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Comment Canâ(TM)t take him seriously (Score 1) 91

by fysdt (#62949607) Attached to: William Shatner: My Trip To Space Filled Me With 'Overwhelming Sadness'
I mean he lives lavishly in his mansion. He flies to the launch site using Bezosâ(TM)s private jet. He launches himself to space burning a huge amount of rocket fuel. Once there he mumbles some philosophical nonse around âhumans destroying mother earthâ(TM). Besides that he observes a relatively tiny amount of space with his eyes and calls it âblackâ(TM) and âemptyâ(TM). That sounds incredibly hypocritical and dumb to me.
Facebook

Submission + - Germany: Facebook's Facial Recognition is illegal (gizmodo.com)

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fysdt writes: "Although we think it's generally a pretty nifty feature, valid concerns over the misuse of Facebook's auto-recognition tagging have lead Germany to ban it entirely. That's right—Facebook in its current state is now illegal. Deep Scheiße, Zuckerberg.

The German government—which possesses perhaps the world's most adamant privacy laws as a result of postwar abuse—considers The Book's facial recognition a violation of "the right to anonymity," The Atlantic reports."
China

Submission + - Governments,IOC and UN hit by massive cyber attack (bbc.co.uk)

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fysdt writes: "IT security firm McAfee claims to have uncovered one of the largest ever series of cyber attacks.

It lists 72 different organisations that were targeted over five years, including the International Olympic Committee, the UN and security firms.

McAfee will not say who it thinks is responsible, but there is speculation that China may be behind the attacks.

Beijing has always denied any state involvement in cyber-attacks, calling such accusations "groundless"."
Google

Submission + - Google Plus Runs Out Of Disk Space; Spams Users (digitizor.com)

Submitted by dkd903
dkd903 writes: Yesterday, many users of Google+ noticed Google spamming their inbox with multiple email notifications in very quick succession. Earlier today, Vic Gundotra, Head of Social at Google, explained what was causing it – Google ran out of disk space on the server that keeps track of notifications.
The Almighty Buck

Submission + - IMF Chief Calls on US to Raise Borrowing Limit (go.com)

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fysdt
fysdt writes: "The International Monetary Fund's new chief foresees "real nasty consequences" for the U.S. and global economies if the U.S. fails to raise its borrowing limit.

Christine Lagarde, the first woman to head the lending institution, said in an interview broadcast Sunday that it would cause interest rates to rise and stock markets to fall. That would threaten an important IMF goal, which is preserving stability in the world economy, she said.

The U.S. borrowing limit is $14.3 trillion. Obama administration officials say the U.S. would begin to default without an agreement by Aug. 2.

Lagarde, who took over as managing director July 5, also addressed the fallout stemming from the sexual assault charges filed against her predecessor, Dominique Strauss-Kahn."
Power

Submission + - German parliament backs nuclear exit by 2022 (physorg.com)

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fysdt
fysdt writes: "The German parliament sealed plans Friday to phase out nuclear energy by 2022, making the country the first major industrial power to take the step in the wake of the disaster at Japan's Fukushima plant.

The nuclear exit scheme cleared its final hurdle in the Bundesrat upper house, which represents the 16 regional states, after the legislation passed the Bundestag lower house with an overwhelming majority last week.

Germany's seven oldest reactors were already switched off after Japan's massive March 11 earthquake and tsunami knocked out cooling systems at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, causing reactors to overheat and radiation to leak.

A further reactor has been shut for years because of technical problems."
Android

Submission + - Google Boots Transdroid From Android Market (torrentfreak.com)

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fysdt writes: "Google has pulled one of the most popular torrent download managers from the Android Market because of policy violations. Before Google booted the application, Transdroid had been available for two years and amassed 400,000 users during that time. Thus far Google hasn’t specified what the exact nature of Transdoid’s violations are, but it’s not unlikely that they relate to copyright infringement.

For many Android users Transdroid is the perfect remote access app for managing their BitTorrent clients on the go. The app allows users to start and stop torrents, search torrent files and even use the barcode scanner to find matching torrent files.

Transdroid offered both a free and a paid version of the app, and judging from the 400,000 downloads people seemed to appreciate it. However, as of this week, Google decided that Transdroid is no longer eligible to be placed in the Android Market."
Opera

Submission + - Opera Founder Jon S. von Tetzchner Resigns (techcrunch.com)

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fysdt
fysdt writes: "Opera founder Jon S. von Tetzchner has resigned from the company.

In an email to Opera employees, von Tetzchner said that “It has become clear that The Board, Management and I do not share the same values and we do not have the same opinions on how to keep evolving Opera. As a result I have come to an agreement with the Board to end my time at Opera. I feel the Board and Management is more quarterly focused than me.”"

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