Comment Garbage (Score 1) 64
Garbage! This post is just trash
Comment Zynga (Score 1) 223
Google should buy out Zynga? They would infiltrate Facebook and can datamine to their hearts content. Just imagein this Google ad brought to you by Farmville & Mafia Wars.
2010 — the Year AACS and HDMI Kill Off HD Component Video 424
For home theater buffs who want (or already have) a high-def system using component-video connections, time may be growing short. Audiofan writes with this story, which begins: "Digital HD (high definition), like that enabled through HDMI and Blu-ray, is awesome. It offers amazing picture and audio quality. It allows you to conveniently connect one single cable to provide both picture and sound. It is royally going to screw up a lot of homes next year. Wait, what was that last part? After December 31, 2010, manufacturers will not be 'allowed' [to] introduce new hardware with component video outputs supplying more than an SD resolution (480i or 576i). Should this go through as planned, it's going to disable or throw a wrench in a lot of existing custom installations as soon as the end of this year." The AACS in the headline stands for Advanced Access Content System, the industry scheme to block "the analog hole" by controlling content from storage media to eyeballs.
Submission + - Buzz Settings Page in Gmail Allows Total Disabling (lifehacker.com)
RedTeflon writes: Google has updated Gmail to include a "Buzz" tab, where you can prevent the public from seeing your followers list, remove the Buzz inbox from Gmail, and, as the nuclear option, completely kill your Buzz account
Comment Just to unlock Bill Gates wiki page (Score 1) 181
Google paid 2 million just so Wiki would unlock Bill Gates's page so Google can go back to defacing it for giggles. $$$ well spent
Google Makes $500M a Year On Typos 98
holy_calamity writes "New Scientist reports on an analysis by Harvard researchers that suggests Google rakes in half a billion dollars annually from advertising that appears on typosquatting domains. They estimate that 60 per cent of typosquatting pages use Google ads, but the advertising giant declined to discuss whether it should be working with such pages."
Submission + - White House Press Secretary's Tweets Archived (usatoday.com)
RedTeflon writes: The White House spokesman, who has just started using Twitter, told reporters this afternoon that he met with government lawyers yesterday to determine whether his tweets would be archived along with emails and just about everything else produced at the White House
Comment Re:One guys twitter... (Score 1) 98
Wait a second they have the internet on computers now?
Comment Re:One guys twitter... (Score 1) 98
Ahhh crap I was trying to be sarcastic, I didnt realize he was actually somebody. My Bad
Comment Re:One guys twitter... (Score 1) 98
Who is Christopher Soghoain?
Pffftt
If you have to ask your not in the know.
Pffftt
If you have to ask your not in the know.
Comment This means WAR!!! (Score 1) 436
We will let you have those WMD's but this is the last straw. You better let Google mine your data or else we will release the hounds. You have been warned.
Comment Money (Score 1) 1142
Finance, include a checkbook class
Perhaps we could slow down or control debt and poor money management.
Perhaps we could slow down or control debt and poor money management.
Comment Shocking (Score 1) 213
Does this mean Im going to shock myself every time I get in the car by grounding it?
Couldn't they just put socks on the car and walk around on the carpet for a while?
Couldn't they just put socks on the car and walk around on the carpet for a while?
Comment Effective (Score 1) 256
Would this really be effective even if they have a year old log where you went?
So it told you I went to website.com/kiddyporn.html
You go look at that exact site now and it could have unicorns on it.
Just knowing where someone goes is useless unless you log all the data they saw when they were there not what is there now.
Of course you could store all data but good luck with that.
So it told you I went to website.com/kiddyporn.html
You go look at that exact site now and it could have unicorns on it.
Just knowing where someone goes is useless unless you log all the data they saw when they were there not what is there now.
Of course you could store all data but good luck with that.
Comment HaCKERZ (Score 1) 148
Does this mean the president will have his thumb on a little red button to release the HaCKERZ now?
