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Submission + - Facebook to preserve accounts of the dead (pcpro.co.uk)

Submitted by Barence on Tuesday October 27, 2009 @04:37AM

Barence writes: Social-networking site Facebook is planning to preserve the accounts of dead members. The new "memorialized" accounts will continue to display photos and wall posts, but remove "senstive information" such as status updates and contact information. Friends or family who want to report the death of a Facebook member are encouraged to fill out the site's Deceased form. The form asks for proof of death, such as an obituary or news article, although it's not clear how Facebook can validate the death of a member if neither of those pieces of information is published on the internet. How long before someone snuffs it on Facebook before their time?

Comment Re:MAJOR browser? (Score 1) 218

by jedie on Tuesday December 16, 2008 @09:27AM (#26131575) Attached to: Safari and Chrome: Tied For the Worst Password Manager

My question, although perhaps you did not manage to understand it, was actually just that: is the only reason why chrome is considered to be a major browser because it is backed by a major company? I thought a major browser was supposed to have a major market share. Numbers or gtfo

Submission + - Python + Motion detection = Fweemote

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jedie

on Monday December 24, 2007 @04:46PM

jedie writes: "After reading about different Wiimote hacks on Slashdot I decided to make a video with some demos of my motion detection library. You can watch the video here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGImvHEtUpE There's a link to the sourcecode (GPL) as well but the demo is win32 only
It's basically a webcam & some software in python to track LED's (preferrably IR's). In the demo video you see the software (albeit badly because of the webcam's IR filter being removed) tracking 2 different color LED's so multiplayer is possible. The software can track multiple points easily and when combined with IR-LED's its easy to simulate one Wiimote (ie. calculateing the distance + angle between two IR-leds to determine where the remote is relatively to the webcam). I want the code to get some publicity becauseI don't have time to work on it (dissertation blabla) but I don't want the code (however messy it is) to go to waste."

Feed Microsoft sued over Vista branding (com.com)

From feed by cnetfeed on Wednesday April 04, 2007 @02:12PM

Class action suit claims software giant deliberately mislead consumers with its marketing of the new operating system.

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