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Comment interesting (Score 2) 245

by andolyne (#36969088) Attached to: Mug-Shot Industry Digs Up Your Past, Charges You To Bury It

my favourite part is how they are intentionally trying to piss-off/harass criminals. sure not all of them will be for serious crimes and i assume just because you had a mug shot taken doesn't necessarily mean you were convicted... but still, there's gotta be some nut-jobs in that mix and i'm sure some of them know how to either:

1) hack stuff or
2) make bombs

wait is that a bomb joke? can i be arrested for saying that?
Government

Submission + - U.S. seeks veto powers over new domain names

Submitted by suraj.sun
suraj.sun writes: The Obama administration is quietly seeking the power for it and other governments to veto future top-level domain names, a move that raises questions about free expression, national sovereignty, and the role of states in shaping the future of the Internet.

At stake is who will have authority over the next wave of suffixes to supplement the venerable .com, .org, and .net. At least 115 proposals are expected this year, including .car, .health, .nyc, .movie, and .web, and the application process could be finalized at a meeting in San Francisco next month.

Some are likely to prove contentious among more conservative nations. Two different groups--the dotGAY Initiative and the .GAY Alliance--already have announced they will apply for the right to operate the .gay domain.

The Obama administration is proposing (PDF) that domain approval procedures be changed to include a mandatory "review" by an ICANN advisory panel comprised of representatives of roughly 100 nations. The process is open-ended, saying that any government "may raise an objection to a proposed (suffix) for any reason." Unless at least one other nation disagrees, the proposed new domain name "shall" be rejected.

CNET News: http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20030809-281.html
Software

Submission + - Do-gooders connect nonprofits with donated tech (itworld.com)

Submitted by jfruhlinger
jfruhlinger writes: High-tech companies like donating hardware and software to non-profits and community groups — but those groups' IT infrastructure is often so primitive, with all-volunteer IT staffers with little or not training, that the donated material isn't put to best use. A company called TechSoup has emerged as a sort of do-gooder middleman, helping the nonprofits get the most from corporate largesse.
Microsoft

Submission + - Bill Gates is more admired than the Pope (techflash.com)

Submitted by walterbyrd
walterbyrd writes: Americans admire Bill Gates more than the Pope, the Dalai Lama and even Glenn Beck. The Microsoft co-founder and billionaire philanthropist was named the fifth most admired man of 2010, according to the latest USA Today/Gallup poll.

Comment Re:What's not to like? (Score 5, Informative) 284

by andolyne (#34636452) Attached to: Hacking Neighbor Pleads Guilty On Death Threats and Porn

when you read TFA, it actually just sounds like he was screwing around and the child porn was more like "this'll get the dude in trouble" rather than "I have a private collection because i'm a pedo".

Either way, the dude was really stupid and deserves to get jail time for it.

edit: changed the word "article" to TFA cause that's the way it's done here ;)
Input Devices

Hacked iRobot Uses XBox Kinect To See World 124

Posted by Soulskill from the gesticulating-at-robots dept.
kkleiner writes "A student at MIT's Personal Robotics Group is going to put Microsoft's Kinect to a good use: controlling robots. Philipp Robbel has hacked together the Kinect 3D sensor with an iRobot Create platform and assembled a battery-powered bot that can see its environment and obey your gestured commands. Tentatively named KinectBot, Robbel's creation can generate some beautifully detailed 3D maps of its surroundings and wirelessly send them to a host computer. KinectBot can also detect nearby humans and track their movements to understand where they want it to go." In related but less agreeable news, "Dennis Durkin, who is both COO and CFO for Microsoft's Xbox group, told investors this week that Kinect can also be used by advertisers to see how many people are in a room when an ad is on screen, and to custom-tailor content based on the people it recognizes."
Australia

Aussie Research Company Brings Wi-Fi To TV Antenna 74

Posted by CmdrTaco from the humdrums-and-spectrums dept.
joshgnosis writes "The CSIRO has unveiled new technology that could bring internet to people in rural or remote parts of Australia using their existing TV antennas. Analog TV signal is set to be switched off in 2013 but this technology could see the spectrum used to deliver internet straight into people's homes through their TV antenna. Gartner expert Robin Simpson told ZDNet Australia that this would make it much easier for companies to get new customers. 'What appeals to me about it is that it re-uses existing infrastructure, all of the competing wireless technologies tend to use high frequencies and therefore require new base stations, new spectrum and new receiving antenna infrastructure as well,' he said. 'The fact that they're re-using the analog TV stuff gives them a much easier market entry strategy.'"
Image

Denver Rejects UFO Agency To Track Aliens 80

Posted by samzenpus from the name-and-galaxy-of-origin-please dept.
Republicans weren't the only ones to win big yesterday. Aliens in The Mile-High City can breathe easier thanks to voters rejecting a plan to officially track them. From the article: "The proposal defeated soundly Tuesday night would have established a commission to track extraterrestrials. It also would have allowed residents to post their observations on Denver's city Web page and report sightings." Let the anonymous probings begin!

Submission + - The Creepiest TV Moments of Google's CEO (gawker.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Google CEO, Eric Schmidt, has been a creepy, arrogant-sounding disaster in the press lately, especially on TV. Google issued a retraction in which Schmidt said "I clearly misspoke" on CNN, when he told the hosts of Parker Spitzer that they could "just move" to evade Google's Street View cameras. Time and time again Schmidt has managed to snatch PR defeat from the jaws of victory. The article contains several more links to other legendary Google cock ups, and a video making Schmidt look cynical, creepy and out-of-touch.
Google

Submission + - Google CEO: Don't like Street View? 'Just Move' (computerworld.com)

Submitted by CWmike
CWmike writes: Google chief Eric Schmidt started a firestorm in a CNN interview on Monday when responding to questions about what Google knows about people. Schmidt said that if people don't like having their homes photographed for Google Street View for the world to see, they can 'just move.' 'With Street View, we drive by exactly once, so you can just move,' said Schmidt, eliciting uncomfortable laughter from interviewer Kathleen Parker of the Parker Spitzer show. 'The point is, we only do it once. This is not a monitoring situation.' Those few sentences stirred up the blogosphere, and news sites erupted with stories, such as the San Francisco Chronicle's, which called Schmidt's statement an 'epic gaffe.'

Comment Re:I know it's silly to ask, but... (Score 1) 272

by andolyne (#32454816) Attached to: Study Finds That "Extreme Gamers" Play 48 Hours a Week

It's likely the weekends you're forgetting.

When my wife is away on the weekend and i've got nothing else to do (read: friends are busy), I could easily do 10-15 hours a day. Then that just leaves 3-4 hours a night during the week.

Normally, though, it's not that much... and it takes an mmo for me to have that much interest in a game - most other games I'm "finished" in 20 hours and bored.

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