Comment Re:for those with problems (Score 1) 347
Meebo uses libpurple, which is the same thing that Pidgin uses. So, if you upgrade to the latest version of Pidgin, it should work just as well.
Submission + - "Home-made" helicopter in Nigeria (sybpipe.com)
mi writes: "Yahoo! carries an article describing a helicopter, that a Nigerian physics undergraduate has put together from various parts: Honda Civic's 133hp engine, seats from an old Toyota, and parts of a Boeing 747, which crashed nearby some years ago. The thing has already been flown several times.
If a 24 year old student can do it — while also repairing electronics to supplement his income — where is my flying car?"
If a 24 year old student can do it — while also repairing electronics to supplement his income — where is my flying car?"
Submission + - Linux frag-fest: the games Linux plays (itwire.com)
davidmwilliams writes: "You know Linux will handle all your web browsing needs, your e-mail, your office apps. But when it comes to gaming, what do you do? If you're a hard-core gamer are you stuck in a Windows world, or the netherworld of dual-booting? Fear not: Linux can play hard and here's how to get going.
http://www.itwire.com/content/view/14959/53/"
Submission + - Wal-Mart tries to stop early Black Friday ad posts (zdnet.com)
registrations_suck writes: "Looks like Walmart is at it again. Rather than taking advantage of FREE ADVERTISING provided by people posting its "Black Friday" circular info in advance, the company is sending out threatening letters to site operators warning them that pricing info is confidential.
From the story:
Wal-Mart's lawyers have an early holiday message for Web sites that post Black Friday ads ahead of their official release date: Don't do it.
Read more:
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6214424.html"
Submission + - Vonage III: The Bloodletting (reuters.com)
kickabear writes: "AT&T have filed a lawsuit against popular target Vonage, claiming patent infringement. This is the third major lawsuit to have been brought against Vonage by a major phone company. Vonage lost the previous two lawsuits, brought by Sprint-Nextel and Verizon. How much more money can Vonage afford to give away? How can Vonage educate a jury on prior art?"
Submission + - 60 tonnes of New York City waste shipped to India (hindu.com)
akizhakkiniyil writes: Sixty tonnes of municipal waste, comprising plastic and paper from New York, was seized by custom officials in Kochi , kerala state India.Customs officials found three containers of municipal waste from the US city lying at the Customs Freight Station at Pettah near Kochi in Kerala.
Submission + - Govt. attacks paper; demands 4 years of reader IPs (phoenixnewtimes.com) 1
iroll writes: The founders of the Phoenix New Times have been arrested for exposing a "secret" grand jury subpoena targetting their newspaper. From the New Times article:
The subpoena demands: "Any and all documents containing a compilation of aggregate information about the Phoenix New Times Web site created or prepared from January 1, 2004 to the present, including but not limited to :
A) which pages visitors access or visit on the Phoenix New Times website;
B) the total number of visitors to the Phoenix New Times website;
C) information obtained from 'cookies,' including, but not limited to, authentication, tracking, and maintaining specific information about users (site preferences, contents of electronic shopping carts, etc.);
D) the Internet Protocol address of anyone that accesses the Phoenix New Times website from January 1, 2004 to the present;
E) the domain name of anyone that has accessed the Phoenix New Times website from January 1, 2004 to the present;
F) the website a user visited prior to coming to the Phoenix New Times website;
G) the date and time of a visit by a user to the Phoenix New Times website;
H) the type of browser used by each visitor (Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Netscape Navigator, Firefox, etc.) to the Phoenix New Times website; and I) the type of operating system used by each visitor to the Phoenix New Times website."
This story has been picked up by other media outlets around the country, including the NY Times
The subpoena demands: "Any and all documents containing a compilation of aggregate information about the Phoenix New Times Web site created or prepared from January 1, 2004 to the present, including but not limited to
A) which pages visitors access or visit on the Phoenix New Times website;
B) the total number of visitors to the Phoenix New Times website;
C) information obtained from 'cookies,' including, but not limited to, authentication, tracking, and maintaining specific information about users (site preferences, contents of electronic shopping carts, etc.);
D) the Internet Protocol address of anyone that accesses the Phoenix New Times website from January 1, 2004 to the present;
E) the domain name of anyone that has accessed the Phoenix New Times website from January 1, 2004 to the present;
F) the website a user visited prior to coming to the Phoenix New Times website;
G) the date and time of a visit by a user to the Phoenix New Times website;
H) the type of browser used by each visitor (Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Netscape Navigator, Firefox, etc.) to the Phoenix New Times website; and I) the type of operating system used by each visitor to the Phoenix New Times website."
