Comment Re:From TFA... (Score 2, Insightful) 439
How does that "improve the industry"?
By sending business back to Blackberry and the various Android-based phones?
Comment Wait and see (Score 1) 186
It's telling that Spring's press release uses more space extolling the virtues of its product than describing the situation behind the suit. It's also curious that the primary features it hypes "full Internet browsing while reading" and "interactive multi-media open Internet access", while the nook won't even have a Web browser. B&N basically says they might add one later, if the users want it. This is totally a wait and see situation, because right now it's not at all clear who the bad guy is.
Comment Re:Unauthoriazed Copy (Score 1) 865
Yes, you can enter without breaking. It's called illegal entry. It applies when no breaking is necessary, such as entering an unlocked door or open window.
Introducing the Warpship 361
astroengine writes "Dr. Richard Obousy, a guy who has put modern science into the warp drive, has designed his very own warpship. Now, for the first time, he's shared it with the world. It might not be the sleek Starship Enterprise, but its structure has been optimized to harness local 'dark energy,' generating a warp bubble so faster-than-light velocities are possible." Now, the only question is: will the ship achieve faster-than-light travel ... or will the company hit those speeds once it has enough money from investors?
Comment Re:TFA Is slashdotted (Score 1) 226
The odd thing is that everyone assumes the long blood vessels to be fixed-diameter pipes. If the musculature included a kind of esophageal motion that helped to squeeze the blood upward, the heart wouldn't need to do as much work.
Comment Re:Cost (Score 1) 170
Mostly, it's the publishers that control this. Rights are still parceled out on a regional basis and sold separately, even though the model is aged far beyond any practical meaning. World rights cost a lot more than, say, North American rights.
Comment Re:Cost (Score 1) 170
I've been using a Sony Reader for a couple of years (since the PRS-500 came out) and have yet to use Sony's store. Why should I, when places like FictionWise exist?
Comment Re:first post! (Score 1) 820
Well, that'll teach me to rely on memory.
Comment Re:first post! (Score 1) 820
"The romance between Spock and Uhura was completely cliche and unnecessary."
Actually, it's a reference to a very important historical point from TOS. The episode "Plato's Stepchildren" contained the first ever interracial kiss on television, between Spock and Uhura.
Comment Re:Science has a high burden of proof. (Score 1) 186
You're missing two things. Neither is guaranteed, but both are likely. One is that the economy of scale often kicks in very early on at the prototyping level. The error part of trial-and-error gets spread more thinly. The other is that part of the 1X cost includes R&D. Again, that cost gets spread more thinly at 5X.
Comment Re:An edge? (Score 1) 249
If we assume said features would be available on half a dozen different phones from a variety of carriers, then from an OS company's point of view, it's an edge.
Comment Re:The Wrong Cachet (Score 2, Funny) 177
I guess "Onion Residential Finance" would bring a tear.
Only in appeal.
Submission + - EMI, Apple to Sell DRM-Free Songs Online
AlreadyDone writes: Breaking from the rest of the recording industry, EMI Group said Monday it will begin selling songs online that are free of copy-protection technology through Apple Inc.'s iTunes Store. The deal, however, doesn't include music from the label's biggest act, The Beatles
Audio Watermark Web Spider Starts Crawling 173
DippityDo writes "A new web tool is scanning the net for signs of copyright infringement. Digimarc's patented system searches video and audio files for special watermarks that would indicate they are not to be shared, then reports back to HQ with the results. It sounds kind of creepy, but has a long way to go before it makes a practical difference. 'For the system to work, players at multiple levels would need to get involved. Broadcasters would need to add identifying watermarks to their broadcast, in cooperation with copyright holders, and both parties would need to register their watermarks with the system. Then, in the event that a user capped a broadcast and uploaded it online, the scanner system would eventually find it and report its location online. Yet the system is not designed to hop on P2P networks or private file sharing hubs, but instead crawls public web sites in search of watermarked material.'"
Submission + - Solaris Telnet Worm
An anonymous reader writes: The previously discovered Solaris telnet vulnerability is now being used by a worm to spread. In addition, the worm opens up a /bin/sh backdoor and has a payload of sending funny system broadcast messages related to security researchers including one that says "Theo deRaadt SUCKS!" in ASCII art.
