Comment Re:Sure, send me an invite! (Score 1) 1223
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Comment Re:One change for circiles (Score 1) 164
would be to have the ability to drop a circle into another. IOW, the ability to create friends, family, and then 'friends & family'. So, it still requires work.
I don't think that's necessary, mostly because if you want to share something with 'friends & family' then you share it with 'friends' & 'family' - which is simple enough; note the 2 circles.
What I would actually like is Circles* + Rating ("how well do you know..." or like) the way Orkut had it. Have ratings from 1 to 5**. In the sense of social circles, there are those you prefer more than others or rather, those you share more with than others. Example: Colleagues can know about work things but not ALL things about work. The downside of this is the initial effort to rate and circle-ize followed by maintaining it.
My workaround for not having circles + rating, is to create separate circles which I've only done for friends - 'friends' & 'close friends'. I'm using 'acquaintances' as 'friends and colleagues I don't know so well'.
What G+ users should consider is how your profile/streams change to others as you move them move through your circles. A subtle area where "View profile as..." is even more useful.
* Circles behave like gmail labels since people can be in multiple circles, which I like. FB groups in your profile also behave that way but when you post from your mobile, the android FB app doesn't let you set the privacy for it. G+ Circles is central to privacy and sharing settings - you can't have a "friend" who's not in a circle unless you post publicly or just share via email, which is very spam-like.
** or just use 1 to 3 and 0 has a purpose.
But overall, I think that we are going to drop facebook (like anybody ever can) and simply switch to google plus.
That statement reads like it's missing a 'not' somewhere.
Comment Re:That's a billion people (Score 1) 126
Good point. In which case my guess would be "triple counted" - home, work and phone. But that also applies to the Facebook visitors, assuming not all companies block it.
So does that mean only the MS sites were double counted...putting them on top of the "unique visitors" list? I feel dirty for pointing that out. I can only hope they stupidly included xbox connections, so also triple counted.
Comment Speaking of festooned logos... (Score 1) 140
The next Ask Slashdot article should be "How do we get those ridiculous laptop stickers off our palm rests?" and even from some desktops. 5 at last count: brand/model, cpu, graphics card, windows os and one huge sticker with the CPU, RAM, HDD, OS specs...as if you stole a display piece.
Comment Re:And yet it has been topping a few of the charts (Score 1) 462
Actually, the demo is about 5 minutes of Duke's attitude and then just action. Basically, the demo experience was pretty damn good. The real game was nothing like the demo.
Submission + - FDA Opens Floodgates for Mobile Medical Imaging (computeinmotion.com)
An anonymous reader writes: The FDA has opened the virtual floodgates for a new slew of medical imaging applications hosted in the cloud and delivered to everything from iPhones to trusty old workstations, thus recognizing the cloud is trusted?
Submission + - Nexus S suffering from random data loss, reboots? (engadget.com)
suraj.sun writes: Hundreds have chimed in on the Google Mobile Help forum indicating that their handsets are frequently losing data signal and, once lost, a reboot is required to reconnect. It's been said this could be related to an issue that's been around since 2009 (issue 2845), but a new issue in the Android bug tracker has been created, 14672, which specifically deals with the Nexus S.
Finally, and perhaps even more troubling, is the phone rebooting. By itself. In the middle of a call. You can imagine how this might be a little annoying. That issue is number 13674 and it's linked down there too.
Engadget: http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/15/nexus-s-suffering-from-random-data-loss-reboots/
Finally, and perhaps even more troubling, is the phone rebooting. By itself. In the middle of a call. You can imagine how this might be a little annoying. That issue is number 13674 and it's linked down there too.
Engadget: http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/15/nexus-s-suffering-from-random-data-loss-reboots/
Submission + - MESSENGER Mission Set to Arrive at Mercury (agu.org)
Flash Modin writes: In one month, NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft will become the first to orbit the planet Mercury. After it's seven year journey across the solar system, the spacecraft will park in orbit and begin a one year mission to study the innermost planet. Until MESSENGER, nearly half of the planet had never been imaged and large blank spots still exist on its maps. Sean Solomon, the mission's head, says NASA hopes to solve long-standing mysteries about Mercury's formation, composition and its dynamic atmosphere.
Submission + - Look Out LCDs – AMOLEDs are Coming (singularityhub.com)
kkleiner writes: Look out LCD's because flexible, paper thin, AMOLED screens with super crisp resolution are about to become mainstream. Samsung recently unveiled a slew of new AMOLED products at CES 2011, and they did not disappoint. By layering thin sheets of an electroluminescent organic material, Samsung has managed to conceive of an entire line of products that take LED displays to an entirely new level – these videos you have to see to believe. From transparent displays to paper-thin deformable screens, Samsung has definitely set the AMOLED bar pretty high.
Submission + - Keys leaking through the air at RSA 1
NumberField writes: The RSA Conference is underway in San Francisco. A theme among the opening speakers is that the attackers are winning, and even well-funded organizations like NASDAQ can't secure their networks reliably. The show floor is lively, but dominated by the typical firewalls and "compliance solutions". One interesting exception is a scary side channel analysis demo in the Cryptography Research booth using GNU Radio to capture secret keys from various smartphones from about 10 feet away. (The method is related to early computer music using AM radio interference.)
Submission + - Apple to Keep 30% of Magazine Subscription Revenue 1
Hugh Pickens writes writes: The Guardian reports that Apple has launched a new subscription service for magazines, newspapers and music bought through its App Store, expanding the model developed for Rupert Murdoch's iPad newspaper and will keep 30% of the revenue from subscriptions if the subscription is purchased through Apple. "Our philosophy is simple – when Apple brings a new subscriber to the app, Apple earns a 30% share; when the publisher brings an existing or new subscriber to the app, the publisher keeps 100% and Apple earns nothing," says Steve Jobs, Apple's chief executive, who is presently taking a medical leave of absence from the company. "All we require is that, if a publisher is making a subscription offer outside of the app, the same – or better – offer be made inside the app, so that customers can easily subscribe with one click right in the app." Apple's control over its App Store payments plan has long been a cause for concern for content companies. Publishers want to have access to subscriber data which can provide lucrative demographics on which to base advertising campaigns and targeted reader offers. Apple says customers purchasing a subscription through its App Store will be given the option of providing the publisher with their names, email addresses and zip codes. The use of such information will be governed by the publisher's privacy policy rather than Apple's.
Submission + - Is IE9 a modern browser?
An anonymous reader writes: Microsoft is bragging a lot about HTML5. They are also suggesting that their HTML5 support is exceptionally good compared to other vendors. Paul Rouget, a Mozilla tech. evangelist posted an excellent comparison with upcoming Firerfox 4 and concluded that IE9 is definitely better than IE8 and a step in the right direction, but I don't believe it to be a truly modern browser, and let me tell you why.
