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Apple

Submission + - Phantom Emails Plague iPhone 4 Users (thinq.co.uk)

Submitted by Stoobalou
Stoobalou writes: iPhone 4 users have been reporting phantom emails appearing in their in boxes.

The mysterious mails, which appear with 'No Sender' in the from line and 'No subject' in the subject line are causing much annoyance as they cannot be read or deleted in the normal way.

Submission + - A portrait of the founder of WikiLeaks (guardian.co.uk)

Submitted by shikaisi
shikaisi writes: A rather more balanced and in-depth portrait of Julian Assange than you usually get in the media. "We have values. I am an information activist. You get the information out to the people. We believe a richer intellectual and historical record that is fuller and more accurate is in itself intrinsically good, and gives people the tools to make intelligent decisions."

Submission + - Do You Own Your Software or Just 'License' It? (law.com) 5

Submitted by awayken
awayken writes: The case of Vernor v. Autodesk Inc. argued June,8 before the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals represents a broad challenge to the software industry's fundamental business model. Vernor was selling used copies of AutoCAD on e-bay and was stopped by Autodesk. Vernors's argues that "the software industry is trying to get around the first-sale doctrine by using the word "license" to describe a transaction that, economically speaking, is clearly a sale." Hence after the "fist-sale" the software can be resold as desired. Autodesk argues that the transaction is a license and they still own the software and it cannot be resold. This affects other copyrighted works as well. Could book be sold with a "license" that prevents them from being used in a library?

Submission + - North Korean Flash Games for Export (gizmodo.com)

Submitted by linzeal
linzeal writes: Despite it being pretty-much closed off to the world, North Korea is the next boom place for IT and tech outsourcing, PC World has reported. Flash games are being developed there for outside publishers, largely thanks to the home-grown talent. Does this mean that the the cartoon company that makes the Simpsons might use North Korea as well? Well it looks like they already have started.
Linux

Submission + - 4 Insane Ideas That Canonical Ought to Consider (blogspot.com)

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climenole
climenole writes: "The Ubuntu distribution has grown to be one of the most popular desktop systems out there, garnering millions of users worldwide. However, here's a few ideas I think they ought to mull over. Just keep in mind that I'm throwing around ideas, these aren't exactly "practical" ideas so much as that they're just ideas that I think happen to be neat."
Software

Submission + - Shotwell - The F-Spot Replacement For Ubuntu (techdrivein.com) 2

Submitted by
climenole
climenole writes: "Finally! The much discussed about F-Spot vs Shotwell battle is over. The new default image organizer app for Ubuntu Maverick 10.10 is going to be Shotwell. This is a much needed change and F-Spot was simply not enough. Most of the times when I tried F-Spot, it just keeps crashing on me. Shotwell on a other hand feels a lot more solid and is better integrated with GNOME desktop. Shotwell is also completely devoid of Mono."
Security

Submission + - How to catch hackers on your wireless network (techradar.com)

Submitted by
climenole
climenole writes: "Wireless networks are a wonderful invention. They give us the ability to easily deploy a complex network of computers without the need to physically wire them up.However, this ease of use can also mean that, without proper precautions, neighbourhood parasites can leech bandwidth and generally use your network against your wishes."

Submission + - Transmit Cable TV Wirelessly?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: I live in an apartment where new wiring is impossible, but I would like to get my cable tv to a room without a coaxial cable port. Does anyone know of any good solutions? Is it possible to convert the signal to ethernet and then send it over wifi?
Science

Submission + - Hayabusa asteroid probe has landed (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by
TDyl
TDyl writes: "The BBC is reporting that the Japanese asteroid probing Hayabusa container hit the top of the atmosphere just after 13:50 GMT today and scientists are now scouring the Woomera Prohibited Range in Australia to try to locate the capsule.

If anyone notices their blood turning into a rusty powder please inform the authorities immediately.

As an aside — my captcha phrase was "doomsday" :("

Submission + - Expert designs FPGA-based logic analyzer in a day (techbites.com)

Submitted by TidbitsOfTrivia
TidbitsOfTrivia writes: Those little rapscallions at Opal Kelly are running an *Experts' Design Challenge*. The idea is to create an FPGA-based logic analyzer in a single working day. Well, the first expert to rise to the challenge is Rainer Malzbender, and his offering is a thing of beauty and a wonder to behold...

Submission + - A Battle of Wits on the Net's Effect on the Mind (roughtype.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: There's a fascinating duel going on between two Harvard-associated authors, Steven Pinker and Nicholas Carr, on the topic of the Net's influence on the mind. In a New York Times op-ed, Pinker criticizes Carr's argument, as laid out in his new book The Shallows, that our use of the Net is encouraging us to become distracted, superficial thinkers. The Net and other digital technologies "are the only things that will keep us smart," writes Pinker. In a response on his blog, Carr tears apart Pinker's argument, claiming that Pinker's examples should actually make us even more worried about the possible "ill effects" the Net is having on our minds. Carr concludes: "We're training ourselves, through repetition, to be facile skimmers, scanners, and message-processors — important skills, to be sure — but, perpetually distracted and interrupted, we're not training ourselves in the quieter, more attentive modes of thought: contemplation, reflection, introspection, deep reading, and so forth." Behind the debate is the deeper controversy over whether the human brain is fundamentally adaptable ("neuroplasticity") or genetically locked into patterns of behavior ("evolutionary psychology").

Submission + - The Truth About the Polygraph According to the NSA (youtube.com) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The NSA (the secretive intelligence agency that brought you wholesale warrantless wiretapping) has produced a public relations video about its polygraph screening program titled "The Truth About the Polygraph." But is the NSA telling the truth? AntiPolygraph.org provides a critique (video).
Technology

Submission + - Boycott Big Oil? Big joke. (skunkpost.com)

Submitted by crimeandpunishment
crimeandpunishment writes: The BP oil spill has many people so angry they're talking about boycotting oil and petroleum products. But that would mean a lot more than just parking your car and riding your bike to work. Ready to give up your computer, your toothpaste, or a fast-food milkshake. Petroleum products are in just about every aspect of our everyday life.
Microsoft

Submission + - Poor Windows users (dedoimedo.com)

Submitted by
climenole
climenole writes: "I came across an email sent by a security vendor, reminding me, no urging me with the liver-transplant sort of urgency, to renew my subscription to their product, lest my pixels perish. I spent a minute or two staring at the email, thinking about all the poor souls out there who do not have the comfort of being a geek and who may actually take the advertisement seriously.

And then I decided to write this article. And maybe a few people will heed it and make some good."

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