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Submission + - Texas Tech football coach bans Twitter for players (mashable.com)

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DesScorp
DesScorp writes: "Texas Tech head football coach Mike Leach has banned his entire team from using Twitter, even for personal uses during personal time. Leach, famous among football fans for being a "mad scientist" with his offenses, and an eccentric (he has an obsession with pirates, and has been known to stop in the middle of a conversation to talk about pirates) banned the team from using Twitter after some of his players made tweets that he judged to be un-helpful to team morale. One player has even been suspended.The actions raise questions of legal authority; even though Texas Tech is paying for the players education, how much say does Coach Leach have over their personal lives?"

Comment It should bar everyone (Score 1) 236

by TechnologyResource (#29616847) Attached to: Obama Bars Federal Workers From Texting and Driving
Statistics show that texting while driving causes more accidents than driving under the influence of alcohol. It's my personal belief that this law should apply to everyone. I am a multi tasker and previously had a job in which it was necessary to type on my in-car MDT and/or talk on a cell phone or radio among other things while driving. With that said, I find it very distracting if I try to text while driving.

Submission + - Judge rules in favour of used software sales (cio.com.au)

Submitted by Dan Jones
Dan Jones writes: A judge has ruled in favor of a man arguing that he has the right to sell secondhand software, in a case that had some people worried about an end to used-book and CD stores. The suit was initially filed by Timothy Vernor after eBay, responding to requests by Autodesk, removed the Autocad software that Vernor was trying to sell on the auction site. EBay later banned Vernor from the site, based on Autodesk's complaints. Vernor argued that since he was selling legitimate versions of the software — not illegal copies — he hadn't violated any laws. Autodesk contends that it doesn't 'sell' its software, but instead licenses it and therefore prohibits buyers from reselling it. But no matter how Autodesk describes the agreement with customers, it is transferring ownership to end-users the judge found. Autodesk had argued that its restrictions on the way that buyers can use the software show that users license rather than own the software.

Submission + - Court order served over Twitter (bbc.co.uk)

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SpuriousLogic
SpuriousLogic writes: "The High Court has given permission for an injunction to be served via social-networking site Twitter.
The order is to be served against an unknown Twitter user who anonymously posts to the site using the same name as a right-wing political blogger.
The order demands the anonymous Twitter user reveal their identity and stop posing as Donal Blaney, who blogs at a site called Blaney's Blarney.
The order says the Twitter user is breaching the copyright of Mr Blaney.
He told BBC News that the content being posted to Twitter in his name was "mildly objectionable".
Mr Blaney turned to Twitter to serve the injunction rather than go through the potentially lengthy process of contacting Twitter headquarters in California and asking it to deal with the matter.
UK law states that an injunction does not have to be served in person and can be delivered by several different means including fax or e-mail."
Security

Submission + - SPAM: US Homeland Security wants 1,000 cybersecurity exp 1

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coondoggie
coondoggie writes: "The Department of Homeland Security is looking to hire 1,000 cybersecurity professionals in the next three years, according to the agency's secretary Janet Napolitano. The department now has the authority to recruit and hire cybersecurity professionals across DHS over the next three years in order to help fulfill the Department's mission to protect the nation's cyber infrastructure, systems and networks, she said. "This new hiring authority will enable DHS to recruit the best cyber analysts, developers and engineers in the world to serve their country by leading the nation's defenses against cyber threats," Napolitano stated. DHS his the focal point for the security of cyberspace — including analysis, warning, information sharing, vulnerability reduction, mitigation, and recovery efforts for public and private critical infrastructure information systems.

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Submission + - RFID Tags + MEMS Sensors Track Food for Safety (smartertechnology.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Tracking food shipments and even its condition is now possible with RFID tags with embedded MEMS sensors. Whenever there is a recall on a food product, it can take precious hours or sometimes days to track down where the item was manufactured and other places it might have been distributed. Now the RFID tag and its embedded MEMS sensors can be interrogated to provide that information instantly.
The Internet

Submission + - US government signs pact with Internet domain body (reuters.com)

