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Submission + - British Schools Get 'Open Source' ICT Curriculum (techweekeurope.co.uk)

Submitted by
judgecorp
judgecorp writes: "British schools now have what has been described as an open source ICT curriculum, after the Department for Education effectively rebooted the system. The existing ICT curriculum has been torn up, following criticism from Google's Eric Schimdt among others, even though a full new National Curriculum (which willl include ICT) is still two years away. This means that when schools start in September 2012, there will still be ICT exams for the children, but Britain's teachers can teach the subject however they like, trying out new ideas. The analogy with open source may not be exact, but the prospect is very exciting."
Windows

Submission + - Current Windows Phone Devices Not Upgradable (winsupersite.com)

Submitted by MCSEBear
MCSEBear writes: Long time Microsoft insider, Paul Thurrott, in his article "Is Time Running Out for Windows Phone?" drops a bombshell for current purchasers of Windows Phone devices:

For users, it’s bad: I’ve been told that absolutely no current Windows Phone handsets will be upgraded to Windows Phone 8

Customers who purchase the current Microsoft/Nokia flagship phone will never receive a single update to the next version of the OS. In contrast, this is something that would never happen to a customer who purchased a flagship Nexus or iPhone where one (or more) updates are a given.

Submission + - PTC Clixant Scam (hardiyantohartono.com)

Submitted by
hardiyanto
hardiyanto writes: "clixant ptc PTC scam finally fell more local

PTC Scam Clixant. Eventually collapse again one local ptc. Age clixant himself wrote only 2 months. You could say the admin clixant emang intention launching scam from the beginning. If only 2 months old can be sure that invest in PTC clixant have come up short. Invest was not exactly just wrote ngeklik community service advertisement but not paid as I am in clixant ptc scam.

The following statement from PTC scam clixant which I quoted from the site.
With heavy hearts we closed the site because of developments declining investor each month.

The total current investment of 32 million in 2 months (not including payment processing should be), for us the amount of investment is not qualified for the rotate into our business.

I already think carefully for 2 weeks, sorry if you think I started pessimistic.
For those who have not will receive a profit and return on investment for those who do not generate profit on your investment will be returned with the following provisions:
A. There are no strings attached
2. Total investments — Total Cashout + Bonus from Admin (Set as a token of appreciation and your hard work so far)

Standards are already a member cashout request we will also pay in stages, just take it with me .. your efforts are not wasted here ^ _ ^ /

Info refund will be announced on December 5 and start on the date of December 10, 2011.

From the beginning we did not intend to scam or something similar, we play fair so far.
The total investment of Rp. 32.434 million
Total cashout Rp. 22,785,906
Of the total current which brought us Rp. 9,648,094

Currently pending cashout Rp. 6,210,006

After our return on your investment for all who do not profit from these calculations so we do not receive any benefits
We even added that there is loss

Many thanks to member

ADMIN IDENTITY SCAM PTC CLIXANT
Clixant scam ptc admin name in accordance with the bank account used was Nugraha Bayu Wijaya. In PTC he was known by the name cescridick. Before clixant, cescridick never made a dollar PTC payment using Paypal and Alertpay. PTC is wizbux dollar, and the PTC is also a scam. The reason that the scam because Paypal is concerned subject to the limit as much to do in PTC wizbux dispute. Do not trust the local PTC Indonesia again, because it is guaranteed 101% definitely a scam in the future. There are so many causes such as the admin of the world who do not have any knowledge of TCM, it is the intention of deceiving the first. The reason they are after a SCAM too much from the hospital, suddenly disappeared. Admin does not see age, both young and even older admin taro is also a SCAM. Given the PTC is known as an online business that will end the scam, had had no opinion of the member that if the join PTC ptc try from the start up and immediately invest to upgrade and referral renting. The theory may be applied in PTC dollar payment using Paypal. Because we can do a dispute when there is a tendency in the PTC scam tersebut.Sedang in the local PTC scam like clixant investment method via local bank that means dispute can not be done. If your local PTC could in fact be 4 monthly if the member is still able to make an investment profit. The trick, of course if you had invested assets in the form of a direct referral. It would be better if it had at least 20 direct referrals for the BEP will be faster. But the current age of the local PTC can not be predicted even a month there are new and have not made a penny payments have run away with the money its members as the local PTC duniabux.

Clixant PTC Scam"
Privacy

Submission + - UK Government Backtracks on Black Box Snooping (slashdot.org)

Submitted by
judgecorp
judgecorp writes: "On the day the so-called snooper's charter was included in proposed UK legislation, as part of the Queen's Speech, it has emerged that the government is already backtracking on the controversial idea of making ISPs install black boxes to collect traffic and pass it to the authorities. The bill is not yet in a draft form, and TechWeek has learnt there is a lot of maneouvring behind the scenes,"
Yahoo!

Submission + - Why is Scott Thompson still CEO of Yahoo? (itworld.com)

Submitted by bdking
bdking writes: If Yahoo discovered that some talented developer included bogus information on his or her resume, is there any doubt that worker would be fired on the spot? Further, other employees would expect that person to be fired — even if the developer was a star — because there are lines in your professional life you can't cross. Scott Thompson crossed that line.

Submission + - 15 MIT Research Projects That Will Make You Say 'Whoa' (networkworld.com)

Submitted by alphadogg
alphadogg writes: Network World rounds up some of the coolest and potentially world/life-changing research projects underway at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass. Research topics range from futuristic wallets to small cars to sight aids.

