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Submission + - Study finds average cellphone uses 145.8Mb a month (blorge.com)

Submitted by destinyland
destinyland writes: For the first time, the majority of cellphones are accessing data services — 53 percent, compared to only 42 percent last year, according to a new study by Validas. And each user downloads an average of 145.8 megabytes a month (vs just 96.8 megabytes a month in 2009). The heaviest users are Verizon smartphone owner, averaging 428 megabytes a month (vs 338Mb for iPhone users). In fact, Verizon users were twice as likely as iPhone users to exceed both 500Mb and 2Gb each month.
Space

Submission + - Antarctica Experiment Discovers Puzzling Space Ray (livescience.com)

Submitted by pitchpipe
pitchpipe writes: A puzzling pattern in the cosmic rays bombarding Earth from space has been discovered by an experiment buried deep under the ice of Antarctica.

[...]it turns out these particles are not arriving uniformly from all directions. The new study detected an overabundance of cosmic rays coming from one part of the sky, and a lack of cosmic rays coming from another.

Comment MOD WARS!!!! (Score 2, Funny) 79

by CDS (#32938324) Attached to: Gaming Without a Safety Blanket

Seriously, why is this pure expression of stupidity modded "insightful"? It doesn't have anything to say, apart from "I don't have any thoughts of my own, and I don't want any, and I don't want to listen to someone who has".

Right now, at least, his post is modded "3: Insightful" and yours is modded "4: Insightful" -- you're winning!!

Comment Re:Public Perception is off? (Score 1) 185

by CDS (#32626152) Attached to: Struggling To Bridge the Casual-Hardcore Game Gap
I totally agree. I used to be a more-hardcore gamer but as I've gotten older & started a family (I have a 7 year old daughter and 6 month old twins), I am starting to graduate to the casual games. I have an xbox360 which I bought primarily to play the rockband games. I also have games such as Call of Duty, The Force Unleashed, Grand Theft Auto, Bioshock, etc.

None of those games are appropriate for for my 7-year old. I'm looking for some games we can play together and it's been difficult. I've found a few casual games (Worms Armageddon, for example) but for the most part, it's still pretty much hardcore games.

I don't want to have to invest in another console just for casual games, but it's starting to look like I don't have a lot of choice...

Comment Phone? No. Laptop? ABSOLUTELY. (Score 5, Insightful) 146

by CDS (#31204462) Attached to: Considering Cheaper Pico-Projectors As Standard Equipment On Cell Phones
No, I wouldn't use one in my phone - but I would ABSOLUTELY use one in my laptop.

It'd be great to be able to project onto a wall for a spur-of-the-moment code discussion, etc. It seems like every time I'm in a meeting & want to share an idea or code snippet, etc. with the group, it happens to be in an area without a projector. If we could have a picoprojector on the backside of my laptop's LCD, you could project from there whenever you need...
Space

Pluto — a Complex and Changing World 191

Posted by timothy from the can-imagine-quite-a-bit dept.
astroengine writes "After 4 years of processing the highest resolution photographs the Hubble Space Telescope could muster, we now have the highest resolution view of Pluto's surface ever produced. Most excitingly, these new observations show an active world with seasonal changes altering the dwarf planet's surface. It turns out that this far-flung world has more in common with Earth than we would have ever imagined."

Submission + - Jammie Thomas verdict reduced from $1.92M to $54k (blogspot.com)

Submitted by NewYorkCountryLawyer
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes: The $1.92 million dollar RIAA verdict in Capitol Records v. Thomas-Rasset has been reduced from $1,920,000 to $54,000. The judge indicated that he found even the reduced amount to be 'harsh' and that, were he — rather than the jury — determining the proper damages, he might well have awarded even less. In his 38-page decision (PDF), Judge Michael J. Davis concluded that $2250 per infringed work was the maximum amount a jury could reasonably award without the result being a 'shock to the conscience', and indicated that he was relying solely on standard principles of 'remittitur', without reaching the constitutional due process arguments advanced by Ms. Thomas-Rasset's counsel. Judge Davis also indicated that he was relying in part upon the defendant's having lied under oath during the trial. The judge stated that 'statutory damages must still bear some relation to actual damages'.

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