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Google Stops Ads For "Cougar" Sites 319

Posted by samzenpus
from the here's-to-you-mrs-robinson dept.
teh31337one writes "Google is refusing to advertise CougarLife, a dating site for mature women looking for younger men. However, they continue to accept sites for mature men seeking young women. According to the New York Times, CougarLife.com had been paying Google $100,000 a month since October. The Mountain View company has now cancelled the contract, saying that the dating site is 'nonfamily safe.'"
Intel

The Big Technical Mistakes of History 244

Posted by kdawson
from the seemed-like-a-good-idea-at-the-time dept.
An anonymous reader tips a PC Authority review of some of the biggest technical goofs of all time. "As any computer programmer will tell you, some of the most confusing and complex issues can stem from the simplest of errors. This article looking back at history's big technical mistakes includes some interesting trivia, such as NASA's failure to convert measurements to metric, resulting in the Mars Climate Orbiter being torn apart by the Martian atmosphere. Then there is the infamous Intel Pentium floating point fiasco, which cost the company $450m in direct costs, a battering on the world's stock exchanges, and a huge black mark on its reputation. Also on the list is Iridium, the global satellite phone network that promised to make phones work anywhere on the planet, but required 77 satellites to be launched into space."
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Google Street View Shoots the Same Woman 43 Times 106

Posted by samzenpus
from the get-your-face-out-there dept.
Geoffrey.landis writes "Terry Southgate discovered that his wife Wendy appears on the Google Street View of his neighborhood not once or twice but a whopping 43 times. From the article: 'It seems as if the Street View car simply followed the same route as Wendy and Trixie. However, Wendy was a little suspicious that the car was doing something on the "tricksie" side. Several of the Street View shots show Wendy looking with some concern towards the car that was, well, to put it politely, crawling along the curb. "I didn't know what it was doing. It was just driving round very, very slowly," Wendy told the Sun.' The next best thing to being a movie star — a Street View star!"

Comment: I have 801 tchnical PDFs on my DX (Score 2, Interesting) 263

by Doug Jensen (#28573773) Attached to: Is the Kindle DX Worth the Money?
I have several thousand technical documents ranging from hundreds of pages to a dozen pages. I have been carrying them around with me on a 500GB portable USB hard drive, connecting that to my laptop or a public computer. I got 801 of them on my DX before it filled up, so now I am in the process of triaging all my PDFs to get the most important ones on the DX. I have no problems at all reading them, even the mathematics-intensive ones. Something I thought of after I bought the DX: hey, now I can easily have with me the PDFs of all (a couple hundred) of the journal and conference papers I have published. One obvious use is for employment interviews (I'm just saying) without having to tote my laptop -- the show-and-tell experience is totally different and cool. Well worth the price for my purposes.

Comment: Re:Your Goal: One Second or Less (Score 1) 654

by Doug Jensen (#26465229) Attached to: Ubuntu 9.04 Daily Build Boots In 21.4 Seconds

Why the hell should I be using on-the-fly whole disk encryption?

My machine's physical security is high, so it's unlikely I'll have it stolen. In the unlikely event that it is stolen, I've got bigger problems.

So it seems to me that whole-disk encryption is a waste of processor power, killing partition access CPU utilization for a security element that will go entirely unused and will ensure if my machine has a hardware failure I won't be able to access my own files from another PC.

Uh, because your employer requires on-the-fly whole disk encryption? Mine has a security guard at all doors who checks every outgoing laptop to be sure no one takes one out without encryption.

Comment: My NEC MobilePro 900 WinCE boots in 1 second (Score 1) 654

by Doug Jensen (#26464589) Attached to: Ubuntu 9.04 Daily Build Boots In 21.4 Seconds
1 second later I am typing in Word. That, and email, are pretty much all I use it for, but I use it for that all the time. I bet there are still some journalists out there using the Radio Shack 100 (or whatever it was called) with a 1 or 2 line display, booting in 1 second, running on 2 AA's forever. When I can get a netbook that boots in a second or 2, running linux I presume, than I'll buy one. Don't try to tell me about standby (uses battery power) or hibernate (still takes a long time to resume).

"And they told us, what they wanted... Was a sound that could kill some-one, from a distance." -- Kate Bush