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Submission + - Stop being duped by the 3D scam (techrepublic.com)

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Phoghat
Phoghat writes: "The entertainment and electronics industries keep trying to push 3D on consumers, even though a lot of smart people have caught on to the fact that it is a scam and not innovation as the industry would like you to believe."
Google

Submission + - Google Will Save Videos After All (blogspot.com)

Submitted by don9030582
don9030582 writes: After Google announced it would permanently shutter its Google Videos collection, dozens of volunteers from around the world sprung unto action in a massive attempt to make a copy of the entire site. Originally slated to go dark on April 29th, now they have eliminated any such deadline and furthermore they will be migrating the collection to YouTube. We wish Google would have planned to do that from the beginning, but ultimately this is a victory for the preservation of user-generated content on the Internet.

Submission + - EV fast charging standards in flux (autoblog.com)

Submitted by savuporo
savuporo writes: With the first battery electric vehicles becoming available on markets worldwide, there is an increased push to establish standards for fast charging plugs. Unfortunately, the story is far from simple. US hopes to establish its own DC fast charging standad by 2012, and Europe cannot come to an agreement about their version. Meanwhile, CHAdeMO fast charge standard developed and widely deployed in Japan, used on both Nissan Leaf and Mitsubishi MiEV is gaining momentum with deployments underway both in US and Europe. CHAdeMO is limited to 62Kw charge rate, able to charge smaller battery packs to 80% SoC in 15-30 minutes.

Comment ummm, no. (Score 2) 35

by novar21 (#35886268) Attached to: DOJ Limits Microsoft's Purchase of Novell Patents
There are many more patents that are in the OIN portfolio than what M$ is getting a license to. M$ will not be able to use any OIN patents against anyone belonging to OIN, or against someone using GPLed software. Novell has been a member of OIN, so those patents that M$ is buying are already licensed to OIN. OIN has nothing to fear from these patents. The position now is that M$ also has nothing to fear about these patents. Other patents that OIN has can still be used against M$. But I am not a lawyer. And this is not legal advice.
Microsoft

Submission + - Obama v. Obama on Microsoft TV Watching Patent?

Submitted by theodp
theodp writes: 'No country has more successful companies or grants more patents to inventors and entrepreneurs,' boasted a proud President Obama in his State of the Union address. So, as Microsoft looks for yet another patent on 'Encouraging Viewers to Watch Television Programs', they can expect to have the President's full support, right? Not so fast. Through her Let's Move initiative, First Lady Michelle Obama has fingered television viewing as a culprit in childhood obesity, and has even made a government-supplied TV viewing time log template available to encourage families to cut back. Any advice for the Patent Examiner handling this one?
AMD

Submission + - AMD Challenges NVIDIA To Graphics Throw-Down (hothardware.com)

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MojoKid
MojoKid writes: "Over the last couple of weeks, the two most powerful graphics cards released for the PC to date made their respective debuts, the dual-Cayman GPU powered AMD Radeon HD 6990 and the dual-GF110 GPU powered NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590. With such powerful products in their line-ups, both AMD and NVIDIA have claimed the offer "the world's fastest graphics card". AMD says it's theirs. Dave Erskine, the Senior Public Relations Manager for Graphics Desktop at AMD, challenged NVIDIA directly. "So now I issue a challenge to our competitor: prove it, don't just say it. Show us the substantiation.""

Submission + - Using the Open Records Law to Intimidate Critics (nytimes.com) 4

Submitted by Layzej
Layzej writes: On March 15 Professor Bill Cronon posted his first blog. The subject was the role of the American Legislative Exchange Council in influencing recent legislation in this state and across the country. Less than two days later his university received a communication formally requesting under the states Open Records Law copies of all emails he sent or received pertaining to matters raised in the blog.

