EU Offers Google Chance To Settle Prior To Anti-Trust Enquiry
Fluffeh writes "The EU has accused Google of abusing its dominant position in advertising to benefit its own advertising services at the expense of competitors. In a twist however, rather than initiating formal proceedings, the EU has given Google a chance to settle the whole matter without much fuss. They outlined four changes that Google can make that will put it firmly back in the good graces of the EU. Google has been given 'a matter of weeks' to propose remedies to the four issues — which all tie in with how search results are displayed, their format and their portability to other platforms. This matter has come before the EU based on complaints by a few small companies and Microsoft."
The four issues: Displaying results to their own services specially, use of user reviews from other sites in search results, Advertising "...agreements result in de facto exclusivity requiring them to obtain all or most of their requirements of search advertisements from Google," and... Read more...
Section: technology, Department: do-as-we-say
Slashdot, Yesterday, 5:03am
Judge Orders Verizon Subscriber Identities Sealed
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "In one of the mass 'John Doe' cases based on single BitTorrent downloads of films, Malibu Media v. Does 1-13, a pro se litigant made a motion to quash the subpoena. The Court granted a stay of the subpoena, pending its decision on the motion to quash. Unfortunately for John Doe, Verizon had turned over its subscribers' identities 5 days BEFORE the response was due, thus possibly mooting both the stay and the motion to quash. Fortunately for John Doe, the Judge wasn't too happy about this, ordered the information sealed, directed plaintiff's lawyers to destroy any copies, and ruled that they can't use the information unless and until the Court denies the motion to quash." Read more...
Section: yro, Department: destroy-all-copies
Slashdot, Yesterday, 3:07am
Ridiculously photogenic... Asian guy?
submitted by vanillaprinter to funny [link] [132 comments] Read more...
reddit.com: what's new online, Yesterday, 12:51am
DEA Wants To Install License Plate Scanners and Retain Data for Two Years
An anonymous reader writes with news that might make privacy advocates a bit uneasy. From the article: "Everyone driving on Interstate 15 in southwest Utah may soon have their license plate scanned by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. The DEA and two sheriffs are asking permission to install stationary license plate scanners on the freeway in Beaver and Washington counties. The primary purpose would be to catch or build cases against drug traffickers, but at a Utah Legislature committee meeting Wednesday, the sheriffs and a DEA representative described how the scanners also could be used to catch kidnappers and violent criminals. That, however, wasn't the concern of skeptical legislators on the Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Interim Committee. They were worried about the DEA storing the data for two years and who would be able to access it." Read more...
Section: yro, Department: freedom-of-movement-denied
Slashdot, Yesterday, 12:08am
Original 151 Pokemon Cards. Originally kept them hoping it would be worth something. Now I just look back through them for nostalgia.
submitted by j0llyllama to gaming [link] [324 comments] Read more...
reddit.com: what's new online, May 21, 11:45pm
moment of ovulation accidentally photographed during a hysterectomy
submitted by nudebeach to WTF [link] [488 comments] Read more...
reddit.com: what's new online, May 21, 11:41pm
After winning $75,000 at an international high school science fair for developing a cheap, quick, and accurate way of detecting pancreatic cancer
submitted by will121000 to pics [link] [988 comments] Read more...
reddit.com: what's new online, May 21, 11:28pm
Nobody wants to play with me...
submitted by Djross07 to aww [link] [63 comments] Read more...
reddit.com: what's new online, May 21, 11:04pm
#69 on Maxim's hottest women. You're doing it right.
submitted by ninelives1 to funny [link] [465 comments] Read more...
reddit.com: what's new online, May 21, 10:48pm
The Internet's response to the announcement of Heath Ledger playing the Joker........We were so wrong...
submitted by RobertF23 to movies [link] [1403 comments] Read more...
reddit.com: what's new online, May 21, 10:29pm
After three years of forcing me to watch it, my girlfriend finally said something critical of "Glee"
submitted by tylermez to funny [link] [100 comments] Read more...
reddit.com: what's new online, May 21, 10:20pm
BSA Claims Half of PC Users Are Pirates
judgecorp writes "Despite continued pressure on business users to buy legitimate software, the Business Software Alliance (BSA) reports that the campaign seems to be failing. Well over half (57%) of users surveyed in a global survey admit to using pirated software. That's a big increase from the same survey last year — when 43% admitted to using pirated software. The BSA surveyed 15,000 people in 33 countries." Read more...
