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Comment Mine was stolen and cops will do nothing (Score 1) 765

by Rand1956 (#32884448) Attached to: Retrieving a Stolen Laptop By IP Address Alone?
Same thing happened to my daughter almost two months ago; laptop stolen from her college dorm in Memphis. I had LogMeIn set up on it to tinker with her laptop remotely, and the thief was online within hours of stealing it. Told the cops immediately. Traced the IP to Comcast, and Comcast attorney said that all she'd need is a subpoena and they'd gladly turn over the info. Since then, I've told multiple cops, taken screen shots and emailed them to cops, emailed them times and dates of logins, etc. Comcast attorney has sent the officer a brochure on what to do, and STILL nothing has been done. (She warned me against logging in to the laptop.) The two-month anniversary was yesterday, and I still can watch this laptop online every day. It's well beyond frustrating. I've considered opening a chat window and offering the thief $100 to bring the laptop to a neutral location, no questions asked.

Comment Deals not done (Score 2, Informative) 131

by Rand1956 (#22204512) Attached to: Qtrax — Ad-Supported Music With iPod Compatibility?
Qtrax touted in a press release Sunday morning that it was the first Internet file-swapping service to be "fully embraced by the music industry," and boasted it would carry up to 30 million tracks from "all the major labels." New York-based Warner Music undermined that claim, declaring in a statement that it "has not authorized the use of our content on Qtrax's recently announced service." Universal Music Group and EMI Group PLC later confirmed they did not have licensing deals in place with Qtrax, noting discussions were still ongoing. A call to Sony BMG Music Entertainment was not immediately returned.
United States

Submission + - Defense Contractor Halliburton Moving HQ to Dubai

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theodp
theodp writes: "Much-maligned defense contractor Halliburton is moving its corporate headquarters from Houston to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. Dubai's friendly tax laws will add to Halliburton's bottom line. Last year, it earned $2.3B in profits. Sen. Patrick Leahy called the company's move 'corporate greed at its worst.' Halliburton, once headed by VP Dick Cheney, has received contracts valued at an estimated $25.7B for its work in Iraq."
Operating Systems

Submission + - Linspire to be based on Kubuntu

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FliesLikeABrick
FliesLikeABrick writes: "The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter has unveiled that Linspire announced that they will be switching to base their distribution off Ubuntu. With their polished KDE desktop this makes Linspire the latest in the impressive list of operating systems based off Kubuntu.

It was also announced that Linspire's Click and Run install programme would be added to the Ubuntu archive, giving users of all Ubuntu distributions easy access to a large range of free and proprietary software."
Censorship

Submission + - Scientists Threatened For "Climate Denial"

Submitted by Forrest Kyle
Forrest Kyle writes: A former professor of climatology at the University of Winnipeg has recieved multiple death threats for questioning the extent to which human activities are driving global warming. From the article, "'Western governments have pumped billions of dollars into careers and institutes and they feel threatened,' said the professor. 'I can tolerate being called a sceptic because all scientists should be sceptics, but then they started calling us deniers, with all the connotations of the Holocaust. That is an obscenity. It has got really nasty and personal.' Richard Lindzen, the professor of Atmospheric Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology...recently claimed: 'Scientists who dissent from the alarmism have seen their funds disappear, their work derided, and themselves labelled as industry stooges. Consequently, lies about climate change gain credence even when they fly in the face of the science.'"
Google

Googlebot and Document.Write 180

Posted by kdawson from the ajax-the-foaming-indexer dept.
With JavaScript/AJAX being used to place dynamic content in pages, I was wondering how Google indexed web page content that was placed in a page using the JavaScript "document.write" method. I created a page with six unique words in it. Two were in the plain HTML; two were in a script within the page document; and two were in a script that was externally sourced from a different server. The page appeared in the Google index late last night and I just wrote up the results.
Linux Business

Why Dell Won't Offer Linux On Its PCs 628

Posted by kdawson from the D-I-Y dept.
derrida sends us to an article in the Guardian by Jack Schofield explaining why he believes Dell won't offer Linux on its PCs. In the end he suggests that those lobbying Dell for such a solution go out and put together a company and offer one themselves. Quoting: "The most obvious [problem] is deciding which version of Linux to offer. There are more than 100 distros, and everybody seems to want a different one — or the same one with a different desktop, or whatever. It costs Dell a small fortune to offer an operating system... so the lack of a standard is a real killer. The less obvious problem is the very high cost of Linux support, especially when selling cheap PCs to naive users who don't RTFM... and wouldn't understand a Linux manual if they tried. And there's so much of it! Saying 'Linux is just a kernel, so that's all we support' isn't going to work, but where in the great sprawling heap of GNU/Linux code do you draw the line?"

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