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Submission + - Bad Piggies Fake App Spreads Adware | debrained.com (debrained.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A certain Bad Piggies app that you can find available on Chrome Web Store is the culprit that’s creating the buzz. It’s proven that once downloaded and installed, the app diffuses adwares. It’s quite confusing too because the app itself adapted the same game branding as Bad Piggies. Definitely, this isn’t Rovio’s official game app since after you’ve got it installed it will de-morph as a cloaked adware. | http://debrained.com/
Science

Submission + - Stem Cells Safe for Rare Brain Disorder (sciencemag.org)

Submitted by sciencehabit
sciencehabit writes: Four young boys with a rare, fatal brain condition have made it through a dangerous ordeal. Scientists have safely transplanted human neural stem cells into their brains. Twelve months after the surgeries, the boys have more myelin—a fatty insulating protein that coats nerve fibers and speeds up electric signals between neurons—and show improved brain function, a new study in Science Translational Medicine reports. The preliminary trial paves the way for future research into potential stem cell treatments for the disorder, which overlaps with more common diseases such as Parkinson's disease and multiple sclerosis.
Math

Submission + - Mathematicians Extend Einstein's Special Relativity Beyond Speed of Light 1

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Hugh Pickens writes
Hugh Pickens writes writes: "The Christian Science Monitor reports that despite an apparent prohibition on faster-than-light travel by Einstein’s theory of special relativity, applied mathematician James Hill and his colleague Barry Cox say the theory actually lends itself easily to a description of velocities that exceed the speed of light. "The actual business of going through the speed of light is not defined," says Hill whose research has been published in the prestigious Proceedings of the Royal Society A. "The theory we've come up with is simply for velocities greater than the speed of light." In effect, the singularity at the speed of light divides the universe into two: a world where everything moves slower than the speed of light, and a world where everything moves faster. The laws of physics in these two realms could turn out to be quite different. In some ways, the hidden world beyond the speed of light looks to be a strange one. Hill and Cox's equations suggest, for example, that as a spaceship traveling at super-light speeds accelerated faster and faster, it would lose more and more mass, until at infinite velocity, its mass became zero. "We are mathematicians, not physicists, so we've approached this problem from a theoretical mathematical perspective," says Dr Cox. "Should it, however, be proven that motion faster than light is possible, then that would be game changing. Our paper doesn't try and explain how this could be achieved, just how equations of motion might operate in such regimes.""

Comment Re:CItation Needed (Score 1) 1181

by penandpaper (#39687481) Attached to: Losing the Public Debate On Global Warming

Here are your citations! plantsneedco2.org says warmer is better then colder. They have lots of facts that seem logical and scientifically sound. Like this bit:

We have determined that CO2 's influence, while significant at low concentrations in the atmosphere, is of minor impact as more and more is added to the atmosphere...

It must be true because that is what I have been saying all along without any research or experimentation. [end sarcasm]

Honestly, what is even more troubling to me is other potential problems that might be caused by co2 like the acidity of the oceans.

Yet, when I talk to a self-identified Conservative that denies global warming and I mention other potential risks of co2 (such as the aforementioned) the response is childish at best. We can agree humans are putting a lot of c02 in the atmosphere at unprecedented rates. Yet, global climate change is outside of our influence.

How many papers have been published and peer reviewed in journals that support the current consensus of the scientific community? Isn't it like 97-98% of all papers submitted in regards to global warming have verifiable data to reach the conclusion that we are indeed impacting the climate in a warming sort of way. How many for the deniers???

I will just leave with this quote from plantsneedco2.org and let your head explode.

CO2 (carbon dioxide) is one of the drivers and while everyone agrees that CO2 does contribute to climate change as a greenhouse gas, the magnitude of CO2 's influence has not been settled within the overall scientific community, the political systems, the media or the population in general.

--
I like my coal smug cloud.

Comment Re:Meh (Score 1) 969

by penandpaper (#39383095) Attached to: Bring Back the 40-Hour Work Week

employer started demanding constant unpaid overtime

There is a difference between your employer demanding OT and you feel obligated/want to put in additional OT. Either because you have a vested interest in the project your working on or your the only one putting in the minimum when everyone else (including the founders/owners who are developers) put in OT.

Similar situation as you (4 years experience with undergrad). I love my job and the company/people I work with, however, I feel I do not carry my weight if I do not put in at least 45-50 hours a week. The job market is strong enough to easily relocate. But the OT is a small price to pay for who I work with, where I work, and what I work on.

