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Submission + - Google Comes Clean that Android Is Not Open Source (infoworld.com)

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GMGruman

on Sunday August 14, 2011 @03:14PM

GMGruman writes: "By accusing Microsoft of sharing secret Android source code, Google finally reveals that Android is not open source. Finally, everyone can deal with Android honestly, as an OS that has gained from the community but is a Google creature. This should help Android succeed even more and avoid the fates of Moblin, Maemo, and MeeGo.."

Submission + - Astronaut Photographs Perseid Meteor... From Space (discovery.com)

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astroengine

on Sunday August 14, 2011 @02:49PM

astroengine writes: "As the Perseid meteor shower begins to subside, there is one observer who was perfectly positioned to take a photograph where the skies are guaranteed to be clear from cloud. NASA astronaut Ron Garan — who is currently living aboard the International Space Station (ISS) as part of Expedition 27 — captured this stunning photograph of a Perseid out of the ISS window."

Submission + - Developer Survey Finds Facebook Has The Worst API (zdnet.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 14, 2011 @01:02PM

An anonymous reader writes: Photo aggregation service Trove has revealed survey results of Hacker News readers (over 100 developers) regarding their experiences with various Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). The verdict was clear: the Facebook API resulted in the most horror stories, the Google API took second place, and the Twitter API grabbed third.

Comment Correct me if I'm wrong here (Score 1) 1

by deosi on Sunday August 14, 2011 @10:33AM (#37085264) Attached to: Intel to Offer CPU Upgrades via Software

but I feel like Intel has been under-clocking its chips for years and is now selling a patch that will unlock more of the potential power that's already hard coded into your CPU. If this is a free upgrade, I take this back and applaud them for this. The fact that they call it a service leads me to believe otherwise though. I guess its just overclocking for n00bs when you really think about it. I'll be interested to read the rest of the comments on this article.

Comment About time (Score 1) 3

by deosi on Sunday August 14, 2011 @10:10AM (#37085102) Attached to: Drug Companies Lose Special Protection on Facebook

I'm tired of our nation of zombo's. Too much medicine for the uneducated reality fearing middle class.

Submission + - Drug Companies Lose Special Protection on Facebook 3

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Hugh Pickens writes

on Sunday August 14, 2011 @09:40AM

Hugh Pickens writes writes: "Christian Torres writes that Facebook and the pharmaceutical industry have had an uneasy partnership in recent years and many drug companies didn’t join the site until Facebook gave them a privilege that others do not have — blocking the public’s ability to openly comment on a page Wall. But that’s about to change when, starting Monday, most drug company pages will have to have open Walls. "We think these policy changes support consistency for the Facebook Pages product and encourage an authentic dialogue between people and businesses on Facebook," wrote Facebook in an email. AstraZeneca, which sells the antidepressant Seroquel, already shut down a page devoted to depression, Johnson & Johnson says it will close four of its pages, and other companies say they will monitor their pages more closely once the changes take effect. The industry is concerned that users might write about bad side effects, promote off-label use or make inappropriate statements about a product, and that the comments could raise concerns from government regulators."

Submission + - NASA Opens New Office for Deep Space Missions. (space.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 13, 2011 @11:59PM

An anonymous reader writes: NASA has been tasked with landing astronauts on a space rock by 2025, and on the Red Planet by the mid 2030s. To reach those goals, the United States must develop a new heavy-lift rocket capable of traveling that far, and a capsule to bring people safely there and back again.

Submission + - Space Elevator Conference Prompts Lofty Questions (itworld.com)

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itwbennett

on Friday August 12, 2011 @04:24PM

itwbennett writes: "Even the most ardent enthusiasts gathered at the annual Space Elevator Conference on Friday don't expect it to be built anytime soon, but that doesn't stop them from dreaming, planning, and trying to solve some of the more vexing problems. One of the trickiest questions is who's going to pay for the operational costs when an elevator is eventually built. 'It's been nine years we've been looking for someone' to study that, said Bryan Laubscher, one of the leading space elevator enthusiasts and principle at Odysseus Technologies, a company working on high-strength materials."

Submission + - Apple To Eliminate Printer Drivers (conceivablytech.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 12, 2011 @10:04AM

An anonymous reader writes: Apple has filed two patent applications that describe an approach as well as file formats and APIs to eliminate the printer driver as a requirement for users to access a printer and print documents. If the company has its way, there will be three ways to access a printer in the future: The first will be via a conventional software driver. The second will be via a cloud service and the third will be via a driverless access method that supports “universal” printing from any type device.

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