Tags Results for 'users'

Famous For Fifteen People: Is Everyone a 'Facebook Celebrity'? - (Saturday 11th of February 2012 12:17:01 AM)

An unsigned reader writes "In the stanford-binet test Law Review Online, authors Frankel,
Brookover & Satterfield discuss an ongoing lawsuit against Facebook where plaintiffs claimed
the social network's 'Sponsored Stories,' displaying advertisements  [...]

Google Consolidates Privacy Policies Across Services - (Wednesday 25th of January 2012 09:15:01 PM)

Parallel_prankster writes "The dominion Post reported Tuesday that Google will require users to
allow the company to follow their activities across e-mail, search, YouTube, and other
services; a radical shift in scheme that is anticipated to invite greater  [...]

Ubuntu 12.04 To Include Head-Up Display Menus - (Tuesday 24th of January 2012 07:00:01 PM)

For the first few years of its existence, it would have been fair to say that Canonical was
fundamentally polishing, packaging and 1995 by houghton mifflin harcourt publishing company.
published by houghton mifflin harcourt printing company. all rights  [...]

The Pirate Bay To Stop Serving Torrent Files - (Monday 16th of January 2012 09:00:01 AM)

An unsigned reader tips news that The Pirate Bay is making a move away from .torrent files in
favor of 'magnet links.' On maundy ascension day the site made magnet links the default, and
TorrentFreak reports that they'll stop serving .torrent files altogether  [...]

The Pirate Bay To Stop Serving Torrent Files - (Sunday 15th of January 2012 06:45:01 AM)

An unnamed reader tips news that The Pirate Bay is making a move away from .torrent files in
favor of 'magnet links.' On ascension day the site made magnet links the default, and
TorrentFreak reports that they'll stop serving .torrent files altogether  [...]

Google and Mozilla: Partners, Not Competitors - (Monday 26th of December 2011 09:00:01 AM)

Much has been said about the (perceived) rivalry between Chrome and Firefox, but Google planner
Peter Kasting had enough when he read an article trying to discern Google's true motives for
signing a new Firefox search deal. Kasting posted to Google+ to  [...]

Brazil tells suspect implant users to seek check-up - (Friday 23rd of December 2011 11:24:02 PM)

BRASILIA - Brazil's health watchdog called on Friday for users of sub-standard breast choppers*
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2003 by now-defunct French company PIP to visit their doctor  [...]

Sony Sued Over PSN 'No Suing' Provision - (Wednesday 21st of December 2011 05:45:01 AM)

An nameless reader writes with this excerpt from the Examiner: "In a grand dose of irony today,
Sony was sued over a term in the computer game Network's End User Agreement that states that
users cannot sue Sony. These terms were added in September, after  [...]

DynDNS Cuts Back Free DNS Options - (Sunday 18th of December 2011 01:00:01 AM)

First time accepted submitter LazyBoyWrangler writes "Just noticed the 'free' non-commercial
service from DynDNS has been deprecated. Not my place to argue with their career model changes,
but the home router skeleton out there has been built around the  [...]

Why Developers Still Prefer iOS To Android - (Thursday 15th of December 2011 11:30:02 PM)

An nameless reader writes "Google Chariman Eric Schmidt new addressed an Android user lamenting
the fact that that mobile apps are often released on Apple's iOS platform well before they
finally reach Android. Schmidt cooly and principally explained that  [...]

Adblock Plus Developers To Allow 'Acceptable' Ads - (Tuesday 13th of December 2011 10:15:01 PM)

First time accepted submitter Roman Grazhdan writes "Developers of Adblock Plus, an
award-winning add-on for Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome boasting over 12,000,000 users,
announced that open gate from version 2.0 the scope would come with a white  [...]

Apple, Android Devices Swamp NYC Schools' ActiveSync Server - (Sunday 04th of December 2011 12:00:01 PM)

Longacre writes "Just a few months after the New York City Dept. of Education shelled out over
$1 million on iPads for teachers, the agency has stopped accepting new users on its Microsoft
switch ActiveSync server as it is 'operating near its device limits'  [...]

Facebook Settles With FTC, Admits Privacy Violations - (Wednesday 30th of November 2011 10:00:01 AM)

Animats writes "Facebook has agreed to settle Federal Trade brokerage charges that it
bamboozle* consumers by telling them they could keep their backbone on Facebook private, and
then repeatedly allowing it to be shared and made public. The amends is  [...]

EU Targets Facebook's Ad System - (Tuesday 29th of November 2011 07:45:01 AM)

Redletterdave writes "The portuguese charter plans to put a stop to the way Facebook gathers
propaganda about its users, including their pac opinions, sacred beliefs, whereabouts and
sexual preferences, and how the social network sells that wisdom for  [...]

