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Submission + - Netflix Aborts Qwickster Quicker Than You Can Spel (netflix.com) 1

phmadore writes: "So, for those of us who haven't given up on Netflix, we know that Netflix has in fact given up on its recently announced first-born, "Qwickster."

From the e-mail:

It is clear that for many of our members two websites would make things more difficult, so we are going to keep Netflix as one place to go for streaming and DVDs.

This means no change: one website, one account, one password... in other words, no Qwikster."

Desktops (Apple)

Submission + - NeoOffice Charging for 3.2 Download (neooffice.org) 1

phmadore writes: "Well, I've donated to NeoOffice several times. I was grateful to remember about them after OpenOffice stopped working for awhile (don't know its current Mac OSX status). Anyway, I must have donated with a different e-mail last time, because they wouldn't let me get their latest version, 3.2, until I made a minimum ten dollar "donation." Seems like they're capitalizing on a murky part of the OSS license, to me. Now mind you, I made the donation because the software is well worth it, but I am troubled when I see things like this happening. Don't direct me to the source code if I don't have ten dollars — you're going against the very spirit of OSS, and I don't like it. Thoughts, /.?"

Comment Re:Disbar? (Score 1) 545

I think disbarring these people for overzealously representing their clients might put personal injury, criminal defense, and other types of lawyers at risk. I do think they should be censured from bringing suit against Limewire ever again, though.

Comment US Economy (Score 1) 545

United States of America Gross Domestic Product 2010: $14.660 trillion. I laughed extremely hard. I agree with the submitter: this is only going to weaken them and make the public think they are wasting the courts' time.
Wikipedia

Submission + - A Videographic History of Civ. in 100 Seconds (vimeo.com)

phmadore writes: "A couple of video nerds have, using the co-ordinates of historical Wikipedia entries dating back to the 400BCs, made a visualized history of civilization. They condensed the video to 100 seconds, for whatever reason. I personally think someone could take this concept to a new height with a bit more work, but nonetheless, it's pretty sweet."
Iphone

Submission + - iPhone 5 Internal parts Leaked by Foxconn (techxilla.com)

aliaero writes: "With the release of the new iPad 2 the focus of online stalkers have been converged to the upcoming iPhone 5 which is expected to be released in the third quarter of this year. 9to5Mac has reported that according to their sources at Foxconn China, it has been speculated that upcoming version of iPhone will have almost the same design as that of the current version with 4-inch display and a metal back instead of Glass. Today it has been further proved that the iPhone 5 will have similar internal components to that of iPhone 4."
Google

Submission + - Amazon’s Android App Store is Live! (gamersleak.com)

Gamersleak writes: "Today Amazon’s fresh new AppStore has officially been launched. This new platform is aimed to compete with Google’s official Android Market. In the past few months rumors were running like wildfire all over the tech blogs about this “AppStore.” While some details have leaked prior to its release, Amazon has left a few tricks up its sleeve. One of the biggest surprises is the ability to Test Drive’ nearly any Android application in the App Store directly from your browser."
Chrome

Submission + - How Secure is Your Browser? (net-security.org)

Orome1 writes: Recent research clearly shows that browser security is alarmingly bad. Browsers and plug-ins are frequently outdated and easily attacked. To make things worse, malware authors adapt quickly and most of their new attacks are against browser plug-ins. Qualys CTO Wolfgang Kandek talks about their research which showed that only about 20% of security vulnerabilities are in the browsers and the great majority of security issues comes from the plug-ins installed in them. These plug-ins are typically not updated by the browser. Top examples are Adobe Flash and Reader, Sun Java and Windows Media Player. While everybody knows about the hackers' predilection for targeting Adobe Flash, data shows that Sun Java is by far the most vulnerable plug-in installed in browsers.
Firefox

Submission + - Mozilla Firefox 4 Released

Shining Celebi writes: Mozilla has finally released Firefox 4, a couple months behind schedule. It features hardware accelerated graphics, UI performance improvements, a massive boost in Javascript performance, reduced memory usage, WebGL, a new HTML5 parser, App Tabs, tab grouping via the Panorama feature, bookmark and history syncing, and much more. Many users will also be happy to know the status bar has been more-or-less restored after Mozilla removed it in early betas. Firefox 4 scores over 3 times faster on Sunspider, V8, and Kraken.

Submission + - UK's 4G Spectrum Sale Designed To Preserve Players (eweekeurope.co.uk)

judgecorp writes: "the UK regulator Ofcom has announced plans to auction spectrum for 4G mobile broadband. By imposing maximum and minimum limits to what any operator can buy, the regulator hopes the UK can keep four mobile operators — just as the US looks like losing one. The UK operator 3 had warned an open auction might put it out of business, but has welcomed Ofcom's published plans ."

Comment I'm among them (Score 1) 157

Here's to a society where we really don't care that our boss knows who we fucked this weekend and how drunk we were when we did it; here's to a society where the boss has something better to do than worry about how much he pisses me off, because I'm still performing and he's still bossing; here's to the New America.

Comment Re:It's certainly time for this already! (Score 0, Troll) 212

You pay for software that almost works 30% of the time and fails to work the other 70% of the time?

What does Microsoft have to do with Google other than that they are attempting -- and I use this word loosely -- to compete with them on their home turf?

Chrome has done more to keep people using Windows than MS would ever give credit for. You don't see Google trying to make it the default browser choice on all systems sold by, I dunno, Dell or HP, do you?

If you had said you pay for Apple products because they work and you get what you pay for, I would consider that reasonable. But all you prove in your comment is that you're some form of retarded Microsoft-bot, and that's a shame, because that bitch is finally on the way out and innovation is finally back on the way in, and it always sucks to be the last to realize that.

Next, we'll deal with the spectre of Apple evil -- even us who love their products.

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