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Comment Re:Broadcom is becoming a conglomerate (Score 1) 30

If it makes you feel better - there won't be much CA involved. Its basically been gutted and most of their non-mainframe enterprise software is on maintenance mode... They're just trying to squeeze out revenue before everyone drops the products. Slash expenses (personnel) 90%, and if you only lose 50% of revenue you're a financial genius!

Comment Astronomy (exoplanets,etc ) and Cosmology say Hi! (Score 3, Insightful) 292

Considering that less than 20 years ago there were no known extrasolar planets, no one had ever even thought up of the Holographic universe theory, or debated the existence (and implications) of a firewall around blackholes, not to mention the so dark we still can't find it Dark Matter... I mean - we haven't even made enough discoveries to start making theories yet with Exoplanets (gaseous Super Earths are brand new in the past year, I believe), and cosmology has huge areas to explore and craft experiments around that are literally brand new.

I think we're going to be just fine in the theory and spectacular discovery department.

Comment Could be a lot worse... could've been the fax line (Score 2) 158

When I had a new landline number assigned to me 15 years back, we found out the hard way it was the old fax number for a business. Nothing like getting half a dozen calls an hour all day and night, each one a series of high pitched whistles and beeps. After complaining to the phone company numerous times, they finally gave us a new number after two weeks. Gee, thanks.

Comment According to original report it wasn't Enders Game (Score 4, Informative) 1054

The original story reported it a bit differently:
"According to the incident report, a teacher had been reading pornographic material from the Internet to the students in class. One of the stories was about prostitutes having their faces covered with ejaculation."

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Unless this is the writer's cut that my library didn't stock - this wasn't enders game they were reading.

Cloud

Submission + - Cloud fails again - Yahoo! Mail outage (thenextweb.com)

dtolman writes: "Yet another Cloud failure — Yahoo Mail, possibly the largest hosted email service on the web, has been suffering the past few hours with a partial shutdown — possibly related to the rollout of their new mail service (still in beta)"
Facebook

Submission + - Facebook locking popular pages without warning (thenextweb.com)

raulfragoso writes: "Some popular websites, among them Ars Technica and Redmond Pie, are complaining about Facebook having locked out their pages on Facebook due to alleged copyright infringement. The problem is that Facebook does not state what's the supposed violation neither is willing to answer the requests for explaining the reason of the alleged infringement.
Many user comments in the Ars Technica article ( http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2011/04/facebook-shoots-first-ignores-questions-later-account-lock-out-attack-works.ars )lead to think that this is happening more often than not."

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