Comment Re:It's amazing... (Score 1) 548

by brian.gunderson on Tuesday April 22, 2008 @09:27PM (#23166476) Attached to: Has Your Identiy Ever Been Stolen?

Any bank sysadmins / dbAdmins care to comment?

HardOCP Spends 30 Days With Vista 662

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday April 04, 2007 @01:50PM from the second-verse-same-as-the-first dept.

boyko.at.netqos writes "Hardocp.com has published "30 days with Vista" — with the same author from "30 days with Linux" doing the evaluation. And he doesn't like it. From the article: 'Based on my personal experiences with Vista over a 30 day period, I found it to be a dangerously unstable operating system, which has caused me to lose data [...] Any consideration of the fine details comes in second to that one inescapable conclusion. This is an unstable operating system.'"

Submission + - Google Confirms $600M South Carolina Data Center

Submitted by

miller60

on Wednesday April 04, 2007 @12:03PM

miller60 writes: "Google continues its furious data center building program in the Carolinas. Today the company announced a $600 million data center in Berkeley County, South Carolina. Google has already begun construction on a $600 million data center project in Lenoir, North Carolina, and is in the permitting process on another huge project in Richland County, South Carolina. Google's appetite for large tracts of land and cheap power are driving the site location process. Similar huge projects in central Washiongton are already transforming the tiny town of Quincy, where real estate prices have spiked, with open land fetching as much as 10 times its previous value."

Journal Journal: U.S. Airlines to offer Wi-Fi 252

Journal by brian.gunderson on Tuesday April 03, 2007 @12:56PM

This just in : US Airlines to offer Wi-Fi service onboard flights. VoiP calls will be banned initially.

Journal Journal: French high-speed train sets world record 357.2 mph

Journal by Scott7477 on Tuesday April 03, 2007 @09:44AM

Today a French high-speed train known as TGV set a world speed record for conventional trains of 357.2 miles per hour. That is quite impressive. In my view, trains at this kind of speed would be competitive with commuter aircraft for the types of routes that both transportation systems serve. It seems that high speed train systems would work economically in par

Submission + - Dresses Made from Wine

Submitted by

Horar

on Wednesday March 14, 2007 @10:26PM

Horar writes: "Australian researchers have combined art and science to make dresses from fermented fabric, using bacteria to 'grow' slimy dresses from wine and beer. http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/2007/18 72191.htm"

Feed U-Mich ID-ing Students to RIAA (wired.com)

From feed by wiredfeed on Wednesday March 14, 2007 @10:12PM

The University of Michigan is apparently turning over the names of students accused of file-sharing to the RIAA as part of the organization's revitalized P2P crackdown. In Listening Post.

Cartoon Network CEO Resigns Over Aqua Teen Scare 710

Posted by Zonk on Friday February 09, 2007 @09:35PM from the i-doubt-he's-laughing dept.

DesertBlade writes "Jim Samples, CEO of Cartoon Network, has resigned over the bomb scare prompted by the Aqua Teen marketing campaign. Turner (CN's parent company) ended up paying over 2 million in restitution to the city of Boston, and a man with a thirteen year record at the company has lost his job. Though many people have been citing this as 'the ultimate successful advertising campaign', there have obviously been real consequences from the incident." By virtue of the consequences of the campaign, was this now officially a bad idea? Or is your opinion that this is all far too much knee-jerking? Have your say in the comments.