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"David After Dentist" Made $150k For Family 234

Posted by samzenpus from the is-this-real-life? dept.
It turns out recording your drugged child pays pretty well. 7-year-old David DeVore became an overnight sensation when his father posted a video of his ramblings after dental surgery. To date that video has made the DeVore family around $150,000. Most of the money came from YouTube, but the family has made $50k from licensing and merchandise. From the article: "The one seemingly minor decision to make the video available all over the Internet set off a whirlwind of changes for the DeVore family. Within just four days, 'David After Dentist' received 3 million views on YouTube and the younger David quickly became an Internet celebrity. His father quit his job in residential real estate (did we mention they live in Florida?), and the family started selling T-shirts featuring cartoon drawings of their son post-dental surgery."

Comment Re:I dont get it (Score 3, Insightful) 306

Ah lack of understanding of the constitutions amendments strikes again...

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Where in that text do you see something that says AT&T can not tell you to stop being a jerk to their CEO. Where in there does it say that Slashdot is required to keep your post showing, where does it say that you are allowed to yell fire in a crowded theater.

All it says is that CONGRESS can not pass laws that abridge your right to speech. If you are talking poorly in my house - I have every right to ask you to leave.

Next

Comment Re:Slightly misleading title (Score 1) 86

by MerlynEmrys67 (#31013112) Attached to: Verizon MiFi Owned By Simple Attack
No - what has happened is that almost every (all that I have seen - but that isn't anywhere close to an exhaustive search) consumer router now comes with a "setup" disk. You attach the router to your computer - run the setup disk and it prompts you to give it a password. From there it created a file that you put onto a USB key that you can give all of your friends to import into the Windows Wireless profile manager - and imagine that... easy security.

Just realize that your dad will loose this file AND the password - requiring a cross country flight to visit.

Comment Editors and Debuggers (Score 0, Flamebait) 310

by MerlynEmrys67 (#30835032) Attached to: What Tools Do FLOSS Developers Need?
Anyone that claims either vi or emacs is a useful editor hasn't used a modern Windows IDE. Just the amount of context aware help that is available about the platform is amazing.

Get a real kernel debugger INTO the linux kernel. DO it now - I hate having to patch the heck out of my kernel just to see what some module that I am unfamiliar with works. I know I know - Linus doesn't like debuggers. Well, hate to say it but he is wrong. There is no substitute for watching your code run on the platform in real time.

For that matter dbg could use a little update - it is what 30 years old now, getting closer to 40. There are a lot of new things that need to be included.

Comment Looks like a simple bug to me (Score 0, Flamebait) 332

by MerlynEmrys67 (#30811178) Attached to: Microsoft Bots Effectively DDoSing Perl CPAN Testers
Sadly not microsoft's though. If I am doing this correctly Robots.txt seems to return a 404 error. Looks like cpan removed their robots.txt file at least from where I am sitting.

Looking at another Robots.txt file seems to return what I expect.

Let no rock remain unthrown when it shows Microsoft is in the wrong - even if they aren't
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Man Sues Neighbor For Not Turning Off His Wi-Fi 428

Posted by samzenpus from the have-you-never-wondered-why-I-drink-only-distilled-water-or-rain-water-and-only-pure-grain-alcohol dept.
Scyth3 writes "A man is suing his neighbor for not turning off his cell phone or wireless router. He claims it affects his 'electromagnetic allergies,' and has resorted to being homeless. So, why doesn't he check into a hotel? Because hotels typically have wireless internet for free. I wonder if a tinfoil hat would help his cause?"

Comment Re:eh, I'm not crying too hard (Score 1) 202

by MerlynEmrys67 (#30560954) Attached to: The Secret Lives of Amazon's Elves

He's being ironic with the plenty of jobs. His point is that morality and workers' rights should be set to whatever the market will bear. Since jobs are in demand, it is possible (and ethical) for companies to offer less desirable jobs.

So you are saying if the economy was better - amazon wouldn't have people packing boxes and picking out items from the shelves?

