Submission + - Love Hurts (usnews.com)
gonzonista writes: Being rejected romantically can hurt just as much as physical pain.
Comment Re:Brilliant! I love this law! (Score 1) 617
By encouraging the business being sued to make their own damn products and do their own damn tech support.
Comment Re:Go for it! (Score 1) 617
I'm all for suing wally-world into the ground, but what about other, more reputable companies?
Comment One word... (Score 1) 617
Wat?
Comment This article isn't rendering properly... (Score 1) 1
You forgot to add your "canned-press-release" tags.
Comment Re: Sweetest Tune (Score 1) 3
Not only that, we could CC it and post it on Newgrounds/any other open music site.
Their pain is our original content. ;)
Submission + - SABAM wants truckers to pay for listening to radio (standaard.be) 3
guruevi writes: "SABAM, the Belgian RIAA wants truckers to start paying for the copyrights to listen to the radio in their cabin. SABAM already has a system in place to extract fees from businesses for having radio's in the work area for businesses with more than 9 employees and they find that truckers' cabins are areas of work and thus infringe on their copyrights. The local politicians think this is going too far, they believe truckers need a radio for safety reasons and view a truck cabin as 'an intimate place'.
Can you come up with other places to extract music copyright remittances? Maybe you may want to pay taxes every time you take a dump as your gas may form a tune."
Can you come up with other places to extract music copyright remittances? Maybe you may want to pay taxes every time you take a dump as your gas may form a tune."
Comment Re:Open hardware API (Score 1) 323
I really, really hope you aren't as ignorant as your statement makes you out to be.
Submission + - Portal 2 Sneak Peek, In-Game Footage (hothardware.com)
Ninjakicks writes: "At the PAX East show in Boston today, Valve Software was showing off some in-game footage from the highly anticipated puzzle-platformer Portal 2. Due to hit store shelves and Steam next month, Fans of the original Portal will no doubt recognize some of the gameplay elements, but the visuals seen here have been enhanced significantly and some new items like the blue Repulsion Gel (among others) are being introduced. And of course, like the original, there are plenty of laughs to go around as well."
Submission + - Windows users at risk of video file attacks (networkworld.com)
jbrodkin writes: "Microsoft warned users that a newly discovered Windows Media flaw could let hackers take over their PCs by tricking users into opening specially crafted video files. The video file vulnerability was rated critical in Microsoft's latest Patch Tuesday security announcement, and is "somewhat trivial for attackers to exploit," according to Symantec. The flaw "allows attackers to skip a few of the traditional steps needed to get malicious code to execute on a targeted computer." Microsoft has had to change the way library files and Windows media files are opened in order to prevent future attacks."
Submission + - Anon demands US give clothes back to Manning (forbes.com)
hajus writes: Anonymous has given the US one week to restore certain rights for Bradley Manning in his time in prison awaiting his trial including clothes, any religious texts, a ball, blankets, and bedsheets or they will begin to 'dox' Department of Defense Press Secretary Geoff Morell and chief warrant officer Denise Barnes. 'Dox'. "Dox" will involve digging up personal information on the two officials and mass harassment or public embarrassment. “Targets established,” reads the document, before naming Morell and Barnes. “We’re in the ruining business. And business is good.” The operation has been termed "Operation Bradical" by Anonymous.
Submission + - Does Facebook Kill Authenticity? 1
Hugh Pickens writes writes: "Steve Cheney writes that the problem with tying internet-wide identity to a broadcast network like Facebook is that people don’t want one normalized identity, either in real life, or virtually. "People yearn to be individuals. They want to be authentic. They have numerous different groups of real-life friends. They stylize conversations. They are emotional and have an innate need to connect on different levels with different people," writes Cheney adding that the recent decision by a number of sites, including TechCrunch, to adopt Facebook commenting highlights the problem where the integration of the formatting and fonts is so strong that when you're reading comments you actuallyfeel like you are on Facebook, not a tech focused vertical site. "Facebook’s insistence that you have one identity across the web is both short-sighted and asinine, and people I talk to are starting to realize this," concludes Cheney. "Fact is, one social network will not rule the web... People are simply way too social to allow that.""
Comment Wat? (Score 1) 1
Wat?
Submission + - Corporate data breach average cost hits $7.2M (networkworld.com)
alphadogg writes: The cost of a data breach rose to $7.2 million last year from $6.8 million in 2009, with the average cost per compromised record in 2010 reaching $214, up 5% from 2009. The Ponemon Institute's annual study of data loss costs this year looked at 51 organizations who agreed to discuss the impact of losing anywhere between 4,000 to 105,000 customer records.While "negligence" remains the main cause of a data breach (in 41% of cases), for the first time the explanation of "malicious or criminal attacks" (in 31% of cases) came in ahead of the third leading cause, "system failure."
Submission + - Kidney Printer (redorbit.com)
smitty777 writes: Yes, you heard me right. Start saving your toner, because the new 3D Kidney printer is here. At a recent TED talk, Dr. Anthony Atala of the Wake Forest Institute of Regenerative Medicine demonstrated his technique for printing a new kidney. The early stage technology involves scanning the patient's current organ, and actually printing the organ directly into the patient. He refutes reported claims that it's just a kidney shaped mold"as reported by some. While still in the early stages, it does hold promise that we will be able to use this technology for actual transplants in the future.
