Comment: Re:wussies. (Score 1) 614
To be fair, when Virginia gets 2 inches of snow they have to shut down the entire state.
Comment: Re:Learn your AVC's (Score 1) 567
Last night my wife accidentally erased an email she was typing with Undo (from a contextual menu, trying to use spellcheck on a Mac). Naturally, she only complained to me about it after getting annoyed and closing the window, too late to learn about the wonders of Redo.
Comment: Re:Is this it? (Score 2, Interesting) 329
Most of them are easily curable with antibiotics or not deadly. HPV is the other big deadly sexually-transmitted virus, and there are parents who refuse to get their daughters vaccinated for the same reason.
Comment: Re:Is this it? (Score 1) 329
Unfortunately, memes don't spread entirely through reproduction.
Comment: Re:Is this it? (Score 5, Insightful) 329
No, because parents will refuse to let their children get vaccinated because that would encourage them to have premarital sex.
Comment: Re:So wait... (Score 1) 631
Considering the narcotic + acetaminophen mixtures have been on the market for far longer than the FDA knew (or at least publicly admitted it knew) that acetaminophen was at all damaging to the liver, this seems really unlikely.
CRIA Brings Down Demonoid
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Voline writes "As of 09:15 GMT the popular, private, Bittorrent-tracking site, Demonoid, is offline. Attempting to load the site results in blank white page with only the following text on it:
Demonoid had previously moved it's servers to Canada from the Netherlands to avoid legal threats there.""The CRIA [Canadian Recording Industry Association] threatened the company renting the servers to us, and because of this it is not possible to keep the site online. Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for your understanding."
Block Facebook Beacon with Firefox->
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ferstaberinde writes "In the inevitable response to Facebook's Beacon project, developer and blogger Nate Weiner provides a simple explanation of how Firefox users can block Beacon, preventing third-party sites from sending data about their transactions back to Facebook. Full article on Nate's blog, The Idea Shower."
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NSA monitors all web traffic: ex-AT&T tech->
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Sir Tandeth writes "http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Story?id=3833172&page=1
A former technician at AT&T, who alleges that the telecom giant forwards virtually all of its internet traffic into a "secret room" to facilitate government spying, says the whole operation reminds him of something out of Orwell's 1984.
Appearing on MSNBC's Countdown program, whistleblower Mark Klein told Keith Olbermann that a copy of all internet traffic passing over AT&T lines was copied into a locked room at the company's San Francisco office — to which only employees with National Security Agency clearance had access."
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Windows Update Forces Anchors to Parking Lot
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abe ferlman writes "Pittsburgh TV Station WPXI built a shiny new newsroom, but on their ribbon-cutting weekend their broadcast was forced out into the parking lot due to a Windows Update glitch. Reporters read the news off dead-tree media in front of a chain link fence while they waited for the update to finish."