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China Third Country To Be Hit By 'Brown Tide' 129

Posted by timothy on Tuesday July 17, 2012 @10:00AM from the can-we-find-a-way-to-make-it-edible dept.

ananyo writes "The species of alga that causes 'brown tides' in the United States and South Africa is also to blame for massive blooms along China's east coast on the Bohai Sea, researchers have found. The finding could be the first step to tackling the problem. It is the fourth consecutive year the country has been hit by the bloom (Slashdot's story on the 2010 bloom), with the situation worsening each time the bloom returns."

Nokia Fears Carriers May Try To Undermine N900 307

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday September 05, 2009 @10:15AM from the but-the-carriers-are-usually-so-helpful dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Nokia is worried that networks may reject selling the N900 because it won't allow them to mess with the operating system. Nokia has previously showed the N900 running a root shell and it appears to use the same interface for IM and phone functions. Meanwhile, Verizon is claiming that 'exclusivity arrangements promote competition and innovation.' Is it too late to explain to people why $99+$60/month is not better than $600+$20/month?"

Best Practice For Retiring RSS Feeds? 71

Posted by timothy on Tuesday March 17, 2009 @09:57AM from the cleaning-up-in-advance dept.

GBJ writes "I work for an organisation that runs seasonal online competition events. Each event has its own news feed which becomes obsolete shortly after the event finishes. We're still getting RSS requests for some events as far back as 2004. I'd like to close a few thousand old feeds and remove the resource hit they cause, but I'm not sure what is the best approach. Currently I'm considering just returning a 404, but I have no idea if there is a better way to handle this. Uncle Google hasn't turned anything up yet, but sometimes it's hard to find something when you don't know what it's called ..."

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