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29 January 2012, 1:22 pm |
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marita duir [ mail: marita.duir[at]about-warren.com | homepage: marita.about-warren.com ]
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Facebook Expected To Go Public Next Week |
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First time accepted submitter foozie writes "Many credible sources, including Forbes and CBS, say that Facebook will finally IPO next week, raising about $10 billion and valuating at $75 billion, almost three times the valuation of Google at the point of their IPO in 2004. This shift raises questions about how the new ownership will affect the company's ability to innovate and remain on the forefront of social media."Read more of this story at Slashdot.  |
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29 January 2012, 10:14 am |
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wladimir ecbhrlat [ mail: wladimir.ecbhrlat[at]strengkatholisch.de | homepage: wladimir.strengkatholisch.de ]
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Copyright Industry Calls For Broad Search Engine Controls |
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The copyright battles going on right now are not all about SOPA, PIPA, or even the wider-reaching ACTA: suraj.sun snips thus from TorrentFreak: "At a behind-closed-doors meeting facilitated by the UK Department for Culture, Media and Sport, copyright holders have handed out a list of demands to Google, Bing and Yahoo. To curb the growing piracy problem, Hollywood and the major music labels want the search engines to de-list popular filesharing sites such as The Pirate Bay, and give higher ranking to authorized sites. ... If the copyright industry had their way, Google and other search engines would no longer link to sites such as The Pirate Bay and isoHunt. In a detailed proposal handed out during a meeting with Google, Yahoo and Bing, various copyright holders made their demands clear. The document, which describes a government-overlooked 'Voluntary Code of Practice' for search engines, was not intended for public consumption but the Open Rights Group obtained it through a Freedom of Information (FOI) request."Read more of this story at Slashdot.  |
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29 January 2012, 7:11 am |
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arthur darhernb [ mail: arthur.darhernb[at]bongfaschist.com | homepage: arthur.bongfaschist.com ]
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Ask Slashdot: Does Europe Have Better Magazines Than the US? |
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An anonymous reader writes "Now that all the large chain book stores have disappeared from the landscape, I visited my local independent book store. In the basement I found a dazzling array of amazing magazines from the UK and Germany. Not only were the magazines impressive, they included CDs and DVDs of material. Nearly every subject was there: Knitting, Photography, Music, Linux, and Fitness. I snapped up a magazine called 'Computer Music,' which had a whole issue dedicated to making house music, including a disc of extra content. I subscribe to U.S. magazines like Wired, 2600, & Make, but their quality seems to ebb and flow from issue to issue and I don't ever recall a bonus disc. Are the UK magazines really better? If yes, why and which of them do you subscribe to? The other interesting thing about them is they weren't filled with tons of those annoying subscription cards. What is the best way to subscribe?"Read more of this story at Slashdot.  |
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29 January 2012, 4:03 am |
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rudi aulusr [ mail: rudi.aulusr[at]mudjaheddin.de | homepage: rudi.mudjaheddin.de ]
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Lunar Base Foe Romney Endorsed By Lunar Base Supporters |
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MarkWhittington writes "Mitt Romney has infamously suggested that the idea of lunar colonies is 'zany' and has ridiculed Newt Gingrich's idea of building a lunar base by 2020. However Romney has been endorsed by a group of aerospace heavyweights, including Apollo moonwalker Gene Cernan and former NASA administrator Mike Griffin, many of whom have previously supported the idea of lunar bases."Read more of this story at Slashdot.  |
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29 January 2012, 12:59 am |
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magdalena tauerdedl [ mail: magdalena.tauerdedl[at]bongfaschist.de | homepage: magdalena.bongfaschist.de ]
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Facebook, Washington State Sue Firm Over Clickjacking |
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Trailrunner7 writes "Facebook and the state of Washington are suing an ad network they accuse of encouraging people to spread spam through clickjacking schemes and other tactics. The company at the center of the allegations, Adscend Media, denies the charges and said it will fight them vigorously. According to the office of Washington Attorney General Rob McKenna, the company paid and encouraged scammers to design Facebook pages to bait users into visiting Websites that pay the company. The bait pages would appear in posts that seem to originate from a person's Facebook friends and offer visitors an opportunity to view 'provocative' content in exchange for clicking the 'like' button on the Facebook page."Read more of this story at Slashdot.  |
