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The Almighty Buck

Jack Thompson Sues Facebook For $40M 421

Posted by samzenpus from the just-when-you-thought-it-was-safe dept.
angry tapir writes "Jack Thompson has sued Facebook for US$40 million, saying that the social networking site harmed him by not removing angry postings made by Facebook gamers. The lawsuit was filed in the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida. Thompson is best known for bringing suit against Grand Theft Auto's Take Two Interactive, Sony Computer Entertainment America, and Wal-Mart, arguing that the game caused violent behavior."
Privacy

Massachusetts Police Can't Place GPS On Autos Without Warrant 194

Posted by Soulskill from the good-news-suspects dept.
pickens writes "The EFF reports that the Supreme Court of Massachusetts has held in Commonwealth v. Connolly that police may not place GPS tracking devices on cars without first getting a warrant, reasoning that the installation of the GPS device was a seizure of the suspect's vehicle. Search and seizure is a legal procedure used in many civil law and common law legal systems whereby police or other authorities and their agents, who suspect that a crime has been committed, do a search of a person's property and confiscate any relevant evidence to the crime. According to the decision, 'when an electronic surveillance device is installed in a motor vehicle, be it a beeper, radio transmitter, or GPS device, the government's control and use of the defendant's vehicle to track its movements interferes with the defendant's interest in the vehicle notwithstanding that he maintains possession of it.' Although the case only protects drivers in Massachusetts, another recent state court case, People v. Weaver in the State of New York, also held that because modern GPS devices are far more powerful than beepers, police must get a warrant to use the trackers, even on cars and people traveling the public roads."

Submission + - SPAM: Resume Writing Tips

Submitted by
bookmkr
bookmkr writes: "This is a tip I learned from an HR person in the government, when you are describing your positions in previous jobs you should not give the typical "responsibilities included,", this is boring. Instead you should list your achievements, you should highlight how you contributed and improved the company you worked for. (I also found similar tips on resumewritingtips.info ..."
Link to Original Source

Submission + - AT&T Asks FCC to Investigate Google Voice (google.com)

Submitted by
chicagoan
chicagoan writes: "It seems that AT&T hasn't taken too nicely to all the bad press they have been getting in the Google-Apple-AT&T fiasco. Google Inc.'s Google Voice service is improperly preventing consumers from calling certain phone numbers, violating federal call-blocking rules, AT&T Inc. said Friday in a letter to the Federal Communications Commission."
Intel

Submission + - The world's first four-screen laptop (pcpro.co.uk) 1

Submitted by
Barence
Barence writes: "Intel has stunned visitors at IDF by showing off the world's first four-screen laptop. The oddly-named "Tangent Bay" has three miniature touchscreens set horizontally into the case below the main, full-sized panel. It is a fully functional prototype: delegates were able to scroll photos around the touchscreens by swiping with a finger. The idea smacked a little too much of the ill-fated Vista SideShow."

Submission + - The Dangers of "Social Spam" (slate.com)

Submitted by Kandinsky51
Kandinsky51 writes: Marketing ploys that trick you into contacting all your friends about a product, like the ViddyHo GChat epidemic from a few months ago or a more recent one from WeGame, expose the danger that social networks pose for a new sort of spam. Rather than send Rolex ads straight to your junk bin, these emails or IMs pose as social network updates that promise a photo or video. If you register and provide your webmail login--which plenty of people do, amazingly--the site can mine your contacts and email them all on your behalf. Most examples have been innocuous thus far, but it's a huge opportunity for more malicious spammers.
Intel

Submission + - Intel releases CPUs for gaming laptops & mobil

Submitted by
adeelarshad82
adeelarshad82 writes: "The Core i7 processor, codenamed "Nehalem," created quite the buzz in the desktop community, tearing up performance charts. Thankfully, every Intel chip that ends up in a desktop is usually followed by a mobile version. At the IDF this year, Intel introduced three top-shelf mobile Core i7s, codenamed "Clarksfield": The Core i7-920XM (Extreme), the Core i7-820QM, and the Core i7-720QM. The launch is focused primarily on high-end and gaming laptops that are also affordable. With Clarksfield, Intel gives us a glimpse of what to expect for laptops in the coming year. We knew performance would tip the scales in the Core i7's favor, and the benchmark tests proved it. The big picture here is that these processors, especially the Core i7 820QM and 720QM, will begin to show up in hardcore gaming and very high-end multimedia systems for a lot less than what you would pay for the Alienware M17x ($4,850) and Falcon Northwest Fragbook DRX ($6,449)."
Wireless Networking

