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Comment Re:It all comes down to one question. (Score 1) 705

by qkslvr (#34645774) Attached to: Is Net Neutrality Really Needed?
what is this market force and where can I apply it?

get real, we have two options for broadband. their policies, service and prices are all in close lockstep. If I could punish them with this 'market force' you speak of I would in a heartbeat, but I would also have no internet access at home. there is no third choice

'let the market decide is akin to saying 'let the companies screw the people, because they're too stupid to realize or do anything about it'

Comment Re:Full speed in 2013?? (Score 1) 194

by qkslvr (#31018400) Attached to: Europe's LHC To Run At Half-Energy Through 2011
but that's just it - not 'likely' in 2012... in a sprint in late 2012, around say early december 2012 they'll ramp her back up and reach peak power just before xmas... proving the mayans were right....

don't worry, black holes don't hurt. time dilation on the event horizon of a black hole keeps us from actually experiencing it. Of course voyager would be our civilizations only remaining relic...
Security

Submission + - Physicians lose soc. security numbers to USB drive

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: ERAS, the electronic method of applying to physician residency program in the United States recently was responsible for the lost of >1,000 social security numbers and addresses of future physicians. The data was stored on an external hard drive which was lost in the public despite strict "data policies and procedures." The doctors are told to fear not, however, and are offered a 2-year free subscription to credit report monitoring programs. A copy of the e-mail sent to those affected follows below.

On January 13, 2010, an external hard drive containing a copy of your application information was lost.
Specifically, in an attempt to resolve a technical problem, an AAMC staff member, in violation of AAMC data policies and procedures, transported a copy of application information for a small subset of ERAS applicants, including you, on a password-protected USB hard drive. This hard drive contains your name, address, SSN/SIN as applicable, MSPE Report and medical school transcript; it does not include your credit card or other payment information entered by the ERAS applicant. We have reported the hard drive as missing to the authorities, and we continue to make every effort to locate and retrieve the hard drive. To date, we have not been successful; however, there is no evidence to indicate that data has been misused.
NASA

NASA To Cryogenically Freeze Satellite Mirrors 47

Posted by Soulskill from the ain't-it-cool dept.
coondoggie writes "NASA said it will soon move some of the larger (46 lb) mirror segments of its future James Webb Space Telescope into a cryogenic test facility that will freeze the mirrors to -414 degrees Fahrenheit (~25 K). Specifically, NASA will freeze six of the 18 Webb telescope mirror segments at the X-ray and Cryogenic Facility, or XRCF, at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, in a test to ensure the critical mirrors can withstand the extreme space environments. All 18 segments will eventually be tested at the site. The test chamber takes approximately five days to cool a mirror segment to cryogenic temperatures."
Image

Mexico Wants Payment For Aztec Images 325

Posted by samzenpus from the montezuma's-latest-revenge dept.
innocent_white_lamb writes "Starbucks brought out a line of cups with prehistoric Aztec images on them. Now the government of Mexico wants them to pay for the use of the images. Does the copyright on an image last hundreds of years?"

Comment Re:Confirmed (Score 1) 371

by qkslvr (#29632201) Attached to: Apple Wants Patents For Crippling Cellphones
unfortunately, they had to sign the contract with ATT *before* launch day. quite a bit before they *knew* it was a hit, and before the public had even seen the device. In fact, they were a newcomer hoping for a carrier to allow them to use their device on a network that wasn't even configured to accomodate a device capable of the kind of bandwidth and content-rich applications. now the tables are turned, unfortunately none of the carrier networks are open networks. this is why we need network neutrality. desperately.
The Internet

Submission + - Internet's First Registered Domain Name Sold (hothardware.com)

Submitted by
MojoKid
MojoKid writes: "Believe it or not, it wasn't iternet.com or dot.com that was purchased when the Internet was "born." Instead, it was the somewhat off-the-wall name of symbolics.com. The Symbolics company was the first to use an internet domain name to guide Internet viewers to its line of Lisp machines, which were single-user computers optimized to run the Lisp programming language. XF.com Investments, which is a Missouri-based Internet investments firm, has managed to secure the domain name from its original owner for an undisclosed sum and XF's CEO was quick to proclaim his excitement over the acquisition. It's hard to say why this domain name was the first purchased back on March 15, 1985, but for obvious reasons it holds a special place in history. There has been one original owner for nearly 25 years. Over that time, we've seen the Internet grow to the tune of 180,000,000+ registered domains, and thousands more are being added each and every day."
Communications

Submission + - Outsourced call centre jobs returning to UK

Submitted by fiannaFailMan
fiannaFailMan writes: The BBC is reporting that more UK companies are reversing the call-centre outsourcing trend.

"Hello, it's my car." ''Your cat, sir?." "No, my hatchback." "Your bad back, sir?" "No my car, it's a hatchback." "Your cat has a bad back, sir?" "Arghhhhhh!" ...Just 4% of people have had a good experience when dealing with a call centre, according to a recent survey by YouGov. Over half of those asked said their biggest gripe was having to contact call centres outside the UK and more than a third admitted to shouting and swearing at agents because they got so frustrated.
Portables (Apple)

Submission + - How Steve Jobs Played Hardball in iPhone Birth

Submitted by
Carl Bialik from WSJ
Carl Bialik from WSJ writes: "Apple bucked the rules of the cellphone industry when creating the iPhone by wresting control away from normally powerful wireless carriers, the Wall Street Journal reports. From the article: 'Only three executives at the carrier, which is now the wireless unit of AT&T Inc., got to see the iPhone before it was announced. Cingular agreed to leave its brand off the body of the phone. Upsetting some Cingular insiders, it also abandoned its usual insistence that phone makers carry its software for Web surfing, ringtones and other services. ... Mr. Jobs once referred to telecom operators as "orifices" that other companies, including phone makers, must go through to reach consumers. While meeting with Cingular and other wireless operators he often reminded them of his view, dismissing them as commodities and telling them that they would never understand the Web and entertainment industry the way Apple did, a person familiar with the talks says.'"
Sci-Fi

Submission + - Regrowing lost body parts coming in the future

Submitted by
[TheBORG]
[TheBORG] writes: "There are two stories on Yahoo! News about regrowing lost body parts. One is about regrowing lost fingers & limbs and the other one is about regrowing teeth. The story about regrowing lost fingers and limbs talks about the experimental use of powdered pig bladder to regrow fingers and eventually lost limbs for soldiers and others in need from information that Pentagon-funded scientists hopefully learn from studying the salamander. The story about regrowing teeth talks about how Japanese scientists used primitive cells (not quite as early as stem cells) and injected them into a framework of collagen (the material that holds the body together). Once grown to a certain point, scientists implanted the growths into mice where the teeth developed normally."

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