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Comment I doubt approval from YouTube is even necessary (Score 4, Interesting) 287

by daitengu (#38383244) Attached to: At Universal's Request, YouTube Yanks News Podcast Over Music Snippet

It's quite likely that large corporations like Universal, Viacom, etc. have access to pull things down from YouTube on copyright claims without Youtube's approval.

I assume Youtube assumed these organizations would use their power responsibly. Perhaps that assumption needs to be revisited.
Japan

Nuclear Crisis Stopped Time In Japan 188

Posted by timothy from the now-ramen-twists-the-other-way dept.
angry tapir writes "The problems at Japan's Fukushima-1 nuclear plant have had an unexpected impact on the country's ability to keep time: a transmitter that sends the national time signal to many thousands of clocks and watches has been forced offline making the timepieces a little less reliable than usual."

Comment Re:Evolution.. (Score 1) 588

by daitengu (#35643764) Attached to: 12-Year-Old Rewrites Einstein's Theory of Relativity
Is it a dead branch? look at this kid. He seems quite able to function in society.  Evolution requires many, MANY 'misses' before it gets a 'hit'.  Take a look at homo sapiens for example, and all the various "missing links" before it.  those species all died out because they were dead branches. 
Apple

Submission + - Apple finds child workers in suppliers

Submitted by Stenchwarrior
Stenchwarrior writes: Apple found more than 91 children working at its suppliers last year, nine times as many as the previous year, according to its annual report on its manufacturers.

The US company has also acknowledged for the first time that 137 workers were poisoned at a Chinese firm making its products and said less than a third of the facilities it audited were complying with its code on working hours.
Android

Motorola Adopting 3 Laws of Robotics For Android? 178

Posted by Soulskill from the no-killing-humans dept.
jfruhlinger writes "Android's popularity is growing, but its lack of enterprise security features is making IT departments pull their hair out. Two of the biggest Android vendors, Motorola and Samsung, aren't waiting for Google, but are building their own security functionality into the devices they sell. Motorola's version will be facilitated by their purchase of 3LM, an Android-centric mobile security provider that bases their strategy on Asimov's Three Laws or Robotics, though the order is tweaked: The device must protect the user, protect itself, and obey the user, in that order."
Earth

Leaked Cables Reveal US Thinks Saudi Oil Reserves May Be Overstated 385

Posted by timothy from the let-prices-adjust-to-reflect dept.
Mr.Intel writes with this excerpt from a UPI report which may interest those of you with cars, electricity, items made of plastic, etc: "Estimates of oil reserves in Saudi Arabia are overstated, meaning crude output could peak within the next decade, leaked US diplomatic cables reveal. Washington fears Saudi Arabia overestimated its oil reserves by as much as 40 percent and the kingdom can't keep enough oil flowing to control prices, US diplomatic cables obtained by WikiLeaks and published by The Guardian newspaper in London reveal."

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