Submission + - RIP Boisjoly: the man who tried to save Challenger (latimes.com)
Eric Stratton writes: Boisjoly tried to warn Morton-Thiokol and NASA that Challenger's o-rIngs would fail.
Comment Re:Or you could electrocute yourself in the proces (Score 2) 126
Just because it's "green" doesn't mean it's safe to let just any yahoo install an electric generator on his hut. Methinks it might be wise to let the village electrician do the installing.
And just to be safe he should wait till it goes dark. Oh wait a minute
Comment Concentrated right? (Score 1) 126
If all goes well, in a few years it should be possible to gather up a pile of grass clippings, mix it with a blend of cheap chemicals, paint it on your roof and begin producing electricity.
I assume the method concentrates these photosynthetic molecules. If so you're going to need several roof-areas-worth of grass clippings. And then you have the old problem of taking arable land and forcing food prices up. If this produces much with the grass clippings from an average suburban house then I'm amazed - and will it last through the winter?
Comment Another strange dissappearance (Score 1) 2
Just saw this with an orange box next to it on /recent, then it got tagged 'nod', then it disappeared just like that. Does samzenpus have the ability mod down multiple times? Why would he do that? It seems like somebody is making a concerted effort to prevent journals being visible on /recent or /popular. Has a journal ever got accepted as a story any time in the last several weeks/months?
Comment Re:HAH! (Score 1) 328
They shut down MegaUpload recently, and they were in New Zealand. The operators were arrested, too,
MegaUpload was in Hong Kong, the fat guy and his fleet of cars was in New Zealand. At least one of their servers was in the US and so were their domains.
Comment Re:Nooooooo!!!! (Score 2) 328
Not really, but [the Feds] did put on a big PR stunt where a big, popular file-sharing site, seemingly out-of-reach on the other side of the world, were shut down and the operators arrested. I'm not convinced that is was anything but a scripted reality show, but it seemed to have convinced the operators of BTJunkie that they should quit while they're ahead.
Yes indeed, just after the Megaupload circus Btjunkie removed all the latest torrents from their home page - it became Google style, with basically just a search box. This was before Rapidshare restricted their functionality. Btjunkie were obviously being very cautious.
Journal Journal: What is a journal? 2
When Slashdot added the journals, one of the features was the ability to submit journal entries for stories.
But other than that, I've never read any guidelines for what goes in your journal. It's up to you what story you want to tell in your journal.
Comment Re:Pirate bay decision is probably why (Score 1) 328
So straight after this case, Pirate Bay move to a
Magnet links are still links. They require much less space to host but they still need hosting. According to the US Immigration and Customs guys, linking is a crime - you lose your domain - or if you happen to live in the US (or UK)
Submission + - BTJunkie and Piratebay no more (btjunkie.org)
AWESOM-O 4k writes: It seems like the popular file sharing site BTJunkie.org (and the Pirate Bay) is gone. On btjunkie.org you are greeted with the following:
"2005 — 2012 This is the end of the line my friends. The decision does not come easy, but we've decided to voluntarily shut down. We've been fighting for years for your right to communicate, but it's time to move on. It's been an experience of a lifetime, we wish you all the best! "
"2005 — 2012 This is the end of the line my friends. The decision does not come easy, but we've decided to voluntarily shut down. We've been fighting for years for your right to communicate, but it's time to move on. It's been an experience of a lifetime, we wish you all the best! "
Journal Journal: Seizedservers.com melts under NFL load
Last Thursday agents working for Immigration and Customs Enforcement seized 307 domains. Sixteen were involved with streaming sports events while the rest were implicated with the sale of counterfeit jerseys and other NFL merchandise. This
Comment Apostrophe? (Score 2, Informative) 89
the BBC has rolled out the latest changes to it's sports website
New submitter (and Unknown Lamer) could have learned how to use the apostrophe.
