Comment Re:No deflection? (Score 1) 169
Too small to see.
Submission + - How the new 'Protecting Children' bill puts you at (zdnet.com)
An anonymous reader writes: The U.S. House of Representatives is currently considering H.R. 1981, a bill that would order all of our online service providers to keep new logs about our online activities, logs to help the government identify the web sites we visit and the content we post online. This sweeping new "mandatory data retention" proposal treats every Internet user like a potential criminal and represents a clear and present danger to the online free speech and privacy rights of millions of innocent Americans.
Submission + - High-fashion dress displays text via embedded PC (windowsfordevices.com)
jangel writes: Microsoft Research announced a high-fashion dress that includes an embedded computer and displays text on its skirt via an integral projector. The Printing Dress lets the user share Tweets or other messages as public art, the company says.
Submission + - Murdoch's Drone at The Daily Might Be Illegal (forbes.com)
nonprofiteer writes: The News Corp iPad newspaper has a drone they've been using for news gathering — mainly flying it over disaster zones in N. Dakota and Alabama. However, FAA regulations on drones are mighty restrictive at the moment, and they're not to be used for commercial purposes (tho law enforcement is free to let them fly). FAA now examining Daily's use of its drone. Could set a precedent for how private businesses can use them.
Submission + - eBay Deploys 100TB of SSD, Cuts Rackspace By Half
Lucas123 writes: "eBay's QA division was facing mounting performance issues as related to its exponential growth of virtual servers, so instead of purchasing more 15K rpm Fibre Channel drives, the company began migrating over to a pure SSD environment. eBay said half of its 4,000 VMs are now attached to SSD. The changeout had improved the time it takes the online site to deploy a VM from 45 minutes to 5 minutes and had a tremendous impact on its rack space requirements. "One rack [of SSD storage] is equal to eight or nine racks of something else," said Michael Craft, eBay's manager of QA Systems Administration."
Comment Re:Google Code Search (Score 1) 165
Whoops. Maybe I'm wrong. Says right there on the logo that its in labs. Huh.
Comment Re:Google Code Search (Score 0) 165
Code search isn't part of labs. If it doesn't have a googlelabs.com address, it's probably not affected by this.
Comment Re:Yeah right (Score 1) 413
What, you don't write all your code that way?
Comment Re:unobtainable books. (Score 1) 234
As for the future, well, digital copies are actually a LOT harder to preserve long term. I myself have files that I can no longer open, because I no longer have a copy of the word processor "Sprint" running on MS-DOS 5.0. They're less than twenty years old, and are essentially unusable.
Well that's just short-sightedness. There are still converters for Sprint format however, and I'd be happy to convert them for you if you promise not to put them into another proprietary format.
By contrast, I once held and read a hand-written breviary from fourteenth century Italy, a good six and half centuries old and still usable. If we could find a way to archive digital information which would guarantee its usability a mere century from now, I'd rest a lot more easily.
Yeah, but I have more books on my cell-phone than currently exist from the fourteenth century.
Comment Re:Victory against Google-oply = good (Score 2, Insightful) 234
Could you be a little more obviously prejudiced? And while you're at it, could you please identify how anyone (Google or not) goes about getting access to (or rights for) a book by a dead author that's not longer in print?
It sure would be nice if all those works weren't effectively dead (and their knowledge lost) just because my local bookstore or library can't get them.
Comment ODK + Fusion Tables (Score 2) 167
You can set up an ODK form (http://code.google.com/p/opendatakit/), kids vote with their smartphone (or computer), and all the results go into a Google Fusion Table (http://www.google.com/fusiontables).
Comment Re:"Most" doesn't mean "very". (Score 1) 465
The list of highly questionable if not outright illegal activities is very long:
You can start here with "A History of Anticompetitive Behavior and Consumer Harm"
http://www.ecis.eu/documents/Finalversion_Consumerchoicepaper.pdf
and then move on to a catalog of their attacks on standards:
http://www.grokdoc.net/index.php/Dirty_Tricks_history
and then any of these:
Illegal tying: http://www.ecis.eu/documents/ECISPressStatementonOperaSO1.pdf
Unethical marketing: http://www.nearsoft.com/blog/MS-test.html
Antitrust: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/600488.stm
Or these:
http://slashdot.org/story/00/05/02/158204/Kerberos-PACs-And-Microsofts-Dirty-Tricks
http://www.technologyevangelist.com/2007/02/microsoft_dirty_tric_1.html
http://techrights.org/2008/12/01/leaked-oem-vista-ad-incentives/
http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/57261/index.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/368660.stm
http://www.groklaw.net/staticpages/index.php?page=2005010107100653
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/06/08/23/1251210/Microsoft-Admonished-by-US-District-Court-Judge
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-tried-to-muck-with-anti-linux-facts/235
http://www.zdnet.com/news/fact-and-fiction-in-the-microsoft-sco-relationship/139743
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2001/10/23/13219/110
http://lproven.livejournal.com/102128.html
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7654
Comment Recycled from 2000 (Score 2) 148
NASA Hopes Laser Broom Will Help Clean Up Space Debris
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/debris-00a.html
Comment Blatent Copyright Violatiion (Score 1) 298
Nice job posting to an article that is 100% (poorly formatted) copy of a NY times article, with 0% attribution.
Comment Re:Stupid Idea (Score 2) 1026
An additional question: Where would it be efficient?
Answered in TFA, which the poster conveniently didn't link to: http://www.america2050.org/maps/
The entire west coast: San Diego > L.A. > San Jose > San Francisco > Portland > Seattle
The entire east coast: Boston, NY, Philidelphia, DC, Charlotte, Jacksonville, Miami
And more.
