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Google Stops Ads For "Cougar" Sites 319

Posted by samzenpus from the here's-to-you-mrs-robinson dept.
teh31337one writes "Google is refusing to advertise CougarLife, a dating site for mature women looking for younger men. However, they continue to accept sites for mature men seeking young women. According to the New York Times, CougarLife.com had been paying Google $100,000 a month since October. The Mountain View company has now cancelled the contract, saying that the dating site is 'nonfamily safe.'"
Windows

Microsoft Kills Support For XP SP2 315

Posted by timothy from the too-soon? dept.
Trailrunner7 writes "Microsoft's announcement this week that it is preparing to end support for machines running Windows XP SP2 not only represents a challenge for the thousands of businesses still running SP2, but also is the end of an era for both Microsoft and its customers. It wasn't until 2004 that the final release of XP SP2 hit the streets, but when it did, it represented a huge step forward in security for Windows users. It wasn't necessarily the feature set that mattered as much as the fact that the protections were enabled by default and taken out of the users' hands."

Comment ...if... (Score 4, Insightful) 201

by hehman (#27502709) Attached to: New Discovery May End Transplant Rejection
TFA and TF summary are missing the "if"s.

Yes this could be a big deal, someday, if the finding holds up for other mammals (a big one), if it works for different kinds of transplants, if it's repeatable, if there are no other major consequences, if human trials are successful, if if if.

Failure to include the "if"s is misleading at best and irresponsible at worst, for giving possibly false hope to those dealing with transplant rejection.

Comment Re:Rehash... (Score 1) 858

by hehman (#27406481) Attached to: Mac Tax, Dell Tax, HP Tax
Your specs aren't even close, and prove the point of TFA.

The Mac has a 2.66 Ghz processor vs. 2.4 for the Dell. On the Dell site this costs another $375 to upgrade.

The Mac has 1066Mhz RAM vs. 677Mhz for the Dell. At 4GB this upgrade can be costly.

The Mac has and the Dell doesn't have:
  • Bluetooth
  • 3 USB 2.0 ports
  • Optical audio
  • Firewire 800
  • Gigabit Ethernet

The Dell's wireless is a 802.11g card (so the antenna hangs out and uses up the card slot). The Mac's is 802.11n and is integrated leaving a free card slot.

Oh, and Dell sells this computer for $1900, not $1600.

The specs look close superficially, but dig down and the machines aren't even close in terms of features and performance.
Cellphones

Study Finds iPhone Twice As Reliable As BlackBerry 301

Posted by timothy from the joe-random-study dept.
An anonymous reader writes "As reported at TechCrunch, 'The iPhone is twice as reliable as the BlackBerry after one year of ownership, a new study by SquareTrade finds. SquareTrade, which sells extra warranties for cell phones and other devices, looked at the failure rates of 15,000 phones covered under its plans. The malfunction rate for iPhones after one year is 5.6 percent, compared to 11.2 percent for the BlackBerry and 16.2 percent for the Treo.' The full report (pdf) can be found at the SquareTrade site."

Comment It's the cost (Score 2, Insightful) 528

by hehman (#22617284) Attached to: Why Is Less Than 99.9% Uptime Acceptable?
If offered cell plans that cost $50/month with rare outages or $150 a month with extremely rare outages, which would most people take?

99.999% (5 nines) of reliability is achievable, but it's very expensive and hard to do. Everything has to be redundant, with no single point of failure, everything has to support fail-over seamlessly, the software has to be tested with extreme rigor, and upgrade procedures need to function nearly instantly and support rollback without loss of service.
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