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Comment: Re:One small problem with your statement - It's BS (Score 2, Informative) 971

by Kilraven (#22849884) Attached to: Does It Suck To Be An Engineering Student?

Many CEO's have liberal arts degrees and NOT business degrees.
Really? I could've swore most of the CEOs I've read of have a Business or Science degree. Nardelli, Skilling, Prince, O'Neal, Lay, Mozila, Zander...err...

Many CEO's that have yet to drive their company into the ground have liberal arts degrees and NOT business degrees.
There! Fixed it for you.
Television

Nokia-Led DVB-H Mobile TV Standard Endorsed by EU->

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Tech.Luver
Tech.Luver writes "Today the rapid deployment of mobile TV services across Europe has taken a significant step forward as EU Member States endorsed the European Commission three pillar strategy presented in July: putting in place a joint approach to the licensing of mobile TV in order to accelerate the roll out of services and to encourage innovative business models; making available spectrum for these services, possibly in the UHF frequency band; and promoting the use of DVB-H as the mobile TV standard for Europe. ( http://techluver.com/2007/11/29/nokia-led-dvb-h-mobile-tv-standard-endorsed-by-eu/ )"
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The Internet

Verizon Selects LTE as 4G, Will BeginTrial in 2008->

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Tech.Luver
Tech.Luver writes "Verizon today announced plans to develop and deploy its fourth generation mobile broadband network using LTE — Long Term Evolution — the technology developed within the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) standards organization. The selection of LTE provides Verizon and Vodafone — joint owners of U.S.-based Verizon Wireless — - with a unique opportunity to adopt a common access platform with true global scale and compatibility with existing technologies of both companies. Verizon and Vodafone have a coordinated trial plan for LTE that begins in 2008. Trial suppliers include Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, Motorola, Nokia- Siemens, and Nortel. These suppliers, along with others in the world community, have contributed significantly towards development of the standards in 3GPP. ( http://techluver.com/2007/11/29/verizon-selects-lte-as-4g-wireless-broadband-direction/ )"
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Security

FBI's Bot Roast II nets 8 botherders, $20M cash->

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coondoggie
coondoggie writes "The Federal Bureau of Investigation today revealed the second phase of its Operation 'Bot Roast' netted eightindividuals that have been indicted, pled guilty, or been sentenced for crimes related to botnet activity. Additionally, 13 search warrants were served in the U.S. and by overseas law enforcement partners in connection with the operation, the FBI said. This ongoing effort has thus far uncovered more than $20 million in economic loss and more than one million victim computers. http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/22413"
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Sci-Fi

TASER France building a Flying Saucer Taser->

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denzacar writes "Antoine di Zazzo, Managing Director of TASER — France told AFP that TASER France is "developing a mini-flying saucer like drone which could also fire Taser stun rounds on criminal suspects or rioting crowds."

He expects it to be launched next year and to be sold internationally by Taser.

So far, there is no mentioning of drones being invisible to the naked eye or not."
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Privacy

Porn sites hold users hostage->

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Technical Writing Geek
Technical Writing Geek writes "Now comes a scheme some researchers say amounts to extortion: One site's threat to disable visitors' computers with relentless pop-up ads if they don't pay for a subscription they were automatically signed up for after a free trial.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071128/ap_on_hi_te/tech_bits_porn_site_extortion;_ylt="
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The Internet

47-year-old Internet stalker causes suicide 1

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Slartibartfast
Slartibartfast writes "Perhaps others had heard about this story, but I hadn't noticed it until it hit The Times today. A 47-year-old woman — pretending to be a teenage boy — played with the emotions of a neighboring teenage girl, eventually causing her to commit suicide. Her penalty? Nothing. I admit to being of two minds on this one: should someone be culpable for, by way of the written word, causing mental anguish leading to someone's death? The Free Speech part of me says no; the humane part of me says yes."
Debian

A First Look At Ubuntu 8.04 Alpha 1->

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Michael
Michael writes "The first daily build for Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy Heron" is now available online. The first Alpha release is expected tomorrow, while at Phoronix we have taken a first look at this early development release. It incorporates a number of package updates since Ubuntu 7.10, while there is still much work left to be done before the Ubuntu 8.04 release in April.

Aside from these package updates and a few other changes, there isn't too much to get excited about with Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy Heron" Alpha 1. However, with quite a few interesting features on the Hardy Heron Roadmap, it will certainly be an interesting next few months. In addition to new Ubuntu theme, among the many planned features is an improved startup and shutdown experience, displayconfig-gtk improvements for multiple monitors, an improved installation process, and other enhancements across the board. This will also be the first LTS (Long Term Support) release since Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper Drake.
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Google

Google experimenting with user-modified searches->

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carusoj
carusoj writes "Google is experimenting with letting users add, move, and remove search results. You can promote the results you like, remove the results you don't, and add URLs that you think are more appropriate. The move raises lots of questions, including whether Google would use this information to influence its PageRank system."
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