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Submission + - Samsung's legal fillings show pre-IPhone designs

parallel_prankster writes: In it's legal fillings for the case against Apple Corp. Samsung has shown that it was considering putting to market in the summer of 2006, six months before the unveiling of the iPhone, a number of phone designs that have been claimed by Apple as stolen from the Iphone. It extends to more than just the hardware — Samsung was also working on interfaces that looks remarkably like iOS (actually, that look remarkably like PalmOS) — in the summer and fall of 2006. Again, before the iPhone was released. Samsung is being accused of stealing, even thought the company was clearly working on what it supposedly stole before the iPhone was even released. Samsung's phones bear more resemblance to its own pre-iPhone designs than to the iPhone, yet Apple and its supporters still insist Samsung is a thief. Another article on this is available here .
Technology

Submission + - 'Huge Spike' in US Viewers Using Proxy Servers to Watch BBC Olympic coverage (ibtimes.co.uk) 2

DavidGilbert99 writes: "NBC is the sole broadcaster of the London 2012n Olympics in the US, having paid $1.1bn for the privilege.

However the Twitter hastag #NBCfails quickly started trending last Friday, when it was revealed that NBC would only be showing delayed coverage of most events on TV, including Danny Boyle's opening ceremony.

While NBC is providing live streaming through its website, you need to have a valid cable subscription in order to view the events.

This has seen many tech savvy US viewers turning to proxy servers to view the BBC's Olympic coverage, which doesn't need any sign-in to view — once your IP address looks like it is coming from the UK.

One provider of VPN services, HideMyAss.com has seen a ten-fold increase in new customers signing up for their services since last Friday."

Science

Psychic Ability Claim Doesn't Hold Up In New Scientific Experiments 315

cold fjord writes with some stunning news from the world of science, excerpting: "A new study has failed to find evidence that psychic ability is real. Skeptics may scoff at the finding as obvious, but the research is important because it refutes a study published in a psychological journal last year that claimed to find evidence of extrasensory perception. That research, conducted by Daryl Bem of Cornell University, triggered outrage in the psychological community when the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology announced in 2010 that the paper had been accepted for publication." Here's a link to the academic paper.

Comment Re:Sydney taxis (Score 2) 235

A taxi driver in the UK was spared false rape charges because he'd recorded the women scheming to get out of paying their fare, so there is value for drivers other than preventing robberies. The question though is who watches the watchers? IMO these CCTV systems should instead be cracked wide open so that the general public can view the feeds, not just have it limited to police. After all, they're in public spaces anyway so the people there have no expectation of privacy, so what compelling reason could there be to restrict access to the feeds? Also, include cameras in all the reasonable spaces of legislature and justice. What's good for the goose...

Comment Re:Excuses (Score 0) 948

Agreed. She's 23 for fucks sake! Time for the little princess to stop mooching off daddy and get her ass a J-O-B. Notice that she wasn't too butthurt over the asswhooping to take his money and borrow his car, but once that stopped now he's the bad guy. Riiiight. The guy isn't winning any popularity contests with the beatdown, and yes I think it was excessive, but this whole thing smacks of sour grapes and entitlement mentality on the girl's part.

Comment Re:Um.... (Score 1) 593

It's all about lost term budgeting costs. When the govt booted out all the govies it was to save money on the back-end. You either pay contractors more up front, or govies less, but have to foot the bill for a fat govt pension later. Pick your poison.

Comment And by 5-10 years... (Score 1) 904

And by 5-10 years away they mean 25-50 years. They've been working on male birth control for 20 years and it's been stuck in the "5-10 years away" the entire time. I see no reason to believe this doesn't fall under the same kind of fantasy science that one day will certainly happen, but probably not nearly as soon as they hope for.

Comment What? A rooftop coating? I don't get it. (Score 1) 206

It says "Consider a roof top coating on your car with this new material." I don't see why anyone would want that. The coating would saturate with CO2, then it would absorb no more. And it would remain on your car for years, uselessly full. How is this useful? Alternatively, what if it absorbed the carbon, then released it later, so as to be reusable? Why would that be any use as a rooftop coating? The release of the carbon would go back into the atmosphere. The whole idea of a rooftop coating for your car is pointless. Surely the scientists who developed it would not say that. Is this from a marketing person?

Comment Re:Einstein replied "Check your measurements, son" (Score 1) 1088

Fermilab has a similar setup which should be able to test the results. So does an experiment in Japan, T2K, but they aren't running at the moment because of the tsunami. The actual experiment shouldn't be too hard to do if you have the equipment to make a beam of neutrinos, just point them at a detector and fire away and see how long time of flight was, which means they could probably start working on it fairly soon, though it will probably take months or years to get enough data points to be statistically significant.

This actually replicates the results of another labs findings, which they had discounted as measurement errors. If anything, this might just prove the previous test's findings weren't a mistake as previously assumed.

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