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Submission + - Twitter Turns On SSL Encryption For Some Users (computerworld.com)

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JohnBert
JohnBert writes: "Twitter is slowly turning on automatic encryption on its website, a move following other major providers of web-based services to thwart account hijacking over wireless networks.

Twitter has offered an option for users to turn on SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) encryption, but said on Tuesday that it will turn the feature on by default for some users. It did not indicate when the option would be turned on by default for all users.

SSL encryption, indicted by "https" in the URL bar and sometimes a padlock in the browser window, is an encryption protocol used to protect communication between a client and a server. It is important to use because unencrypted information passed over wireless networks can be intercepted."
Technology

Submission + - 12 Types of Bad Tech Names (hp.com)

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Esther Schindler
Esther Schindler writes: ""Life is too short to want to punch a website in the face," writes Carol Pinchefsky. "But there I was, staring at Apple.com, feeling the rage. I was struck for the nth time by the sheer badness of the name iPad when I realized there were worse names of tech companies, products, and services. In fact, there are entire categories of bad." Ten of them, in fact, such as "Unpronounceable names" and "Names that use symbols." You'll probably laugh. Or maybe cry. Hard to tell."

Submission + - Earthquake Rattles Washington, East Coast (usgs.gov)

Submitted by jaysunn
jaysunn writes: Reports are coming in that an earthquake just hit Washington, New York, Philadelphia, Boston and Cleveland. The U.S. Geological Survey said an earthquake of a 5.8 magnitude hit Virginia near the town of Mineral. We’ll have more soon.
Medicine

Submission + - Common Cause of All Forms of ALS Discovered (sciencedaily.com)

Submitted by intellitech
intellitech writes: The underlying disease process of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS and Lou Gehrig's disease), a fatal neurodegenerative disease that paralyzes its victims, has long eluded scientists and prevented development of effective therapies. Scientists weren't even sure all its forms actually converged into a common disease process, but a new Northwestern Medicine study has identified a common cause of all forms of ALS for the first time. The basis of the disorder is a broken down protein recycling system in the neurons of the spinal cord and the brain. Optimal functioning of the neurons relies on efficient recycling of the protein building blocks in the cells. In ALS, that recycling system is broken. The cell can't repair or maintain itself and becomes severely damaged. The discovery by Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine researchers, published in the journal Nature, provides a common target for drug therapy and shows that all types of ALS are, indeed, tributaries, pouring into a common river of cellular incompetence.
Apple

Submission + - United Pilots To Use iPads For Navigation (breitbart.com)

Submitted by bonch
bonch writes: Pilots of United and Continental will ditch flight manuals and charts in favor of 11,000 iPads containing the same data in app form. Replacing 38 pounds of paper materials, the iPads will run an app called Mobile FliteDeck from Jeppesen, a provider of software navigation tools. Alaska Airlines adopted iPads back in May. United estimates a savings of 326,000 gallons of fuel a year due to the lighter load.
Hardware

Submission + - Solar cell school science project is not science (theatlanticwire.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Recently covered by Slashdot, the youngster's science project which involved haphazardly orienting solar cells is not science and does not exceed usual efficiency levels.
Science

Submission + - Hints of Higgs Boson Appear Weaker (sciencemag.org)

Submitted by sciencehabit
sciencehabit writes: Last month, physicists working with the world's highest-energy atom-smasher reported possible evidence of the long-sought Higgs boson, the last missing piece of scientists' standard model of fundamental particles and the key to physicists' explanation of how all particles get their mass. Today, however, the same two teams reported that, with more data, those signs appear slightly weaker, suggesting that they could be a statistical fluctuation in the "background" produced by decays of familiar particles. Still, the curious excess of possible Higgs bosons remains.
Games

Submission + - Study: Video Games Boost Parent-Child Bonding (itproportal.com)

Submitted by hypnosec
hypnosec writes: A new academic study has revealed that video games have a positive impact on the bonding between parents and their kids. The research, which was carried out by casual games publisher PopCap Games in partnership with Dr Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic of Goldsmiths University, concluded that parents who play video games with their children bond with them greater. According to the study, 32 percent of the parents that took part in the study played computer video games with their children every day while 80 percent of the parents described it as quality time.
Linux

Submission + - Linux Journal Goes 100% Digital (linuxjournal.com) 2

Submitted by slams
slams writes: Linux Journal will stop publishing hard copies and will go all digital next month, with issue #209. This means one less magazine dealing with Linux on the newsstands and the end to having a leisurely copy of a linux magazine in the cubical.
Cloud

Submission + - Germany Declares Facebook Like Button Illegal 2

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Not only has Germany declared Facebook's facial recognition technology and wild Facebook parties illegal, but the country today found Facebook's Like button in violation of its strict privacy laws. Commissioner Thilo Weichert, who works for the Independent Centre for Privacy Protection (ULD) in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein, said the social network’s plugin, which allows Internet users to express their appreciation of something online, illegally puts together a profile of their Web habits.
HP

Submission + - HP Spinning off WebOS and Exiting Hardware Busines

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Unknown Lamer
Unknown Lamer writes: "A number of readers submitted rumors about a few announcements HP was to make today. Now that has actually happened and the news looks grim. For starters they are exiting the tablet and phone market and repositioning webOS for use in appliances and vehicles. They also confirmed they are in talks to acquire Autonomy. Finally, they are considering exiting the PC hardware business entirely in order to focus on their software business."

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