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Man Served Restraining Order Via Facebook 29

Posted by samzenpus from the worst-friend-request-ever dept.
schliz writes "An Australian man has been served a restraining order via Facebook, after unsuccessful attempts by police to reach him by phone and in person. The man was a 'prolific Facebook user' who had allegedly threatened, bullied and harassed a former partner online. He was served both interim and final intervention orders by Facebook, after a local magistrate upheld the interim order indefinitely."

Comment Re:Someone call Google! (Score 1) 405

by dk90406 (#33588592) Attached to: Will Android Flavors Spoil the Platform?
Not everyone are interested in research, features and technical details. Some people - a lot actually - buy stuff because of brand (think prestige like B&O and Rolex; or hip factor or for some other perceived real or imaginary value), design, color or just on impulse.
Sure most of /. readers do proper research and read reviews and some of us expects the rest of the world is just as rational.

You would do well to study some of the personality profiling methods like MBTI or DISC to learn to understand why people do not react as you expect them to do.

Comment Re:Hooray for freedom (Score 1) 747

by dk90406 (#33576072) Attached to: HDCP Master Key Revealed
While your explanation is informative, I still think that fails if licensed IP is involved in the equation.

If a company has to license a given technology from a vendor (e.g. HDCP from Intel) and pay fees per unit sold (HDCP fees for keys are quite low - in the cent range) that fee is part of the cost of the unit.

The same goes for a lot of licensed IP. Lite-On pays Sony (and others) for Blu-ray rights, Philips (and others) for DVD IP. That increases the cost of the unit.

So at least, in some cases, R&D costs is passed directly to the user in form if IP license costs.

IBM makes more than 1 Billion USD a year in license agreements.

Comment Re:Hooray for freedom (Score 1) 747

by dk90406 (#33573264) Attached to: HDCP Master Key Revealed
And you think that the cost of that R&D isn't passed on to customers? The price other companies pay to License the DRM protected technologies (in order to build devices, TV's etv) is meant to help cover R&D expenses - including DRM.
Idle

(Don't) Make Your Own Fire Tornado 86

Posted by samzenpus from the adut-supervision-please dept.
Flash Modin writes "In the last two weeks, both water and fire tornadoes have been widely covered by the media. As any physicists would have, we immediately thought 'I want to do that!' SO... You should absolutely, under no circumstances, not attempt to recreate the following fire tornado; but if you did, here's exactly what you would need, how you would do it, and what it would look like."
Power

GE Closes Last US Light Bulb Factory 797

Posted by samzenpus from the bright-idea dept.
pickens writes "The Washington Post reports that last major GE factory making ordinary incandescent light bulbs in the US is closing this month, marking a small, sad exit for a product and company that can trace their roots to Thomas Alva Edison's innovations in the 1870s. What made the plant vulnerable is, in part, a 2007 energy conservation measure passed by Congress that set standards essentially banning ordinary incandescents by 2014 but rather than setting off a boom in the US manufacture of replacement lights, the leading replacement lights are compact fluorescents, or CFLs, which are made almost entirely overseas. GE developed a plan to see what it would take to retrofit a plant that makes traditional incandescents into one that makes CFLs but even with a $40 million investment the new plant's CFLs would have cost about 50 percent more than those from China. 'Everybody's jumping on the green bandwagon,' says Pat Doyle, 54, who has worked at the plant for 26 years. But 'we've been sold out. First sold out by the government. Then sold out by GE.'"
Biotech

Using Wisdom Teeth To Make Stem Cells 82

Posted by samzenpus from the spare-parts dept.
An anonymous reader writes "For most people, wisdom teeth are not much more than an annoyance that eventually needs to be removed. However, a new study appearing in the September 17 Journal of Biological Chemistry shows that wisdom teeth contain a valuable reservoir of tissue for the creation of stem cells; thus, everyone might be carrying around his or her own personal stem-cell repository should he or she ever need some. Groundbreaking research back in 2006 revealed that inducing the activity of four genes in adult cells could 'reprogram' them back into a stem-cell-like state; biologically, these induced-pluripotent stem cells are virtually identical to embryonic stem cells, opening up a new potential avenue for stem-cell therapy whereby patients could be treated with their own stem cells."
Advertising

Anti-Product Placement For Negative Branding 130

Posted by samzenpus from the touch-of-death dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Product placement to promote your brand just isn't enough any more. These days, apparently, some companies are resorting to anti-product placement in order to get competitors' products in the hands of 'anti-stars.' The key example being Snooki from Jersey Shore, who supposedly is being sent handbags by companies... but the bags being sent are of competitors' handbags as a way to avoid Snooki carrying their own handbag, and thus potentially damaging their brand."

Comment No software (Score 5, Interesting) 140

by dk90406 (#33427152) Attached to: Homebrew Cray-1
He has the needed software for the FPGA, but he has (so far) been unable to find some software to run on the machine. At least that is what I got from the TFA. It seems like no-one (including various 3 letter agencies) have copies of stuff so "old".
Never the less, I have to admire the effort put into this.

Comment Re:Nothings confirmed... (Score 3, Insightful) 222

by dk90406 (#33382658) Attached to: UVB-76 Explained
And if you read further down, you'll see that it may be used for atmospheric studies. So it is just a science station where some bored or drunk guys sometime "messages" for the hell of it.
Just like the teenagers of other planets sometimes sometimes "Buzz" earth. (Ref. Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy)

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