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Google Losing Up To $1.65M a Day On YouTube 290

Posted by timothy on Tuesday April 14, 2009 @11:53AM from the lancelot-galahad-and-I-Jump-out-of-the-rabbit dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The average visitor to YouTube is costing Google between one and two dollars, according to new research that shows Google losing up to $1.65 million per day on the video site. More than two years after Google acquired YouTube, income from premium offers and other revenue generators don't offset YouTube's expenses of content acquisition, bandwidth, and storage. YouTube is expected to serve 75 billion video streams to 375 million unique visitors in 2009, costing Google up to $2,064,054 a day, or $753 million annualized. Revenue projections for YouTube fall between $90 million and $240 million." Maybe this is in part because, as Al writes, "Researchers from HP Palo Alto studied videos uploaded to YouTube and found that popularity has little to do with quality or persistence."

Obama Helicopter Security Breached By File Sharing 408

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday March 01, 2009 @09:14AM from the we're-getting-lazy-without-a-cold-war dept.

Hugh Pickens writes "A company that monitors peer-to-peer file-sharing networks has discovered a potentially serious security breach involving President Barack Obama's helicopter. 'We found a file containing entire blueprints and avionics package for Marine One, which is the president's helicopter,' says Bob Boback, CEO of Tiversa, a security company that specializes in peer-to-peer technology. Tiversa was able to track the file, discovered at an IP address in Tehran, Iran, back to its original source. 'What appears to be a defense contractor in Bethesda, Md., had a file-sharing program on one of their systems that also contained highly sensitive blueprints for Marine One,' says Boback, adding that someone from the company most likely downloaded a file-sharing program, typically used to exchange music, without realizing the potential problems. 'I'm sure that person is embarrassed and may even lose their job, but we know where it came from and we know where it went.' Iran is not the only country that appears to be accessing this type of information through file-sharing programs. 'We've noticed it out of Pakistan, Yemen, Qatar and China. They are actively searching for information that is disclosed in this fashion because it is a great source of intelligence.'"

Gruesome Cash for Gold 2

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday August 21, 2008 @12:19PM from the give-me-my-teeth-back dept.

I know that times are hard but I think grandma is going to need her teeth.

Submission + - The Fermi Paradox: Back with a vengeance

Submitted by nettxzl on Sunday August 05, 2007 @08:31AM

nettxzl writes: "(urls fixed) Sentient Developments revisits the Fermi Paradox which is "the contradictory and counter-intuitive observation that we have yet to see any evidence for the existence of Extra Terrestrial Intelligence (ETI) although the size and age of the Universe suggests that many technologically advanced ETI's ought to exist." Sentient Development's blog post on the Fermi Paradox states that "a number of inter-disciplinary breakthroughs and insights have contributed to the Fermi Paradox gaining credence as an unsolved scientific problem" Amongst these are "(1)Improved quantification and conceptualization of our cosmological environment, (2) Improved understanding of planet formation, composition and the presence of habitable zones, (3) The discovery of extrasolar planets, (4) Confirmation of the rapid origination of life on Earth (5) Growing legitimacy of panspermia theories" and more ... So, where is everyone?

Advocating Linux / OSS to Management. 466

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday August 05, 2007 @08:19AM from the don't-envy-that-position dept.

An anonymous reader writes "I'm the Senior Developer at a fairly large agency, we're currently a 100% LAMP shop, but I've heard a reliable report through the grapevine that the management a few levels above our office wants to standardize our region on MS .NET. As I'm sure most of you can appreciate, to do such a thing would be... counterproductive, and I could really do with a hand conveying this to a manager whose only real knowledge of Linux is "if it's so good, why would you give it away for free"?"

House Approves Warrantless Wiretapping Extension 342

Posted by Zonk on Sunday August 05, 2007 @06:08AM from the a-big-thank-you-to-congress dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The House of Representatives voted 227-183 to update the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to allow warrantless wiretapping of telephone and electronic communications. The vote extends the FISA amendment for six months. 'The administration said the measure is needed to speed the National Security Agency's ability to intercept phone calls, e-mails and other communications involving foreign nationals "reasonably believed to be outside the United States." Civil liberties groups and many Democrats said it goes too far, possibly enabling the government to wiretap U.S. residents communicating with overseas parties without adequate oversight from courts or Congres.'"

Tales of Conversion - Using Ubuntu at Work 542

Posted by Zonk on Sunday August 05, 2007 @12:56AM from the sneaky-penguin dept.

madgreek writes "Here is a short story about my switch to Ubuntu from XP at work. I have been Microsoft-free for 3 months now at a Microsoft heavy shop. Few people know I am using Open Office and Linux. I create countless documents that people open using Word, Excel, PPT and nobody can tell that they were created using Open Office. From the article: 'When I first started my experiment I was trying to keep it a secret out of fear of attacks from angry Microsoft worshipers (especially from the admins and desktop support). What I am finding out is that most of the folks that I was hiding from are sick and tired of supporting Windows and are proponents of Linux. Several of them are using Linux at home. One of the guys I talked to has Vista and XP installed on his laptop. He swaps out the hard drive when switching between OS's.'"

Comment OneorZero (Score 1) 236

by ultrashag on Monday July 30, 2007 @09:29AM (#20042461) Attached to: Ticket Tracking and Customer Management?

I would recommend http://www.oneorzero.com/. Lots of functionality and easy to use.

Siberia - The Next Silicon Valley? 184

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday March 27, 2007 @09:11AM from the colder-things-have-happened dept.

eldavojohn writes "CNN Money is running a story about Siberia's rising tech industry.The movement towards tech is centered in Akademgorodok (Academy Town), with a 15 percent annual increase in the number of firms. Even though the area industry's worth is still fledgling compared to other areas, the growth cannot be ignored. 'President Vladimir Putin has also taken note, backing the construction of a $650 million technology business district with $100 million in state funding for infrastructure. "We simply mustn't waste this chance," Putin declared in Akademgorodok following a 2005 trip to tech-savvy India, "especially as other countries have achieved success without such a strong starting position." High tech is the sort of thing that the Kremlin, realizing that Russia's natural resources can't last forever, would like to develop.'"

Comment Re:The more interesting question is (Score 1) 909

by LaserSamuraiHead on Wednesday September 07, 2005 @09:01AM (#13499243) Attached to: How Much Money do Programmers Really Make?

I'm very surprised you weren't able to fill two entry level positions. I have a decent number of friends who have just graduated from reputable universities with decent grades that are having a hard time finding employment anywhere. The job that i'm at right now is good experience but the pay is lower than i hoped it would be. So although things may be looking up for the people up top with years of experience, for those of us who don't have such experience things aren't going too well.

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