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Comment when and where is April 21st 0100 to 0300 hrs???! (Score 2) 34

by hihihihi on Saturday April 21, 2012 @07:47AM (#39754951) Attached to: Weekend Lyrid Meteor Shower Visible From Earth

would someone, for the love of heavens, please explain to me why they always miss out 1 peice of info: from which location on earth and which timezone!!!!

i think this is such 2nd or 3rd story i am getting on slashdot. everytime i went to nasa website, watch damn videos and could never understand when and where on earth (srsly no pun) can i expect it!!!

please enlighten me if someone knows
(at my location this time already passed 12 hours ago)

Submission + - censorship: Court reprieve for Google india (wsj.com)

Submitted by hihihihi on Friday April 13, 2012 @05:19AM

hihihihi writes: from http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304356604577341101544076864.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
The lawsuit on objectionable content against Google India took an unexpected turn on Thursday when the complainant Mufti Aijaz Arshad Qasmi, filed a no-objection certificate with a Delhi Court for dropping name of the internet company from the lawsuit.
Only six parties now remain in the civil lawsuit i.e. Google Inc, Facebook India, Facebook Inc, Blogspot, YouTube and Orkut. The lower court also dropped cases against seven other entities, Exbii, IMC India, My Lot, Shyni Blog, Topix, Zombie Time and Boardreader as they were not found to be proper parties to the suit.

further (ad-laden) info: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com//articleshow/12637722.cms

Submission + - ACTA "Could Be Dead By Summer" (techweekeurope.co.uk)

Submitted by

judgecorp

on Thursday March 29, 2012 @05:21AM

judgecorp writes: "The ACTA agreement could actually be thrown out by the European Parliament. The European trade committee has decided not to refer ACTA (the Anti Counterfeiting Trade Agreement) to the European Court of Justice, and this is "the first sign that this Parliament is ready to reject ACTA," according to Bernd Lange, the Socialists and Democrats trade spokesman."It was a mistake from the beginning to put counterfeit goods and Internet content in the same agreement.”"

Submission + - Chrome beats IE for first time ever (statcounter.com) 2

Submitted by Kjella on Monday March 19, 2012 @08:28AM

Kjella writes: Sunday 18th of March should go down in browser history. For the first in many years IE is no longer then #1 web browser, with Chrome narrowly beating IE with 32.71% to 32.50% while Firefox on third with 24.81%. As the figures are substantially higher for Chrome and lower for IE on weekends it's only for a day but it's another big milestone. While IE still is in a clear lead in North America and Oceania, it is tied with Firefox in Europe while Chrome now leads in Asia and South America and Firefox leads in Africa.

Submission + - Google Cools Its Data Centre With Toilet Flushes (techweekeurope.co.uk) 1

Submitted by

judgecorp

on Monday March 19, 2012 @07:40AM

judgecorp writes: "Google is cooling its data centre in Douglas County, georgia, using "recycled" water that has been through the bathtubs and toilets of the surrounding community. So called "grey" water is perfectly adequate for the data centre's cooling system which relies on evaporation (the wet T-shirt effect), says Google."

Submission + - Nobel scientist who warned of thinning ozone dies (boston.com)

Submitted by hihihihi on Monday March 12, 2012 @07:18AM

hihihihi writes: F. Sherwood Rowland, the Nobel prize-winning chemist who sounded the alarm on the thinning of the Earth's ozone layer and crusaded against the use of man-made chemicals that were harming earth's atmospheric blanket, has died. He was 84. In 1995, Rowland was one of three people awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work explaining how chlorofluorocarbons, ubiquitous substances once used in an array of products from spray deodorant to industrial solvents, could destroy the ozone layer, the protective atmospheric blanket that screens out many of the sun's harmful ultraviolet rays.

Submission + - Anti-abortion Briton pleads guilty to pregnancy services hack (computerworlduk.com)

Submitted by Qedward on Monday March 12, 2012 @06:53AM

Qedward writes: A 27-year-old man from the West Midlands pleaded guilty on March 10 in a British court to hacking the website of a reproductive health services agency, obtaining the details of people who had registered on the website.

James Jeffery, of Wednesbury, pleaded guilty to two offences of gaining unauthorised access to a computer under the Computer Misuse Act of 1990, according to a statement from the Metropolitan Police Service. A sentencing date has not been set.

The British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) said that it detected 26,000 attempts on March 8 to break into its website over a six-hour period. The website was also defaced with a logo of Anonymous, the hacker collective that saw several of its alleged highly skilled members charged earlier in the week by US authorities...

