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Comment Been working fine for OhmyNews (Score 1) 234

by b00stA on Wednesday September 23, 2009 @05:35AM (#29513219) Attached to: Micropayments For News — Holy Grail Or Delusion?

This might not be entirely the same thing, but South Korea's online magazine http://www.ohmynews.com/ lets readers pay any small amount to the author if they liked the article. Though it doesn't seem to be mentioned on the English Wiki page.

Comment Re:And it still doesn't support multipart rar's... (Score 1) 258

by b00stA on Tuesday December 12, 2006 @05:29AM (#17205418) Attached to: VLC 0.8.6 Released

I was disappointed when I couldn't use VLC to write my english essay and now for some reason I keep getting errors with the IRC client.

They need to get their damn priorities straight.

McAfee Blames Open Source for Botnets 223

Posted by timothy on Monday July 17, 2006 @12:51PM from the how-conveeeeenient dept.

v3xt0r writes "It seems that 'the Open Source Development Model' is to be blamed for the recent increase in botnet development. 'We're not taking aim at the open-source movement; we're talking about the full-disclosure model and how that effectively serves malware development,' the spokesman for McAfee says. Why not just blame the IRC Protocol? Or simply admit that Proprietary vendors cannot keep pace with the Open Source Model?"

Lens That Writes on Both HD-DVD and Blu-Ray 289

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Sunday July 09, 2006 @02:24PM from the one-lens-to-rule-them-all dept.

morpheus83 writes "Ricoh claims they have developed an optical component that reads and writes all disk formats -- Blu-ray Disc and HD-DVD, as well as DVD and CD -- with one pickup and one objective lens. The component is a 3.5-mm diameter, 1-mm thick round diffraction plate with minute concentric groves on both sides which function as a diffraction grating. Based on disc information the drive can identify which format disk is loaded, Ricoh's optical diffraction component adjusts the laser beam with its diffraction grating for each format and passes it to the objective lens."

Icy-Flo - The solution to this summer's heat 145

Posted by Hemos on Monday June 12, 2006 @07:55AM from the keeping-it-cool-when-the-lights-are-up dept.

Steve Kerrison writes "Desperate times call for desperate measures, but I'd like to think of this as more of an exercise in cunning. It's hot, but I'm not, thanks to an Icy-Box and a Panaflo. This was nearly categorised as hardware hacking, but then the only 'hacking' required was the removal of four thumb-screws."

Ballmer Beaten by Spyware 501

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday June 06, 2006 @10:44AM from the don't-tell-anecdotes-at-a-public-event dept.

Devil's BSD writes "At a Windows Vista reviewers conference, Microsoft platform president Jim Allchin told a rather amusing story about Steve Ballmer. Apparently, a friend asked him to rid his computer of the spyware and malware that had accumulated over the years. As the story goes, neither Ballmer nor Microsoft's top engineers could fix the infested computer. The article goes on to discuss and compare Microsoft's new security offering, Windows Live OneCare."

2006 Chatterbox Challenge In Full Swing 118

Posted by samzenpus on Friday April 07, 2006 @07:08PM from the are-you-real dept.

William Wynn writes "Once again chatterbots from around the world are coming together to face off in the ultimate bot competition. The 2006 Chatterbox Challenge lays host to 65 artificially intelligent programs attempting to imitate human conversation. Public voting takes place from April 1 to April 30 after which the private judging will have been finished and medals and cash prizes will be given out. Medals are awarded for "Most Popular Bot," "Best Learning Bot" and "Best New Bot" as well as $1,800 to be split among the top three bots overall. Anyone can talk to the competing chatbots through the competition website."

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