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Wikipedia To Dump GoDaddy Over SOPA 197

Posted by timothy from the go-daddy-yourself dept.
Reader jampola points out that Wikimedia's Jimmy Wales last week said clearly what was only hinted at earlier in the month; now "It's not only imgur (among many others) who are giving GoDaddy the flick; it also appears Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikimedia, will be making the change. While unsure to what effect Wikimedia utilizes the services of GoDaddy, I imagine this could very well be another public blow for GoDaddy in the wrong direction over their decision to support SOPA."
The Internet

Imgur.com: Why We Dumped GoDaddy 279

Posted by samzenpus from the it's-not-me-it's-you dept.
Velcroman1 writes "On the eve of what has been dubbed "Dump Go Daddy Day," imgur.com — the massive image hosting site responsible for an astonishing 28 terabytes of bandwidth and nearly 200 million page views per day — has already changed its registry entries, foreshadowing the potential negative effect of a boycott set to begin Thursday morning. GoDaddy.com originally supported the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) but quickly recanted its position when the call for a boycott circulated. 'The outcry kind of forced our hand,' imgur founder and owner Alan Schaaf said. 'I'm against the SOPA act and imgur as a company is against it. We just feel it is terrible that GoDaddy.com would support this legislation.'"
Businesses

RIAA Lawyer Complains DMCA May Need Revamp 303

Posted by samzenpus from the still-not-enough dept.
the simurgh writes "The DMCA is just not providing the kind of protection against online piracy that Congress intended, RIAA lawyer Jennifer Pariser says. The judge in Universal Music Group's copyright suit against Veoh as well as the judge in EMI vs. MP3tunes.com issued similar findings. The courts have now determined the burden of policing the web for infringing materials is on the content owner and not the service provider. Content companies think it is unfair for them to be required to spend resources on scouring the Web when their pirated work helps service providers make money. What they complain about almost as much is that after they notify a service provider of an infringing song or movie clip and they're removed, new copies appear almost immediately. Basically they are complaining the the DMCA makes them responsible for policing their own content at their expense."

Comment Re:Deja vu (Score 1) 394

by kpainter (#37243040) Attached to: Ex-Board Member Says HP Is Committing 'Corporate Suicide'

> "they dropped that stuff like a bad habit" The didn't drop the test equipment line, they split HP into 2 companies, HP and Agilent. Agilent is still making fine test equipment. http://www.agilent.com/

Too bad they didn't split off the computer and printer business into "Agilent" and let the test equipment keep the HP name.
AMD

Crysis 2 Update a Perfect Case of Wasted Polygons 159

Posted by Soulskill from the almost-as-many-as-starfox dept.
crookedvulture writes "Crytek made news earlier this summer by releasing a big DirectX 11 update for the PC version of its latest game, Crysis 2. Among other things, the update added extensive tessellation to render in-game elements with a much higher number of polygons. Unfortunately, it looks like most of those extra polygons have been wasted on flat objects that don't require more detail or on invisible layers of water that are rendered even in scenes made up entirely of dry land. Screenshots showing the tessellated polygon meshes for various items make the issue pretty obvious, and developer tools confirm graphics cards are wasting substantial resources rendering these useless or unseen polygons. Interestingly, Nvidia had a hand in getting the DirectX 11 update rolled out, and its GeForce graphic cards just happen to perform better with heavy tessellation than AMD's competing Radeons."

Comment Re:But the Best Buy guy said it does (Score 2) 664

by kpainter (#36661464) Attached to: Retailer Calls Rivals' Bluff On "HDMI Scam"
This guy takes the cake for audiophile horseshit:
http://www.lessloss.com/dfpc-signature-p-199.html
I bet you didn't know you needed a $1149 power cable to make your music sound better? The "how-it-works" section explains why you do (Noise always works from top down). This same guy has a lot of other products you should look at if you need a good laugh. The "blackbody field conditioner" is my personal favorite.

Comment Re:Nothing to do with Facebook (Score 1) 411

by kpainter (#36514066) Attached to: More Users Are Shunning Facebook

As far as I am concerned, this has more to do with how Facebook (and others) are used against people in the work place, at school, by insurance companies, by lawyers and even during pre-employment screenings. As it has been legally supported by court rulings that it's okay to use that information for those purposes (despite the fact that it hinders certain constitutional amendments, the separation of personal and professional life and more), it comes down to the users having two choices: participate or not participate.

I saw this LONG long ago and I decided not to participate as the best option. I think others are beginning to see it as well.

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