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Submission + - iPhone 4 Not Recommended by Consumer Reports (consumerreports.org)

Submitted by dhermann on Monday July 12, 2010 @04:52PM

dhermann writes: The Consumer Reports tech lab concluded that the signal strength dropped considerably when a hand touched the left side of the phone, where the antenna rests. This seems to be in direct conflict with Apple's earlier statement that the lower bars some users were seeing were caused by a faulty algorithm used to calculate how many bars were displayed.

Submission + - Game Sale Restriction to Supreme Court (nytimes.com)

Submitted by dhermann on Monday April 26, 2010 @01:16PM

dhermann writes: Seems safe to bet that no matter how you feel about restricting the sale of violent games to minors, Justice Scalia's viewpoint will probably tick you off.

Submission + - ICANN Allows Non-Latin DNS Entries (nytimes.com)

Submitted by dhermann on Friday October 30, 2009 @09:16AM

dhermann writes: NYT reporting that ICANN voted to allow DNS entries in non-latin characters this morning in Seoul. Great, now even less chance I can identify NSFW links before they are blocked by my work's big brother app and my boss is notified... again.

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