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Comment Re:Germany ! - Welcome to Germany (Score 1) 999

by BlkRb0t (#41009317) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Place To Relocate?
How easy is it to find a job in Germany? I'm an Indian and have completed my engineering under-graduation(B.E. Mechanical) just recently. I am thinking of doing my Masters in Germany considering the opportunities in fields relating to anything mechanical are quite high in Germany. Which university would be best suitable for my needs? My interests lie in the fields of Automobile and Robotics. P.S. - I have completed three levels of German Language from Goethe Institut. Though I'm not very fluent while speaking, I can understand most of what the other person is saying.

Comment Re:Good (Score 1) 569

by BlkRb0t (#37835336) Attached to: HPV Vaccine Recommended For Boys

This is no surprise, but I am glad it's been approved. Once again science making the world safer.

Science isn't about asking "why?", it's about asking "why not?". Cave Johnson, I'm done here.

Isn't science about asking "why", and technology/engineering is about asking "why not?"?
Android

Submission + - Mobile Industry Slacks On Android Updates to Users (securityweek.com)

Submitted by wiredmikey
wiredmikey writes: Robert Vamosi chimes in with an interesting look at how the mobile industry (both carriers and manufacturers) are slacking with it comes to pushing android updates to users — essentially putting them at risk.

With more and more mobile malware being directed at Android-based phones, you’d think the carriers and manufacturers would respond quickly to security and software updates.

Google is producing updates, but it seems both the carriers and the handset manufacturers aren’t pushing new Android updates out to the end user. Android 2.3, for example, is only available on some—but not all--newer models of popular phones.

The manufacturer with the most Android 2.3 products on the market is HTC, followed by Samsung, then Sony Ericsson. If you add up the total number of phones offered, 32 of them offer Android 2.3, but 23 still run Android 2.2, and 6 still run Android 2.1. So the manufacturers are trying.

In terms of the carriers, here's where the ball gets dropped. The carriers with the most customers, Verizon and AT&T, aren't necessarily better at patching than the small guys. These two carriers still have a number of phones running Android 2.2. Smaller competitors like T-Mobile and Sprint are much better, with more of their phones running Android 2.3 than the big guys. But smaller carriers aren't necessarily the best: Boost, for example, still has phones running Android 1.5, and T-Mobile has one model that is still Android 1.6.

All the mobile parties—Google, the manufacturers, and the carriers-- need to work together at solving this problem. The real question is motivation....
Image

School Children Are Now Too Fat to Fit In Class Chairs 84

Posted by samzenpus from the we're-gonna-need-a-bigger-pizza-boat dept.
A recent survey of 750 Australian schools has revealed that on average children have grown too large for their chairs and desks. From the article: "The Education Department said schools were running healthy eating programs. 'The department takes the issue of childhood obesity seriously and works with a number of agencies to address the issue,' a spokesman said. 'We have a number of initiatives to support school communities as well as promote healthy eating.' He said parents needed to enforce the message about healthy eating and a healthy lifestyle at home."
Transportation

Submission + - World's Longest Tunnel Drilled Under Swiss Alps (discovery.com)

Submitted by disco_tracy
disco_tracy writes: The 35.4-mile Gotthard base tunnel will form the lynchpin of a new network between northern and southeastern Europe that could shift truck freight onto rail and decongest the Alps in central Switzerland when it opens in 2017. Passengers will ultimately be able to speed from the Italian city of Milan to Zurich in less than three hours and further north into Germany, cutting the journey time by an hour.
The Internet

Submission + - Flickr killer? Cool new HTML5-based photo sharer (networkworld.com)

Submitted by alphadogg
alphadogg writes: A pair of Boston-area entrepreneurs have launched a free photo-sharing service called min.us http://min.us/ that makes distributing slideshows of your pictures as simple as dragging and dropping them onto a Web page, then sending out a resulting short URL via email, Twitter or Facebook.

You simply go to the site – now in beta — and then drag pictures onto the page from your computer’s photo files. You name your gallery and are given two short URLs in the min.us format: one you can send to others to let them view your masterpieces and the other you can bookmark in case you want to edit your gallery. It might not quite be a Flickr or Picasa killer, but it does stand apart for its ease of use.

The min.us platform was written using Python and JavaScript and is designed to support HTML5 browsers including Chrome, Firefox 3.6+and IE9, though “falls back” to Flash to support older versions of these and other browsers. Other technology underpinnings include the open source Django Web application framework as well as MySQL, Memcached and Ubuntu.

The company is self funded. It was formed by a Babson College student and serial entrepreneur along with an ex-Microsoft SQL Server engineer.

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