Marissa Mayer Chrome-plates the Nasdaq [Google Chrome] (2)
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If you don't believe Google should buy a few 30-second TV spots to hawk its Chrome browser, watch Google's VP of Search Products and User Experience try to explain Chrome to the semitechnical viewers at CNBC. The whole thing falls apart into a meandering talk about faster JavaScript rendering, overlaid with a chart of Google's waffling stock price — the real reason Mayer is on CNBC. I doubt investors changed their GOOG valuations based on ...
Death of the database [100-word Version] (8)
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PBS pundit Robert X. Cringely says he realized at last week's MIT Technology Review conference that cloud computing means, in short, "No database." Cringely sees it as the end of Oracle's dominance of information technology. I expect Oracle Cloud any day now. Here's a summary of Cringely's long article, plus the joke about Ellison's sex life, minus Cringely's references to himself: Thanks in part to Larry Ellison's hard work and rapacious libido, databases are to ...
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Nate said:
Video killed the radio star - concurrent web applications killed the relational atabase?
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aaron said:
What does Bob think we store shit on in the cloud!?!?!? Dumbass.
Armored car robber uses Craiglist to create a decoy [Craigslist] (8)
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More than a dozen workers seeking $28.50 an hour for a job advertised on Craiglist showed up at a designated site in Monroe, Washington. Most wore, as requested, a "yellow vest, safety goggles, a respirator mask… and, if possible, a blue shirt." They didn't realize they were set up as decoys to confuse police, by a similarly dressed robber who pepper-sprayed an armored car guard at a nearby bank. The robber grabbed a bag of ...
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Justin said:
Wow. Just...Wow.
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In later news Hollywood execs seek the criminal in order to purchase the rights to use this plan in the next Harrison Ford movie.
Voting machine report buried by voting machine maker [Hack The Vote] (2)
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Princeton professor Andrew Appel performed a source-code analysis of Sequoia Voting Systems' AVC Advantage e-voting machines, and wrote up a report on their security and accuracy. Now, he says, a New Jersey Superior Court judge has ordered him not to release his report or talk about it. Appel blogs that "the attorney for Sequoia grossly mischaracterized our report," but he won't spell out how. Well, at least we know it wasn't good news. (Photo by ...
Hong Kong's unlocked iPhones explained [Apple Users Held Hostage] (2)
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"Hong Kong is now the one and only country in the world where you can buy an unlocked contract-free iPhone directly from the online Apple Store," writes John Gruber, aka Daring Fireball. He goes on to answer my plea for an explanation of Apple's motives. You can read his full-length post, or my 100-word edit: Keep in mind that there is a difference between unlocked and contract-free. Countries where you can buy iPhone 3Gs both ...
Internet declares Biden triumphant in debate [Politics] (5)
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West Virginia held on until the end, but Time's interactive map has finally declared Joe Biden the unanimous winner of tonight's Vice-Presidential debate. I haven't been this excited since Ron Paul swept the primaries.
Obama's iPhone app spots your swing-state contacts [Politics] (3)
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What took so long? Obama '08, the iPhone app, is free. Sort of: There's no charge, but the app will try to put you to work dialing friends in battleground states. CNET non-Democrat Declan McCullagh test-drove it: "The application ranked contacts in Colorado, Michigan, and New Mexico at the top; at the bottom was a friend whose cell phone has a Texas number, though she actually lives in California." The app's controversial feature is that ...
Amazon.com to add Microsoft OS to its cloud services (1)
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This morning, Steve Ballmer promised Windows Cloud, a set of Web-based applications that would enable "light editing" of MS Office docs and who knows what else — he didn't say. It's probably no coincidence that Amazon announced its own sort of Windows Cloud today: Customers will be able to run Windows Server and SQL Server via Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). Amazon CTO Werner Vogels blogged an explanation: There are many different reasons why customers ...
Spy Photos: More proof of Steve Jobs's unique parking style (8)
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To paraphrase iPhone Savior, photos of Steve Jobs's Mercedes — no license plates, parked in a handicapped zone — are becoming a genre. What no one can answer: How does he get away with it? More Jobsmobile after the jump. (Photos by Lode Vermeiren])
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k3ith said:
this makes me laff - fanboys ok e Steve Jobs so much they obsess how and where he parks his car.
How to keep your company from looking stupid on Twitter [Silicon Valley Users Guide] (11)
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San Francisco-expat turned LA PR pro Jeremy Pepper wrote a long post documenting his exploration of Twitter as a company communications channel with the outside world. The advent of Twitter hasn't changed this much: I can still get paid to take a two page long, rambling essay by an expert and rewrite it to fit on a Post-It slapped to your monitor: DO appear on Twitter as a real person. Be like comcastcares, not Wachovia. ...
