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Submission + - Former iTunes Engineer Tells Court He Worked to Block Competitors (wsj.com)

Submitted by loftarasa
loftarasa writes: Yesterday, former engineer Rob Schultz unwillingly testified in court against Apple that he worked on project 'Candy' which 'intended to block 100% of non-iTunes clients' from 2006 to 2007. In his opinion, the work of his team contributed to create 'market dominance' for the iPod. Apple argues, and Schutlz agree, that its intentions were to improve iTunes, not curb competition.

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SpaceX Will Attempt to Land a Falcon 9 Rocket on a Floating Platform in the Ocean
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Officials from SpaceX announced that they will conduct simulation exercises to successfully land a Falcon 9 rocket on a floating platform in the ocean. SpaceX will make an attempt that was never tried before. They will try to land a Falcon 9 spacecraft on a...
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Submission + - US Navy authorizes use of laser in combat (usni.org)

Submitted by mi
mi writes: The U.S. Navy is has declared an experimental laser weapon on its Afloat Forward Staging Base (AFSB) in the Persian Gulf an operational asset and U.S. Central Command has given permission for the commander of the ship to defend itself with the weapon.

The 30 kilowatt Laser Weapon System (LaWS) was installed aboard USS Ponce this summer as part of a $40 million research and development effort from ONR and Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) to test the viability of directed energy weapons in an operational environment.

No word yet on a smaller, shark-mounted version.

Submission + - Titan's dunes took tens of thousands of years to form (sciencemag.org)

Submitted by sciencehabit
sciencehabit writes: Massive dunes, some of them 100 meters tall and a kilometer or more wide at their base, cover about one-eighth of Titan’s surface. And they take an exceptionally long time to form, according to a new study. Using radar data gleaned by the Cassini probe when it occasionally swooped past Saturn’s haze-shrouded moon, researchers conclude that it would take about 3000 Saturn years (or 88,200 Earth years) to shift Titan’s dunes to the extent seen in the images. A similar phenomenon has taken place on Earth, the researchers note: The overall patterns in many large dune fields in the southwestern Sahara and the southwestern United States, shaped by the winds that blew during the most recent ice age more than 10,000 years ago, remain largely unaffected by modern winds that now blow in a different direction.

Submission + - Displaced IT workers are being silenced (computerworld.com)

Submitted by dcblogs
dcblogs writes: A major problem with the H-1B debate is the absence of displaced IT workers in news media accounts. Much of the reporting is one-sided — and there's a reason for this. An IT worker who is fired because he or she has been replaced by a foreign, visa-holding employee of an offshore outsourcing firm will sign a severance agreement. This severance agreement will likely include a non-disparagement clause that will make the fired worker extremely cautious about what they say on Facebook, let alone to the media. On-the-record interviews with displaced workers are difficult to get. While a restrictive severance package may be one handcuff, some are simply fearful of jeopardizing future job prospects by talking to reporters. Now silenced, displaced IT workers become invisible and easy to ignore. This situation has a major impact on how the news media covers the H-1B issue and offshore outsourcing issues generally.

Submission + - FTC: Online Billing Service Deceptively Collected Medical Records (itworld.com)

Submitted by itwbennett
itwbennett writes: The FTC has reached a proposed settlement with PaymentsMD, an Atlanta health billing company that used the sign-up process for its billing service to surreptitiously seek customers’ consent to obtain detailed medical information. The medical information PaymentsMD requested included customers’ prescriptions, procedures, medical diagnoses, lab tests performed and their results, and other information, the FTC said. The bright spot in all this: In all but one case, the health care providers contacted for data refused to comply with PaymentsMD’s requests.

Submission + - Will Microsoft Ever Fix The Network Problem?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: "You never know what you've got till it's gone" and that certainly applies to XP!

If you link several PCs together using ethernet and mapped drives and for some reason you don't
know what I'm talking about, try this:-

Open about 10 folders across your network on a windows Vista-W8 PC, then put your PC
into standby or hibernate. Now wake it up again and you will be greeted by a lot error
message boxes that you have to individually click OK on.

The error message is "The local device name is already in use. This connection has not been restored."
I can understand a bug creeping into vista and it being promptly fixed but
this have been going on now for YEARS and microsoft seem incapable of (or unwilling to) fixing it.

You can install all the updates and apply all the suggested fixes, upgrade to a "new" version
and nothing makes the slightest difference.

This Totally Unacceptable!
This NEVER, EVER happens on XP!

Comment Re:Flip Argument (Score 1) 1128

by Bomarc (#48462577) Attached to: Officer Not Charged In Michael Brown Shooting

I'm just asking you to separate facts from your own conjecture.

You are right... you weren't there, you didn't see it. However a series of facts (not conjecture) were laid out. People that were believable were listened to people who's stories didn't fit the facts (or changed their story multiple times) were not. Example: He was not shot in the back.

Fact: he was shot in the top of the head.

You are right there.....

Conjecture: what MB was doing that caused him to lower his head.

Not really. There were multiple people that did witness the incident, and they (the reliable ones) stated he charged the officer.

I'll say again, if somebody shot me I'd crumple to the ground pretty quickly and my head could end up facing the attacker.

Contact me again when you have experience in this area.

Note that MB WAS shot (in the hand), and DID run away. Physical evidence also suggests that MB may have been shot a 2nd time at the police car (Once reaching inside, once outside still at the door). Point here: Just being shot is not necessarily a reason to crumple over.

Comment Re:Flip Argument (Score 1) 1128

by Bomarc (#48461289) Attached to: Officer Not Charged In Michael Brown Shooting

That (last) shot could only be fired while approaching the officer.

why would you believe this to be true? This looks like an unfounded assumption on your part. If I were shot in the belly, my first reaction would probably be to double over in pain, thus my head would be bowed before the officer.

1. He was not shot in the belly.
2. {ref .. head exposed}... as such the act of bending over ... you would be approaching the officer.... (as you bent over).

Comment Re:Flip Argument (Score 1) 1128

by Bomarc (#48459913) Attached to: Officer Not Charged In Michael Brown Shooting
Brick wall ... please read the reports:
The fatal shot was the one that struck him in the top of the head. That (last) shot could only be fired while approaching the officer. As that shot did incapacitated him, if the officer fired more shots they would have been at a "down" angle (and no shots were fired in this direction).

Submission + - How Intel and Micron May Finally Kill the Hard Disk Drive (itworld.com)

Submitted by itwbennett
itwbennett writes: For too long, it looked like SSD capacity would always lag well behind hard disk drives, which were pushing into the 6TB and 8TB territory while SSDs were primarily 256GB to 512GB. That seems to be ending. In September, Samsung announced a 3.2TB SSD drive. And during an investor webcast last week, Intel announced it will begin offering 3D NAND drives in the second half of next year as part of its joint flash venture with Micron. Meanwhile, hard drive technology has hit the wall in many ways. They can't really spin the drives faster than 7,200 RPM without increasing heat and the rate of failure. All hard drives have now is the capacity argument; speed is all gone. Oh, and price. We'll have to wait and see on that.

Comment Re:Flip Argument (Score 4, Insightful) 1128

by Bomarc (#48455385) Attached to: Officer Not Charged In Michael Brown Shooting

Running from a police officer is not an offense worthy of public execution without trial.

Only problem was: The fatal shot was fired when he was running / charging in the direction of the officer. (If you bothered to listen to the forensic evidence... oh wait: you are one of those "I've already made up my mind, con't confuse me with facts.)

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