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Submission + - Anonymous takes on a Mexican drug cartel (chron.com) 1

Submitted by NarcoTraficante on Saturday October 29, 2011 @01:47AM

NarcoTraficante writes: After one of their members was kidnapped in Veracruz, Mexico by the Zetas drug cartel, Mexican Anonymous members have issued an ultimatum to the Zetas in a recently posted YouTube video (Spanish). The video demands release of the kidnapped member and threatens to publish information of cartel members and affiliates in Veracruz if the victim is not released by November 5. The Houston Chronicle article warns that there will be bloodshed if Anonymous publishes information on the Zeta's operations, either perpetrated by rival cartels or reprisal attacks by the Zetas themselves.

Submission + - Big Buddha statue found in Cambodian 'Tomb Raider' (reuters.com)

Submitted by

GoogleMarketingGuru

on Friday October 28, 2011 @05:13PM

GoogleMarketingGuru writes: "(Reuters) — A 2.4 meter (8 foot) headless Buddha statue estimated to be 800 years old was found in the Cambodian temple featured in the Angelina Jolie film, "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider," officials involved in restoration work said Friday."

Submission + - Time Warner Employee Dies: supervisor ordered her (woio.com)

Submitted by

wwbbs

on Friday October 28, 2011 @04:45PM

wwbbs writes: "A sixty-seven year old Time Warner Cable Ohio call center employee is dead and Time Warner Cable is facing significant criticism from local Ohio news affiliates for negligence. According to a co-worker who was trying to save the woman, Time Warner Cable managers told her to stop CPR and "get back on the phone and take care of customers." Despite Good Samaritan laws in the state, the manager expressed concern the company could be "held liable if something goes wrong." Time Warner Cable isn't commenting on specifics, but did offer the following statement:
"Time Warner responded appropriately to a medical emergency. Our company has procedures in place to respond to emergencies. We are saddened by the loss of one of our employees who was a co-worker and a friend. Our thoughts are with the family during this difficult time.""

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by josh washington on Sunday August 14, 2011 @07:39PM (#37089758) Attached to: Astronaut Photographs Perseid Meteor — From Space

At the risk of being modded off-topic, here's the higher-resolution image mentioned by rts008 and JavaBasedOS for anyone interested.

It's actually sunset, as NASA mentions here. If you haven't seen it, it's worth a look.

I agree that, for all the advancements in knowledge that NASA and ESA develop, images such as these are what best capture children's imaginations and inspire them. This is what fuels dreams and fosters a desire to contribute to our* space program. Hopefully the image of this meteor inspires someone to pursue studies in a space-related career!

* - our = humanity's collective space program as a whole, because it doesn't matter if a child is from the US, the UK, the EU, China, India - we're all in this together, alone here on this rock.

Submission + - Phone can detect what you are doing by vibration (i-programmer.info)

Submitted by mikejuk on Saturday July 30, 2011 @10:31AM

mikejuk writes: In another of those "we have ways to monitor you" type stories a group of researchers have been looking it to using the accelerometer inside most phones to work out what the user is doing. At the moment is is limited to the categories — resting, walking and running — but the accuracy is high and other categories could be added. Is this another step too far? If it is you can be sure that the accelerometer will detect it...

Submission + - Researchers Design Memory-Strengthening Implant (nytimes.com)

Submitted by

Antipater

on Friday June 17, 2011 @04:08PM

Antipater writes: "Researchers at Wake Forest University have created a brain implant that can imitate signals through the hippocampus, the part of the brain responsible for memory retention. Rats implanted with the device were able to remember information even after their hippocampus was shut down, reports the New York Times. Though still in its infancy, this technology could hopefully be used to help treat dementia or stroke victims."

Submission + - ICANN to allow .brandname top-level domains (reuters.com)

Submitted by

AndyAndyAndyAndy

on Friday June 17, 2011 @03:42PM

AndyAndyAndyAndy writes: "Brand owners will soon be able to operate their own parts of the Web — such as .apple, .coke or .marlboro — if the biggest shake-up yet in how Internet domains are awarded is approved.
After years of preparation and wrangling, ICANN, the body that coordinates Internet names, is expected to approve the move at a special board meeting in Singapore on Monday.
Today, just 22 generic top-level domains (gTLDs) exist -- .com, .org and .info are a few examples — plus about 250 country-level domains like .uk or .cn. After the change, several hundred new gTLDs are expected to come into existence.
The move is seen as a big opportunity for brands to gain more control over their online presence and send visitors more directly to parts of their sites — and a danger for those who fail to take advantage."

