Comment Not on iPhone 4? (Score 2) 197
I guess now I have a reason to buy a newer iPhone if this only works on the 4S and not the 4 I have. Thanks, Google!
Comment Waiting for ad.doubleclick.net ...zzz... (Score 1) 275
Great! But will it do anything to speed up pages that refuse to display until the advertisements do? Even Slashdot takes longer to display because of some third-party ad server.
Submission + - Global Warming is Already Melting the Next Ice Age (vice.com)
An anonymous reader writes: The Earth has natural cycles of glaciation that we can pin down by looking at the planet's orbital patterns around the sun. The ice goes in, the ice goes out, as the Earth heats and cools naturally. When it comes in, we have an ice age. We've been in a warm period for about 11,000 years now and we should've been due for an ice age in about 1,500 years. We're not because we've trapped too much heat already in our atmosphere for things to cool properly. According to a just-out paper in Nature Geoscience, that next ice age is going to be delayed by tens of thousands of years. This is not actually good news.
Submission + - Apple becoming serious player in enterprise (itworld.com)
bdking writes: Forrester Research forecasts that Apple's iPad and Mac could account for nearly 30% of enterprise personal computing expenditures by 2013. That's compared to only 8% in 2010. Credit the "Bring Your Own Devices" workplace revolution started by the iPhone and extended by the iPad.
Comment First Post (Score -1) 379
First OWWWW MY EYES!
Comment Yeah, um, they MEANT to do that... (Score 1) 99
Sounds like a lame excuse for incompetence to me.
Submission + - Why Occupy Wall Street Chose Tumblr (discovery.com)
RedEaredSlider writes: Earlier this year, Facebook and Twitter played a crucial role in mobilizing protestors in Iran, Cairo and Tunisia. Now Tumblr has been uniquely appropriated for a U.S.-based protest movement known as Occupy Wall Street, which has been coalescing in New York, Boston and Chicago to challenge the influence of corporate money on government and the growth of social and economic inequality.
A hybrid of ordinary blogging platforms, such as Typepad or Wordpress, and of the microblogging site Twitter, Tumblr gives users the ability to post photos, videos and messages and share with people they don’t know.
The site has been a force behind the Occupy Wall Street protests, growing the number of demonstrations from just dozens of people in late September to thousands on Wednesday, as several local unions joined in on a march down Broadway.
A hybrid of ordinary blogging platforms, such as Typepad or Wordpress, and of the microblogging site Twitter, Tumblr gives users the ability to post photos, videos and messages and share with people they don’t know.
The site has been a force behind the Occupy Wall Street protests, growing the number of demonstrations from just dozens of people in late September to thousands on Wednesday, as several local unions joined in on a march down Broadway.
Submission + - Diagnosing Disease with iPhone Microscope (smartertechnology.com)
An anonymous reader writes: For under-$50, you can diagnose disease with your iPhone with this add-on project. Instead of paying for a doctors' office visit, just snap-on a microscope accessory, and send them a photo of your blood sample!
Submission + - Who's Bankrolling the Climate-Change Deniers? 1
Hugh Pickens writes writes: "Bryan Walsh writes in Time Magazine that climate denialism exists in part because there has been a long-term, well-financed effort on the part of conservative groups and corporations to distort global-warming science. "The blows have been struck by a well-funded, highly complex and relatively coordinated denial machine," say sociologists Riley Dunlap and Aaron McCright. Fossil-fuel companies like Exxon and Peabody Energy — which obviously have a business interest in slowing any attempt to reduce carbon emissions — have combined with traditionally conservative corporate groups like the US Chamber of Commerce and conservative foundations like the Koch brothers' Americans for Prosperity, to raise doubts about the basic validity of what is, essentially, a settled scientific truth. The naysayers seem to be following the playbook written by the tobacco industry in its long, ongoing war against medical findings about the dangers of smoking. For both Big Oil and Big Smoke, that playbook is lethally simple: don't straight-up refute the science, just raise skepticism and insist that the findings are "unsettled" and that "more research" is necessary."
Comment No more Torchwood Miracle Day on Starz Live? (Score 1) 314
I ALMOST cancelled my Netflix account when the price for disc & streaming went up. Then I found Starz had a live stream of their network channel on Netflix. I really started to get into Torchwood Miracle Day and decided not to cancel Netflix. Now I'm pretty sure I will be closing my account, and go to a "friend" to get the show for me online for free.
Comment Re:NMI button (Score 1) 204
I also remember a program called GOMF (Get Out'a My Face) that let an Amiga user abort a program after the dreaded Guru Meditation Error threatened to crash the entire system. Ah, good times!
Comment Reverse TARDIS? (Score 1) 223
They say, "the Wii U controller is not as big or heavy as it looks." So... it looks bigger on the outside than it is on the... outside?
Submission + - Firm can't fire man for 1.8 cent theft (yahoo.com)
An anonymous reader writes: BERLIN (Reuters) A German company that fired a man for the theft of 1.8 euro cents (two U.S. cents) worth of electricity had no grounds for sacking him, a court ruled, dismissing the firm's appeal against his reinstatement.
Network administrator Oliver Beel lost his job after charging his Segway, a two-wheeled electric vehicle, at work in May 2009. After he connected the vehicle to the firm's power source for 1-1/2 hours, his boss asked him to remove it.
Twelve days later Beel found himself without a job.
Network administrator Oliver Beel lost his job after charging his Segway, a two-wheeled electric vehicle, at work in May 2009. After he connected the vehicle to the firm's power source for 1-1/2 hours, his boss asked him to remove it.
Twelve days later Beel found himself without a job.
Submission + - Internet Petitions Stephen Colbert To Hold 'Restor (huffingtonpost.com)
jamie writes: "A grassroots campaign has begun to get Stephen Colbert to hold a rally on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to counter Glenn Beck's recent "Restoring Honor" event. The would-be rally has been dubbed "Restoring Truthiness" and was inspired by a recent post on Reddit, where a young woman wondered if the only way to point out the absurdity of the Tea Party's rally would be if Colbert mirrored it with his own "Colbert Nation.""
Submission + - Student Shocks Own Nipples, Sues Teacher (wbztv.com)
An anonymous reader writes: The Associated Press reports that a New Hampshire high school student who connected electrodes to his nipples that were plugged into the wall, severely shocking him, is suing the teacher, the school district, and the city because the teacher failed to warn him not to do so. Student Kyle Dubois attached a wire to his nipples, cooperated with another student to attach a second wire to the other nipple, and a third student plugged them in. A classmate captured the event on cell phone video (http://wbztv.com/video/?id=88175@wbz.dayport.com). Kyle and his parents claim that he didn't know it was dangerous and the teacher's failure to warn him resulted in permanent brain damage. If I was the teacher's attorney, I would be tempted to argue that there is strong evidence the brain damage was present before the incident took place.
