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Facebook Nudity Policy Draws Nursing Moms' Ire 904

Posted by timothy on Thursday January 01, 2009 @05:16PM from the isn't-breastfeeding-for-the-children-too? dept.

HSRD writes "Web-savvy moms who breast-feed are irate that social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace restrict photos of nursing babies. The disputes reveal how the sites' community policing techniques sometimes struggle to keep up with the booming number and diversity of their members."

Comment Irony: May contain iron (Score 1) 8

by ty421 on Wednesday October 15, 2008 @02:05PM (#25386425) Attached to: Sluggish Spider-Man

My favorite part is the extensive Disney library to the right. In VHS, mind.

A Hidden Loop In the Carbon Cycle Discovered 310

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday August 06, 2008 @09:11PM from the hot-and-heavy dept.

Googlesaysmysiteisdangerousanditisn't! writes "A recent article in Science says that researchers in China and the US have found massive carbon uptake in the world's deserts. The effects of this are huge. 35% of the Earth's land surface is desert, and the uptake equates to 5.2 billion tons of carbon sequestered each year. This is more than half of the carbon released by humans. In these 'dry oceans,' the grains of sand allow the carbon dioxide to enter and react with alkaline soil to become carbonates. Another scientist suspects that biotic desert crusts, alkaline soils, and increased precipitation may be driving the uptake."

Having a Bad Day at the Office?

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday February 19, 2008 @02:40PM

samzenpus writes "Sometimes you have to take a deep breath and just walk away to collect yourself. Sometimes you have to smash the hell out of everything."

Submission + - Are these the 25 people reshaping the game biz? (developmag.com)

Submitted by

Mark Graham

on Wednesday February 06, 2008 @06:47PM

Mark Graham writes: "Develop has put up a list of the 25 people they think are 'reshaping the game development business'. Although they admit the list is highly subjective, it's a debate-provoking piece, and some of the entries (Portal designer Kim Swift and Kongregate.com's founder) are spot on, going for the people that have introduced innovations rather than those that dominate column inches (such as Miyamoto, absent from the list — although his boss Satoru Iwata is in there). And including Japansese designers like Hironobo Sakaguchi (ranked for his successful prolific outsourced development process) instead of Hideo Kojima is sure to anger a few fanboys. Or at least raise a few eyebrows."

Journal Journal: Open Source Gamer Guide to Free Games

Journal by MrCopilot on Thursday December 20, 2007 @11:47PM

In writing a series of Open Source Gaming articles, it's easy to leave out a lot of peoples favorites. In order to combat this, I am taking all suggestions for the Next four installments. I play each game and give a short overview.

Upcoming articles up are:
Part 5. FPS (Preferably not already covered in Part 1)
Part 6. Turn Based Strategy, I especially need help here, as it is my least favorite genre.
Part 7. RPG including MMO types

Submission + - Governments prepare for cyber-cold-war (zdnet.co.uk)

Submitted by

superglaze

on Monday December 03, 2007 @08:56AM

superglaze writes: "ZDNet UK has an analysis piece on the growing threat of a "cyber cold war". It's got some interesting examples and it seems everyone is up to something. "...attacks are not limited to any particular countries, or by alliances between countries, according to cyberwarfare watchers. In the McAfee report, Johannes Ullrich, chief technology officer for research organisation the Sans Internet Storm Center, said that most countries hack each other regardless of any supposed allegiances. Alan Paller, director of research at security training organisation the Sans Institute, concurred. "All nations are doing it to each other. I don't know of any country not doing it," he said. "If it's not for normal espionage, it's for economic espionage. It's a very broad set of countries [involved].""

Submission + - creationists violate copyright (blogspot.com)

Submitted by The_Rook on Saturday November 24, 2007 @08:44PM

The_Rook writes: the discovery institute copied Harvard University's BioVisions video, "The Inner Life of the Cell", stripped out Harvard's copyright notice, credits, and narration, and inserted their own creationist friendly narration and renamed the video "The Cell as an automated city". pretty insidious, as suggesting that a cell is like a city is to suggest that it was designed rather than evolved. it should also be of interest because the discovery institute, really more of a lawyer mill than a scientific institution, engaged in a particularly egregious example of copyright infringement.

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