Comment Re:Blogs never could make money (Score 1) 120
Seeing as there are people who support themselves from their blogs, you are incorrect.
Comment Re:Threats (Score 1) 394
What are you talking about? Anonymity does not equal the First Amendment. You have every right to post whatever you want on NBC's forums - they just want some information in exchange. Don't like it, don't post there. The First Amendment only comes into play when somebody tries to prosecute you for what you've said - anonymous or not.
Comment Re:What's the Story (Score 1) 242
If you quickly scrolled through the comments you would notice this one, which may have the info for which you are looking.
UK Government Ads Link Games With "Early Death" 232
An anonymous reader writes "The UK government, backed by a bunch of charities that raise funds for research into cancer, heart disease and diabetes, has launched an advertising campaign that links the 'inactive' or passive gaming lifestyle with death and illness. It's part of a bigger 'Change4Life' campaign that has also linked playing games with making children obese. The new ads show a young child playing a PlayStation game, with the caption 'Risk an early DEATH, just do nothing.' To say this has annoyed the UK games industry would be a grave understatement. Trade association ELSPA has already called an urgent meeting with authorities to have the ads pulled, and trade magazine MCV has complained to the country's Advertising Standards Authority as well. As MCV Associate Editor Tim Ingham says in an impassioned opinion piece, 'Change4Life's advertising campaign makes a mockery of everything the industry has achieved in the last decade.'"
Comment Re:Why is this a bad thing? (Score 1) 585
High-speed EZPass lanes exist, notably on the New Jersey Turnpike. The lanes are 55 mph, which is the speed limit of the highway at that point. Plenty of other roads I've seen have 25 mph lanes (the George Washington Bridge is a notable one). So it's quite possible.
Comment Re:What a fucking stupid idea! (Score 1) 540
It's not free - it's just included in the IT fees that you pay your school. Most schools have "free" printing to a certain point (X pages per week or per semester), and then pay-per-page after that.
China Hijacks Popular BitTorrent Sites 174
frogger writes "China is not new to censoring the Internet, but up until now, BitTorrent sites have never been blocked. Recently, however, several reports came in from China indicating that popular BitTorrent sites such as Mininova, isoHunt and The Pirate Bay had been hijacked. The sites became inaccessible, instead redirecting to the leading Chinese search engine Baidu."
6.7 Meter Telescope To Capture 30 Terabytes Per Night 67
Lumenary7204 writes "The Register has a story about the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, a project to build a 6.7 meter effective-diameter ground-based telescope that will be used to map some of the faintest objects in the night sky. Jeff Kantor, the LSST Project Data Manager, indicates that the telescope should be in operation by 2016, will generate around 30 terabytes of data per night, and will 'open a movie-like window on objects that change or move on rapid timescales: exploding supernovae, potentially hazardous near-Earth asteroids, and distant Kuiper Belt Objects.' The end result will be a 150 petabyte database containing one of the most detailed surveys of the universe ever undertaken by a ground-based telescope. The telescope's 8.4 meter mirror blank was recently unveiled at the University of Arizona's Mirror Lab in Tucson."
State of Kentucky Seizes Control of 141 Domain Names 505
ashmodai9 writes "In a rather interesting (read: insane) decision, a district judge in the State of Kentucky has awarded control of 141 online gambling domain names to the governor of the state. Most of these are hosted offshore, and very few are registered under US domain name registrars, let alone registrars in the State of Kentucky (are there any?). You can check out the press release here, and confirm that the Commonwealth of Kentucky does in fact now 'own' these domain names by performing a WHOIS search on any of the domains listed here."
Comment Re:5.1 ? (Score 1) 368
In fact, in a stereo recording, most of the information will be played back by both speakers.
Go listen to early stereo recordings (ex. The Beatles). Typically very little will be down the center - maybe the bass, or drums. Everything else will be on one side or the other.
New Diablo 3 Images; Design Wins Over Darkness 243
KingofGnG writes "The new Diablo III screenshots highlight the strong chromatic variations existing between the dungeons and the various stages ... It appears obvious, however, that all those details enriching the scenes, the crumbling parapets of the paths within the dungeons, the plants and the ragged drapes lightened by candles, would lose the best part of their raison d'etre if put in monochrome palettes inclined to black."
US Court Disconnects Canadian Domain Name Scammers 149
coondoggie writes "A US District Court today ordered a halt to the illegal practice of Canadian companies who the Federal Trade Commission said deceptively posed as domain name registrars and sent bogus bills to thousands of US small businesses and nonprofit organizations for their annual 'Website Address Listing.' The FTC said many of the businesses believed they would lose their Web site addresses unless they paid the bill, so they paid but in most cases the defendants did not provide domain registration services, did not provide the 'search optimization' services it claimed to provide, and bilked small businesses and nonprofits out of millions of dollars."
U.S. House Says the Internet is Terrorist Threat 457
GayBliss writes "The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill (H.R. 1955) last month, by a vote of 404 to 6, that says the Internet is a terrorist tool and that Congress needs to develop and implement methods to combat it."
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