Comment: Re:Salaries (Score 2) 793
That's what we in Marketing have been trying to tell you geeks for years. Now help me fix my powerpoint.
Comment: Exxon, et. al.? (Score 1) 264
Looks like someone learned a little something from the oil industry: Natural Disaster; Raise Prices, blaming the disaster. When the disaster's effects are neutralized, do nothing. Profit!
Another Rasberry Pi? $49 ARM SBC with Android-> 1
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n7ytd writes "Announced today with an 800 MHz VIA core, the 170 x 85mm board is expected to ship this July. With a "Neo ITX" form factor, VIA touts the single-board computer as a "bicycle for your mind"."
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Facebook Stock Drops Again As SEC Calls For Review->
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bonch writes "As valuation doubts rise over Facebook, the SEC is calling for a review of the trouble surrounding Facebook's IPO launch, as stocks dropped another nine percent in early Tuesday trading. Since last week, the company has dropped more than $14 billion in market capitalization from its initial offering of $38-per-share. Many investors were upset to learn that Morgan Stanley cut revenue forecasts days before the IPO, which may have contributed to its poor performance."
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Hollywood loves sequels: MPAA to push SOPA follow-up in 2013->
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zacharye writes "The first version was hardly a hit, but Hollywood is already planning a sequel to the Stop Online Piracy Act that it will push in 2013, reports claim. Comments made by Motion Picture Association of America chief executive Chris Dodd suggest that the MPAA will work to get a new anti-piracy billed passed next year, and it plans to take a more cunning approach..."
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Comment: Re:It is just more of Macs becoming iDevices (Score 1) 375
Oh. That must be why so many companies are NOT rushing to build their own marketplaces. Oh, wait...they are. Now why would they do that?
Comment: Re:It is just more of Macs becoming iDevices (Score 1) 375
Apple doesn't want you to have a computer, they want you to have Apple devices where you buy stuff from Apple. They want you to sit around and consume the content they sell. They've been heading that direction for awhile now, this is just a continuation of it. It isn't likely to be too many more years before they lock it down entirely, and Macs are just large stations for accessing the Apple Store/iTunes.
Apple is all about the locked-in ecosystem where everything is their way, everything runs through them, and they get a cut of everything. This is just another step down that road.
This is, of course, exactly correct. My question (and I own plenty of Apple products, mind you) is why this is OK, but when Microsoft tries this sort of thing....
Oh, right. That was a different era. When the U.S. government pretended to care about the consumer / voter and competitors pretended to care about competition.
Comment: Re:4th amendment. no new law required (Score 4, Insightful) 147
Please upvote the parent here.
This is EXACTLY the problem. We all know better. We know the Constitution should be protecting us and these laws are subservient to the Bill of Rights. Yet every time we allow these laws--pro or con--to be enacted, we collectively, as a Nation, say, "The Constitution is irrelevant."
Of course, the more we say it, the more the police, legislators and judges believe it and act accordingly.
Facial Recognition To Be Used In San Francisco Bars->
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TheGift73 writes "Bars in San Francisco are going to start to use Facial Recognition software that will stream in real-time the male to female ratios of patrons. The app is currently servicing Chicago, Austin, Bloomington, Gainesville, and Madison with SF going live last Friday.
The software is made by an Austin, Texas based night-life startup called SceneTap and will give users of the free app, the ability to see what the the current ambience of the bar/club is like as well as the average age of the clients."
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The software is made by an Austin, Texas based night-life startup called SceneTap and will give users of the free app, the ability to see what the the current ambience of the bar/club is like as well as the average age of the clients."
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Comment: Re:We already have driverless cars (Score 1) 648
Seriously? And why would the deep-conversation-engaged driver--talking on a bluetooth headset, for example--be any worse than his counterpart involved in a similar conversation with someone in the passenger seat?