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Submission + - Google Play TOS and Italian Law (googleusercontent.com)

Submitted by CrkHead
CrkHead writes: Last week I was again prompted to agree to terms of service to update apps through Google Play. I read the terms, and noticed in the last paragraph a disclaimer that they are were governed under Italian law.

I opened a support ticket for clarification. When they responded asking for more information, I looked at the current TOS and they had removed this section. A quick compare of the current and cached documents show many changes.

Is there any hope now of knowing current agreements with software vendors? This must make them even less enforceable, but no one wants to risk having to defend themselves against any attempt to enforce.
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Submission + - Confidential Police Confetti at Macy's Parade (upi.com)

Submitted by cstacy
cstacy writes: The Nassau County (New York) Police Department is "very concerned" about reports that shreds of police documents (with social security numbers, phone numbers, addresses, license plate numbers, incident reports, and more) rained down as confetti in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. The documents also unveiled the identities of undercover officers, including their SSNs and bank information, according to WPIX-TV. Macy's has no idea how this happened, as they use commercial, colored confetti, not shredded paper.

Submission + - The White Noise of Smell (livescience.com)

Submitted by Frosty Piss
Frosty Piss writes: Scientists have discovered a new smell, but you may have to go to a laboratory to experience it yourself. The smell is dubbed "olfactory white," because it is the nasal equivalent of white noise, researchers report in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Just as white noise is a mixture of many different sound frequencies and white light is a mixture of many different wavelengths, olfactory white is a mixture of many different smells. In a series of experiments, they exposed participants to hundreds of equally mixed smells, and what they discovered is that our brains treat smells as a single unit, not as a mixture of compounds to break down, analyze and put back together again.. The web site LiveScience talks about it here.

Submission + - Nexus 4 includes support for LTE (anandtech.com)

Submitted by slashchuck
slashchuck writes: One of the drawbacks of Google's Nexus $ was its lack of support for 4G LTE. Now comes a report from Anand Tech that is supported on on the Nexus 4.

It seems that a simple software update can allow the Nexus 4 smartphone to run on LTE Band 4. All users have to do is dial *#*#4636#*#* (INFO) or launch the Phone Info app. After that, choosing to connect to AWS networks should allow the Nexus 4 to run on LTE networks on Band 4.

The AnandTech report states explicitly that the LG Nexus 4 only works on LTE Band 4, on 1700/2100MHz frequencies, and supports bandwidths of 5,10, and 20MHz.

Comment Re:Ha (Score 1) 272

by CrkHead (#34285632) Attached to: Lawsuit Shows Dell Hid Extent of Computer Flaws
Gateway had the same vendor. I was working in one of their shops and anything with an AMD processor was likely to show up a couple times.

That's one advantage Dell had over GW. GW had built up a reputation that if there's a problem come in and we'll fix it under warranty, then these motherboards hit and there was no way to keep up with volume.

Comment Re:Ubuntu this and Ubuntu that (Score 4, Interesting) 225

by CrkHead (#33265250) Attached to: Happy 17th Birthday, Debian!
I think you summed it up fairly well.

As a project, Debian is most interested in Freedom and stability. Although someone coming from a *nix back ground shouldn't have much trouble, someone new to computers or coming over from one of the dark sides is likely to.

Enter Ubuntu. Their primary interest is getting Linux on the desktop. Debian is an ideal base because it has everything, so you just need to keep current on the unstable version and put some chrome on it.

Grey beards keep their Debian and the whipper snappers stay off the lawn.
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Kids Who Watch Popeye Cartoons Eat More Vegetables 119

Posted by samzenpus from the I-yam-what-I-yam dept.
markmark57 writes "Popeye cartoons, tasting parties and junior cooking classes can help increase vegetable intake in kindergarten children, according to new research published in the journal Nutrition & Dietetics. Researchers at Mahidol University in Bangkok found the type and amount of vegetables children ate improved after they took part in a program using multimedia and role models to promote healthy food. Twenty six kindergarten children aged four to five participated in the eight-week study. The researchers recorded the kinds and amounts of fruit and vegetables eaten by the children before and after the program."

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