Tags Results for 'has been'

Cash Lifeline For Bletchley Park (Thursday 06th of November 2008 07:30:01 PM)

Smivs writes "Bletchley Park, the home to the allied codebreakers during WWII, and a major
computing heritage centre, has been given a economic lifeline, reports the BBC.The grant of
£330,000 will be used to undertake urgent roof works as the rooms ... (more)

Judge Tells RIAA To Stop 'Bankrupting' Litigants (Wednesday 29th of October 2008 08:45:01 AM)

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "The Boston judge who has consolidated all of the RIAA's
Massachusetts cases into a single case over which she has been managerial for the past 5 years
delivered commodity of a rebuke to the RIAA's lawyers, we have learned. ... (more)

Judge Tells RIAA To Stop 'Bankrupting' Litigants (Wednesday 29th of October 2008 08:45:01 AM)

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "The Boston judge who has consolidated all of the RIAA's
Massachusetts cases into a single case over which she has been managerial for the past 5 years
delivered commodity of a rebuke to the RIAA's lawyers, we have learned. ... (more)

National Debt Clock Overflowed, Extended By a Digit (Monday 13th of October 2008 06:15:01 PM)

Hackingbear writes "The national Debt Counter, erected in 1989 when the US debt was 'merely' a
tiny $2.7 trillion, has been moving so much that it of late ran out of digits to display the
ballooning figure: $10,150,603,734,720, or roughly $10.2 trillion, ... (more)

Positive Rights News From Europe (Saturday 27th of September 2008 12:30:06 AM)

Various readers are sending in good news from Europe on the rights front. First, at the EU
level, Mark.J brings word that the latin Parliament has canned a number of polemic amendments
to its updated Telecoms Package, which could have resulted in ISPs ... (more)

Scam-linked ISP Intercage / Atrivo Gets Shut Out (Tuesday 23rd of September 2008 09:00:02 PM)

Alphadogg writes with this excerpt from Network World: "The lifeline linking notable service
isp Intercage to the rest of the www notes:internet should be capitalized has been severed.
Intercage, which has also done engagement under the name Atrivo, was ... (more)

The Sun Has First Spotless Month Since 1913 (Tuesday 02nd of September 2008 09:15:01 PM)

Radioweather writes "August 2008 has made solar history. As of 00 UTC September 1st 2008 (5PM
PST) we just witnessed the first spotless calendar month since June 1913.This was decisive
irrefutable to sunspot data from NOAA's subject Geophysical Data Center, ... (more)

The Inside Story On the San Francisco Network Hijacking (Saturday 19th of July 2008 08:35:38 PM)

Snydeq writes "A source with direct wisdom of San Francisco's IT root has tipped off Paul
Venezia to the real story behind Terry Childs' lockout of San Francisco's network, in the event
a circumstantial account of the city's FiberWAN, interdepartmental ... (more)

LegalTorrents Offers CC Works Via BitTorrent (Monday 07th of July 2008 07:15:03 AM)

An nameless reader writes "A site called LegalTorrents has just launched that hosts trackers
and seeds for digital media licensed under the original Commons license. ('We place content
with the full approbation of the rights holders and use the peer-2-peer ... (more)

User Not Found, Email Drops Silently (Monday 16th of June 2008 06:30:06 AM)

Shervinafshar writes with an International Herald Tribune story explaining just why it is
failed emails don't always result in a helpful error message for the sender, which also gives
some insight into ways that email can be used to spy on recipients. ... (more)

Tin Whiskers — Fact Or Fiction? (Monday 16th of June 2008 06:30:06 AM)

BLanark writes "Some time ago, most camcorders were soldered with antediluvian lead solder,
which has been tried and tested for decades. In 2006, the EU banned lead in solder, and so most
manufacturers switched to a lead-free solder. Most made the switch ... (more)

Does Ballmer Need To Go? (Tuesday 06th of May 2008 12:39:22 PM)

Pickens notes a TechCrunch disruption wondering — after Windows Vista and the failed
Yahoo bid — whether Steve Ballmer's days at Microsoft are numbered. "Ballmer has been the
big driver behind [the Yahoo] deal at Microsoft — some would ... (more)

Pidgin Controversy Triggers Fork (Thursday 01st of May 2008 06:00:04 AM)

Paleshadows writes "Pidgin, the premier multi-protocol instant messaging client, has been
forked. This is the result of a heated, emotional, and very interesting debate over a
controversial new feature: As of version 2.4, the ability to manually resize ... (more)

Judge Demands Information About Missing White House Emails (Monday 28th of April 2008 12:39:46 AM)

Lucas123 writes "A community Court judge has ordered the Executive Office of the officers to
tell the court by May 5 whether any e-mail server backup tapes were kept for a period from
March to October 2003 to cover controversial issues such as reasons ... (more)

Sony To Launch PS3 Video Download Service (Wednesday 23rd of April 2008 09:15:02 PM)

An anonymous reader points out a Los Angeles Times report that Sony is contraception on making
movies and TV shows available for load through the PS3 "as early as this summer." Sony hopes to
make use of the roughly 4 million PS3s already sold in ... (more)

