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Submission + - GPS-Located, Scannable Coupons Coming To iPhone (hothardware.com) 1

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MojoKid
MojoKid writes: "Njection who already provides speed trap alerts on the iPhone via a free app, is launching a new GPS-based coupon service in July. Basically just drive by or enter a store with a deal and the coupon will show up in the app via GPS location services. The cashier can then scan the barcode directly from the iPhone screen to give the discount. The Njection app is free, so say goodbye to newspaper insert flyers. NMobile also claims to be developing the app for Windows Mobile, Android, Blackberry and Palm devices."
Upgrades

Submission + - Humans can develop echolocation like bats

Submitted by schnucki
schnucki writes: According to the Times of India, researchers at a Spanish University have shown that human beings can develop echolocation, the system of acoustic signals used by dolphins and bats to explore their surroundings.

"In the first study, the team analyses the physical properties of various sounds, and proposes the most effective of these for use in echolocation.

"The almost ideal sound is the palate click, a click made by placing the tip of the tongue on the palate, just behind the teeth, and moving it quickly backwards, although it is often done downwards, which is wrong," Martinez explained."

Comment excuses are like old diapers (Score 1) 865

by CaptYossarian (#28551275) Attached to: Staying In Shape vs. a Busy IT Job Schedule?
they all stink and noone wants em that sounds like a regular day in a busy armory like mine. its all about time management. i love to sleep in as late as possible (0610 usually for me) so i prep my stuff to the point where when its time to get up, im out the door in a minute tops. adjust your diet to include a healthy breakfast and many small healthful snacks. if you cant find the intestinal fortitude to sacrifice some of that me time for some real productive time, then do something to up your heartrate every time you get up to get a drink, a snack, a smoke, or go to the bathroom. as mentioned earlier, find a way to get a pullup bar near you and bang out a max set every time you do something. the better shape youre in the more energy youll have and the better youll sleep, so you can use those as building blocks to help you jump outta bed and do a quick workout-maybe a mile or two on the eliptical/exercise bike (if youre not already used to working out id advise against running because its high-impact), some situps, flutter kicks, jumping jacks, pushups....the process is continuous.
The Media

Submission + - Infomercial King Billy Mays Found Dead (foxnews.com)

Submitted by CaptYossarian
CaptYossarian writes: "Television pitchman Billy Mays who built his fame by appearing on commercials and infomercials promoting household products and gadgets — died Sunday" Fox News reported today that Mays, 50, was found dead earlier this morning. Foul play is not suspected.
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NIH Spends $400K To Figure Out Why Men Don't Like Condoms 844

Posted by samzenpus from the as-obvious-as-the-rubber-nose-on-your-face dept.
The National Institutes of Health has given $423,500 to researchers at Indiana University's Kinsey Institute to figure out why men don't like to wear condoms. The institute will also study why men have trouble using condoms and investigate "penile erection and sensitivity during condom application." "The project aims to understand the relationship between condom application and loss of erections and decreased sensation, including the role of condom skills and performance anxiety, and to find new ways to improve condom use among those who experience such problems," reads the abstract from Drs. Erick Janssen and Stephanie Sanders, both of the Kinsey Institute.
Censorship

Submission + - Researchers Find Gaps in Iranian Filtering (securityfocus.com)

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I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes: "With all the turmoil and internet censorship in Iran making it difficult to get an accurate picture of what's going, security researchers have found a way to analyze gaps in Iran's filtering by analyzing traffic exiting Iran. The short version is that SSH, torrents and Flash are high priorities for blocking, while game protocols like WoW and X-Box traffic are being ignored, even though they also allow communication. Hopefully, this data will help people think of new ways to bypass filtering and speak freely, even though average Iranians have worse things to worry about than internet censorship, now that the reformists have been declared anti-Islamic by the Supreme Leader. Given the circumstances, that declaration has been called 'basically a death sentence' for those who continue protesting."
Hardware Hacking

Submission + - Inside the World's Greatest Keyboard (pcworld.com)

