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Comment Makers (Score 1) 309

by federtanz on Monday January 09, 2012 @05:03AM (#38635688) Attached to: Kodak Failing, But Camera Phones Not To Blame

We need Kettlebelly to fuse Kodak and Duracell and start a project that supports many little innovative geek start-up firms to start a new era 'New Work' (I'm reading too much of Cory Doctorow's novels.. =) It's just too strange to encounter so many ideas and parts of his stories in real life..

Chinese Reactions To Google Leaving China 249

Posted by timothy on Friday March 26, 2010 @05:11AM from the billion-here-a-billion-there dept.

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Most people have already heard western media reactions to Google leaving China proper and redirecting search traffic to its Hong Kong branch, but ChinaSMACK has translated comments from average Chinese internet users so that non-Chinese can understand how the Chinese public feels. While many of them are supportive of the government on some level, they were able to obtain many comments by those critical of the government before they could be 'harmonized' (deleted) and translated those as well. The deleted comments often complain about the wumao (50 cent party), government employees who are paid 50 cents RMB per post supporting the government, and worry that the Chinese Internet will become a Chinese LAN."

Facebook Goes After Greasemonkey Script Developer 375

Posted by timothy on Friday March 26, 2010 @02:00AM from the you-must-enjoy-our-obnoxious-messages dept.

palmerj3 writes "The popular Facebook Purity greasemonkey script (now renamed Fluff Buster Purity) has been used by thousands to rid their Facebook feeds from the likes of Mafia Wars, Farmville, and other annoying things. Now, Facebook is threatening the developer of this script. Does Facebook have the right to govern their website's design and functionality once it's in the browser?"

Can Ubuntu Save Online Banking? 462

Posted by timothy on Thursday March 25, 2010 @08:01PM from the make-that-virus-throw-an-error dept.

CWmike writes with a pointer to this ComputerWorld mention of an interesting application of Live CDs, courtesy of Florida-based regional bank CNL: "Recognizing that most consumers don't want to buy a separate computer for online banking, CNL is seriously considering making available free Ubuntu bootable 'live CD' discs in its branches and by mail. The discs would boot up Linux, run Firefox and be configured to go directly to CNL's Web site. 'Everything you need to do will be sandboxed within that CD,' [CNL CIO Jay McLaughlin] says. That should protect customers from increasingly common drive-by downloads and other vectors for malicious code that may infect and lurk on PCs, waiting to steal the user account names, passwords and challenge questions normally required to access online banking." (But what if someone slips in a stack of doctored disks?)

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