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Comment Re:Yeah and you could distribute different parts (Score 1) 197

by Hulfs on Monday June 01, 2009 @01:09PM (#28170015) Attached to: A Curmudgeonly Look At Google Wave

This is EXACTLY what the protocol allows and the reference implementation does. At some point about 2/3rds of the way through the video when they're talking about federating wave servers together they show a wave that they've sent between 3 different organizations. They specifically show that members from one organization (in the example, Milton and Peter from Innitech) can branch a portion of the wave and speak specifically to one another and the Innitech branch is never broadcast outside of Innitech's own server. If Milton had not been a member of the original wave he'd also only see the wave branch that Peter specifically added him to.

Submission + - Miyamoto Turned Philosopher

Submitted by

njkid1

on Wednesday March 14, 2007 @02:00PM

njkid1 writes: "He's no Aristotle or Plato, but his games certainly have had a profound effect on the video game industry and a whole generation. Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto recently shared some wisdom with the MTV audience and he also talked about Miis in Zelda. Stephen Totilo of MTV News was put in a tough spot — he interviewed the legendary Nintendo designer Shigeru Miyamoto at the Game Developers Conference last week, but because of a stock situation in Japan, he was not allowed to ask about anything related to Nintendo's future. http://biz.gamedaily.com/industry/feature/?id=1548 4&ncid=AOLGAM000500000000014"

Submission + - California Settles HP Board Spy Case

Submitted by swschrad on Wednesday March 14, 2007 @01:55PM

swschrad writes: New York Times (requires free registration) has the AP reporting a plea deal that gets guilty pleas to one count of fraudulent wire communications in the case of the HP board of directors spying on itself, reporters who asked questions, and other HP employees. Meaning that former board chair Patricia Dunn, former ethics chief Kevin Hunsaker, and two private gumshoes, Ronald DeLia and Matthew Depante now face just a $10,000 maximum fine and up to three years in state prison for four felonies. Dunn, who is battling cancer, is probably going to duck the jail time. This doesn't directly affect Federal charges against these folks, loudly derided for half a year in every venue from Congressional hearings to your local tech blog. HP is the supplier of so-called "Integrity" workstations using the Itanium (Itanic?) chip, as well as lately the biggest seller of PCs as well as printers.

Gadgets You Backpack Around the World With? 625

Posted by Cliff on Wednesday March 14, 2007 @01:43PM from the what-would-phileas-take dept.

ryrw writes "I'm planning to spend a year backpacking around the world and the hardest question I have to answer is: What technology do I take with me? Aside from the obvious (digital camera, ipod, et. al.) what technological devices would you you take? Specifically, I wonder if I should bring my nice and shiny MacBook Pro. I can think of lots of uses for it (offloading pix, updating weblog, email, etc.), but I'm worried it will be lost or stolen along the way. Does anyone have experience with travel while toting technology?"

Submission + - FTC sells national do not call list to spammers?

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Anonymous Coward

on Wednesday March 14, 2007 @01:40PM

Anonymous Coward writes: "About three years ago I signed up for the national do not call list at https://www.donotcall.gov/ using a sneakemail.com address that was unique for that site and never given to any other site. (Note how the link on the registration page which states "Learn why your email address is required" is a broken link, yes, very nice.) But they have a privacy statement at http://www.ftc.gov/ftc/privacy.htm which specifically states "We will not share your email address with telemarketers". However this morning I just got an e-mail from matchmaker.com that came in through that address. Does this not seem like the exact opposite of the purpose of a do not call list?"

Journal Journal: OpenBSD's second remote hole in the default installation

Journal by Alioth on Wednesday March 14, 2007 @01:33PM

The OpenBSD project has just issued an advisory (and updated its website to reflect the change) that it now has its second remote root vulnerability in more than ten years. The exploit itself is performed with a specially crafted IPv6 ICMP packet, and is caused by a bug in the mbuf chains in the operating system kernel. The OpenBSD team have released a patch. The bug affects all versions of OpenBSD. Since

Submission + - Can Postage Solve Business Email Overload?

Submitted by

Getback

on Wednesday March 14, 2007 @01:06PM

Getback writes: "Put a Stamp on that Email. Companies Can Save Hundreds, Even Thousands, Per Day by Charging for Email. If you receive two or three hundred emails per day, you're not alone. Executives spend up to three hours a day reading and replying to email, most of which doesn't belong in their inboxes in the first place. Multiply that by every employee in your company. Osterman Research, Inc., reports a typical user sends and receive nearly 23,000 emails every year and that only 15% of that email is 'truly critical.' Think of what an 85% cut in email would save your company in productivity and expenditures. Low-value email can cost a 500-employee company 250 hours per worker — that's $2.3M of payroll — annually. It's a Matter of Productivity. Employees are living in their email boxes. Over three-quarters of them check email at least once per hour, and two-thirds open email as soon as it arrives.1 This interrupt-driven approach to communication is reminiscent of the old days... remember when time management experts were recommending you answer and make phone calls only at a set time of day? At the same time, these same employees can't do their jobs because they're waiting for an answer from you or someone else. Their question is sitting in an inbox that's so full you don't even know it's there. Or, even worse, you were in such a hurry that you skimmed and deleted the email without noticing the question. When the employee doesn't get an answer, what happens? A reminder goes out in another email, which adds to the inbox overload. Do we need to mention the time people waste sending jokes and other topics unrelated to their jobs? According to Radicati Group, Inc., that's probably 72% of your employees. Almost a quarter of all corporate messages are personal. A Bigger Pipe? After years of increasing the capacity of email servers, about 60% of companies are trying to control email volume by restricting mailbox size quotas ... and one third of their users bump up against their quotas on a regular basis. Add bulky music and picture files plus ever-growing regulations for email storage ... that's a tremendous burden on your IT infrastructure. Clearly, bigger and better computers are not an effective way to reduce the email problem. Reading Faster? Some managers are taking a different tack. The Wall Street Journal reports that speed-reading is catching on among executives dealing with the email glut. Do you remember Evelyn Wood Reading Dynamics? Amazon.com lists 48 books on the subject. While speed-reading may cut the time spent on email, unfortunately it doesn't alleviate the reader's mental overload. Is Email Postage the Answer? A bigger delivery system doesn't work, and neither will better management of inbox content. What's left? Look at the USPS — they don't govern the flow of letters and packages with more trucks, bigger mailboxes, and recipient controls. They require postage on all outgoing mail. Consider the option of giving employees a certain number of non-cash "stamps" per day, depending on their responsibilities. For example, executives and people who disseminate information internally would get more postage than would the average programmer, project lead, or administrator. In addition, it could cost more to send email to an executive than it would to a co-worker. For example, managers might have a daily allowance of 100 email points. An email to team members might cost 2, to other departments may cost 5, and to senior executives may cost up to 80 points. These managers face a choice: one high-cost email to a superior or many lower-cost emails to coworkers and subordinates. If email costs, senders will conserve their limited email resources for sending the right emails to the right people. Individuals will send fewer emails all together. Users will winnow down distribution lists to include only the most appropriate and up-to-date recipients. Outgoing email will contain only truly important content. And management up the hierarchy will receive fewer emails. Charging postage for email will allow everyone in the organization to respond faster to critical emails and be more productive all around. http://www.getbacksoft.com/"

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