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Comment Re:Clogging the bandwidth (Score 2, Interesting) 572

by TheSeventh (#30459158) Attached to: Angry AT&T Customers May Disrupt Service
This is already happening anywhere you get a bunch of them in the same area, like a stadium or arena. At the University stadium here, a connection with an iPhone during the game was just about impossible, and they blamed it on the fact that they didn't know so many students would bring iPhones to school with them ?!

But they just put up a new tower about 5-6 miles away, so that should help . . .

I'm so glad I bought a g1 instead.
Apple

Submission + - Angry AT&T customers may disrupt service 1

Submitted by g0dsp33d
g0dsp33d writes: Fake Steve Jobs, the alter-alias of Newsweek's Dan Lyons, is calling disgruntled AT&T users to protest comments from AT&T’s Ralph de la Vega that smart phone (specifically iPhone) usage is responsible for their network issues and his plan to end unlimited data plans. The post, dubbed "Operation Chokehold" wants AT&T customers to use as much data service as they can on Friday, December 19th at noon.

While Fake Steve Jobs is notable for its satire, many Twitter and Facebook users seem to be rallying to its cry. It is unclear if there will be enough support to cause a DDOS.
Microsoft

Microsoft Acknowledges Theft of Code From Plurk 215

Posted by kdawson from the least-they-could-do dept.
adeelarshad82 writes with news that Microsoft has acknowledged and taken responsibility for the theft of code belonging to Plurk.com, although the company also said it was the work of a Chinese vendor. Yesterday we discussed Plurk's blog post accusing Microsoft of copying their UI and code for Microsoft's Chinese microblogging site, Juku. Microsoft has now taken the site down and indefinitely suspended Juku's beta.

Comment Re:Exactly, this ain't that hard (Score 1) 502

by 45mm (#30446316) Attached to: The Trial of Terry Childs Begins

Go to the boss, the highest you can barge in on, hand him in writing your objections and the passwords AND your resignation. Have them signed and don't look back.

Wish I had mod points for you, sir. Hindsight is 20/20 of course, but if there is a lesson learned from Mr. Childs' case this is most certainly it.
Television

"Loud Commercial" Legislation Proposed In US Congress 636

Posted by Soulskill from the you-have-my-grandmother's-vote dept.
Hackajar writes "Have you ever caught yourself running for the volume control when a TV commercial comes on? Congresswoman Anna Eshoo (D-CA) has, and is submitting legislation that would require TV commercials in the US to stay at volume levels similar to the programming they are associated with. From the article: 'Right now, the government doesn't have much say in the volume of TV ads. It's been getting complaints ever since televisions began proliferating in the 1950s. But the FCC concluded in 1984 there was no fair way to write regulations controlling the "apparent loudness" of commercials.'"
Medicine

Prions Observed Jumping Species Barrier 214

Posted by timothy from the only-applies-if-you-have-brain-tissue dept.
palegray.net writes "Nature is reporting on new findings that prions jump species barriers. Believed to be responsible for ailments such as Creutzfeld-Jakob disease and 'mad cow' disease, prions are thought to disrupt biological processes by causing normal proteins to fold abnormally. Researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston have observed infectious prions from hamsters causing abnormal protein development in mice, along with a range of other observations on prion actions in test tube environments. From the article: '... they also found that when a prion jumps species, it produces a new kind of prion. "This is very worrisome," says Claudio Soto, who led the research, published in Cell. "The universe of possible prions could be much larger than we thought."' Sounds like another good reason to donate your spare CPU cycles to projects like Folding@home."
Operating Systems

Submission + - Dell will sell Linux on PCs outside of U.S.

Submitted by StonyandCher
StonyandCher writes: Dell plans to sell computers with preinstalled Linux outside the U.S. as well as offer the Ubuntu Linux distribution to small business customers.

More details will be revealed later, wrote Lionel Menchaca, digital media manager for Dell on a company blog on Friday.

"I wanted to be clear that Dell does have plans to offer Linux to more consumers in additional locations outside the United States," Menchaca wrote.
Republicans

Submission + - PA budget fight brings partial shutdown (yahoo.com)

Submitted by
JagsLive
JagsLive writes: "AP reports, " Gov. Ed Rendell late Sunday ordered a range of state government services shut down and placed about a third of the state work force on indefinite unpaid furlough after frantic last-minute negotiations failed to break a budget stalemate. Rendell, appearing outside his Capitol office, said the shutdown would go forward but added that he was optimistic that he and legislators could come to an agreement within a day. ""
Quickies

Submission + - UK petition for government IT projects to be open (pm.gov.uk)

Submitted by
FireFury03
FireFury03 writes: "There is a Petition on the UK government's website calling for publicly funded IT projects to be implemented as Free software. From the petition: "This would allow for more of the public to benefit from the development of the software since the code would be available for anyone to use and improve. Furthermore, compatibility with other Free licences (such as the GPL) would promote rapid development and reduced costs through the reuse of existing code.""
Power

Submission + - Tesla Roadster (timesonline.co.uk)

Submitted by orbitalia
orbitalia writes: Who says electric cars have to be boring, Jay Leno test drives a new electric car based on the Lotus Elise that can do 0-60mph in 4 seconds for the UK Times. The Tesla shows sports cars can be electrifying. The sports car needn't die once oil runs out. I guess this is the first car that means we as sports car aficionados can see beyond the end of the internal combustion engine. Will electric, hydrogen or bio be the drive of the future?

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