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Woman's Nude Pics End Up Online After Call To Tech Support 197

Posted by samzenpus from the how-was-your-service-today? dept.
Tara Fitzgerald couldn't find the nude pictures she planned on sending to her boyfriend, but instead of just taking more, she decided to see if a Dell tech support call could fix her problem. Apparently the tech support guy found them. Unfortunately, he then put them up on a site called "bitchtara."

Comment LTE is NOT 4G!! (Score 1) 283

by dadman (#32418452) Attached to: Cutting Through the 4G Hype

4G is officially referring to IMT Advanced as defined by ITU-R. The LTE and WiMax (802.16e) we have now have not yet reached the requirements in IMT Advanced to be called 4G, and LTE is definitely not "the dominant 4G standard" as quoted in the article. Although IMT Advanced is not yet finalized and has to wait until October this year, the candidates include LTE-Advanced (3GPP LTE R10 and beyond) and WiMax Evolution (IEEE 802.16m).

4G as defined to IMT Advanced would give a 100Mbps peak data rate during high mobility and 1Gbps during stationary/low mobility.

LTE that AT&T and the rests would deliver 100Mbps downlink data rate but only about 50Mbps uplink, and only up to about 300Mbps when in low mobility. For the real 4G, one will have to wait until October this year to have the IMT-Advanced to become finalized, and that LTE-Advanced would hopefully be available in 2012.
Encryption

How To Replace FileVault With EncFS 65

Posted by timothy from the for-secretive-tweakers dept.
agoston.horvath writes "I've written a HOWTO on replacing Mac OS X's built-in encryption (FileVault) with the well-known FUSE-based EncFS. It worked well for me, and most importantly: it is a lot handier than what Apple has put together. This is especially useful if you are using a backup solution like Time Machine. Includes Whys, Why Nots, and step-by-step instructions."

Comment So what ? (Score 1) 338

by dadman (#30678614) Attached to: Microsoft's Risky Tablet Announcement

You have very good points about MS's capability to turn up a nice and good tablet, but at the end, all these won't matter, as we are still going to use it because this is the only tablet the corporate recognize as a compatible device, and you are still going to pay for all those bug fixes...

Reality is cruel and hard.

Comment It depends... (Score 1) 338

by dadman (#30678396) Attached to: Microsoft's Risky Tablet Announcement

if the Courier weight the same or less than a hardcover book, then it would be okay, otherwise, it is just another touch screen notebook.
Oh, and I hope MS won't repeat their mistake in WinCE by assuming the same user interface on Win7 would also do fine for a tablet, it won't.

Hmmm...you seem pretty firm that the iTablet is real, and is a traditional tablet, making the Courier an immediate choice over them ... I, for one, would be interested to know more about Apple's plan, care to shed some light here?
Handhelds

Microsoft's Risky Tablet Announcement 338

Posted by CmdrTaco from the lets-table-this-tablet dept.
itwbennett writes "The New York Times describes the tablet announcement that Steve Ballmer is supposed to make in his CES opening keynote tonight as 'one of Steve Ballmer's riskiest trade show moves in years.' And blogger Peter Smith is in complete agreement. Here's why: 'Whether or not this announcement is intended as a direct response to the much-rumored Apple event that may or may not be happening on January 27th, consumers will perceive it as one,' says Smith. And if Microsoft unveils a traditional tablet then 'they'll be up against the (presumably more expensive) iTablet and the cult of Apple.' But if the device is the dual-screen Courier that we heard about back in September then it'll be up against the (presumably less expensive) enTourage eDGe, says Smith."

Submission + - Mathematicians Explain Dark Energy: There Isn't (pnas.org) 1

Submitted by rubycodez
rubycodez writes: A veritable plethora of "dark energy" stories have recently infested slashdot, but two mathematicians have provided correction to Hubble constant and relation of red shift to luminosity. *Poof*, the need for mysterious fictitious "dark energy" completely disappears to explain the observed accelerating expansion of the universe. So the answer to the question of dark energy is much like the answer to bending spoons in the matrix, the first thing we must realize is that there is no dark energy.

Submission + - Ravensword and other Unity Games slammed by Apple (ign.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Ravensword like many other Unity games have found themselves caught in the crossfire between Apple, Storm8, and API calls which exist inside of all Unity games
Google

Submission + - Swiss privacy watchdog to sue Google Street View (komonews.com)

Submitted by The Installer
The Installer writes: Google Inc.'s unstoppable drive to map and photograph the world has run into an immovable object — Switzerland's strict tradition of personal privacy.

The country's privacy watchdog announced Friday that he plans to haul the search engine company before a federal court to force it to make changes to its Street View application.

Google criticized the decision and said it would defend itself in the case.

Street View allows Internet users to view panoramic street-level pictures of more than 100 cities around the world. It already has been criticized in several European countries and Japan for allowing individuals to be identified without their knowledge or consent — potentially exposing embarrassing facts about their private lives.

Submission + - How to build your own "Minority Report" surface... (universeii.com)

Submitted by Lexx Greatrex
Lexx Greatrex writes: It took Microsoft ten years and millions of dollars to build their touch screen surface.

A group of innovative young designers from the Umeå Institute of Design in Sweden show us how to do it ourselves... in a few days on a shoestring budget...

Submission + - What other innovation has the MPAA stifled? 2

Submitted by headkase
headkase writes: I'd like to preface this with the fact that I have a working prototype that performs well. What has the MPAA prevented in their quest to control how citizens interact with their entertainment media? Right now my setup consists of a "video jukebox". It is composed of a PC networked with an Xbox 360 which is connected to an HDTV via HDMI. Two pieces of software work together to provide the primary functionality. They are "Fair Use Wizard 2" and "Tversity". This is Windows-centric but the organization applies to all systems. Fair Use Wizard 2 is used to rip my DVD collection to the PC. The MPAA is preventing innovation at this point because they have successfully lobbied to categorize the act known as "ripping" a DVD an offense under legislation called the Digital Millennium Copyright Act or DMCA. Fortunately I don't live in a Nation that subscribes to this particular idiocy. So, from there. TVersity then handles streaming the video over my home network with the origin of the media being a general purpose PC and the destination after decoding on the Xbox 360 is the HDTV. Tversity not only streams but will transcode on-the-fly if needed to greatly mitigate the formatting issues that could arise. The organization of PC, 360, and Network defines this "video jukebox" as a concrete example of innovation that the MPAA has retarded.

Please add your own examples ideally using no more than two words in combination to describe the purpose of the device.

Comment One Internet connection per household... (Score 4, Informative) 73

by dadman (#27887675) Attached to: Macs With 3G — More Connectivity, More Problems

is no longer the trend here in Asia, at least in HK, Japan and S. Korea where we have cheap, unlimited internet connection over 3G from the PC or Notebook, mostly via HSDPA (7.2/14.4 Downlink, see Smartone-Vodafone), HSPA+ (21Mbps downlink, see HK CSL)

Naturally, it would be much more convenient if this is built-in.

In fact, many netbooks are already has HSPA modem built-in, and some are already working at 21Mbps speed, such as this one.

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