Comment No Bender jokes yet ? (Score 1) 320
It was already known that magnets applied to the head can make certain individuals sing bad folk-songs.
Comment They've learned from Microsoft (Score 1) 237
Let some small start-up test the water and prove a concept to be viable and then usurp their business model and bury them via patent abuse or just crush them financially. Amazon used to be a pretty decent company, now JB is just as greedy and unscrupulous as any other tech monopolist.
Comment Re:BIG Mistake (Score 1) 321
No, they're supporting a whistle-blower that happened to use them as a way to broadcast his information. To refuse to help him would imply that he did something wrong, which they may not see as the case..
200 Students Admit Cheating After Professor's Online Rant 693
Over 200 University of Central Florida students admitted to cheating on a midterm exam after their professor figured out at least a third of his class had cheated. In a lecture posted on YouTube, Professor Richard Quinn told the students that he had done a statistical analysis of the grades and was using other methods to identify the cheats, but instead of turning the list over to the university authorities he offered the following deal: "I don't want to have to explain to your parents why you didn't graduate, so I went to the Dean and I made a deal. The deal is you can either wait it out and hope that we don't identify you, or you can identify yourself to your lab instructor and you can complete the rest of the course and the grade you get in the course is the grade you earned in the course."
Photographers Face Ejection Over Lenses 743
destinyland writes "Zooomr CEO Thomas Hawk was ejected from a San Francisco art museum because the security guard apparently thought his expensive camera could be used to spy on female employees. Another photographer notes that 'many people consider a professional-looking camera a threat,' and the state of California has even passed a law against telephoto lenses being used to intrude on celebrities' private lives. Hawk is routinely confronting security guards who argue that photographing their buildings represents a 'security threat.' Ironically, four weeks ago while attending Microsoft's Pro Photo Summit, he was told he couldn't even photograph the lobby of a Hyatt Hotel."
RIAA Pays Tanya Andersen $107,951 312
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "Well, Phase I of the RIAA's misguided pursuit of an innocent, disabled Oregon woman, Atlantic v. Andersen, has finally drawn to a close, as the RIAA was forced to pay Ms. Andersen $107,951, representing the amount of her attorneys fee judgment plus interest. But as some have pointed out, reimbursement for legal fees doesn't compensate Ms. Andersen for the other damages she's sustained. And that's where Phase II comes in, Andersen v. Atlantic. There the shoe is on the other foot, and Tanya is one doing the hunting, as she pursues the record companies and their running dogs for malicious prosecution. Should be interesting."
reCAPTCHA Hard At Work, Rescuing Fading Texts 112
sciencehabit writes "Computer scientists have developed a program, called reCAPTCHA, which is being used in lieu of CAPTCHA by several sites, to help digitize old books and newspapers. The reCAPTCHA takes entries from old and faded texts that optical scanners and digital-text readers have trouble with. So every time you solve that string of crooked letters, you may actually be helping historians digitally reconstruct a page from the 1908 New York Times." The Science Now story links to the longer and more informative article at Ars Technica. (We last mentioned this program last year — and now it's good to get some sense of how well it's working.)
Feed The Register: Intel revolted by its own 'insensitive and insulting' ad (theregister.com)
Racist inside?
Intel apologized this week for a print advertisement circulating around blog-land that some claim is racist.
Feed The Register: Man cuffed over 'cycling cheat' email hack (theregister.com)
Tour de Farce
A man suspected of hacking into the emails of controversial Danish cyclist Michael Rasmussen in a bid to look for dirt has been arrested in Denmark.
Feed Science Daily: 'Wake-Up Pill' Under Study To Treat Patients With Bipolar Disorder (sciencedaily.com)
A preliminary study of 85 patients with bipolar disorder shows that a drug used to treat patients with sleep disorders might also control the depressive symptoms associated with bipolar disorder. At least 44 percent of the participants in the study reported improved symptoms, a noteworthy improvement for a disorder in which new treatments are needed.
Comment Re: Updating Smoothwall yourself? (Score 1) 423
If you lurk on the smoothwall email list for a while you'll see why Richard get a bit cranky. Threatening phone calls to his home with rude messages left with his children.. Having to exlain (for the 1,000th time) why a firewall should not be running {ftp|tftp|rsh|rexec}. Lusers asking the same old questions for the 50th time and getting all upset when the response to their badly phrased question is a quick "sod off!". I agree that Richard can be a very disagreeable fellow, but I can't fault the software or the behavior of the rest of the team from what I've seen.
I've been running smoothwall for several months and other than the nag screen and ads on the web interface, I have no issues with it - I even donated to the team before that whole subject got tense. I've found it easy to install, maintain and use. Several friends have also installed it and are quite happy with it.
I've been running smoothwall for several months and other than the nag screen and ads on the web interface, I have no issues with it - I even donated to the team before that whole subject got tense. I've found it easy to install, maintain and use. Several friends have also installed it and are quite happy with it.
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