Comment Re:More like Peter was angry (Score 1) 273
VideoPress will keep your framerate, up to 100fps.
Disclosure: I work for Automattic, the company that makes VideoPress.
Comment Re:United Nations (Score 1) 354
Also, remember that porn featuring women with small breasts is considered child porn in Australia.
No it isn't, stop repeating every stupid thing you saw on Reddit.
Porn where women are depicted as being under-age is simply refused classification. There is a vast difference.
Comment Re:Compared to whom? (Score 2) 356
1&1 is a terrible host - I write a moderately popular WordPress plugin, and the only host-specific bug reports I get are for 1&1 - even shitty GoDaddy hosting is better.
Comment Re:Charity Navigator (Score 1) 570
Oh, cool! You have a copy of shit_that_never_happened.txt, too!
Comment "Shows promise"? "Accurate results"? (Score 1) 402
It reminds me of DragonDictate, in that there is no connection between what I say and what it thinks I said. Google Voice Search does a better job of imitating Siri than Iris does.
Comment News at 11 (Score 5, Insightful) 350
Executive of company that produces games for one platform says that another platform is old hat, and will die out.
I'm shocked. Shocked, I tell you.
Submission + - Ballmer, Bezos Fund Effort to Undermine Bill Gates
theodp writes: You know what they say — it takes money to avoid paying money. TechFlash reports that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos have contributed $100,000 each to an effort to defeat an income tax on individuals in Washington state making more than $200,000. The backers of Initiative 1098, which is set for the November ballot, include Bill Gates (Sr.), who has emerged as one of the most vocal proponents of the income tax. Under the proposal, which has drawn the ire of the Bezos and Ballmer-backed Defeat 1098, no tax would be due on the first $200K of income, 5% tax would be owed on income between $200K and $500K, and everything above $500K would be subject to a 9% tax (cutoffs are doubled for joint returns).
Comment Re:Hmm... (Score 2, Informative) 258
If you don't want your preferences going to Labor, vote below the line.
Greens are currently on course to hold the balance of power in the senate. They've said many times that they're for the NBN, but they will block any attempt to implement the net filter.
Comment International version (Score 1) 542
Q. I don't live in the U.S. Can I buy a nook?
No. At this time, nook is not for sale outside the U.S.
Well, that sucks. It's not going to kill the Kindle if 95% of the world's population can't use it.
Sun To Build World's Biggest App Store Around Java 325
CWmike writes "Sun Micro plans to launch an App Store that could make Apple's look smaller than a 7-Eleven by comparison, CEO Jonathan Schwartz wrote on his blog this week. Schwartz indicated the Java App Store, code-named Project Vector, will focus on PC users and estimated the size of the community at 1 billion. Sun plans to allow Java application developers to submit programs to a simple Web site so the company can evaluate them for safety and content before presenting them to the Java audience. Sun will charge for distribution. The company will reveal more details at its JavaOne conference, which opens June 2 in San Francisco, Schwartz said."
Submission + - MySQL Community create Open Database Alliance (opendatabasealliance.com)
Gary Pendergast writes: "Monty Widenius, the "father" of MySQL, has created the the Open Database Alliance, with the aim of becoming the industry hub for the MySQL open source database. He wants to unify all MySQL-related development and services, providing a potential solution to the fragmentation and uncertainty facing the communities, businesses and technical experts involved with MySQL, following then news of the Oracle acquisition of Sun."
Duke Demands Proof of Infringement From RIAA 159
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "According to a report at p2pnet, Duke University has told the RIAA that it will no longer forward the RIAA's 'early settlement' letters to its students unless the RIAA submits 'evidence that someone actually downloaded from that student,' and said that 'if the RIAA can't prove that actual illegal behavior occurred, then we're not going to comply.' While it is good news that a university is requiring the RIAA to put up or shut up, the forwarding — or not forwarding — of letters is pretty insignificant. What I want to know is this: 'When the RIAA comes knocking with its Star Chamber, ex parte, 'John Doe' litigation to get the students' identities, is the University going to go to bat for the students and fight the litigation on the ground that it's based on zero evidence, and on the ground that the students weren't given prior notice and an opportunity to be heard?' Over 1,000 infringement notices were sent to Duke students in the last year."
Comment Well, this should be interesting. (Score 1) 393
We all know how the last ziggurat turned out.
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