Submission + - Chinese Spies Used Fake Facebook Profile To Friend NATO Officials (zdnet.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 12, 2012 @02:26AM

An anonymous reader writes: Late last year, senior British military officers, Defense Ministry officials, and other government officials were tricked into becoming Facebook friends with someone masquerading as United States Navy admiral James Stavridis. By doing so, they exposed their own personal information (such as private e-mail addresses, phone numbers, pictures, the names of family members, and possibly even the details of their movements), to unknown hackers.

Submission + - Ubuntu Hardware Support: Working With OEMs is Key, Says Canonical (thevarguy.com)

Submitted by

Joe Panettieri

on Sunday March 11, 2012 @05:45PM

Joe Panettieri writes: "Canonical seems to be cooperating with upstream manufacturers to bring better hardware support to Ubuntu. Here’s how, and what it means for the lives of Linux users everywhere."

Comment Re:No comparison whatsoever (Score 1) 200

by hihihihi on Tuesday February 28, 2012 @09:05AM (#39184029) Attached to: Spanish Company Tests 'Right To Be Forgotten' Against Google

Maybe he should try to embrace it, and have ghost hunter conventions there, or really spooky Halloween events. I don't know, but trying to deny the past is not the way to go about it.

I agree with the gist of the rest of your post. but some people will be aghast at idea of ghost hunter or other such idiocy there. it is just insulting to the people who died there and also to their relatives. it is one thing opening such thing on place of accident some 200 years back... but this was just 35 years back. yes "too-soon-to-joke" logic :(

Submission + - When Bill Gates urged Apple to license Mac technology (itworld.com)

Submitted by bdking on Monday February 27, 2012 @03:05PM

bdking writes: In June 1985, Microsoft CEO Bill Gates, then just 30 years old, wrote a memo to the then-CEO of Apple, John Sculley, recommending that Apple start licensing Macintosh technology, something Microsoft would do later in the year with Windows 1.0. The memo to Sculley, reprinted in full on the website Letters of Note, is awash with references to technology days past, as Gates suggested Wang and Digital Equipment Corp. as potential Apple partners.

Submission + - Genetically Engineered Bacteria Could Help Fight Climate Change (sciencemag.org)

Submitted by sciencehabit on Monday February 27, 2012 @03:04PM

sciencehabit writes: As humans warm the planet by releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, some researchers believe that capturing CO2 and trapping it in buried rocks could lower the risk of catastrophic climate change. Now a team of researchers has shown that bacteria can help the process along. They can even be genetically modified to trap CO2 faster, keeping it underground for millions of years.

Submission + - eBay: Ultra-Efficient Server Clusters in 115-Degree Heat (datacenterknowledge.com)

Submitted by 1sockchuck on Monday February 27, 2012 @02:40PM

1sockchuck writes: eBay is running one of the world's most efficient high-density clusters in data center containers on a Phoenix rooftop. The containers house Hadoop clusters running at about 26 kilowatts per rack. Last August, when the outside temperature was 115 degrees, the eBay container recorded an efficiency rating that exceeded the best performances seen by Google, Yahoo or Facebook facilities. See the eBay blog and a case study by The Green Grid (PDF) for more details.

Submission + - Why Did Google Buy Motorola, Then Firewall It? (itworld.com) 1

Submitted by

jfruh

on Monday February 27, 2012 @02:08PM

jfruh writes: "Google spent $12.5 billion dollars to buy Motorola Mobility — a lot of money, even for Google. But as the deal has slowly moved towards closing, Google has spent lots of energy insisting that their purchase of one of the most prominent manufacturers of Android phones and tablets won't result in any of the cooperation that you'd think would make the purchase worthwhile; Android head Andy Rubin says that there's a firewall between him and Motorola, and he has no idea what the company's plans are. So the persistent question arises: Why did Google bother?"

Submission + - European Court Finds Use of Gas Not a Violation of Human Rights (thebulletin.org)

Submitted by __aaqpaq9254 on Monday February 27, 2012 @12:40PM

__aaqpaq9254 writes: This is pretty startling. Alexander Kelle has a disturbing article about the European Court decision that the use of gas in the hostage situation at a Moscow theater did not violate human rights: "On December 20, 2011, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France, ruled that the "use of gas against terrorists during the Moscow theatre siege was justified." It did not, that is, violate the right to life — enshrined in Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights — of the 700-plus hostages in a Moscow theater almost a decade ago."

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