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  1. Re:Motives? on Intel Invests $218M in VMWare, Preparing for IPO · · Score: 1

    In the tradition of Slashdot, I didn't RTFA, however I'm guessing Intel purchased shares of the preferred, non-publicly-traded variety.

  2. Doesn't this already exist as MAP? on SCOTUS Case May End Sale Prices · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Under MAP, the price is allowed to be anything, as long as it is not advertised (MAP stands for Minimum Advertised Price). MAP appears to be legal, if the penalty is "you can no longer carry our products." If the penalty is "we won't pay you co-op advertising dollars" (see second link), it might be illegal.

    Jan 2004 commentary on legal uncertainty of MAP:
    http://www.fredlaw.com/articles/marketing/mark_040 1_qtj.html

    May 2000 FTC "analysis to aid public comment" on MAP policies of "the five largest distributors of prerecorded music," Sony, Universal, BMG, WEA, and EMI:
    http://www.ftc.gov/os/2000/05/mapanalysis.htm

  3. Re:MSN, Netscape, Google, etc. on Netvibes May Give My Yahoo Run For Money · · Score: 1

    Aren't there a huge plethora of sites that allow you to basically collect little applets and RSS feeds for a customized home feed?

    Probably, yes. When I saw the description I was reminded of PageFlakes, which uses ASP.NET / Atlas:
    http://www.pageflakes.com/

    (NetVibes appears to be using PHP in combination with an AJAX framework.)

    Possibly Slashdot-worthy because NetVibes is getting all the traffic, trouncing PageFlakes and ProtoPage:
    http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/ajax_homepage s.php

  4. Re:Its all about the CPM on Is 'Web 2.0' Another Bubble? · · Score: 1

    The average joe is lucky to get $2 CPM. Which I think is much more reasonable.

    Depends on one's niche / topic / category. My monthly stock picks site U.S. Stock Screens is pretty high up there, despite lack of new / fresh content, probably because keywords like investing and finance bring in more cents per click.

    Also from the money.cnn.com story you link to, "Gawker Media's average CPM is between $8 and $10". I'd say $2 is a little low, although after the middle men take their cut maybe that's what you see. Is it unreasonable to expect $24? Sure.

    Page with stats from 2004 showing "Sports & Leisure" averaging a little over $8 CPM and "Entertainment" averaging a little over $14 CPM:
    http://www.our-hometown.com/valuation.pdf
    http://www.our-hometown.com/valuation.html

    Article estimating that Yahoo earns about $4 CPM sitewide (non-search pages earn less than search pages):
    http://blog.topix.net/archives/000097.html

  5. Re:17 kHz is audible to humans and most animals on Acoustic Levitation Works On Small Animals · · Score: 3, Interesting

    17 kHz is audible to humans and most animals. I wonder how loud the sound was in order to achieve levitation.

    About this loud.

  6. Re:50 Hz? on Acoustic Levitation Works On Small Animals · · Score: 1

    Well the conversion to hovercraft would be done with cars, which are larger than 20mm. I think. I'm pretty sure.

  7. Re:I'll take two. on Verizon To Pump $18B Into FiOS · · Score: 1
  8. Re:Late reporting on Algorithmic Investors on Wallstreet · · Score: 1

    Gotta agree with adityamalik and MikeTheYak, technical analysis is different from algorithmic analysis. "Algorithmic investing" might also be known as "mechanical investing" or "stock screening". In its more advanced forms it might use multiple linear regression (MLR), non-linear regression, artifical intelligence (AI), machine learning, neural networks, and/or genetic algorithms. Sure one might choose to focus on the more technical aspects, but if you're throwing modern computing power at the problem why not include stock fundamentals and some keyword/syntax analysis of the company's annual report and recent press releases?

    Looks like a useful tool for backtesting screens: http://www.backtest.org/

    Shameless plug for my site: U.S. Stock Screens - small-cap and micro-cap stock picks

  9. Re:grab an old machine and slap linux on it on Oboe Offers Portable Playlist · · Score: 1

    http://www.tagworld.com/ allows uploading/streaming for free. 1GB limit on storage, though. Also you must use their Flash player for streaming.

    However using an HTTP sniffer like HTTP Analyzer will reveal that it isn't "real" streaming, you can just straight download the files as long as you're logged into the site. Pretty good deal, for free.

  10. Re:AnandTech flash drive roundup on Blazing Dual Channel Thumb Drive · · Score: 1

    AnandTech has a more comprehensive review of many flash drives, and the OCZ is far from being the fastest.

    The AnandTech review shows that the OCZ is not far from being the fastest.

