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Submission + - T-Mobile USA Launches IPv6 Beta Program (google.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: With the number of free IPv4 addresses falling below 7% and dramatic growth in smartphone subscribers, always on wireless data connections, and the emerging field of machine to machine communication, it is the wireless companies that are driving depletion of IPv4 addresses. That said, it makes sense the wireless companies should be leading the way with IPv6. T-Mobile USA has an IPv6 beta service that is currently live all over the USA. Other major movements with IPv6 include Comcast's IPv6 service and Verizon Wireless will have IPv6 as part of their next generation network.

Submission + - Why More Education Lowers Dementia Risk

Submitted by SuperG
SuperG writes: A team of researchers from the UK and Finland has discovered why people who stay in education longer have a lower risk of developing dementia – a question that has puzzled scientists for the past decade.Examining the brains of 872 people who had been part of three large ageing studies, and who before their deaths had completed questionnaires about their education, the researchers found that more education makes people better able to cope with changes in the brain associated with dementia.
Cellphones

Submission + - Cellphone interception at Defcon (tombom.co.uk)

Submitted by ChrisPaget
ChrisPaget writes: I'm planning a pretty significant demonstration of GSM insecurity at Defcon next week, where I'll intercept and record cellular calls made by my attendees, live on-stage, no user-input required. As you can imagine, intercepting cellphones is a Very Big Deal in the eyes of the law; this blog post is an attempt to reassure everyone that their privacy is being taken seriously despite the nature of the demo. I'm not just making it up either — the EFF have helped significantly with the details.
Privacy

Submission + - Facebook Adds Delete Account Option 1

Submitted by roseability
roseability writes: Facebook have quietly added the ability to delete you account. 'Deactivate Account', under Account Setting, has become 'Deactivate or Delete Account', and when checked it purports to permanently delete your account and all information you have shared. Facebook is actually willing to erase your data permanently? They must be counting on very few people doing so.

Comment Re:So? (Score 3, Insightful) 539

by WH44 (#32833560) Attached to: Sidestepping A-to-D Convertors For Town Government's Cable TV?

Comcast hierarchy, who said there was no other solution and I had to pay $3 per month for each box. Being a municipality, we are entitled to free expanded basic cable as a part of the franchise agreement back in 1982.

It looks to me, like Mr. Government employee has a point, and that Comcast is contractually obligated to provide those "$3 per month" boxes for free - part of the cost of getting the franchise.

Maybe then you guys will learn to count and balance your budgets.

While the IT guy generally isn't responsible for balancing the budget, as you seem to think, he actually is doing a good job of it here by trying to get rid of unnecessary costs.

What would you have him do? Roll over and take the added costs lying down?
Books

Submission + - Ebooks Slower to Read than Paper

Submitted by
Hugh Pickens
Hugh Pickens writes: "PC World reports that a study shows that reading from a printed book—versus an e-book on any of the three tested devices, an iPad, Kindle 2, and PC, was a faster experience to a significant degree. Readers measured on the iPad reported reading speeds, on average, of 6.2 percent slower than their print counterparts while the Kindle 2 clocked in at 10.7 percent slower. Jacob Nielsen had each participant read a short story by Ernest Hemingway. Each participant was timed, then quizzed to determine their comprehension and understanding of what they just read. Nielsen also surveyed users' satisfaction levels after operating each device (or page). For user satisfaction, the iPad, Kindle, and book all scored relatively equally at 5.8, 5.7, and 5.6 on a one-to-seven ranking scale (seven representing the best experience). The PC, however, did not fare so well with its usability score of 3.6. "Most of the users' free-form comments were predictable," writes Nielsen. "For example, they disliked that the iPad was so heavy and that the Kindle featured less-crisp gray-on-gray letters. People also disliked the lack of true pagination and preferred the way the iPad (actually, the iBook app) indicated the amount of text left in a chapter." Neilsen concludes that the study is promising for the future of e-readers and tablet computers. "Even the current generation is almost as good as print in formal performance metrics — and actually scores slightly higher in user satisfaction.""

Submission + - Power Outage Knocks Wikipedia Offline (mashable.com)

Submitted by 1sockchuck
1sockchuck writes: Wikipedia was offline earlier today due to a power outage in its primary data center in Florida. This is the second time this year that Wikipedia has had downtime due to a data center power failure, following a March incident in its Amsterdam facility. Last week the Wikimedia Foundation said it will add a new U.S. data center in the coming year, saying that "ensuring high site availability" for Wikipedia is now the foundation's number one priority.

Submission + - Chips For Your Brain A Bit Closer? (ibtimes.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: You won't have an augmented brain quite yet. But this looks promising for people with injuries.
Space

Submission + - First full-sky image from Planck (bbc.co.uk) 1

Submitted by krou
krou writes: Six months of work has produced a remarkable full-sky map from Planck.

It shows what is visible beyond the Earth to instruments that are sensitive to light at very long wavelengths — much longer than what we can sense with our eyes. Researchers say it is a remarkable dataset that will help them understand better how the Universe came to look the way it does now. "It's a spectacular picture; it's a thing of beauty," Dr Jan Tauber, the European Space Agency's (Esa) Planck project scientist, told BBC News. ... Of particular note are the huge streamers of cold dust that reach thousands of light-years above and below the galactic plane. "What you see is the structure of our galaxy in gas and dust, which tells us an awful lot about what is going on in the neighbourhood of the Sun; and it tells us a lot about the way galaxies form when we compare this to other galaxies," observed Professor Andrew Jaffe, a Planck team member from Imperial College London, UK.

The ESA have more news here, with a higher-res JPG available.

Submission + - Hydrogen Bomb in Space. (npr.org) 2

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: USA government detonates a hydrogen bomb in space during the 1960s.
Science

Submission + - Possible effects of radio waves on plants found (dailycamera.com)

Submitted by dwguenther
dwguenther writes: A Lyons (Colorado) area woman with no academic pedigree has published a scientific paper in the International Journal of Forestry Research about the adverse effects of radio waves on aspen seedlings.

Katie Haggerty, who lives north of Steamboat Mountain, found in a preliminary experiment done near her house that aspens shielded from the waves were healthier than those that were not.

"I found that the shielded seedlings produced more growth, longer shoots, bigger leaves and more total leaf area. The shielded group produced 60 percent more leaf area and 74 percent more shoot length than a mock-shielded group," she said.

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