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Comment Pure BS (Score 1) 200

How would he maintain lateral stability in that thing? Flap his arms? Looks like it would roll over as soon as you gun it. There doesn't appear to be any engineering to take that into account. What is this guys hoping this thing will fly on, hopes and prayers?
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Submission + - Facebook may bust up the SMS profit cartel (cnn.com) 3

AndyAndyAndyAndy writes: " Fortune has a very interesting article today about wireless providers and their exorbitant profit margins for SMS handling, especially when looking at modern data plans.

'Under the cell phone industry's peculiar pricing system, downloading data to your smartphone is amazingly cheap — unless the data in question happens to be a text message. In that case the price of a download jumps roughly 50,000-fold, from just a few pennies per megabyte of data to a whopping $1000 or so per megabyte.'

A young little application called Beluga caught the attention of Facebook, which purchased the company yesterday.

The app aims to bring messaging under the umbrella of data plans, and features group messaging, picture and video messaging, and integration with other apps.

The author argues that, if successful, Beluga (or whatever Facebook ends up calling it) could potentially be the Skype/Vonage or Netflix-type competitor to the old-school cellular carriers and their steep pricing plans."

Comment Re:Right on! (Score 2) 364

So what your suggesting is that the government comes in and stomps all the companies that provide internet to Canadians into the ground? For companies like Shaw, sure why not, but what about all the responsible ISPs? What your talking about is privatizing the internet. That scares me because then you only have the government controlling the price and they will have no competition. "Tax the Internet!"
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Submission + - scientology snaps up domains

An anonymous reader writes: In an ongoing effort to intimidate some high level defectors, one of Scientology's corporations, Religious Technology Center, has been grabbing domains with the names of specific critics. Speculation is that searches for critical information about Scientology will be redirected to RTC sites with anti-critic information. The acquisition of domains with private individuals' names also raises legal questions about identity theft and harassment.
Story at:
http://www.wikileaks.org/wiki/A_list_of_2,070_Scientology_cult_domain_names_registered_to_domains@scientology.net
http://markrathbun.wordpress.com/2010/06/25/david-miscavige-wants-to-be-like-mike/

Submission + - WikiLeaks founder being frantically hunted by U.S. (thedailybeast.com)

LoneHighway writes: Government officials tell The Daily Beast that they are searching for Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, whom they believe is in possession of State Department secrets leaked to him by an Army intelligence specialist now under arrest. As Assange, the Australian champion of whistleblowers cancelled a public appearance in Las Vegas Friday night, The Daily Beast talked with Daniel Ellsberg, the legendary leaker of the Pentagon Papers about Assange’s safety and what he would do if he were in possession of the State Department’s confidential traffic.

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