Comment Wow, and I thought... (Score 0) 299
that Apple is for faggots.
Comment Science win (Score 3, Funny) 368
" In past years, several labs have blown up while studying LENR and windows have melted – showing that if it really works, it can produce an impressive amount of energy."
I wanna play too.
Submission + - European Privacy Watchdog Watches Facebook Graph Search (techweekeurope.co.uk)
judgecorp writes: "The Irish Data Protection Commissioner is keeping a close eye on the new Facebook Graph Search. “We will be continuing to engage with Facebook Ireland on this new facility in light of experience of the pilot phase to ensure that the facility operates in compliance with Irish and EU data protection law," said the commissioner, which gave the feature a good look before it was launched."
Submission + - Bankers comparing bonuses? There's an app for that (networkworld.com)
colinneagle writes: A mobile app available in the iTunes App Store is designed for and marketed specifically to bankers who'd like to compare their bonus checks with one another.
Banker's Bonus 2013, from nEuroRecovery Ltd., invites bankers to compare their 2013 bonus to others' around the world in order to "make sure you're getting what you're worth." The app costs $11.99.
Users can submit their bonuses in U.S. dollars, British Pound Sterling, or Euros, as well as their location, job title, years of experience and division. The app also provides an option to show what bank the user works at. So, if enough bankers use the app, it could become a reference to see which banks give the largest (and smallest) bonuses to their executives.
Banker's Bonus 2013, from nEuroRecovery Ltd., invites bankers to compare their 2013 bonus to others' around the world in order to "make sure you're getting what you're worth." The app costs $11.99.
Users can submit their bonuses in U.S. dollars, British Pound Sterling, or Euros, as well as their location, job title, years of experience and division. The app also provides an option to show what bank the user works at. So, if enough bankers use the app, it could become a reference to see which banks give the largest (and smallest) bonuses to their executives.
Submission + - Hands On With Redbox Instant
adeelarshad82 writes: The three things any streaming service needs in order to be successful is a good price, a massive content library, and a decent app that is available on as many things as possible. Unfortunately the only thing that Redbox Instant has going for it right now is the price. The digital library that comprises RedBox Instant at the moment is limited to a handful of comedies, budget horror flicks, and one or two blockbuster titles from the last year. However there is hope that once the final version is launched, Verizon FIOS On Demand's massive libraries of current television shows would be made available on Redbox. As for the app itself, while well designed and offers filtering by search, genre and rating, its biggest drawback is that it's only available on iOS and Android devices. You can’t even stream from the RedBox website.
Submission + - The Atlantic's Scientology Advertorial (poynter.org)
magic maverick writes: The Atlantic recently ran an "advertorial" for the 'Church of Scientology'. During this time, they filtered comments and removed negative comments.
While they since apologized, incisive.nu has an interesting run down of what they did wrong, from both a moral and business perspective.
While they since apologized, incisive.nu has an interesting run down of what they did wrong, from both a moral and business perspective.
Submission + - Cell Phone Users In China Face Huge Botnet Threat (bartvpn.com)
BartTheGuard writes: Bad news for mobile users in China. Security researchers reported about finding a botnet running on smartphones of more than a million unsuspecting cell phones users in China. And the number of infected mobiles could double in a matter of months.
Submission + - Canadian Court Rejects US Govt Demand for Full Access to Megaupload Servers (michaelgeist.ca)
An anonymous reader writes: Nearly one year ago, the U.S. government launched
a global takedown of Megaupload.com, with arrests of the leading
executives in New Zealand and the execution of search warrants in
nine countries. Canada was among the list of participating countries
as the action included seizure of Megaupload.com servers. Last week,
a Canadian court rejected
a request to send mirror-imaged copies of 32 computer servers to
authorities in the U.S., indicating that a more refined order is
needed. Megaupload successfully argued "that there is an enormous
volume of information on the servers and that sending mirror image
copies of all of this data would be overly broad, particularly in
light of the scantiness of the evidence connecting these servers to
the crimes alleged by the American prosecutors."