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TechnologyResource
TechnologyResource writes: "The U.S. government signed an agreement that allows for greater global participation in the Internet domain name process. The U.S. Commerce Department reached the agreement with Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) in support of lawmakers who wanted more trademark protections, and companies and international officials seeking greater independence from U.S. control. The agreement allow ICANN to become a private sector, but it will be subject to reviews by U.S. representative and independent experts, which will allow the organization to no longer report solely to the United States. Under the new system, individuals, companies or groups could apply to have any string of letters established as a domain name. It could be a vanity name, for example -- .smith — or a category name such as .sports or .perfume"
IBM

Submission + - Electric Car Nano-Batteries Aim for 500 Mile Range

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Consortium members read like a Whose-Who in technology research for the Battery 500 Project which aims to use nanotechnology to extend the range of all-electric cars 200 miles beyond the 300-mile range of gasoline powered cars. IBM, the University of California at Berkeley and all five of our U.S. National Labs are collaborating to make the 500-mile electric car battery. Within two years, they promise to have a new kind of battery technology in place for the 500-mile electric car. If that happens, then I predict a mass exodus from gasoline to electric powered cars that will make the Toyota Prius look like a fad. Check out the video and podcast links in this story, because they give all the details about the nanotechnology used in an entertaining format.

Submission + - NVidia Cripples PhysX "Open API" 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: In a foot-meet-bullet type move, NVidia is going to disable PhysX engine if you are using a display adapter other than one that came from their company. This despite the fact that you may have an NVidia card on your system specifically to do this type of processing. "For a variety of reasons some development expense, some quality assurance and some business reasons Nvidia will not support GPU accelerated PhysX with Nvidia GPUs while GPU rendering is happening on non-Nvidia GPUs." Time to say hello to Microsoft dx physics or Intel's Havok engine.
Cellphones

Submission + - Retrievable iPhone numbers mean potential privacy (macworld.com)

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TechnologyResource
TechnologyResource writes: "When a couple voicemails didnâ(TM)t show up recently, I thought nothing of it until a friend asked me if Iâ(TM)d gotten his messageâ"people just donâ(TM)t call me that often. But a phone it is, as some users are reportedly being reminded when they get phone calls from the publishers of a free app theyâ(TM)ve downloaded from the App Store. The application in question, mogoRoad, is a real-time traffic monitoring application. As invasive and despicable as that sounds, it raises another question: how did the company get ahold of the contact information for those users? Mogo claims the details were provided by Apple, but Apple doesnâ(TM)t disclose that information to App Store vendors. French site Mac 4 Ever did some digging and determined it was possibleâ"even easyâ"for an app to retrieve the phone number of a unit on which it was installed."

Submission + - Obama makes a push to add time to the school year (dailycomet.com) 2

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N!NJA
N!NJA writes: "Obama says American kids spend too little time in school, putting them at a disadvantage with other students around the globe.

"Now, I know longer school days and school years are not wildly popular ideas," the president said earlier this year. "Not with Malia and Sasha, not in my family, and probably not in yours. But the challenges of a new century demand more time in the classroom."

"Our school calendar is based upon the agrarian economy and not too many of our kids are working the fields today," Education Secretary Arne Duncan said in a recent interview with The Associated Press."
Software

Submission + - GPS Tracking Technology Brings the MustangFest to (aol.com)

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TechnologyResource
TechnologyResource writes: "Mustang enthusiasts will use a gps tracking system for everyone to see the mustangs travel across the country. Starting from Mustang, Oklahoma on October 1st, the caravan of Mustangs will cruise through five cities spread across two states, where drivers will enjoy live music, dinner shows, and various other MCA-sanctioned events at the final destination: Mustang Island/Port Aransas, Texas. The web-based tracking software will allow the public live tracking of the mustangs as they are traveling at the following url: http://mustang.naviq.net/ , user name: "mustangfest", password: "islandtime"."
Privacy

Submission + - Alcohol-Sniffing Anklet Saves Money but Stirs Priv (washingtonpost.com)

Submitted by
TechnologyResource
TechnologyResource writes: "The biometric anklet represents a recent technological breakthrough whose popularity is gaining as state and local governments search for ways to close budget deficits during the recession. More than half of all states have slashed spending on corrections this year, while some, including New Hampshire, Michigan, California and now Virginia, are closing prisons, releasing some prisoners early or expanding the use of electronic monitoring. If alcohol is consumed the GPS anklet device will know it through the detection of sweat. But the gadget has also stirred "Big Brother" jitters as technological advances make it easier for governments and corporations to keep tabs on people."

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