The Internet Is Ruining The Porn Industry
This is the sad, sad story of how the internet has killed the porn industry. The upside to this terrible tragedy is that this article has provided the ironic Quote of the Day: "It's pretty bad," says Ms Mayhem "A lot of us are screwed." Comments
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Mozilla Developer Preview Now Available
A posting on the Mozilla Developer blog states that a developer preview of the Gecko 1.9.3 platform is now available for download. The main feature of this release is out-of-process plugins: on Windows and Linux, plugins such as Flash and Silverlight run in a separate process from the browser. If a plugin crashes it will not crash the browser, and unresponsive plugins are automatically restarted. (Note that we are working on this for Macs as well, but is not part of this preview release.) We are making this preview release available so that it can get wider testing and generate feedback. Comments
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Spanish Authorities Arrest Botnet Masterminds
Spanish authorities say the alleged masterminds behind the Mariposa botnet are now in custody. Over 13 million computers in 190 countries were compromised, including fifty Fortune 500 companies and two of the three major U.S. credit bureaus. Mariposa was not categorized by experts as a virus or a Trojan. Instead, the malicious software becomes whatever it is commanded to be by the person or persons controlling the botnet. There are more than 70 variants of the malware, each with a different purpose, according to security experts. Comments
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Electronic 'iShoe' Aims to Prevent Falls
The good news: The iShoe invention will prevent old people from falling down. The bad news: A lower case "I" in front of the word shoe will bring the full weight of Apple's legal team down on you in 3 - 2- 1. Lieberman-Aiden invented a high-tech shoe insole to help older people manage their balance before a catastrophic fall occurs. His "iShoe" sneaker insoles track a person's balance patterns using digital sensors. The battery-powered footbeds transmit data to computers about a person's walking and standing stability. Comments
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Intel Honors 16 Companies with PQS Award
Intel Corporation today bestowed 16 companies with its Preferred Quality Supplier (PQS) award. In the past year, these companies demonstrated commitment to quality and exceeded high expectations and tough performance goals, distinguishing themselves from thousands of suppliers that work with Intel.Winners of the PQS award are: AceCo Precision Manufacturing; Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, Inc.; ASML; Cabot Microelectronics Corporation; Cisco Systems, Inc.; DAIFUKU; FUJIFILM Electronic Materials; Grohmann Engineering; Hirata Corporation; Nikon Corporation; Nippon Mining & Metals Co., Ltd.; Nordson ASYMTEK; Praxair Electronics; Rofin-Baasel; Skanska; and Tokyo Electron Limited. Comments
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ASUS Is The Choice of Gaming Champions
Gaming has evolved into a leading growth industry and dynamic motivator for the technology sector, as CeBIT 2010 further illustrates. It's a massively popular pastime drawing people, all united through thrilling entertainment. ASUS shares the passion, maintaining a tradition of ingenuity aimed at meeting the needs of gamers both with the hardcore Republic of Gamers brand (ROG) and powerful mainstream solutions. It seeks to innovate and introduce new exciting ways to enjoy gaming, believing it should be natural to take up rather than complicated. Comments
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RealNetworks Loses DVD Copying Case
A U.S. District judge has issued a permanent injunction against RealNetworks barring them from selling DVD copying software. The company must also reimburse the studios $4.5 million for legal fees. "I think the message this sends is if you get into the business of enabling consumers to do with DVDs what they've long done with CDs you 'll get sued out of the business. I think that's bad news for consumers. What that means is that if you want to create a digital backup your movies, you have to pay for that a second time on iTunes." Comments
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FCC Seeks To Finance $25 Billion Broadband Plan
According to this article, the Federal Communications Commission will put forth a national broadband plan later this month that will cost up to $25 billion. If you are worried about the cost, don't. The FCC plans on holding spectrum auctions and stuff like bake sales to raise money. To have any chance of meeting its goal of providing broadband service to 100 million Americans, the FCC will need to find support for an estimated $9 billion commitment to cover underserved parts of the country, industry observers say. Moreover, the commission wants Congress to spend $12.5 billion to $16 billion over the next 10 years to provide police, firefighters and other emergency workers with wireless Internet access. Comments
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GeForce GTX 480 Spy Pics
The gang at Tweakers.net have posted a few pictures of what they claim is a GeForce GTX 480. You'll need a translator to read the actual article but the pictures are universal. I snagged this one for those of you too lazy to click the link: Comments
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Porn Detection Stick Seeks Out Salacious Images
All you connoisseurs and collectors of *ahem* adult entertainment better be on the look out for the Porn Detection StickÂ…no, not YOUR porn detection stickÂ…this one. The software searches the hard drive using "advanced image analyzing algorithms that categorize images as potentially harmful by identifying facial features, flesh tone colors, image backgrounds, body part shapes, and more" to detect all pornographic images on the hard drive. Worse of all for those of us, er, you, who delete those images from the hard drive: Paraben's stick will find those too. Comments
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Gamers Help Blind Man Beat Game
Some guy has spent two years helping a blind man he has never met beat a video game. Is there anything a group of dedicated gamers can't do? Well, besides that whole "get a girl" thingÂ…don't even go there. A Camden man recently completed a nearly two year mission to help a friend he had never met play the games he loves. The catch? His friend is blind. Roy Williams will be the first to admit that playing a video game blindfolded seems "ultra nerdy." Comments
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Israeli Raid Called Off After Facebook Slip
If you are a soldier in the military, a police officer or a member of any other law enforcement agency, you probably should refrain from posting the complete details of an upcoming raid on Facebook. Just saying. The Israeli military says a planned raid on a West Bank village was called off after an Israeli soldier disclosed its details online. The military says the combat soldier posted the time and location of the raid on his Facebook page saying that troops were planning on "cleaning up" the village. Comments
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