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Submission + - Teach Your Kids To Read (betterparentinginstitute.com)

Submitted by Susan Leflock on Sunday March 06, 2011 @10:04PM

Susan Leflock writes: In order to motivate and teach kids to read, the National Education Association has designated March 2, Dr. Seuss’ Birthday, as “Read Across America Day.”

Submission + - Just bought an iPad? Apple offers you $100 cash ba (winbeta.org)

Submitted by

BogenDorpher

on Sunday March 06, 2011 @09:59PM

BogenDorpher writes: "For those of you who just recently bought an iPad and saw the announcement for the iPad 2, fear not. Apple is offering you 100 dollars cash back for your troubles."

Submission + - The Coolest Tech Tour Ever: A Look At How SRI Is A (techcrunch.com)

Submitted by emilyann on Sunday March 06, 2011 @06:53PM

emilyann writes: SRI International, which employs 1,700 researchers, has been busy on a number of things from radar, ultrasound imaging, remote surgery, and much more. It has also been incubating a few things that have turned into startups. My favorite example is Siri, which is an assistant for your iPhone. Apple bought that last year for a rumored $200+ million and I’ve been hearing rumors that we’ll see some of that work as part of the iPhone 5 launch later this year. More about Siri later.

Submission + - LimeWire Has Proof Studios Profit From File Sharin (unitethecows.com)

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Sunday March 06, 2011 @03:05PM

Anonymous Coward writes: "As most of our readers will know, LimeWire was once one of the most used file sharing clients in the world. A few months ago it was forced to cease its operations following an ongoing battle with the entertainment industry. In regard to damages being imposed on LimeWire they have stated that discovery has shown that the entertainment industry has made a profit from file sharing.

Several studios were granted damages for secondary copyright infringement by a federal court in May last year and discovery was ordered by Judge Debra freeman to determine the amount of damages. In February this year, Judge kimba Wood called for the studies to produce further documents to LimeWire which may result in greater support for their assertion.

LimeWire made the request for further information as they claimed Freemans order "indicated (1) that Plaintiffs were attempting to 'blacklist' LimeWire; (2) that certain employees of Plaintiffs had exoressed a desire to work with LimeWire; and (3) that Plaintiffs believed user downloads through LimeWire had actually increased Plaintiffs' revenue"

The order was expanded but the studios stated that to do so would breach attorney-client priviledge. Wood then limited discovery to documents not covered by this priviledge. She then stated it was "reasonable and appropriate" for studios to "minimize the exposure to copyright infringment". Wood also reversed an order by Freeman no longer forcing non parties MySpace, Yahoo! and iMesh to provide discovery.

The trial to determine the final damages will be held on May 2nd 2011.

If your still struggling to find a replacement for LimeWire why not check out our Top LimeWire Alternatives. Otherwise, there's always LimeWire Pirate Edition"

Submission + - Cheap ARM laptop released by Genesi (desktoplinux.com) 2

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 06, 2011 @02:18PM

An anonymous reader writes: Genesi has been selling a 10.1-inch "smartbook" for a while now. They just cut the price from $350 to $200. This laptop runs Ubuntu 10.10, has 16gb of solid state storage, contains no moving parts, and consumes only 12 watts. Compared to other netbooks, this is less than 2/3s the height while being on the upper end in terms of the other dimensions. It seems to be a decent cheap linux smartbook sold by company that develops linux products and gets the community concept down a lot better than any others I've seen.

Submission + - Virgin Media UK Begins Throttling P2P Traffic (unitethecows.com)

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Sunday March 06, 2011 @02:15PM

Anonymous Coward writes: "UK Internet Service Provider (ISP) Virgin Media has announced that it will begin throttling both P2P and Newsgroup traffic at "Peak" times it has emerged.

The ISP which advertises itself as "The fastest in the UK" and offers speeds of up to 100mb has said it needs to throttle file sharing traffic to prevent slowness in other areas such as online multiplayer gaming.

Trialing of the new traffic managment plans commenced on March 2 and will only apply to Upstream traffic, therefore download speeds will be unaffected. The clamp down will apply on top of the existing traffic shaping Virgin Media has in place and will affect all packages, including the previously unmanaged 100mb deal.

A message on the Virgin Media site read

"After the successful out of hours trial of our combined upstream and downstream file sharing traffic management policy we will be trialling this new policy between 17:00 and 00:00 for one week starting on Wednesday 2nd of March.

Between these times P2P and Newsgroup upstream traffic will be managed in a similar way to our current downstream traffic management. If the trial is successful we'll launch the new policy immediately.

We're interested if you could tell us how this affects your gaming experience over the next few days and if you see any general improvement in latency and ping at peak times."

The move comes as a surprise to many as Virgin already manage traffic between 4pm and 8pm. Virgin Medias website details their file sharing traffic management policy and says;

"We moderate the total volume of file sharing traffic on our network between 5pm and midnight on weekdays and midday and midnight on weekends. This policy, which applies to all broadband packages, is restricted to Peer to Peer ("P2P") applications and Newsgroups (which are commonly used to distribute large amounts of data). This policy does not impact any applications other than Peer to Peer and Newsgroups, so things like watching iPlayer, online gaming, making calls via Skype, downloading music tracks from iTunes or streaming them from Spotify and sending an email or normal browsing are unaffected."

So there you have it, Virgin Media ARE the UK's fasstest Broadband Provider, but only because they decided what you can do and when you can do it.