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Okay its RARE that I am sharing a Valleywag story but seriously these are the real simple and all you need rules.
Scoble blames you for the breadlines, Tony [We Read FriendFeed So You Don't Have To] (3)
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FriendFeed is the best Scoble-tracking technology ever. Without it, I'd never have caught his blurt-out reply to PopTech conference cofounder Anthony Citrano: "Breadlines are coming and I'll personally blame people like you ... celebrating on the backs of the working suckers who will now get laid off." Hey, I'm one of those working suckers. Writers don't get laid off — we get unpublished in advance.
Twitter debate traffic says Iraq, Iran, Russia are top issues [We Read Twitter So You Don't Have To] (1)
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Twitter cofounder Biz Stone posted a chart showing the frequency of political keywords during Friday night's McCain/Obama debate. "Iraq" hit the highest rate of tweeting at a given moment during the event, followed by "tax" and then "Korean" after John McCain deemed North Korea "a huge gulag" that stunts its citizens' growth by three inches. But the trick to reading a chart like this is to look not at the height of the lines, but ...
Wii ad's HTML tricks more fun than the new Facebook [Distractions] (2)
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Stupid yet clever enough for Monday-afternoon viewing is this Nintendo Wii ad on YouTube that shakes apart the whole page during gameplay. Drill into it and you'll find it's not a standard YouTube video page, but an oversized Flash animation. Well done! But if the Wall Street Journal's Ahead of the Tape page does this tomorrow, I'm unsubscribing.
We're too busy watching the debate to liveblog it [Great Moments In Journalism] (1)
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Here's a novel angle for tonight: Instead of happy-tapping your every thought during an important national discussion like 50 million other tards on Twitter, shut up and listen to these guys. You don't need our commentary. We'll look at yours later, promise. But if you do want to follow a bunch of bitchy bloggers in realtime, our bestest buddies at Gawker will be team-blogging with a far more pols-n-media savvy crew than we've got here ...
How to build your brand as an Internet addict [Robert Scoble] (2)
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"The more you participate the more people will subscribe to you ... or like you," promises Fast Company teleblogger Robert Scoble, whose answer to "How do I build my brand?" starts 20 seconds into this one-minute clip. My 15-word version: If you spend all your time on FriendFeed, you'll be a big deal. On FriendFeed.
China hits publish too soon on spacewalk launch story [Great Moments In Journalism] (2)
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The Shenzhou 7 mission will feature China's first spacewalk, so it's kind of a big deal. That's why reporters are snickering over state news agency Xinhua's accidental posting of a report that vividly describes the rocket in flight, complete with quotes from the three astronauts inside — "air pressure in the cabin is normal." The article, dated this coming Saturday, was live on Xinhua's website for several hours prior to the launch. (Photo by Reuters/Li ...
UC Irvine prof gets $100,000 to study World of Warcraft [Gaming] (4)
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The National Science Foundation has given informatics prof Bonnie Nardi $100,000 to study why Americans go crazy modding World of Warcraft, while Chinese players don't. Nardi has some preliminary thoughts on the difference: “(The) Chinese have invented some interesting ways to play with the in-game economy (not the real world economy). Ways that I have not observed here in two years of studying ‘World of Warcraft.’ “Chinese players are more attuned to the aesthetics of ...
Valley falls behind Europe in doggie-DNA law enforcement [Your Privacy Is An Illusion] (3)
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The city of Vercelli in Italy joined Cologne, Dresden and Tel Aviv this week by adopting a canine DNA test to identify, you know, dog poop. It involves spit-sampling every dog in town to create a DNA database. Owners who don't pick up after their pups will be identified and fined. I'm warning you, folks: This is how it starts. Next thing you know your office manager will be spit-testing everyone to find out who ...
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Matt said:
as long as i can freely pinch loaves in the park i'm fine.
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Axel said:
Would be fantastic for Paris!
Local oddball musician is now a certified genius [Walter Kitundu] (2)
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San Francisco artist Walter Kitundu's website is slammed today. The builder of the hybrid turntable/harp instrument he calls the phonokora — a kora is a West African instrument with 21 strings — has received a $500,000 MacArthur grant. Kitundu talked about his art with LAist last year. After the jump, a video demo of the phonokora. (Photos by Walter Kitundu)
College students fail fake-popup test [Security] (6)
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In a study conducted by the Psychology Department of North Carolina State University, 42 college students were asked to watch as a series of medical sites loaded. It was a trick: The researchers had rigged the computers to display typical malware popup dialogs, such as "Warning, your computer is infected with spyware. Windows needs to download and install the anti-spyware updates to remedy this issue. Click OK to begin." Just over half the test subjects ...
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Win said:
nice to see NC State in the news
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mina. said:
think before you click.
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visik7 said:
windows users :) go and click yes
