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Comment Re:Why don't they use Facebook/Microsoft? (Score 1) 373

by brandon2 on Wednesday August 01, 2012 @12:06PM (#40843455) Attached to: US Viewers Using Proxies To Watch BBC Olympic Coverage

I think this would had been great opportunity for Google to do their usual push marketing. Just put olympics streaming on their homepage and require Chrome to view it (like they do on several other HTML5 sites). But they most likely lost the bidding war. There's no doubt they tried tho.

If you've used the NBC olympics streaming, you'll notice that all of the video players are provided by youtube. Google's there, they just seems to have gone the corporate partnership route.

Comment Re:So, which is it? (Score 1) 471

by brandon2 on Monday May 21, 2012 @02:27PM (#40067549) Attached to: Facebook Shares Retreat Below IPO Price

Technically, that would still be an intangible asset.

Half-Male, Half-Female Fowl Explain Birds' Sex Determination 117

Posted by timothy on Thursday March 11, 2010 @04:48PM from the fish-nor-fowl-except-fowl dept.

Kanan excerpts from a BBC report out of Scotland: "A study of sexually scrambled chickens suggests that sex in birds is determined in a radically different way from that in mammals. Researchers studied three chickens that appeared to be literally half-male and half-female, and found that nearly every cell in their bodies — from wattle to toe — has an inherent sex identity. This cell-by-cell sex orientation contrasts sharply with the situation in mammals, in which organism-wide sex identity is established through hormones." Kanan also supplies this link to some pictures of the mixed-cell birds.

Comment Re:Not a realy problem (Score 1) 337

by brandon2 on Thursday July 22, 2004 @03:35PM (#9772654) Attached to: Democratic Convention Computer Security Threat?

But even if they did get laptops inside the convention to connect to their AP, it would still require the person using the laptop to setup forwarding between the wired NIC and the Wifi interface.

While this all could be accomplished, it doesn't seem as big of a threat as the article makes it out to be. Not to mention the fact that someone who goes to the trouble to setup a AP and try to get onto the internal network could probably just make their way inside and connect to the wired network. Plus, why would they give the random laptops being plugged into the wired network access to sensitive information?

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