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Comment In other news (Score 1) 126

by ScorpFromHell on Thursday June 23, 2011 @08:27AM (#36540086) Attached to: Google Hits One Billion Unique Visits In a Month

30 Billion COBOL transactions estimated per DAY

Source: Reuters

Ok, that estimate is two years old, but still, huge ... no?

Comment Re:paid to the canard? (Score 1) 151

by ScorpFromHell on Wednesday November 18, 2009 @12:14PM (#30144756) Attached to: MIT Grad To Make Digital "SixthSense" Open Source

The free dictionary tells me that " put paid to " means "to consider something closed or completed; to mark or indicate that something is no longer important or pending". And that " canard " means "An unfounded or false, deliberately misleading story." So am assuming the author wants to say that the opening up of SixthSense via an open source license will stop the false stories that open source does not lead to innovation.

Submission + - Alan Turing Apology Campaign Grows

Submitted by chrb on Monday August 31, 2009 @06:52AM

chrb writes: Several British news sources have recently reported on the growing campaign that calls for an apology to Alan Turing for his persecution by the British government. The petition to the Prime Minister was started by John Graham-Cumming, who has also written to the Queen requesting a Knighthood for Turing, but admits that a pardon is "unlikely", saying "The most important thing to me is that people hear about Alan Turing and realise his incredible impact on the modern world, and how terrible the impact of prejudice was on him".

Submission + - Alleged plagiarism in Chris Andersen's "Free&# (vqronline.org)

Submitted by

ScorpFromHell

on Wednesday June 24, 2009 @07:08AM

ScorpFromHell writes: "Blogger Waldo Jaquith alleges in his blog that Chris Andersen of 'The Long Tail' fame & Wired magazine's editor-in-chief has apparently plagiarized content from various sources, predominantly Wikipedia, without attribution for his soon to be published book:
In the course of reading Chris Anderson's new book, Free: The Future of a Radical Price (Hyperion, $26.99), for a review in an upcoming issue of VQR, we have discovered almost a dozen passages that are reproduced nearly verbatim from uncredited sources. ... Most of the passages, but not all, come from Wikipedia.
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Comment 100MB for an OS+Browser+plugins!? (Score 1) 85

by ScorpFromHell on Saturday April 11, 2009 @01:49AM (#27539859) Attached to: Leaked Pics of CrunchPad Elicit Progress Update

Is it only me who is surprised (because of ignorance) that the s/w footprint stands at 100MB, when evidently they just want to control the h/w & for an application they want only a browser? Well, for practical uses, the browser would need flash plugins, etc. and most obviously would need addons if the browser supports it. When a Linux distro like DamnSmallLinux provides much more than a browser in just 50MB why do these guys need double of that?!

Comment SMS in India is way cheaper then! (Score 1) 410

by ScorpFromHell on Monday May 12, 2008 @11:45AM (#23378938) Attached to: SMS 4x More Expensive Than Data From Hubble

It costs at max Re.1/- which is ~1.25p. Some networks its half the cost. However I am not counting the cost of the SMS that one sends to the plethora of reality shows. There the costs might go 4x to 6x. And if it is for downloading ringtones, it could go upto 15x!

Submission + - OOXML won't get fast-track ISO standardization (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by realdodgeman on Saturday August 11, 2007 @04:21PM

realdodgeman writes: International Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS) recently held an internal poll to determine the position that the United States should take on Microsoft's request for Office Open XML (OOXML) approval. With eight votes in favor, seven against, and one abstention, the group was one vote short of the nine votes required for approving OOXLM ISO standardization. This will mean a huge slowdown to the standardization to the OOXML format.

Journal Journal: Germany joins Moon Race Club

Journal by SEWilco on Sunday March 04, 2007 @02:51AM

Germany to go to the Moon with an unmanned mission. The latest member in the race to the Moon in the unmanned category will compete with China, India, Japan, Russia, and USA. All intend to later do manned missions, with ESA also planning a manned mission.

Submission + - Month of PHP Bugs has started

Submitted by

on Saturday March 03, 2007 @12:18PM

An anonymous reader writes: The previously announced Month of PHP Bugs has started three days ago here and already lists 8 security vulnerabilities in PHP and PHP related software.

Quote:
"This initiative is an effort to improve the security of PHP. However we will not concentrate on problems in the PHP language that might result in insecure PHP applications, but on security vulnerabilities in the PHP core. During March 2007 old and new security vulnerabilities in the Zend Engine, the PHP core and the PHP extensions will be disclosed on a day by day basis. We will also point out necessary changes in the current vulnerability managment process used by the PHP Security Response Team."

Submission + - Microsoft Charging Businesses $4K for DST Fix

Submitted by

eldavojohn

on Saturday March 03, 2007 @11:06AM

eldavojohn writes: "Microsoft has slashed the price it's going to charge users on the day light savings time fixes. As you know, the federal law that moves the date for DST goes into effect this month. Although this is 1/10 of the original estimate Microsoft made, it seems a bit pricey for a patch to a product you've already paid for. From the article, "Among the titles in that extended support category are Windows 2000, Exchange Server 2000 and Outlook 2000, the e-mail and calendar client included with Office 2000. For users running that software, Microsoft charges $4,000 per product for DST fixes. For that amount, customers can apply the patches to all systems in their organizations, including branch offices and affiliates, said Sweatt. "All they can't do is redistribute them," he said.""

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