Comment Reinventing the wheel (Score 1) 2
Sounds like he's trying to do the same as onesocialweb.org and would do well to join forces with them since they're much further along.
Submission + - Robbiek building a opensource facebook alternative 2
An anonymous reader writes: http://robbiek.co.uk/ is a new website with the aims to build a social network but not to compete with facebook but to give the users what they want and full control over everything.
The creator, Robbie Kleman is a college student from Scotland and in an email sent to me, he described " Privacy has been a big concern in the news lately. Facebook and google are taking advantage of it's users, not protecting them but treating them like they are product and not the user. This is why i have started a website called Robbiek. A website that aims to develop a social network where everyone can pitch in. Programmers, designers, testers, the lot. This way the users know the system inside out, know how there privacy is being protected and they choose the features and how the software works."
Robbiek plans to release the product to everyone under a open source license. Each website running the software can connect with each other. The bbc gave me a good idea how it could work when I was reading an article about email. There are literary thousands of websites that can be used to send email to any email address. Say you send an email from gmail as example@gmail.com but the receiver had an AOL email account, example@aol.com, the receiver can still receive the email because they all connect in away with each other using a protocol. Well Robbiek (name not decided) could work similarly.
http://robbiek.co.uk/ is in the planning stages and is looking for developers and designers to help with the cause. Bring a secure social network that the users want.
The creator, Robbie Kleman is a college student from Scotland and in an email sent to me, he described " Privacy has been a big concern in the news lately. Facebook and google are taking advantage of it's users, not protecting them but treating them like they are product and not the user. This is why i have started a website called Robbiek. A website that aims to develop a social network where everyone can pitch in. Programmers, designers, testers, the lot. This way the users know the system inside out, know how there privacy is being protected and they choose the features and how the software works."
Robbiek plans to release the product to everyone under a open source license. Each website running the software can connect with each other. The bbc gave me a good idea how it could work when I was reading an article about email. There are literary thousands of websites that can be used to send email to any email address. Say you send an email from gmail as example@gmail.com but the receiver had an AOL email account, example@aol.com, the receiver can still receive the email because they all connect in away with each other using a protocol. Well Robbiek (name not decided) could work similarly.
http://robbiek.co.uk/ is in the planning stages and is looking for developers and designers to help with the cause. Bring a secure social network that the users want.
Comment Still online (Score 1) 1
Unlike what the article says, the site is still active.
Submission + - Scientists Creae Self-Replicating Synthetic Life (wired.com)
Aquineas writes: Man-made DNA has booted up a cell for the first time.
In a feat that is the culmination of two and a half years of tests and adjustments, researchers at the J. Craig Venter Institute inserted artificial genetic material — chemically printed, synthesized and assembled — into cells that were then able to grow naturally.
Read More http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/05/scientists-create-first-self-replicating-synthetic-life/#ixzz0oV8vGlO4
In a feat that is the culmination of two and a half years of tests and adjustments, researchers at the J. Craig Venter Institute inserted artificial genetic material — chemically printed, synthesized and assembled — into cells that were then able to grow naturally.
Read More http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/05/scientists-create-first-self-replicating-synthetic-life/#ixzz0oV8vGlO4
Comment What a dick (Score 1) 2
Hope this fuckwit exits congress this fall.
MIT Designs Aircraft That Uses 70% Less Fuel Than Conventional Planes 459
greenrainbow writes "Today a team of researchers at MIT unveiled their design for an airplane that uses 70% less fuel than conventional aircraft. The MIT design comes thanks to a NASA-funded initiative to increase fuel efficiency, lower emissions, and allow planes to take off on shorter runways. The team accomplished all of NASA's set goals with their innovative D-series plane, lovingly referred to as the 'double bubble,' which has thinner, longer wings and a smaller tail, and engine placement at the rear of the plane instead of on the wings."
Submission + - Facebook Founder Called Users "Dumb F***s" (thinq.co.uk)
Stoobalou writes: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg called the social network’s earliest users at Harvard "dumb f***s" for trusting him with their data.
The revelation comes in the form of an instant messenger transcript published at Business Insider. The social networking giant hasn't disputed the transcript's authenticity.
The revelation comes in the form of an instant messenger transcript published at Business Insider. The social networking giant hasn't disputed the transcript's authenticity.
Comment Suuuure (Score 1) 2
People are going to be all excited to wear uncomfortable eye-straining glasses for not just movies, but all the hours of TV and computer use. Riiight. Also, I fart rainbows.
Comment The solution (Score 1) 1
Check out the open source, distributed social network project from onesocialweb.org or the open source joindiaspora.com project. Taking this out of the hands of companies/organizations and going back to the decentralized internet philosophy is the only fix.
Submission + - MySpacing Facebook (adbusters.org) 1
An anonymous reader writes: Is this the end of Facebook's cool image? Adbusters calls for the "MySpacing" of Facebook over the commercialization of friendship.
Submission + - New evidence Mars rocks contain ancient fossils (washingtonpost.com)
azoblue writes: NASA's Mars Meteorite Research Team reopened a 14-year-old controversy on extraterrestrial life last week, reaffirming and offering support for its widely challenged assertion that a 4-billion-year-old meteorite that landed thousands of years ago on Antarctica shows evidence of microscopic life on Mars.
Comment Spam the moon? (Score 1) 1
So you want people to pay to watch you launch something to the moon that's full of web site crap that you're selling to other people... Even on the off chance that this isn't a scam, it's profoundly retarded and probably ought to be considered criminally stupid. Fortunately, I'm pretty sure you're just trying to rip off people's money and will never succeed in littering the moon with your spamrocket.
Submission + - Martian Gullies Explained By Flow of Sand (technologyreview.com)
eldavojohn writes: There's a lot of evidence that a very long time ago some fluid once flowed on Mars but the primary evidence of water today — gullies inside craters — is explainable by a much less exotic reason: flowing dust and sand. It would now seem that the news from 2006 that NASA had found definitive evidence of flowing water on today's Mars needs to be comprehensively reexamined. The Bad Astronomer lays claim that flowing sand and dust doesn't explain all recent hi-res imagery from the red planet but it certainly does seem more plausible considering what we know about Mars.
Submission + - Apple picked on the wrong guy (nytimes.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Now that a journalist is Apple's target, the media becomes interested.
From the New York Times: `Journalists are already getting warmed up for the next big Apple event, the Worldwide Developers Conference in June, where they will most likely get a look at the next generation of the iPhone. But there might be fewer people lined up, and not just because we got a peek inside the new model when photos of a prototype were leaked on a blog two weeks ago. We also got an unflattering peek inside the company itself.'
From the New York Times: `Journalists are already getting warmed up for the next big Apple event, the Worldwide Developers Conference in June, where they will most likely get a look at the next generation of the iPhone. But there might be fewer people lined up, and not just because we got a peek inside the new model when photos of a prototype were leaked on a blog two weeks ago. We also got an unflattering peek inside the company itself.'
Comment Re:Not just Blu-Ray (Score 1) 2
One of the DVD players is a Sony, the other a JVC. The computer DVD that won't play it is a Dell DVD-ROM. The one that does play it is some generic dual-layer DVD-RW.
