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Comment astroturf (Score 1) 608

by Johnzo on Thursday October 13, 2011 @07:55PM (#37708798) Attached to: Teacher Union Tries To Block Online Courses

This smells like anti-union astroturf.

The fine post is 131 words long and includes absolutely no links to articles about exactly what's happening. It's just an inflammatory headline and three paragraphs that are extremely short on citations.

Comment Re:Bullshit (Score 1) 205

by Johnzo on Tuesday June 22, 2010 @02:59AM (#32650360) Attached to: Best Places To Work In IT 2010

> It's missing all the top tech companies - Google, Amazon, Microsoft, any of the gaming companies, Sun, etc. etc

Why would Amazon be on such a list?

Only 4.13% of the Web Is Standards-Compliant 406

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday October 16, 2008 @09:03AM from the i-woulda-guessed-less dept.

Death Metal writes "Browser maker Opera has published the early results of an ongoing study that aims to provide insight into the structure of Internet content. To conduct this research project, Opera created the Metadata Analysis and Mining Application (MAMA), a tool that crawls the web and indexes the markup and scripting data from approximately 3.5 million pages."

Full Review of the T-Mobile G1 Android Device 135

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday October 16, 2008 @08:20AM from the gadget-lust-is-a-powerful-force dept.

palmsolo writes "Want to see the biggest and most in-depth review of the T-Mobile G1 Google Android device from a person who has been using it for a week? Check out over 260 photos and 5 videos of the device and just about every screen of the Google Android OS. Find out how well HTC, T-Mobile and Google did with this first-generation device." I played with one for a few minutes and found it a solid unit. It feels less polished than the iPhone, but the screen and keyboard are great. It'll be a real test of Open Source to see what happens with the iPhone App Store's closed system vs. Android's open one.

The Pirate Bay Tops 10 Million Users 300

Posted by kdawson on Sunday January 27, 2008 @01:31AM from the my-word-it's-a-convoy dept.

An anonymous reader suggests we go over to Slyck for news that The Pirate Bay has cracked 10 million users. The publicity from the upcoming court case probably helped. "Today, The Pirate Bay asserts itself as the self-proclaimed 'World's Largest Tracker' by topping over 10 million peers, while managing over 1 million torrents. Peter Sunde of The Pirate Bay told Slyck, 'We're very happy to be part of all of this and we hope our users keep sharing those files!... And we're looking to break 20 million as well.'"

Comment you are not making your case effectively (Score 1) 282

by Johnzo on Friday December 21, 2007 @08:37PM (#21787058) Attached to: RIAA Writes Its Own News For Local TV

My favorite bit: the camera zooms on a Matchbox 20 gift card while the voiceover chick says the words "cool and innovative."

Death Knell For DDoS Extortion? 101

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday May 01, 2007 @06:17PM from the greener-pastures dept.

Ron writes "Symantec security researcher Yazan Gable has put forward an explanation as to why the number of denial of service attacks has been declining (coincident with the rise of spam). His theory is that DoS attacks are no longer profitable to attackers. While spam and phishing attacks directly generate profit, he argues that extortion techniques often used with DoS attacks are far more risky and often make an attacker no profit at all. Gable writes: 'So what happens if the target of the attack refuses to pay? The DoS extortionist is obligated to carry out a prolonged DoS attack against them to follow through on their threats. For a DoS extortionist, this is the worst scenario because they have to risk their bot network for nothing at all. Since the target has refused to pay, it is likely that they will never pay. As a consequence, the attacker has to spend time and resources on a lost cause.'"

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