Comment Shame, should have been Veriozon (Score 1) 64
Can you hear me now!
Comment Possibly a strategic move (Score 1) 95
The way i see it, its a double win strategically...
1. US Private companies getting these contracts will become a powerful lobbying group. So all future Dem and Republican have to pussyfoot around them. Business is secured for the foreseeable future.
2. Give the government plausible deniability in case another nation states points fingers.
Comment Re:Really? (Score 1) 183
Also in the same countries, most banks cross-check the transaction by calling the account holder to avoid such situations. You can specify the limit in which banks will clear the cheques without calling otherwise they need confirmation from the account holder. It definitely helps.
Comment Introduction to Sorting (Score 1) 32
During my undergrad year had to code a few types of sorts in my Computer Science class (using C Lang), quick sort gave me nightmare because of recursion and being new to the topic.
May St. Peter use Quick Sort at the Pearly Gates to sort him to his place in heaven.... :)
Comment Re:Home of the brave? (Score 1) 589
That would be a hitman....just saying!
Comment Waar? (Score 1) 227
or War? Typo in the heading :)
Feed Newsforge: Office software shootout: OpenOffice.org Writer vs. Micosoft Word, round three (linux.com)
Submission + - Microsoft's Consent-or-Die Patent
theodp writes: "Maybe you shouldn't get too attached to those new Windows Live services. On Tuesday, the USPTO granted Microsoft a patent for Privacy policy change notification, which describes how to threaten users will the loss of their account, access to web sites and services, and all of the content they provided should they refuse to consent to changes in privacy policy to allow personal information collected earlier with a promise of confidentiality to be shared in the future with third parties. Also described is a 'Never Notify Me' option so you won't have to worry your pretty little head over privacy policy changes."
China Employs Campus Internet Overseers 337
d'alz writes "China's Internet police, reportedly including as many as 50,000 state agents, have monitored the Chinese citizenry's online habits. They have blocked Web sites, erased commentary and arrested people for what is deemed anti-Party, or anti-social, speech. Several hours each week Hu Yingying, a college student, goes to a little-known on-campus office crammed with computers. There she logs on, unsuspected by other students, to help police her university's Internet forum." From the article: "Under the Civilized Internet initiative, service providers and other companies have been urged to purge their servers of offensive content, ranging from pornography to anything that smacks of overt political criticism or dissent. The Chinese authorities say that more than two million supposedly 'unhealthy' images have already been deleted under this campaign by various mainland Internet service providers, and more than six hundred supposedly 'unhealthy' Internet forums were shut down. These deletions are presented as voluntary acts of corporate civic virtue, but have a coercive aspect to them, because no company would likely risk being singled out as a laggard."
