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The Knol Hypothesis 80

Posted by kdawson on Friday February 15, 2008 @01:30PM from the forking-wikipedia-in-all-but-name dept.

Frequent Slashdot contributor Bennett Haselton sends in his latest, which begins like this and continues behind the link. "When Google's VP of Engineering announced their proposed Knol project, where users can submit articles on different subjects and share in the AdSense revenue from the article pages, he didn't mention "Wikipedia," but practically everyone else did who blogged about it. Here's what I think will happen, if Knol is implemented according to the plan: Even though it won't technically be a "Wikipedia fork," it will quickly become equivalent to one, with a "gold rush" of users copying content from Wikipedia to Knol articles hoping for a piece of the AdSense dollars. But I submit this will be a good thing, especially if bona fide experts in different fields join the gold rush as well and start signing their names to articles that they've vetted."

Submission + - Why Everyone Should Hate Cellphone Carriers (wired.com) 2

Submitted by

The Byelorrusian Spamtrap

on Tuesday October 30, 2007 @09:00PM

The Byelorrusian Spamtrap writes: "Wired Magazine's made its position clear on the state of play in America's cellular industry, delivering a long, satisfying screed on why all of us should stop complaining and do something about it. Legislation is under consideration in congress to heavily regulate carriers, and it wants you to support it: contact your critter today!"

Submission + - NBC Chief, "Apple 'destroyed' music pricing (appleinsider.com) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 29, 2007 @07:16PM

An anonymous reader writes: With the most colorful description yet, NBC Universal chief executive Jeff Zucker on Sunday urged colleagues to take a stand against Apple's iTunes, charging that the digital download service was undermining the ability of traditional media companies to set profitable rates for their content online.

"We know that Apple has destroyed the music business — in terms of pricing — and if we don't take control, they'll do the same thing on the video side,"

Submission + - Intel's 45nm patch machinery exposed (tweakers.net)

Submitted by

Roboticles

on Sunday October 28, 2007 @05:47PM

Roboticles writes: "Tweakers.net has paid a visit to Intel's laboratories in the Californian town of Folsom, the birthplace of the 45nm CPU. We spoke to lead architect Stephen Fisher about the development of the Penryn chip and the day the first A0 version arrived. We were shown the machinery used to test and patch the 45nm processor, which is currently being manufactured in Arizona for release next month."

Submission + - China Launches first Moon Orbiter

Submitted by hey0you0guy on Wednesday October 24, 2007 @08:24AM

hey0you0guy writes: China has launched its first lunar orbiter, on a planned year-long exploration mission to the Moon. Analysts say it is a key step towards China's aim of putting a man on the Moon by 2020, in the latest stage of an Asian space race with Japan and India. Earlier this month, a Japanese lunar probe entered orbit around the Moon. India is planning a lunar mission for April next year.

Submission + - Unlimited gall to cost Verizon $1 million (networkworld.com)

Submitted by netbuzz on Wednesday October 24, 2007 @06:30AM

netbuzz writes: Unlimited really means unlimited, even in advertising. So says the New York State Attorney General's Office in squeezing a $1 million settlement out of Verizon Wireless for disconnecting 13,000 of its customers who had the temerity to believe that the unlimited service they were promised came with unlimited service. Verizon's statement explaining the settlement is a gem, too.

http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/20981

Submission + - MySQL to get injection of Google code (computerworld.com.au)

Submitted by

inkslinger77

on Tuesday October 23, 2007 @09:43PM

inkslinger77 writes: "MySQL has laid out its software road map through 2009, including some code contributed by Google and security improvements that are due in MySQL 7.0... Google is secretive about the distributed architecture underlying its services, but it's known to be one of MySQL's biggest users, running hundreds or even thousands of its databases worldwide."

Submission + - Google News Launches Facebook Application (newscloud.com) 1

Submitted by

NewsCloud

on Saturday October 20, 2007 @03:16PM

NewsCloud writes: "Eight days after Google CEO Eric Schmidt told Zeitgeist conference attendees that social networks account for an 'enormous proportion [of Internet usage]...it's a very real phenomenon,' Google News launched its own Facebook application. Says Google News:

This experimental application enables users to create custom sections or select from a set of pre-defined topics, then browse and share stories with their friends on Facebook. We are trying a couple things differently with this application, and it is still in beta, but we think that it adds value to the Facebook experience and to users' overall news experience.
Check out Google News on Facebook (requires registration) — or view screenshot."

Submission + - Stallman Attacked by Ninjas (yale.edu)

Submitted by vivIsel on Saturday October 20, 2007 @02:31PM

vivIsel writes: When RMS took the stage to address the Yale Political Union, Yale's venerable parliamentary debate society, it was already an unusual speech: instead of the jacket and tie customary there, he sported a T shirt, and no shoes. But then he was attacked by ninjas. Apparently some students took it into their head to duplicate an XKCD webcomic before a live audience — luckily, though, Stallman didn't resort to violence. Instead, he delivered an excellent speech about DRM.

Submission + - PEBKAC Still Plagues PC Security (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by

Billosaur

on Tuesday October 02, 2007 @03:07PM

Billosaur writes: "ARS Technica is reporting on a study release by McAfee and the National Cyber Security Alliance (as part of the beginning of National Cyber Security Awareness Month) that suggests when it comes to PC security, the problem between the keyboard and the chair is even worse. PEBKAC has always been a problem, but the study highlights just how prevalent it has become. 87 percent of the users contacted said they used anti-virus software, while 70 percent use anti-spyware software. Fewer (64 percent) reported having their firewalls turned on, and only 27 percent use software designed to stop phishing attempts. Researchers were allowed to scan the computers of a subset of the users, and while 70 percent claimed to be using anti-spyware software, only 55 percent of the machines of those users scanned showed evidence of the software."

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