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Submission + - UK Man Jailed for Trolling (bbc.co.uk)

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punkedmonkey
punkedmonkey writes: ""A Berkshire man has been jailed for posting abusive messages online about a schoolgirl after she committed suicide.
Sean Duffy, 25, of Reading, was handed an 18-week sentence for posts on social networking sites about Worcester teenager Natasha MacBryde.

The charges related to Facebook and YouTube posts about Miss MacBryde, 15, who Duffy had never met.""
The Courts

Submission + - Man jailed for trolling (bbc.co.uk) 1

Submitted by Xest
Xest writes: A man in the UK has been jailed for just over 4 months for trolling, and has also been given an order banning him from using social networking sites for 5 years. The trolling in question involved insulting a person who committed suicide by jumping in front a train by posting offensive remarks on a page dedicated to her memory, and creating a YouTube parody of Thomas the Tank with the deceased girls face in place of Thomas'.

Is it about time trolling to this extent saw this kind of punishment, or is this punishment simply too harsh for someone who perhaps didn't realise how seriously his actions would be taken by the authorities?
Science

Submission + - Does Fatherhood Make Men Wimpy? (sciencemag.org)

Submitted by sciencehabit
sciencehabit writes: Humans are probably the only species on Earth who nurture their young for 20 years or more. For men in particular, the intensive demands of parenting can come as such a shock that a built-in biological mechanism has evolved to help cope with the change. A new study shows that becoming a father leads to a sharp decline in testosterone, suggesting that although high levels of the hormone may help men win a mate, testosterone-fueled traits such as aggression and competition are less useful when it comes to raising children.
Science

Submission + - New Emotion Detector Can See When We're Lying (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by beaverdownunder
beaverdownunder writes: A sophisticated new camera system can detect lies just by watching our faces as we talk, experts say.

The computerised system uses a simple video camera, a high-resolution thermal imaging sensor and a suite of algorithms.
Government

Submission + - FBI Calls Anonymous a National Security Threat (itworld.com)

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itwbennett
itwbennett writes: "According to what purports to be a leaked psychological assessment of the leaders of LulzSec and Anonymous by the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit, Anonymous is not only not a collection of individuals, it's a coherent group that poses a threat to national security. Neither the FBI nor the Dept. of Homeland Security have commented on the document, which may well be a fake, but seems to reflect accurately the thinking behind a series of DHS warning bulletins and crackdowns that have resulted in 75 raids and 16 arrests of Anonymous members just this year."
Software

Submission + - Happy Programmer Day! (networkworld.com)

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netbuzz
netbuzz writes: "As made-up holidays go, today’s event – Programmer Day – doesn’t get the attention or respect of, say, SysAdmin Day or Talk Like a Pirate Day. (One exception appears to be Russia, where “Programmers’ Day” has been “officially recognized” since 2009.) Yet programmers and their fans are taking to public forums, if not in droves at least in growing groups, to give coders their due respect."
GNU is Not Unix

Submission + - A Look at the Compgen Bash Builtin (serverwatch.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Linux and other Unix-type systems contain a wealth of features under the surface. Oftentimes, however, these features are non-obvious and hard to find. Compgen, a GNU Bash builtin that shows all possible completions, is one such feature.

Submission + - Intel to Universities: No Patents, Please, Just Op (innovationexcellence.com)

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sproketboy
sproketboy writes: "Since January, four U.S. universities have agreed to host Intel Science and Technology Centers (ISTCs) that will be funded at the rate of $2.5 million a year for five years. But wait, there’s A Catch: the company has made it a condition that in order to receive the millions, your university must open source any resulting software and inventions that come out of this research funding."
Cloud

Submission + - All hail the 'supercloud' (itpro.co.uk)

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twoheadedboy
twoheadedboy writes: "The term 'supercloud' might sound like marketing puffery but underneath the silly name is a fine concept. Essentially, it outlines a cloud model where services can scale into other vendors' clouds. So when an outage occurs in one vendor's data center — as we've seen happen a few times in 2011 — a company's data or apps running in that cloud could failover into another cloud run by a different vendor. Of course, this would need providers to be truly open, not to mention the extra investment to hook up different clouds. Could the supercloud ever become a reality?"

Comment Re:So Many Questions (Score 1) 303

by dentree4 (#31687632) Attached to: Gaming in the 4th Dimension
Think of it this way, If you pull an object up in a 2D World, where did it go? 3D World. If you pull a 3D Object "up", where does it go? 4D world. The point of the gave is to assume there's 4 spatial dimensions, not 3 and time.The reason there's transparency is when something is can be only partially represented in 3D space, as its hard enough to display a 3D world realistically on a 2D screen let alone a 4D world.. It's like trying to draw a perfectly one dimensional line on a piece of paper. not going to happen. The Best 3D analogy of that demo I can think of is this: Take a piece of paper, and draw a 1" square in it. Place a penny beside it. How do you get the penny inside the box, in a 2d world, without crossing the box? You don't. You pick it up, into a 3D world, and place it in the box. He picked the ring up, into a 4D world, and looped it with the other ring. Natural progression of dimensionality Can't wait for the game though.

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