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Comment Re:Total Hijack (Score 1) 263

by PetriBORG on Monday June 15, 2009 @09:12AM (#28334167) Attached to: Family's Christmas Photos Hawk Groceries In Prague

anagama - The bug you're showing in your link is from the slashdot code being broken in "classic" mode. I view slashdot in multiple browsers on multiple platforms and its basically broken in all of them unfortunately. The new "D2" does not appear to be broken though on the other hand, so you might try using that one instead. Dissussions Viewing Preference should allow you to switch to the other style.

Comment Re:Corporate FUD is the real enemy here (Score 3, Insightful) 213

by PetriBORG on Wednesday June 10, 2009 @11:29AM (#28280251) Attached to: The Anti-ODF Whisper Campaign

Maybe you could suggest the wiki entry be deleted. It doesn't sound like this guys posts have enough external reference points to hold itself up, and it doesn't sound like it is relevent enough to warrant a wiki article... There was a thing a while back about how wikipedia was clearing out those kind of entries. Just a thought.

Feed Engadget: Microsoft ends Xbox 360 RROD "coffin" program, still paying for shipping (engadget.com)

From feed by engfeed on Tuesday June 09, 2009 @02:52PM

Getting an Xbox 360 RROD was never any fun, but at least getting it fixed was easy, since a quick phone call would get you a pre-paid "coffin" in which to send the broken console back for repairs. Not anymore -- although Redmond will still pay for return shipping, the company's beancounters have decided to axe the expense of sending custom packaging out to people who need repairs, meaning anyone who gets an RROD will need to pack things themselves. Not the end of the world, but we share Joystiq's take: just send it however you can, since MS is fixing it anyway, and then save the return carton in case something else goes wrong -- knowing the 360, it very well might.

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Submission + - TSA to begin body-imaging in NY/NJ 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 09, 2009 @12:07PM

An anonymous reader writes: The Port Authority of NY/NJ will begin screening PATH train passengers using "passive" body-imaging technology this month. Announcement by the Port Authority of NY/NJ: http://www.panynj.gov/CommutingTravel/path/html/tsa_screening.html — More about the technology from the TSA: http://www.tsa.gov/approach/tech/millimeter_wave.shtm

Comment Re:Yeah, Sorry Guys. (Score 1) 280

by PetriBORG on Thursday May 28, 2009 @03:34PM (#28128667) Attached to: Mozilla Jetpack and the Battle For the Web

While I can understand what you mean, it seemed to me that this transaction-cloud or whatever, could be used to hold your money like a bank (presumably in an anonymous way) so that you could get to your money w/o the government being able to track it... After all that is really how the IRS knows about your money - because banks are required to report on you, and so are your employers.

I do agree with you though in its unlikeliness.

Submission + - Facebook Causes Adultery? (globalpost.com)

Submitted by

dinoyum

on Thursday May 28, 2009 @03:08PM

dinoyum writes: "According to religious leaders in Indonesia Facebook may led to adultery! Plans to put limitations on Facebook use, in the biggest Muslim nation in the world has been met with uproar. Facebook is the most popular site in Indonesia. For heavens sake, even the Pope is on FB. http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/indonesia/090528/does-facebook-lead-adultery"

Submission + - Google Wave Just Another Big Splash? (google.com)

Submitted by spydabyte on Thursday May 28, 2009 @02:41PM

spydabyte writes: From Jens and Lars Rasmussen, founders of Where 2 Tech, the precursor to Google Maps, comes a sneak preview of a new product called Google Wave.

In Google Wave you create a wave and add people to it. Everyone on your wave can use richly formatted text, photos, gadgets, and even feeds from other sources on the web. They can insert a reply or edit the wave directly. It's concurrent rich-text editing, where you see on your screen nearly instantly what your fellow collaborators are typing in your wave. That means Google Wave is just as well suited for quick messages as for persistent content — it allows for both collaboration and communication. You can also use "playback" to rewind the wave and see how it evolved.

Is this the perfect collaboration tool or just another website to pique our interest for a week? Check out the official Google blog for an intro, or go directly to the sign up form to sign up for an invite — as soon as it's released.

Submission + - China Japan on collision over rare-earth metals (news.com.au)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 28, 2009 @02:34PM

An anonymous reader writes: JAPAN'S increasingly frantic efforts to lead the world in green technology have put it on a collision course with the ambitions of China and dragged both government and industry into the murky realm of large-scale mineral smuggling.

Submission + - Google unleashes Wave on developers (zdnet.co.uk)

Submitted by

superglaze

on Thursday May 28, 2009 @02:09PM

superglaze writes: "Google has unveiled a distributed, P2P-based collaboration and conversation platform called Wave. Developers are being invited to join an open source project that has been formed to create a Google Wave Federation Protocol, which will underlie the system.

