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Comment Re:New internet (Score 1, Interesting) 332

by syousef (#30163320) Attached to: Secret UK Plan To Appoint "Pirate Finder General"

Your ignorance of UK politics is amazing..

If he's not from the UK it's really not so amazing. Why should he care? (Except in so far as it sets a precedent for other countries to follow when the UK passes a draconian law)

Me? I'm not from the UK and I think the way you've been going you could have saved yourself a lot of trouble by siimply surrendering to Hitler during WWII. Did I just Godwin myself? Oh well Godwin's asinine "law" is another thing I don't give a monkey's testicle about.

Comment Re:Going back to sleep now... (Score 4, Insightful) 664

by Bacon Bits (#30163086) Attached to: Google Releases Source To Chromium OS

Yes, but your users probably hate them if they have to do any kind of real work on them. That is, anything that can't be done in a web browser at least.

Go out and take a walk and ask people if they miss having a real PC. I bet they do. If they don't now, they will when the capacity for your servers approaches 80%, and then management will be unwilling to invest in more infrastructure. Then it will all fall apart when you exceed capacity and the number of complaints by users forces management to reinvest... in new desktop PCs.
The Matrix

Submission + - SPAM: Why Our Brains Will Never Live in the Matrix

Submitted by destinyland
destinyland writes: Professor Athena Andreadis answers the question, "Why Our Brains Will Never Live in the Matrix," contrasting "mind uploading" predictions with "the major stumbling block to personal immortality" — namely, that our biological software is inseparable from our hardware. There's practical problems. ("After electrochemical activity ceases in the brain, neuronal integrity deteriorates in a matter of seconds.") But she also argues that what we call "the mind" is also an artifact of a specific brain, and copying it "is an excellent way to leave a detailed memorial or a clone-like descendant, but not to become immortal."
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The Internet

Submission + - U.S. Internet traffic peaks at 11 p.m. every day (networkworld.com) 1

Submitted by carusoj
carusoj writes: Arbor Networks recently studied Internet traffic patterns and found that U.S. Internet traffic usually reaches its highest point of the day at about 11 p.m. Eastern time and stays pretty high until about 3 a.m. Driving the bulk of the traffic is online gaming and streaming video, which both hit their highest levels around that time.
Security

Submission + - COFEE anyone? (securityfocus.com)

Submitted by babboo65
babboo65 writes: Microsoft has announced it will give the COFEE tool free to law enforcement.

Great — now someone is going to have to release DONUT
Microsoft

Submission + - Being attacked by Microsoft!

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: My name is Charles Winthrop, and I am the technical manager for a small net radio station called KJSR.net Last night, at approximately 6pm, our broadcast server started getting flooded by connections from several IP address which all resolve to Microsoft's hotmail servers. It has been confirmed by an MSN technical support agent that the attacking IP addresses are theirs, but they have no idea why it is happening, or any ideas on stopping it. After contacting our ISP, they reported that they had tried blocking the offending IP address to no avail. Soon as one was blocked, another would start making connections. So, today, I have spent the last 5 hours on the phone with various Microsoft departments, who for some strange reason keep transferring me to their sales departments. I spoke with a tech at MSN who tried to help, but after speaking with his supervisor, came back to say "I've been told to tell you that there's nothing we can do. Bye." Partial log of the attacks: [dest: 65.55.106.108] Invalid resource request(/robots.txt) [dest: 65.55.106.108] Invalid resource request(/robots.txt) [dest: 65.55.106.108] Invalid resource request(/robots.txt) [dest: 65.55.106.108] Invalid resource request(/robots.txt) [dest: 65.55.106.108] Invalid resource request(/robots.txt) [dest: 65.55.106.108] Invalid resource request(/robots.txt) [dest: 65.55.106.108] Added to Ban List [dest: 65.55.106.108] IP in ban list, disconnecting [dest: 65.55.106.108] IP in ban list, disconnecting [dest: 65.55.106.108] IP in ban list, disconnecting [dest: 65.55.106.108] IP in ban list, disconnecting
Space

Submission + - Armadillo Aerospace and NASA Tests Future Fuels (spacefellowship.com)

Submitted by Matt_dk
Matt_dk writes: It’s exactly what everyone’s looking for: an engine that works on cheaper, less toxic, more readily available fuels. This engine just happens to be for a rocket. Engineers at NASA’s Johnson Space Center and White Sands Test Facility teamed up with Dallas-based Armadillo Aerospace through an Innovative Partnership Program agreement to design and test a rocket engine that runs on liquid oxygen and liquid methane, for use on the moon or other extraterrestrial surfaces. Armadillo developed the engine, JSC designed and fabricated the nozzle and provided oversight on the project, and White Sands contributed the testing facilities.

Submission + - The Kindle Killer Has Arrived (wired.com)

Submitted by GeekZilla
GeekZilla writes: Sleek, stylish and runs the Android OS. What's Not to like about Barnes and Noble's new eBook reader? Despite the odd name, the Nook looks like an eBook reader that would actually be a worthwhile investment. Best feature? The ability to loan eBooks you have downloaded to other Nook owners.

The reader, named the “Nook,” looks a lot like Amazon’s white plastic e-book, only instead of the chiclet-keyboard there is a color multi-touch screen, to be used as both a keyboard or to browse books, cover-flow style. The machine runs Google’s Android OS, will have wireless capability from an unspecified carrier and comes in at the same $260 as the now rather old-fashioned-looking Kindle.
The Internet

Submission + - AT&T Tells 300K Employee to Complain NetNeutra (washingtonpost.com) 1

Submitted by suraj.sun
suraj.sun writes: AT&T Tells Every Employee and Their Families to Complain to the FCC About Net Neutrality

AT&T's top lobbyist, Jim Cicconi, sent a letter to all of the telecom giant's 300,000 employees on Sunday, urging them to express their concerns over a net neutrality proposal under consideration by the FCC.

AT&T's top lobbyist, Jim Cicconi's letter and comments at Actuarial Outpost ( http://www.actuarialoutpost.com/actuarial_discussion_forum/showthread.php?p=3973825#post3973825 )

"We encourage you, your family and friends to join the voices telling the FCC not to regulate the Internet," Cicconi wrote in his letter. The company verified the letter.

Cicconi explained how employees could use a personal e-mail account to post comments on the FCC's net neutrality Web site ( http://openinternet.gov/ ) to about the rules. He said the comment period had been extended until Thursday, when the agency's five commissioners are scheduled to vote on a proposal that would begin the formalization of rules.

The letter was the latest move in a lobbying frenzy days before the FCC votes on a proposal to create new net neutrality regulations.

High-tech giants ( http://voices.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2009/10/internet_heavyweights_are_weig.html ) wrote to the agency to support the rules, while dozens of lawmakers from both parties have protested the rules as potentially dangerout to economic growth.

Washington Post : http://voices.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2009/10/att_lobbyist_asks_employees_th.html
Entertainment

Submission + - Industry lobbyist exaggerate legal download market (24oranges.nl)

Submitted by
An anonymous reader writes: NVPI, an organisation representing the ‘Dutch’ entertainment industry*, recently called for harsher measures against legal copying in the Netherlands, pointing out that there is a ’sufficient’ supply of stores offering really legal downloads**. But as internet lawyer Arnoud Engelfriet points out, they are stretching the truth a bit.

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