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Republicans

Submission + - Republicans believe in climate change, not warming (mongabay.com)

Submitted by Damien1972
Damien1972 writes: A new study finds that self-described Republicans are less skeptical of "climate change" than "global warming". The research, conducted by psychologists at the University of Michigan, found that 44 percent of Republicans endorsed the idea that "global warming" is real, whereas 60 percent believed in "climate change." Among self-described Democrats the difference in wording was negligible: 86.9 percent vs. 86.4 percent.
Intel

Submission + - Pocket Wars and Cores (linux-mag.com)

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Anonymous Coward
Anonymous Coward writes: "If I were to ask you what is the most popular processor used in phones and pads, and you said, “ARM,” you would be correct. Now comes the trick question, “Who make ARM processors?” Not the ARM Holdings company. They design processors and license their designs to manufactures. They also have a reputation for creating very low power designs. Interestingly, while almost everyone else was out ramping clocks and power consumption (until they hit a wall) ARM was chugging along addressing the low power end of the market. Now that low-power is all the rage, due to phones and pads, ARM has become quite a bit more popular."
Android

Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Data-Only Phone, Voice Over WiFi? 4

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enFi
enFi writes: "I want to pay one ISP (only!) for data (only!), and use it for my smartphone and my computer; and until they catch up, I want not to inconvenience the rest of the world — still let them call a phone number. (We all want this, right?) I'm most of the way there: my plan is to get a Clear Spot (their 4G WiMAX coverage is good for me) to use with my unlocked Nexus S (which will only ever use WiFi). I could just use Skype and an Online Number, but talk of Sipdroid+pbxes.org+GV and the recent Google Voice / SIP article make me think I'm only starting to untagle the mess of services and options. Is there a good (not to mention best) way to do this?"
Games

Submission + - How the PC is making consoles look out of date (pcauthority.com.au)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: What has been clear from this year’s Games Developer Conference is that consoles are beginning to show their age. With nothing beyond a possible Nintendo update on the horizon, developers at this year's GDC have turned their eyes to the PC. This article includes three videos that give a fantastic insight into where PC graphics are headed, including a version of Epic's Unreal engine, Crytek's Cryengine 3, and DICE's Frostbite 2 engine. Considering that these leaps in eye candy are only possible with the current state of PC graphics we wonder how long consoles will be the target platform for development of blockbuster games.
Security

Submission + - Researcher Blows $15K By Reporting Bug To Google (twitter.com)

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CWmike
CWmike writes: "A security researcher lost a sure $15,000 at this week's Pwn2Own hacking contest because he had earlier a hrefreported the bug to Google, which has patched the vulnerability in its Android Market. 'I missed out money wise,' said Jon Oberheide, co-founder and CTO of Duo Security, a developer of two-factor authentication software. 'But it was good that Google is rewarding researchers. And now I have my first Android vulnerability that qualified for a bounty.' Google cut a check to Oberheide for $1,337."
Android

Submission + - Grumblings In Google's App Marketplace (ibtimes.com)

Submitted by RedEaredSlider
RedEaredSlider writes: Some app developers are expressing discontent with the way Google operates the Android Market for apps, and at least one has decided to call out Google in public.

Rich Jones formed the Android Developers Union, a loose group he claims has 200 members. The group started as a blog that Jones says he started to call attention to Google's policies on deleting apps.
Books

Submission + - Crime Writer Makes a Killing with 99 Cent eBooks

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Hugh Pickens writes
Hugh Pickens writes writes: "Joe Konrath has an interesting interview with independent writer John Locke who currently holds the coveted #1 spot in the Amazon Top 100 and has sold just over 350,000 downloads on Kindle of his 99 cent books since January 1st of this year which with a royalty rate of 35%, is an annual income well over $500k. Locke says that 99 cents is the magic number and adds that when he lowered the price of his book "The List" from $2.99 to 99 cents, he started selling 20 times as many copies — about 800 a day, turning his loss lead into his biggest earner. "These days the buying public looks at a $9.95 eBook and pauses. It’s not an automatic sale," says Locke. "And the reason it’s not is because the buyer knows when an eBook is priced ten times higher than it has to be. And so the buyer pauses. And it is in this pause—this golden, sweet-scented pause—that we independent authors gain the advantage, because we offer incredible value." Kevin Kelly predicts that within 5 years all digital books will cost 99 cents. "I don't think publishers are ready for how low book prices will go," writes Kelly. "It seems insane, dangerous, life threatening, but inevitable.""
Chrome