Submission + - Judge Blasts Wells Fargo's 'Reprehensible' Actions, Awards Homeowner $3 Million (thinkprogress.org)

Submitted by WASHINGTON252
WASHINGTON252 writes: Wells Fargo’s conduct was a breach of its contractual obligations to its borrowers. More importantly, when exposed, it revealed its true corporate character by denying any obligation to correct its past transgressions and mounting a legal assault ensure it never had to. Society requires that those in business conduct themselves with honestly and fair dealing
Android

Submission + - Android Reveled as Least Secure Mobile Operating System (ibtimes.co.uk)

Submitted by
DavidGilbert99
DavidGilbert99 writes: "New Research has revealed that the world's most popular mobile phone operating system, Android, is in fact the least secure among the four major platforms, including iOS, Windows Phone and BlackBerry.
The research confirms that Android is the least secure while BlackBerry OS is far and away the most secure, with iOS and Windows Phone closer to Android than BlackBerry. ?It proves that all mobile phone platforms are vulnerable to attack by malware with one of the authors of the report saying: "Security people I work with are scared witless by consumerisation and the rapid adoption of these devices.""

Submission + - Magnus Hanagander of PostgreSQL on migrating from MySQL (linuxexpres.cz)

Submitted by
tykev
tykev writes: "Magnus Hagander, the president of PostgreSQL Europe and a member of the Core Team of PostgreSQL, talks about the pitfalls of migrating projects, such as WordPress or Drupal, from MySQL to PostgreSQL: "People have been talking to WordPress, and they have exactly zero interest in doing it. But you can see others. For example, I know that the latest release of Drupal has much better PostgreSQL support than previous releases". While not overly complicated, the process involves some gotchas: "You have to fix things, like don’t do SELECT COUNT(*) on a huge table – that’s a problem on PostgreSQL, and it’s a problem on the InnoDB. It’s not a problem on MyISAM. It’s probably the one thing that it’s actually good at." Magnus was interviewed during the Prague PostgreSQL Developers’ Day (P2D2)."
Security

Submission + - Interview With TSA Screener Reveals 'Fatal Flaws' (wordpress.com)

Submitted by OverTheGeicoE
OverTheGeicoE writes: Jonathan Corbett, creator of the video showing that TSA's body scanners can't see metal objects on our sides, has a new video out. This time he's interviewing an experienced TSA screener identified only as 'Jennifer,' and her allegations point to 'fatal flaws' in TSA and its procedures. Worse, TSA's screeners are well aware of these flaws. According to 'Jennifer,' body scanners frequently fail to detect objects on passengers, and this flaw is well known to the screeners on the job. People with visible items in their pockets can pass through scanners without detection, even when the items are simulated weapons or explosives. 'Jennifer' also alleges that training for screeners is severely lacking. Screeners are directed to operate body scanners, even the X-ray scanners, without any training whatsoever. The manual of standard operating procedures often can't be found at the checkpoints, let alone read. 'Jennifer' was so alarmed by what she experienced that she wrote her congressional representative to complain. She was ultimately fired as a result, effective today.
Math

Submission + - Statistical Analysis Raises Civil War Dead by 20%

Submitted by
Hugh Pickens writes
Hugh Pickens writes writes: "For more than a century it has been accepted that about 620,000 Americans died in the the bloodiest, most devastating conflict in American history, but now BBC reports that historian J David Hacker has used sophisticated statistical software to determine the war's death toll and found that civil war dead may have been undercounted by as many as 130,000. "I have been waiting more than 25 years for an article like this one," writes historian James McPherson. Hacker began by taking digitized samples from the decennial census counts taken 1850-1880. Using statistical package SPSS, Hacker counted the number of native-born white men of military age in 1860 and determined how many of that group were still alive in 1870 and compared that survival rate with the survival rates of the men of the same ages from 1850-1860, and from 1870-1880 — the 10-year census periods before and after the Civil War. The calculations yielded the number of "excess" deaths of military-age men between 1860-1870 — the number who died in the war or in the five subsequent years from causes related to the war. Hacker's findings, published in the December 2011 issue of Civil War History, have been endorsed by some of the leading historians of the conflict but do the numbers, equivalent to about 7.5 million US deaths in proportion to America's current population, really matter? "The difference between the two estimates is large enough to change the way we look at the war," writes Hacker. "The war touched more lives and communities more deeply than we thought, and thus shaped the course of the ensuing decades of American history in ways we have not yet fully grasped. True, the war was terrible in either case. But just how terrible, and just how extensive its consequences, can only be known when we have a better count of the Civil War dead.""

Submission + - Colony Collapse Disorder Linked to...High-Fructose Corn Syrup? (mongabay.com) 2

Submitted by hondo77
hondo77 writes: Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health "...have re-created the mysterious Colony Collapse Disorder in several honeybee hives simply by giving them small doses of a popular pesticide, imidacloprid." This follows recently-reported studies also linked the disorder to neonicotinoid pesticides. What is really interesting is the link to when the disorder started appearing, 2006. "That mechanism? High-fructose corn syrup. Many bee-keepers have turned to high-fructose corn syrup to feed their bees, which the researchers say did not imperil bees until U.S. corn began to be sprayed with imidacloprid in 2004-2005. A year later was the first outbreak of Colony Collapse Disorder."
Space

Submission + - High School Juniors Create 'Flavor Strips' For Astronauts (space.com)

Submitted by Cazekiel
Cazekiel writes: The sense of taste for astronauts is dulled by microgravity, but four high schoolers, participating in the Spirit of Innovation Challenge have come up with a solution: Flavor Strips. They put a little more kick into space-food; from simple salt-and-pepper to Asian spices, astronauts get to add more taste to their meals without the space traveler, as Myra Halpin, a chemistry and research instructor at the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics says of one tale told to her, "spinning himself around to get the hot sauce out of the bottle." Never mind taste buds--hot sauce in the eyes? I'll pass.

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