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Submission + - Supreme Court rules cell phones can't be searched without a warrant (nytimes.com)

Submitted by CarlThansk on Wednesday June 25, 2014 @10:48AM

CarlThansk writes: The courts have long debated on if cell phones can be searched during an arrest without a warrant. Today, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the police need warrants to search the cellphones of people they arrest.

"Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., writing for the court, said the vast amount of data contained on modern cellphones must be protected from routine inspection."

Submission + - Former Google Exec: Facebook, Twitter Are Killing Search

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 08, 2012 @03:06AM

An anonymous reader writes: Former Google executive Stafford Masie believes that traditional search is dying because users are choosing to query their friends and followers on services like Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr. Here's the quote from the video: 'The pie of search query volumes in the world – that business is shrinking. Why? Because people are going and doing search queries – search query volumes are moving towards social containers. They’re moving away from static pages being searched and they’re moving more towards dynamic real-time stream content. Like Twitter. Like Tumblr. Like Facebook. Those things have a better result because the penetration, the personalization associated with it, and the constant freshness of the content. So I believe that Google’s search volume – the business Google is in on the search side – that business is shrinking. And they’ve got to do something about it.'

Submission + - Robert Boisjoly dies at 73, engineer who tried to stop Challenger launch (latimes.com)

Submitted by demachina on Wednesday February 08, 2012 @02:27AM

demachina writes: Robert Boisjoly dies at 73. Boisjoly, Allan J. McDonald and three others argued through the night to stop the Challenger launch but Joseph Kilminster, their boss at Morton Thiokol overruled them and NASA managers didn't listen to the engineers. Both Boisjoly and McDonald were blackballed for speaking out. NASA's mismanagement "is not going to stop until somebody gets sent to hard rock hotel," Boisjoly said. "I don't care how many commissions you have. These guys have a way of numbing their brains. They have destroyed $5 billion worth of hardware and 14 lives because of their nonsense."

Comment Sports impact (Score 1) 236

by lp60068 on Tuesday February 07, 2012 @06:32PM (#38960531) Attached to: Fracture Putty Can Heal a Broken Bone In Days

This could have a big impact in the sports world. I wonder if Peyton Manning could have played in 2011 if he had access to this type of treatment.

Submission + - Photography rights in the U.S. (aclu.org)

Submitted by

A Commentor

on Friday September 09, 2011 @05:22PM

A Commentor writes: "With law enforcement harassing photographers, the ACLU has provided information on photographer's rights in the U.S.: Taking photographs of things that are plainly visible from public spaces is a constitutional right – and that includes federal buildings, transportation facilities, and police and other government officials carrying out their duties. Unfortunately, there is a widespread, continuing pattern of law enforcement officers ordering people to stop taking photographs from public places, and harassing, detaining and arresting those who fail to comply."

Submission + - AT&T Responds to DoJ Lawsuit, Repubs Question (nytimes.com) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 09, 2011 @05:13PM

An anonymous reader writes: Last week the Department of Justice filed an antitrust complaint to stop the merger between AT&T and T-Mobile USA. Now, AT&T has responded, arguing that the merger would benefit consumers by increasing competition and freeing up spectrum. "That means increased output, higher quality service, fewer dropped calls,and lower prices to consumers than without the merger," they say. Meanwhile, House Republicans have sent a letter to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski and Attorney General Eric Holder asking for an explanation of "what went into the decision to challenge the merger and whether the agencies considered the impact on jobs and economic growth."

Submission + - Business Won't Adopt Windows 8, Gartner Says (foxnews.com)

Submitted by Velcroman1 on Friday September 09, 2011 @03:42PM

Velcroman1 writes: Next week, at the Build conference, Microsoft will finally pull the covers off on a new OS. And despite what Microsoft wants you to believe, the next version of Windows might be more icing on the same old cake. Michael Silver, a vice president at research firm Gartner who studies personal computers, said many companies have what he calls “migration fatigue” and will skip Windows 8 entirely. "We ... expect most companies to skip it," Silver said. "To the extent that the market expects companies to adopt Windows 8 in large numbers, it may be disappointed."

