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Comment: Re:And money changes hands... (Score 4, Insightful) 373

by jlechem (#38349034) Attached to: Adblock Plus To Offer 'Acceptable Ads' Option
Totally agree, and I'm sure someone will nerd rage and create the next adblock plus plus that will block all ads again until they decide to take the money and run. Kind of a vicious cycle but as long as someone picks up the torch I am happy. Hell I might even be motivated enough to get off my fat American ass and do it myself.

Has the Higgs Been Discovered? Physicists Gear Up ->

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An anonymous reader writes "The physics buzz reached a frenzy in the past few days over the announcement that the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva is planning to release what is widely expected to be tantalizing although not conclusive evidence for the existence of the Higgs boson, the elementary particle hypothesized to be the origin of the mass of all matter.

Many physicists have already swung into action, swapping rumors about the contents of the announcement and proposing grand ideas about what those rumors would mean, if true. "It's impossible to be excited enough," says Gordon Kane, a theoretical physicist at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor."
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Java

Bad code plagues business applications, especially->

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jlechem
jlechem writes "A new study examining 365 million lines of code in 745 applications identifies bad coding practices that affect security, performance and uptime, with Java Enterprise Edition applications having the greatest number of problems. Cast Software, which makes tools that automate the analysis of business applications, examined programs written in Java-EE, .NET, ABAP, C, C++, Cobol, Oracle Forms, and Visual Basic, used across a wide range of industries from energy and financial services to IT consulting, insurance, government, retail, telecom, and more."
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Mars

Water Found on Mars->

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RCC42 writes "The opportunity rover has found evidence of liquid water once flowing on mars through the discovery of gypsum, a mineral that can only be formed in the presence of water.

Though other evidence in the past has suggested at highly acidic water on Mars, this is the first evidence for water with a pH suitable for life as we know it."
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Science

Earliest Human Beds Found in South Africa->

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sciencehabit writes "A team working in South Africa claims to have found the earliest known sleeping mats, made of plant material and dated up to 77,000 years ago—50,000 years earlier than previous evidence for human bedding. These early mattresses apparently were even specially prepared to be resistant to mosquitoes and other insects."
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Idle

A Cloaked Alien Spaceship Orbiting Mercury?->

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astroengine
astroengine writes "A viral YouTube video is doing the rounds apparently depicting a "cloaked" alien spaceship in orbit around Mercury. The video, composed of observations from NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO), appears to show a UFO glow after being hit by a coronal mass ejection. Sadly, this is in fact a very well known artifact that appears in the data after background noise calculations are made. There's no Klingons off Mercury's starboard bow."
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Privacy

Cnet Apologizes For Nmap Adware Mess->

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Trailrunner7 writes "Officials at Cnet's Download.com site have issued a statement apologizing for bundling the popular open source Nmap security audit application with adware that installed a toolbar and changed users' search engine to Microsoft properties. Fyodor, the author of Nmap, raised the issue earlier this week, saying that his app was being wrapped in malware on Download.com.

It's not unusual for download sites to bundle free applications with some kind of adware or toolbar, but the creators of open-source applications take a dim view of this practice, given the nature and ethic of open source projects. Nmap is a venerable and widely used tool for mapping networks and performing security audits and Fyodor wrote in a message to an Nmap mailing list earlier this week that Download.com, which is part of Cnet, a subsidiary of CBS Interactive, was bundling the application with its installer, which, if a user agreed, would install a search toolbar and change the user's search engine to Bing."
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Censorship

Feds Falsely Censor Popular Blog For Over A Year, ->

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quantr writes ""he US government has effectively admitted that it totally screwed up and falsely seized & censored a non-infringing domain of a popular blog, having falsely claimed that it was taking part in criminal copyright infringement. Then, after trying to hide behind a totally secretive court process with absolutely no due process whatsoever (in fact, not even serving papers on the lawyer for the site or providing timely notifications — or providing any documents at all), for over a year, the government has finally realized it couldn't hide any more and has given up, and returned the domain name to its original owner. If you ever wanted to understand why ICE's domain seizures violate the law — and why SOPA and PROTECT IP are almost certainly unconstitutional — look no further than what happened in this case. ""
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