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Comment Re:Do hosting companies have a clue? (Score 1) 162

by bobbozzo (#41678983) Attached to: Millions of Blogs Knocked Offline By Legal Row

"The copy of the blog entry was in this memory store - only visible internally - because of the way Edublogs readies web pages for display. When Edublogs did not respond within 24 hours to emails alerting it to the allegedly infringing content, ServerBeach shut down the entire site."

Point of note: EDUBlogs uses WordPress.

Wordpress has various caching modules/plugins so I don't know for sure what was in use, but if they are using memcached it could certainly explain why the content was still in 'the memory store'.

ServerBeach should have verified that the takedown notice was (still) accurate before taking further action.

Comment Re:Do hosting companies have a clue? (Score 2) 162

by bobbozzo (#41678949) Attached to: Millions of Blogs Knocked Offline By Legal Row

ServerBeach is owned by Peer1.

Peer1 is a fairly highly-rated ISP for Co-Lo, etc.
I hope they issue an apology.

My company has been a Peer1 (and ServerBeach) customer for many years (I'm not sure exactly when Peer1 bought our previous provider, but more than 7 years ago).
We have received 2 takedown notices (due to our customers' content), and both times, Peer1 contacted me directly rather than doing something stupid.

I hope they will see the error of their ways, or I will be looking to move elsewhere.

Comment Re:Exactly, still looking for some. (Score 1) 143

by bobbozzo (#41485697) Attached to: AMD Partners With BlueStacks To Bring Android Apps To PCs

Another example is Cam Scanner. There are a lot of programs that can do image manipulation but hardly anything that can automatically produce useful results.

Cam Scanner on my phone works nicely but the camera is crap compared to any decent digital camera (>$100) so I am still looking for an easy way to digitize documents without having to scan them. There a quite a few people searching on different forums but nothing similar for Windows, Linux or Mac seems available.

1. Get your 'decent digital camera' and take pictures of the documents. (point a directional (reading) lamp at them)

2. Copy the pictures from the camera to your PC.

3. ????

4. Profit!

You didn't mention OCR, so I assume you don't care.
If you want PDFs, there are many options for 'printing' the images to PDF, or you could use ImageMagik or some other program to do it in batches.

Comment Re:meet the (Score 1) 66

by bobbozzo (#41350711) Attached to: Mammoth Tooth Found In Downtown San Francisco

Yes, I can only assume that Japanese is a language that isn't as simple to auto-translate to English as others. Google Translate does quite a good job on some European languages, but Japanese comes across as quaintly bizarre at best and downright incomprehensible way too often. :-)

So what you're saying is that it's similar to human-translation of Japanese to English?
Security

Submission + - Job Seeking Hacker Gets 30 Months in Prison (securityweek.com) 4

Submitted by wiredmikey
wiredmikey writes: A hacker who tried to land an IT job at Marriott by hacking into the company’s computer systems and then unwisely extorting the company into hiring him, has been sentenced to 30 months in prison.

The hacker started his malicious quest to land a job at Marriott by sending an email to Marriott containing documents taken after hacking into Marriott servers to prove his claim. He then threatened to reveal confidential information he obtained if Marriott did not give him a job in the company’s IT department.

He was granted a job interview, but little did he know, Marriott worked with the U.S. Secret Service to create a fictitious Marriott employee for the use by the Secret Service in an undercover operation to communicate with the hacker. He then was flown in for a face to face “interview” where he admitted more and shared details of how he hacked in. He was then arrested and pleaded guilty back in November 2011.

Marriott claims that the incident cost the company between $400,000 and $1 million in salaries, consultant expenses and other costs.
Android

Submission + - Google in battle with its own lawyers (itproportal.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Google is at daggers end with a law firm it's been using since 2008, after discovering that lawyers in the law firm, named Pepper Hamilton LLP, were representing a patent licensing business that sued Google's Android partners last month.

Google has claimed that Pepper Hamilton LLP never provided notice that it was hired by Digitude Innovations LLC, the firm that filed patent infringement complaints against Google's business allies.

Comment Re:Me like (Score 1) 108

by bobbozzo (#35837544) Attached to: Cheaper, More Powerful Alternative To FPGAs

DSPs (good for audio processing, among other things) can be (and often are) implemented in FPGAs, however I assume you'd need a 16 or 24-bit implementation for high-quality audio.
I don't know how much an FPGA capable of that would cost, but there's lots of info online so it must be reasonably affordable.
http://www.google.com/search?q=fpga+dsp+audio

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