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Submission + - Jurors Using Social Media during Trial a Growing Problem in Palm Beach County (800goldlaw.com)

Submitted by Craig Goldenfarb
Craig Goldenfarb writes: More local media coverage on this very serious issue of Jurors using social media during trial proceedings, and why attorney Spencer Kuvin is fighting it.
Attorney Spencer Kuvin will ask a judge today to find two jurors in contempt of court for posting comments on social media during an auto negligence case.

Submission + - Sprint Will buy T-Mobile for $32 Billion (forbes.com)

Submitted by Randy Davis
Randy Davis writes: A report from Forbes said that Sprint buying T-mobile for $32 billion is almost done. This will clearly rocked the top two Telecommunication company in the US, Verizon and AT&T. The news report also said that T-mobile will give up 67% share in exchange of 15% share of the merged company. Officials of both Sprint and T-Mobile are confident that FCC will approve this deal since AT&T’s $48.5 billion acquisition of DirecTV got approved.

Comment Re:Minimum wages create unemployment (Score 1) 1040

by OzPeter (#47154511) Attached to: Seattle Approves $15 Per Hour Minimum Wage

Australia also has a significantly higher cost of living and a significantly higher average wage in most industries than the USA. It's not fair to compare them side by side without taking this into account.

I'm not going to deny that, but what I was trying to highlight is that minimum wage/unemployment rate is not a direct causation.

Comment Re:I can never wrap my head around this. (Score 1) 1040

by OzPeter (#47153633) Attached to: Seattle Approves $15 Per Hour Minimum Wage

For example an US Gallon of petrol is about 6.6USD right now

Petrol in the US is very cheap compared to other western nations, so it is not a very good indications of prices. You are better off looking at the The Big Mac Index to do comparisons.

So how in the word is it possible that in the US 15/hour is barely a living wage? How wasteful a life are you living there seriously?

In a word .. extremely. With 2400 sq foot homes being normal, and 3000 sq foot home not unusual, and the car being the basis of personal transport what do you expect?

Submission + - Doctors Turn to Artificial Intelligence When They're Stumped (pbs.org)

Submitted by tcd004
tcd004 writes: Doctors are increasingly turning to big data and simple artificial intelligence when they can't find answers in traditional medical texts. Prodded by the new health care law to seek better ways to incorporate high tech into their everyday tasks, doctors are discovering the power of intelligent search engines and data mining. Artificial intelligence can be a tool to take full advantage of electronic medical records, transforming them from mere e-filing cabinets into full-fledged doctors’ aides that can deliver clinically relevant, high-quality data in real time. And tech giants are jumping on the opportunity. “Electronic health records [are] like large quarries where there’s lots of gold, and we’re just beginning to mine them,” said Dr. Eric Horvitz, who is the managing director of Microsoft Research and specializes in applying artificial intelligence in health care settings.

Submission + - A Measure of Your Team's Health: How You Treat Your "Idiot" (intuit.com)

Submitted by Esther Schindler
Esther Schindler writes: Every team has someone who at the bottom of its bell curve: an individual who has a hard time keeping up with other team members. How your team members treat that person is a significant indicator of your organization’s health.

That's especially true for open source projects, where you can't really reject someone's help. All you can do is encourage participation... including by the team "dummy."

Submission + - Your Calorie Counting App May Be Wildly Inaccurate (itworld.com)

Submitted by jfruh
jfruh writes: Wearables and fitness apps are proliferating, and one of their charms is their extreme precision: after all, you can look at your phone and see that you have burned precisely 543 calories in your workout, no more, no less. But when you look at how that number was arrived at, you quickly discover it's the result of a number of very rough estimates, including techniques that date back more than a century and are of dubious accuracy.

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