Comment Surprised! (Score 2, Insightful) 141
I am surprised they are not blocking or at least filtering this out like they have done to YouTube and other sites on the Internet.
Submission + - obama biden salt and pepper shakers (securityjewelers.com)
secjewl writes: "I have listed on ebay a set of Obama/Biden salt and pepper shakers.
Obama is the pepper and Biden is the salt.
My wife thinks it is in poor taste.
After Obamas comment about his bowling and Special Olympics I think he has thrown the taste criteria out the window.
Anyway here is link to auction.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200321167788&ssPageName=ADME:L:LCA:US:1123
What do you think?"
Submission + - PRI & WNYC's Studio 360 Covers "Flower" (studio360.org)
Kurt S. Schlachter writes: "PRI and WNYC's Peabody award-winning "Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen" is covering two interesting takes on gaming in this week's show. Jenova Chen, co-founder of thatgamecompany, shows Kurt his new game, "Flower" — PS3's #1 download for February, and discusses at length what he's trying to do within the expanding field interactive media.
Later in the show, Studio 360's Sarah Lilley looks at how research scientists can harness the brain power of volunteer gamers to tackle some tricky projects. Biochemist David Baker helped create a computer game called "Foldit" that thousands are playing around the world. Not about commercial success, Baker wants to analyze the structure of proteins, and it turns out that humans are a lot smarter at this than supercomputers. The game? It's a lot more fun than it sounds."
Submission + - Dell 9 Suggestions?
Sparkie writes: "I have just acquired a Dell mini 9, a few months behind the times, and I was hoping I could get a little advice. I got the Dell 9 with Ubuntu, 2gb Ram, and 8gb SSD. I was looking at the available disk space, and I noticed that Ubuntu takes up a whopping 3.8gb of space (good thing I didn't get the 4gb version) I then started browsing through the package manager and noticed a bunch of packages that (to me) seemed unnecessary. I'm fairly new with Linux, and I was wondering if anyone has any tips for me to make room on my little ssd."
Submission + - Obama's Gift to Gordon Brown fails due to DRM 9
quanticle writes: According to the Daily Telegraph, when Gordon Brown sat down to watch the DVDs that Obama had given him, he found out that they were from the wrong region. Will this be the impetus that finally convinces our government that region coding is detrimental?
Submission + - Gmail lets you unsend email (tgdaily.com)
SpuriousLogic writes: A Google post unveils a new service, "Google Unsend" which allows users to unsend e-mails they don't want delivered within a five second window. Though the product does seem to have more validity than Twitter Premier services April Fool's Day is approaching, so I question the products authenticity. In fact, it has actually given me Déjà vu. Remember "Gmail Custom Time"?
Comment Re:Best attribute (Score 5, Insightful) 662
Agreed.
Besides, I think that whoever is using Firefox will continue to use it regardless of what IEX Browser comes out. The people that will be moving to IE8 will be those people that have used are privy to the previous IE Browser incarnations.
Besides, I think that whoever is using Firefox will continue to use it regardless of what IEX Browser comes out. The people that will be moving to IE8 will be those people that have used are privy to the previous IE Browser incarnations.
Submission + - Aussie blacklist revealed, blocked company pissed (computerworld.com.au) 1
mask.of.sanity writes: "Australia's secretive Internet filter blacklist held by its communications watchdog has been leaked, revealing the government has understated the amount of banned Web pages by more than 1000.
Multiple legitimate businesses and Web sites have been banned including two bus companies, online poker sites, multiple Wikipedia entries, Google and Yahoo group pages, a dental surgery and a tour operator.
Betfair, a billion-dollar business blocked by the blacklist, CEO Andrew Twaits was furious the government has potentially annexed tens of millions of dollars in revenue after its Betfair.com gambling site was blacklisted.
The blacklists were reportedly leaked by a Web filter operator to wikileaks which has published the full list of banned URLs.
Outraged privacy advocates say the government has effectively lied about the amount of URLs included in the blacklists, totalling more than 2300, and the type of content which it would ban.
The leak follows a series attacks on the watchdog in which irate users successfully lobbied for web sites to be banned, only to be threatened with an $11,000 fine for publishing the link contained in the PR response. It was also revealed the watchdog can ban Web sites at a whim, with no accountability."
Multiple legitimate businesses and Web sites have been banned including two bus companies, online poker sites, multiple Wikipedia entries, Google and Yahoo group pages, a dental surgery and a tour operator.
Betfair, a billion-dollar business blocked by the blacklist, CEO Andrew Twaits was furious the government has potentially annexed tens of millions of dollars in revenue after its Betfair.com gambling site was blacklisted.
The blacklists were reportedly leaked by a Web filter operator to wikileaks which has published the full list of banned URLs.
Outraged privacy advocates say the government has effectively lied about the amount of URLs included in the blacklists, totalling more than 2300, and the type of content which it would ban.
The leak follows a series attacks on the watchdog in which irate users successfully lobbied for web sites to be banned, only to be threatened with an $11,000 fine for publishing the link contained in the PR response. It was also revealed the watchdog can ban Web sites at a whim, with no accountability."
Submission + - Australian ACMA blacklist on Wikileaks
An anonymous reader writes: As reported in the Australian Press, the blacklist compiled by the ACMA seems to have been posted on Wikileaks.