Source: UniteTheCows"

Submission + - Falling Demand for Brains?

Submitted by

Hugh Pickens writes

on Sunday March 06, 2011 @02:12PM

Hugh Pickens writes writes: "Paul Krugman writes in the NY Times that information technology seems to be reducing, not increasing, the demand for highly educated workers (reg. may be required), because a lot of what highly educated workers do could actually be replaced by sophisticated information processing. One good recent example is how software is replacing the teams of lawyers who used to do document research. “From a legal staffing viewpoint, it means that a lot of people who used to be allocated to conduct document review are no longer able to be billed out,” says Bill Herr, a lawyer at a major chemical company who used to muster auditoriums of lawyers to read documents for weeks on end. “People get bored, people get headaches. Computers don’t.” If true this raises a number of interesting questions. "One is whether emphasizing education — even aside from the fact that the big rise in inequality has taken place among the highly educated — is, in effect, fighting the last war," writes Krugman. "Another is how we [can] have a decent society if and when even highly educated workers can’t command a middle-class income." Remember the Luddites weren’t the poorest of the poor, they were skilled artisans whose skills had suddenly been devalued by new technology."

Submission + - ARM Backs Computer Museum for Cambridge (computinghistory.org.uk)

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Sunday March 06, 2011 @02:09PM

Anonymous Coward writes: "Award winning Red Gate Software and superchip designer ARM Holdings have both donated substantial funding to accelerate the realisation of this groundbreaking initiative.

The Centre for Computing History was established in Haverhill in 2006 to explore the impact and tell the story of the Information Age. Ambitious plans are now afoot to relocate the museum to Cambridge, in the city where so much of this story has unfolded."

Submission + - iPad Maker Foxconn Aims to Lower Costs

Submitted by theodp on Sunday March 06, 2011 @01:36PM

theodp writes: 'I know we can out-compete any other nation on Earth,' boasts President Obama. But Foxconn, which makes iPads for Obama dining partner Steve Jobs, has apparently decided that even Shenzhen workers are too expensive for its tastes, and has set its sights on moving 200,000 jobs to cheaper inland provinces. Which raises some interesting questions: How does one out-compete workers willing to live in corporate dorms on a $300 monthly salary that would be illegal in the United States? Will manufacturing workers eventually be doomed to a Roots-like existence?

Submission + - Japan unearths site linked to human experiments (guardian.co.uk)

Submitted by

Frosty Piss

on Sunday March 06, 2011 @12:06PM

Frosty Piss writes: "Authorities in Japan have begun excavating the former site of a medical school that may contain the remains of victims of the country's wartime biological warfare program. The school has links to Unit 731, a branch of the imperial Japanese army that conducted lethal experiments on prisoners as part of efforts to develop weapons of mass destruction. The site in Tokyo's Shinjuku district is close to another where the mass graves of dozens of people who may have been victims of wartime experiments was uncovered in 1989."

Submission + - Why Kickstarter May Save Independent Comic Books (wired.com)

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Sunday March 06, 2011 @11:52AM

Anonymous Coward writes: "Why Kickstarter May Save Independent Comic Books: Q&A With Author Mark Andrew Smith

http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2011/03/why-kickstarter-may-save-independent-comic-books-qa-with-author-mark-andrew-smith/

http://www.boingboing.net/2011/03/05/can-kickstarter-be-t.html

BIO: Mark Andrew Smith is an Eisner & Harvey Award winning comic book author. Smith studied film at UC Santa Barbara and is known for the Amazing Joy Buzzards, Kill All Parents, Aqua Leung, Gladstone's School for World Conquerors, the New Brighton Archeological Society, and as the editor and creator of the Popgun Comics Anthology.

Thank you,
Mark"

Journal Journal: Now it gets interesting

Journal by countertrolling on Sunday March 06, 2011 @11:36AM

<This> is what I've been waiting for.

"We are getting inside, and we are finding the secrets that have haunted us for so many years. This feeling is better than anything that has happened so far."

I hope it's not too late..

Submission + - Space Shuttle Launch by iPhone 4 (geekword.net)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 06, 2011 @11:07AM

An anonymous reader writes: Many of us have seen space shuttle launch from the ground. Ever wondered what it’s like to see the whole thing from the sky? No need to wonder any more as the video which can be seen under the link shows the space shuttle launch from high altitude.

Submission + - Star Trek-like communicator to connect hospital (timescolonist.com)

Submitted by intellitech on Sunday March 06, 2011 @10:45AM

intellitech writes: Staff at the new patient tower at Royal Jubilee Hospital will be using small devices to remotely communicate with each other -just like characters on the futuristic Star Trek. The devices, part of a $500,000 communication system, will allow real-time conversation between virtually everyone receiving care or involved with its delivery.

Submission + - Forget Google - it's Apple that is turning into t (guardian.co.uk) 2

Submitted by jira on Saturday March 05, 2011 @09:40PM

jira writes: "You may think you own your iPad or iPhone but in reality an invisible string links it back to Apple HQ" writes John Naughton writes in "The Guardian". And ads: "Umberto Eco once wrote a memorable essay arguing that the Apple Mac was a Catholic device, while the IBM PC was a Protestant one. His reasoning was that, like the Roman church, Apple offered a guaranteed route to salvation – the Apple Way – provided one stuck to it. PC users, on the other hand, had to take personal responsibility for working out their own routes to heaven."

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