Comment Re:humans (Score 1) 536
does your lower jaw jut forwards
Lower jaw jut forwards? Neanderthals had receding chins.
Comment Re:why? (Score 1) 153
Exactly. The Postgres trolls are about as interesting as "BSD is dead", etc. Unfortunately they are invariably moderated "insightful". It's getting really tiresome.
Comment Re:And nothing of value was archived (Score 1) 267
I remember "Tales from a loser" or something like that, a blog before the word even existed
Actually, that one is still active after 14 years: Keeper of Lost Lives.
Google Profiling Social Network Users 96
David Harry writes "Google is looking deeper into behavioral targeting of social network users with three more patents. A while back, one patent came to light in the poorly termed ‘friendrank’; Google could be profiling social network users. These three patents now bring the series to five in total."
Comment Re:Interesting (Score 1) 213
It's actually called 'meerbegaafd' now, since 'hoogbegaafd' indicated superiority over other children
That's silly. Meerbegaafd ("gifted more") actually indicates superiority over others, while hoogbegaafd ("highly gifted") does not!
Submission + - Twine: The First Mainstream Semantic Web App? (readwriteweb.com)
ReadWriteWeb writes: "Radar Networks has announced a new Semantic Web application called Twine, which it says will be the first mainstream Semantic Web application. Founder Nova Spivack, who has worked in the past with Semantic Web and AI legends Ray Kurzweil and Danny Hillis (of Thinking Machines), showed a demo of Twine to several reporters today. Spivack described Twine as a "knowledge networking" application. It has aspects of social networking, wikis, blogging, knowledge management systems — but its defining feature is that it's built with Semantic Web technologies including RDF, OWL, SPARQL, XSL. Spivack told Read/WriteWeb that Twine aims to bring a usable and scalable interface to the long-promised dream of the Semantic Web."
Submission + - Introducing Dojo's asynchronous xhrGet and xhrPost (dojoforum.com)
An anonymous reader writes: The Dojo Toolkit's 0.9 release has come with a lot of small changes, most notably to their underlying asynchronous function calls. Where everything used to go through the dojo.io.bind command, they've separated the functionality into different methods now: xhrGet, xhrPost, xhrPut and xhrDelete. Following is an introduction to the former two methods: xhrGet and xhrPost. Learn how to asynchronously submit forms and transparently send content back and forth between the client and the server using both GET and POST.
Submission + - Google vows to increase Gmail limit (computerworld.com) 1
Lucas123 writes: "Google said that people are devouring capacity with photos and other attachments on its Gmail e-mail service faster than the company can add to it at its current pace. So Google said on Friday that it would increase the rate at which it is adding capacity to its Web-based service. There's only one problem, Google's main competitors — Windows Live Hotmail and Yahoo Mail — far surpassed Gmail this year with their own capacity."
Submission + - Dr Robert Bussard dies (classicalvalues.com)
david.given writes: "Dr Robert W. Bussard, nuclear physicist and fusion physics researcher, died from cancer on October 6. Most people here will know him for the Bussard Ramjet, a theoretical space drive that uses magnetic fields to scoop up interstellar hydrogen to power a fusion drive. In recent years he has been working on the Polywell electrostatic inertial confinement fusion reactor, which promises to produce a cheap and simple fusion power plant without the cost and complexity of magnetic confinement. Rumours are that the Polywell was recently funded by the US Navy and may start producing results in 2008."
Submission + - Are Relational Databases Obsolete?
jpkunst writes: Computerworld reports that Michael Stonebraker, who co-created the Ingres and Postgres technology as a researcher at UC Berkeley in the early 1970s, argues in The Database Column that the current major relational DBMSs (DB2, SQLserver, Oracle) "should be considered legacy technology, more than a quarter of century in age and 'long in the tooth'.". His prediction is "that column stores will take over the warehouse market over time, completely displacing row stores".
Submission + - First Fully Unlocked Iphone done via Hardware Hack (blogspot.com)
prxp writes: "One of the iPhone Dev Team Members, GeoHot, has successfully unlocked the iPhone for use with any carrier's SIM card. According to GeoHot's web site: "The current method involves taking apart your phone and doing some complicated soldering, with a high probablity of a bricked phone. Although after the phone is unlocked all the hardware can be removed. We hope to find a software unlock very soon." GeoHot also uploaded a video in you tube showing his unlocked iPhone. Though this might seen quite unbelievable at the moment since several Scams about unlocked iPhones are flying around, GeoHot has a very good reputation on these matters which could be attested by the Dev Team's forum members."
Submission + - Infidelity can be tracked by tolls (nwsource.com)
langelgjm writes: "With respect to all the hullabaloo about data storage policies on /., readers may be interested to note the varying policies associated with the release of E-ZPass toll data, especially since these data have recently found their way into several divorce cases. "Of the 12 states in the Northeast and Midwest that are part of the E-ZPass system, agencies in seven states provide electronic toll information in response to court orders in criminal and civil cases, including divorces, according to a survey. In four of the 12 states, highway authorities release E-ZPass records only in criminal cases." Jacalyn Barnett, one of the involved divorce lawyers, had this to say about the automatic toll-collection system: "E-ZPass is an E-ZPass to go directly to divorce court, because it's an easy way to show you took the offramp to adultery.""
Submission + - Quebec forces video game makers into French (www.cbc.ca)
Noishe writes: Video game characters such as Lara Croft and the Mario Bros. will have to hone their accents now that a joint industry-government initiative aims to boost the number of games available in French.
"Players are used to playing in English," said Jean-François Patenaude, a manager with a small video-game retail chain in Montreal. "I don't think it will change much for them." Patenaude even suggested that the deal could increase operating costs for smaller retailers, who will be forced to buy copies of games in both English and French.
"Players are used to playing in English," said Jean-François Patenaude, a manager with a small video-game retail chain in Montreal. "I don't think it will change much for them." Patenaude even suggested that the deal could increase operating costs for smaller retailers, who will be forced to buy copies of games in both English and French.
Submission + - Pirated Simpsons video filmed on mobile (smh.com.au)
fullcircleflight writes: A 21-year-old man from Sydney Australia faces up to five years' imprisonment after he was charged with uploading a pirated copy of The Simpsons Movie on the internet. Adrianne Pecotic, executive director of the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft, said it was the first illegal copy of the hit movie to be intercepted anywhere in the world. Police alleged the man illegally filmed the movie via a mobile phone on July 26, the first day of release, and within hours had uploaded the footage onto the internet.The man was arrested in a raid on his home yesterday and charged by Federal Police with copyright theft after information provided to the AFP by the movie's producer, 20th Century Fox in the US. Pecotic said the illegal footage was removed within two hours, but not before it was downloaded about 3000 times. The file quickly spread to BitTorrent sites and other file sharing networks and within 72 hours had been downloaded by another 110,000 people.
Submission + - IBM mainframe to get huge security upgrade (networkworld.com)
coondoggie writes: "IBM tomorrow is expected to roll out a new version of its z/OS mainframe operating system that features a huge swig of security enhancements. These enhancements include:
Improved network security policy management — making it easier to set network security policy across multiple instances of z/OS mainframe operating systems. Enhanced Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) services to help improve the creation, authentication, renewal, and management of digital certificates for user and device authentication. And the adoption of the security standard, PKCS #11, which specifies an application programming interface for devices that hold cryptographic information and perform cryptographic functions.
http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/18473"
