Comment Re:It's deserved (Score 1) 269
You say that as if the company has feelings. The company didn't enjoy anything, and will feel no pain when they collapse.
I thought companies were people. What is a person without feelings?
Comment Re:Sen. Wyden. (Score 1) 151
Only in the strangest of cases (Texahoma) will an individual transaction cross state lines.
The bill defines an ISP as "an Internet service provider that imposes a data cap on consumers of the provider" I believe that would include AT&T, Verizon, and the like that have data caps on mobile internet service.
Comment Mirror (Score 2) 608
Comment Re:A week? (Score 1) 1004
But that is how the music industry has operated (at least before the internet has lead to the expansion of self-published music) for decades. Music labels would risk lots of money to sign a band, record an album, make and distribute CDs/tapes/8-tracks/records on the hope that people would buy it. Some albums would become crazy popular and make millions for the albums, others would flop and the label would lose money. The profit from the hits more than of-set the losses of the flops and the label would make money (at least the ones that had a good ear for selecting bands and/or were lucky).
Sure the radio helped, not only to promote music and encourage album sales, but the radio pays a fee to the label every time the song is played. But some songs suck, DJs don't want to play them and no one calls in and requests them. The label may is unable to recover the costs of producing the album.
Comment Re:Three hardware changes? (Score 1) 473
I call bullshit.
No, I have seen it too. I tried to virtualize a laptop (VMware has a really nifty tool to do this), but after booting the image in in the VM Windows thew a fit and would not let me log in without activating, again. Calling MS was pointless; it is a completely automated system.
Comment Re:Dreamhost (Score 2) 353
You forgot to mention their awesome API http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Application_programming_interface
Australian Visitors Must Declare Illegal Porn To Customs Officers 361
Australian Justice Minister Brendan O'Connor has advised visitors to take a better safe than sorry policy when it comes to their porn stashes, and declare all porn that they think might be illegal with customs officers. From the article: "The government said it changed the wording on passenger arrival cards after becoming aware of confusion among travellers about what pornography to declare. 'People have a right to privacy and while some pornography is legal and does not need to be disclosed, all travellers should be aware that certain types of pornography are illegal and must be declared to customs,' Mr O'Connor said."
The Bomb Squad Olympiad Starts Today 43
The bomb suit relay and the robot obstacle course are just two of the events you can enjoy at the Bomb Squad Olympiad. Over the next three days squads from across South Carolina will compete and showcase their bomb defusing capabilities for the public. I hear the deep fried dynamite is especially good.
Woman Trademarks Name and Threatens Sites Using It 273
An anonymous reader writes "Be careful mentioning Dr. Ann De Wees Allen. She's made it clear that she's trademarked her name and using it is 'illegal... without prior written permission.' She even lists out the names of offenders and shows you the cease-and-desist letter she sends them. And, especially don't copy any of the text on her website, because she's using a bit of javascript that will warn you 'Copyright Protect!' if you right click on a link."
Submission + - NSF Gives Supercomputer Time For 3D Model of Spill (computerworld.com)
CWmike writes: Scientists have embarked on a crash effort to use one the world's largest supercomputers to create 3D models to simulate how BP's massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill will affect coastal areas. Acting within 24 hours of receiving a request from researchers, the National Science Foundation late last week made an emergency allocation of 1 million compute hours on a supercomputer at the Texas Advanced Computing Cente to study how BP's gusher will affect coastlines. The computer model they are working on 'has the potential to advise and undergird many emergency management decisions that may be made along the way, particularly if a hurricane comes through the area,' said Rick Luettich, a professor of marine sciences and head of the Institute of Marine Sciences at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, who is one of the researchers on this project. Meanwhile, geographic information systems vendor ESRI has added a social spin to GIS mapping of the BP oil spill.
Submission + - Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx Benchmarked And Reviewed (tomshardware.com)
tc6669 writes: Tom's Hardware just posted an interesting review of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. It includes an expanded set of OS benchmarks which they also performed on the previous LTS release (8.04) to see just how much the mainstream Linux distro has progressed in two years.
Submission + - Ninth suicide at iPhone factory. (bbc.co.uk)
__aapspi39 writes: A ninth employee has jumped to his death at Taiwanese iPhone and iPad manufacturer Foxconn, China's state media reports. The 21 year old worker was the the eighth fatality this year. This raises questions as to whether the shiny finish of the lifestyle statements available from mega corporations are tarnished by such information, and whether the mistreatment of workers deserves to be highlighted when considering such firms.
MS To Share Early Flaw Data With Governments 100
Trailrunner7 writes "Microsoft today announced plans to share pre-patch details on software vulnerabilities with governments around the world under a new program aimed at securing critical infrastructure and government assets from hacker attacks. The program, codenamed Omega, features a 'Defensive Information Sharing Program' that will offer government entities at the national level technical information on vulnerabilities that are being updated in their products." There's a stream the bad guys would dearly love to tap into.
Justice Not As Blind As Previously Thought 256
NotSoHeavyD3 writes "I doubt this is much of a surprise but apparently Cornell University did a study that seems to show you're more likely to get convicted if you're ugly. From the article: 'According to a Cornell University study, unattractive defendants are 22 percent more likely to be convicted than good-looking ones. And the unattractive also get slapped with harsher sentences — an average of 22 months longer in prison.'"
Stockholm's Bunny-Fueled Heating Plant 11
The city of Stockholm has an interesting way of dealing with the thousands of rabbits killed every year to protect trees and shrubbery in the city’s parks. The bunnies are transported to a special heating plant, where the bodies are burned as a form of bioenergy. Last year Stockholm burned over 6,000 bunny briquettes. As to be expected many animal rights activists say they would rather go cold. "Those who support the culling of rabbits surely think it's good to use the bodies for a good cause. But it feels like they're trying to turn the animals into an industry rather than look at the main problem," said Anna Johannesson of Vilda kaniners ("Society for the Protection of Wild Rabbits").
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