Comment Re:Not evisceration, but a major blow (Score 1) 204
Next time use Poppies. It's topical, and more accurate since there is a legal use for poppies.
Submission + - The Day the Internet Broke (arstechnica.com)
Smordnys s'regrepsA writes: "The news — coming off Ars Technica — reports that trolls have gained a new source of lulz, thanks largely to the FBI.
In a recent case Roderick Vosburgh, student of Temple University, "was convicted of clicking on an illegal link and possession of child porn due to two tiny thumbnails that the FBI believes depict underage females." The link in question is one of the FBI-created-probable-cause-inducing addresses we have previously covered.
The twist? Roderick had been trolled into clicking a fraudulent link. Many /.ers predicted using the FBI's new methods to troll, but this seems striking not for the FBI raid itself, but the subsequent conviction on such little evidence, and in spite of the council of many expert witnesses."
In a recent case Roderick Vosburgh, student of Temple University, "was convicted of clicking on an illegal link and possession of child porn due to two tiny thumbnails that the FBI believes depict underage females." The link in question is one of the FBI-created-probable-cause-inducing addresses we have previously covered.
The twist? Roderick had been trolled into clicking a fraudulent link. Many
Submission + - New Cuban President by the 24th (google.com)
Smordnys s'regrepsA writes: "Fidel Castro, the much *cough* beloved leader of the island nation of Cuba has declined the possibility of keeping his seat as President, after February 24ths National Assembly election.
"I neither will aspire to nor will I accept — I repeat — I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief," Castro wrote almost 19 months after a severe illness caused him to hand power temporarily to his brother Raul.
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Submission + - Universal's CEO on Digital Media, and the Shmoo (wired.com)
Smordnys s'regrepsA writes: Wired has a great little interview with one of the big men of the Entertainment Industry, Doug Morris.
"There was a cartoon character years ago called the Shmoo," he says in a raspy tenor. "It was in Li'l Abner. The Shmoo was a nice animal, a nice fella, but if you were hungry, you cut off a piece of him and put onions on it, and if you wanted to play football you just made him like a football. You could do anything to him. That's what was happening to the music business. Everyone was treating the music business like it was a Shmoo."
"There's no one in the record company that's a technologist...we didn't know who to hire. I wouldn't be able to recognize a good technology person — anyone with a good bullshit story would have gotten past me," Morris explains.
"There was a cartoon character years ago called the Shmoo," he says in a raspy tenor. "It was in Li'l Abner. The Shmoo was a nice animal, a nice fella, but if you were hungry, you cut off a piece of him and put onions on it, and if you wanted to play football you just made him like a football. You could do anything to him. That's what was happening to the music business. Everyone was treating the music business like it was a Shmoo."
"There's no one in the record company that's a technologist...we didn't know who to hire. I wouldn't be able to recognize a good technology person — anyone with a good bullshit story would have gotten past me," Morris explains.
Feed The Register: Al Gore climate change site hacked (theregister.com)
Feed The Register: Virgin Media downed by Manchester arsonists (theregister.com)
Halloween spooks cable operator
A suspected arson at a Manchester electricity substation left thousands of Virgin Media customers without TV and broadband for several hours overnight.
Feed The Register: Half-petaflop IBM BlueGene supercomputer plan announced (theregister.com)
Open source supercomp OS next year
IBM will provide extra processing power to the US Department of Energy (DOE)'s Argonne National Lab, quintupling Argonne's power to 556 trillion floating point operations per second (teraflops)by using Blue Gene/P supercomputer tech.
Feed The Register: Star formation? All a bit of a wind up (theregister.com)
Feed The Register: Domino's pizza prices may rise (theregister.com)
Programmer salary demands rocket accordingly
The staple diet of cook-phobic carboholics is about to become more expensive, as pizza-peddler Domino's has warned the cost of ingredients is rocketing.
Feed The Register: X-Files movie sequel is go (theregister.com)
Feed The Register: Oxfam issues warning on biofuels (theregister.com)
Not so green, not good for the poor
European targets for use of biofuels will make life worse for some of the poorest people on the planet, according to a report from charity Oxfam.
Feed The Register: Macs seized by porn Trojan (theregister.com)
When nudity attacks
Miscreants have released a sophisticated Trojan into the wild that targets Mac users, according to Intego, a company that markets security software that runs on OS X.
Feed The Register: Student taser victim spared electric chair (theregister.com)
Don't kick me out of university, bro!
Florida prosecutors have decided not to pursue Andrew "don't tase me, bro" Meyer through the courts if he keeps his nose clean during 18 months probation.
Feed The Register: Brussels asks Ofcom boss what he's on about (theregister.com)
Feed The Register: Saga shuffles into social networking (theregister.com)
Hip replacement (for actually leaving the house)
OAP über-brand Saga has today dusted off its own social network aimed at the over-50s.
