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Comment Re:What the fuck? (Score 0) 381

by arnott on Tuesday December 28, 2010 @08:01PM (#34693130) Attached to: Is Wired Hiding Key Evidence On Bradley Manning?

wtf are you talking about ? Greenwald is talking about chat logs and you are talking source confidentiality. And, you do know the difference between Wikipedia and Wikileaks, right ?

You protect the source, after publishing the information the source revealed. For Wired, Lamo was the source and the chat logs were part of the information revealed by the source. Wired has neither released the full chat logs nor written an article revealing insights regarding the issue based on the chat logs.

Comment Re:Please. (Score 0) 187

by arnott on Tuesday December 07, 2010 @03:45PM (#34478130) Attached to: Google Unveils Android 'Honeycomb' Tablet

more code: http://www.notionaddicts.com/forums/showthread.php/231-New-clue-on-website-D5720A80

Comment Re:Please. (Score 0) 187

by arnott on Tuesday December 07, 2010 @03:14PM (#34477608) Attached to: Google Unveils Android 'Honeycomb' Tablet

check the blog for more details. The Adam will be priced less than the ipad. From wikipedia:

A model with an LCD display and Wi-Fi only will cost $399, while a model with the Pixel Qi display and 3G will cost $498, with other permutations of display and network connection at intermediate prices.

Comment Re:Please. (Score 0) 187

by arnott on Tuesday December 07, 2010 @12:55PM (#34475374) Attached to: Google Unveils Android 'Honeycomb' Tablet

Have you checked Notion ink adam ? It almost has the specs (micrSD insteead os SDHC) you want, and should be available next month.

Comment statistics and fud (Score 0) 436

by arnott on Sunday November 21, 2010 @09:43PM (#34301878) Attached to: How the 'Tech Worker Visa' Is Remaking IT In America

the DHS program is dominated by little-known, for-profit Stratford University, whose 727 approved requests for post-graduate Optional Practical Training (OPT) STEM extensions tops all schools and is more than twice the combined total of the entire Ivy League — Brown (26), Columbia (105), Cornell (90), Dartmouth (18), Harvard (27), Princeton (16), Penn (50), and Yale (9). In second place, with 533 approved requests, is the University of Bridgeport.

The post-graduate Optional Practical Training (OPT) STEM extension (17 month) is applied by the e-verified employer and not by the school where the international student graduates from. You can read more about opt here.

US companies like other companies in the world are greedy and do not care about people, that's true.

Comment Re:Maybe blame the haters? (Score 0) 1135

by arnott on Wednesday November 17, 2010 @04:53PM (#34260216) Attached to: TSA Pats Down 3-Year-Old

haters ? how about doing your job and not ignoring memos ?

Submission + - Reader's Digest Magazine iPad App Released (dvd-to-ipads.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 26, 2010 @09:43PM

An anonymous reader writes: iPad reader Digest Magazine is the latest iPad version of a popular magazine title to appear in the App Store.

Submission + - The PlayStation Phone (engadget.com)

Submitted by teh31337one on Tuesday October 26, 2010 @09:40PM

teh31337one writes: Engadget have the scoop, on what they claim to be the playstation phone. It features a 3.7-4.1" screen, 1GHz Qualcomm MSM8655 processor, 512MB of RAM, 1GB of ROM. It runs on android, and has slide out game buttons. The prototype looks very similar to PSP go.

Submission + - A bug haul in India (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by damitr on Tuesday October 26, 2010 @01:10PM

damitr writes: More than 700 new species of ancient insect have been discovered in 50-million-year-old amber.

The discoveries come from some 150kg of amber produced by an ancient rainforest in India.

Scientists say in the journal PNAS that many insects are related to species from far-away corners of the world.

This means that, despite millions of years in isolation in the ocean, the region was a lot more biologically diverse than previously believed.

The amber, dubbed Cambay amber, was found in lignite mines in the Cambay Shale of the Indian state of Gujarat.

Submission + - Free E-Books, With a Catch -- Advertising (foxnews.com)

Submitted by Velcroman1 on Tuesday October 26, 2010 @11:09AM

Velcroman1 writes: Barnes & Noble may kick off a fresh price war today for digital book readers, with its new Nook news. But the real news in digital publishing is a novel approach to the e-books themselves: Free books — with advertising. The basic idea is to offer publishers another way to reach readers and to give readers the chance to try more books — books that perhaps they wouldn't normally peruse if they had to pay more for them. Initially, Wowio specialized in offering digital versions of comic books and graphic novels, usually formatted as Adobe PDFs. So it was a natural step for the company to offer graphic ads that are inserted in e-books. "We think we're creating a broader audience for some of these titles," Wowio's CEO Brian Altounian told me. "I think folks are going to download more books because they're saving the costs" of having to drive to the store or pay more for them. Would ads stop you from reading?

Comment Re:got spyware? (Score 0) 761

by arnott on Wednesday October 13, 2010 @03:06PM (#33886062) Attached to: Careful What You Post, the FBI Has More of These

Real life Rambo arrested : Standoff comes to peaceful end.

Comment About LibreOffice mentions oracle (Score 0) 648

by arnott on Tuesday September 28, 2010 @02:09PM (#33725632) Attached to: OpenOffice.org Declares Independence From Oracle, Becomes LibreOffice

Did anyone download and install LibreOffice 3 ? If you click "About LibreOffice" under Help, you get :

LibreOffice 3.3.0
OOO330m7 (Build:9526)
ooo-build 2010-09-24

Copyright © 2000, 2010 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This product was created by The Document Foundation, based on OpenOffice.org. OpenOffice.org acknowledges all community members, especially those mentioned at http://www.openoffice.org/welcome/credits.html.

why does it still mention Oracle ? Is it a license issue ?

Comment Salon's Glenn Greenwald on Project Vigilant (Score 1, Informative) 97

by arnott on Tuesday August 03, 2010 @09:37AM (#33122604) Attached to: 'Project Vigilant' Recruits At Defcon To Track You

He had a detailed post of 'Project Vigilant'.

Uber told Computer World that he decided to divulge his group's role in directing Lamo to turn into an informant because he thought that Lamo's patriotic act was being unfairly disparaged.

Comment Re:Not surprising (Score 0) 283

by arnott on Monday August 02, 2010 @10:11PM (#33118910) Attached to: $200B Lost To Counterfeiting? Back It Up

Oft quoted as the "paper of record", the Times has a history of faking it.

Jayson Blair ? how about making stuff up for the Iraq war ?

Comment gs + tesseract (Score 0) 133

by arnott on Thursday July 22, 2010 @03:54PM (#32994930) Attached to: Open Source OCR That Makes Searchable PDFs

Another opensource option: The pdfs can be converted to tiffs using ghostscript and ocr-ed using tesseract. The current version of tesseract does not have document layout analysis and page segmentation support.

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