Submission + - UN offical says org. not taking over internet
kaufmanmoore writes: Hamadoun Toure, the new head of the UN's International Telecommunications Union says that he does not plan to take over governance of the internet and leave it up to groups like ICANN. In his statement he says that the ITU will instead focus on bridging the digital divide, internet security and standardize broadband communications. When asked about Chinese censorship Toure said that issue is beyond the mandate of the ITU. The full article is here
Submission + - The New Age of Javascript Graphics
An anonymous reader writes:
whenpenguinsattack is running an interesting list containing javascript applications showing off the power of the new
[canvas] element. This element can be found on the latest Firefox/Mozilla, Opera and Safari browsers. It comes as no surprise to me that IE is not able to run most of them. My favourites: Canvascape 3D
and jsMSX Emulator, which exercise the javascript/canvas engines to the maximum.
With the upcoming
javascript JIT compiler in Mozilla 2.0 speeding up these applications 100-fold, is javascript to become the mainstream general use language, and browsers the mainstream application environments?
Journal Journal: "Scientists prepare to move Doomsday Clock forward"
Reuters reports that the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists says conditions are closer to doomsday than the used to be:
When it was created by the magazine's staff in 1947, it was initially set at seven minutes to midnight and has moved 17 times since then.
Submission + - The thing that cannot be Googled
tetsuo29 writes: So, I'm dissecting a Perl script that a co-worker wrote and not being very familiar with Perl, I have no idea yet what the line "$| = 1;" means. In trying to google for it, I've discovered that "$|" cannot be searched for by Google. Try it. It doesn't even return the standard page that says:
Your search — "[search terms]" — did not match any documents
Suggestions:
* Make sure all words are spelled correctly.
* Try different keywords.
* Try more general keywords.
The results page is the equivalent of Google nothingness. Now, I think that "$|" is somehow related to CGI.pm and therefore probably CGI in general, but still shouldn't the brilliant coders at Google be able to code for this and index this as a search term so that clueless dolts like me can google for it to find out what it means?
So, I ask you Slashdotters:
* What does '$| = 1;' mean in Perl?
* Is there a way to google for that term?
* Has anyone else found any text that Google will return 'Google nothingness' as I've described it?
Your search — "[search terms]" — did not match any documents
Suggestions:
* Make sure all words are spelled correctly.
* Try different keywords.
* Try more general keywords.
The results page is the equivalent of Google nothingness. Now, I think that "$|" is somehow related to CGI.pm and therefore probably CGI in general, but still shouldn't the brilliant coders at Google be able to code for this and index this as a search term so that clueless dolts like me can google for it to find out what it means?
So, I ask you Slashdotters:
* What does '$| = 1;' mean in Perl?
* Is there a way to google for that term?
* Has anyone else found any text that Google will return 'Google nothingness' as I've described it?
Submission + - Jail for EU p2p file sharers?
An anonymous reader writes: The European Parliament will vote at the end of this month on a controversial directive to criminalise infringements of all intellectual property rights (trademark, copyright, patents, etc). Some deputies has tabled amendments to require jail for non-commercial copyright infringements, such as internet filesharing. One of those deputies is Janelly Fourtou, the wife of Jean-René Fourtou, boss of Vivendi-Universal. Other amendments intends to criminalise "attempting, aiding or abetting and inciting" copyright infringements, which could render illegal all filesharing software. Recently, a court in Japan found the software author of Winny guilty of aiding copyright infringements.
Journal SPAM: PC World editor slain at California home 1
PITTSBURG, California (AP) -- A senior editor for PC World Magazine was fatally shot in his home in what authorities said Wednesday was a drug-related attack.
Rex Farrance, 59, the San Francisco, California-based magazine's senior technical editor, was shot in the chest after four masked men broke into his home Tuesday evening, Pittsburg police said.
