Comment Piracy != Privacy (Score 1) 404
Anyone else read this as "Windows 8 To Fight Privacy With the Cloud". I need more coffee!
Submission + - HTC Sues Apple Over Patent Infringement (reuters.com) 1
nevermore94 writes: Smartphone maker HTC Corp sued Apple Inc, seeking to halt U.S. imports and sales of Macintosh computers, iPads, iPods, iPhones and other devices because of alleged patent infringements.
The latter alleged infringements of three patents obtained in 2008 and 2010, and which relate to Wi-Fi capability and other functions. It seeks compensatory damages as well as triple damages for willful infringement.
The latter alleged infringements of three patents obtained in 2008 and 2010, and which relate to Wi-Fi capability and other functions. It seeks compensatory damages as well as triple damages for willful infringement.
Submission + - Sensing Opportunity, Sony Cuts Price of PS3 (ibtimes.com)
gabbo529 writes: "Sony has announced a price cut to its PS3 gaming console, lobbing off 50 bucks to go from $299 to $249.
The 17 percent price cut is the first time Sony has dropped the price of its main console since 2009. At $249, the 160 GB version of the PS3 (the 320 GB version's price will go from $299 from $349) is now $351 less than its original asking price of $600. The price cut may be an example of Sony sensing an opportunity in the gaming industry. For the first time since this generation of consoles was released, Nintendo's Wii didn't dominate sales. Sony and Microsoft are now vying to be the new number one."
The 17 percent price cut is the first time Sony has dropped the price of its main console since 2009. At $249, the 160 GB version of the PS3 (the 320 GB version's price will go from $299 from $349) is now $351 less than its original asking price of $600. The price cut may be an example of Sony sensing an opportunity in the gaming industry. For the first time since this generation of consoles was released, Nintendo's Wii didn't dominate sales. Sony and Microsoft are now vying to be the new number one."
Submission + - MIT Media Lab builds Social X-Ray Glasses (wordpress.com)
An anonymous reader writes: MIT Media Lab has built glasses that let the user pick up on subtle social cues that are normally ignored.
Submission + - Reaching for broader firepower against viruses (fiercebiotechresearch.com)
hlovy writes: The good guys are beginning to build up their arsenal in the escalating arms race between humans and viruses. A couple of recently announced breakthroughs give some hope that we can gain the upper hand against drug-resistant viruses through medication that can take aim at a wider range of bad guys. MIT reports that researchers at its Lincoln Laboratory have designed a kind of smart bomb--a drug that can identify any type of virus, then kill the infected cells to get rid of the infection. And a Boston researcher working for Howard Hughes Medical Institute has discovered an antibody that can recognize many different strains of flu, raising hope for flu shots that do not need to be updated every single year.
Submission + - Outsourced and fired, IT workers fight back (computerworld.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Workers at Molina Healthcare fight back once the entire department is laid off in favor or H1-B Visa employees.
Submission + - Scrabble badasses have unusual brain ability (scienceblog.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Being a competitive Scrabble player apparently warps your brain, in a good way, according to researchers at the University of Calgary in Canada. At the high level of the game, players quickly judge whether words, or possible words are real based in large part on their visual stimuli — not an inherent knowledge of the word or its meaning. "These findings indicate that Scrabble players are less reliant on the meaning of words to judge whether or not they are real, and more flexible at word recognition using orthographic information. ... Competitive Scrabble players are visual word recognition experts and their skill pushes the bounds of what we previously considered the end-point of development of the word recognition system.”
Submission + - Twitter-Based Hedge Fund is Making Money (ibtimes.com)
thebchuckster writes: Derwent Capital apparently finished its first month of trading in the fund at the end of July, beating the S&P 500, which fell 2.2 percent in July.
Basing the strategy on research published by the University of Manchester and Indiana University in October, the fund operates on the premise that the number of emotional words used on Twitter can be used to predict daily movement in the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
Basing the strategy on research published by the University of Manchester and Indiana University in October, the fund operates on the premise that the number of emotional words used on Twitter can be used to predict daily movement in the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
Comment Re:Sounds like (Score 4, Insightful) 1229
I don't see anyone forcing anyone to buy anything. If the GMO crop is worth a premium, the farmers will pay a premium. If not, then not.
Comment Security 101 (Score 1) 258
Security through obscurity FTW! Everyone knows that is the best way to secure a system!
Comment Re:Why is OSS A Criteria? (Score 3, Insightful) 292
Baptisms for the dead don't happen unless a family member submits the name for that specific purpose.
Not true. Historically the Mormon church does them for anyone they have genealogy details. They came under a lot of controversy in the recent past by doing baptisms for Jewish people killed in the Holocaust.
Comment Re:Why is OSS A Criteria? (Score 0) 292
I'd be careful using the Mormon version, unless you want great grandpa to be baptized for the dead. That's what they use their vast database of genealogy for.
Comment Re:First post, for the umpteenth time (Score 4, Insightful) 240
This gene may be a good example of a "selfish gene." People who are promiscuous would tend to pass on their genes more frequently.
Comment Re:And the answer is no. (Score 1) 229
Actually, its more like a very specialized version of Wireshark -
Comment Re:IE? (Score 1) 50
Supposedly Verisign's iDefense labs will pay for IE exploits.
Have a great retirement.