Many Australians have been fiercely opposing the imposition of mandatory ISP level censorship for some time. Please note that many of the sites are not safe to access depending on your location. The list includes Christian sites, a dentist, a tour operator, wikileaks pages, gambling and euthenasia related sites. This follows the leaking of the blacklists from several other countries. There is no confirmation that this is the current blacklist and there is some mention that censorware vendor filter lists may have been included. The list contains 2395 sites. ACMA said its blacklist, as at November 2008 that the list included only 1370 sites.
Many Australians have been fiercely opposing the imposition of mandatory ISP level censorship for some time. Please note that many of the sites are not safe to access depending on your location. The list includes Christian sites, a dentist, a tour operator, wikileaks pages, gambling and euthenasia related sites. This follows the leaking of the blacklists from several other countries. There is no confirmation that this is the current blacklist and there is some mention that censorware vendor filter lists may have been included. The list contains 2395 sites. ACMA said its blacklist, as at November 2008 that the list included only 1370 sites.
Submission + - Australian secret blacklist leaked 1
dysprosia writes: The Australian secret blacklist has been leaked at Wikileaks. There are some "interesting" choices on the list, as the Sydney Morning Herald story suggests, "...about half of the sites on the list are not related to child porn and include a slew of online poker sites, YouTube links, regular gay and straight porn sites, Wikipedia entries, euthanasia sites, websites of fringe religions such as satanic sites, fetish sites, Christian sites, the website of a tour operator and even a Queensland dentist." Not to mention goat.cx, a picture of a suggestive pumpkin...
Comment I don't trust this... (Score 1, Insightful) 119
...as far as I can throw a CD and I can throw one pretty far. I just got to remember where I put mine at, I seemed to have "misplaced" them...WAIT, they are on my computer.
Back to topic. I don't trust this at all. Sure, the EFF is a great group but sometimes they get their ideals all in a mess much like this one. I just hope they aren't getting any monetary value from supporting this claim that it is a "promising new approach."
Either way, it sounds like people will still be sued, just by different individuals.
Back to topic. I don't trust this at all. Sure, the EFF is a great group but sometimes they get their ideals all in a mess much like this one. I just hope they aren't getting any monetary value from supporting this claim that it is a "promising new approach."
Either way, it sounds like people will still be sued, just by different individuals.
Submission + - Activists use Wikipedia to test Aussie net censors (itnews.com.au)
pnorth writes: Editors at Wikipedia have removed a link to a blacklisted web site that sat uncontested for over 24 hours in the main body of the Australian regulator's own Wikipedia entry. The link, which directs readers to a site containing graphic imagery of aborted foetuses, was inserted into ACMA's Wikipedia entry by a campaigner against Internet filtering to determine whether Australia's communications regulator had a double-standard when it came to censoring web content. The very same link motivated the regulator to serve Aussie broadband forum Whirlpool's hosting company with a 'link deletion notice' and the threat of an $11,000 fine. Last night, the link became the subject of "warring" between several Wikipedia administrators in the lead up to it's removal, with administrators saying they didn't want to be used to prove a point.
Submission + - CP80.org Wants More Pull With ICANN (theregister.co.uk)
dysmey writes: "The Register reports that CP80.org, the anti-pornography group led by SCO chairman Ralph Yarro, is petitioning ICANN to permit "the formation of a new 'Cybersafety Constituency'" which, if granted, would pull ICANN into the CP80.org goal of banning pornography from httpd port 80. ICANN has opened the proposal for comments, with the comment period ending April 5th."
Submission + - Sun in talks to be acquired by IBM. (nytimes.com)
gandhi_2 writes: "Sun Microsystems soared in European trading after a report that it was in talks to be acquired by I.B.M.
The Wall Street Journal, quoting "people familiar with the matter," reported Wednesday that International Business Machines was in talks to buy the company for at least $6.5 billion in cash, a premium of more than 100 percent over the company's closing share price Tuesday. Officials of Sun and IBM could not immediately be reached for comment. Story here."
The Wall Street Journal, quoting "people familiar with the matter," reported Wednesday that International Business Machines was in talks to buy the company for at least $6.5 billion in cash, a premium of more than 100 percent over the company's closing share price Tuesday. Officials of Sun and IBM could not immediately be reached for comment. Story here."
Submission + - Mobile Firefox Hits Beta1 Available for Nokia N810 (gizmodo.com)
JagsLive writes: A walkthrough of Fennec (mobile Firefox) beta release 1.The Firefox Mobile, a.k.a. Fennec, just hit Beta 1, and can be downloaded right now for any Nokia N810 internet tablet. No "real" phones can use this yet.
The video above takes you through the walkthrough of Beta 1 and gives you a good roundup of some of the more notable features. The most promising feature in our opinion, just like the best feature on the desktop version of Firefox, is the add-on support. There's already a couple extensions available.
Mozilla : http://www.mozilla.org/projects/fennec/1.0b1/releasenotes/
Gizmodo : http://i.gizmodo.com/5172917/mobile-firefox-hits-beta-1-available-for-nokia-n810
The video above takes you through the walkthrough of Beta 1 and gives you a good roundup of some of the more notable features. The most promising feature in our opinion, just like the best feature on the desktop version of Firefox, is the add-on support. There's already a couple extensions available.
Mozilla : http://www.mozilla.org/projects/fennec/1.0b1/releasenotes/
Gizmodo : http://i.gizmodo.com/5172917/mobile-firefox-hits-beta-1-available-for-nokia-n810
