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Warner Brothers Hiring Undercover Anti-Pirates 443

Posted by samzenpus from the WB-privateers dept.
An anonymous reader writes "TorrentFreak reports that Warner Brothers UK is hiring college students with an IT background to participate in an internship that will pit them against pirates on the Web in an effort to crack down on illegal digital distribution. The intern will literally be on the front-lines of the epic battle against pirated content, ensnaring users in incriminating transactions, issuing takedown requests, and causing general frustration amongst the file-sharing population on the Internet."
The Internet

Time To Take the Internet Seriously 175

Posted by kdawson from the weather-eye dept.
santosh maharshi passes along an article on Edge by David Gelernter, the man who (according to the introduction) predicted the Web and first described cloud computing; he's also a Unabomber survivor. Gelernter makes 35 predictions and assertions, some brilliant, some dubious. "6. We know that the Internet creates 'information overload,' a problem with two parts: increasing number of information sources and increasing information flow per source. The first part is harder: it's more difficult to understand five people speaking simultaneously than one person talking fast — especially if you can tell the one person to stop temporarily, or go back and repeat. Integrating multiple information sources is crucial to solving information overload. Blogs and other anthology-sites integrate information from many sources. But we won't be able to solve the overload problem until each Internet user can choose for himself what sources to integrate, and can add to this mix the most important source of all: his own personal information — his email and other messages, reminders and documents of all sorts. To accomplish this, we merely need to turn the whole Cybersphere on its side, so that time instead of space is the main axis. ... 14. The structure called a cyberstream or lifestream is better suited to the Internet than a conventional website because it shows information-in-motion, a rushing flow of fresh information instead of a stagnant pool."

Comment Re:Just like desktop linux. (Score 0) 636

by scire9 (#31252234) Attached to: Google Android — a Universe of Incompatible Devices
You, sir, are a genius. You may have just revolutionized the future of analogies. You're average Joe nowadays probably doesn't understand car analogies, and consequently, won't understand the presented reasoning. With these new McDonald's analogies we now have the power to reach a much broader audience. From all of us at slashdot: Thank you.
Android

Futuristic Sex Robots Now Just "Sex Robots" 602

Posted by timothy from the not-fooling-anyone-you-know dept.
High-C writes "With apologies to Futuristic Sex Robotz, the future is here, and her name is Roxxxy. Truecompanion.com has revealed their answer to the Real Doll, and it looks nice. The site is short on details, pictures, pricing info, but wow." NOTE: some of the above links are not work-safe, for many values of work. I stopped by this exhibit today at the AVN Expo (not officially a part of CES, but by curious coincidence scheduled to coincide; the old saw that porn drives tech isn't without merit). Roxxxy, though, was rather unsexily posed on a couch, not moving a bit — downright creepy, in fact.

Comment Re:While slightly humorous (Score 0) 208

by scire9 (#30650662) Attached to: 2009 Darwin Award Winners Announced

And when you go around mocking the people who died doing something stupid, often times you are too busy laughing to know the whole story."

And how would knowing the whole story make her actions any less stupid? Her actions led to her death. Mocking her actions is a good thing-it might encourage others not to do similar things. I'd like to think I would never do anything as stupid as that but if I do, I fully expect to be mocked for it. Because I'd deserve it.

Take the story of the girl jumping in the water after her moped for instance. Now lets say she had a ring worth $100,000 tucked away in the seat. Now the person's actions don't seem so stupid. Granted some people will argue that no amount of money is worth risking your life, but the point still remains. Almost anything can seem "stupid" if you're not looking at every variable in the equation.
That being said, I don't condone stupidity. I am a firm believer in this bash quote.

#4753 +(16242)- [X] The problem with America is stupidity. I'm not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?

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