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Inside OS X Mavericks 362

Posted by samzenpus from the take-a-good-look dept.
rjmarvin writes "Apple's era of naming OSs after big cats is over. The Mavericks wave is rolling in, and the first four developer previews have given an inside look at the cutting-edge OS. Users and developers have almost entirely positive things to say about Mavericks, from faster speed and improved stability to new features like iBooks and iCloud keychains. While some installation concerns and errors have arisen, developer preview have improved version by version, and Mavericks is looking good."

Submission + - Is the Article #12 of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights outdated?

Submitted by Max_W
Max_W writes: Here is the text of the Article #12 http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml#a12 :
"No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks."

The United Nations insists on the compliance. U.N. human rights chief Navi Pillay said yesterday http://news.yahoo.com/snowden-case-shows-leakers-protection-u-n-rights-192207562.html : "While concerns about national security and criminal activity may justify the exceptional and narrowly-tailored use of surveillance programs, surveillance without adequate safeguards to protect the right to privacy actually risks impacting negatively on the enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms."

Is it realistic to expect the compliance with this article from the world's major players in the age of large storage disks, fast networks and computers? Or are we entering a new brave world, a new phase of human civilization, where quaint notions of privacy and traditional moral principles are becoming ridiculous?

Then what to do with the Article #12? Shall it be "intentionally left blank"? Shall it be updated to a new wording? What words could they be?
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The Physics Behind Waterslides 79

Posted by samzenpus from the slide-science dept.
theodp writes "National Geographic takes a high-level look at the physics behind waterslides. A lot of science goes into providing a safe 60 mph trip down slides like Walt Disney World's 10-story Summit Plummet. 'Safety is our number one concern,' explains Rick Hunter of ProSlide Technology. 'We're thinking about things like, "are you going to stay on the fiberglass tube," it's really easy to do a computer model and look at curves and drops and forecast rider position and speed.'"

Comment The Apple grows ever more rotten (Score 1) 110

by LoneHighway (#40276105) Attached to: Apple To Unveil iOS 6 At WWDC 2012

I've been using solely Apple computers since 1993, and even I am sick of their dumbing down tactics. Many consider Lion to be a step backward from Snow Leopard, and even I consider the changes coming in Mountain Lion to be not in my best interest.

But what's really got my skirt in a bunch is that Apple has forced Craigslist app vendors to remove the ability to easily see the photos in personal ads. The apps that used to show them now either say no ads found, or the picture is greyed out.

The best feature of a new Apple product? A prominent button marked "LEAVE MY SHIT ALONE!"
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Submission + - World IPv6 Day 2012: This Time for Keeps (worldipv6launch.org)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: On 8 June 2011 many companies (big and small) enabled IPv6 to their main web sites by published AAAA records; after 24 hours almost all then disabled it after the test was done. This year, on June 6th, many of those same companies (Google, Bing, Facebook) will be enabling IPv6 again, but this time there won't be any going back: the plan is that enabling IPv6, participating sites will leave their AAAA from then on. In addition to content providers, several ISPs are also going the event: Comcast, AT&T, XS4ALL, KDDI, and others. As are the CDNs Akami and Limelight. Things kick off on June 6 at 00:00 UTC (June 5 20:00 EDT, 17:00 PDT). Cisco/Dlink has also thrown in support for the initiative. Is the chicken-and-egg 'problem' of IPv6 finally, slowly coming to an end?

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