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Submission + - How to recover/track stolen wi-fi iPod

Submitted by sparkydevil on Saturday December 24, 2011 @12:26PM

sparkydevil writes: Hi, In September my 7-year old daughter's iPod touch was stolen from her school bag while at school here in Sarasota, Florida. At that time nothing came up on Track My iPhone. 30 minutes ago I got an email saying the iPod had been located to a Day's Inn hotel in Talahasee. I called the police who said I should contact the hotel to find out the room but the hotel said they couldn't do it as their wi-fi is open. Are there any other options to track it?

Submission + - Climategate spreads to Wikipedia (nationalpost.com) 14

Submitted by sparkydevil on Saturday December 19, 2009 @12:51PM

sparkydevil writes: Some catnip to those who have long argued about administrator bias and groupthink in Wikipedia.

Canada's National Post reports here and here that one of the objectives of those promoting Climate alarm was to control Wikipedia. Starting in February 2003 U.K. scientist and Green Party activist William Connolley, one of nine Realclimate.org team members, rewrote Wikipedia'½Â½Â(TM)s articles on global warming, on the greenhouse effect, on the instrumental temperature record, on the urban heat island, on climate models, on global cooling as well as working to erase the Little Ice Age, the Medieval Warm Period and infamous hockey stick graph. He rewrote articles on the politics of global warming and on the scientists who were skeptical of the team.

According to the article Connolly created or rewrote 5,428 unique Wikipedia articles, removed more than 500 articles as an administrator and barred over 2000 Wikipedia contributors while rewarding those who supported his views. "In these ways, Connolley turned Wikipedia into the missionary wing of the global warming movement."

Submission + - Obama speech to kids pro-Apple, anti-MS?

Submitted by sparkydevil on Monday September 07, 2009 @12:27PM

sparkydevil writes: The Prez's speech to kids was just released. In it he says "I've talked about your parents' responsibility for making sure you stay on track, and get your homework done, and don't spend every waking hour in front of the TV or with that Xbox." and a few sentences later, "Maybe you could be an innovator or an inventor — maybe even good enough to come up with the next iPhone".

XBox bad, iPhone Good?

Submission + - How to convert social network to open source?

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sparkydevil

on Saturday May 16, 2009 @11:14AM

sparkydevil writes: "A few years ago I started a social network called Crisscross that, amongst other things, interlinks users' likes and dislikes about anything. Our main feature is a cool drill-down people search interface. Due to other commitments I wasn't able to keep funding it with cash, so I made an agreement with some programmers to work for equity. Now those programmers are busy with their own work and I still don't have extra cash so I'm thinking about converting the project to open source. There doesn't seem to be an open source social network so perhaps it could be interesting. The project needs around 200 hours work to get it up to production level, mainly to fix interface bugs, and improve the core date storage system. It's a long story but the beta version I had was deleted by accident so the current site is more of an alpha level and has many annoying minor bugs, but you should be able to see what we are trying to do. Questions: 1) how do I go about making the project open source legally and technically 2) is it possible to keep some elements proprietary (for example the search interface code?) 3) how much management work it would take on my part to oversee the project compared with working with a couple of programmers 4) is it possible to retain some ownership or interest for existing shareholders (about 10%). Thank you for your comments and advice."

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