Submission + - The true genius of Facebook's Graph Search (bgr.com)
zacharye writes: Facebook unveiled its first crack at a search engine on Tuesday. Dubbed Graph Search, the complex new utility indexes information from more than 1 billion Facebook users and introduces intuitive new search features that put an interesting spin on digging up data. Half of the bloggers and reporters attending Facebook’s press conference practically fell asleep during the event, and investors trimmed more than 3% from Facebook’s mid-day share price. Apparently, a lot of people missed the point...
Submission + - DARPA Wants to Hide Naval Assets on the Sea Bottom (gizmag.com)
Zothecula writes: The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has seen the future of naval warfare and it’s falling upward. As part of an effort to reduce the logistics of sending equipment into trouble areas, the agency’s Upward Falling Payloads project is aimed at developing storage capsules capable of remaining on the deep seabed for years. These would contain non-lethal military assets that could be deployed on the spot years in advance and rise to the surface as needed.
Submission + - Liberating the JSTOR articles one PDF ata time (arstechnica.com) 1
bboitano writes: On Monday afternoon, a group of online archivists released the "Aaron Swartz Memorial JSTOR Liberator." The initiative is a JavaScript-based bookmarklet that lets Internet users "liberate" an article, already in the public domain, from the online academic archive JSTOR. By running the script—which is limited to once per browser—a public domain academic article is downloaded to the user’s computer, then uploaded back to ArchiveTeam in a small act of protest against JSTOR's restrictive policies.
Submission + - Twitter's BBC hashtag shows visitors hardcore porn images (pcpro.co.uk) 1
Barence writes: "PC Pro has discovered an unfortunate consequence of Twitter's new image preview feature — visitors searching for the UK's national broadcaster, the BBC, are having their screens filled with highly explicit porn.
Twitter automatically displays images linked to from tweets, including searches for particular hashtags. #bbc refers to both the British Broadcasting Corporation and an abbreviation commonly used by pornography sites.
A search for that hashtag throws up graphic images with no warning of adult content, alongside trailers for Radio 1 shows and BBC nature programmes."
Twitter automatically displays images linked to from tweets, including searches for particular hashtags. #bbc refers to both the British Broadcasting Corporation and an abbreviation commonly used by pornography sites.
A search for that hashtag throws up graphic images with no warning of adult content, alongside trailers for Radio 1 shows and BBC nature programmes."
Submission + - Curiosity Finds Evidence of Watery Past (spaceflightnow.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Curiosity has wheeled its way over to the low point in Yellowknife Bay and has found veined rocks, evidence that water once percolated through this area. Scientists are excited because it is the first evidence of precipitation of minerals and water. There is also cross bedding that can be seen, thin layers of rocks oriented in different directions. The grains are apparently too course for the wind to have created, alluding to flowing water. Even with this discovery, much is still not known about Mars' past.
Submission + - A HTML5 Milestone for Musicians
An anonymous reader writes: The 0xFE blog just posted about the latest milestone in their open source music notation project called VexFlow. With VexFlow, programmers can build applications with stunning music notation entirely in JavaScript, and (since yesterday) playback high quality audio generated from the music. VexFlow has a comprehensive set of features, supporting both standard notation and guitar tablature. It even has a fretboard mode for fretted instruments like guitar and bass. More gorgeous examples of the possibilities can be found in their latest updates page. Something tells me 2013 is going to be a good year for music makers on the web.
Submission + - UAE Government 'Used Java Flaw To Load Spyware' (techweekeurope.co.uk)
judgecorp writes: "Rights groups say the United Arab Emirates government used the latest Java zero day flaw in an attempt to load spyware onto an activist's computer. Bahrain Watch reports dissecting an email sent to an activist, which promised a video involving Dubai's chief of policy, but which actually contained a Java applet that exploited the unpatched flaw, to install a remote administration toolkit apparently based on SpyNet."
