Comment Still on (Score 1) 3
8:56P, EDT.
Submission + - Facebook Outage 3
ncmathsadist writes: "Facebook is having an outage of some significance. It is now approximately 8:35PM and FB has been having a "site issue" for about 15 min and running."
Submission + - Comcast's 105MBit Service Comes With Data Cap (itworld.com) 2
itwbennett writes: "Comcast just announced the ultrafast, ultra-broadband "Extreme 105" 105 Mbit/sec Internet service for an introductory price of $105, when bundled with other services. That's the good news. The bad news: Comcast 'put a data cap on the service of 250 Gbit per month — about five hours worth of full-bandwidth use,' writes blogger Kevin Fogarty. 'There's no guarantee you'll be able to take full advantage of all that bandwidth, either.'"
Submission + - Fraud Charges Bring Death Knell for Online Poker?
Hugh Pickens writes writes: "PC Magazine reports that the founders of the top three online poker sites in the United States with have been charged with bank fraud, money laundering, and illegal gambling in what some observers say could be death knell for the online poker industry in the United States. The indictment and civil complaint seek at least $3 billion in civil money laundering penalties and forfeiture from the poker companies and 11 defendants including the founders of PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker, and Absolute Poker. "As charged, these defendants concocted an elaborate criminal fraud scheme, alternately tricking some U.S. banks and effectively bribing others to assure the continued flow of billions in illegal gambling profits," says US Attorney Preet Bhahara. "Moreover, as we allege, in their zeal to circumvent the gambling laws, the defendants also engaged in massive money laundering and bank fraud.""
Submission + - Da-da-da-DA da-DACharge! Worth millions? (foxnews.com)
Frosty Piss writes: Former San Diego Chargers musical director Bobby Kent says he wrote "da-da-da-DA da-DACharge!" and is suing ASCAP for not paying him any of the profit from the ubiquitous line from a song he wrote more than 33 years ago, one that is now a staple in sports arenas Back in the 1970s, Kent and co-writer Bernardo M. Hollman created song titled "Stadium Doo Dads." Sports fans know one line from the song — da-da-da-DA da-DACharge! — which Kent registered with ASCAP in 1978. But according to Kent, he never saw any royalties.
Submission + - Need a receipt on taxes? The Federal Tax Receipt (whitehouse.gov)
ndogg writes: "The White House has opened up a tool that lets you see where your tax dollars are being spent. I put my numbers in and it showed that a little over a quarter goes towards defense and military spending (I'm not sure I'm getting my money's worth on that one), and a little under a quarter for health care."
Submission + - Video Interview with "Father of Grid Computing" (hpcinthecloud.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Ian Foster discusses science, innovation and progress via distributed computing based on his experiences with early I-way days to the grid to cloud computing transition...
Comment Welcome to North Carolina (Score 1) 325
Here signs are illegible, missing, misleading or nonsensical because of our highly competent (heh-heh) DOT. No road goes in ANY direction here and, as a result, all navigation is point to point. Businesses and people do not put numbers on their houses or buildings. You are screwed without a GPS here.
Comment bah humbug! (Score 1) 320
Bah humbug! Geekdom may or may not pay attention to popular culture. Many of us geeks are totally indifferent and ignore this flatulent blast of stupidity. What is popular "culture" anyway? Tits wiggling on a video screen?? Stuff and nonsense.
Comment Re:2010 the warmest global year! (Score 1) 439
We had an "average year" here in NC. Unfortunately, summer was 10 degrees hotter than normal and winter 10 degrees colder. Not so great. Let's toss in yet another year of signiifcant sub-normal precipitation to put a maraschino cheery on this crappy sundae.
Comment Huzzah! (Score 1) 105
Congratulations to these two! It is richly deserved.
Solar Car Speed Record Smashed 72
An anonymous reader writes with word from Australia that "There's a new world record for the fastest solar-powered land vehicle: 88 km/h average speed over one kilometre in a lightweight car that uses about the same power as a toaster." As the article goes on to explain, this solar racer, built last year by students from the University of New South Wales, managed to nab that speed record earlier this month on an Australian navy base airstrip.
Comment good news here (Score 1) 783
This is delicious. I can't wait to see some of these shirkers get a goring from the tax authorities.
Submission + - 10-11 Hour Work Days (foundersatwork.com) 6
drc37 writes: My current boss asked me what I thought of asking all employees to work 10-11 hour days until the company is profitable. He read something from Joel Spolsky that said the best way to get new customers is to add new features. Anyways, we are a startup with almost a year live. None of the employees have ownership/stock and all are salary. Salaries are at normal industry rates.
What should I say to him when we talk about this again?
What should I say to him when we talk about this again?
Comment Re:As a voter who normally leans Democrat... (Score 1) 1128
The process can be perverted?!?
