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Submission + - AT&T Censors 4chan server 13

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An anonymous reader writes: http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/94pf2/att_is_now_blocking_all_access_to_img4chanorg/ Details how img.4chan.org (home of the notorious /b/ — "Random" image board) is being actively blocked by AT&T. According to the scant details available on 4chan and Reddit there are reports that img.4chan.org has become inaccessible from California to Texas and some reports claim as far east as Connecticut. Supposedly this is to stop a ring of pedophiles, but as one Reddit poster said it best "First the came for the pedophiles and I was not a pedophile..."
Disturbing news indeed.
Censorship

Submission + - AT&T blocks img.4chan.org from customers (reddit.com) 11

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bmecoli
bmecoli writes: "AT&T seems to be blocking img.4chan.net which hosts the infamous /b/ (random) board, as well as /r9k/. Those who have contacted AT&T representatives were told that the site is in fact blocked, so this isn't a technical problem, and all the other 4chan subdomains work fine."
Google

Google's Chiller-Less Data Center 132

Posted by samzenpus from the cooler-than-cool dept.
1sockchuck writes "Google has begun operating a data center in Belgium that has no chillers to support its cooling systems, which will improve energy efficiency but make weather forecasting a larger factor in its network management. With power use climbing, many data centers are using free cooling to reduce their reliance on power-hungry chillers. By foregoing chillers entirely, Google will need to reroute workloads if the weather in Belgium gets too warm. The facility also has its own water treatment plant so it doesn't need to use potable water from a local utility."
Science

Repulsive Force Discovered In Light 176

Posted by kdawson from the push-me-pull-you dept.
Aurispector writes in with news that the Yale team that recently discovered an attractive force between two light beams in waveguides has now found a corresponding repulsive force. "'This completes the picture,' [team lead Hong] Tang said. 'We've shown that this is indeed a bipolar light force with both an attractive and repulsive component.' The attractive and repulsive light forces Tang's team discovered are separate from the force created by light's radiation pressure, which pushes against an object as light shines on it. Instead, they push out or pull in sideways from the direction the light travels. Previously, the engineers used the attractive force they discovered to move components on the silicon chip in one direction, such as pulling on a nanoscale switch to open it, but were unable to push it in the opposite direction. Using both forces means they can now have complete control and can manipulate components in both directions. 'We've demonstrated that these are tunable forces we can engineer,' Tang said."
Censorship

Wikipedia Debates Rorschach Censorship 635

Posted by kdawson from the guy-drawing-the-dirty-pictures dept.
GigsVT writes "Editors on Wikipedia are engaged in an epic battle over a few piece of paper smeared with ink. The 10 inkblot images that form the classic Rorschach test have fallen into the public domain, and so including them on Wikipedia would seem to be a simple choice. However, some editors have cited the American Psychological Association's statement that exposure of the images to the public is an unethical act, since prior exposure to the images could render them ineffective as a psychological test. Is the censorship of material appropriate, when the public exposure to that material may render it useless?"

Comment Re:Technically not trolling. (Score 1) 895

by Heytunk (#28605407) Attached to: Researcher Trolls MMO, Surprised When Players Hate Him
I remember the days of playing CS over lan.
A friend of mine had the 'AWP twitch', instantly hitting most of us the moment a toe came into view.
Add to that his volume was set to max so he could hear other players walking around from miles away with his headset and you have a sniping monster.

I spent a night of 1v1 against him playing around trying to get at him with a glock/eagle and developed a spastic dodging technique, which basically consisted of lots of fast random movement and jumping timed to AWP reloads.

Games usually came down to whether or not he could hit me first time if he was using a AWP, and became roughly 50/50 rather than 90/10 and made for alot of laughs when I jumped into rooms with a tmp and proceeded to jump around trying for head shots while they were reloading.

Whats even funnier is I actually moved in my seat the way I was dodging aswell.
Input Devices

Using Mobile Phones To Write Messages In Air 65

Posted by samzenpus from the invisible-ink-2.0 dept.
Anonymous writes "Engineering students at Duke University have taken advantage of the accelerometers in emerging cell phones to create an application that permits users to write short notes in the air with their phone, and have that note automatically sent to an e-mail address. The 'PhonePoint Pen' can be held just like a pen, and words can be written on an imaginary whiteboard. With this application a user could take a picture with a phone camera, and annotating it immediately with a short caption. Duke Computer Engineering Professor Romit Roy Choudhury said that his research group is envisioning mobile phones as just not a communication device, but a much broader platform for social sensing and human-computer interaction. Such interactivity has also emerged in the work of other research groups, such as MIT's Sixth Sense project, Dartmouth's MetroSense project, and Microsoft Research's NeriCell project, to name a few."

Comment Teach the users (Score 1) 902

by Heytunk (#28275397) Attached to: How Do IT Guys Get Respect and Not Become BOFHs?
I like to teach my users to read the screen and also why something goes wrong.
Other than a select few users, a little bit of extra time spent with communication goes a long way towards stopping repeat 'offences'.
Also means I only really get called for major stuff now so I can actually focus on projects.

Also when I implement a restriction I make sure to point out why, and because of who it was implemented.
Offloads a lot of resentment that would be pointed at you towards the culprit ;)

How Do IT Guys Get Respect and Not Become BOFHs? 902

Posted by kdawson from the keep-a-curled-upper-lip dept.
An anonymous reader writes "I work for a small software company (around 60 people) as the sole IT guy. It's my first time in a position like this and after about 1.5 years I'm starting to get a bit burned out. I try to be friendly, helpful, and responsive and I get no respect whatsoever. Users tend to be flat-out rude when they have a problem, violate our pretty liberal policies constantly, and expect complex projects to be finished immediately upon requesting them. My knee-jerk reaction is to be a bastard, although I've avoided it up to this point. It's getting harder. For those of you who have been doing this a lot longer, how do you get a reasonable level of respect from your users while not being a jerk?"

Comment Re:Micro-SD card? (Score 1) 2

by Heytunk (#28237621) Attached to: Recovering cell phone video of police killing
Well first things first, remove the memory card if its still in the phone and put it aside if you want to recover something from it.
This is to prevent you writing new stuff to it and possibly overwriting what may have been deleted.

Also depends on the erase procedure on the phone/camera.
Some models are nasty and actually do erase the data completely by overwriting it (not very common).

Use a card reader to access it rather than the phone/camera itself, manufacturers like to do all sorts of silly, inconsistent and annoying stuff.
Occasionally I have to do data recovery on cards (mostly retrieving deleted pictures) and most free data recovery programs should be able to retrieve files if they use sector scanning methods if undelete fails (key in the magic number/s and let it scan).

Depending on how much was written to the phone after the incident they should be able to atleast do a partial recovery.
Mars

China's First Mars Probe Ready To Launch 67

Posted by timothy from the kazakhstan-facility-of-space-object-tossing-very-nice dept.
henrypijames writes "At the Shanghai Aerospace Exhibition last week, China's first Mars probe Yinghuo-1 was the main attraction. The newly completed probe will soon be sent to Moscow for some further testing, before a joint launch with Russia's own probe Phobos-Grunt from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan this October."

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