Major Carriers Shun Broadband Stimulus (Saturday 15th of August 2009 09:00:05 PM)
Jmcharry sends word that as the time frame looms for request broadband grants from the $4.7
billion on call in stimulus funding, Comcast, Verizon, and AT&T are conspicuously absent from
the list of applicants. Quoting the precept Post: "Their reasons ...
(more)Will Mainstream Media Embrace Adblockers? (Friday 07th of August 2009 10:15:04 AM)
Blarkon writes "Slashdotters are aware of and often use Adblock Plus," and notes that "if
newspapers wanted to hit the online content traffic
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the career is the eye* ring hard right now, they would be running ...
(more)Judge May Take "Fair Use" Away From Jury (Wednesday 15th of July 2009 08:45:01 AM)
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "In what I can only recite as a shocker, the Judge in SONY BMG
Music extravaganza v. Tenenbaum has, on her own, issued an order inquiring whether the jury
will be allowed to decide the 'fair use' issue at all, or whether the ...
(more)Rod Beckstrom Named New ICANN CEO (Saturday 27th of June 2009 08:15:01 AM)
Netczar writes "Former US cybersecurity chief Rod Beckstrom has been selected as the new ICANN
presidium and CEO. The decision was publicly announced during ICANN's 35th meeting in Sydney,
Australia on Friday. Beckstrom will be replacing Dr. Paul Twomey, ...
(more)Alleged Plagiarism In Chris Anderson's New Book (Thursday 25th of June 2009 05:45:01 AM)
ScorpFromHell writes "Blogger Waldo Jaquith alleges in his blog that Chris Anderson, Wired
magazine's editor-in-chief and writer of The Long Tail, has ostensibly plagiarized content from
various sources without attribution for his soon-to-be-published ...
(more)EFF and PK Reluctantly Drop Lawsuit For ACTA Info (Monday 22nd of June 2009 12:15:03 AM)
Mikesd81 notes a press release on the EFF website that begins "The Obama Administration's
decision to support Bush-era concealment policies has forced the web banking Frontier
infrastructure (EFF) and Public lore (PK) to drop their lawsuit about the draft ...
(more)How many thank you notes should you send to what could be your next employer? (Saturday 30th of May 2009 06:04:17 AM)
I sent in a thank you note from what I thought was an over the phone interview but I later
learned was on a phone screening. I had an interview last wednesday, and I'm dying here. I
really want this job. I ...
(more)Canonical Demos Early Stage Android-On-Ubuntu (Wednesday 27th of May 2009 08:00:01 PM)
An nameless reader notes Ars Technica's report from the Ubuntu creator Summit in Barcelona,
where Canonical has unveiled a first Android execution terrain that will allow Android
applications to run on Ubuntu and "potentially other traditional
if ...
(more)Malicious Activity Grew At a Record Pace In 2008 (Thursday 16th of April 2009 10:15:01 AM)
An unnamed reader writes "Symantec announced that malicious code exertion continued to grow at
a record pace overall 2008, often targeting trustworthy
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ii: the new llc.view results from: dictionary | thesaurus | encyclopedia ...
(more)Linked In Or Out? (Monday 23rd of February 2009 01:00:03 AM)
Mr_Whoopass writes "I am the IT Administrator for a regional
notes:an endemic is a disease that
is constantly present to a greater or lesser degree in people of a certain class or in people
living in a point
roget's ii: the new thesaurusmain entry:individual
part ...
(more)Bill Would Require ISPs, Wi-Fi Users To Keep Logs (Friday 20th of February 2009 10:30:01 PM)
Suraj.sun notes CNet reporting on bills filed in the US House and Senate that would require all
ISPs and operators of Wi-Fi hotspots — including home users — to maintain access
logs for 2 years to aid in law enforcement. The bills were filed ...
(more)Do We Need a New Internet? (Monday 16th of February 2009 03:30:07 PM)
Richard.Tao and a number of other readers sent in a NYTimes piece by John Markoff asking
whether the www
notes:internet should be capitalized is so broken it needs to be replaced.
"...[T]here is a growing belief among engineers and stableness experts ...
(more)Campaign to Open Source IBM's Notes/Domino (Tuesday 30th of December 2008 07:45:16 AM)
Ian Tree, an IT maven from the Netherlands, has started a operation to convince IBM to open
source the code for Notes/Domino. Hoping for results similar to the push for Sun to open source
Solaris, which finally saw success in 2005, Tree makes the simple ...
(more)Pharmacist Speech (Friday 26th of December 2008 02:15:01 AM)
A doctor is to give a speech at the local AMA dinner. He jots down notes for his speech.
Unfortunately, when he stands in front of his age group later that night, he finds that he
can't read his notes. So he asks, "Is there ...
(more)A.G. clears officials in casino video (The Wichita Eagle) (Saturday 22nd of November 2008 07:53:50 AM)
Advocate General Steve Six's office said three Wyandotte County while senate
notes:legislation
is the act of making or enacting laws is the body of people who make or amend or repeal laws
didn't thoughtfully violate the law by appearing in a ambitious ...
