D H NG - Slashdot User

Comment: Cheap cellular cost? (Score 1) 851

by D H NG on Thursday December 22, @02:14PM (#38462776) Attached to: Do You Really Need a Smart Phone?

Where did you get such a cheap cellular plan? I hardly make any calls, but my bare-bones prepaid phone plan costs more than $4 a month. In the US, the cheapest I found is T-Mobile To Go, which charges about 10 cents a minute if you buy $100. Since the minutes last at most a year, the minimum you have to pay is about more than $8 a month.

Comment: Rebuttal from Danny Sullivan (Score 1) 315

by D H NG on Wednesday December 21, @08:51PM (#38455642) Attached to: Senators Recommend FTC Perform Antitrust Investigation Of Google

Here's an informed opinion on the subject.

Juror's Tweets Overturns Trial Verdict-> 1

Submitted by D H NG on Friday December 09, @11:01PM

D H NG writes "The Arkansas Supreme Court had overturned a murder conviction due to a juror tweeting during the trial. Erickson Dimas-Martinez was convicted in 2010 of killing a teenager and was sentenced to death. His lawyers appealed the case on account of a juror tweeting his musings during the trial. Tweets sent include "The coffee here sucks" and "Court. Day 5. here we go again". In an opinion, Associate Justice Donald Corbin wrote "because of the very nature of Twitter as an... online social media site, Juror 2's tweets about the trial were very much public discussions." Dimas-Martinez is to be given a new trial."
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Comment: Re:I would rather.... (Score 1) 554

by D H NG on Thursday November 10, @09:43PM (#38019146) Attached to: Zynga To Employees: Surrender Pre-IPO Shares Or You're Fired

If you get fired, you get none of the unvested stocks, so it's a choice of all or nothing.

Comment: Re:Hold up, wait a minute (Score 1) 585

by D H NG on Thursday September 29, @04:25PM (#37559886) Attached to: Chrome Set To Take No. 2 Spot From Firefox

May eventually happen, but It's going to be a bit...

Stats from from a real world web site over the last 30 days...

MS Internet Explorer No 891,058 47.4 % Firefox No 317,909 16.9 % Safari No 264,506 14 % Google Chrome No 162,473 8.6 % Android browser (PDA/Phone browser) No 93,691 4.9 % Unknown ? 54,509 2.8 % IPhone (PDA/Phone browser) No 28,603 1.5 % Mozilla No 25,610 1.3 % Opera No 12,074 0.6 % BlackBerry (PDA/Phone browser) No 9,396 0.4 %

Must be an Apple-oriented site. Where in the real world would Safari be ahead of Chrome?

Comment: One word (Score 1) 519

by D H NG on Monday September 19, @11:32AM (#37443774) Attached to: Wealthy Americans Turning To Europe For Medical Treatment

Thalidomide

Comment: This is old news (Score 2) 237

by D H NG on Monday September 12, @12:43PM (#37378558) Attached to: YouTube Disables Comments and User Uploads For Korean Users

This happened 2 years ago, and the Korean government already caputulated and gave YouTube an exemption.

Belgian newspapers delisted on Google-> 0

Submitted by D H NG on Friday July 15 2011, @04:43PM

D H NG writes "After being ordered by the Belgian courts to "remove from its Google.be and Google.com sites, and in particular, cached links visible on Google Web and the Google News service, all articles, photographs and graphics of daily newspapers published in French and German by Belgian publishers", Google had removed all traces of the newspapers in question from all its search services. The newspapers, however, are crying foul, and alleged that it was done in retaliation for being sued for copyright violations."
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Apple Backs Down on In-App Subscription Policy-> 0

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SimonTheSoundMan

on Thursday June 09 2011, @04:20PM

SimonTheSoundMan writes "Macrumors report that Apple have backed down on plans where external in-app subscriptions have to be available at the same price or cheaper within Apple's own stores. Unfortunately, this is a little too late for some apps such as Readability which was previously rejected by Apple."
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China-Based Password Collection Campaign Uncovered-> 0

Submitted by D H NG on Wednesday June 01 2011, @02:59PM

D H NG writes "Google announced that it recently uncovered a campaign to collect users' passwords. The campaign, apparently originating from China, affected what seem to be the personal Gmail accounts of hundreds of users including, among others, senior U.S. government officials, Chinese political activists, officials in several Asian countries (predominantly South Korea), military personnel and journalists. Google said it detected and has disrupted this campaign and has notified victims and secured their accounts, as well as notified the relevant government authorities."
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