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ThousandStars
ThousandStars writes: "PCWorld has a story detailing the creation and longevity of what it calls the "World's Greatest Keyboard," the IBM Model M. After a weak early effort, IBM convened a design team and "Their resulting 101-key design, 1984's Model M, became the undisputed bellwether for the computer industry, with a layout that dominates desktops to this day. As we peek under the hood of this legend, you'll soon see why many consider the Model M to be the greatest keyboard of all time." Today, Unicomp makes a modern Model M, which Slashdot covered earlier."
Google

Submission + - Google helps catch 'muggers' (bbc.co.uk)

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Bifurcati
Bifurcati writes: "Two Dutch men have been arrested after a boy they allegedly mugged spotted them in Google StreetView. The 14-year-old boy was pulled off his bicycle in the town of Groningen in September and robbed of his mobile phone and about 250 dollars. He found the pictures in StreetView apparently by chance and while his attackers' faces were blurred (as per Google's rules) Google gave investigators the original unobscured pictures. The bad guys were also apparently twins...or there's some clever real life photoshopping going on!"
Games

Submission + - Valve is actually releasing a Linux supported game (phoronix.com)

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ndogg
ndogg writes: "There was some speculation last year about Valve possibly releasing Linux ports of Steam when some Linux libraries were found with Left 4 Dead. Some speculated that it had nothing to do with any client libraries at all, but instead perhaps with their servers. Now there's even more reason to believe that Steam is being ported to Linux since Valve is releasing a game called Dyson with Linux listed as among the requirements."
The Internet

Submission + - Kevin Kelly's Internet Mapping Project (kk.org)

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Bram
Bram writes: "Wired editor Kevin Kelly has posted the results of "The Internet Mapping Project" on his website. He presents drawings representing a broad public's conceptualization of the Internet as a place or thing, and they make for fascinating viewing. In his words: "I've become very curious about the maps people have in their minds when they enter the internet. So I've been asking people to draw me a map of the internet as they see it. That's all. More than 50 people of all ages and levels of expertise have mapped their geography of online.""
Medicine

Submission + - Chinese passing off fake drugs as 'Made in India' (indiatimes.com)

Submitted by prapu
prapu writes: The Times of India reports "Are fake drugs manufactured in China being pushed into various African countries with the `Made in India' tag? The Indian government has long suspected this to be the case, but it now has definite evidence for the first time. " http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/China/Chinese-passing-off-fake-drugs-as-Made-in-India/articleshow/4633377.cms
Social Networks

Submission + - Iranians Prove You Can't Unplug Twitter (channelinsider.com)

Submitted by
dasButcher
dasButcher writes: "Looks as those Iran tried disconnecting the country from the Internet (http://asert.arbornetworks.com/2009/06/iranian-traffic-engineering/), and is still trying to throttle traffic to keep protesters from organizing via Twitter. As Larry Walsh writes (http://blogs.channelinsider.com/secure_channel/content/web_security/iranians_prove_disconnecting_is_not_an_option.html), Iran's futile efforts to block social networking shows that Internet dependency is so high that even a toleration regime cannot simply pull the plug."
The Internet

Submission + - Harvard Study Says Weak Copyright Benefits Society 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Michael Geist summarizes an important new study on file sharing from economists Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Koleman Strumpf. The Harvard Business School working paper finds that given the increase in artistic production along with the greater public access conclude that "weaker copyright protection, it seems, has benefited society." The authors' point out that file sharing may not result in reduced incentives to create if the willingness to pay for "complements" such as concerts or author speaking tours increases.
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Frog Species Discovered Living In Elephant Dung 56

Posted by samzenpus from the I've-lived-in-worse-places dept.
rhettb writes "Three different species of frogs have been discovered living in the dung of the Asian elephant in southeastern Sri Lanka. The discovery — the first time anyone has recorded frogs living in elephant droppings — has widespread conservation implications both for frogs and Asian elephants, which are in decline. Apparently the frogs feed on the many invertebrates present in elephant dung."

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