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Submission + - Galaxy Tab 2 teaser (geekword.net)

Submitted by TechieAlizay
TechieAlizay writes: OLED-Display folks have gotten their hands on a YouTube video which according to them is the official teaser video for the Samsung Galaxy Tab successor, Galaxy Tab 2. Is this the real video? See the video after the break and decide yourself.

The source got their hands on a spec sheets as well which goes like this:

        * 8 MP rear facing camera.
        * 3 MP front facing camera.
        * Nvidia Dual Core processor.
        * Dual LED Flash.
        * 1 GB RAM.
        * 7 inch Super AMOLED screen with Gorilla Glass protection.

Samsung has promised to introduce a dual core processor tablet at the Mobile World Congress in February, so that part of the spec can be considered real. However, there is doubt over the Galaxy Tab 2 getting a Super AMOLED screen which has to do with Samsung’s inability to produce massive amount of display screens till 3rd quarter of 2011.
America Online

Submission + - AOL's "Dirty Little Secret": 60% of AOL's Profits (huffingtonpost.com) 4

Submitted by satuon
satuon writes: Ken Auletta's big New Yorker piece on AOL (subscription only) this week revealed an interesting detail about the company's inner workings. According to Auletta, 80% of AOL's profits come from subscribers, and 75% of those subscribers are paying for something they don't actually need.

Auletta lays out how this works:
The company still gets eighty percent of its profits from subscribers, many of whom are older people who have cable or DSL service but don't realize that they need not pay an additional twenty-five dollars a month to get online and check their e-mail. "The dirty little secret," a former AOL executive says, "is that seventy-five percent of the people who subscribe to AOL's dial-up service don't need it."

Submission + - Dominos Pizza website hacked, customer data leaked

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Dominos Pizza has been in India for more than a decade now and with much enthusiasm it decided to tap into the rapidly growing internet population by launching its online ordering system late last year. Recently a hacker managed to get away with a lot of customer data by hacking into their server. Though the company is tight lipped on the extend of the damage in an apologetic letter to its customers it says that customer email id's mobile phone numbers and delivery addresses have been compromised.
Businesses

Submission + - IRS Nails CPA for Copying Steve Jobs, Google Execs 1

Submitted by theodp
theodp writes: Silly rabbit, $1 salaries are for super-wealthy tech execs! The WSJ reports that CPA David Watson incurred the wrath of the IRS by only paying himself $24,000 a year and declaring the rest of his take profit. It's a common tax-cutting maneuver that most computer consultants working through an S Corporation have probably considered. Unlike profit distributions, all salary is subject to a 2.9% Medicare tax and the first $106,800 is subject to a 12.4% Social Security tax (FICA). By reducing his salary, Watson didn't save any income taxes on the $379k in profit distributions he received in 2002 and 2003, but he did save nearly $20,000 in payroll taxes for the two years, the IRS argued, pegging Watson's true pay at $91,044 for each year. Judge Robert W. Pratt agreed that Watson's salary was too low, ruling that the CPA owed the extra tax plus interest and penalties. So why, you ask, don't members of the much-ballyhooed $1 Executive club like Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison, Sergey Brin, Larry Page, and Eric Schmidt get in hot water for their low-ball salaries? After all, how inequitable would it be if billionaires working full-time didn't have to kick in more than 15 cents into the Medicare and Social Security kitty? Sorry kids, the rich are different, and the New Global Elite have much better tax advisors than you!

Submission + - Paypal alternatives? 6

Submitted by dotancohen
dotancohen writes: It seems that everything that I used to do with Paypal is gone, and nobody has found a good alternative yet. This month I tried donating to Anki (but Paypal is no longer serving Japan for donations) and Virtual Identity (which stopped accepting Paypal due to the Wikileaks incident). The authors of both software are looking for alternatives. What can we recommend to them? What reliable and inexpensive money-transfer services exist today? What do you use?
Apple

Submission + - Mac OS X Machines Roped Into Jnanabot Network (bit-tech.net)

Submitted by Spottywot
Spottywot writes: Security specialist Symantec has released an analysis of the cross-platform Jnanabot worm, revealing that around 16 per cent of infections are found on Mac OS X machines.



The figures, which Symantec released earlier this week, analysed the infected machines that made up the Jnanabot botnet in December 2010, and came to a somewhat surprising conclusion



While the vast majority of machines infected by the Java-based Jnanabot worm and forming the botnet were Windows-based, 16 per cent of the network was made up of machines running Apple's Mac OS X — a platform that is often claimed to be immune to malware.
Google

Submission + - Why Eric Schmidt left as CEO of Google? China (newyorker.com)

Submitted by Edsj
Edsj writes: It seems Eric Schmidt didn't like the decision to deliver uncensored searches in China. It is reported the decision to withdraw censored searches in China was made by co-founder Larry Page sided with his founding partner, Sergey Brin and probably an internal battle for power begun. Schmidt also wasn't happy with the “don’t be evil” policy, something the Google founders were prepared to protect anytime. Schmidt lost some energy and focus after losing the China internal battle and decided to leave the position of CEO. It is also reported that the chairman position is a temporary one until he finds another business to take care.

