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Submission + - Kleargear.com found in Europe, will fight default judgement

Submitted by portforward
portforward writes: Remember Kleargear.com, that company who bills unhappy customers $3,500 for publicly expressing they are unhappy? Kleargear.com claimed they were owed a substantial amount of money after a couple posted their negative experience on RipoffReport.com and then attempted to collect, severly damaging the the family's credit rating. The unlucky couple sued, and got a default judgement against Kleargear in part because no one could actually find the owners of the company. Apparently now the owners have surfaced in Paris — vowing to fight and saying:

"Our sales contract is enforceable under the laws of the United States because business transactions are exempt from First Amendment rights ... If a customer disagrees with any merchant of policies, they are free to shop elsewhere."

Especially, of course, when the company adds conditions to the bill of sale after the sale is complete.

Submission + - Hail and Tornado's and NWS Outages Oh My! (mashable.com)

Submitted by Chance Callahan
Chance Callahan writes: During the severe weather outbreak on 5/23/2014 the US National Weather Service couldn't do a very important function... issue watches, warnings, and advisories. Storm spotters and media outlets couldn't access radar either.

Submission + - Cinavia defeated (torrentfreak.com)

Submitted by Hamsterdan
Hamsterdan writes: Cinavia's anti-piracy technology has been a thorn in the side of many file-sharers, who are unable to pay pirated files on their DVD-players without being interrupted by a warning message. In a breakthrough development, software vendor DVD-Ranger has cracked the protection, including for popular movies downloaded from pirate sites.

Cinavia’s anti-piracy technology relies on a unique type of watermarking that allows it to remain present in pirated movies despite re-recording, transcoding, compression, or other type of transfer.

Submission + - HP Makes More Money, Cuts 16,000 Jobs (itworld.com)

Submitted by jfruh
jfruh writes: Good news for HP: Profits are up by 18% over the previous year! Bad news for HP: A lot of those profits are from post-Windows XP PC upgrades, and company revenue actually dipped 1%. The solution, according to CEO Meg Whitman, is "continuous improvement in our cost structure," which means firing thousands of people. At the end of the next round of layoffs, the company will have shed 50,000 employees since 2012.

Submission + - Broadband on the Moon Means Watching Game of Thrones Live in Outer Space (ibtimes.co.uk)

Submitted by DavidGilbert99
DavidGilbert99 writes: Researchers at MIT's Lincoln Laboratory will next month detail how, for the first time, they have created a data communication technology which can provide space dwellers with the connectivity we all enjoy here on Earth, enabling large data transfers and even high-definition video streaming.

Comment Re:And... (Score 1) 84

by NapalmV (#47066391) Attached to: Google Overtakes Apple As the World's Most Valuable Brand

Ads pay for free.

Not really. When you buy the products you also pay for the price of their ads. Buying a box of cereals? It will cost you the cereals (+profit) + the price of the ad (+profit of ad agency) + the price of distributing said ad (+Google profit). Yes, they apparently generates more profits and a larger variety of jobs (thus the "economists" will declare them to be "good for the economy"), but they're not free at all.

Submission + - CERN's particle smashers list their toughest tech challenges (zdnet.com) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Researchers at CERN have detailed some of the big technology problems they need to solve to help the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) solve some of the fundamental questions about the nature of the universe. 'You make it, we break it' is the CERN openlab motto which looks at emerging tech: data acquisition, computing platforms, data storage architectures, compute management and provisioning and more are on the to do list.

Submission + - Privacy aware, non-tracking, Decentralized Advertisement engine for Android. (google.com)

Submitted by Edison Nica
Edison Nica writes: The information age has evolved to a point where information about anyone and everyone can be accessible. For a time, most people were either willing participants in relinquishing this data or had no idea that simple entry of personal data would allow unlimited access to information they never wanted to share. Events of the last few years show just how rampant the misuse of this data has become. And those with bad intentions have done a lot of damage by accessing our personal data. 0SPi shows that you don’t need your customers’ data to sell them your products and services and it launches demos to showcase the technology is building.

Submission + - Is Too Much Computer Time Killing Kids' Ability to Learn?

Submitted by Rambo Tribble
Rambo Tribble writes: A teacher's union in Northern Ireland is asserting that children spending too much time on computers are impairing their ability to learn. The asserted excessive computer use is being blamed for an inability to concentrate or socialize. As one teacher puts it, '... these gadgets are really destroying their ability to learn.' One question no one seems to be asking is whether the kids showing these symptoms are getting enough sleep.

Submission + - Sony CEO: Company Must Reform By April 2016 -- Or Die (itworld.com)

Submitted by jfruh
jfruh writes: New Sony CEO Kazuso Hirai isn't beating around the bush: he says the company must be radically reformed by the end of its next fiscal year in April 2016, and if those reforms aren't in place by then, 'it will be all but impossible to envision a growth strategy for the mid- to long term.' The company is already in the midst of exiting the PC and television business to focus on more profitable lines of business.

Comment Re:Society? What society? Corporations FTW! (Score 1) 84

by NapalmV (#47064729) Attached to: Google Overtakes Apple As the World's Most Valuable Brand
Fully agree, but wasn't it the legislative/government's role to curb activities that are perceived as obnoxious by a large segment of the society? I am aware that advertising is touted as being "good for the economy" and thus "useful/needed", but once you deconstruct the slogan (i.e. you define "good" and "economy"), one may realize that it doesn't hold any water?

Submission + - 'World's most secure' messaging app PQChat is unhackable

Submitted by rofkool
rofkool writes: A new messaging app is hoping to take on the likes of WhatsApp and SnapChat by providing an ultra-secure communication service that does not collect or mine user data. PQChat claims to be completely hack-proof, even when pitted against the processing power of a quantum computer.

In a post-Snowden world, PQChat aims to capitalise on people's privacy concerns by eliminating concern about third-party spying or data collection through its Never-The-Same (NTS) technology. NTS employs the McEliece cryptosystem, an algorithm developed in 1978 that has never been broken.

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