Comment Bing will be able to find lots of useful info (Score 1) 297
like who's in need of magic seeds in Farmville!
Comment Technology??? (Score 1) 779
I thought it was Dan Brown's job to cause confusion between reality and fiction?
Comment Re:Hmm (Score 1) 404
I'm surprised I don't see in the flowchart the option for pressing and holding the "power button" for 5 seconds - which I've had to use way too many times after being frustrated that after several minutes my shutdown request still hasn't completed!
Comment Re:Skull Jack In The Future? (Score 1) 118
William Gibson's "Neuromancer"
Submission + - Minority Report is now real: AEG sues before crime (hollywoodreporter.com)
Caledfwlch writes: In a Minority Reportesque situation AEG, following a similar situation from the Bravado International Group of UMG, was sued concert bootleggers before they bootleg. "Just because the Mile High Music Festival this weekend in Denver hasn't happened yet, and just because the bootleggers haven't yet set up shop, doesn't mean that hundreds of individuals haven't already been sued", all as John and Jane Does with names to be filled in later. They asked "a federal court in Colorado to order the US Marshal, local and state police, off duty officers, and AEG agents to seize and impound bootlegged merchandise."
Comment Re:That's an ESTIMATE? (Score 1) 109
Also, what is the date and time of this estimate? How many books are published a day around the world?
Submission + - Study that 99.7% of torrents are "illegal" flawed (torrentfreak.com) 1
Caledfwlch writes: techdirt, and others, point to an analysis by TorrentFreak of the recent report by Internet Commerce Security Laboratory (ICSL) of Australia that only 0.3% of torrents contain legal content. One of the data points was that the movie The Incredible Hulk was the number one seeded torrent "the fact that the release is nearly two years old should have sounded some alarm bells. It appears that the researchers have pulled data from a bogus tracker, and it wouldn’t be a big surprise if all the torrents in their top 10 are actually fake.". The study had been widely picked up a couple of days ago by the media, here, at ArsTechnica, and others.
Submission + - US BPAI: abstract software code is not patentable (groklaw.net)
Caledfwlch writes: Seems like sanity may be trying to prevail from the Bilski decision. The US Board of Patents Appeals and Interferences (BPAI) has rejected a software patent application from HP saying that "abstract software code" is not patentable, stating "The unpatentability of abstract ideas was confirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court in Bilski v. Kappos"
Comment Re:implications? (Score 2, Interesting) 151
There is a positive implication.... it may count partly towards the transparency that the Indian security agencies want ;-)
Comment Re:This is all from the Mumbai terror attacks (Score 2, Informative) 281
So they want content in a readable format, are they going to prohibit VPNs? I'm sure there will be an outcry from all the companies outsourcing to their country. Anyway there will always be a way to hide information not matter how much they legislate.
Comment Re:Good. (Score 1) 483
Absolutely! And I hope they're going to start cracking down on free public performances... all those @&#$!&% hippies filling up the parks for free concerts! Where is my dog going to crap!!!
Comment Re:Fulltime Job (Score 1) 371
Can you say "job security"?
Comment Re:Nice (Score 2, Insightful) 178
... unless they're doing the criticizing themselves!
Comment Re:important psa (Score 2, Insightful) 258
I don't think they have Sun in San Francisco (Fog City)
Comment 2 independant studies say AT&T better than Ver (Score 1) 572
Despite the Verizon ads it appears from 2 independent studies (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/13/business/13digi.html?_r=1&em) that, at least in the major metropolitan areas, AT&T does have a more reliable and faster network and the iPhone's "electronics in the phone that connect it to the cell towers, had shortcomings that 'affect both voice and data.'".
