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Comment Re:Having Read Both Papers (Score 1) 226

The summary uses the word 'infamous' to describe the original announcement. In my mind it could only be considered infamous if they made a simple and blatant error. As it looks to a layman they have made an error but in finding the error physics will gain some interesting knowledge it didn't have before. If the latter is true then I'd imagine this would be remembered for all the right reasons not all the wrong ones.

Would this be the case or is the physics world full of jerks?

Comment Re:My sure fire plan (Score 1) 352

I signed up for the express purpose of untagging myself from all photos that include me. I've found, not even using the most strict privacy options, I've been able to limit the exposure of my privacy fine. Marketing companies can still deduce my friendship groups, where I work, my rough age, and where I went to school but all of that was public knowledge once FB became popular regardless of my participation.

In exchange for this it's facilitated my ability to keep up with friends across two continents.

Regarding the 'Like' button tracking me I'd thought everyone would have assumed that something like this was going on. It doesn't surprise me at all.

Cellphones

Why IT Needs To Change for Gen Z 443

An anonymous reader writes "Staff will routinely be bringing their own devices to work in five years time, according to IT industry experts in the UK. Some companies might already allow a few iPhones and iPads, but CIOs and businesses are not only going to have to support a general influx of consumer kits — they're going to need to get a whole lot more relaxed in general. 'Big businesses are going to have to become more flexible about how IT is provisioned and managed — to enable a new generation of workers who use consumer technologies to communicate and be productive.'"

Comment Re:What is the point of OSX server? (Score 1) 365

Plug time machine disk 1 in, make backup, unplug disk 1, take off site, plug in disk 2, make backup, rinse repeat with however many redundant copies you want. You could additionally set up a tape drive however its probably cheaper and easier for a small office to buy a few large external portable hard drives and rotate them instead of a tape drive and multiple tapes.

Google

Google's Search Copying Accusation Called 'Silly' 380

itwbennett writes "Google's Bing sting, reported in Slashdot just days ago and subsequently denied by Microsoft, is now being called 'silly' and 'petty' by search industry analysts and execs. The reason: it would be impossible for Microsoft to use the copied results to reverse engineer Google's search algorithms. And in fact it is more likely that Microsoft was conducting competitive research. Charlene Li, founder of technology research and advisory firm Altimeter Group, saw Google's actions as a misguided response to a real threat from a competitor in its core search business. 'Google isn't used to having competition. You look at this incident and you wonder why they are doing this. It feels amateurish in a way, a kind of 'they're not playing fair' attitude,' she said."

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