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Comment The unwritten rule? (Score 1) 336

It appears that with so many people with mobile-devices with inbuilt cameras and such today, filming all sorts of weird & inappropriate stuff up close (sometimes too close).. When snapping UFO's in your immediate vicinity: the unwritten rule is to: a) get back into your car. b) drive 100 miles away. c) locate yourself behind some type of dirty plate glass window (preferably somewhere where there's lots of people screaming/yelling) d) start shaking the camera violently (in preparation of taking the shot) e) check that zoom is all the way out. e) take the shot.
Games

Submission + - PlayStation Now Offers Support Over Twitter (tekgoblin.com)

tekgoblin writes: "If you have a question about a PlayStation product or service but don't want to wait on hold over the phone? Well you can head over to twitter.com/askplaystation between the hours of 2pm and 5pm PST Monday through Friday. However the Twitter account will remain operational between the hours of 9:30AM — 5:00PM PST. It looks like Sony is looking to compete with Microsoft's customer service over at twitter.com/xboxsupport."
Cloud

Submission + - 'Big Data' Mining: Who Owns Your Social Data? (infoworld.com)

GMGruman writes: "Paul Krill reports that one of the big uses of the new "Big Data" analytics technology is to mine the information people post through social networking. Which led him to ask "What gives Twitter, Facebook, et al. the right to mine that data?" It turns out users do when they sign up for social networking services, even if they don't realize that — but less clear is the ownership of other information on the Web that these tools also mine."
NASA

Submission + - NASA Study Shows Ice Sheets Melting Faster (ibtimes.com)

RedEaredSlider writes: Data from NASA satellites shows that both the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are melting faster, and making them a bigger contributor to sea level rise.

The most recent study is being published in Geophysical Research Letters. It combines data from several satellites to measure the rates of mass loss (as opposed to extent) over a 20-year period. The results showed the ice is melting even faster than the computer models had predicted.

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