AlgoRhythm - Slashdot User

Comment In Google maps the search area (Score 1) 218

by AlgoRhythm on Monday November 19, 2007 @05:06PM (#21412567) Attached to: Is Apple Tracking iPhone Users Through IMEI?

is determined by the portion of the map within active view. If you are looking at China and search for a restaurant, it isn't going to be anywhere near you (unless you are actually in China, of course).

Submission + - Why Digg Failed (or may)

Submitted by beakerMeep on Friday February 16, 2007 @02:31AM

beakerMeep writes: David Marcus, a user on Kuro5hin, recently put together an excellent piece on the perils and faults behind the workings of Digg.com. From the article: 'As I write, the top story on Digg is "Transparency in Social News", a newspaper-as-blog item that the Digg community have used as a little self-congratulatory pat on the back. I understand why Digg's users feel like they deserve to toast themselves now and then — after all, they've made the place one of the Web's Top 100 sites, and they've made Digg, Inc. upwards of $200 million.' Incidentally, as I submit this story to Slashdot, Digg has appears to have removed the story from the list of upcoming stories.

Submission + - Teacher + porn malware + students = 40 yr sentence

Submitted by nettework on Thursday February 15, 2007 @11:49PM

nettework writes: A jury in Norwich, CT has has convicted substitute teacher Julie Amero on four counts of risk of injury to a minor because she was viewing porn on the classroom computer during class. The 40-year-old and married Amero, who "did not even know how to turn off a monitor", was in charge of the class when the classroom computer (which was not behind a firewall because the school had failed to pay the bill) began spewing out pornographic images in windows she couldn't close. Because of a legal technicality, the jurors weren't allowed to see the full testimony of computer forensics experts Herb Horner, who (surprisingly!) discovered that the computer was infested with malware and spyware and that these pop-up images were the result. From a juror in the case:

The bottom line was that it didn't make a difference who or how the porn sites showed up on the computer...If you and your wife were watching an xxx rated movie the you put into the dvd player, you powered it up and you hit play, then went into the other room for a snack and your child or grandchild entered the room would you expect your wife to stop the dvd or just let it play because she didn't start it. No you would be upset as all get out.
She faces up to 40 years in prison, and her sentencing is March 2.

Submission + - Action Video Games Sharpen Vision 20%

Submitted by brian0918 on Tuesday February 06, 2007 @11:54AM

brian0918 writes: Researchers at the University of Rochester have shown that playing action video games such as Unreal Tournament can quickly sharpen your vision. From the article: 'The researchers tested college students who had played few, if any, video games in the last year. The experimental group played Unreal Tournament for roughly an hour a day. The control group played Tetris, a game equally demanding in terms of motor control, but visually less complex. After about a month of near-daily gaming, the Tetris players showed no improvement on the test', but the UT players 'showed a substantial increase in the spatial resolution of their vision, meaning they could see figures like those on an eye chart more clearly, even when other symbols crowded in.'

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