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Submission + - ECMA script version 5 approved (h-online.com)

Submitted by systembug
systembug writes: After 10 years of waiting and some infighting, ECMA Script version 5 is finally out, approved by 19 of the 21 members of the ECMA Technical Committee 39. JSON is in, Intel and IBM dissented. IBM is obviously in disagreement with the decision against IEEE 754r, a floating point format for correct, but slow representation of decimal numbers, despite pleas by Yahoo's Douglas Crockford.
Google

Submission + - Fighting fraud online: taking "Google Money" scamm (blogspot.com)

Submitted by karthikmns
karthikmns writes: "Use Google to Make 1000s of Dollars!" or "Easy Cash with Google: You Could be Making up to $978 a Day Working from Home!" You may have seen offers like these using Google's name or logo that sounded too good to be true. Unfortunately, nearly all of them are, and, despite hundreds of consumer complaints and our own efforts to keep these sites from tricking people, some scams continue. To fight back, we're working to stop various fraudulent "Google Money" schemes, and this week filed suit against Pacific WebWorks and several other unnamed defendants
Google

Submission + - Google now has real-time search results (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by ZuchinniOne
ZuchinniOne writes: The search giant said it will draw real-time data from over a billion pages on the web. The new feature will also include updates from Twitter and the social networks of MySpace and Facebook. At an event staged at the Computer History Museum in California, the company said this was the first time that any search engine has integrated the real-time web into its results page.
Television

Submission + - The First iPhone App Development Reality Show (gizmodo.com)

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ElliotLee
ElliotLee writes: "The guys at Command Guru have assembled an international team of 10 programmers, from all around the world. They're developing an iPhone app from scratch in only 7 days, and streaming the whole thing live. They literally work as you watch. It's the world's first iPhone reality show. Video is streamed live until December 12. There has to be drama, right?"

Comment Re:Unix, a blackhole of incompetence and conservat (Score 1) 254

by systembug (#28250759) Attached to: Unix Turns 40

Okay, I should not do this...

(...)
  UNIX is like the Church which dragged society out of the enlightenment of Rome and into the dark ages, filling peoples' heads with superstition and making progress a dark taboo.
(...)

So what enlightend pre 70's operating systems are you referring to?
Some hints are apreciated.

And what is this stuff about Rome?
The good lawyers, bad mathematicians part?
The "nail every escaped and caught again slave to the cross" one?
The guys who institutetd christianity as state religion to save their sorry state from falling apart just to see it happen anyway?

Once again, some hints are apreciated.

Comment Re:What problem is this addressing? (Score 1) 1974

by systembug (#13732537) Attached to: EU, UN to Wrestle Internet Control From US
I could go as far as quoting a line in The Big Easy (1987, http://us.imdb.com/find?q=the%20big%20easy;s=tt): "You're not one of the good guys anymore", but, oh well.

It's all about trust, and yes, a war matters here: Waged against international law, and against the wishes of an international community. The US lost much credibility here. In the end, everyone only trusts in bodies he has had a hand in setting up. This is nothing new, but the war in Iraq surly sped things up.

Regarding the efficency of an future Internet Governance: Goof-ups will happen, but it will be an international communities own goof-ups or mishandlings, not the one of a single country. The case for erasing some countries TLD: You can bet it will be an as serious matter as declaring war: Not considered lightly.

As for foolish things like making illegal certain domain names: That is already happening, without much fuss from outside, with much help from western (US and European) IT-Firms. Why bother with international restrains against against global censorship, when you can do what you deem necessary in your own country? Even in the US library computers are censored. That's too bad, but not an argument against an international supervision of the transnational matters of the internet.

It will work like any other democracy: slowly and often with much bureaucratic infighting, but making sure the most stupid or radical ideas get thrown out.

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