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Submission + - Is Apple missing a huge opportunity? 2

sn4265 writes: I'm curious about what other readers think about Apple continuing to embrace their closed platform model. Sure Apple makes a profit on the hardware side and would potentially lose some of this revenue, but what about the upside? I believe the estimate right now is that Apple has about 3% of the desktop OS market with Mac OS X. Microsoft on the other hand dominates this market, and yet Vista the most recent offering from Microsoft has been met with horrible feedback and acceptance in many areas. Wouldn't this be the golden opportunity for Apple to release a version of OS X for general population to buy and installation on commodity PC hardware? I could see Apple easily tripling or more their desktop market share in the first year, and along with users will come even more developers and applications. I know that I would be in line to buy it the day it went on sale.

Feed Techdirt: Your Kids May Be Telling The Whole Internet Your Secrets (techdirt.com)

Now that more and more of our lives are online, it's common to hear that torrid details of our lives somehow end up on the web browsers of potential employers doing background checks. Now, parents are now being warned that family secrets may be outed by their children, whose blogposts and comments may be a source of potentially damning information about their parents. The article claims that parents have lost jobs from their children describing their laziness, drug habits, and drinking problems. Police have arrested a woman, using her son's tales about his mother buying him and his underage friends a keg of beer as evidence. Perhaps instead of blaming the Internet for getting caught, perhaps these parents should take a look at themselves first, since it was their own illicit or inappropriate behaviors that actually got them in trouble in the first place.
Biotech

Submission + - Mitochondria may hold secret to preventing death

H_Fisher writes: "Research into mitochondria — small parts within a cell that have their own DNA — are a cause of cellular death, Newsweek reports. The article from the most recent edition of the magazine, entitled "The Science of Death: Reviving the Dead," reports on people who have recovered from sudden death due to cardiac arrest through the use of medically-induced hypothermia. The cooling process may help stop the death of brain and heart cells caused by the mitochondria once they are deprived of oxygen. The next step: figuring out how to keep the brain from dying, and arguing for or against "the view that the mind is more than the sum of the parts of the brain, and can exist outside it.""
Editorial

Submission + - Video Game Addiction or just Stupidity?

crystall writes: From Yahoo News: Nev. couple blame Internet for neglect http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070716/ap_on_re_us/ne glect_internet_addiction Two young children suffered from neglect and the lamer parents blame "internet addiction". I won't argue about the validity of PC/Internet/Gaming addiction — I know it exists because I see it in my own home. But can it get this severe? Or are these idiots just looking for an excuse for the unexcusable? Discuss.
Power

Submission + - Farewell to Wires. Power goes wireless (msn.com)

ketan324 writes: "MSNBC has an article on a group of researchers who have a working prototype of wireless power transmission. Scientist were able to power a 60 watt light bulb 7ft away from the power source. Apparently scientist have been proposing on "beaming" power from orbit via solar power satellites for years. True wireless laptop not to far away?"
Sci-Fi

Submission + - What is your favorite piece of Star Wars tech?

An anonymous reader writes: lightsaber
X-Wing
Millennium Falcon
Death Star
Super Star Destroyer
The Force
droids
Leia's metal bikini
Programming

Submission + - Should IT Workers be Workaholics? Or Europeans? (whattofix.com)

Daniel Markham writes: "Several new stories broke this week, from the report that IT workers in Europe mostly don't think their jobs depend on performance to the report that says a third of all Americans don't take all of their vacation time. The number of workaholics chapters is growing in the states — these are 12-step programs for people who work too much.

IT, especially in America, is famous for long hours and little sleep. Isn't this the way it's supposed to be? Or should be be taking a month off every year like the Europeans do? Is IT like working in a union shop making widgets waiting for the weekend, or is it more like being a doctor?

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Announcements

Submission + - California the Engine of a Hot Technology Market (odinjobs.com)

nbala writes: "California had nearly more than 3 times the number of jobs compared to New York, the state with the second largest number of job openings. The new Overview of the Technology Job Market Report, analyzes the job market using more than a million advertised tech jobs. It contains the top states, the top skills and the top cities that have the most opportunities. See how, what you do and where you live, ranks in the report. The data is from January to April of 2007."
Graphics

Submission + - Olympic Logo Design and Seizures

Palmzombie writes: The 2012 London logo again created controversy because it reportedly has caused seizures for photo sensitive individuals. With the proliferation of media and animation across the internet, what resources are available to "test" your designs potential problems like this. What is the graphics designer's ultimate liability? I'm reminded of the book Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson and the distribution of malicious code via a visual interface.

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