Submission + - Android's Alarming Worldwide 2012 3Q Numbers (gartner.com) 2
Submission + - Invisibility tech demonstration tomorrow in New York City (foxnews.com)
Submission + - Woz worries Microsoft is now more innovative than Apple (techcrunch.com) 1
Submission + - Good news about Deepwater Horizon: oysters didn't eat oil (acs.org)
That's the conclusion of a study by researchers in Alabama who were already studying the region's oysters before the spill happened — giving them before, during, and after samples to test. Using isotopic ratios, the researchers found little evidence of oil in the oyster's flesh or shells.
Submission + - Crooks steal $1.5M in iPads from JFK (nypost.com)
Submission + - RIAA Data Shows P2P Users Spend Nearly 50% More on Music Than Non-P2P Users (michaelgeist.ca) 1
Submission + - NASA to encrypt all of its laptops (bbc.co.uk)
Submission + - With Pot Legal, Police Worry About Traffic Safety 13
Submission + - Amazon Payment Adds "No Class Action" Language to Terms Of Service
1.3 Disputes. Any dispute or claim relating in any way to your visit to the Site or Seller Central or to products or services sold or distributed by us or through the Site or Seller Central (including without limitation the Service) will be resolved by binding arbitration, rather than in court, except that you may assert claims in small claims court if your claims qualify. The Federal Arbitration Act and federal arbitration law apply to this agreement....
This is becoming more and more common, and while the end user normally doesn't make out well in a class-action suit, large settlements do provide a punishment and deterrent to corporations that abuse their power. The question becomes, what do we do to fix this so that consumers are truly protected?
Submission + - In UK, Twitter, Facebook rants land some in jail (chron.com)
Submission + - Kinected Browser - Kinect On The Web (i-programmer.info)
Submission + - A Free Internet, If You Can Keep It (techcrunch.com)
Submission + - The First Amendment and Software Speech (stanfordlawreview.org)
Submission + - Unhackable drone research to go open source (scmagazine.com.au) 3
The DARPA research will take four years, cost $18 million and promises to also help secure critical systems such as aircraft, vehicles and medical devices and make their code more stable.