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Google & Verizon's Real Net Neutrality Proposal 254

Posted by Soulskill from the ending-rumors dept.
langelgjm writes "Announced this afternoon in a joint conference call held by CEOs Eric Schmidt and Ivan Seidenberg, Google and Verizon have released a joint net neutrality proposal in the form of a 'suggested legislative framework for consideration by lawmakers.' This comes on the heels of last week's assertion (and subsequent denial) that Google and Verizon were close to concluding talks that would permit Verizon to prioritize certain content in exchange for pay. A look at the actual text of the framework shows some positive net neutrality principles, but there is also some more curious content: 'Wireless broadband' is singled out for exclusion from most of the agreement, and providers would be permitted to prioritize 'additional online services... distinguishable in scope and purpose.' Public Knowledge, a watchdog group based in Washington, has criticized the agreement for these provisions."
PC Games (Games)

Blizzard vs. Glider Battle Resumes Next Week 384

Posted by Soulskill from the i-blame-blizzard-again dept.
trawg writes "You paid for it, you have the DVD in your drive and the box on the floor next to your desk, but do you own the game? That's the question the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals will rule on next week in the case between Blizzard, publisher of World of Warcraft, and MDY, publisher of the Glider bot. The Glider bot plays World of Warcraft for you, but Blizzard frowns on this, saying it voids the license agreement — you don't own the game, you only have a license to use it, and bots like Glider invalidate the license. The EFF has a good summary of the case as well. The case is due to be resumed on Monday."
Crime

Police Officers Seek Right Not To Be Recorded 1123

Posted by kdawson from the ain't-nobody's-bidness-if-we-do dept.
linzeal writes "When the police act as though cameras were the equivalent of guns pointed at them, there is a sense in which they are correct. Cameras have become the most effective weapon that ordinary people have to protect against and to expose police abuse. And the police want it to stop. Judges, juries, and legislatures support the police overwhelmingly on this issue, with only a few cases where those accused of 'shooting' the cops being vindicated through the courts."
Government

Apple May Face Antitrust Inquiry 457

Posted by Soulskill from the upsetting-the-apple-cart dept.
suraj.sun writes with this excerpt from the NY Post: "According to a person familiar with the matter, the Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission are locked in negotiations over which of the watchdogs will begin an antitrust inquiry into Apple's new policy of requiring software developers who devise applications for devices such as the iPhone and iPad to use only Apple's programming tools. Regulators, this person said, are days away from making a decision about which agency will launch the inquiry. It will focus on whether the policy, which took effect last month, kills competition by forcing programmers to choose between developing apps that can run only on Apple gizmos or come up with apps that are platform-neutral, and can be used on a variety of operating systems, such as those from rivals Google, Microsoft, and Research In Motion. An inquiry doesn't necessarily mean action will be taken against Apple, which argues the rule is in place to ensure the quality of the apps it sells to customers. Typically, regulators initiate inquiries to determine whether a full-fledged investigation ought to be launched. If the inquiry escalates to an investigation, the agency handling the matter would issue Apple a subpoena seeking information about the policy."

Comment Re:What about the presumption of innocence? (Score 1) 1590

by krisdahl (#32020654) Attached to: Arizona "Papers, Please" Law May Hit Tech Workers

If the feds weren't abusing it, why do you think the locals will?

Do you know anything about the Police climate in Arizona and specifically Maricopa County? The MSCO is already violating civil rights and abusing power, this will make it much, much worse. Read up before spout ignorant comments. Here is just one article from the NY Times. Search for Sheriff Joe Arpaio & racial profiling, immigration, illegal arrest, lawsuit, etc. http://theboard.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/31/americas-worst-sheriff-joe-arpaio/
Censorship

Thailand Cracks Down On Twitter, Facebook, Etc. 130

Posted by timothy from the and-everybody-loves-the-king dept.
An anonymous reader writes "The ongoing poitical turmoil in Thailand has inspired the country's Ministry of Information, Computers, and Telecommunications to issue a stern warning that all users of the Internet in Thailand must 'use the internet in the right way or with appropriate purpose and avoid disseminating information that could create misunderstanding or instigate violent actions among the public', that 'all popular websites and social networks such as facebook, twitter, hi5 and my space [sic] will be under thorough watch,' and that 'Violators will be prosecuted by law with no compromise.' Thailand has draconian anti-lèse majesté laws which are routinely abused in order to settle political scores and silence dissent, and recently implemented a so-called 'Computer Crimes Act' which appears to be almost solely focused on thoughtcrimes and censorship, rather than dealing with, you know, actual crime. Several Web forums have recently been shut down, their operators charged because they failed to delete 'harmful posts' quickly enough to suit the Thai authorities."
PHP

Eight PHP IDEs Compared 206

Posted by timothy from the colonic-extraction dept.
snydeq writes "InfoWorld's Rick Grehen provides an in-depth comparative review of eight PHP IDEs: ActiveState's Komodo IDE, CodeLobster PHP Edition, Eclipse PHP Development Tools (PDT), MPSoftware's phpDesigner, NetBeans IDE for PHP, NuSphere's PhpED, WaterProof's PHPEdit, and Zend Studio. 'All of these PHP toolkits offer strong support for the other languages and environments (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL database) that a PHP developer encounters. The key differences we discovered were in the tools they provide (HTML inspector, SQL management system) for various tasks, the quality of their documentation, and general ease-of-use,' Grehen writes.'"

Comment Re:Boy, what efficiency... (Score 1) 477

by krisdahl (#28698717) Attached to: US Postal Service Moves To GNU/Linux

My immediate reaction was: "Wait, they need 1300 servers to serve up 40M transactions? WTF?". That is about 21 transactions per minute, or .3 per second.

They are dealing with *extreme* peaks (like several orders of magnatude more than average), getting ready for massive growth (again order of magnitues) are doing something very, very, very wrong.

I suspect they are doing it wrong. They should be able to get it done with a few dozen at most, unless they need these servers at every sorting center for some reason.

Comment Re:The dirty way (Score 1) 695

by krisdahl (#26293451) Attached to: Home Generators (or How DTE Energy Ruined My Holidays)
I said that 4 stroke motors shouldn't burn any oil. If they do it is because of bad rings, scored cylinder walls, faulty valve stem seals, bad head gasket or other problem with the lubicration system. If it burns oil it is a faulty/shoddy component. A well made and well maintained 4 stroke motor (small or otherwise) should not burn any noticible amount of oil--certainly not enough to where you need to refill it under a normal duty cycle. Obviously it won't run forever, but again under the length of times they are designed to run (say a tank of gas) they should not burn any oil. So if you are experiencing excessive oil burning worn/failed component in your motor. The worn/failed component was caused either by lack of quality or abuse (like running it beyond its recommended duty cycle, overloading, running at high revs for extended periods, etc.). My Honda 4 strokes do not burn any oil. But then again they are well-made, maintained, and used at the duty cycle they were designed for.

Comment Re:The dirty way (Score 1) 695

by krisdahl (#26283711) Attached to: Home Generators (or How DTE Energy Ruined My Holidays)

Also your 4 cycle will inevitably run out of oil at some point, hope you're checking the oil and/or the low oil shutoff works before the engine is trashed.

The rest of your post mostly made sense. But a 4 cycle engine doesn't (or shouldn't) burn any oil. You're thinking of a 2 stroke which either uses a premix of oil and fuel or has a system to mix them together automatically.

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