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hhavensteincw writes
"Only two weeks after Wal-Mart launched its latest foray into Web 2.0 land, Facebook users have hijacked a page aimed at selling back-to-school supplies to college kids to instead post rants about the company's labor practices. Of the 100-plus comments, none relates to dorm decorating as Wal-Mart had originally envisioned."
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greedyturtle writes
"Ars Technica has up an interesting article on the first ISP to guarantee network neutrality. It's called COmmunityPOwered Internet, aka Copowi. The offer of neutrality comes at a higher price — mostly due to uncompetitive telco line pricing schemes — $34 for 256K DSL, $50 for 1.5 Mbs, and $60 for 7 Mbps. The owner claims to need only 5,000 subscribers to move his ISP into the national arena from the 12 Western states where it now operates. Would you be willing to spend the extra bucks for network neutrality?"
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MaJeStu writes:
The ESRB has decided that even with an age gate, the trailers for D3's new game, Dark Sector, are too "offensive," and has required the publisher to have them taken down. What authority they have to force D3 to do this is still unknown, as are the possible consequences if D3 refused. Chris Remo at shacknews.com has more on the story.
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Game Master writes:
Billy Mitchell has long been one of the gaming industries most recognizable players. He appears in a new documentary, King of Kong, which has been screening to very positive reviews at film festivals around the country, and has been picked up by a major motion picture distributor. The movie, which portrays Billy in a very negative light, has come under fire recently in an article posted at MTV.com, where Billy and others spoke out about what they believed to be an unfair portrayal in the film. The end of the article seems to imply that legal action may follow. A very interesting controversy.
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WorthlessProgrammer writes:
The
article "Dwindling of rare metals
imperils innovation" [EETimes.eu], says that essential materials that
would enable fuel-efficient technologies, and materials required for the next-gen IT hardware may
become could become extinct. E.G., hafnium will be gone by 2017 and zinc will be gone by
2037 (no problem, the 2036 Unix crash will make this a minor problem). Other
'endangered' elements include platinum, copper, indium, gallium, and selenium.
My Notes
1. Was an interesting article until I read the reference to
Moore's Second Law, which has never been defined. In fact, G. Moore said has
said "I'm not close enough now to
make new predictions — several things have been called Moore's Second Law but I
can't take credit for any of them" So what is this 'Second Law' ?
2. The "Almighty Buck" icon selection alludes to potential creation
of a new source of political and financial power that may rival oil producers
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puntloos writes:
The Open Source Internet TV Platform 'Democracy' has just received a $100 Grant from the Mozilla Foundation. Democracy is a combination of ways to view and download media to your desktop in an intuitive way, built on top of the ever-popular VLC video player.