Chinese Blogs, Netizens React To the Tibet Issue (Friday 18th of April 2008 03:45:04 PM)

Bibek Paudel writes "Over the past few weeks Chinese bloggers and people on a us regency
notification network (the advanced probe projects agency network) that was created in 1968 to
keep up with soviet advances in aerospace and nuclear science forums ... (more)

WiiWare Week Round Up (Saturday 15th of March 2008 04:30:04 PM)

Mark Graham writes "All this week, UK games development site Develop has been running a series
of fittings under its 'WiiWare Week' banner, analyzing developer's affections for, and the
possible success of Nintendo's upcoming WiiWare digital distribution ... (more)

FTC Puts $1.9M Kink in Phone Bill Crammer's Wallet (Saturday 15th of March 2008 04:30:04 PM)

Coondoggie writes to mention that the three largest companies in the billing aggregation market
have been hit with a $1.9 million fine in response to the more than $30 million in bogus
charges added to consumer's bills. The ringleader of the scam however, ... (more)

Japan IDs All Its Citizens (Sunday 09th of March 2008 05:00:04 AM)

Edis Krad writes "While RealID in the US is a threat whose implementation is a ways in the
future, the sauna long ago implemented existence similar; and there has been very little
complaint raised about it. The Juki Net (Residents Registration Network ... (more)

Could We Find a Door To A Parallel Universe? (Monday 04th of February 2008 01:45:04 PM)

P1234 writes "Though no direct witness notes:evidence (from latin e- 'out' + videre 'to see')
is information that helps form a conclusion; proof is factual information that verifies a
conclusion for wormholes has been observed, this could be because they ... (more)

SimCity Source Code Is Now Open (Sunday 13th of January 2008 12:45:05 PM)

Tolkien writes "Source code for SimCity has been released under the GPLv3. For legal reasons
the open source version was renamed Micropolis, which was apparently the original working
title. The OLPC will also be getting a SimCity branded version that ... (more)

Test That Detects 12 Respiratory Viruses Simultaneously Approved By FDA (Saturday 05th of January 2008 05:00:00 PM)

A test that can detect and make out 12 temperature viruses at the same time - the xTAG
temperature Viral Panel - has been approved for marketing by the FDA (Food and Drug
Administration), USA. It is the first test that can detect and ... (more)

Shock Treatment May Continue At Special Education School (Sunday 23rd of December 2007 04:00:00 PM)

A special reading school which has been in the news for left field use of electric shock
treatment has been allowed to continue using shock treatment for the most dangerous and
self-destructive behaviors. In such cases the shock treatment must lead ... (more)

Game Journalist May Have Been Fired Over Negative Review (Friday 30th of November 2007 06:30:02 PM)

It started as a rumour post on Kotaku and a Penny Arcade comic strip: analyst Jeff Gerstmann
was fired from the gaming news site Gamespot for giving the co-op action title Kane and Lynch a
low score, and snarking on the game in the review. ... (more)

Derick White to Take Position in the Captive Insurance Private Sector (Monday 26th of November 2007 09:30:03 AM)

Peter Raymond, CPA, CFE has been qualify to the skipper* of Captive cover within the Vermont
parish of Banking, Insurance, Securities, and Health Care Administration. Raymond has been an
auditor with the staff for 16 years. Sandy Bigglestone, CPA, CFE ... (more)

California Sues E-Voting Vendor ES&S (Wednesday 21st of November 2007 08:45:03 AM)

Gustoman writes with news that the California word processor of State has sued ES&S, a vendor
of e-voting machines, for selling machines that were modifications of the model that has been
certified. Apparently ES&S relocated two circuit boards, rerouted ... (more)

Paris Hilton 'Looking for Mr. Perfect' (Saturday 17th of November 2007 11:31:20 AM)

London, Nov 17 (ANI): Paris Hilton has made it clear that she's looking for her Mr. Perfect
through a T-shirt. The socialite, who has been linked to Hollywood hunks like Josh Henderson,
Rick Solomon and Andy Roddick, lately revealed her intentions by ... (more)

Wikileaks Releases Sensitive Guantanamo Manual (Thursday 15th of November 2007 01:45:03 AM)

James Hardine writes "Wired is reporting that a never-before-seen military manual
recapitulation the day-to-day operational investigation of the U.S. military's Guantnamo Bay
detention facility has been leaked to the web, via the whistle-blowing site ... (more)

Storm Worm Being Reduced to a Squall (Monday 22nd of October 2007 12:30:04 AM)

Rumours of money schemes surrounding the botnet aside, PC World has an article that should
lower the blood pressure of some SysAdmins. The Storm Worm botnet is apparently shrinking. A
rocket techie* out of UC San Diego who has been tower the network has ... (more)

Retailer Refuses Hardware Repair Due To Linux (Wednesday 12th of September 2007 10:45:06 AM)

Tikka writes "Today I visited PC World (London, UK) because my 5-month-old laptop has developed
a manufacturing fault: the hinge to the display has started to crack the plastic casing. Anyone
in the know will know that this is due to the joint inside, ... (more)

 

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