Submission + - SPAM: Cell phones rated by radiation emitted

Submitted by
IP-192.com
IP-192.com writes: "Concerned about cell-phone radiation? The Environmental Working Group has you covered! The Washington, DC based advocacy group has rated cell phones, based on how much radiation they emit. The tracking tool allows visitors to check radiation levels for 1,200 models of cell phones and smart phones, and results can be reviewed using criteria such as carrier, regular and smart phones, and legacy phones."
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Handhelds

USB-IF Slaps Palm In iTunes Spat 600

Posted by kdawson from the gimme-some-skin dept.
An anonymous reader writes "The USB Implementers Forum has finally responded to Palm's complaints that Apple is violating its USB-IF Membership Agreement by preventing the Pre from syncing with iTunes. It's found in favor of Apple. Worse, it's accused Palm itself of violating the Membership Agreement by using Apple's Vendor ID number to disguise the Pre as an Apple device."
Google

Submission + - Google Voice rejected for its dialer functionality

Submitted by
whoop
whoop writes: "From TechCrunch, "In a letter to the FCC today, Google disclosed previously unpublished information about Appleâ(TM)s rejection of their Google Voice application... 'Apple representatives informed Google that the Google Voice application was rejected because Apple believed the application duplicated the core dialer functionality of the iPhone'""
Apple

Submission + - Apple allows the blind to use iPhones and iPod Tou (apple.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Apple has posted a video demonstrating how someone who is completely blind can use all the functionality of the iPhone or iPod Touch. It's not often that you see mainstream products include an accessible way to use their product, but Apple has no done it with the iPhone, iPod nano and iPod shuffle. Apple, you may not do everything right, but I doff my hat you on this one, sirs.
Programming

Python Converted To JavaScript, Executed In-Browser 176

Posted by Soulskill from the hey-why-not dept.
lkcl writes "Two independent projects, Skulpt and Pyjamas, are working to bring Python to the web browser (and the JavaScript command-line) the hard way: as JavaScript. Skulpt already has a cool Python prompt demo on its homepage; Pyjamas has a gwtcanvas demo port and a GChart 2.6 demo port. Using the 64-bit version of Google v8 and PyV8, Pyjamas has just recently and successfully run its Python regression tests, converted to JavaScript, at the command-line. (Note: don't try any of the above SVG demos with FF2 or IE6; they will suck.)"
Google

Submission + - Google, Apple spat resumes over Google Voice's fat (computerworld.com)

Submitted by
CWmike
CWmike writes: "Contradicting Apple, which maintains it has not rejected Google's Voice application in its App Store for iPhones, Google has asked the FCC to make public a section of a letter that had been previously redacted, explaining that several organizations had filed Freedom of Information Act requests asking to see the text that was previously omitted from the public version. According to Google, it outlines that Apple rejected Google Voice on July 7, when Google's senior vice president of engineering and research, Alan Eustace, spoke with Philip Schiller, Apple's head of marketing, in a telephone call. "It was during this call that Mr. Schiller informed Mr. Eustace that Apple was rejecting the Google Voice application," said Google's letter to the FCC, which launched a probe into the matter last month. Google also noted that discussions between the companies lasted most of July, starting July 5 and ending July 28. "In a series of in-person meetings, phone calls, and e-mails ... Apple and Google representatives discussed the approval status of the Google Voice application that was submitted on June 2, 2009," Google told the FCC on Friday."
Apple

Submission + - Google's Leaked Memo on Apple's Rejection of Googl (sfgate.com) 2

Submitted by
ZipK
ZipK writes: "Yobie Benjamin gives a short explanation of why he's abandoned the iPhone in favor of Android as his mobile development platform. More interestingly, he links to a memo in which Google details for the FCC their view of Apple's rejection of Google Voice."

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