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Submission + - CNN Anchors Caught On Camera Using Microsoft Surface As An iPad Stand (hothardware.com)

Submitted by MojoKid
MojoKid writes: Since the release of its Surface Pro 3 tablet, Microsoft has pushed their new slate hard. It's as if the company wanted it to overwrite that part of our memory that recalls the Surface RT and it's monumental losses. This past August, we saw the company make a big move by deploying a boatload of Surface Pro tablets to every team in the NFL, gratis. All season so far, coaches and even players have made use of them to plan their next course-of-action, and for the most part, they seemed to be well-received. Unlike some of the products Microsoft tries to get us to adopt, the Surface Pro 3 really is a solid tablet / convertible. Unfortunately, at least where the CNN political team is concerned, Microsoft hasn't one over a few anchors, like they have in NFL, when they were supplied with brand-new Surface Pros. In recent shots captured and tweeted about, a Surface Pro 3 can be seen acting as an "iPad stand" and quite an expensive one. As humorous as this is, it might not seem that interesting if it were just one correspondent who pulled that stunt. Let's be honest, some people just like their iPads. That wasn't the case, though. There were at least two commentators using an iPad on the same set, despite having the Surface right in front of them and seemingly hiding it behind Microsoft's darling Windows 8 slate.

Submission + - Microsoft Surface is an excellent iPad stand (geekwire.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Looks like all of the millions of dollars spent by Microsoft to promote the Microsoft Surface are finally paying off. The newscasters at CNN have discovered that they make really good stand for their iPads.

Submission + - CNN Election Commentators: Microsoft Surface Is Great for Hiding Our iPads! (tmz.com)

Submitted by PolygamousRanchKid
PolygamousRanchKid writes: Hold on to your seats, Ladies and Gentlemen, a first for Slashdot . . . a tech story from . . . *gasp* . . . TMZ!

CNN just got busted in the biggest political cover-up, and it has nothing to do with Benghazi or the IRS — instead it's all about ... TABLETS!!! Last night CNN's Election coverage experts were given Microsoft Surface Pro 3 tablets to use. It was reportedly part of a product placement deal ... and competing devices — like the iPad — were supposed to be no where in sight.

Not everyone got that memo ... because Jake Tapper and Ana Navarro were caught on camera using the Surface Pros as shields to cover up their iPads ... which they were clearly still using.

With 100% of precincts reporting, we are prepared to call this race ... for the iPad.

A Microsoft spokesperson was "unable" to comment on the apparent CNN gaffe.

The photos from the live coverage are a hoot and a half . . .

Comment Re:News For Nerds? (Score 1) 401

by PolygamousRanchKid (#48299245) Attached to: US Midterm Elections Discussion

And where did Poly say Fox?

I read the print edition of The Economist, actually. It's an excellent source for deep analysis of the news.

For instance, rumors in Central America of the coming Obama amnesty are what drove the surge in illegal immigration this year in the first place. The Obama administration could have taken actions to quell these rumors . . . which would have stopped the surge . . . but they didn't.

Comment Re:News For Nerds? (Score 2, Interesting) 401

by PolygamousRanchKid (#48297063) Attached to: US Midterm Elections Discussion

How again is this News For Nerds?

Because Obama is thinking about granting amnesty to all illegal immigrants in the US. So if legal H1-Bs overstay their visas, and become illegal immigrants . . . poof . . . they will become legal residents. For H1-B employers, mission accomplished. More people willing to work for less. And the employers will not need to go through the paperwork hassle for getting H1-Bs.

That's why.

Comment Re:Posted earlier in the week (Score 1) 250

by PolygamousRanchKid (#48289301) Attached to: Free Broadband For NYC Public Housing?

If you want to narrow the "Digital Divide"

This would create a new digital divide . . . those who pay for their Internet usage . . . and those who don't.

First come public housing . . . and then city shelters . . . who's next . . . ?

This deal is great for Comcast . . . they will get new subscribers, who would otherwise have not signed up with them. The costs will be passed on to paying customers.

This deal is great for the NYC government . . . because city agencies will not have to pay for their Internet anymore. Again, the costs will be passed on the paying customers.

People complain about their Comcast bills every month anyway . . . why not just squeeze them a little more, and just let them complain anymore.

I can easily see who this proposal will benefit. Can you spot who loses on this deal . . . ?

Submission + - France investigating mysterious drone activity on 7 nuclear power plant sites (deredactie.be)

Submitted by thygate
thygate writes: In France, an investigation has been launched into the appearance of "drones" on 7 different nuclear power plant sites across the country in the last month. Some of the plants involved are Creys-Malville en Bugey in the southeast, Blayais in the southwest, Cattenom en Chooz in the northeast, Gravelines in the north, and Nogent-sur-Seine, close to Paris. On each occasion "drones" were seen on the domain somewhere from late in the evening to early in the morning, while it is forbidden to fly over these sites on altitudes less than 1 km in a 5 km radius. According to a spokesman of the state electric company that runs the facilities (EDF), there was no danger to the security and production of the plants. However these incidents will likely bring nuclear safety concerns back into the spotlight. France is number one country in the world when it comes to dependency on nuclear power, with a total of 58 centrals spread over 19 sites across the country.

Greenpeace's head of its anti-nuclear power campaign has already denied involvement. Their spokesman added that these events are very troubling, and also mentions they have learned about more "drone" activity above the French Center for nuclear research (CEA) close to Paris.

Submission + - 'Wasting Time on the Internet' Is Now an Actual College Class 1

Submitted by Jason Koebler
Jason Koebler writes: Next semester at the University of Pennsylvania, students will walk into a classroom, pull out their laptops, their smartphones, their tablets, and sit there, for three hours, doing what they no doubt do pretty often: Waste time on the internet.
The Ivy League school's newest creative writing class is trying to remove the stigma from an activity that millions of people do on a daily basis, in an attempt to explore how our minds might work when we're totally aimlessly clicking through reddit or Facebook or Slashdot or watching porn or doing whatever people do in their free time.

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