Comment: Re:Wait... (Score 4, Funny) 346
I thought that in the end, there can be only one?
Call To Halt Donations To Stop Wikipedia Deletions 4
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ObsessiveMathsFreak writes "Howard Tayler, the webcomic artist of Schlock Mercenary fame, is calling on people not to donate money during the latest Wikimedia Foundation fund-raiser, in protest at the "notability purges" taking place throughout Wikipedia, where articles are being removed en-masse by what many see as overzealous admins. The webcomic community in particular has long felt slighted by the application of Wikipedia's contentious Notability policy. Wikinews reporters have recently begun investigating this issue, but are the admins listening? Is Deletionism becoming a dominant ethos on Wikipedia? Are the right people holding the reigns?"
Amazon defends one-click patent with Wikipedia
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An anonymous reader writes "In a new filing with the USPTO on 28 March Amazon has submitted 32 wikipedia articles to try and defend its one-click patent which is being re-examined by the USPTO in a case brought by
Peter Calveley . This heavy use of Wikipedia by Amazon raises the question of whether a "website that anyone can edit" should be used as evidence. Calveley points out on
his blog that in August, the USPTO acknowledged that it had
taken Wikipedia off its list of acceptable research sources .
Amazon also submitted a patent that Cordance Corporation is currently suing Amazon for infringing."
8.0 Quake hits Solomon Islands,Tsunami kills 8
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wattsup
wattsup writes "The
USGS Reports that a magnitude 8.0 earthquake occurred at 20:39:56 (UTC) in
the Solomon Islands. Police and residents said a wave about 10 feet high struck
the western town of Gizo, inundating buildings and causing widespread
destruction. A man who answered the telephone at the Gizo police station said
there were initial reports that eight people, six of them children, had been
killed by the tsunami. Gizo, a regional center, is just 25 miles from the
earthquake's epicenter.
Australia to Hawaii went on high alert from the Pacific Tsunami Center for several hours after the quake struck between the islands of Bougainville and New Georgia, though officials canceled a region-wide tsunami warning after the danger period passed."
Australia to Hawaii went on high alert from the Pacific Tsunami Center for several hours after the quake struck between the islands of Bougainville and New Georgia, though officials canceled a region-wide tsunami warning after the danger period passed."
Gmail Paper Launches
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theodp
theodp writes "Checked your Gmail lately? Thanks to Gmail Paper, you can now request a physical copy of any message with the click of a button, and Google will print it and mail it to you using ad-supported stamps."
Slashdot announces Slashdot Personals
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mi
mi writes "After years of development and testing, Slashdot is responding to market demand with today's announcement of free Slashdot Personals (Beta): "We have long felt, this would be a good idea, and today we finally bring it to fruition. We have a strong and loyal community and there is no reason, we should not try to facilitate dating among the members. This is a long-term investment for us — nerds' offsprings will start becoming loyal users as soon as within 10 years," — said Commander Taco..."
NZ Banks want .bank domain to reduce fraud
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An anonymous reader writes "Banks want a new internet classification to help combat online fraud. Banks' internet addresses would then read westpac.bank.nz, for example, rather than westpac.co.nz. The . bank address would join the five current "moderated" addresses with restricted memberships.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/3976481a28.html"
CompUSA to close half of its stores
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silic0nsilence writes "Businesswire.com is reporting that CompUSA will be closing 126 stores, which is more than half of them. This comes months after a announcements that CompUSA may have been sold since it is not making much profit."
Stock Market Drop Blamed on Computer Error
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WebHostingGuy
WebHostingGuy writes "Today the Dow Jones Industrial Index dropped a little over 3% in value. Stock market swings come and go but it is interesting that the sudden drop in the stock market is the result of a computer glitch. According to MSNBC, the computers running were not properly calculating trades. This led to the switch to a backup system which led to several seconds delay which impacted the Dow. Even now after the close of the market spokesmen for the NYSE Group Inc. could not confirm if all closing share prices were even valid."
Media Players, Linux and Ogg Vorbis
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One Salient Oversigh writes "I have been able to use Ogg Vorbis files on my iRiver Digital Music Player and easily access it via my Linux o/s (Kubuntu 6.10). iRiver is one of the few companies that have produced players capable of playing Ogg Vorbis sound files, and all that is needed to make the player Linux-friendly is a change of firmware. If anyone is interested in how I was able to do this, check out my story on my blog. Are there others out there who thought they were disenfranchised by the Window-centricity of MP3 players?"