Section: yro, Department: gnu-is-a-crime
Slashdot, May 21, 10:05pm
She likes to lick the tub after showers.
submitted by goldenworm to aww [link] [204 comments] Read more...
reddit.com: what's new online, May 21, 9:41pm
First time watching Lord of the Rings since discovering Reddit
submitted by sun_hands to AdviceAnimals [link] [303 comments] Read more...
reddit.com: what's new online, May 21, 9:35pm
Saw this, laughed, then realised I do it.
submitted by thiswhovian to AdviceAnimals [link] [32 comments] Read more...
reddit.com: what's new online, May 21, 9:14pm
Spotted a dude in a 7 and a half foot WH:40k space marine suit at Maker Faire 2012
submitted by steadfast_aquanaut to gaming [link] [152 comments] Read more...
reddit.com: what's new online, May 21, 9:01pm
Everybody calm the fuck down. I got this.
submitted by jetery to atheism [link] [110 comments] Read more...
reddit.com: what's new online, May 21, 8:59pm
Emacsy: An Embeddable Toolkit of Emacs-like Functionality
An anonymous reader writes "Emacsy is 'a Guile library that provides Emacs-like facilities — keymaps, minibuffer, tab completion, recordable macros, and major/minor modes — for applications natively.' However, to my eyes, it looks more like an attempt to revive the development style done on Symbolics Lisp Machines that survives to some extent in Emacs. Might be a boon to Emacs users, but where's a comparable VIM alternative?"
The skeptic in me asks what benefit this would have over just using libguile directly, and how it fits in with efforts to port Emacs itself to Guile and things like Englightenment's pluggable event loop. The example code seems to imply Emacs-like APIs will be used (despite not intending to replace parts of Emacs), even when better alternatives exist. Some of the proposed components seem orthogonal to existing interface toolkits; others seem to compete with components provided by various Free desktop environments. Read more...
Section: technology, Department: ignoring-preexisting-projects-for-fun-and-profit
Slashdot, May 21, 7:56pm
Did you ever think you were going to die from a shit?
I just spent 8 minutes sweating, rocking back and forth and hyperventilating while shitting. I thought it was death. At 36 I have never experienced anything like it. It kept getting worse and worse until finally my ass let loose with the fury of a thousand suns. Then, aside from a burning asshole, it has subsided. I am still sitting here waiting for something more. I think it's done. submitted by tunabomber to AskReddit [link] [1611 comments] Read more...
reddit.com: what's new online, May 21, 7:30pm
NRC Chairman Resigns
After years of accusations of creating a 'chilled work environment,' Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Gregory Jaczko resigned this morning (PDF). His largest achievement was perhaps killing the Yucca Mountain waste repository, and he oversaw the certification of the AP1000 reactor. It is unknown whether a new chairman will be appointed from within the NRC. Quoting the Washington Post: "The reason for his resignation is unclear. He is stepping down before the release of a second inspector general report rumored to be into allegations of Mr. Jaczko's misconduct. NRC spokesman Eliot Brenner told The Washington Times that the report had no impact on the timing of Mr. Jaczko's resignation announcement. Mr. Jaczko's statement was vague, saying that it 'is the appropriate time to continue my efforts to ensure public safety in a different forum. This is the right time to pass along the public safety torch to a new chairman...' While his statement did not specifically touch on... Read more...
Section: hardware, Department: let's-all-get-along
Slashdot, May 21, 6:58pm
Fossil Ink Sacs Yield Jurassic Pigment—A First - Still soft ink sacs from 160-million-year-old squidlike animals have yielded pigment matching that of modern cuttlefish.
submitted by DrJulianBashir to science [link] [40 comments] Read more...
reddit.com: what's new online, May 21, 6:44pm
Pau Gasol Blamed For Making Kobe Bryant Sound Like Asshole
Pau Gasol Blamed For Making Kobe Bryant Sound Like Asshole Read more...
