There's just no way the average teenager could not find a means of disabling the GPS feature, or befriending a nerd capable of accomplishing the same. Still, nice work if you can get it. Not a Jew
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from the why-assume-otherwise? dept.
An anonymous reader writes "MIT has been monitoring student internet connections for the past decade without telling them. There is no official policy and no student input." The Tech article says, though, that the record keeping is fairly limited in its scope (connection information is collected, but not the data transferred) and duration (three days, for on-campus connections).
FutureDomain writes "The Boston College Campus Police have seized the electronics of a computer science student for allegedly sending an email outing another student. The probable cause? The search warrant application states that he is 'a computer science major' and he uses 'two different operating systems for hiding his illegal activity. One is the regular B.C. operating system and the other is a black screen with white font which he uses prompt commands on.' The EFF is currently representing him."
Anonymusing writes: Not long ago, professional video gamer Emmanuel Rodriguez earned a base $30K salary plus prizewinnings in the Championship Gaming Series. However, with the economy suffering, sponsors like DirecTV and News Corporation are backing out, leaving Rodriguez with a more typical job for a 23-year-old: store clerk. The only pro gamer league left is Major League Gaming, though it expects to turn a profit this year — some of its players earn more than six figures from the $1 million in prizes given throughout the season, while others are putting off college to work on their gaming careers.
Shut the fuck up. Harlan is a pioneer, and he stands head and shoulders with the founding fathers of the genre: Heinlein, Clarke, Asimov, to speak nothing of Verne et al before them. It's about time one of the living legends of speculative fiction made some noise about just how badly publishers and their lackeys screw authors.
This is a fantastic story, but the article is almost entirely fluff: anyone care to explain/how/ a [brown?] recluse spider bite's neurotoxic venom induces nerve growth? Just curious.