I only have 4 years in the workforce and in that time I had a few bad places to work that had a direct effect on my health. I can only imagine after 20 years of crappy jobs you finally find one that is what you have been looking for. The only thing, OT is an unwritten rule. I already made the choice to go with OT to at least have the satisfaction and enjoyment of the work I do with the people I work with.
Piracy

Submission + - Torrent - Where There's a Will...

Submitted by __aamdvq1432
__aamdvq1432 writes: Peer-to-peer bit torrent client, Tribler, promises to sustain the file-sharing universe even if the current tracker-based model dies. According to Ernesto over at TorrentFreak, Tribler Makes BitTorrent Impossible to Shut Down as long as the Internet is up. The rub that gets a little glossed over in the article is the issue of unmoderated peer trust. The authors of Tribler at Delft University of Technology claim that crowdsourcing will keep the process safe. That is, users will rate sources and share those ratings with peers. If I was a Windoze user, I don't know that I'd want to be an early wader in any new stream based on that security model. Malware ahoy!
The Almighty Buck

Submission + - U.S. Air Force Buys iPads to Replace Flight Bags (ibtimes.com)

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redletterdave
redletterdave writes: "Following the precedent set by commercial airliners in December, the U.S. Air Forceplans to buyup to 18,000 iPads for its Air Mobility Command (AMC), replacing heavy flight bags with light and efficient Apple iPad 2s for the crews that fly cargo aircrafts. The devices will reportedly be used by the crews on the C-5 Galaxy and C-17 Globemaster aircrafts. There are several benefits to using electronic flight bags instead of physical versions. For one, the iPad can instantly update charts electronically, while the AMC would require flying charts get reprinted every 28 days to stay up-to-date. By cutting publication printing and distribution costs, and exchanging 70 pounds of paper for a 1.3-pound iPad, the Air Force can save some serious cash, including more than $1.2 million worth of fuel per year."

Submission + - Selling Used MP3s Found Legal In America (activepolitic.com) 1

Submitted by bs0d3
bs0d3 writes: After some litigation; ReDigi, a site where people can sell used MP3's has been found legal in America. One of the key decisions the judge had to make was whether MP3's were material objects or not. 'Material objects' are not subject to the distribution right stipulated in "17 USC 106(3)" which protects the sale of intellectual property copies. If MP3's are material objects than the resale of them is guaranteed legal under the first sale' exception in 17 USC 109. Capitol Records tried
to argue that they were material objects under one law and not under the other. Today the judge has sided with the first-sale doctrine, which means he is seeing these as material objects.
Government

Submission + - Surveillance Drones over U.S. get OK by Congress (washingtontimes.com)

Submitted by suraj.sun
suraj.sun writes: Look! Up in the sky! Is it a bird? Is it a plane? It’s a drone, and it’s watching you. That’s what privacy advocates fear from a bill Congress passed this week to make it easier for the government to fly unmanned spy planes in U.S. airspace.

The FAA Reauthorization Act, which President Obama is expected to sign, also orders the Federal Aviation Administration to develop regulations for the testing and licensing of commercial drones by 2015.

Privacy advocates say the measure will lead to widespread use of drones for electronic surveillance by police agencies across the country and eventually by private companies as well.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/feb/7/coming-to-a-sky-near-you/

Submission + - where are the open source jobs? 2

Submitted by stry_cat
stry_cat writes: My company has bought into the FUD and is going 100% Microsoft. Rather than work in this environment and be continuously at odds with upper management, I have decided to seek employment elsewhere.

Where do I look for an open source job? I've started with the local paper's Sunday classifieds. I've looked on dice.com and monster.com. However almost all are Microsoft related. The few that aren't are some sort of dinky contract or temp job. So is there a place to find a job in an open source environment?
Piracy

Submission + - Verdict From Sweden's First Large Bittorrent Trial Released 2

Submitted by bs0d3
bs0d3 writes: A Swedish File-Sharer has been found guilty of infringement and ordered to pay a fine today, in Sweden's first large bittorrent case against a filesharer. The 25-year-old boy who had shared 60 movies via bittorrent, has been ordered to pay a fine of 6000 SEK (901.39 USD). The lawyer plans to appeal.

Submission + - Smart Camera Tells Tobacco from Marijuana (smartertechnology.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A new smart camera technology not only takes a picture but also assays chemical composition, allowing photographers to tell whether that hand-rolled cigarette contains tobacco or marijuana. Designed to speed industrial inspection systems--such as detecting whether food is spoiled--the new smart camera includes spectral filters that make images of corn fields appear differently from hemp. Spectral cameras have been available for decades, but this microchip version should be cheap enough for almost any application--including law enforcement.

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