Comment TaoTronics is gone too =( (Score 3, Interesting) 95
I had an order in-flight and it got cancelled
Comment Goverment agencies are sslllooowwww (Score 1) 512
I build web interfaces for use by employees of state & county governments. Most users in large counties like Santa Clara or San Diego are using cookie-cutter machines that are 5-8 years old, locked down at IE6 on Windows 95. One is just getting ready for a bulk purchase of WinXP/IE7 machines (wow!) which took 3 years to plan for and are supposed to last for the next 5+ years.
Sadly, IE6 support must continue for a few more years in many arenas, especially when dealing with slow governments.
Best Easter Eggs and Other Software Surprises 233
the_insult_dog writes "Computerworld has an article up (with videos) about some of the coolest Easter eggs and other software surprises, ranging from full-featured games to strange messages from robots. What other eggs are out there? What's the coolest egg ever?"
Submission + - Carnegie Mellon to build Lunar X-Prize robot
Anonymous Coward writes: "Google's Lunar X-Prize already has a prominent entry, William Whittaker, a researcher from Carnegie Mellon University said that he will be assembling a team to development a robot that will be be competing for the $20 million grand prize. According to this story, Whittaker has some unfair advantage, as he has developed a pretty cool lunar rover for NASA that "can find concentrations of hydrogen, possibly water and other volatile chemicals on the moon that could be mined to produce fuel, water and air that are essential for supporting lunar outposts." The Lunar X-Prize runs until the end of 2012 and Carnegie Mellon's announcement could be a first indication that reserachers are taking this challenge very seriously."
Journal Journal: Hotmail Admits to Political Censorship of Truthout Email. 1
Update 7/11/2011 - Microsoft and Yahoo refused to back down and eventually, Truthout removed their protest page. Archive.org has it. AOL says they backed down, but the point was made. People should not trust service providers and should demand the right to run their own services and network neutrality.
GNOME 2.20 Released 443
Gimli writes "GNOME 2.20 has been officially released. There are a number of enhancements and improvements to things such as power management, Evince (the GNOME document view), Totem (the video player), and note-taking application Tomboy. There are also some changes to GNOME's configuration utilities with an eye towards streamlining them. The timing is impeccable, too: 'This release coincides with the tenth anniversary of GNOME's existence. The project has evolved considerably since its earliest incarnation and has become a global phenomenon. Used as the default environment in popular Linux distributions like Ubuntu and Fedora, GNOME is widely used by Linux desktop users and is supported by a growing community of companies and independent developers. GNOME 2.20 will be included in the next major releases of many mainstream Linux distributions, including Ubuntu 7.10, which is scheduled for release next month. Users who wish to try it now can use the latest Ubuntu 7.10 live CD images, or the latest build of Foresight Linux. You can also check out the release notes."
Submission + - Nasdaq to delist SCO Sep 27 (cnn.com)
symbolset writes: "The Nasdaq Staff has decided to delist SCO at open of business on September 27, 2007 under their discretionary authority and as a result of SCO filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. SCO can get a hearing but "There can be no assurance that the panel will grant the Company's request for continued listing."
The company exects to request a hearing and appeal the decision."
The company exects to request a hearing and appeal the decision."
Submission + - Lindor Attacks Record Company Copyright-pooling
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes: "Back in March, 2006, Marie Lindor called the record companies suing her a collusive cartel, and their joint agreement to pool their copyrights "copyright misuse" (pdf). A year and a half later, the RIAA apparently got nervous about that allegation and made a motion to strike the allegations. But Ms. Lindor has struck back, pointing out to the Judge not only that the RIAA's arguments had no legal basis, but also that its brief was completely silent as to any justification for the record companies' copyright-pooling agreement, which would be necessary for it to pass muster under "rule of reason" analysis mandated by the US Supreme Court. Ms. Lindor, a home health worker who has never even used a computer, let alone infringed anyone's copyrights with a p2p file sharing program, is the same defendant who exposed, with a little help from her friends, some of the weaknesses in the RIAA's expert testimony, and who obtained a ruling that the RIAA's $750-per-song file damages theory might be a wee bit unconstitutional."
Journal Journal: Sony Bans PSP Homebrew Talk, Fails to stop PSP Slim hacking
Someone at Sony just doesn't get it. Last week, Kotaku reported that Sony would ban talk about homebrewing on their website. Surely this would prevent people from hacking the PSP for making their own programs right? WRONG! Kotaku also reported last week that while Sony was banning homebrew hacking, someone
Submission + - Showmypc.com, an open source pretender?
shaitand writes: When looking for a remote support application that penetrated firewalls and could be initiated by my clients with a couple clicks I came across http://www.showmypc.com/ . It was a standalone executable but looked like it would work and best of all it was open source. The only thing I didn't like was the interface, so I went to check out the Sourceforge page https://sourceforge.net/projects/showmypcssh/ . I noticed a substantial problem, CVS is empty and the source on the download page is for the 2.6 version. The version of the executable is 3.53. After mailing them that they needed to distribute their modified SSH client and VNC source to be in compliance with the GPL license they said they didn't modify those programs and ignored my request for the current source code. So I ask again, if this is a GPL'd application; where is the source?
Gaming is King of Online Entertainment 29
A study done by the market research firm Parks Associates shows that online games are the biggest draw for internet-based entertainment. Online games, including MMOGs, casual games, and free-to-play virtual worlds, had a bigger draw even that social networking sites or YouTube. Some 34% of US internet consumers played online games at least once a week in the second quarter of 2007. "Furthermore, the number of people playing games online seems to be growing by leaps and bounds. Parks' research found that the year-over-year growth rate for frequent online gamers was 79 percent, which easily trumps the growth rate for users of social networking (46 percent). That said, the growth rate for frequent users of video streaming sites was a whopping 123 percent, and that 'could pose a significant challenge to the gaming industry in capturing the online leisure time of Internet users,' Parks cautioned."
Gunplay Blamed For Cutting Fiber 276
coondoggie writes "Internet service providers in the US experienced a service slowdown Monday after fiber-optic cables near Cleveland were apparently sabotaged by gunfire. TeliaSonera AB, which lost the northern leg of its US network to the cut, said that the outage began around 7 p.m. Pacific Time on Sunday night. When technicians pulled up the affected cable, it appeared to have been shot up over a length of a kilometer. 'Somebody had been shooting with a gun or a shotgun into the cable,' said a TeliaSonera spokesman. The company declined to name the service provider whose lines had been cut, but a source familiar with the situation said the lines are owned by Level 3 Communications Inc. Level 3 could not be reached for comment."
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