The Onion, May 21, 6:30pm
"Fuck off kid!!!"
submitted by nopascalouma to videos [link] [865 comments] Read more...
reddit.com: what's new online, May 21, 6:13pm
Jay Chandrasekhar and Kevin Heffernan here - we made Super Troopers AND Beerfest and NOW "The Babymakers", out on August 3rd. AMA...with a TWIST!
Jay Chandrasekhar and Kevin Heffernan here- you probably know us from Super Troopers and Beerfest. Plus, we've got another new movie coming out; The Babymakers with Olivia Munn (hot) and Paul Schneider (hot in his own way) on August 3rd. We'll do a larger AMA later, but for right now- here's what we want. We want your questions about any of our movies, well, really, about anything- but we want the most extreme, hilarious ones possible. Then we're going to ask them to each other, on camera, tomorrow. We'll film as many as we can and post answers back here later in the week. PROOF!! https://twitter.com/jaychandrasekha/status/204740739379376128 submitted by kevinandjay to IAmA Read more...
reddit.com: what's new online, May 21, 6:12pm
Foxconn Invests $210 Million To Build New Production Line For Apple
redletterdave writes "On Monday, Foxconn agreed to invest $210 million to help Apple build out a new production line for 'unspecified components.' The 40,000-square-meter plant plans to hire roughly 35,800 new employees to help assemble parts for either desktop and laptop computers, iPhones, iPads, iPods, or possibly even new products or devices. Apple projects the plant's annual output between $949 million to $1.1 billion, and also estimates the import and export value at roughly $55.8 million." Read more...
Section: hardware, Department: crank-it-out
Slashdot, May 21, 6:02pm
Rutger's Student Dharun Ravi Sentenced To 30-Day Jail Time
parallel_prankster writes "New York Times reports that a judge in New Jersey has sentenced Dharun Ravi to 30 days in jail Monday for using a webcam to spy on his Rutgers University roommate having sex with a man, in a case that galvanized concern about suicide among gay teenagers but also prompted debate about the use of laws against hate crimes. The case drew wide attention because his roommate, Tyler Clementi, jumped to his death from the George Washington Bridge in September 2010, a few days after learning of the spying. A jury convicted Mr. Ravi in March of all 15 counts against him, which included invasion of privacy and bias intimidation. The relatively light sentence — he faced up to 10 years in prison — surprised many who were watching the hearing, as it came after the judge spent several minutes criticizing Mr. Ravi's behavior." Read more...
Section: yro, Department: go-directly-to-jail
Slashdot, May 21, 5:15pm
TIL that Bill Cosby spoke out against giving the death penalty to the guy who shot and killed his own son.
submitted by bnghle234 to todayilearned [link] [1067 comments] Read more...
reddit.com: what's new online, May 21, 5:00pm
ATLANTA—Knowing her penchant for forgetfulness, Alice Colvin, 51, just took her entire month's supply of estrogen all at once to be done with it.
ATLANTA—Knowing her penchant for forgetfulness, Alice Colvin, 51, just took her entire month's supply of estrogen all at once to be done with it. Read more...
The Onion, May 21, 5:00pm
Perl 5.16.0 Released
An anonymous reader writes "Perl 5.16.0 is now available with plenty of improvements all around. You can view a summary and all the change details here. With Perl on an annual release schedule, and projects like Mojolicious, Dancer, perlbrew, Plack, and Moose continuing to gain in popularity, are we in the middle of a Perl renaissance?" Read more...
Section: developers, Department: check-it-out
Slashdot, May 21, 4:47pm
Mega-Uploads: The Cloud's Unspoken Hurdle
First time accepted submitter n7ytd writes "The Register has a piece today about overcoming one of the biggest challenges to migrating to cloud-based storage: how to get all that data onto the service provider's disks. With all of the enterprisey interweb solutions available, the oldest answer is still the right one: ship them your disks. Remember: 'Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.'" Read more...
