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Comment Re:Just the facial recognition component? (Score 1) 278

by VirginMary (#36988674) Attached to: Germany Says Facebook's Facial Recognition Is Illegal

Imagine that, restrictive laws in Germany. You'd think they would have learned something about authoritarianism, but no.

Rather than saying "restrictive laws" you might as well say "laws" as most laws are restrictive! Also what you call "restrictive" in this case, I call "protecting my privacy", something that I value quite a bit!

Comment Re:Chinese cloud smartphone (Score 1) 33

by VirginMary (#36931046) Attached to: Chinese Firm Launches Cloud-Based Mobile OS

two "l"'s actually platter, a type of plate larger than a dining plate on which food is served,

I knew what "platter" was, I was just curious whether there was such a word as "plater" and if it existed, what it meant! :)

I find that just because the spellchecker doesn't highlight something certainly doesn't imply that it is correct. Just look at how many people there are that can't seem to distinguish between "their" and "there" or "it is", when written as a contraction and "its", the possessive pronoun. I guess after all proofreading is still useful!

Comment Re:What a waste. (Score 4, Insightful) 197

by VirginMary (#36831522) Attached to: Police To Begin iPhone Iris Scans

So let me get this straight. I can't afford an iphone, but taxes are being taken from my meager paycheck in order to give them to police officers and soldiers?

You probably can't afford a tank or fighter plane either and taxes are taken from your paycheck in order to give them to soldiers. What's your point?
AMD

Submission + - AMD bringing back FX performance chips (geek.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Recently AMD seems to have been focusing on its Fusion line and APUs that offer a lot of performance on a low power budget and price. At the same time Intel is offering up high-end Sandy Bridge Core processors and talking about Tri-Gate 3D transistors. But AMD has just been waiting for E3 to come around to announce it hasn’t forgotten about the high-end, performance-hungry end users out there--the FX brand is making a comeback. If you are after a gaming rig with AMD parts then the FX label is what you need to look for. The first FX product will be called "Scorpius" and combines an unlocked 8-core processor, 6000 series Radeon HD graphics card, and AMD 9-series chipset.
Android

Submission + - Dispute Damages Would Exceed Android Revenues (computerworld.com)

Submitted by
CWmike
CWmike writes: "A new document in a year-old patent lawsuit filed by Oracle against Google over Android intellectual property suggests Oracle could be seeking huge damages from Google. The damages owed to Oracle, if granted by federal Judge William Alsup for the U.S. District Court for Northern California, would 'far exceed any money Google has ever earned with Android' and could lead to a rewrite of Android's Dalvik virtual machine, considered integral to Android and used by Android device manufacturers and potentially thousands of Android app developers, wrote one blogger, Florian Mueller, who writes about intellectual property issues involving the software industry."
NASA

Submission + - Edge of Solar System Filled with Bubbles (space.com)

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cultiv8
cultiv8 writes: "The edge of our solar system is filled with a turbulent sea of magnetic bubbles, according to new NASA research.

Scientists made the discovery by using a new computer model, which is based on data from NASA's twin Voyager probes. The unmanned Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, which launched in 1977, are plying the outer reaches of our solar system, a region known as the heliosheath.

The new discovery suggests that researchers will need to revise their views about the solar system's edge, NASA officials said. A more detailed picture of this region is key to our understanding of how fast-moving particles known as cosmic rays are spawned, and how they reach near-Earth space."
Games

Submission + - The Nintendo Wii U revealed (gizmag.com)

Submitted by TimHanlon
TimHanlon writes: Nintendo took the wraps off its new Wii U console at E3 today, sporting a controller with a 6.2" touchscreen, PS3-caliber graphics, the ability to play without a TV, a launch lineup with plenty of hardcore games, and a release some time in 2012.
Windows

Submission + - Shock: Windows 8 Optimized For Desktop Tablets (computerworld.com)

Submitted by
CWmike
CWmike writes: "Microsoft demonstrated the next version of Windows last week, and the operating system has an interface almost nobody expected or predicted, writes Computerworld's Mike Elgan. The default interface for Windows 8 will look almost nothing like Windows 7, but will look and feel a heck of a lot like Windows Phone 7. We also learned that Microsoft intends to ship the first desktop touch tablet version of Windows next year. But more importantly, we know how Microsoft is going to manage the jarring transition from second-generation WIMP (windows, icons, menus and pointing devices) computing to third-generation MPG (multi-touch, physics and gestures ) computing. To gently-but-aggressively transition the Windows world to the next generation of computing, Microsoft is going to do something I hadn't even thought of: Microsoft will get millions of users to interact with their touch interface without touching. Windows 8 will combine the gestures and eye candy of tomorrow's touch tablets with the clunky mice and keyboards of yesterday's PCs. When Microsoft transitioned users from DOS to Windows back in the early 1990s, they made Windows a "shell" on top of DOS, but made the Windows UI the default. (Note that the less aggressive, legacy-friendly alternative to that would have been to ship DOS with the Windows shell as an optional application.) Elgan sums up that he thinks Microsoft's strategy is brilliant, noting he had all but written off Microsoft as clueless about the future of touch computing. But the company's latest demo changes everything, he writes. Many comments indicate that Microsoft may have got it right in not ditching the keyboard just yet."
Education

Submission + - linux is not a crime

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A colleague of mine submitted a personal laptop (macbook) to IT of a department of a major university in the University of California to be checked prior to access being granted to the network. The response was:
"Hi,
I am currently setting up your laptop for xxxxxxxxx department. I noticed you have Ubuntu and Windows running on Virtual Box. We cannot have linux computers on the network , and cannot have any copies of Windows running that aren't joined to the xxxxxxxxx Network. Also, there is Bittorrent software on the computer which isn't allowed.
I can remote the bittorrent and the Virtual machiens and then the computer will be able to be added. Would you like me to do this? Any files or programs that you have installed on them will be lost.
Thanks,
xxxxxxxxx"

I am surprised at the policy against linux, especially given the amount of research that gets done in the University of California using linux and other open source projects. Is this a trend? Do they have a basis for security concerns regarding linux?
The other sad thing is the banning of bittorrent, which is simply a file-downloading program.

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