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"David After Dentist" Made $150k For Family 234

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday June 30 2010, @10:27AM
from the is-this-real-life? dept.

It turns out recording your drugged child pays pretty well. 7-year-old David DeVore became an overnight sensation when his father posted a video of his ramblings after dental surgery. To date that video has made the DeVore family around $150,000. Most of the money came from YouTube, but the family has made $50k from licensing and merchandise. From the article: "The one seemingly minor decision to make the video available all over the Internet set off a whirlwind of changes for the DeVore family. Within just four days, 'David After Dentist' received 3 million views on YouTube and the younger David quickly became an Internet celebrity. His father quit his job in residential real estate (did we mention they live in Florida?), and the family started selling T-shirts featuring cartoon drawings of their son post-dental surgery."

Vmotion should skedattle during a security audit-> 0

Submitted by

Julie188

on Friday August 21 2009, @04:42PM

Julie188 writes "Businesses are in love with virtualization particularly VMware. But the feature that allows VMs to move from one physical server to another, Vmotion, can trip you up during a security audit because it cannot be encrypted."
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SPAM: Flickr/Facebook/Google changes prompt big backlash 1

Submitted by

destinyland

on Monday October 20 2008, @03:11AM

destinyland writes "How should web services respond when their users are revolting over unannounced changes to their web services? One analyst explains it this way. "There is backlash to change, simple as that." (Thursday's upgrade to Flickr's "Recent Activity" page has already prompted over 3,700 angry posts.) And his solution? Giving users a way to opt out. "You can dismiss it," Yahoo's Tapan Bhatt tells the New York Times, "which is stupid. Or you can try to understand what it is that users are telegraphing." One Facebook user has even launched a group just to protest forced web page designs, and angry activists have even tried swamping Google's headquarters with phone calls and emails to the developers and executives behind recent changes to the iGoogle homepages."
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SPAM: Accused of tolerating scammers, an ISP goes dark 0

Submitted by alphadogg on Tuesday September 23 2008, @07:51AM

alphadogg writes "The lifeline linking notorious service provider Intercage to the rest of the Internet has been severed. Intercage, which has also done business under the name Atrivo, was knocked offline late Saturday night when the last upstream provider connecting it to the Internet's backbone, Pacific Internet Exchange, terminated Intercage's service. Intercage president Emil Kacperski said Pacific did not tell him why his company had been knocked offline, but he believes it was in response to pressure from Spamhaus, a volunteer-run antispam group, which has been highly critical of Intercage's business practices."
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Robert Heinlein's Fan Mail Solution 0

Submitted by

Hugh Pickens

on Tuesday September 09 2008, @10:45AM

Hugh Pickens writes "Kevin Kelly has an interesting post about a letter he found from Robert Heinlein from Kelly's days editing the Whole Earth Catalog with Heinlein's own nerdy solution to a problem common to famous authors: how to deal with fan mail. In the days before the internet, Heinlein's solution was to create a one page FAQ answer sheet — minus the questions. Then he, or rather his wife Ginny, checked off the appropriate answer and mailed it back. Some of the entries in Heinlein's answer sheet are quite illuminating and amusing. Our personal favorite: "You say that you have enjoyed my stories for years. Why did you wait until you disliked one story before writing to me?""

Comment: why this is a good thing (Score 3, Insightful) 308

by circletimessquare on Monday July 14 2008, @11:52AM (#24182831) Attached to: Viacom Looks For Google Staff Uploads in YouTube Logs

what the internet has done to intellectual property is pit the little guys against entrenched dying large corporate machines. usually all the little guy can do is run and hide. but when its corporate machine versus corporate machine cast in the role usually occupied by the little guy, this is good because google can throw clout into a fight where the little guy can only hope to be popped like a zit. so precedents can fly out of this that can protect the little guy

Pirated XP superior to the real thing-> 0

Submitted by

KrispyXP

on Monday June 30 2008, @07:14AM

KrispyXP writes "One of the annoyances with installing a fresh copy of Windows XP these days is that the driver set is six years out of date, and there's been a LOT of new hardware emerge since then. It's one thing to install the latest graphics driver, but it's another to have to set up everything from the chipset to the storage drivers. Now, a pirated distribution of XP has done what Microsoft hasn't: it has brought XP's driver base completely up-to-date, as well as cutting out all the crap Microsoft ships with XP that nobody wants."
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Comment: Re:speed (Score 3, Insightful) 267

by Haeleth on Sunday June 22 2008, @09:03PM (#23895341) Attached to: SSL Encryption Coming To The Pirate Bay

Better slow downloads than meeting your new Swedish boyfriend in jail.

Even better, how about paying for your movies, games, and music? That way you can download them as fast as you like, and the government won't try to put you in jail even if they spy on you doing it!

I realise this is Slashdot, where "not getting busted for copyright infringement" is apparently categorised as a "right", so I'm probably about to be modded into oblivion -- but hey, that's life, isn't it?

Roadrunner Zooms to No. 1: New Chip Wars?-> 0

Submitted by

CWmike

on Wednesday June 18 2008, @09:27AM

CWmike writes "A supercomputer based on the Cell processor found in Sony's PlayStation 3 console has rocketed to No. 1 in the latest Top500 supercomputing ranking to become the most powerful computer in the world. The machine pulls together the power of 12,240 Cell chips and 6,562 dual-core AMD Opteron processors in IBM QS22 blade servers to deliver 1.026 petaflops of data crunching power, making it more than twice as fast as the top-ranked computer in the previous version of the ranking. Supercomputers are one of the first uses beyond the PlayStation 3 for the Cell chip, but others are envisaged. Toshiba has demonstrated a television with a Cell Broadband Engine for real-time upscaling of standard-definition TV to high definition, and for displaying multiple video streams simultaneously for quick navigation of many TV channels. Toshiba also plans to launch laptop PCs with a derivative of the Cell chip called the SpursEngine. Could this spark new chip wars?"
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Comment: Did any of this need to be confirmed? (Score 5, Insightful) 999

by damburger on Wednesday June 18 2008, @08:03AM (#23836961) Attached to: Wikileaks Gets Hold of Counterinsurgency Manual

I mean, where are the true believers now? Does anyone seriously think that western governments have any kind of moral credibility?

We wag our fingers at China for their actions in Tibet, but by any measure what they have done there is far more humane than what we have done in Iraq. We lecture Russia about corruption and they simply retort with examples of western corruption.

Who actually believes that our governments have any reason to exist anymore beyond their existence itself?