Section: hardware, Department: mountain-of-disks
Slashdot, May 21, 4:26pm
Penn Jillette accuses Obama of class warfare for drug policy, states' rights: "You can get [medical marijuana] in California, and the feds are coming in to try to stop this. States' rights don't mean jack shit to the Obama administration on anything except gay marriage"
submitted by mepper to politics [link] [1084 comments] Read more...
reddit.com: what's new online, May 21, 3:45pm
Monsanto maize banned in France.
submitted by CrazyDrummer to worldnews [link] [1347 comments] Read more...
reddit.com: what's new online, May 21, 3:41pm
SCOTUS Refuses To Hear Tenenbaum Appeal
quantr writes "The Supreme Court has declined to hear Joel Tenenbaum's appeal. A jury in 2009 ordered Tenenbaum, of Providence, R.I., to pay $675,000 for illegally downloading and sharing 30 songs. A federal judge called the penalty constitutionally excessive, but the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated it at the request of the Recording Industry Association of America. Tenenbaum's attorney, Harvard law professor Charles Nesson, said he's disappointed the high court won't hear the case. But he said the 1st Circuit instructed a judge to consider reducing the award without deciding any constitutional challenge. Nesson said 'Tenenbaum is just entering the job market and can't pay the penalty.'" Read more...
Section: entertainment, Department: pay-up
Slashdot, May 21, 3:38pm
U.S. hacker organization Anonymous just leaked 1.7gb data, email, from U.S. Bureau of Justice.
submitted by itsanameforagirl to technology [link] [1518 comments] Read more...
reddit.com: what's new online, May 21, 3:15pm
White House Petition For Open Access To Research
dstates writes "You paid for it, you should be able to read the results of publicly funded research. The National Institutes of Health have had a very successful open access mandate requiring that the results of federally funded biomedical research be published in open access journals. Now there is a White House petition to broaden this mandate. This is a jobs issue. Startups and midsize business need access to federally funded technology research. It is a health care issue, patients and community health providers need access, not a few scientists in well funded research institutes, and even wealthy institutions like Harvard are finding the prices of proprietary journals unsustainable." Read more...
Section: science, Department: show-your-work
Slashdot, May 21, 3:13pm
Cool Basketball Fan Calls Sport 'B-Ball'
HOBBS, NM—According to friends of the man, area cool basketball fan Kip Conroy calls the sport "b-ball," even though that is not the sport’s official name. "Kip's always like, 'Want to play some b-ball?' or 'Did you se... Read more...
The Onion, May 21, 3:00pm
Maryland Teen Wins World's Largest Science Fair
Velcroman1 writes "A Maryland student was awarded the top prize at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair on Friday for developing a urine and blood test that detects pancreatic cancer with 90 percent accuracy. Jack Andraka, 15, claimed the $75,000 prize for his test, which is roughly 28 times cheaper and faster, and over 100 times more sensitive than current tests. Each year, approximately 7 million high school students around the globe develop original research projects and present their work at local science fairs with the hope of winning." Read more...
Section: science, Department: wonders-of-evaporation
Slashdot, May 21, 2:50pm
NYPD sargeant's filthy tirade captured in shocking cellphone video; he verbally abuses a 21 year old by saying "I have the long dick. You don't. Your pretty face...I like it very much. My dick will go in your mouth and come out your ear. Don't fuck with me. All right?"
submitted by mepper to politics [link] [641 comments] Read more...
reddit.com: what's new online, May 21, 2:45pm
American Voices: Study Logs 2,000 Wrongful Convictions
A new database assembled by two universities has identified more than 2,000 wrongful convictions overturned in the last 23 years, at an average of 11 years each. Read more...
The Onion, May 21, 2:15pm
Allowing the Mind To Wander Aids Creative Problem Solving
ananyo writes "From the Nature story: 'Scientists from Archimedes to Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein are said to have had flashes of inspiration while thinking about other things. But the mechanisms behind this psychological phenomenon have remained unclear. A study now suggests that simply taking a break does not bring on inspiration — rather, creativity is fostered by tasks that allow the mind to wander.' The researchers gave 145 students 2 minutes to list as many possible uses for an everyday object (the creative thinking task). Participants then either rested, undertook a demanding memory activity that required their full attention or engaged in an undemanding reaction-time activity known to elicit mind-wandering. A fourth group of students had no break. The researchers then set the students a second set of unusual-uses tasks and found those that had, in the interim, been set the undemanding task that encouraged mind-wandering performed an average of around 40% better... Read more...