(more)MGM Mirage issues bonds backed by casino (Las Vegas Review-Journal) (Saturday 01st of November 2008 09:53:03 AM)
MGM Mirage issued $750 million of senior secured notes Friday, guaranteed by the company's New
York-New York casino. The notes, which are due 2013 and convenient through a private offering,
will have a 15 percent yield to the buyer while MGM Mirage will ...
(more)The mother of a problem child was advised by a psychiatrist, ... (Monday 20th of October 2008 12:10:02 PM)
The mother of a problem child was advised by a psychiatrist, "You are far too upset and worried
about your son. I suggest you take tranquilizers regularly".On her next visit the headpeeper
asked, "Have the tranquilizers calmed you down?""Yes", the boy's ...
(more)Congress May Kill NIH Open Access Research Rules (Wednesday 17th of September 2008 01:45:01 PM)
Savuka writes "A policy that mandates public, open access to all national Institutes of Health
scrutiny is in danger. The House of assembly is for regulation that would change the open
access policy to make it more publisher-friendly, under the false ...
(more)Google Has All My Data – How Do I Back It Up? (Sunday 10th of August 2008 08:00:02 PM)
Shadeshope writes "Slowly but surely Google has taken over my reckoning life. How can I back it
up? Bit by bit with their mantra, hip image and radiant services, Google has gained my trust
and all my data. I am doing almost all of my ...
(more)WotLK Beta Patch Notes (Wednesday 17th of September 2008 06:01:24 AM)
Additionally, any information gained through the beta does not have an NDA attached to it, so
expect to see a lot more information in the hours and days ahead. Continue reading WotLK Beta
patch notes and other newsWotLK Beta Patch Notes. Read MoreBut ...
(more)The Future of Subnotebook Pricing (Saturday 07th of June 2008 07:30:03 PM)
Corpuscavernosa recommends a story from InternetNews about the evolvement of the subnotebook
market. The author notes the beginnings of a trend toward selling the devices bundled with
certain social welfare rather than as standalone products. He notes ...
(more)Quickies — MIT's Intelligent Sticky Notes (Saturday 03rd of May 2008 07:15:05 AM)
Iddo Genuth writes to mention that MIT researchers have made their first pass at bringing the
common yellow post-it note into the digital age. Using a composite of artificial intelligence,
RFID, and ink recognition the team hopes to make the digital version ...
(more)Researchers Create an Automatic Backup Band for Singers (Tuesday 08th of April 2008 04:55:45 AM)
Researchers at Microsoft Labs are hoping to allow untrained singers to have their own automatic
backup band in the near future. A new piece of software, "MySong", promises to take a sung
melody and using a probability computation algorithm, generate an ...
(more)Data Protection Services Teams with Server Armory (Monday 07th of April 2008 05:45:04 PM)
Data guarding free school lunch (DPS), the leading cyberspace service iap of online backup and
holocaust salvage solutions to companies and organizations round
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reference to a steps or passage that gain linearly; around to a ...
(more)Microsoft's Vista Blogger Quits (Thursday 03rd of April 2008 12:30:04 PM)
Preedit writes "Nick White, the in-house Microsoft blogger who wrote about all things Vista,
has resigned. White is leaving Redmond to join the blog-centric trade and public
domestic-relations court firm BuzzCorps. White did not provide a reason for his ...
(more)SCOTUS Asked To Decide On Legal Fees In RIAA Cases (Wednesday 26th of March 2008 05:00:10 AM)
Fogerty's ghost notes that the Supreme Court has been asked to decide whether exonerated RIAA
defendants should automatically be awarded attorneys' fees. Texas resident Cliff uzi was sued
by the RIAA, which subsequently dropped its copyright infringement ...
(more)UK lawmakers urge action to cut childbirth deaths (Sunday 02nd of March 2008 01:28:53 AM)
Hundreds of whole slew*
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notes: 1. many means being one of a large indefinite
number of women in poor
countries die each year during propagation or drop one from
largely
synonyms: avertible causes, British while while senate
notes:legislation ...
(more)"Vista Capable" Lawsuit Is Now a Class Action (Sunday 24th of February 2008 07:30:05 AM)
An anonymous reader notes an update in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reporting that the
lawsuit against Microsoft's "Windows Vista Capable" trade attack has been granted class-action
status. We discussed the company's internal misgivings with this transplanting ...
(more)RIAA Not Suing Over CD Ripping, Still Calling Rips 'Unauthorized' (Monday 31st of December 2007 12:15:04 AM)
An Engadget article notes that the empire Post RIAA article we discussed earlier today may have
been poorly phrased. The original article implied that the Association's suit stemmed from the
music ripping. As it really stands the defendant isn't being ...
(more)Making a Buck Online - Without Ads (Monday 10th of December 2007 03:45:04 AM)
A New York Times article hosted by C|Net looks at the unique post of the Consumer Reports
website; they're one of the few online resources that gets by completely on public antenna boob
tube* fees. They have no ads. One key seems to be valuing ...
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