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Submission + - Nokia overtaken by HTC; Moodies downrates. (wsj.com)

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An anonymous reader writes: HTC's market valuation has overtaken Nokia's for a time according to the Wall Street Journal which made HTC the third highest valued mobile company after Apple and Samsung. The article goes on to state that this shows the power of Android which may even end up dominating Nokia's current feature phone market. This news comes on the back of Nokia's downrating by Moodies together with a warning of more to come which will make the vast R&D spend Nokia needs for WP7 even more difficult to finance.

As we remember from the Nokia Microsoft deal, Nokia is allowed to customize WP7 in ways that HTC is not. HTC's position with Microsoft is clearly humiliating so a number of analysts have been asking if Microsoft's other partners are going to review their WP7 involvement.
Earth

Submission + - The One-second War (What Time Will You Die?) (acm.org)

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CowboyRobot
CowboyRobot writes: "As more and more systems care about time at the second and sub-second level, finding a lasting solution to the leap seconds problem is becoming increasingly urgent.

"We're talking about the abolishment of leap seconds, a crude hack added 40 years ago, to paper over the fact that planets make lousy clocks compared with quantum mechanical phenomena.""
Android

Submission + - Andy Rubind defends openness of Android platform (edibleapple.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Reports that Google was increasing the amount of control it exerts over handset carriers with respect to UI tweaks and the like generated a lot of criticism last week. These reports were magnified further because they followed word that Android was going to delay the open source release of its Android 3.0 Honeycomb OS.
Responding to such criticisms, Google’s Android head Andy Rubin penned a blogpost on Wednesday addressing a number of concerns and unequivocally refuting concerns that Google is not as committed to being open as it once was.
Earth

Submission + - Japan's Tsunami Topped 120 Feet (sciencemag.org)

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sciencehabit writes: The 11 March tsunami that inundated coastal regions of northeast Japan was 37.9 meters (124 feet) high in at least one location. That's tall enough to engulf a 10-story building. But "we think we will see [evidence of] bigger waves in other areas," says Satoko Oki, a seismologist at the University of Tokyo's Earthquake Research Institute. Despite its size, the wave isn't a record for Japan: A 38.2-meter tsunami struck farther south along the northeast coast in 1896.
Virtualization

Submission + - Dell preloads servers with virtual desktops, VMs (networkworld.com)

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Julie188
Julie188 writes: "Dell is clearly trying break free of its love-hate relationship with Microsoft. On Thursday the company served up a new choice for buying its servers: plug-and-play configurations that include up to 200 VMware virtual machines along with the networking and storage needed to run them. Dell is also offering a ready-made virtual desktop infrastructure in the same fashion, letting users buy servers pre-configured with hundreds to thousands of virtual desktops in two flavors: VMware or Citrix XenDesktop. The company tossed in an announcement about a new e-mail backup and archiving service, then promised to build 10 new data centers worldwide in the next 24 months — three in the U.S. — to support what it hopes will be a massive move to its cloud. (All told Dell is investing $1 billion in its cloud.) Almost as an afterthought, the company announced an expanded partnership with Microsoft, so it could say that Hyper-V might one day be offered as an option, but clearly its alliance with VMware and it's work with OpenStack and alliance with Canonical, shows Dell is trying to get the upper hand."
Politics

Submission + - Private Companies May Get Web Censorship Powers (arstechnica.com)

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esocid writes: The House and Senate are both drafting "rogue sites" legislation that will likely support website blocking at the domain name level and will require online ad networks and credit card companies to stop working with sites on the blacklist. That idea is controversial enough when only the government has the power to pursue the censoring; it gets even more controversial if private companies get the right to bring a censorship action in court without waiting for government to act.

Appearing at today's "Legitimate Sites v. Parasites" hearing before the House Judiciary Committee, Google's Kent Walker was clear: a private right of action to bring a COICA claim would give rightsholders tremendous leverage over Google. Walker went so far as to warn of "shakedowns" from private companies wanting to force changes in Google's behavior.

But the general mood of the hearing was that tough new steps must be taken. As Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) asked Morton during his questioning, "What change in the law would allow you to pursue everyone?" While stressing he wasn't talking about kids using P2P file-sharing, Issa wanted to bring the hammer down on everyone else. Issa, who made his money creating the Viper car alarm and watched as counterfeiters knocked off imitations, demanded "zero tolerance" from ICE. "You have to get it down to zero," he said.
Software

Submission + - Free DARPA software lets gamers hunt submarines (networkworld.com)

Submitted by coondoggie
coondoggie writes: If you have ever wanted to go torpedo-to-torpedo with a submariner, now is your chance. The crowdsource-minded folks at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency rolled out an online game that lets players try to catch elusive, quiet enemy submarines.

According to DARPA the Sonalysts Combat Simulations Dangerous Waters software was been written to simulate actual evasion techniques used by submarines, challenging each player to track them successfully. "Your tracking vessel is not the only ship at sea, so you'll need to safely navigate among commercial shipping traffic as you attempt to track the submarine, whose driver has some tricks up his sleeve. You will earn points as you complete mission objectives, and will have the opportunity to see how you rank against the competition."
Apple

Submission + - Maine city to give kindergarteners iPad2s (pressherald.com)

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An anonymous reader writes: The city of Auburn is planning to give all kindergarten children an iPad2 starting this fall. this is a follow-up to gov king's initiative to give a Apple laptop to every 7th and 8th grade student.

Submission + - Dell Tests Packaging Material Made of Mushrooms (pcmag.com)

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jones_supa
jones_supa writes: "Dell said this week that it will begin shipping one server configuration with a packaging material with a more ecological approach, one that's grown using mushroom spores. First to appear along the PowerEdge R710 server, the mushroom mycelium can be grown into the shape needed for the packaging. Upon receipt, the packaging can then be composted. Dell already ships many of its notebooks and smartphones using a cushion of bamboo, another plant that grows easily in the wild."

Submission + - Italian cold fusion device examined (nyteknik.se) 2

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: In a detailed report, two Swedish physicists exclude chemical reactions as the energy source in the Italian âenergy catalyzerâ(TM). The two physicists recently supervised a new test of the device in Bologna, Italy.
Crime

Submission + - Servers Breached at Fortune 100 Company (net-security.org)

Submitted by Orome1
Orome1 writes: The Connecticut-based Hartford Financial Services Group — a Fortune 100 company and one of the largest investment and insurance companies in the US — has suffered a breach that resulted in password-stealing Trojans being installed on a number of the company's servers. A number of servers were compromised, including the Citrix servers which the employees use to access the company systems from a remote location.

Comment Re:The Pursestrings tell the story... (Score 1) 978

by mc3000 (#35726534) Attached to: Arizona Governor Proposes Flab Tax

At no point is it financially rewarding.

Wrong.
It is financially rewarding after one gets declared "disabled" and begins collecting SSI (http://www.ssa.gov/disability/). This is a pervasive problem. I'm surprised how no attention is given to this problem in the media.

get people into real nutritionist and trainers

This is pie in the sky stuff, utter nonsense, and you have no clue what is going on in the real world if you believe what you wrote. Medicaid and the disability system make losing weight actually disadvantageous. Your unicorn-riding nutritionists and trainers are going to (and do) have a hard time getting anyone to lose weight, because losing weight by decreasing food intake and/or increasing activity takes willpower and motivation. There's no pill for that.
 

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