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Comment Re:color me naive (Score 1) 152

by PavementPizza on Sunday August 17, 2008 @01:32AM (#24632229) Attached to: Anti-Net Neutrality Astroturfer Exposed

Net Neutrality helps Google and other upstart companies that threaten Microsoft. It looks like they are pretending to be in favor of it for PR reasons while secretly funding "grassroots" efforts against it. Of course, Microsoft is an old hand at these phony grassroots efforts by now, ever since the days of the antitrust trial.

Feed Start-up adds shortcuts to Web browsing (com.com)

From feed by cnetfeed on Monday April 23, 2007 @12:32AM

Browser-based shortcuts that let you type in keywords to go a Web site have been around for a while. OpenDNS says it has a better idea that also happens to be free.

Feed Go Birding With Craigslist's Craig Newmark (wired.com)

From feed by wiredfeed on Monday April 23, 2007 @12:12AM

Craig Newmark helps launch a massively multiplayer birdwatching game in his backyard.

Journal Journal: What Is the National Guard Doing at the Border?

Journal by Anonymous McCartneyf on Sunday January 21, 2007 @09:46PM

Last May, President Bush asked the National Guard to support the Border Patrol. The National Guard is running the communications equipment and cameras so that the Border Control can concentrate on stopping illegal aliens.
On Jan. 3rd, four members of the Arizona National Guard saw four illegal aliens at the border, moved to a safe location, and called the Border Patrol. When the Border Patrol arrived with helicopters blazing, the illegal aliens ran back across the border.
Much of Arizo

Journal Journal: Why "C:\Program Files\" ?!? 2

Journal by ChezWhiz on Sunday January 21, 2007 @07:17PM

I've always installed software to the default location authored by the vendor, usually somewhere under "c:\Program Files\". Most installation software vendors (InstallShield, Wise, etc.) tout that location as an "industry standard best practice" for installing software on Windows systems and point to Microsoft's Application Development Guidelines. Now I'm working on the next release of some software that has been installed to a folder on the root of the hard drive for 25 years (that's not a ty

Submission + - Google, Microsoft Escalate Data Center Battle

Submitted by

miller60

on Sunday January 21, 2007 @05:18PM

miller60 writes: "The race by Microsoft and Google to build next-generation data centers is intensifying. On Thursday Microsoft announced a $550 million San Antonio project, only to have Google confirm plans for a $600 million site in North Carolina. It appears Google may just be getting started, as it is apparently planning two more enormous data centers in South Carolina, which may cost another $950 million. These "Death Star" data centers are emerging as a key assets in the competitive struggle between Microsoft and Google, which have both scaled up their spending (as previously discussed on Slashdot). Some pundits, like PBS' Robert X. Cringley, say the scope and cost of these projects reflect the immense scale of Google's ambitions."

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