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Submission + - Recording of Recently Shut Down Telemarketers in Action (wordpress.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Just yesterday, the FTC, in conjunction with other government agencies, shut down an international telemarketing scam. A recent video has surfaced showing them in action, trying to scam one of the principals of a Canadian web start-up. Watch the scammers lie through their teeth to convince their "victim" that they need to buy a lifetime subscription to their anti-virus product.

Comment Re:One word. Jailbreak (Score 1) 573

I agree - but the concern you raised on backward compatibility on the iOS APIs is something that software developer would have to deal with either way. Whether the application is allowed to be distributed in the app store or not. So really to me the Jailbreak option should really mitigate the concern. As long as there is a published API set, jailbreak the phone and have someone make the enhancements.

Comment Re:Mark Advertisements as Such (Score 1) 263

I agree. However, one thing that is being missed is the Slashvertisements are editorial videos that have not been paid for by a 3rd party sponsor aside from what may be few second preroll. The sponsored videos are labeled that way on the TV landing page. This is a case where the content selection needs to be fixed.
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Submission + - 'Frothy Gunk' From Deepwater Horizon Spill Harming Corals (sciencemag.org)

sciencehabit writes: The massive oil spill that inundated the Gulf of Mexico in the spring and summer of 2010 severely damaged deep-sea corals more than 11 kilometers from the well site, a sea-floor survey conducted within weeks of the spill reveals. At one site, which hadn't been visited before but had been right in the path of a submerged 100-meter-thick oil plume from the spill, researchers found a variety of corals—most of them belonging to a type of colonial coral commonly known as sea fans—on a 10-meter-by-12-meter outcrop of rock. Many of the corals were partially or completely covered with a brown, fluffy substance that one team member variously calls "frothy gunk," "goop," and "snot."

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