Submission + - A Piece of Internet History Lost: IO.com Sold (prismnet.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 31, 2011 @10:03PM

An anonymous reader writes: The former Illuminati Online domain, IO.com, has been sold, and all existing customers will lose all services associated with the domain. A 1990 Secret Service raid on Steve Jackson Games, then owner of the Illuminati Online BBS and later the IO.com domain led to the creation of the EFF and was an important milestone in the fight for online rights. While the domain has been sold in the past, the services offered to customers always remained unchanged. However, this most recent sale, to an unnamed party, will result in all services being dropped on July 1, and people will lose email addresses, web pages, and shell accounts that many have had for 15+ years.

Submission + - Wikipedia admin hacked by White Supremacist (wikipedia.org)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 31, 2011 @07:11PM

An anonymous reader writes: WP is considering removing privalges from inactive Sysops after an account (dormant since 2005) was hijacked by a white supremacist. The current ecosystem makes it very difficult to remove these privileges once granted, even if the editor has been inactive for half a decade. This is not the first time one of these unwatched accounts has been hijacked.

Submission + - FCC pressured to reject AT&T / T-Mobile deal (pcworld.com)

Submitted by dave562 on Tuesday May 31, 2011 @06:40PM

dave562 writes: Sprint Nextel, joined by an army of thousands of consumers, have filed requests for the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to block AT&T's proposed acquisition of rival mobile carrier T-Mobile USA.

AT&T has argued that it needs T-Mobile's spectrum to keep up with growing demand for mobile broadband service. Sprint disputed that argument, saying AT&T already controls the most spectrum of any U.S. mobile carrier. AT&T is the "industry laggard" in deploying next-generation mobile broadband, a source close to Sprint said Tuesday.

Submission + - The Universe's 'missing mass' - found by undergrad (monash.edu.au)

Submitted by

brindafella

on Thursday May 26, 2011 @07:38PM

brindafella writes: "Filaments attached to superclusters seems an obvious place to look for the 'missing' matter in the universe — now! An undergrad at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, working on a six-week paid astrophysics research internship over the holidays, has found what has eluded astrophysicists. A search through X-ray and 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey data showed Amelia Fraser-McKelvie that there was a significant mass of baryons (fundamental components of atoms) in the galactic filaments. The peer-reviewed paper has been published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society."

Submission + - Densest Matter Created in Big-Bang Machine (nationalgeographic.com)

Submitted by jbov on Thursday May 26, 2011 @07:30PM

jbov writes: Quark-gluon plasma has been created in the Large Hadron Collider. The matter is a perfect liquid, hotter than the sun by more than 100K times, and denser than a neutron star.

Submission + - Disney Auditions Gone Wrong (blogspot.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 26, 2011 @05:10PM

An anonymous reader writes: My business phone number was mistaken for an audition line for the Disney Channel. Attached are recordings of hilarious auditions.

Submission + - Twitter prepared to name users (telegraph.co.uk)

Submitted by whoever57 on Wednesday May 25, 2011 @11:14PM

whoever57 writes: Ryan Gibbs, a UK footballer (soccer player) had obtained a "superinjunction" that prevented him being named as the person involved in an affair with a minor celebrity. However, he was named by various users on Twitter. Now, in response to legal action initiated by Mr. Giggs in the UK courts against the users, Twitter has stated that it is prepared to identify the users who broke the injunction if it was "legally required" to do so. Twitter will attempt to notify the users first in order to give them an opportunity to exercise their rights.

Submission + - Insider data theft costs Bank of America $10M (networkworld.com)

Submitted by alphadogg on Wednesday May 25, 2011 @10:11PM

alphadogg writes: A Bank of America insider who sold customer data to criminals cost the bank at least $10 million in losses. Bank of America began notifying customers of the incident recently, but is not providing many details of the case which is still under investigation. The theft, "involved a now former associate who provided customer information to people outside the bank, who then used the information to commit fraud against our customers," said a bank spokeswoman.

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