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Submission + - FirefoxOS-based Matchstick project ends; all money to be refunded (kickstarter.com)

Submitted by Kohenkatz on Monday August 03, 2015 @05:15PM

Kohenkatz writes: Matchstick, a project built on FirefoxOS that aimed to compete with Google's Chromecast, which was initally funded on Kickstarter, is shutting down and will be refunding all pledges. In a post to Kickstarter backers today, they announced that this decision was due to the difficulty of implementing the DRM components that are necessary for access to a lot of paid content. Rather than drag out the project on an unknown schedule, they have decided to end the project.

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.'"

Comment Cricket limitations (Score 2, Informative) 177

by IronyChef on Wednesday April 29, 2009 @05:36PM (#27764753) Attached to: Viability of Mobile Broadband For Home Use?

Cricket Broadband FAQ:
You cannot use the service: * As a router or web server * To initiate VOIP conversations * As a web hosting or email service

Submission + - SCO Attacks PJ of Groklaw

Submitted by

Litigious Bastards

on Wednesday April 04, 2007 @02:32PM

Litigious Bastards writes: "SCO has just filed court papers saying that they were unable to subpoena PJ of Groklaw. While they quietly disseminated rumors via shills like Dan Lyons of Forbes that they were attempting to subpoena PJ, and apparently sent their crack team of process servers out looking for random people named Pamela Jones, it would appear that they were unable to locate the bright yellow envelope labeled "Email PJ" on the Groklaw website to ask for directions to serve her in person."

RMS Explains GPLv3 Draft 3 139

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday April 04, 2007 @02:32PM from the discussion-drafts-doing-their-job dept.

H4x0r Jim Duggan writes "A transcript is now online of a talk Richard Stallman gave in Brussels earlier this week about the discussion draft 3 of GPLv3. Among other things, he explained how it will address the Novell-MS deal, from Novell's point of view and from Microsoft's, and he explained how the tivoisation clause was narrowed to make it more acceptable in the hope that it will be used by more people. After the talk he also gave an interview, and yesterday, draft 2 of LGPLv3 was released."

Feed Dust blamed for warming on Mars (pheedo.com)

From feed by nsfeed on Wednesday April 04, 2007 @01:32PM

What could be causing the dramatic atmospheric warming on Red Planet? The answer is blowing in the wind

Feed Electrons caught tunnelling out of atoms (pheedo.com)

From feed by nsfeed on Wednesday April 04, 2007 @01:32PM

For the first time scientists measure the quantum phenomenon on the atomic scale - each electron-escape happened mind-bogglingly fast

Feed Feature: Multiple-Mac backup server (macworld.com)

From feed by macworldfeed on Wednesday April 04, 2007 @01:32PM

If you have several Macs at home, consider putting an old PowerPC system to work as a backup server. Rather than stocking up on DVDs or installing second hard drives, you can use one machine to back up everyone over the network.

Censorware Not Good, Just Better Than COPA 146

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday April 04, 2007 @11:47AM from the something-to-think-about dept.

Slashdot contributor Bennett Haselton writes in with with an essay that starts "On March 22nd, District Court Judge Lowell Reed ruled that the Child Online Protection Act was unconstitutional, partly because the judge called it 'vague and overbroad,' and partly because less restrictive means existed, such as Internet blocking software. I'll leave others to comment on the legal issues, but blocking software is something that I've studied, and it's important to make sure this decision is not seen as some kind of vindication for the 'censorware' industry." Tap that link below to read the rest of his story.

PowerPoint Bad For Learning 439

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday April 04, 2007 @11:00AM from the but-how-else-will-executives-waste-time dept.

cute-boy writes "This article in the Sydney Morning Herald reporting on research done at The University of NSW suggests the use of Microsoft PowerPoint (and similar products) in lectures and meetings actually makes it harder to absorb facts, rather than being a reinforcement of key points."

Submission + - RIAA is out of control yet again.

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 04, 2007 @03:34AM

An anonymous reader writes: The RIAA is once again at their old tricks. The band Nine Inch Nails has intentionally 'leaked' songs via USB keys hidden at restrooms during their current European tour. Sites hosting the intentionally 'leaked' songs are now being sent cease and desist orders. The link is here: http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/ news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=69841 I found it via http://theninhotline.net/ When will this ever end? The RIAA is just plain out of control.

Diebold Goes 0 For 3 In Massachusetts Case 119

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday April 03, 2007 @09:17PM from the help-america-litigate-act dept.

beetle496 writes "ComputerWorld reports that last week a judge denied Diebold's request to block ES&S pact with Massachusetts. This is a follow-up to the earlier discussion here after Diebold contended that the state had erred in selecting the machines of its rival, citing accessibility provisions of the HAVA law. Quoting: 'Diebold's request for an injunction to block the execution of the contract with ES&S was rejected... The judge also denied Diebold's request to have an accelerated discovery process and to keep the state's legal team from viewing internal Diebold documents... "The suit is still there, but they went zero for three yesterday," the spokesman said.' The actual accessibility concerns have been discussed over at the TEITAC listserv, including a few telling observations from experts familiar with accessible voting and at least one state insider."

Amazon Patents Humans Assisting Computers 236

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday April 03, 2007 @07:54PM from the mechanical-turk dept.

theodp writes "Amazon's latest patent, the Hybrid Machine/Human Computing Arrangement, reads like scary sci-fi, with claims covering the use of humans 'of college educated, at most high school educated, at most elementary school educated, and not formally educated' to perform subtasks dispatched by a computer. From the patent: 'For examples, the task on hand requires French speaking humans, and Task Server has requested that each subtask be performed by at least 10 humans with a past accuracy record of at least 90%.' Yikes."

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