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Submission + - PayPal Cuts WikiLeaks’ Access to Funds (businessweek.com)

Submitted by Pedro II on Saturday December 04, 2010 @03:47AM

Pedro II writes: "PayPal suspended the account after the U.S. said WikiLeaks activities were in violation of the law, a spokesman for the company said. PayPal wasn’t contacted by any government agency and took the action on its own, the spokesman said."
“PayPal has permanently restricted the account used by WikiLeaks due to a violation of the PayPal Acceptable Use Policy, which states that our payment service cannot be used for any activities that encourage, promote, facilitate or instruct others to engage in illegal activity,”

Will Hillary Clintons account also been suspended after she encouraged illegal tapping?

Comment Registration isn't new (Score 5, Informative) 896

by MisterBuggie on Thursday March 18, 2010 @02:49PM (#31526104) Attached to: What Free Antivirus Do You Install On Windows?

Obviously you've never actually used Avast. You've always had to register for the free version, and renew the regsitration once a year. They're giving it away for free, I honestly don't see registering as a big deal.

And the new version is actually a lot better, it finally detects rootkits... If you're looking for something that actually does its job and yet doesn't take up any space or processing power, I doubt you'll find anything...

If you're gonna pay for your operating system, and then complain about free antiviruses, you might want to consider changing to linux...

Sweet, Sour, Salty, Bitter, Protein ... and Now Fat 210

Posted by timothy on Wednesday March 10, 2010 @05:21PM from the visit-the-chiba-clinic-for-an-upgrade dept.

ral writes "The human tongue can taste more than sweet, sour, salty, bitter and protein. Researchers have added fat to that list. Dr. Russell Keast, an exercise and nutrition sciences professor at Deakin University in Melbourne, told Slashfood, 'This makes logical sense. We have sweet to identify carbohydrate/sugars, and umami to identify protein/amino acids, so we could expect a taste to identify the other macronutrient: fat.' In the Deakin study, which appears in the latest issue of the British Journal of Nutrition, Dr. Keast and his team gave a group of 33 people fatty acids found in common foods, mixed in with nonfat milk to disguise the telltale fat texture. All 33 could detect the fatty acids to at least a small degree."

Signs of Water Found On Saturnian Moon Enceladus 79

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday February 09, 2010 @12:23PM from the moon-names-that-make-me-hungry dept.

Matt_dk writes "Scientists working on the Cassini space mission have found negatively charged water ions in the ice plume of Enceladus. Their findings, based on analysis from data taken in plume fly-throughs in 2008 and reported in the journal Icarus, provide evidence for the presence of liquid water, which suggests the ingredients for life inside the icy moon. The Cassini plasma spectrometer, used to gather this data, also found other species of negatively charged ions including hydrocarbons."

Net Users In Belarus May Soon Have To Register 89

Posted by timothy on Monday January 04, 2010 @03:59AM from the not-just-register-their-displeasure dept.

Cwix writes "A new law proposed in Belarus would require all net users and online publications to register with the state: 'Belarus' authoritarian leader is promising to toughen regulation of the Internet and its users in an apparent effort to exert control over the last fully free medium in the former Soviet state. He told journalists that a new Internet bill, proposed Tuesday, would require the registration and identification of all online publications and of each Web user, including visitors to Internet cafes. Web service providers would have to report this information to police, courts, and special services.'"

Scientists Say a Dirty Child Is a Healthy Child 331

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday November 24, 2009 @07:07PM from the snack-is-going-to-be-on-the-floor-today dept.

Researchers from the School of Medicine at the University of California have shown that the more germs a child is exposed to, the better their immune system in later life. Their study found that keeping a child's skin too clean impaired the skin's ability to heal itself. From the article: "'These germs are actually good for us,' said Professor Richard Gallo, who led the research. Common bacterial species, known as staphylococci, which can cause inflammation when under the skin, are 'good bacteria' when on the surface, where they can reduce inflammation."

Comment What about emissions ? (Score 5, Insightful) 942

by MisterBuggie on Monday October 26, 2009 @01:31AM (#29869261) Attached to: Save the Planet, Eat Your Dog

Okay, they compare them by how much land/energy it takes to produce the food/fuel. I would be interested how they came upon their figures for fossil fuels. But my main concern is that they never mention emissions. The main concern with cars isn't so much how much fuel they use, but how much pollution they put out...
Also, it seems they didn't factor in producing the vehicles, which also uses a lot of energy and puts out a lot of pollution. Factor those in and I'm sure pets will turn out much cleaner by orders of magnitude...
Oh, and did I mention pets are "biodegradable", unlike cars ?

Comment Re:Not That Much Competition (Score 1) 198

by MisterBuggie on Friday May 02, 2008 @10:53AM (#23274716) Attached to: 2008 International Broadband Rankings

Actually, you're wrong. DSL in the USA is apparently crappy, but it's the ISPs that are at fault, not the technology. In France, with a 20Mbps/1Mbps (down/up) triple play access for 30/month, I have at very most 40ms ping time to any server in the country, more often around 20ms. However, over here, it's the cable access that's crappy.

DSL is a perfectly decent technology. Not always reliable as it depends on the line length, and quality of the wiring, but the ISPs here have made serious progress on those issues, and I've seen people with 6-7km long lines still able to get several Mbps - enough for IPTV (ie: the equivalent to cable TV). So it's actually very few people who have major problems due to the technology itself (of course, there are the usual mess ups like with any other technology).

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