Anyone will be able to create a "wave", which is a type of hosted conversation, Google has said. Waves will essentially incorporate real-time dialogue, photos, videos, maps, documents and other information forms within a single, shared communications space.

Developers can also work on embedding waves into websites, or creating multimedia robots and gadgets that can be incorporated within the Google Wave client."

Comment Re:Yeah, Sorry Guys. (Score 1) 280

by PetriBORG on Thursday May 28, 2009 @02:06PM (#28126743) Attached to: Mozilla Jetpack and the Battle For the Web

Thats why in the book Diamond Age when someone(s) invented a highly encrypted non-traceable way for people to do transactions governments collapsed because they couldn't tax people anymore. Its merely a background point in the book, I almost wish he wrote a book on just that topic I think it would be great. Its one of Neal Stephenson's best books imo.

Submission + - SPAM: Disguise as GoogleBot to view Hidden Content of a 1

Submitted by

Hungry Hacker

on Thursday May 28, 2009 @01:14PM

Hungry Hacker writes: "Ever experienced this? You ask Google to search something and it will return a lot of relevant results, but if you try to open the ones with the most promising content, you are confronted with a registration page instead, and the stuff you were looking for will not be revealed to you unless you agree to a credit card transaction first. This means that Google is able to see what a normal netizen cannot see.

The reason behind this is that Google uses a Bot called GoogleBot and most of websites which force users to register or even pay in order to search and use their content, leave a backdoor open for the GoogleBot because a prominent presence in Google searches is known to generate sales leads, site hits and exposure. Examples of such sites are Expert-Exchange, Windows Magazine, .Net Magazine, Nature, and many other sites around the globe.

What if you disguise as GoogleBot then you can also see what GoogleBot can.

To read more visit [spam URL stripped]"
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Submission + - Human Language Gene Changes How Mice Squeak 2

Submitted by archatheist on Thursday May 28, 2009 @12:49PM

archatheist writes: Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, have engineered a mouse whose FOXP2 gene has been swapped out for (different) human version. This is interesting because the gene is implicated in human language, and this has changed how mice squeak. Forget planet of the apes... get your tiny paws off me, you darn dirty mouse!

Submission + - Expect 18 Androids in 3 Flavors by Year's End

Submitted by

Hugh Pickens

on Thursday May 28, 2009 @12:22PM

Hugh Pickens writes: "Andy Rubin, senior director for Mobile Platforms for Google, has announced that by the end of the year there will be 18 to 20 phones using the Android operating system made by eight or nine different manufacturers. Google will offer three different versions of Android OS: a completely free and generic flavor with no pre-loaded Google applications; a slightly-customized version of Android OS that comes pre-loaded with Google apps like Gmail and Google Calendar; and a completely "Google-fied" Android OS bearing all sorts of Google branding and integration with Google's services. Will Parks reports that 12 to 14 of the upcoming Android phones are expected to use the slightly-customized version of Google's Android OS requiring the manufacturer to agree to a distribution deal with Google that would allow the handsets to come pre-installed with Google-ware. The remaining 5 or 6 Android phones will come to market completely decked out with "The Google Experience" and a "Google" logo on the phone. This third option provides risk and reward opportunities because the openness of the store could be a hit with consumers, but could also lead to poorly constructed applications or ones, like the baby shaking app for the iPhone, that could give Google a taint. When it comes to apps, Rubin says: "We want to abide by the law, but not rule with an open fist.""

Submission + - Microsoft unveils new search: Bing (msdn.com)

Submitted by

JacobSteelsmith

on Thursday May 28, 2009 @12:16PM

JacobSteelsmith writes: "Microsoft is attempting to re-brand it's Live Search, also known as Kumo. Bing, as it's known, is another attempt by Microsoft to lure consumers away from Internet search leaders such as Google. Microsoft has posted a quarterly loss in it's online advertising business, compared to Google's sales, $4.7 billion in the first quarter.

According to the Live Search blog, Bing goes "beyond the traditional search engines to help you make faster, more informed decisions" by combining a "great search engine" with organized results. It also adds unique tools to help the user make important decisions. It is being touted as a "decision engine." A video can be viewed at http://www.decisionengine.com/Default.html."

Submission + - Spotify App For Google Android Might Hurt Apple

Submitted by on Thursday May 28, 2009 @11:46AM

An anonymous reader writes: Spotify, an online music streaming service, has just released a video of the new mobile version of its software that runs on Google Android devices to utilize the mobile edition of its services. One thing is for sure, Apple could be a bit scared of this new soon to be released application for Google Android because Apple doesn't allow anything similar in its App Store currently. If I were Apple, I would be nervous in thinking that a lot of users might jump ship — especially when the Android Apps really begin to rollout.

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