Submission + - Betelgeuse To Blow Up "Soon" (discovermagazine.com)

Submitted by rubycodez
rubycodez writes: A wave of 2012 related hoopla has hit the internet, about the star that makes the "right shoulder" of Orion the hunter, Betelgeuse. Astronomer Phil Plait once again puts rumors to rest. The star will indeed explode as a type II supernova, and when it does it will be brighter than Venus on Earth though not as bright as the full moon. It will be visible in the night sky for weeks, as well as possibly be visible in the day sky for a short time. But that event could happen today, or 100,000 years from now or as much as a million years from now. Since Betelgeuse is over 600 light years away, its violent death will not harm Earth in any way, but definitely will provide a huge bonanza of scientific information about supernova. As geeks, we can only hope the core of Betelgeuse undergoes catastrophic failure in our lifetime.
Science

Submission + - Greenland Ice Sheet Melts At Record Rate in 2010 (ibtimes.com)

Submitted by RedEaredSlider
RedEaredSlider writes: A study using satellite and ground-based data is showing the Greenland ice sheets are setting a record for the areas exposed to melting and the rate at which they are doing so. NASA says 2010 was a record warm year, and temperatures in the Arctic were a good 3 degrees C over normal. While the Greenland ice sheets aren't going to disappear int he next few years, they could still contribute to sea level rise and there is the possibility that the rate of melting is nonlinear — that feedbacks will accelerate the disappearance of the ice.
Apple

Submission + - Apple App Store hits 10B app download mark (networkworld.com)

Submitted by alphadogg
alphadogg writes: The Apple App Store hit the 10 billion app download mark overnight on Friday, marking a milestone involving an awful lot of Doodle Jump, Tap Tap Revenge and Angry Birds playing, not to mention Facebook and Pandora usage. The Apple App Store hit the 1 billion mark in April of 2009, after opening in July of 2008.

Apple is rewarding the downloader of the 10 billionth free or paid App Store app with a $10,000 iTunes gift card in a bit of showmanship that Willy Wonka would be proud of. As of 7AM EST, however, Apple hadn’t publicly identified the winner, only saying that you’d need to come back later to find out who won.

Apple put an iOS app countdown ticker http://www.apple.com/itunes/10-billion-app-countdown/ on its Website last week to build buzz around the milestone and generated about 250 million app downloads since. It also revealed a list of all-time most downloaded free and paid iPhone and iPad apps. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/011911-apple-appstore-iphone-ipad-downloads.html
The Internet

Submission + - The end of the net as we know it (pcpro.co.uk)

Submitted by Barence
Barence writes: Britain’s leading ISPs are attempting to construct a two-tier internet, where websites and services that are willing to pay are thrust into the “fast lane”, while those that don’t are left fighting for scraps of bandwidth or even blocked outright. Asked directly whether ISP TalkTalk would be willing to cut off access completely to BBC iPlayer in favour of YouTube if the latter was prepared to sign a big enough cheque, TalkTalk’s Andrew Heaney replied: “We’d do a deal, and we’d look at YouTube and we’d look at BBC and we should have freedom to sign whatever deal works.” Britain's biggest ISP, BT, meanwhile says it could "absolutely could see situations in which some content or application providers might want to pay BT for a quality of service above best efforts." PC Pro asks if it's the end of the net as we know it.

Submission + - Duke Nukem Forever release date set... May 3rd (take2games.com)

Submitted by
markass530
markass530 writes: "On May 3, you may actually be able to see your breathe in Hell when it begins to freeze over. The unbelievable has happened, and after years of jokes, years of failed attempts, years as the poster boy for video game franchises that seemed doomed to remain in limbo, Take-Two Interactive has announced that Duke Nukem Forever will hit stores on May 3. If you need a moment to process that, go ahead, it’s understandable."

Comment Re:The caption says it is Buran. (Score 1) 226

by chfriley (#33721392) Attached to: Soviet Shuttle Buran Found In a Junk Heap

I guess unicode didn't make it.
The five letter word in quotations (looks like an upside-down "g" then "ypah" is Buran. (5th line, 4th word in the first photo caption)
Then the "cobetckNN" (backwards NN) is essentially "Soviet" (right before Buran).

There are a few other words about it being in the outskirts of Moscow.

Comment The caption says it is Buran. (Score 0, Redundant) 226

by chfriley (#33721302) Attached to: Soviet Shuttle Buran Found In a Junk Heap

I did take a year of Russian in college, and it is a bit (well, very, very rusty), but it seems to say that it is Buran and it has been "sacrificed" and it laments the fact that it was once a symbol of the Soviet power in space but is now junk. That is no where near an exact translation, but a rough translation of parts of the caption.

"" is buran
"" is essentially "Soviet" (some variation)

(Slashdot seems to be having issues at the moment with pages failing to load and not submitting so hopefully it does not submit multiple times)

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