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Comment Re:The court didn't ask for an apology... (Score 2, Insightful) 413

This sort of "apology" is the sort of thing I expect from a petulant child and should be corrected swiftly and definitively.

Didn't the court actually instruct Apple exactly what it should write? Why not just write the notice for Apple and have them post it on their website instead of leaving it up to Apple's lawyers to set the wording?

However, I still had to LOL after reading it. Apple really has balls as big as its war chest. Bravo, Apple, bravo.

Comment Re:WTF is this world coming to (Score 1) 349

Believe it or not, this is true. It's like high school all over again.

I was talking with a friend of mine about phones (I have a dumb phone) and mentioned that it seemed people were dismissive of my choice to keep the phone I had. Noting that I was too old to care about such things anymore, I mused that having the latest smartphone does not automatically make you cool. To which she replied "Yes it does!".

I was amused until I realized she was serious. This is from a professional engineer.

RIM and MS are screwed.

Comment Re:I'm confused? Mobile Broadband or Regular? (Score 1) 332

Yeah, I was confused too. The article and summary refer to "mobile" broadband, yet TFA clearly quotes Lance Ulanoff referring to just broadband (not mobile).

That's three levels of "rights" to take into consideration. Is Mobile communications a right? Is Broadband a right? And THEN on top of that, is *mobile* broadband a right?

Wireless Networking

Is Mobile Broadband a Luxury Or a Human Right? 332

concealment sends this quote from an article at CNN: "Moderating a discussion on the future of broadband, Mashable editor-in-chief Lance Ulanoff tossed a provocative question to the audience: 'By quick show of hands, how many out there think that broadband is a luxury?' Next question: 'How many out there think it is a human right?' That option easily carried the audience vote. Broadband access is too important to society to be relegated to a small, privileged portion of the world population, Hans Vestberg, president and CEO of Ericsson, said during the discussion. Dr. Hamadoun Touré, secretary-general of the International Telecommunication Union, echoed Vestberg's remarks. 'We need to make sure all the world's inhabitants are connected to the goodies of the online world, which means better health care, better education, more sustainable economic and social development,' Touré said."

Comment Re:I wonder how often this happens by accident (Score 1) 687

I worry about kids growing up today. There's some really stupid shit that can get them in big trouble.

You must have missed the part where the dude was 52 years old. They should fucking throw him in jail for a dozen years and pass a law that mandates the link to this video be included with every laser purchase.

Common sense? Where was common sense from this 52 y.o.?

Comment Re:Correlation != Causation (Score 2) 203

Just to throw out something else to consider:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-01/meae-ots122911.php

"Outside temperatures, sun exposure and gender may trigger glaucoma"

Importantly, those with a lifetime residential history of living in the middle tier and south tier of the United States was associated with 47% and 75% reduced risks, respectively, compared with living in the northern tier...

Without having read the full paper, it seems to me that what they're saying is that your location has a lot to do with the risk. Perhaps it's the extra exposure to UV/Sunlight from snow reflection? So it makes sense that TFA finds an increase in risk for people in Scandinavian regions.

Businesses

For Obama, Jobs, and Zuckerberg, Boring Is Productive 398

Hugh Pickens writes "Robert C. Pozen writes in the Harvard Business Review that while researching a behind-the-scenes article of President Obama's daily life, Michael Lewis asked President Obama about his practice of routinizing the routine. 'I eat essentially the same thing for breakfast each morning: a bowl of cold cereal and a banana. For lunch, I eat a chicken salad sandwich with a diet soda. Each morning, I dress in one of a small number of suits, each of which goes with particular shirts and ties.' Why does President Obama subject himself to such boring routines? Because making too many decisions about mundane details is a waste of your mental energy, a limited resource. If you want to be able to have more mental resources throughout the day, you should identify the aspects of your life that you consider mundane — and then "routinize" those aspects as much as possible. Obama's practice is echoed by Steve Jobs who decided to wear the same outfit every day, so that he didn't have to think about it and the recent disclosure that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is proud that he wears the same outfit every day adding that he owns 'maybe about 20' of the gray, scoop neck shirts he's become famous for. 'The point is that you should decide what you don't care about and that you should learn how to run those parts of your life on autopilot,' writes Pozen. 'Instead of wasting your mental energy on things that you consider unimportant, save it for those decisions, activities, and people that matter most to you.'"
Security

Data Breach Reveals 100k IEEE.org Members' Plaintext Passwords 160

First time accepted submitter radudragusin writes "IEEE suffered a data breach which I discovered on September 18. For a few days I was uncertain what to do with the information and the data. Yesterday I let them know, and they fixed (at least partially) the problem. The usernames and passwords kept in plaintext were publicly available on their FTP server for at least one month prior to my discovery. Among the almost 100.000 compromised users are Apple, Google, IBM, Oracle and Samsung employees, as well as researchers from NASA, Stanford and many other places. I did not and will not make the raw data available, but I took the liberty to analyse it briefly."

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