Section: idle, Department: daydream-a-better-tomorrow
Slashdot, May 21, 2:09pm
Back in the day TRL used to 'retire' videos that lasted in the top ten for too long. I think r/music needs to start doing the same thing for songs on its front page. I know Gorillaz are awesome, but seriously, this is like the 20th time I'm seeing On Melancholy Hill up in this bitch.
Maybe a wall of fame should be put up to the side with links to all these songs so people know to not fucking post them anymore. submitted by fuzzydunlap to Music [link] [567 comments] Read more...
reddit.com: what's new online, May 21, 1:58pm
TV Listings: News Team 9 Adventures
Cartoon 3:00 p.m. EST/2:00 p.m. CST Adam, Sarah, Skip, and the rest of the team at the Boise-area NBC affiliate investigate property tax allocations in this all-new animated series. Read more...
The Onion, May 21, 1:45pm
Good guy Mewtwo
submitted by BoonTobias to gaming [link] [91 comments] Read more...
reddit.com: what's new online, May 21, 1:34pm
Finally a policy I can agree with
submitted by TheRealTAD to atheism [link] [204 comments] Read more...
reddit.com: what's new online, May 21, 1:23pm
Google Chrome Becomes World's No. 1 Browser
redletterdave writes "Just six months after Google Chrome eclipsed Mozilla's Firefox to become the world's second most popular Web browser, Chrome finally surpassed Microsoft's Internet Explorer on Sunday to become the most-used Web browser in the world, according to Statcounter. Since May 2011, Internet Explorer's global market share has been steadily decreasing from 43.9 percent to 31.4 percent of all worldwide users. In that time, Chrome has climbed from below 20 percent to nearly 32 percent of the market share. Yet, while Chrome is now the No. 1 browser in the world, it still lags behind Internet Explorer here in the U.S., but that will soon change. Chrome currently has 27.1 percent of the U.S. market share, compared to Internet Explorer's 30.9 percent, but IE is seeing significant drop-offs in usage while Chrome continues to rise." Read more...
Section: news, Department: top-of-the-class
Slashdot, May 21, 1:23pm
Sign up for a special redditgifts for the troops and send a care package to a redditor in the Armed Forces
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reddit.com: what's new online, May 21, 1:06pm
Alabama School System's Lone Textbook Falling Apart
MONTGOMERY, AL—The Alabama Department of Education reported Wednesday that its sole textbook has begun to seriously show its age after more than a decade of heavy daily use at the state’s 1,500 public schools. Officials said the decrepit tome,... Read more...
The Onion, May 21, 1:00pm
The Leap: Gesture Control Like Kinect, But Cheaper and Higher Resolution
MrSeb writes "It seems Minority Report-style computer interfaces might arrive a whole lot sooner than we expected: A new USB device, called The Leap, creates an 8-cubic-feet bubble of 'interaction space,' which detects your hand gestures down to an accuracy of 0.01 millimeters — about 200 times more accurate than 'existing touch-free products and technologies,' such as your smartphone's touchscreen or Microsoft Kinect. Unfortunately Leap Motion (the company behind the Leap) is being very tight-lipped about the technology being used, but it's probably some kind of infrared LIDAR (radar, but using light), or perhaps a high-resolution version of Kinect (which only uses a 640x480 camera). It's available to pre-order for $70 — and developers can register for a free device + SDK." Read more...
Section: hardware, Department: all-the-better-to-track-you-with
Slashdot, May 21, 12:40pm
Solar eclipse...
submitted by malakistiri to pics [link] [66 comments] Read more...
reddit.com: what's new online, May 21, 12:30pm
Sacha Baron Cohen: The Fresh Air Interview
Actor and writer Sacha Baron Cohen is famous for taking his characters — Ali G., Borat, Bruno — into the real world, interacting with people who have no idea that they're dealing with a fictional character. But his new movie, The Dictator, is a scripted comedy about a tyrant on the loose in New York. Read more...
NPR Programs: Fresh Air from WHYY, May 21, 12:16pm