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GoDaddy Bobbles DST Changeover? 201

Posted by kdawson from the time-for-a-change dept.
Several readers alerted us to this piece in PC World reporting on concerns that GoDaddy might not be ready for the DST changeover. Some readers, and others, claimed that GoDaddy's servers are not reachable now and are not serving email or web sites; but others see no evidence of this. The article recounts the rather flip response one GoDaddy customer got from their tech support: "As Daylight Savings [sic] does not apply to our servers, since we are on Arizona Time and our time zone does not change, our servers wouldn't update." When IDG News Service contacted GoDaddy they got an altogether more sensible reply.
Businesses

Submission + - GoDaddy v DST, DST won

Submitted by iffn
iffn writes: GoDaddy claimed not to need DST patches for this weekend due to their Arizona location. At this time however E-Mail and hosting are down. Glad I have hosting there for a "just for fun" website. I'd hate to be running a business with them. Looks like they're going to owe their customers for their losses since this outage was completely within their control to prevent from occuring.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,129718/article.h tml
Space

Submission + - BLAST Telescope about to Launch from Antarctica

Submitted by
mtruch
mtruch writes: "BLAST, the Balloon-borne Large Aperture Sub-millimeter Telescope is about to be launched from McMurdo Station, Antarctica. BLAST is a 2700 kg telescope with a 2 meter primary mirror that hangs from a 1.1 million cubic metre balloon floating at an altitude of 38 km that will study the star formation history of the universe. It will float west at nearly constant latitude for about 14 days until it is (hopefully) located over McMurdo again and will be terminated and recovered. Real time position and flight track is available from the CSBF. Watch the launch live via a crappy webcam link. Three of the graduate students working on the project have photo blogs of much of the prep period, and specifically Don's blog should have launch photos soon (bandwidth to/from McMurdo is at a premium).

BLAST made it on slashdot in the past, when it launched from Sweden in June 2005, and indirectly with an interview with Prof. Barth Netterfield and George Staikos. Yes, the flight computers still run Slack, and yes, we still use kst for data viewing and analysis. There is Discovery Science show about BLAST and high-altitude balloons, and a future documentary film being made about BLAST."
Music

Submission + - RIAA Slow to Turn Over Wholesale Price Information

Submitted by
NewYorkCountryLawyer
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes: "Although under a court order(pdf) in UMG v. Lindor to turn over "all relevant documents" concerning their wholesale prices for song file downloads, resulting from Judge Trager's ruling that Ms. Lindor was entitled to challenge the constitutionality of the RIAA's $750-per-download damges theory, the RIAA has been balking at coming up with a timetable for the document production."
Music

Submission + - iTunes sales surging

Submitted by john82
john82 writes: Earlier this month we had a report from Forrester, based on a random sampling of 2,000 credit card accounts, that purported to show that iTunes sales were crashing. Now comes another survey from Reston, VA-based ComScore which indicates the exact opposite. ComScore's report which is based on actual iTunes sales shows a 84% increase during the first nine months of this year compared to the same period last year. Meanwhile the author of the Forrester report, Josh Bernoff, noted in his blog yesterday that the he shouldn't be pummeled just because everyone took what he wrote and ran with it.
Biotech

Submission + - Dolphin saved by wold's tallest man

Submitted by cheftw
cheftw writes: The world's tallest man has saved two dolphins by using his long arms to reach into their stomachs and pull out dangerous plastic shards. Mongolian herdsman Bao Xishun was called in after the dolphins swallowed plastic used around their pool at an aquarium in Fushun, north-east China.
United States

Journal Journal: Do's and Don'ts of Contacting Your Senator

Journal by Marnhinn

1. Do write / call them. They don't know what you don't say. The cardinal rule in politics is that people only contact politicians when they are opposed. Be sure and let your Senator know when you support them. If you are going to write or call them - learn the how the mail works, and how to leave a message (include name, address and phone number). Don't send in a form letter!
The Almighty Buck

Submission + - YouTube Whistleblower barely scratched surface

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A previously featured story ( YouTube Used for Whistleblowing) outlined the efforts of a former Lockheed Martin engineer to bring attention to security flaws in the refurbished fleet of Coast Guard patrol boats. Interestingly, it turns out the scandal is of a much larger scale: "[The] Coast Guard did not inform Congress that it was warned two years ago by its chief engineer that a proposed National Security Cutter, meant to be the flagship of its fleet, had "significant flaws" in its structural design and should not be started until the problems were addressed." It is disappointing that more engineers did not attempt to publicize this massive defrauding of US taxpayers before it was too late.
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Submission + - Wired's 2006 Foot-in-Mouth Awards

Submitted by
herostratos
herostratos writes: "Wired.com invites you to nominate the year's most idiotic statements from the freewheeling world of technology. Among the gems submitted are senator Ted Stevens with the now classic "And again, the Internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes." and David Kirkpatrick's Fortune article entitled 'Why Google will falter in 2006: "...my first prediction is that a year from now we won't think that the search company is the invincible behemoth that we do now." I think the ward has to go to Karl Rove, who when told that Democrats had a chance to take the senate responded with the Zen-like "You have your math, but I have THE math.""
Editorial

Submission + - New Species In The Inky Water Under Antarctica

Submitted by gt_mattex
gt_mattex writes:
In the dark ocean beneath the Antarctic ice, researchers have found scores of species they've never seen before, including strange jellyfish and other gelatinous organisms that thrive without light.

It is too early to say exactly how many new species were discovered in the Antarctic, many in the Weddell Sea, where ice crushed the ship of Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton in 1915.

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