Remarkably, the request was sent to the universities legal office by Stephan Thompson of the Republican Party of Wisconsin, with no effort to obscure the political motivations behind it. In a recent editorial the New York Times notes that demanding copies of e-mails and other documents is the latest technique used by conservatives to silence critics.
Security

Submission + - Does installing software make you vulnerable? 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: I haven't given this subject much thought, and now that I think about it, I imagine that the average user doesn't think of it at all. But when one installs software on their system, are they inherently trusting the maker of the installer to not subvert them in, well, any way? On a Mac, many installers ask for an admin password, and this is the equivalent of giving the installer root. On Windows, software appears to be able to install without any authentication? Really? On linux, if you're installing open source software, you can say that you know what's in the installer: but not really. That's only true if you have compiled it yourself. What is the need for installers, and why do OS vendors not do more to protect users? I don't think I should even trust companies like Adobe to respect my privacy, let alone some random guy who made a cool little utility.

Submission + - Leanord Nimoy turns 80! (startrek.com)

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ZosX
ZosX writes: "Leanord Nimoy, who we all will fondly remember as Spock has turned 80 today! StarTrek.com has posted a 3 part interview with Nimoy here, here, and here.

Thanks for the memories Mr. Nimoy! May you live long and prosper!"
Privacy

Submission + - It’s Tracking Your Every Move and You May No (nytimes.com)

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frnic
frnic writes: "German Telcom is tracking it's customers locations and saving the information: "In a six-month period — from Aug 31, 2009, to Feb. 28, 2010, Deutsche Telekom had recorded and saved his [German Green party politician, Malte Spitz,] longitude and latitude coordinates more than 35,000 times.""

Submission + - "Canadian DMCA" copyright bill dead again

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Like some kind of B-movie horror series, the latest attempt to revise Canada's copyright law and introduce DMCA-like provisions, Bill C-32, has again died on the order table as Canada's minority goverment has fallen after a non-confidence vote. This makes it the third copyright revision bill since 2005 to have died. Although this version was regarded as better than previous ones, it still contained awkward anti-circumvision provisions. We can be confident that some kind of DMCA-style copyright bill will be resurrected, but it will have to wait for the next government sequel.
Google

Submission + - Google Starts Testing Google Music Internally (techspot.com)

Submitted by Krystalo
Krystalo writes: Google employees have begun testing Google Music internally. Talks with at least some of the top publishers and four largest record labels are still ongoing. The delays are largely due to the fact that Google is negotiating for cloud music rights and not just the authorization to distribute the songs themselves. The search giant wants to be able to store users' existing music libraries on the company's servers. Labels are in similar discussions with Apple.
Microsoft

Submission + - Expensify CEO: Why we won't hire .NET developers (expensify.com)

Submitted by TheGrapeApe
TheGrapeApe writes: The CEO of San Fransisco-based VC-backed startup Expensify wrote a post on the company's blog today about why he considers .NET experience on a resume a general liability and that it will "definitely raise questions" when screening for developers in his shop:

NET is a dandy language. It’s modern, it’s fancy, it’s got all the bells and whistles. And if you’re doing Windows Mobile 7 apps (which the stats suggest you aren’t), it’s your only choice. But choosing .NET is a choice, and whenever anybody does it, I can’t help but ask “why?”

Does he have a point? Or is it counterproductive to screen devs out based on what platforms or languages they have used in the past? Discuss.
Microsoft

Submission + - MS Removes HTTPS from Hotmail for Troubled Nations (eff.org)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Microsoft has removed HTTPS from Hotmail for many US-embargoed or otherwise troubled countries. The current list of countries for which they no longer enable HTTPS is known to include Bahrain, Morocco, Algeria, Syria, Sudan, Iran, Lebanon, Jordan, Congo, Myanmar, Nigeria, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan. Journalists and others whose lives may be in danger due oppressive net monitoring in those countries may wish to use HTTPS everywhere and are also encouraged to migrate to non-Microsoft email providers, like Yahoo and Google.

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