The WWW Presents --Thursday 28th, September; gaming, privacy, dmca, think-green, wikipedia, email, toyota, big-brother, navy, linux nvidia, and saddam.
- MMO Games forecasted to reach $US 11.8 billion - The main driver for sustained growth in the online games market will be the continued uptake of broadband services around the world", adds David Mercer, Principal Analyst at Strategy Analytics. "Additionally, the very lucrative revenue opportunity in both the massively multiplayer segment and the electronic sell through market will continue to attract new entrants into the online games market."
- Online fingerprint via Posts - Writeprint, helps combat the Web's anonymity by studying thousands of lingual, structural and semantic features in online postings. With 95 percent certainty, it can attribute multiple postings to a single author. From there, Dark Web has the ability to track a single person over time as his views become radicalized.
- Misuse of the DMCA (Lowes Vs. Lowes-Sucks.com) - The infringement notice failed to identify the alleged trademark infringements, and fails to recognize that the site is a parody. Here comes the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).
- Clinton promises solar (emissions-free) electricity - Good old Bill Clinton has done it again. Perhaps inspired by David Mills' speculation on the capacity of solar thermal power plants to deliver emissions-free electricity in this country, his confab going on in NYC presently has united said visionary's solar thermal company Ausra with utility giants Florida Power and Light (FPL) and Pacfic Gas and Electric (PG&E).
- Completely useless and retarded Wikipedia Pages - Nowhere is humanity's obsession with the inconsequential more obvious than on Wikipedia, where even the most obscure topics get propped up on enormous blocks of text. Here are the most depressing--and somewhat frightening--examples.
- 10 Simple Tips for Using Email - If somebody sends some important documents, files or message, make sure you, at least, acknowledge their receipt. Otherwise they may be uncertain that they got them. It doesn’t have to be long; it can be quite short.
- The Run-away Toyota Prius Recall - NHTSA and Toyota noted that, if unsecured, the mats being recalled can slip forward and trap the accelerator pedal, causing the vehicle to accelerate uncontrollably.
- P2P: Is Big Brother Watching You? - “We found that a naïve user has no chance of staying anonymous,” said Banerjee. “One hundred percent of the time, unprotected file-sharing was tracked by people there to look for copyright infringement.”
- Google Maps Causes US Navy To Change Its Swastika Building - Now it's made a CNN report, because as he explains, the US Navy will spend $600,000 in landscaping and new structures to break up the pattern in order to eliminate complaints over it.
- NVIDIA SLI: Linux vs. Windows - In some of the benchmarks, a single GeForce 8600GT running in Windows was faster than two GPUs running in Scalable Link Interface under Linux. :-(
- Saddam asked Bush for $1bn to go into exile - Fearing defeat, Saddam was prepared to go peacefully in return for £500million ($1billion). "It seems he's indicated he would be prepared to go into exile if he's allowed to take $1billion and all the information he wants about weapons of mass destruction."
Navy's Swastika Building:
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