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Submission + - The Fuel Cost of Obesity (greencarreports.com)

Submitted by thecarchik on Thursday August 12, 2010 @06:18PM

thecarchik writes: America loves to complain about gas mileage and the cost of gasoline. As it turns out, part of the problem is us.How much does it really matter? A study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found a 1.1 percent increase in self-reported obesity, which translates into extra weight that your vehicle has to haul around. The study estimates that 1 billion extra gallons of fuel was needed to compensate for passenger weight gained between 1960 and 2002

Submission + - What went wrong at Yahoo? Paul Graham opines (paulgraham.com)

Submitted by kjh1 on Thursday August 12, 2010 @05:42PM

kjh1 writes: Paul Graham writes about what he felt went wrong at Yahoo. He has first-hand experience — his company, Viaweb, was bought by Yahoo and he worked there for a while.

In a nutshell, he felt that Yahoo was too conflicted about whether they were a technology company or a media company. This in part led to hiring bad programmers, or at least not going single-mindedly after the very best ones. They also lacked the 'hacker' culture that Google and Facebook still seem to have, and that is found in many startup tech companies.

Comment Always playing catch up (Score 1) 764

by kjh1 on Friday July 30, 2010 @02:17PM (#33086474) Attached to: To Ballmer, Grabbing iPad's Market Is 'Job One Urgency'

It's pretty amazing that a company that is making so much money seems to be playing catch up a lot, or perhaps it's that they want in when something catches fire (after at first dismissing it).

Comment Try scaling back on content first (Score 1) 488

by kjh1 on Monday January 18, 2010 @02:21PM (#30810478) Attached to: NY Times To Charge For Online Content

While I understand why they would need to do it, this would be disappointing.

I also suspect that it will not bring in quite enough money to support their current collection of content. Perhaps what they might consider first scaling back their content production as a way to cut costs...

Comment Re:I don't think the report is accurate (Score 5, Informative) 729

by kjh1 on Tuesday July 01, 2008 @08:21PM (#24024211) Attached to: PC Repair In Texas Now Requires a PI License

IANAL, but I don't think PC Mag or "CW33" read the law. Per Section 4a1 and 4b, it only applies if you're specifically snooping in the data on the computer. It says nothing about normal repair. Not that someone disgruntled couldn't try to make a case out of it...

Agree w/ vanyel. If you read the original quoted article, you'll see that the original author only wondered out aloud if this would apply to PC repair folks. From the post:

"It seems obvious that in order to provide a full range of litigation support services, including forensic examination, then you will have to become licensed. But will all vendors, even those who do not perform such examinations, need a license as well?"

Journal Journal: Take-Two's $ Return on GTA IV?

Journal by kjh1 on Saturday May 10, 2008 @03:12AM

Did Take-Two/Rockstar make over 1000% on GTA IV? In the first week alone?!

Journal Journal: MvixUSA, Unicorn Bends to Pressure, Releases GPL Source Code

Journal by kjh1 on Monday February 12, 2007 @11:20PM

After being pressured by their user base, MvixUSA, the distributor of the Mvix MX-760HD Wireless Media Center, has obtained the source code to the firmware from the Korean manufacturer, Unicorn Network Total Solution, and made it available for download on their website. The firmware is based on the uClinux kernel. This is reminiscent of the fight that the community had to go through with GamePark Holdings, Inc. to have them

Journal Journal: GPL: Mvix MX-760HD Wireless Media Center Source released

Journal by gizmateer on Monday February 12, 2007 @08:42PM

Similar to GP2X's release of firmware source code last year, MvixUSA and Unicorn Network Total Solution have released the Mvix MX-760HD HD Wireless Media Center firmware source code for free distribution under the GNU General Public L

Journal Journal: Verizon Doesn't Know The Difference Between Dollars & Cents

Journal by screevo on Saturday December 09, 2006 @01:26AM

A Verizon Wireless customer is keeping the internet updated on his quest to be freed from a $71 bill after he was quoted the amazing rate of .002 cents/kilobyte. Verizon then sent him a bill for .002 DOLLARS per kilobyte. He is fighting the bill on the grounds that he was quoted in cents. You can follow his adventures in educating a multi-billion dollar comm

Submission + - Yahoo CEO Speaks Up about Shake Up

Submitted by cvos on Saturday December 09, 2006 @12:43AM

cvos writes: Yahoo has been under fire from loosing marketshare to Google and now MSN. Many executives have departed in the last few weeks, and Yahoo has received a lot of unfavorable press. Their CEO let out a (untentional) personal and heated response to media critics.
Semel's rhetoric goes to show how well-balanced he is: he's got a chip on both shoulders.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/08/yahoo_se mel_webcast/

Feed Dude, Where's My Password? (wired.com)

From feed by wiredfeed on Tuesday December 05, 2006 @10:12PM

Identity 2.0 company Sxip releases a new login and password management extension for Firefox called Sxipper. The free download encrypts and stores your login information locally, then lets you gain access to websites with a click of the mouse. In Monkey Bites.

Journal Journal: Future of Home Video

Journal by gizmateer on Tuesday December 05, 2006 @08:38PM

This article brings up several perceived trends in the home video market... several of which are controversial such as DVDs starting to die and Blu-ray and HD-DVD's becoming irrelevant soon.

Journal Journal: Democratic Win Signals New Direction for Tech Issues

Journal by kjh1 on Friday November 10, 2006 @04:52AM

CNET News has a thoughtful piece on how the Democrats sweep of both House and Senate might have an effect on legislation involving matters of a technical nature. For example, many Democrats favor limiting electronic surveillance by the government. Other high-profile issues include Net neutrality, copyright, and digital piracy.

Bookmark Gmail Gets Enhanced Interface (aviransplace.com)

by Aviran on Thursday November 09, 2006 @11:14PM

Submission + - PHP 5.2.0 Released

Submitted by

ShaunC

on Friday November 03, 2006 @02:32AM

ShaunC writes: "The PHP Group and Zend have released PHP 5.2.0, and upgrades are encouraged. The 5.2.0 update offers several security fixes, including patches for a couple recently announced buffer overflows in input parsing. This release also includes a number of library upgrades, bug fixes, and default bundling of the popular JSON extension to help with AJAX development. See the full changelog for more details."

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