    The OCZ places 2nd or 3rd for reading 256kb or 2mb files.
    http://www.anandtech.com/memory/showdoc.aspx?i=254 9&p=25

    Where it fails is writing, placing 5th or 6th for 256kb or 2mb files.
    http://www.anandtech.com/memory/showdoc.aspx?i=254 9&p=27

    Still, "far from the fastest" is misleading.

  11. Google should release a database on Sun Eyes PostgreSQL · · Score: 1

    combined with the Google collaboration

    I know Google has their hardware search appliance, but wouldn't people jump at the chance to use/purchase/deploy a Google database? gSQL anyone?

  12. Re:NOT free. on Band Invites Music Copying · · Score: 1

    There are mp3s of songs performed live here: http://www.carbonsiliconinc.com/discography/livetr acks.aspx.

    However, I couldn't find the mp3s of demo/studio tracks. Those appear to be in windows streaming format (.asx?) only.

  13. Maybe Other Shows Will Get A New Lease On Life on P2P and TV · · Score: 1
  14. Google Uses Yahoo on Google vs. Yahoo: On a Collision Course · · Score: 1

    Google uses Yahoo, at least for stock quotes:
    http://www.google.com/search?oi=stock&q=stocks:GOO G

    Which surprises me. You'd thing Google could tap the same data sources and come up with finance.google.com or something, completely independed of Yahoo. Also you'd think they'd try to avoid depending on their competition. Or is there a trade going on? Is Yahoo using Google for anything?

  15. Hot Gay Cock dot XXX on New .XXX Top Level Domain · · Score: 0, Troll

    Obviously it will be a priority to register hotgaycock.xxx and redirect it to suso.org. Because everyone knows! Suso.org is *the* place to go for some hot gay cock.

  16. Free Porn Magic For You! on A Search Engine Manipulator's Tale · · Score: 1

    My own attempt to get high search engine ranking: Free Porn Magic For You! Based on an article at PC Magazine. Please click on Free Porn Magic For You! to make me amazingly rich and famous.

  17. Re:The Tandy COCO Guy! on Software Engineering Demo for a K-5 Career Fair? · · Score: 1

    If you're gonna go with BASIC, might I suggest VBScript or JavaScript or ActionScript (Flash). Of course, others might suggest Java or SVG. Or, Lisp, SmallTalk, ML, or Ruby. JavaScript and VBScript at least you can develop without having to download any compilers. If you were leaning towards Java, Python is another good choice in that direction.

  18. Re:It's getting out of hand. on John Gilmore's Search for the Mandatory ID Law · · Score: 1

    The story is interesting, but could you enlighten us as to how one can not have a social security number?

  19. Re:PeerGuardian on BitTorrent Gives Hollywood a Headache · · Score: 1

    FWIW, I find that ProtoWall combined with Blocklist Manager is a good combination. ProtoWall installed with 5931 IP entries to filter, and after running BlocklistManager there are 43473 IP entries being blocked.

    (Unfortunately ProtoWall only runs on WinXP/2k/2k3, and the install process can be buggy, but once up and running it's great.)

    (Also, I don't know how true this is, but one post here claims the current version of PeerGuardian is out-of-date.)

  20. Gotta Love That Electronic Voting! on Avi Rubin and More on Electronic Voting · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Glitch gave Bush extra votes in Ohio.
    Franklin County's unofficial results had Bush receiving 4,258 votes to Democrat John Kerry's 260 votes in a precinct in Gahanna.
    Records show only 638 voters cast ballots in that precinct.

  21. Re:BitTorrent site is now /.ed on BitTorrent Beats Kazaa In Traffic Numbers · · Score: 1

    There are quite a few clients other than the official BitTorrent client.

    Frex ABC. Or try a SourceForge search for "bittorrent client".

  22. Dr. Fiorella Terenzi on Listen To The Universe On Your iPod · · Score: 1

    Fiorella Terenzi released music based on telescope readings as far back as 1991.

    And she's "a cross between Carl Sagan and Madonna"!!

  23. Re:A friend of mine was scizofrenic on Schizophrenia Experiences and Suggestions? · · Score: 2, Interesting


    Not to mention that we smoked weed on a quite so daily basis.

    If schizophrenia runs in your family, you might want to consider not smoking the weed.

    http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/s777336.htm

    http://www.newscientist.com/hottopics/marijuana/sc hizophrenia.jsp

  24. Re:Feedback loop on Forget MTV, I Want My Internet! · · Score: 1

    Communism vs. Free speech?

    Marketplace on NPR (National Public Radio) covered the Chinese gaming industry and said youngsters are skipping classes, not doing homework, etc, because they're spending all their time playing Counterstrike et al. You can argue that it's vs free speech, but from their point of view it's vs a generation growing up unschooled/uneducated.

  25. Re:A somewhat related question on US Government Upgrades RAM · · Score: 1