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Should We SEO Our Children?

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gbulmash
gbulmash writes ""Freakonomics" turned a lot of people on to how your name can affect your career prospects. Now a Wall Street Journal article is discussing parents who are considering how well their children will rank in Google searches when they pick the child's name. With everyone "googling" each other, common names make pages related to you harder to find. Is this the future of baby naming: search engine optimizing our children?"
Biotech

Resumption of oxygen to cells kill cells

Submitted by Carlinya
Carlinya writes "Newsweek reports that standard emergency-room procedure has it backward by pumping oxygen to someone who's heart has stopped for more than a few minutes.

According to the article: "Once the cells have been without oxygen for more than five minutes, they die when their oxygen supply is resumed. The cellular surveillance mechanism cannot tell the difference between a cancer cell and a cell being reperfused with oxygen. Something throws the switch that makes the cell die.""
Censorship

NFL Copyrights Nix Church Super Bowl Party

Submitted by
Copywrong
Copywrong writes "Having taken a cue from the Grinch, the NFL's lawyers have threatened legal action to prevent the Fall Creek Baptist Church's Super Bowl party. They're not worried about them charging admission, nor are they worried about using the trademarked term "Super Bowl" in promoting it — the church was more than happy not to do either — instead, the deal breaker was that their TV is too big. That's right, the NFL believes that watching the Super Bowl on more than one TV, or on a TV that's over 55 inches would violate their public performance rights under US copyright law, a limitation you can find codified in 17 USC 110."
Television

Linux powers Super Bowl's "flying" camera

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes "A new article on Super Bowl technology is out. Biggest revelation? That overhead "flying" camera CBS uses runs on Linux. From the article: "The camera's position is updated 200 times each second by the Overdrive motion control software, which runs on RTLinux, and control information is fed to a set of winches outside the stadium. The winches are driven by 20hp motors that can spin up to 3,000rpm and can position the camera anywhere in the field of play by reeling in cable and playing it out. The system is now sophisticated enough that an operator can fly the camera behind the ball carrier on a kickoff and follow his return up the field, all the way to endzone if necessary (and with Devin Hester running back kicks for Chicago, it may be necessary)." Is this the first Pengiun-powered Super Bowl?"
Security

Super Bowl Web site hacked, Seeded with Exploits

Submitted by
Adri00la
Adri00la writes "ZDNet is reporting that the official Web site of Dolphin Stadium, home of Sunday's Super Bowl XLI, has been hacked and seeded with exploit code targeting two known Windows security flaws. In the attack, the server hosting the site was breached and a link to a malicious JavaScript file was inserted into the header of the front page of the site. Visitors to the site execute the script, which attempts to exploit the vulnerabilities to load keyloggers/backdoors."
Graphics

Stick with Windows XP; Vista incompatible

Submitted by
derrida
derrida writes ""Do not: 1. Post you're going to sue nVidia. 2. Post they are guilty of false advertising. (without link to your court judgement saying so) 3. Post the hardware must not work (FUD) 4. Post the software must not work (FUD) 5. Post that you want nVidia staff fired or accosted. (don't be a jerk) 6. Ask for direct response from nVidia." With the above suggestions an Nvidian moderator closed a thread discussing Vista drivers. ; in his opinion "Far too many people flaming, posting FUD, and in general not posting within TOS.". The reaction: A site collecting information that may lead to a class action suit against the graphics firm, for lying when implying Vista compatibility."

What ever happened to happily ever after?