Submission + - Zero day bug found in Windows 7 and Server 2008... (informationweek.com)

Submitted by kantos on Friday November 13, 2009 @01:45AM

kantos writes: Security researcher Laurent Graffie, responsible for finding the early SMB2 remote BSOD exploit, has done it again. As reported by Information Week the exploit can be triggered through IE or remotely. In his blog Graffie notes that the exploit doesn't even cause a BSOD rather it forces the OS into an infinite loop requiring a hard reset. MS of course has played down the issue saying that few if any of its customers will be affected....

Comment Re:Just who do they think they are anyway? (Score 1) 259

by lp60068 on Wednesday August 05, 2009 @06:17PM (#28964289) Attached to: Apple Balks, Finally Relents, At Possible User Queries of Dictionary App

They should apply a common sense standard - can you look up the word in the printed version of the dictionary? Then let it in. When I was a kid I looked dirty words in the dictionary. So what? Why do we continue to underestimate kids? In grade school we were using 4 letter words all the time and tried to come up with different combinations. lol - we never got the words from the dictionary, but from others using the words.

Submission + - Google OS Announced 12

Submitted by

shystershep

on Wednesday July 08, 2009 @02:07AM

shystershep writes: "Rumors have been floating around for years that Google was planning an OS to compete with Window. As of Tuesday night, it is official: "So today, we're announcing a new project that's a natural extension of Google Chrome — the Google Chrome Operating System. It's our attempt to re-think what operating systems should be. Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010." It is separate from the Android mobile OS, will run on both x86 and ARM processors, and is aimed primarily at web use. Other than that, details are scarce."

Submission + - Google announces open-source Chrome OS

Submitted by

geog33k

on Wednesday July 08, 2009 @01:43AM

geog33k writes: "Google has announced a new open-source OS that will first target netbooks. Quoting Sundar Pichai, VP Product Management and Linus Upson, "Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010.""

Submission + - Google Announces Chrome OS (blogspot.com)

Submitted by

derrickh

on Wednesday July 08, 2009 @01:35AM

derrickh writes: "Google has announced its own operating system named 'Chrome OS'. The OS is planned for use in netbooks with the the first retail systems planned to ship in late 2010. The company says the code will be open source, not based on Android, and will run on x86 and ARM cpus."

Submission + - Australia banning light bulbs by 2010?

Submitted by Pascal7z on Tuesday February 20, 2007 @03:49AM

Pascal7z writes: Thomas Edison's 125 years invention will be banned in Australia. (here is the : http://www.geelongadvertiser.com.au/article/2007/0 2/20/1537_news.html)
In order to reduce power consumption, the australian environment minister recommend to switch from the classical light bulb to power saving fluorescent bulb.
In the epoch of power hungry appliance, this is a first step to reduce our energy consumption, and indirectly the global warming.
When will other nations follow? What will other governments do?

Submission + - Gaming skills directly linked to surgical skills

Submitted by

Orinthe

on Tuesday February 20, 2007 @02:22AM

Orinthe writes: "According to Reuters, a new study involving 33 surgeons at a New York hospital shows "a strong correlation between video game skills and a surgeon's capabilities". A statement by the senior author of the study even suggests the use of video games as a training tool for surgeons. Another of the study's authors cautions parents to curb excessive gaming, however: "spending that much time playing video games is not going to help their child's chances of getting into medical school"."

Submission + - 12 crackpot deas that could transform tech

Submitted by

InfoWorldMike

on Monday February 19, 2007 @11:40PM

InfoWorldMike writes: "Technologies that push the envelope of the plausible capture our curiosity almost as quickly as the could-be crackpots who dare to concoct them become targets of our derision. Here are a dozen, from the harebrained to the practical, that have a history of raising eyebrows and just might have a hand in transforming the future of the technology landscape: Superconducting computing, solid-state drives, autonomic computing, DC power, holographic and phase-change storage, artificial intelligence, e-books, desktop web apps, Project Blackbox, quantum computing/cryptography, and the semantic Web. Check out InfoWorld's slideshow of these top crackpot contenders and nominate your favs here."

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