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Comment: Let's put this in perspective ... (Score 1) 684

by daveywest (#39882035) Attached to: Growing Evidence of Football Causing Brain Damage
It's not like we're breaking out the Christians and lions here. Besides, I'm pretty sure the last five years I've spent sitting in a cubicle for 8 hours/day has done quite a bit of damage to my mental capacity. Every job has risks and does some form of irreparable damage to your body. I have a reduced sense of smell from long-term, low-level exposure to a fumes from a solution that was basically concentrated vinegar.

+ - US Supreme Court weighs on on Warrantless GPS Trac->

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asylumx writes "We've been following this story on Slashdot for a while now, well the US Supreme Court on Monday ruled unanimously that the police violated the Constitution when they placed a Global Positioning System tracking device on a suspect’s car and monitored its movements for 28 days. While the vote that the tracking was illegal is unanimous, there is some disagreement whether it simply constitutes a search (which should require a warrant under the 4th amendment) or if it was a breach of reasonable expectation of privacy. The latter seems to imply that GPS Tracking without a warrant is sometimes legal."
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Ars Technica: iBooks Author EULA restrictions invite antitrust concerns->

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Apple's end user license agreement for the iBooks Author app has generated extensive controversy among authors and publishers. Namely, the agreement restricts paid distribution of "works" created with the software to the iBookstore only. Technical limitations may make the restriction a moot point for the time being, as only Apple's own iBooks apps can even read the files generated by iBooks Author. But forcing users to sell content through the iBookstore, governed by a separate contract with its own terms, might not survive an antitrust challenge in court if it were to come up.

First, it's important to understand two aspects of iBooks Authorone technical, and one related to its license. The iBooks Author EULA has a stipulation that limits paid distribution of iBooks created with the software to the iBookstore. If you create something with iBooks Author and give it away, there are no limitationsput it on the Web anywhere you like. If you want to charge people money, you have to use the iBookstore and Apple gets a 30 percent cut.

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+ - Apple Has Spent More Than 100 Million Dollars On A->

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Diggester
Diggester writes "The never-ending war on Android has cost Apple more than $100 million, according to latest estimates. While a huge chunk of that money was spent (read wasted) in claims against HTC.

So far, 84 claims have been filed against different Android manufacturers (HTC, Samsung etc.) for patent infringments, out of which only 10 were proved to have been infringed and only one ruling has gone in Apple's favour."
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+ - Evi for iOS and Android, Better than Siri?->

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An anonymous reader writes "Evi Artificial Intelligence from True Knowledge, launched on Monday for iOS devices in the Apple App Store and as a beta for Android smartphones, is the latest creation in voice-activated personal assistants and some say it is better than Siri due to the exactness of its answers. Evi works similar to Siri, in that the user taps a microphone on the touch screen to prompt a search, in addition to a text input option. However, “unlike a search engine, which simply looks for matching words and shows you a list of websites, Evi understands what you want to know and gives back exactly what you're after,” according to the makers. For example, when Siri is asked how to make an apple pie, it simply searches the Web or provides nearby bakeries. Evi, however, caters to the users’ exact demand and gives a list of recipes. One caveat with Evi is that it cannot add reminders or important dates to iPhone Calendars yet, but surely True Knowledge will fix the bug. Evi costs $.99 in the App Store and is currently free in the Android Market."
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+ - Network of Typo Squatting Domains Discovered->

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Orome1 writes "A network of some 7,000 typo squatting domains is being used by scammers to effectively drive traffic towards their scammy sites, some of which get so much traffic that they managed to enter Alexa's top 250 list of sites with the largest Web traffic, say Websense researchers. The typo squatting domains take advantage of the "fat-fingered" visitors of popular websites and redirect them to spam survey sites. From there, the users are taken to sites with spam advertisements and greyware masquerading as free downloads of legitimate software such as movie downloaders."
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+ - Wasting Hackers' Time to Keep Websites Safe->

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wjousts writes "A new security start-up, Mykonos Software, is pushing a new approach to handling hackers. Instead of blocking them, it proposes instead to waste their time by feeding them false information until they give up.

As reported in Technology Review:

As a promotional tool to impress potential clients, Mykonos engineers have built versions of the company's software that taunt attackers. One directs a hacker to a Google Maps search for nearby criminal attorneys. Another parodies Microsoft's now-defunct anthropomorphic paper clip, Clippy, with the message: "It looks like you're an unsophisticated script kiddie. Do you need help writing code?"

Their tactics include placing supercookies on suspected attackers computers.

There are few things hackers hate more than being taunted. So is this a valid strategy? Or is it waiving a red cloak at a bull?"
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HP

+ - HP Pays $425k to Settle Faulty Battery Claims->

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itwbennett
itwbennett writes "In agreeing to the settlement, HP denied that the 32,000 lithium-ion batteries it recalled posed an unreasonable risk or that it had violated federal reporting requirements by waiting almost a year to report the problem after learning about incidents involving the batteries. With respect to the recall, HP said in the agreement that it acted 'in accordance with the CPSA and in its customers' best interests.'"
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+ - Why MegaUpload Was Really Shut Down->

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David Gerard writes "In December of 2011, just weeks before the takedown, Digital Music News reported on something new that the creators of Megaupload were about to unroll. Something that would rock the music industry to its core: MegaBox. MegaBox was going to be an alternative music store that was entirely cloud-based and offered artists a better money-making opportunity than they would get with any record label — "allowing artists to keep 90 percent of earnings.""
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