.... I wish the URL shortener had been stripped. Always makes me nervous because in some cases they might be altered -- I remember the days before Slashdot revealed URLs in comments when people would direct unsuspecting readers to Goatse. Also I just think it's better in terms of longevity of a post (if that makes sense -- a full URL more likely to be valid for longer than a shortened link).
In other Pirate Bay-related news: "The case against the four people involved in the running of Pirate Bay is heading back to court at the end of September. The appeals trial is tentatively scheduled to start on Sep 28., the Svea Court of Appeals said on Wednesday."
According to this article: "Just hours after Internet service providers severed network connectivity to Troyak, an ISP associated with the Zeus botnet, the ISP has regained connectivity after peering with a new upstream Internet service provider."
Here's the link to the longer article that was originally in my story submission before the editor removed it. It includes a link to a PDF of the letter.
Don't look now, but the advertisements are watching you. No, it's not a scene from the movie "Minority Report" where digital signboards served up personalized ads depending on who was passing by, but a real-life example at a Tokyo railway station. Above a flat-panel display hawking DVDs and books sits a small camera hooked up to some image processing software.
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Technical skills + deviousness is a killer combination...
Personally I like to plan my glitches.
I'm imagining a "fingers in a rotten watermelon" scenario...
The first time one of them removes a cranium, it's all over for Panasonic.
I think that the "within the next three years" could represent quite a long time in terms of the evolution of tablets, so I'm not that impressed.
and Intel 2nd Generation Core Processor to specialise in media processing
LG's new Optimus line will include smartphones running on Nvidia's Tegra 2 dual-core chips.
.... I wish the URL shortener had been stripped. Always makes me nervous because in some cases they might be altered -- I remember the days before Slashdot revealed URLs in comments when people would direct unsuspecting readers to Goatse. Also I just think it's better in terms of longevity of a post (if that makes sense -- a full URL more likely to be valid for longer than a shortened link).
I'm so sorry about that horrible, horrible errant apostrophe I put in the submission headline :-(
In other Pirate Bay-related news: "The case against the four people involved in the running of Pirate Bay is heading back to court at the end of September. The appeals trial is tentatively scheduled to start on Sep 28., the Svea Court of Appeals said on Wednesday."
According to this article: "Just hours after Internet service providers severed network connectivity to Troyak, an ISP associated with the Zeus botnet, the ISP has regained connectivity after peering with a new upstream Internet service provider."
Reminds me of the the Smith Act..
Here's a timeline of the case. Also the full ruling has been posted online.
cheers,
A. Tapir.
Oops posted too soon: ... PDF of letter by KEI and Public Knowledge about the agreement.
cheers,
A. Tapir
are all you need
Don't look now, but the advertisements are watching you. No, it's not a scene from the movie "Minority Report" where digital signboards served up personalized ads depending on who was passing by, but a real-life example at a Tokyo railway station. Above a flat-panel display hawking DVDs and books sits a small camera hooked up to some image processing software.