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28 January 2012, 11:34 pm |
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barbara oeohretd [ mail: barbara.oeohretd[at]btcom.de | homepage: barbara.btcom.de ]
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Some Windows 8 Laptops May Come With Built-In Kinect Sensors |
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An anonymous reader writes to point out reports that Asus is "working on a new laptop that will include Kinect gestures and will be compatible with Windows 8," and adds, "What does this mean for the consumer? Portable gestures in Windows 8!" Wired has an article based on the same report, which mentions also the prospect of devices incorporating alternative gesture-tracking software from SoftKinectic and others.Read more of this story at Slashdot.  |
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28 January 2012, 10:35 pm |
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emanuela dreg [ mail: emanuela.dreg[at]bongfaschist.com | homepage: emanuela.bongfaschist.com ]
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Don't Worry About Global Warming, Say 16 Scientists in the WSJ |
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An anonymous reader writes "According to an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal, there's 'no compelling scientific argument for drastic action to 'decarbonize' the world's economy'. From the article: 'The lack of warming for more than a decade—indeed, the smaller-than-predicted warming over the 22 years since the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) began issuing projections—suggests that computer models have greatly exaggerated how much warming additional CO2 can cause. Faced with this embarrassment, those promoting alarm have shifted their drumbeat from warming to weather extremes, to enable anything unusual that happens in our chaotic climate to be ascribed to CO2. The fact is that CO2 is not a pollutant. CO2 is a colorless and odorless gas, exhaled at high concentrations by each of us, and a key component of the biosphere's life cycle.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.  |
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28 January 2012, 9:32 pm |
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margarete hegrrda [ mail: margarete.hegrrda[at]livemy.de | homepage: margarete.livemy.de ]
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Study Finds Growing Up WIth Gadgets Has a Downside: Social Skill Impairment |
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PolygamousRanchKid writes with this excerpt from a CNN story:"Tween girls who spend much of their waking hours switching frantically between YouTube, Facebook, television and text messaging are more likely to develop social problems, says a Stanford University study published in a scientific journal on Wednesday. Young girls who spend the most time multitasking between various digital devices, communicating online or watching video are the least likely to develop normal social tendencies, according to the survey of 3,461 American girls aged 8 to 12 who volunteered responses. The study only included girls who responded to a survey in Discovery Girls magazine, but results should apply to boys, too, Clifford Nass, a Stanford professor of communications who worked on the study, said in a phone interview. Boys' emotional development is more difficult to analyze because male social development varies widely and over a longer time period, he said."Read more of this story at Slashdot.  |
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28 January 2012, 8:34 pm |
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sigmund laadrh [ mail: sigmund.laadrh[at]livemy.de | homepage: sigmund.livemy.de ]
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Aging U-2 Will Fight On Into the Next Decade |
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Hugh Pickens writes "For more than half a century, the CIA and US military have relied on a skinny, sinister-looking black jet, first designed during the Eisenhower administration at Lockheed's famed Skunk Works in Burbank, headed by legendary chief engineer Clarence L. 'Kelly' Johnson, to penetrate deep behind enemy lines for vital intelligence-gathering missions. Although the plane is perhaps best known for being shot down over the Soviet Union in 1960 with the subsequent capture of pilot Francis Gary Powers, the U-2 continues to play a critical role in national security today, hunting Al Qaeda forces in the Middle East. The fleet of 33 U-2s was supposed to be replaced in the next few years with RQ-4 Global Hawks, but the Pentagon now proposes delaying the U-2's retirement as part of Defense Department cutbacks." (Read on, below.)Read more of this story at Slashdot.  |
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28 January 2012, 7:25 pm |
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heike jilau [ mail: heike.jilau[at]bongfaschist.de | homepage: heike.bongfaschist.de ]
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Righthaven Redux — With a Difference |
