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Assange Secret Swedish Police Report Leaked 840

Posted by CmdrTaco from the nothing-is-sacred dept.
letsurock writes "The 68-page confidential report prepared by Swedish police got leaked which tells the police version on the alleged sexual misconduct by the Julian assange. The Swedish report traces events over a four-day period in August this year when 39-year-old Assange had what he has described as consensual sexual relationships with two Swedish women."
Perl

RubyGems' Module Count Soon To Surpass CPAN's 206

Posted by timothy from the we-finally-know-who's-counting dept.
mfarver writes "According to the data gathered by modulecounts.com, the total number of modules checked into RubyGems (18,894, and growing at about 27/day) will probably exceed CPAN (18,928, and growing about 8/day) this week."
Google

ChromeOS Laptop-Smashing Ad Equation Solved 164

Posted by Soulskill from the geeks-are-nothing-if-not-reliable dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Google's latest marketing video for Chrome OS is interesting to watch for the laptop-smashing amateurs or the slow motion fans, but the real fun may be at 2:24 in the video where a X=G/(CHROM-3) equation is displayed on a chalkboard. Only 20 hours later, it has already been cracked by Jamendo founder Sylvain Zimmer and his team. They posted details on how they did it and won a Cr-48 netbook, which may not even be delivered because they are not in the US."
Facebook

Facebook To Own the Word "Face" 311

Posted by samzenpus from the what's-in-a-word dept.
Dthief writes "The US Patent And Trademark Office has sent Facebook a Notice of Allowance, which means it will grant the 'Face' trademark to the popular social networking site. Facebook now has three months to pay an issue fee before they officially own the word. From the article: 'For all intents and purposes today's status update bodes well for Facebook's hold over 'face' usages in 'Telecommunication services, namely, providing online chat rooms and electronic bulletin boards for transmission of messages among computer users in the field of general interest and concerning social and entertainment subject matter, none primarily featuring or relating to motoring or to cars.''"

Comment Re:You could almost get the vinyl (Score 1) 551

by rpopescu (#34266176) Attached to: The Beatles On iTunes
This is not a discussion on turntables. I simply pointed out that $80 buys a spinning device of some sort, perhaps, but not a decent turntable, which *starts* at SL-1200; far from me to say that it's the best one available, but it definitely is a very good start.

I think you might be mistaken about the wow and flutter performance of the Technics, but again, this is not about the SL-1200 (I personally own a high-end ClearAudio paired with a Graham Slee phono stage).

Comment Re:You could almost get the vinyl (Score 1) 551

by rpopescu (#34243364) Attached to: The Beatles On iTunes
Let me start off by saying that I completely agree regarding classic rock (and not only!) and vinyl as the perfect marriage. However you have given out the perfect recipe for a sub-mediocre listening experience in your post. Here's why: - there's nothing decent about a $80 turntable, and you will never get "the sound" out of it. Ever. A decent turntable is $500 and up, for fairly low values of decent, and without a pre-amp (e.g. Technics SL-1200); - all recent Beatles vinyls are made from digital sources, so you get an analogue medium storing a digital transfer (designed for CD production) of an analogue original; there's nothing gained here. Beatles vinyls cut from analogue source in near-mint or excellent condition are quite expensive and not easy to find. Also there's a fair bit of music produced after 1995 (which is by the way a year completely randomly picked) that's been given good analogue vinyl releases, cut from original master tapes without an intermediary digital step. Of course "fair bit" and "music" are subject to personal interpretation.
Science

Immaculate Conception In a Boa Constrictor 478

Posted by samzenpus from the gold-frankincense-and-mice dept.
crudmonkey writes "Researchers have discovered a biological shocker: female boa constrictors are capable of giving birth asexually. But the surprise doesn't end there. The study in Biology Letters found that boa babies produced through this asexual reproduction — also known as parthenogenesis — sport a chromosomal oddity that researchers thought was impossible in reptiles. While researchers admit that the female in the study may have been a genetic freak, they say the findings should press researchers to re-think reptile reproduction. Virgin birth among reptiles, especially primitive ones like boas, they argue may be far commoner than ever expected."
Sci-Fi

The Science of Battlestar Galactica 465

Posted by samzenpus from the set-phasers-on-unrealistic dept.
gearystwatcher writes "TV science adviser Kevin Grazier talks about getting rid of the Trek babble in Battlestar Galactica. From the article: "Grazier's job was to help keep the technology and science real and credible — even when there were some massive leaps. Grazier didn't just make sure that there was a reason for what we saw — bullets instead of lasers — but also that when the science bit did break into the open, it was more mind-blowing than the writers could have conceived — such as when the humans discover their mechanical Cylon persecutors have evolved to look human.'"
The Almighty Buck

US Supreme Court Expected Political Ad Transparency 617

Posted by CmdrTaco from the oh-yeah-that'll-happen dept.
T Murphy writes "The Supreme Court, when ruling that corporate and union political donations were allowed under free speech, assumed the source of the donation would be disclosed immediately under current donation laws. Due to loopholes, this has not been the case, eliminating the hoped-for transparency the Supreme Court ruled to be vital to democracy. Justice Kennedy, who sided with the majority on the ruling, has been called naive for his expectation that there would be greater transparency. In the meantime, campaign spending for House candidates alone is expected to reach $1.5 billion."
Iphone

Apple Outs Anti-Jailbreak Update 429

Posted by CmdrTaco from the longer-than-i'd-expect dept.
Stoobalou writes "Apple has issued an emergency update for devices running the iOS 4 mobile operating system. iOS 4.0.2 plugs the security hole exploited by the iPhone Dev Team to allow pain-free jailbreaking of the iPhone 4 and its manifold siblings as well as... actually, that's about it."
Cellphones

Apple Hires Antenna Engineers. Really. 417

Posted by CmdrTaco from the you're-holding-it-wrong dept.
kangsterizer writes "Sometimes, news items are just about a good laugh. You may or may not like Apple, but the way it has been handling its antenna issue has been like a small tech soap opera — Steve Jobs, the CEO, saying 'not to hold the phone that way,' rumors of software issues, and the latest but most crunchy part, since the antenna issue has been widely discovered, on 23 June, several 'antenna engineer' positions opened up at Apple. Seems someone got fired: Antenna engineer job position 1, Antenna engineer job position 2, Antenna engineer job position 3." I just figure they did all their testing in California, where AT&T dropping calls is as common as $4 coffees.

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