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Comment Re:What's next (Score 1) 67

by Plumpaquatsch (#47394317) Attached to: Apple Hires Away TAG Heuer's VP of Global Sales

Hiring a non-computer executive? What's next, will they hire one from a soft drink company?

More importantly: Apple hiring anybody? Must be about iWatch. Apple on medical tech hiring spree, a possible hint of iWatch plans.

Apple hires somebody who worked for high-end fashion house Yves Saint Laurent? Let's ignore that YSL hired somebody formerly working at Apple and didn't go into making computers or smartphones - coincidently the same guy.

Apple hires anybody: pundits say its a replacement for Tim Cook.
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Amazon Fighting FTC Over In-App Purchases Fine 137

Posted by Unknown Lamer from the right-to-profit dept.
An anonymous reader writes One of the common problems of the smartphone generation has been parents who given their phones to children, who then rack up hundreds of dollars of in-app purchases without the parents' knowledge. The FTC smacked Apple with a fine for this, and Google is facing a lawsuit as well. Now, Amazon is the latest target, having received a complaint from the FTC demanding a similar settlement to Apple's. Amazon, however, is not willing to concede the fine; they plan to fight it. Amazon said, "The Commission's unwillingness to depart from the precedent it set with Apple despite our very different facts leaves us no choice but to defend our approach in court (PDF). The main claim in the draft complaint is that we failed to get customers' informed consent to in-app charges made by children and did not address that problem quickly or effectively enough in response to customer complaints. We have continually improved our experience since launch, but even at launch, when customers told us their kids had made purchases they didn't want, we refunded those purchases."

Comment Re:Should be denser! (Score 1) 120

by Plumpaquatsch (#47388691) Attached to: In Düsseldorf, A Robot Valet Will Park Your Car

From the picture it looks like it takes just as much space as a regular parking garage,

That's pretty much the point: the system is intended to be added to existing regular parking garages, to add comfort to the drivers as well as increase number of parked cars.

The problem with parking garages today is that they were all designed when cars were 8 inches narrower.

Comment Re:Too many secrets (Score 1) 74

A member of Germany's foreign intelligence agency has been detained for possibly spying for the U.S. The 31-year-old is suspected of giving a U.S. spy agency information about a parliamentary inquiry of NSA activities.

So the investigation into the NSA's secret spying activities, is itself being conducted in secret under penalty of espionage charges should any German violate that secrecy? We seem to be forgetting why people object to the NSA's activities. Something about governments being open and transparent in their operation so the public can be assured their actions are trustworthy. Any investigation into the NSA's activities should be done publicly and openly, to demonstrate a contrast with how the NSA operated. Unless that is the German government has something it wants to keep secret from its own people. But in that case they become the pot calling the kettle black.

So when is the NSA going to publish all the data it liberates from foreign governments?

Submission + - German intelligence employee arrested on suspicion of spying for US on Bundestag (www.dw.de)

Submitted by Plumpaquatsch
Plumpaquatsch writes: Deutsche Welle report:"A member of Germany’s foreign intelligence agency has been detained for possibly spying for the US. The 31-year-old is suspected of giving a US spy agency information about a parliamentary inquiry of NSA activities. During questioning, the suspect reportedly told investigators that he had gathered information on an investigative committee from Germany's lower house of parliament, the Bundestag. The panel is conducting an inquiry into NSA surveillance on German officials and citizens; yesterday an ex-staffer told it the NSA was 'totalitarian' mass collector of data.

Submission + - Solar-Powered Electrochemical Cell Used to Produce Formic Acid From CO2 (gizmag.com)

Submitted by Zothecula
Zothecula writes: Rising atmospheric CO2 levels can generally be tackled in three ways: developing alternative energy sources with lower emissions; carbon capture and storage (CCS); and capturing carbon and repurposing it. Researchers at Princeton University are claiming to have developed a technique that ticks two of these three boxes by using solar power to convert CO2 into formic acid.

Comment Re:Did the editor know...this is Google/Android te (Score 2) 242

by Plumpaquatsch (#47363987) Attached to: Disappointed Woz Sells His "Worthless" Galaxy Gear Watch

Hi did you get the newsletter that Woz left Apple like 20 years ago and has nothing to do with the company anymore? And that he's a huge tech/gadget geek and doesn't care if the device is not Apple? And has even publicly spoken out against Apple?

Well now you do.

Not to mention that every time he says something remotely bad about Apple or an Apple product, you can be sure to find a Slashdot story about it.

Comment Re:Aperture-specific plugins... (Score 1) 214

by Plumpaquatsch (#47361425) Attached to: Apple Kills Aperture, Says New Photos App Will Replace It

If you upgrade your OS. Which brings you a lot more than RAW support. It also beings you massive incompatibility, new bugs, unfixed old bugs, aberrant behavior by programs that stuck to Apple's own dev guidelines like glue, and most recently, the world's most drag-assed USB support ever.

You were already better off finding another way than Aperture, this just puts the icing on the cake.

Do yourself (and more importantly us) a favor and switch to Windows. Then go someplace else to whine about the consequences.

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