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Comment Re:FIRE! (Score 1) 457

by ctheme (#46167001) Attached to: Judge Says You Can Warn Others About Speed Traps
I've driven with Waze for thousands of miles and let me tell you, cops use it too. Frequently I will see a Waze user icon marked on the GPS map where at police car is camped in real life, where a speed trap has been reported in their database. Sometimes I'll see them move and park a mile or two away to set up a new speed traps.

I hate to think that they're picking on Waze users for employing software which might aid them in speeding. But fortunately, American cops have never been known to pull over drivers based on personal criteria without due reason.

Submission + - Does anybody sees the potential issues with iOS7's new GUI? (blogspot.fr)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Hi, as you know this week iOS7 was announced together with a new GUI, is anybody else annoyed by the lack of buttons? I wrote a little article about it and I was wondering if other people have noticed the potential issues of such changes. Other OSs, like Android, also present similar issues. What do you think?

Submission + - I Want To Go To The Moon! (blogspot.com)

Submitted by Ravaun
Ravaun writes: What if we could go to the moon soon. Not today or tomorrow but within the next 4 — 13 years? Of course, not everyone can go (unless we all donate massive amounts of cash), but at least 1 in 32,756 of us can. And another 66 — 67 technical folks. Check it out, it's worth looking into! http://lunarpole.blogspot.com/

Submission + - 3D-Printable Gun Downloaded 100k Times In Two Days (Thanks To Kim Dotcom) (forbes.com)

Submitted by Sparrowvsrevolution
Sparrowvsrevolution writes: The promise of a fully 3D-printable gun is that it can spread via the Internet and entirely circumvent gun control laws. Two days after that digital weapon's blueprint first appeared online, it seems to be fulfilling that promise. Files for the printable gun known as that "Liberator" have been downloaded more than 100,000 times in two days, according to Defense Distributed, the group that created it. Those downloads were facilitated by Kim Dotcom's startup Mega, which Defense Distributed is using to host the Liberator's CAD files. And it's also been uploaded to the Pirate Bay, where it's one of the most popular files in the filesharing site's uncensorable 3D printing category.

Submission + - Adobe Creative Suite Going Subscription-Only 1

Submitted by JDG1980
JDG1980 writes: According to CNET and various other sources, CS6 will be the last version of Adobe's Creative Suite that will be sold in the traditional manner. All future versions will be available by subscription only, through Adobe's so-called "Creative Cloud" service. This means that before too long, anyone who wants an up-to-date version of Photoshop won't be able to buy it – they will have to pay $50 per month (minimum subscription term: one year). Can Adobe complete the switch to subscription-only, or will the backlash be too great? Will this finally spur the creation of a real competitor to Photoshop?

Submission + - Microsoft's "New Coke" Moment

Submitted by theodp
theodp writes: Remember New Coke? Twenty-eight years ago, Coca-Cola replaced the secret formula of its flagship brand, only to announce the return of the "classic" formula just 79 days later. Had it launched in 2013, Coke's Jay Moye suspects a social media backlash would have prompted it to reverse itself even sooner. In a timely follow-up, ZDNet's Steven Vaughan-Nichols points out that Microsoft is facing its own New Coke moment with Windows 8. 'Does Ballmer have the guts to admit he made a mistake and give users what they clearly want?' Vaughan-Nichols asks. 'While it's too late for Windows 8, Blue might give us back our Start button and an Aero-like interface. We don't know.'

Submission + - Tylenol may ease pain of existential distress, social rejection

Submitted by Guppy
Guppy writes: Does Tylenol reduce existential distress? Acetaminophen (Paracetamol) has been used to relieve mild-to-moderate physical pain for over a century, yet its actual mechanism of action continues to be debated; modern research has demonstrated an intriguing connection with the body's endocannabinoid system, raising the question of whether it may also have subtle psychological effects as well. A recent paper claims Acetaminophen can alter our response to existential challenge; previous findings have suggested that it may blunt the pain of social rejection as well.

Submission + - Portal Now Available On Linux (on.net)

Submitted by alancronin
alancronin writes: Valve have released Portal for Linux through the Steam platform. If you have a copy of the Windows version you will automatically have a copy of it for Linux in your account. There are also rumors of Portal 2 coming soon.

Submission + - Google And Adobe Beautify Fonts On Linux, iOS (pcworld.com)

Submitted by alancronin
alancronin writes: Users of Android, Chrome OS, Linux, and iOS devices may not realize it, but FreeType open source software is used to render fonts on more than a billion such devices. Not only that, but the FreeType project this week got a significant update from none other than Adobe and Google. Specifically, Google and Adobe on Wednesday released into beta the Adobe CFF engine, an advanced Compact Font Format (CFF) rasterizer that “paves the way for FreeType-based platforms to provide users with richer and more beautiful reading experiences,” as Google put it in an online announcement on the Google Open Source Blog. The new rasterizer is now included in FreeType version 2.4.12. Though it's currently off by default, the technology is “vastly superior” to the old CFF engine and will replace it in the next FreeType release, the project says.

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