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They're going to have 500,000,000 @facebook.com accounts

Facebook guys. They call it - gmail killer, which imo is a bit of 
an exagerration :-)

Qtask already has multiple communications method I believe, and that's 
what these guys want ... all your sms, pms and email all in one place

which is what google is also doing with gvoice

I find the facebook UI a little confusing at times

that is I think it is a little buggy

It's a real dilemma .. do I spend my hours on linkedin.com or facebook.com 
...

facebook is an insane waste of time. the moment you have more than 
10 friends using it actively, it becomes a constant stream of noise, 
most of it pure trash.

every few months, they try to make a hole in your privacy, hoping 
you won't notice and close it before to much damage is done, trying 
to remove apps which have access to your data is a nightmare...

the list goes on and on.

The biggest issue with Facebook is, that you don't have to visit 
the FB page, but you are still visible as more and more pages add 
the small facebook webparts like the "I like" buttons etc.  So FB 
can see what pages do you visit, what articles in newspapers do you 
read and other, for most people invisible informations. You don't 
even don't need FB accout. The only way how to avoid it is to block 
the FB's javascripts.

Or browse anonymously

http://stacksmashing.net/2010/11/15/cracking-in-the-cloud-amazons-new-ec2-gpu-instances/


Using amazon's GPU cloud machines to break SHA1 passwords in 49 minutes 
at the price of about 2.10$ an hour.

Taken from OSNews - AMD joins MeeGo - http://www.osnews.com/story/24034/AMD_Joins_MeeGo_Linux_Open_Source_Project


I hope Nokia wakes up and dismisses Symbian ASAP. And the EU parliament 
is so stupid, that they want to sponsor Nokia a bit, just to have 
some EU competitor to other mobile OSes.

Divide and conquer

Oldes, does the tracking work only if you have a FaceBook account?

Likely to be so

The tracking works even you don't have FB account. They just don't 
know your name. But they have your IP and some info from cookies. 
For example :

Referer	http://domaci.ihned.cz/c1-48204850-brezina-proc-je-lepsi-dohoda-s-ods-nez-top-09-tak-vite-no-dali-nam-vyhodnejsi-nabidku

Cookie	datr=1250632065-19088ceda338e871e9ee01df712a37723a429d0d3c22849a1d7fc; 
lu=ThbkryR2mVGidAGoXhmTtO6A; presence=DJ289860316BchADhA_22106.channelH0_5dBF289860315007WMblcPBsndPBbloMbvtMctMsbPBtA_5b_5dBfAnullBuctMsA0QBblADacA9V289859900Z400K289859900QBalAD1O1171579986ADiA0QQQQ; 
cur_max_lag=20; x-referer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fpermalink.php%3Fstory_fbid%3D1573166021199%26id%3D1597009707%26notif_t%3Dwall%23%2Fhome.php; 
e=n; xs=2cf8155631bb0bfe623410554919f283; sid=60; sct=1289859896; 
c_user=1597009707
The FB's cookie life is 2 years.

Of course you can delete your cookies, but how many ordinary people 
do that?

Hmm.. so they're just like other web-bugs.

The new Mathematica 8 allows for natural language input - pretty 
nice. Also, you can now export anything you've developed there as 
a C library, or an executable.


http://blog.wolfram.com/2010/11/15/the-free-form-linguistics-revolution-in-mathematica/

Stephen Wolfram's following blog post on using natural language for 
programming is a good read too.


http://blog.wolfram.com/2010/11/16/programming-with-natural-language-is-actually-going-to-work/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQgnuupBUI4&feature=player_embedded


How to use the Kinect sensor bar from the XBox 360 in a different 
way.

Looks to me that they solved a big problem in robotic vision.

so now we just need to add wheels to xboxes and fire thousands of 
them on Mars:)

Correction: The problem was solved years ago with socalled Time of 
Flight cameras. The kinect is just a much cheaper way to do the same 
thing, so now, everyone can do it.

This will make security cameras about 99% better, removing false 
positives, and in fact IDing who someone is.

25 years ago, 20th November 1985, Windows 1.0 was released.

Black Saturday... well, not black Friday.

Acer dual screen notebook - I wonder how it'll live to its expectations 
....


http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/23/acer-rivals-libretto-w105-with-iconia-dual-screen-laptop-table/

World's worst Android device reviewed here:


http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/reviews/2010/11/worst-gadget-ever-ars-reviews-a-99-android-tablet.ars

These reviewers totally missed the point.  This product shows that 
a $100 olpc is close to being feasible.

That's what they said half a decade ago. Then why isn't the OLPC 
close to $100?

Intel experiments with Lego and kinect-like 3D object recognition 
- nice for kids to play with :-) 


http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/26/intel-research-projects-bring-legos-to-life-make-groceries-inte/

Nice spider :-) http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/26/land-crawler-extreme-robot-carries-175-pounds-of-human/

RIM buys TAT design group (they did Android 1.0 design) ... probably 
for their PlayBook tablet purpose -  QNX UI is not modern enough 
imo - http://www.tat.se/

this is pretty crazy: The latest version of the Linux kernel currently 
consists of approximately 13 million lines of code

http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/12/linux-kernel-13-million-lines-over-5-patches-per-hour.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss

Adobe finally comes-up with full video pipeline acceleration for 
Flash on Linux:

http://www.osnews.com/story/24092/Flash_Player_10_2_Beta_Delivers_Hardware_Acceleration_on_Linux

Well, currently only on Nvidia

13 million lines of code


Linux is on the wrong track! The same can be said about OpenOffice. 
I downloaded it the other day for my new Mac, and I just checked, 
it takes up 427 MB of my disc. It simply takes too much time to deal 
with such software, it being maintenance or just figuring out as 
a user how it works.

That's just the kernel, that's nothing. Try building an operating 
system around it...

Minix 3 is 6000 lines of code.

Not really :)

[Minix 3] is extremely small, with the part that runs in kernel mode 
under 6000 lines of executable code.

well, I assume that is because much more of it exists in user space.

No doubts that Minux 3 is very small indeed.

Minix* :)

Minix is a micro-kernel. Most of Minix runs in user space.

Still, I'd be shocked if Minix had nearly as many lines of code as 
the equivalent in Linux. Most of Linux's code is device drivers, 
and Minix doesn't have good driver support (though its drivers also 
run in user space, so they're not counted in those 6000 lines).

And Minix only supports a single platform, at the moment.

It supports a whole platform? Cool. I thought it only supported part 
of a single platform.