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First time accepted submitter Capt.Albatross writes "At Boing Boing, Rob Beschizza reports that, in an act of delicious irony, Swiss ISP Ort Cloud [sic] has acquired Righthaven's domain name and has relaunched Righthaven.com as a web hosting service diametrically opposed to the practices of its original owner, a notorious but ultimately unsuccessful copyright troll. The new owners, in partnership with first amendment lawyer Marc Randazza (who was instrumental in the original Righthaven's demise), promise 'infrajuridsictional infrastructure' — uptime that would require international cooperation to bring down. 'Frivolous plaintiffs will find little comfort here' says Ort Cloud's Stefan Thalberg. The domain name became available in a court-ordered auction of Righthaven LLC's assets, to pay its creditors."Read more of this story at Slashdot.  |
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28 January 2012, 6:23 pm |
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olga irnrea [ mail: olga.irnrea[at]about-warren.com | homepage: olga.about-warren.com ]
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Friday's Solar Flare Twice As Energetic As Monday's; Earth Safe |
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The Bad Astronomer writes "The sunspot cluster that erupted in a solar flare and coronal mass ejection last Monday burst into life again on Friday, blasting out an X2 class solar flare, twice as energetic as the last one. This one was on the Sun's limb and was pointed away from us, so we're in no danger; all we got was a very minor radiation storm that's on the lowest ranking of such things. But it did put on quite a light show, which you can see in a video created with images from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory."Read more of this story at Slashdot.  |
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28 January 2012, 5:27 pm |
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oscar agkeilna [ mail: oscar.agkeilna[at]el.oberstufenhaus.de | homepage: oscar.el.oberstufenhaus.de ]
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Super Wi-Fi Isn't Really Wi-Fi |
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adeelarshad82 writes "As reported yesterday lucky residents of Wilmington, N.C., will be the first in the nation to have access to a 'Super Wi-Fi' network. However, the only issue is that Super Wi-Fi isn't really Wi-Fi: Mobile analyst Sascha Segan explains the difference and also gets into why it's incorrectly being dubbed as Super Wi-Fi."Read more of this story at Slashdot.  |
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28 January 2012, 4:26 pm |
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reinhardt kursma [ mail: reinhardt.kursma[at]fickschlitten.com | homepage: reinhardt.fickschlitten.com ]
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Ask Slashdot: Money-Making Home-Based Tech Skills? |
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New submitter ThatGamerChick writes "I'm a stay-at-home mom, but I'd like to be a work-at-home mom. I've done a few writing gigs, but I'm not a really good writer and cannot charge the fees needed for it to be worth my time. I'm just looking for something that I can teach myself in a few months and start taking small projects and working my way up from there. I've found that PHP, HTML and CSS to be the most demanded skills on sites like Elance, but the talent pool is flooded with overseas workers and Americans with so much more experience than me. Even when I was offering writing and virtual admin services on Elance I was having a hard time against them. So I'm asking here, because I think most of you may have a good insight on this type of thing as an employer of freelancers or as the freelancer themselves." What success have you had, either working from home, or employing those who do?Read more of this story at Slashdot.  |
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28 January 2012, 3:28 pm |
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detlev rnticihse [ mail: detlev.rnticihse[at]livemy.de | homepage: detlev.livemy.de ]
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Stealing Smartphone Crypto Keys Using Radio Waves |
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coondoggie writes "Encryption keys on smartphones can be stolen via a technique using radio waves, says one of the world's foremost crypto experts, Paul Kocher, whose firm Cryptography Research will demonstrate the hacking stunt with several types of smartphones at the upcoming RSA Conference in San Francisco next month."Read more of this story at Slashdot.  |
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28 January 2012, 2:26 pm |
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beatrix dadlon [ mail: beatrix.dadlon[at]jasmin-wagner-fans.com | homepage: beatrix.jasmin-wagner-fans.com ]
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Google+ Officially Open To Teens |
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hypnosec writes "Google+ made a landmark move and opened itself to users who are over the age of 13. Google+ did not initially target the younger crowd and kept itself available only for users above the age of 18. Besides, opening up to youngsters over the age of 13 the social network also added improved safety features to keep the younger crowd protected. Now it features more rigid default settings for privacy but, they can be overridden none the less. Vice president Product management at Google+, Bradley Horowitz, in a Google+ post stated, 'With Google+, we want to help teens build meaningful connections online. We also want to provide features that foster safety alongside self-expression. Today we're doing both, for everyone who's old enough for a Google Account.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.  |
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