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Submission + - Long term of Daily news Maps (longtermofdailynewsmaps)

reubencox1019 writes: It was regarding 600 many years ago that the 'Age of Discovery' began. At which direct of time a vast component of the the earth was even now undiscovered by the Europeans. Sailors and discoverers from a variety of nations went around the world 'locating' new lands. This was the golden age to be a cartographer, once new terrains have been becoming discovered each and every other day.

Maps possess been designed and used because Claudius Ptolemy launched the elementary ideas of geography to the industry in his reserve Tetrabiblos. He produced a big variety of maps of various kinds, that were quite accurate for his day and age. The initially world map and world was made by topographer Gerhard Mercator at the end of 16th century. At some point, the artists, scientists and geographers of the renaissance took the science of cartography to far higher levels. With the introduction of airborne images maps became even far more correct.

Nevertheless, a issue which plagued travelers, effectively into the 1990's is the bulkiness, and studying problems which arrives with basic report roadmaps. However relatively precise and exact folks typically misread them; which has led to scores of unsuccessful visitors stranded on mysterious roads nearly the world.

Enter in the age of GPS the place one can navigate to an definitely new location with utmost simplicity and all with the improve of a handy little system which it is possible to set up in your car.

The International Placing System (GPS) is a space-based international navigation satellite pc which provides dependable area and time information in all weather, at all times and anyplace on or near the Earth. The computer was created in the nineteen seventies by the US Division of Defense. In the nineties, visiting its excellent possible to ease the life of millions of individuals around the planet, the computer was launched for civilian use. To go out with the US Air Power manages the maintenance and upgradation of the system.

Aided by GPS and accurate digital mapping, Automotive Navigation Systems or Satellite tv for pc Navigation methods produce vacationers accurate navigational data. The significant advantage that Satellite Navigation provides at the time of traditional daily news atlases is portability, accuracy and ease of use. These navigation gadgets are very small and simple to carry. Most of these devices can be thrown out of the car with you as you take a walk around and discern new spots.

Does doing so spell the end of paper roadmaps? Most reply with an emphatic yes although others tend to disagree.

Followers of old style report maps argue in prefer of the poet sense of the map. Electronic maps they argue, do not offer the sort of information that a daily news map, or a keep book of road directions offers.

Those in facilitate of satellite tv for pc navigation systems disagree. With the world becoming a smaller stick and people sharing a lot more details about the places they reside in and checking, e-maps, as some get in touch with them, have get a storage facility of all the info you'd need once you visit a unusual new stick. Doing so incorporates shortcuts, useful small tips, areas to eat out etc. Additionally, employing GPS allowed maps; one minimizes the chance of misreading to practically zero, making certain increased safety and speed.



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Technology

Submission + - Robert Vamosi: Gadgets degrade our common sense (silicon.com)

ShelleyPortet writes: "In a world where gadgets are growing more sophisticated, human behaviour is changing — and not in a good way.

That is what Robert Vamosi, author of When Gadgets Betray Us argues in his book, which examines the dangers of our growing dependence on technology.

As gadgets develop the ability to multitask seemingly endless functions, Vamosi argues that people are increasingly unable to think for themselves.

"Instead of lifting our heads, looking around and thinking for ourselves," Vamosi writes, some of us no longer see the world as human beings have for thousands of years and simply accept whatever our gadgets show us."

Microsoft

Submission + - Does Microsoft need bug bounties? (threatpost.com)

chicksdaddy writes: The threats and attacks may have changed in the last decade, but one thing has remained constant: software giant Microsoft doesn’t pay for information on vulnerabilities in its products. Never has. Never will — even as rivals like Mozilla and Google have introduced successful bug bounty programs. But with the value of zero day vulnerabilities rising and targeted hacks making headlines, the company may be forced by circumstance to start paying vulnerability researchers for their work.

Submission + - Lawsuit accuses Apple of foxing worker pay (forbes.com)

mangu writes: Siddarth Hariharan, a former software engineer for Lucasfilm, filed a class action suit in California accusing a number of companies of antitrust violations and unfair competition. At the core of the suit is a series of agreements among the corporations, with Apple in the central role, to limit the competition among them for technology workers. Besides Apple, the companies mentioned are Pixar, Lucasfilm, Adobe, Google, Intel, and Intuit. Basically, the interconnected agreements consisted in not to “cold call” one another’s employees. Considering that switching jobs is one of the few opportunities a technology worker has to get a significant pay raise these agreements imposed strong limits on career evolution.

Submission + - New Rechargeable Battery Uses Water (gizmag.com)

fergus07 writes: Scientists at Stanford have developed a battery that uses nanotechnology to create electricity from the difference in salt content between fresh water and sea water. The researchers hope to use the technology to create power plants where fresh-water rivers flow into the ocean. The new "mixing entropy" battery alternately immerses its electrodes in river water and sea water to produce the electrical power.
Piracy

Submission + - CNET sued over LimeWire downloads (arstechnica.com)

suraj.sun writes: Alki David, the wealthy film producer and entrepreneur behind sites like FilmOn, has sued CNET and its owner, CBS, for providing hundreds of millions of downloads of LimeWire P2P software over the last decade. He argues that CNET had "direct participation in massive copyright infringement on peer-to-peer systems, such as LimeWire, that are used to copy and distribute songs, films and other artistic works," and that CNET's Download.com was the "main distributor" of the software. P2P software isn't illegal, though companies that use it to induce or encourage copyright infringement can be held liable. The principle, most famously articulated by the US Supreme Court in the Grokster shutdown, was extended to LimeWire last year when a federal judge shut down most of the company's activity.

ars technica: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/05/cnet-sued-over-limewire-blamed-for-internet-piracy-phenomenon.ars?comments=1#comments-bar

IOS

Submission + - iOS 5 rumored to bring over-the-air iOS updates (edibleapple.com)

An anonymous reader writes: A new report suggests that Apple has plans to eventually include within iOS 5 the ability for users to download iOS updates over the air. As it stands now, iOS updates can only be downloaded via iTunes on a tethered connection. While the feature isn’t expected to be available when iOS 5 launches this Fall, sources relay that Apple is planning to add that functionality in subsequent iOS 5.x updates.

Comment Re:All bets are off! (Score 1) 537

In China, there is no voting, as it's an authoritarian government, so they don't have to worry about placating the voters, except to keep them from rioting too much. For this reason, I'd say things are probably a lot more honest over there.

...yet things were pretty scary during the Bush/Cheney years - "Freedom of speech zones"? Yes, China and the US' economy/government power balances are almost perfect opposites, but they are both headed towards a common middle ground: the merging of economy (corporation) and state.

I can't remember the name of the (horrible) movie I was watching, but it began with a description of a war between the North American and Eurasian corporations. I don't think I even finished the film, but that scenario really rang a bell.

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