Submission + - Google Releases Stable Version Of Chrome 10 (techspot.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Google has released version 10 of its browser. The update brings hundreds of bug fixes as well as many features that have been available on the Chrome beta and dev channels to users interested in using Chrome's latest builds. Chrome 10 also addresses 23 security vulnerabilities in the WebKit-based browser (easily more than Google has ever fixed before): 15 rated as High, three rated as Medium, and five rated as Low.
Microsoft

Submission + - Windows users at risk of video file attacks (networkworld.com)

Submitted by
jbrodkin
jbrodkin writes: "Microsoft warned users that a newly discovered Windows Media flaw could let hackers take over their PCs by tricking users into opening specially crafted video files. The video file vulnerability was rated critical in Microsoft's latest Patch Tuesday security announcement, and is "somewhat trivial for attackers to exploit," according to Symantec. The flaw "allows attackers to skip a few of the traditional steps needed to get malicious code to execute on a targeted computer." Microsoft has had to change the way library files and Windows media files are opened in order to prevent future attacks."
Hardware

Submission + - Swedish Company Develops Burial by Liquid Nitrogen (inhabitat.com) 3

Submitted by PeteRoss
PeteRoss writes: A Swedish company called Promessa Organic claims to have developed the greenest way to dispose of bodies – using liquid nitrogen. The company freezes the deceased in liquid nitrogen and then shatters the body into a million pieces using sound waves (this ensures it crumbles into a powder). Once this is done, the powder is put into a vacuum chamber where all water within it boils instantly, reducing the powder’s mass by 70%.
Censorship

Comics Code Dead 316

Posted by Soulskill from the may-make-a-shocking-return-in-later-issue dept.
tverbeek writes "After more than half a century of stifling the comic book industry, the Comics Code Authority is effectively dead. Created in response to Fredric Wertham's Seduction of the Innocent, one of the early think-of-the-children censorship campaigns, and Congressional hearings, the Code laid out a checklist of requirements and restrictions for comics to be distributed to newsstand vendors, effectively ensuring that in North America, only simplistic stories for children would be told using the medium of sequential art. It gradually lost many of its teeth, and an increasing number of publishers gave up on newsstand distribution and ignored the Code, but at the turn of the century the US's largest comics publishers still participated. Marvel quit it in 2001, in favor of self-applied ratings styled after the MPAA's and ESRB's. Last year Bongo (publishers of the Simpsons comics) quietly dropped out. Now DC and Archie, the last publishers willingly subjecting their books to approval, have announced that they're discontinuing their use of the CCA, with DC following Marvel's example, and Archie (which recently introduced an openly gay supporting character, something flatly forbidden by the original Code) carrying on under their own standards. The Code's cousins — the MPAA and ESRB ratings, the RIAA parental advisory, and the mishmash of warnings on TV shows — still live on, but at least North American comic publishers are no longer subject to external censorship."
Government

US Government Strategy To Prevent Leaks Is Leaked 336

Posted by samzenpus from the who-leaks-the-leakers? dept.
Jake writes "The US government's 11-page document on how to get various US government agencies to prevent future leaks has been leaked. It doesn't get any more ironic than that. After the various leaks made by WikiLeaks, the US government understandably wants to limit the number of potential leaks, but their strategy apparently isn't implemented yet. It's clear that the Obama administration is telling federal agencies to take aggressive steps to prevent further leaks. According to the document, these steps include figuring out which employees might be most inclined to leak classified documents, by using psychiatrists and sociologists to assess their trustworthiness. The memo also suggests that agencies require all their employees to report any contacts with members of the news media they may have."

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