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Comment Re:Sup? (Score 1) 154

by H0D_G (#32597204) Attached to: Inside Australia's Data Retention Proposal

Definitely not. For example, medicare and governemnt funded health systems have strong bipartisan support. The shape that that takes is disagreed on, sure, but even a relative hardliner like the leader of the opposition would never dream of killing it.

Witness just yesterday, when an attempt to re-frame a debate to make it about abortion by a strongly conservative senator was harshly criticised by the right and the left.

The US is MUCH more conservative.
Earth

New Estimates Say Earth's Oceans Smaller Than Once Believed 263

Posted by timothy from the deeper-than-my-love-for-you dept.
Velcroman1 writes with this snippet from Fox News: "Using lead weights and depth sounders, scientists have made surprisingly accurate estimates of the ocean's depths in the past. Now, with satellites and radar, researchers have pinned down a more accurate answer to that age-old query: How deep is the ocean? And how big? As long ago as 1888, John Murray dangled lead weights from a rope off a ship to calculate the ocean's volume — the product of area and mean ocean depth. Using satellite data, researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute set out to more accurately answer that question — and found out that it's 320 million cubic miles. And despite miles-deep abysses like the Mariana Trench, the ocean's mean depth is just 2.29 miles, thanks to the varied and bumpy ocean floor."
E3

Sony To Detail "Premium PSN" Plans At E3 171

Posted by Soulskill from the if-only-we-could-still-access-psn dept.
ranulf writes "VG247 is reporting that Sony will reveal their plans for 'premium PSN' services next month at E3, even though they've long stated that one of the PS3's advantages over the 360 is that they offer PSN for free. In addition to the premium services, they intend to offer a free PSN game to subscribers each month (from a choice of 'two to four games'), which should make the premium PSN effectively free if you already bought a game every month. VG247's source claims 'nothing planned will impact the service’s current free aspects,' and that 'there’s nothing in the premium package which will gimp regular PSN users.'"
Australia

Submission + - CSIRO takes on AT&T, Verizon over Wifi Patent (theaustralian.com.au)

Submitted by H0D_G
H0D_G writes: THE CSIRO's WiFi patent saga has taken a new twist, with the science agency deciding to draw the US's top three mobile carriers into the fray — AT&T, Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile. Court filings have revealed that the CSIRO is suing the three carriers for alleged infringements of its WiFi patent in eastern Texas's US District Court. Slashdot has covered these lawsuits before
Science

Submission + - Matter-antimatter bias seen in Fermilab collisions (nytimes.com)

Submitted by ubermiester
ubermiester writes: The NYTimes is reporting that scientists Fermilab have found evidence of a very small (about 1%) average difference between the amount of matter/anti-matter produced in a series of particle collisions. FTA: "[T]he team, known as the DZero collaboration, found that the fireballs produced pairs of the particles known as muons, which are sort of fat electrons, slightly more often than they produced pairs of anti-muons. So the miniature universe inside the accelerator went from being neutral to being about 1 percent more matter than antimatter." This offers a possible explanation for why there is so much more matter than anti-matter in the universe in spite of "Big Bang" theory suggesting that there should be equal amounts of both. (Here's a PDF version of the paper.)
Businesses

Submission + - Apple Claims 'Huge' Loss over iPhone Leak

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Hugh Pickens
Hugh Pickens writes: "CNN Money reports that according to recently released court documents, Apple says the theft and leak of its new iPhone prototype will have a "huge" negative effect on the company's earnings. "By publishing details about the phone and its features ... people that would have otherwise purchased a currently existing Apple product would wait for the next item to be released, thereby hurting overall sales and negatively [a]ffecting Apple's earnings," Apple attorney George Riley told a detective in the San Mateo County Sheriff's Office adding that Riley could not estimate exactly how much of a financial hit Apple would take from the incident, but he believed it would be "huge." Apple did not immediately return requests for comment, but Apple analysts were dismissive of Apple's damage assessment. "It's a bunch of legalese and B.S. from lawyers," says Kevin Hunt, analysts and Hapoalim Securities. "Everyone knew a new iPhone was coming." Another analyst noted that both of the previous iPhone updates have been introduced at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference, which takes place in the early summer. "It's a really tenuous argument from Apple, because anyone who follows its introduction behavior knows that new iPhones come in the early summer," says Charles Wolf, analyst at Needham & Co. "This is stricly corporate speak, directed towards creating some action against this kid from Gizmodo.""

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