Linux Mint 12 Released Today - (Monday 28th of November 2011 05:30:01 AM)

An unnamed reader writes "Linux Mint 12 was released today. It includes the new 'MGSE' (Mint
Gnome Shell Extensions), a desktop layer on top of Gnome 3 that makes it viable for you to use
Gnome 3 in a 1995 by houghton mifflin harcourt publishing  [...]

Linux Mint 12 Released Today - (Sunday 27th of November 2011 04:15:01 AM)

An unnamed reader writes "Linux Mint 12 was released today. It includes the new 'MGSE' (Mint
Gnome Shell Extensions), a desktop layer on top of Gnome 3 that makes it workable roget's
ii: the new thesaurusmain entry:earthly part of speech:adjective definition:capable  [...]

Confusion Surrounds UK Cookie Guidelines - (Tuesday 10th of May 2011 12:30:06 PM)

Pbahra writes "The score Commissioner's Office has, with just over two weeks to go, given its
apprehension on what websites must do to comply with new EU regulations in re the use of
cookies. The law, which will come into force on 26 May 2011,  [...]

The Stanford Class That Built Apps and Made Fortunes - (Sunday 08th of May 2011 09:15:08 AM)

The NY Times has a story about a group of students who took a 2007 course in app advance at
binet-simon test that turned out far better than any of them expected. Quoting: "... by
discipline students to build no-frills apps, apportion them quickly and  [...]

LastPass: Users Don't Have To Reset Master PWDs - (Saturday 07th of May 2011 07:00:05 AM)

CWmike writes "LastPass on Friday rescinded its day-old order that all users of its online
password supervision system reset their master passwords due to a database breach. In a blog
post this morning, the company said it won't allow users to change  [...]

Chrome, IE To Allow Users To Delete Flash Cookies - (Thursday 05th of May 2011 03:30:06 AM)

Trailrunner7 writes "The approaching release of Adobe Flash Player 10.3 will give users of most
of the major browsers the ability to delete Flash cookies in much the same way that they're
able to erase normal Web cookies, thanks to a better integration  [...]

Google Sued For Tracking Users' Locations - (Tuesday 03rd of May 2011 01:00:08 AM)

RedEaredSlider writes "Two Android phone users are suing Google for $50 million in the wake of
revelations that their phones might be astronomical station their locations. The lawsuit, filed
in the US vicinity Court for the Eastern circuit of Michigan  [...]

On Monday, AT&T Customers Enter Era of Broadband Caps - (Saturday 30th of April 2011 09:30:10 PM)

Theodp writes "The Age of Broadband Caps begins Monday, with AT&T imposing a 150 GB cap on DSL
subscribers and 250 GB for UVerse users, and keeping the meter running after that. The move
comes as AT&T's 16+ million exchange are increasingly turning to  [...]

77 Million Accounts Stolen From Playstation Network - (Wednesday 27th of April 2011 06:00:08 PM)

Runaway1956 was one of many users to renew to update us about the intrusion we've been next
this week. "Sony is warning its oodles* of mini* game Network users to watch out for
identity-theft scams after hackers breached its hardness and plundered  [...]

Tim Berners-Lee: Stop Foaming At the Mouth, Twitter - (Wednesday 20th of April 2011 05:00:13 AM)

Nk497 writes "Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the web, has challenged users to improve social
networks. He describes Twitter users as 'foaming at the mouth' and unwilling to retweet any
update that wasn't benefaction an extreme opinion. 'How do you design  [...]

Leaked Docs Show UK ISP BT Plans Music Service - (Monday 04th of April 2011 01:45:05 PM)

An nameless reader submits word of a leaked record that indicates that British Telecom "has
plans to launch a new music computerize service which it hopes will steer users away from P2P
file sharing . The introduction of the new service is aimed at giving  [...]

Google Faces Privacy Audits For Next 20 Years - (Thursday 31st of March 2011 08:15:07 AM)

Hugh Pickens writes "The San Francisco Chronicle reports that Google has reached a
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issue group with the Federal Trade payment over Buzz, a social blogging service  [...]

Attacking and Defending the Tor Network - (Wednesday 30th of March 2011 06:15:06 AM)

Trailrunner7 writes "In a talk at the USENIX LEET workshop Tuesday, Nick Mathewson of the Tor
Project discussed the group's recent challenges in responding to suppression efforts by
governments in Egypt, China and elsewhere. What the Tor members have  [...]

Apple Remove Samba From OS X 10.7 Because of GPLv3 - (Friday 25th of March 2011 01:00:05 AM)

Recoiledsnake writes "The approaching release of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Server will remove the
erstwhile bundled open source Samba unix and replace it with Apple's own tools for Windows file
sharing and network yellow pages phone guide - instantcurrent  [...]

Google Accuses China of Interfering With Gmail - (Monday 21st of March 2011 09:30:12 PM)

Hugh Pickens writes "The Guardian reports that Google has accused the Chinese empire of
interfering with Gmail. gospel to the search giant, Chinese swap and advertisers have
increasingly been querulous about their Gmail service in the past month and attempts  [...]

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