I think what you meant to say might have been to offer less desirable pay.
Games

Revisiting the "Holy Trinity" of MMORPG Classes 362

Posted by Soulskill from the or-druid-as-the-case-may-be dept.
A feature at Gamasutra examines one of the foundations of many MMORPGs — the idea that class roles within such a game fall into three basic categories: tank, healer, and damage dealer. The article evaluates the pros and cons of such an arrangement and takes a look at some alternatives. "Eliminating specialized roles means that we do away with boxing a class into a single role. Without Tanks, each class would have features that would help them participate in and survive many different encounters like heavy armor, strong avoidance, or some class or magical abilities that allow them to disengage from direct combat. Without specialized DPS, all classes should be able to do damage in order to defeat enemies. Some classes might specialize in damage type, like area of effect (AoE) damage; others might be able to exploit enemy weaknesses, and some might just be good at swinging a sharpened bit of metal in the right direction at a rapid rate. This design isn't just about having each class able to fill any trinity role. MMO combat would feel more dynamic in this system. Every player would have to react to combat events and defend against attacks."
Media

Lack of Manpower May Kill VLC For Mac 398

Posted by timothy from the vlc-generally-rocks dept.
plasmacutter writes "The Video Lan dev team has recently come forward with a notice that the number of active developers for the project's MacOS X releases has dropped to zero, prompting a halt in the release schedule. There is now a disturbing possibility that support for Mac will be dropped as of 1.1.0. As the most versatile and user-friendly solution for bridging the video compatibility gap between OS X and windows, this will be a terrible loss for the Mac community. There is still hope, however, if the right volunteers come forward."
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Dad Delivers Baby Using Wiki 249

Posted by samzenpus from the 9cm-edited dept.
sonamchauhan writes "A Londoner helped his wife deliver their baby by Googling 'how to deliver a baby' on his mobile phone. From the article: 'Today proud Mr Smith said: "The midwife had checked Emma earlier in the day but contractions started up again at about 8pm so we called the midwife to come back. But then everything happened so quickly I realized Emma was going to give birth. I wasn't sure what I was going to do so I just looked up the instructions on the internet using my BlackBerry."'"

Comment If you can't dazzle them with brilliance (Score 1, Insightful) 888

by MerlynEmrys67 (#30394540) Attached to: Best Way To Clear Your Name Online?
Baffle them with Bullshit.

Create all kinds of web presence - create several blogs and crosslink them to high profile sites. Google juice the heck out of a personal web page you have. Post about work you do on various sites.

It boils down to make it so the one incident is buried in googles results to the second page, and even then - they will see all the positive stuff on the first page and wonder if it is even you.
Games

Pirates as a Marketplace 214

Posted by Soulskill from the marrrrrrrket-share dept.
John Riccitiello, the CEO of Electronic Arts, made some revealing comments in an interview with Kotaku about how the company's attitudes are shifting with regard to software piracy. Quoting: "Some of the people buying this DLC are not people who bought the game in a new shrink-wrapped box. That could be seen as a dark cloud, a mass of gamers who play a game without contributing a penny to EA. But around that cloud Riccitiello identified a silver lining: 'There's a sizable pirate market and a sizable second sale market and we want to try to generate revenue in that marketplace,' he said, pointing to DLC as a way to do it. The EA boss would prefer people bought their games, of course. 'I don't think anybody should pirate anything,' he said. 'I believe in the artistry of the people who build [the games industry.] I profoundly believe that. And when you steal from us, you steal from them. Having said that, there's a lot of people who do.' So encourage those pirates to pay for something, he figures. Riccitiello explained that EA's download services aren't perfect at distinguishing between used copies of games and pirated copies. As a result, he suggested, EA sells DLC to both communities of gamers. And that's how a pirate can turn into a paying customer."

Comment competition announced? (Score 1) 200

by MerlynEmrys67 (#30077376) Attached to: <em>StarCraft</em> AI Competition Announced
Well, I guess it was announced almost 2 months ago. The teams have been submitted and the contest is currently running as far as I can tell FTFA. Hmmm... timely news. I don't think so, this would have been cool back in Sept. so someone that might be interested could simply create a bot and enter it. Now it is way past time

Comment Re:So is this why (Score 1) 198

by MerlynEmrys67 (#29774325) Attached to: IBM, Intel Execs Arrested Over Insider Trading
Strange - Bad people do bad things, they are caught using existing tools and regulations - if their crimes are proven they will be penalized.

Where do you see the need for more regulation?
Do you see a need to have these people violate two or three regulations instead of simply one?
Do you believe that their penalties (if they are proven guilty) are insufficient and deserving of harsher punishment?

By the way, many of these companies aren't on Wall street, but in Aramok, NY, and Santa Clara, CA.

Your populist milage may vary

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