Domain name registrar and web hosting provider GoDaddy.com, was hit by a DDoS attack on Wednesday affecting thousands of its shared hosting customers for several hours. GoDaddy’s Communications Manager Nick Fuller confirmed the attack originally speculated to be an “outage”, and responded to several questions about it.
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Birds pose serious danger to jets
AsiaOne – 10 hours ago PARIS (AFP) – For centuries man dreamt of flying like a bird – but for the pilots of planes like the Airbus that crashed into New York's Hudson River, birds can be the enemy. After a Safe Landing, Some Questions Washington Post Birds Do a Fine Job Bringing Down Jet Airliners Softpedia MSNBC – BCLocalNews – LiveScience.com – PR Web (press release) all 9 news articles |
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Fish 'an ally' against climate change
New Scientist – 16 Jan 2009 An unlikely ally may have been found in the fight against the effects of climate change. Fish excretions seem to play a key role in maintaining the ocean's delicate pH balance, says a study that also reveals that there are 2 billion tonnes of fish in … Science Briefing Los Angeles Times Fish feces may help neutralize carbon dioxide levels CTV.ca The Gazette (Montreal) – The Canadian Press – Reuters UK – environmentalresearchweb all 144 news articles |
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Birds pose serious danger to jets
AsiaOne – 5 hours ago PARIS (AFP) – For centuries man dreamt of flying like a bird – but for the pilots of planes like the Airbus that crashed into New York's Hudson River, birds can be the enemy. After a Safe Landing, Some Questions Washington Post Birds Do a Fine Job Bringing Down Jet Airliners Softpedia MSNBC – BCLocalNews – LiveScience.com – PR Web (press release) all 9 news articles |
remove office writes “I recently discovered that Belkin’s lead online sales rep, Michael Bayard, has been secretly paying internet users to review his company’s products favorably on Amazon.com and other websites like Newegg, whether or not they’ve ever used the devices. Bayard instructed the people he was paying to ‘Write as if you own the product and are using it… Mark any other negative reviews as “not helpful” once you post yours.’ Ironically, he was using Amazon’s own Mechanical Turk service to hire his fraudsters. Did he honestly think he wouldn’t get caught? Are Slashdotters aware of other examples of other such blatant astroturfing on behalf of a large tech company like Belkin?”
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mytrip points out news that an anti-piracy firm called Nexicon has been offering financial incentives to ISPs in exchange for having the ISPs police their own networks for copyright infringement. Nexicon would offer their services (for a fee) to help the ISPs pinpoint users who are illegally sharing files, and then give the users an option to “settle” through their “Get Amnesty” website. The revenue generated by such settlements would then be shared with the ISPs. Jerry Scroggin, owner of a smaller ISP in Louisiana, is still skeptical, saying, “I would still wind up losing customers. I would also have to pay Nexicon for this … I have to survive in this economy but I don’t have the big marketing dollars that bigger ISPs have. I have to fund 401(K)s and find ways not to lay off people. Giving free rein to the RIAA is not part of my business model.”
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An anonymous reader writes “Microblogs, targeted advertising, social news, online video, streaming music, and enterprise social networking are among the technologies that will probably fail in 2009, according to a new report from Internet Evolution. The report cites revenue figures, failed or non-existent business models, and an overabundance of ‘me-too’ start-ups, combined with the current recession, as reasons the aforementioned technologies might not survive the year. ‘Whereas the past couple of years have been defined by overcrowding and overfunding in the Web 2.0 space, and an onslaught of startups with no purpose or plan to make money, this recessionary year is likely to see more due diligence on the part of VCs, allowing strong companies and technologies to emerge from the smoldering pile of dead ones.'”
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Nortel Filing for Bankruptcy Protection; Web.alive Development …
Virtual Worlds News – 14 Jan 2009 The success, which may have been part of the boost in Nortel stocks last week, will continue, Arn Hyndman, Chief Architect, web.alive, told me via email. Photos: Lenovo's 3D virtual retail gaming engine IT PRO all 6 news articles |
A couple of weeks ago we celebrated Cartoons and Comic Strip Art and, to be honest, there was a good reason why we took some time to research on this topic. The truth is that we are pretty tired of the same kind of content appearing in the Web over and over and over again. We came with the idea for a weekly comic strip. Hope you enjoy it.
With the Tenenbaum defense getting their request to broadcast the trial online, it seemed that some light of exposure was to be brought to the RIAA’s method of litigation. Yet the RIAA doesn’t want their court practices exposed for all to see, and have now appealed the judges decision
