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Submission + - Up to 20 million Americans 'overcharged' by AT& (dailymail.co.uk)

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on Saturday May 21, 2011 @04:21PM

cultiv8 writes: "AT&T are 'systematically overcharging' up to 20 million Americans who use their iPhone or iPad to access data on the go, an investigation has uncovered. The lawsuit alleges the phone giant routinely over charges customers between 7 and 14 per cent, and in some cases up to 300 per cent."

Submission + - FCC asks Apple, Google to location-tracking forum (reuters.com)

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on Wednesday May 18, 2011 @12:26AM

cultiv8 writes: "In its first look at the growing controversy about location tracking by smartphones, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission has invited Apple (AAPL.O), Google (GOOG.O) and consumer advocates to a forum in late June.

The FCC will study the risks and benefits of location-based services at a "public education forum" on June 28 that will include wireless carriers, other technology companies and consumer advocacy groups, the FCC said on Tuesday."

Submission + - Secret Service faces 7th grader over Facebook post (q13fox.com) 2

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on Wednesday May 18, 2011 @12:14AM

cultiv8 writes: "After Osama bin Laden was killed, 13-year-old Vito LaPinta posted an update to his Facebook status that got the Feds attention. "I was saying how Osama was dead and for Obama to be careful because there could be suicide bombers," says LaPinta. A week later, while Vito was in his fourth period class, he was called in to the principal's office. "A man walked in with a suit and glasses and he said he was part of the Secret Service," LaPinta said. "He told me it was because of a post I made that indicated I was a threat toward the President.""

Submission + - Disney Trademarks "Seal Team 6 (mediabistro.com)

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on Saturday May 14, 2011 @09:13AM

cultiv8 writes: "In a perfect example of a big media company looking to capitalize on current events, The Walt Disney Company has trademarked “Seal Team 6,” which also happens to be the name of the elite special forces team that killed Osama Bin Laden."

Submission + - San Francisco may be 1st city to cut Yellow Pages (ap.org)

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on Wednesday May 11, 2011 @02:51PM

cultiv8 writes: "While the end of the printed Yellow Pages has been discussed on Slashdot before, it's now coming to the US:

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors cast a 10-1 first vote on Tuesday to ban unrequested home and business delivery of the hefty telephone directories. There will be a second reading and final vote next week.
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Submission + - Meta-analytic study finds men can make it longer (france24.com)

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on Tuesday April 19, 2011 @10:17AM

cultiv8 writes: "Some non-surgical methods for increasing the length of the male sex organ do in fact work, while others are likely to result only in soreness and disappointment, a review of medical literature has shown. Surgical procedures, however, can be dangerous and have an "unacceptably high rate of complications," according to the study, published this week in the Journal of the British Association of Urological Surgeons.

So that one grape in the bunch that never got to be a grape.... actually has a chance to be a grape."

Submission + - '3' 'OMG,' and 'LOL' added to the dictionary (today.com) 1

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on Friday March 25, 2011 @03:07PM

cultiv8 writes: "It's difficult to avoid letting things such as 3, OMG, and LOL slip into our text messages and emails, but at least we can now excuse that by pointing out that those are in fact terms acknowledged by the authorities of the English language. In the latest update of the Oxford English Dictionary, there are a whole new batch of silly words and definitions including several initialisms — abbreviations consisting of the initial letters of expressions — made popular through their frequent use in text messages, tweets, or emails."

Submission + - New FBI system IDs people by voice, iris, more (wvgazette.com)

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on Tuesday March 22, 2011 @09:34AM

cultiv8 writes: "Under the system, state and local police officers also will eventually use hand-held devices to scan suspects' fingerprints and send the images electronically to the FBI center. "It's a quick scan to let police officers know if they should let the person go, or take him into custody," Morris said. In later stages, NGI system also will be expanded to include the analysis of palm prints, handwriting, faces, human irises and voices."

Submission + - Reactors in Fukushima have 23 sisters in US (msn.com)

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on Sunday March 13, 2011 @09:17PM

cultiv8 writes: "The General Electric-designed nuclear reactors involved in the Japanese emergency are very similar to 23 reactors in use in the United States, according to Nuclear Regulatory Commission records.

The NRC database of nuclear power plants shows that 23 of the 104 nuclear plants in the U.S. are GE boiling-water reactors with GE's Mark I systems for containing radioactivity, the same containment system used by the reactors in trouble at the Fukushima Daiichi plant. The U.S. reactors are in Alabama, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Vermont."

Submission + - TSA to retest full body scanners for radiation (usatoday.com)

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on Friday March 11, 2011 @11:24PM

cultiv8 writes: "The Transportation Security Administration announced Friday that it would retest every full-body X-ray scanner that emits ionizing radiation — 247 machines at 38 airports — after maintenance records on some of the devices showed radiation levels 10 times higher than expected."

Submission + - US judge orders Twitter to give up WikiLeaks data (breitbart.com) 3

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on Friday March 11, 2011 @09:26PM

cultiv8 writes: "A US judge Friday ordered Twitter to hand over the data of three users in contact with the activist site WikiLeaks, rejecting arguments the move would violate their rights to privacy and free speech.

I think the rapper Ice T said it best, "freedom of speech, just watch what you say""

Submission + - Meth Dealer Faces loss of 18,753 Comic Books (thesmokinggun.com)

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on Saturday March 05, 2011 @01:09PM

cultiv8 writes: "A large-scale methamphetamine dealer who allegedly laundered drug profits by purchasing valuable comic books is in danger of forfeiting his 18,753-volume collection to Uncle Sam, according to a new court filing."

Submission + - How To Preserve Videos Pirated in the 1930s? (npr.org)

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on Thursday March 03, 2011 @10:04AM

cultiv8 writes: "From an interview on NPR:

The Institute of the American Musical in Los Angeles is home to footage collected by one of the earliest pirates —Ray Knight of Jacksonville, Fla. Between 1931 and 1973, Knight would make trips up to Broadway and sneak a 16 mm camera into theaters. He eventually collected footage of over 175 musicals. Knight's family gifted the films — which, in many cases, are the only visual record of many of the earliest musicals — to the Institute of the American Musical when Knight died. But, there's a problem. The institute is a one-person operation that has been housed in a Los Angeles duplex for the past 30 years. The tiny nonprofit is having a hard time finding a way to preserve the Knight films — and the rest of its archives.

How would you recommend they preserve the Knight films?"

Submission + - Robot hummingbird passes flight tests (physorg.com)

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on Friday February 18, 2011 @09:50PM

cultiv8 writes: "A prototype robot spy "ornithopter," the Nano-Hummingbird, has successfully completed flight trials in California. Developed by the company AeroVironment Inc., the miniature spybot looks like a hummingbird complete with flapping wings, and is only slightly larger and heavier than most hummingbirds, but smaller than the largest species."

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