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Comment Also a streaming service (Score 2) 6

When it fist started, it was also a subscription based streaming service. However. Aroind the time ( just before ) the major streaming services started, they closed this part of their business and refunded me. Now I use Apple Music and Spotify. Last.fm was truly an innovator

Comment Re:Bots lack common sense (Score 2) 181

I live in Toronto (Ontario/Canada) , reasonably close to London (Ontario/Canada). As for the suggestion above to use the watch's location to make a better guess for which London to use, this would not help me. I KNOW the time in London (Ontario), it's the same as my time. What I want to know is the time in London (England) so when I call my family there I don't call at an inconvenient time.

Comment Re:Credit card track data? (Score 3, Informative) 124

The liability shift for chip and PIN cards is scheduled for October this year in the US. Although the guestimates vary, probably around 20% of merchants will have an EMV (chip) reader by this time. When chip and PIN was introduced into Europe, there was a sharp increase in credit card fraud in non-chip regions (Canada for example), and when Canada introduced chip and PIN we noticed a sharp decrease in fraud, which we assume was moved into the US.

Comment Re:speaking as a Canadian to the USTR (Score 2) 277

Looking at the wiki page and the Government of Canada Justice department web site http://laws.justice.gc.ca/eng/C-42/page-5.html#anchorbo-ga:l_VIII it looks like copying for private use is NOT piracy. "Copying for Private Use ... onto an audio recording medium for the private use of the person who makes the copy does not constitute an infringement of the copyright in the musical work, the performer’s performance or the sound recording." I guess it's not the file sharers the US doesn't like, it's the Canadian government.
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Mobile Medical Lab — the $10 Phone Microscope 54

kkleiner writes "Aydogan Ozcan of UCLA has developed a microscope attachment for a cell phone – turning the device into a sort of mobile medical lab. It's both lightweight (~38g or 1.5 oz) and cheap (parts cost around $10). The cellphone microscope can analyze blood and saliva samples for microparticles, red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets, and water borne parasites. Ozcan and his team have recently won three prestigious awards for the device: a Grand Challenges award from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (worth $100,000), the National Geographic Emerging Explorer award (worth $10,000), and the CAREER award from the National Science Foundation ($400,000). With these funds, Ozcan plans on starting case studies in Africa to see how the microscope can help revolutionize global medicine."

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