monday June 07, 2010 @04:50PM (#32488992) Attached to: Activists Worry About a New "Green Dam" In Vietnam

Hanoi may be the capital but it's not the most populous city, not even by a long shot. It recently gobbled up a nearby province but it's still smaller than Saigon, now officially Ho Chi Minh City.

Comment Re:It's funny - google HR wants MS Doc format (Score 1) 1003

by D H NG on Thursday June 03, 2010 @01:12AM (#32440918) Attached to: Google Reportedly Ditching Windows

Which format did you send it in? It all gets converted to text internally anyways.

Comment Re:Code can run on processors if installed properl (Score 1) 190

by D H NG on Thursday June 03, 2010 @01:08AM (#32440886) Attached to: Android Rootkit Is Just a Phone Call Away

Google announced no such thing. It's a news story from the Financial Times that Google neither confirmed nor denied.

Comment Re:Isn't Android supposed to be "open source" ? (Score 5, Informative) 305

by D H NG on Friday May 21, 2010 @04:23AM (#32290450) Attached to: Google Outlines Feature Set For Android 2.2

FYI, Flash support won't be built into Froyo. You download the Flash plug-in from the Marketplace as you would any other app.

Submission + - Google mistakenly collected Wifi payload data (blogspot.com)

Submitted by D H NG on Friday May 14, 2010 @05:30PM

D H NG writes: After the Data Protection Agency in Germany asked Google to audit the Wifi data that its Google Street View cars were collecting, Google discovered that it was inadvertently collecting more data than intended. Besides the SSID and MAC addresses, it was also collecting samples of payload data from open (i.e. non-password-protected) WiFi networks. Google is asking a third party to review the software at issue, how it worked and what data it gathered, as well as to confirm that they deleted the data appropriately; and internally reviewing its procedures to ensure that its controls are sufficiently robust to address these kinds of problems in the future.

Submission + - Google to close online phone store

Submitted by D H NG on Friday May 14, 2010 @01:18PM

D H NG writes: Four months after launching the Nexus One in an online-only web store, Google admitted that sales through this channel had not met its expectations. Google announced that it will soon be selling Nexus One through existing retail channels and convert the online store to "an online store window to showcase a variety of Android phones available globally."

Comment Re:Why? (Score 5, Informative) 216

by D H NG on Tuesday April 20, 2010 @04:47PM (#31915410) Attached to: Google Enumerates Government Requests

Because this is what happens to people who "leak" "state secrets".

Submission + - Google Publicizes Government Requests (google.com)

Submitted by D H NG on Tuesday April 20, 2010 @02:29PM

D H NG writes: In the aftermath of Google's exit from mainland China, it had sought to be more open about what it sensors. Google has launched a new tool to track the number of government request targeted at Google and YouTube. These include both requests for data and removal requests. A quick look at the tool shows that Brazil is the top country for both categories and information for China can not be disclosed because "Chinese officials consider censorship demands as state secrets". As part of its four-part plan, Google hopes to "change the behavior of repressive governments", "establish guiding principles for dealing with issues of free expression", "build support online to protest repression", and "better provide resources and support for developing technology designed to combat and circumvent Internet censorship".

Comment Re:Spellcheck fail (Score 1) 338

by D H NG on Monday April 19, 2010 @12:41PM (#31897848) Attached to: Volcanic Ash Heading Towards North America

The last time they sent over warships to "pick up people", the US was so pissed off we went to war with them.

Submission + - Google.cn shuts down, redirected to google.com.hk (blogspot.com)

Submitted by D H NG on Monday March 22, 2010 @03:41PM

D H NG writes: Google announced that it is ending censorship on Google.cn, as it had promised to do in January. From now on, visitors to google.cn will be redirected to google.com.hk, the Hong Kong website of the search engine providing uncensored results tailored to mainland users.

Comment Re:That didn't take long. (Score 1) 103

by D H NG on Sunday February 14, 2010 @09:56PM (#31139612) Attached to: Google.cn Still Remains In China

Yeah, those iPad ads are confusing to a lot of people.

Comment PGP Whole Disk Encryption (Score 1) 65

by D H NG on Sunday February 14, 2010 @07:11PM (#31138110) Attached to: How To Replace FileVault With EncFS

I recently replaced FileVault on my MacBook Pro with PGP Whole Disk Encryption, and the results have been nothing but headache. Now when I close the lid, the laptop doesn't go into hibernate mode, and the laptop doesn't recognize my iPod when I plugged it in.

Comment Re:Public vs private (Score 1) 310

by D H NG on Wednesday February 10, 2010 @01:13AM (#31082244) Attached to: Google Buzz — First Reactions

If that's the case, how does this make Google worse than any of the other search engines out there? How many search engines you know tells you up front what it knows about you and allows you to edit it?

Comment Re:Public vs private (Score 5, Interesting) 310

by D H NG on Wednesday February 10, 2010 @12:38AM (#31082062) Attached to: Google Buzz — First Reactions

Google is the only search engine with the balls to refuse a government subpoena to turn over its search records. Not Microsoft, not Yahoo!, not AOL.

Comment Re:Somewhere in Mountain View... (Score 1) 181

by D H NG on Monday January 18, 2010 @09:15PM (#30815076) Attached to: Google Investigating Chinese Employees

During my orientation week in Mountain View, there was a joke about some hardware being stolen from campus. The punchline? "If there's one thing that Google's good at, it's searching."

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