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Submission + - Will users get paid for their slice of the "big data" economy? (xconomy.com)

Submitted by curtwoodward
curtwoodward writes: Better healthcare, more efficient government, cheaper goods and services — it's all possible in the age of "big data." According to the big companies hoping to make a killing off all that information, anyway. But will the people generating that valuable data — Joe and Jane Consumer — ever get a piece of the action?
A few startups are trying to establish first-party marketplaces for personal data, compensating users directly for contributing high-quality information about themselves. The World Economic Forum is also involved, hoping that one day, "a person’s data would be equivalent to their money ... controlled, managed, exchanged and accounted for just like personal banking services operate today." But some entrepreneurs think it might be too late in the developed world, where a consumer's data fingerprint is already very well documented.

Submission + - International Space Station switching to Linux (globalnews.ca) 1

Submitted by nairnr
nairnr writes: Computers aboard the International Space Station have switched from the Windows operating system in favour of Linux.

The United Space Alliance – the company responsible for managing the computer systems aboard the station – has switched “dozens of laptops” that were previously running Windows XP to Debian 6 OS.

In a blow to Windows, Keith Chuvala of the United Space Alliance noted that the switch was made in order to ensure improved reliability.

“We migrated key functions from Windows to Linux because we needed an operating system that was stable and reliable,” said Chuvala in a release from Linux Foundation.

Submission + - Ask Slashdot: What is the Best Email Encryption Gateway for a Small Business?

Submitted by Attila Dimedici
Attila Dimedici writes: I am in the process of implementing a Email Encryption Gateway for my company. I checked with my various contacts in the industry and came away with Voltage as the best solution. However, as I have been working with them to implement a solution, I have been sadly disappointed by their lack of professionalism. Every time I think I am one question away from being ready to pull the trigger, I discover something that my contact with them had not mentioned before that has to be ironed out by the various stakeholders on my end. So, my question for Slashdot Users is this, what is your experience with implementing an Email Encryption Gateway for your company and who what solution would you recommend?

Submission + - Researchers are developing ad hoc networks for car-to-car data exchange (computerworld.com)

Submitted by Lucas123
Lucas123 writes: Researchers are developing machine-to-machine (M2M) communication technology that allows cars to exchange data with each other, enabling vehicles to know what the cars all around them are doing, and perhaps, where they're going. Intel is working with National Taiwan University on M2M connectivity, an idea came from caravanning — an available, but-not-yet-deployed technology that uses direct line of site infrared (IR) and a range finder in order to automatically adjust the speed of cars so they can travel at a measured distance from each other. In other words, they're electronically tethered to one another. Now, imagine a group of cars traveling down the road together as an ad hoc network, each one aware of the location, any sudden actions or even the travel route of other vehicles as uploaded to the cloud from a GPS device. "We're even imagining in the future cars would be able to ask other cars, 'Hey, can I cut into your lane?' Then the other car would let you in," said Jennifer Healey, a research scientist with Intel.

Comment Re:Never going to happen (Score 1) 233

by s1d3track3D (#43645719) Attached to: New Flying Car Design Unveiled
I'm waiting for the time of the sensible people

The year they take office
all government position will be non-paid, volunteer only positions
lobbying will be obsolete, elections will be held entirely online
actually, better yet, government will be run by the 'Logic 3000' super computer, which will calculate all possible outcomes/scenarios/decisions and make the "best choices" for humankind,
drugs will be legalized, firearms will become illegal,
self driving flying cars will be legal and replacing most land vehicles.
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There Is No Reason At All To Use MySQL: MariaDB, MySQL Founder Michael Widenius 241

Posted by Unknown Lamer from the reunion-episode dept.
sfcrazy writes "In this exclusive interview MySQL founder Michael Widenius talks about the reasons of decline of MySQL, what Oracle is doing wrong and how MariaDB is fast replacing it. There are quite some interesting information in this interview. The take out of this interview is '...there is no reason at all to use MySQL 5.5 instead of MariaDB 5.5. The same will be true for the next generation.'" Of course, he has an economic interest in getting people to use MariaDB. Hard to argue that Oracle isn't evil though.

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