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Owners Smash iPhones To Get Upgrades, Says Insurance Company 406

Posted by timothy on Wednesday February 17, 2010 @02:59PM from the dog-ate-it dept.

markass530 writes "An iPhone insurance carrier says that four in six claims are suspicious, and is worse when a new model appears on the market. 'Supercover Insurance is alleging that many iPhone owners are deliberately smashing their devices and filing false claims in order to upgrade to the latest model. The gadget insurance company told Sky News Sunday that it saw a 50-percent rise in claims during the month Apple launched the latest version, the iPhone 3GS.'"

Canadian Blood Services Promotes Pseudoscience 219

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday December 01, 2009 @07:49PM from the type-A-negative-personality dept.

trianglecat writes "The not-for-profit agency Canadian Blood Services has a section of their website based on the Japanese cultural belief of ketsueki-gata, which claims that a person's blood group determines or predicts their personality type. Disappointing for a self-proclaimed 'science-based' organization. The Ottawa Skeptics, based in the nation's capital, appear to be taking some action."

Submission + - Zotero Lawsuit Dismissed 1

Submitted by peretzpup on Friday June 05, 2009 @12:03AM

peretzpup writes: The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that Thomson Reuters's lawsuit against George Mason University's Center for History and New Media over supposed violations of the EndNote licensing agreement by the Zotero project, hosted at the university, has been dismissed. Zotero project co-director Sean Takats's announcement is pretty heartwarming. No comment as yet from Thomson Reuters.

A Look Back At the World's First Netbook 143

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday May 10, 2009 @09:19AM from the paperweight-before-its-time dept.

Not-A-Microsoft-Fan writes with this excerpt from The Coffee Desk: "Netbooks are making huge waves within the hardware and software industries today, but not many would believe that the whole Netbook craze actually started back around 1996 with the Toshiba Libretto 70CT. Termed technically as a subnotebook because of its small dimensions, the computer is the first that fits all of the qualifications of being what we would term a netbook today, due in part to its built-in Infrared and PCMCIA hardware, and its (albeit early) web browsing software. The hardware includes the two (potentially) wireless PCMCIA and infrared network connections, Windows 95 OSR 2 with Internet Explorer 2.0, a whole 16MB of RAM and a 120Mhz Intel Pentium processor (we're flying now!)."

Submission + - Navigate Linux Kernel like Google Maps. (makelinux.net)

Submitted by

MakeLinux

on Thursday March 12, 2009 @04:04PM

MakeLinux writes: "A picture is worth a thousand words. Just try it! And navigate Linux kernel like Google Maps."

Comment Re:Yes! A step closer to the Age of Info (Score 1) 213

by peretzpup on Friday November 09, 2007 @07:31PM (#21302607) Attached to: Bill to Require Open Access to Scientific Papers

I live down the street from Smith now, it has a quite adequate reference collection. I should point out that a great many full text journal databases aren't aggregatable due to license constraints & the best one can manage is some sort of metasearch with all the downfalls of that (least common denominator query syntax, search speed the speed of the slowest of the included search interfaces, no common record structure, etc., etc.), so as I said above, full of shit as he may be, he has a point about those quirky proprietary databases.

Comment Re:Hmm.. (Score 1) 202

by Axeus on Saturday October 21, 2006 @03:45PM (#16530425) Attached to: Trojan Installs Anti-Virus, Removes Other Malware

The virus downloads the anti-virus software from a predefined location that he controls. Thus, he would only need to update that software to exclude his new virus, and the old virus would automatically pick it up, so there wouldn't be a conflict.

Visual Tour of Office 2007 Beta 2 495

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Tuesday May 23, 2006 @03:11PM from the hope-they-are-ready-for-the-support-calls dept.

feminazi writes "Computerworld has a review and visual tour of the newest installment of Office. No more toolbars & menus; those have been replace with 'ribbons.' Of the various products in the suite, Word is the most changed. Styles are easier to invoke, but no easier to create or understand. A couple of the redeeming characteristics is the ability to save as PDF and XPS and an improved Track Changes. Bigger spreadsheets are available in Excel -- over 1 million rows and over 16,000 columns per worksheet -- and new and better visualization abilities. Lots new in Outlook including multiple calendars and direct support for RSS feeds. And the apps all work together better than before. From the article: 'The major change in Beta 2 was the introduction of Office SharePoint Server.' This means that Sharepoint Server is required, but it also means more & better collaboration and advanced search abilities are supported."

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