Comment Re:Just like a slashdot poll (Score 1) 602
Has this thread just been reverse-Godwin'd?
Comment Re:Hobby sites not included (Score 1) 3
Personal blogs/hobby fell under “personal/community” category.
Should they have had several Pay-Per-Click links, they fell under the PPC category.
I hope this clarifies.
Also, thanks for the comment on the music, was not familiar with the Goo Goo Dolls track but I like it.
Submission + - France Could Be Months From Going Dark on the Web (torrentfreak.com) 2
mykos writes: According to a report from PCINpact one of the major ISPs confirmed that the first batch of IP-addresses was submitted just a few days ago. This is the final step before alleged file-sharers receive warning letters.
The scope of the operation is mind boggling. The copyright holders will start relatively ‘slowly’ with 10,000 IP-addresses a day, but within weeks this number is expected to go up to 150,000 IP-addresses per day according to official reports.
The Internet providers will be tasked with identifying the alleged infringers’ names, addresses, emails and phone numbers. If they fail to do so within 8 days they risk a fine of 1,500 euros per day for every unidentified IP-address.
To put this into perspective, a United States judge ruled recently that the ISP Time Warner only has to give up 28 IP-addresses a month ( 1 per day) to copyright holders because of the immense workload the identifications would cause.
Comment Re:because .xxx is nothing like .sex (Score 1) 266
I see this as just a commercial initiative by ICM registry.
They decided to apply for a .xxx domain because they see a business case in it.
Maybe they'll make it work, maybe it will fall into oblivion.
Are there all kinds of consequences for allowing the domain - yes.
But not allowing it for the wrong reasons is not the answer here. The internet is global infrastructure. Who gets to make the moral decisions there?
Had a talk with several people at the last ICANN meeting in Brussels. 5 minute video taken from those talks here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTaCwBKQTAI&hd=1
Comment Re:A pox! (Score 1) 269
Had a discussion about this with several people at the recent ICANN meeting in Brussels.
Among them internet pioneer Steve Crocker (5 min video):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTaCwBKQTAI&hd=1
Largest Sodium Sulfur Battery Powers a Texas Town 301
separsons writes "The largest sodium sulfur battery in America, nicknamed 'BOB,' can provide enough electricity to power all of Presidio, Texas. Until now, the small town relied on a single 60-year-old transmission line to connect it to the grid, so the community frequently experienced power outages. BOB, which stands for 'Big-Old Battery,' began charging earlier this week. The house-sized battery can deliver four megawatts of power for up to eight hours. Utilities are looking into similar batteries to store power from solar and wind so that renewables can come online before the country implements a smart grid system."
Multimodal, Multitouch Gaming Gaining Traction 94
andylim writes "Several universities and commercial entities are developing multimodal, multitouch games, such as a card game using iPhones for individual hands and an iPad for public information, and an iPad Scrabble game that lets you use your iPhone to see your letter tiles. Of course, it's an extremely expensive setup right now, but over time it will become cheaper. It's also pretty cool, so why wouldn't you want to play board/card/strategy games like this?"
Comment Re:Keep in mind... (Score 3, Informative) 241
Yeah? What harm is that going to be? A bit of environmental contamination on the sea floor? That's harm, sure, but it's pretty tame as such things go. A full-scale nuclear explosion? Not actually on the table. Terrorists with submersibles and scuba gear bringing it up and disassembling the inoperative rusting hulk in some far-fetched attempt to reconstruct a nuclear bomb? That's not "harm", that's a Tom Clancy novel, and it's a dud because they shot their nuclear engineer before he warned them that their tritium needed to be purified from helium-3 so most of us are safe unless the President gets into a standoff with the Soviets and starts World War III.
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