This story has been picked up by other media outlets around the country, including the NY Times
Submission + - Sun employing Microsoft Techniques?
boogybren writes: "It appears that Sun has taken the Microsoft approach on getting the word out about Open Office. Very late on the night of the 18th, I was notified by a systray alert that there was a Java update. Much to my chagrin, it says that it is a Java update but it is nothing but an Open Office install! The only option is to either install it or postpone the install. Clicking on more information gives no details whatsoever on how to delete the update entirely."
Submission + - Mythbusters to test cockroaches radiation myth (tri-cityherald.com)
redwoodtree writes: "As the article quotes so perfectly "Contrary to popular belief, not a significant amount of research goes into cockroach radiation" so the Mythbusters are going out to Hanford Site where plutonium was manufactured for the first nuclear bomb. It's the single most polluted nuclear waste site in the U.S. The Mythbusters are going to take cockroaches and other insects and apply successively higher doses of radiation in a controlled setting. One group of insects will not be exposed to any radiation of course. It turns out that the facility is used to test radiation on electronic equipment, power lines and so forth. It's comforting that all the nuclear waste is being put to some good use before it all washes down into the Columbia river."
Submission + - PARC Scientists Demonstrate Self-Encrypting Docs (itworld.com)
narramissic writes: "'Intelligent redaction' technology being developed by the boffins at Xerox PARC automatically identifies and encrypts confidential sections of documents. The technology essentially uses partial document encryption, first analyzes basic types of potentially sensitive information such as company names, people's names, and addresses, and then requires approval by the author before the sections are scrambled to anyone other than those with a software key."
Submission + - Pausing Google from collecting your web history (blogspot.com)
dharmapu writes: "If you use any of google's services like Gmail,orkut and then perform
a search on google then your searches are tied down to your login.
Google calls this your web history and uses this to personalize your search.
This story provides instructions on how you can opt out of this feature.
It is interesting that such features are opt out and not opt in."
Submission + - Demonoid shut down by CRIA?
L. VeGas writes: "For twenty-four hours, Demonoid has been offline.
The popular Dutch news site, nu.nl is reporting that the world's second largest torrent tracker, Demonoid has apprently been shut down by the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA)
This happens just three months after Demonoid moved its servers to Canada under pressure from BREIN, a Dutch anti-piracy organization.
Wonder why> the Demonoid folks thought Canada would be a good safe-haven to begin with."
The popular Dutch news site, nu.nl is reporting that the world's second largest torrent tracker, Demonoid has apprently been shut down by the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA)
This happens just three months after Demonoid moved its servers to Canada under pressure from BREIN, a Dutch anti-piracy organization.
Wonder why> the Demonoid folks thought Canada would be a good safe-haven to begin with."
Submission + - Scanning railroad tracks in 3D (controleng.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Control Engineering has an article about how the railroad companies are using high-speed 3D scanning at 30 mph to detect defects in railroad track. Up until now, amazingly, people have been walking the track to judge the condition of it.
Submission + - Radiohead Blows Off ITunes, Sells Albums in MP3 (wired.com)
muzzatait writes: "There are currently only three Radiohead songs available on iTunes, all as part of soundtracks and compilations. But head over to 7digital, and you'll find all of Radiohead's albums plus some early singles, available in the 320 Kbps, DRM-free MP3 format."
Submission + - Rising PC Surveillance leading to Divorce Courts
Hugh Pickens writes: ""Google and Yahoo may know everything, but they don't really care about you," says one divorce attorney but "no one cares more about the things you do than the person that used to be married to you." Read an article from the New York Times on how traces of Web site visits, mobile telephone records, and hacked e-mail accounts are becoming the fodder for divorce proceedings. One lawyer says three-quarters of her cases now involve some kind of electronic communications and that she routinely asks judges for court orders to seize and copy the hard drives of her clients' spouses. Although lawyers must navigate a complex legal landscape governing the admissibility of electronic evidence, if the computer in question is shared by the whole family, or couples have revealed their passwords to each other, reading a spouse's e-mail messages and introducing them as evidence in a divorce case is often allowed. "The only thing you can truly erase these things with is a specialty Smith & Wesson product," says one investigator. "Throw your computer into the air and play skeet with it.""