Comment Chillingeffects.org (Score 1) 165
You expect him to go through all of these:
https://www.chillingeffects.org/notice.cgi
?
Submission + - Open Source Solution to Twitter Censorship (morriscgroup.com)
drewry writes: "With the recent announcement by Twitter to start censoring tweets in countries with strict freedom of speech laws, we have decided to launch a project to try to create alternatives for these countries. We are not trying to kill Twitter, just provide a free open alternative.
Introducing the Robin Messenger project, what this does is it creates a 100% open source software that can be downloaded and installed on any server (well currently only those in the LAMP stack) but could easily be converted to Ruby, ASP, java, etc. The nodes communicate with each other using an open API that sends data as JSON and receives data in the header vars. Currently a user registers on one node and their username is identified as being from that node by adding a number at the end, for example my username is drewry1 on node1 but I can also register on other nodes if I wanted to. However, you can follow anyone on any node and receive their messages on your node. We hope in the future to provide sister projects that help index the other nodes and improve the search and hash tag features.
The idea comes from the 17th century French tradition of round-robin where those petitioning the king would sign their name in a circle (or ribbon) so no one person could be identified as the ringleader. This essentially takes that idea to the 21st century by decentralizing the messaging system so that no one server can be identified as the "ringleader." Additionally, because it is all open you could easily install this on a LAN, Open Mesh network, etc. in case the internet were to go down in your country. We want to provide clear, free and open alternatives to activists regardless of what country they are in and in the process develop future technology that promotes an open internet.
We currently have 3 nodes running (hoping to double that by tonight)
http://dev.morriscgroup.com/robin
http://66.190.83.240/robin/
http://inspirovation.com/robin
The github repo is here — https://github.com/drewry/Robin
The download link is on the signup page of each node, for example http://dev.morriscgroup.com/robin/signup.php as well as a detailed explanation of the project's objectives. The installation process grabs the node list and registers your node on all other nodes. What we need is publicity and more developers that can donate their time and server space to help the project grow. We believe that this could provide a great tool for the internet and we hope that others will see that possibility too!"
Introducing the Robin Messenger project, what this does is it creates a 100% open source software that can be downloaded and installed on any server (well currently only those in the LAMP stack) but could easily be converted to Ruby, ASP, java, etc. The nodes communicate with each other using an open API that sends data as JSON and receives data in the header vars. Currently a user registers on one node and their username is identified as being from that node by adding a number at the end, for example my username is drewry1 on node1 but I can also register on other nodes if I wanted to. However, you can follow anyone on any node and receive their messages on your node. We hope in the future to provide sister projects that help index the other nodes and improve the search and hash tag features.
The idea comes from the 17th century French tradition of round-robin where those petitioning the king would sign their name in a circle (or ribbon) so no one person could be identified as the ringleader. This essentially takes that idea to the 21st century by decentralizing the messaging system so that no one server can be identified as the "ringleader." Additionally, because it is all open you could easily install this on a LAN, Open Mesh network, etc. in case the internet were to go down in your country. We want to provide clear, free and open alternatives to activists regardless of what country they are in and in the process develop future technology that promotes an open internet.
We currently have 3 nodes running (hoping to double that by tonight)
http://dev.morriscgroup.com/robin
http://66.190.83.240/robin/
http://inspirovation.com/robin
The github repo is here — https://github.com/drewry/Robin
The download link is on the signup page of each node, for example http://dev.morriscgroup.com/robin/signup.php as well as a detailed explanation of the project's objectives. The installation process grabs the node list and registers your node on all other nodes. What we need is publicity and more developers that can donate their time and server space to help the project grow. We believe that this could provide a great tool for the internet and we hope that others will see that possibility too!"
Comment Logging on? (Score 1) 1
With so many people logging on to the internet
Wake up would-be SEO-meister who wishes it was still 1995: nobody logs on to the Internet anymore.
Submission + - Mobile Application Development India - IDS (isisdsn.com)
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