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Comment Re:It's not the Phone, it's the Carrier! (Score 1) 134

by dubiousx99 (#47863511) Attached to: Under the Apple Hype Machine, Amazon Drops Fire Phone Price To 99 Cents

That is close to what I was thinking. You are selling a device designed around content that will require a lot of data transfer to take place (streaming video, music, etc). They have done a good job so far locking people into Amazon Prime with their tablet. They need to negotiate with AT&T to provide any Amazon supplied content free of metering against their monthly data cap similar to how T-Mobile allows unmetered access to music streaming services.

Submission + - Nasa validates 'impossible' space drive (wired.co.uk)

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes: Nasa is a major player in space science, so when a team from the agency this week presents evidence that "impossible" microwave thrusters seem to work, something strange is definitely going on. Either the results are completely wrong, or Nasa has confirmed a major breakthrough in space propulsion.

A working microwave thruster would radically cut the cost of satellites and space stations and extend their working life, drive deep-space missions, and take astronauts to Mars in weeks rather than months. In hindsight, it may turn out to be another great British invention that someone else turned into a success.
Sony

Game Over For Sony and Open Source? 364

Posted by Soulskill from the forsaken-beards dept.
Glyn Moody writes "Sony has never been much of a friend to hackers, and its infamous rootkit showed what it thought of users. But by omitting the option to install GNU/Linux on its new PS3, it has removed the final reason for the open source world to care about Sony. Unless, of course, you find Google's new distribution alliance with Sony to pre-install Chrome on its PCs exciting in some way."
Education

US Colleges Say Hiring US Students a Bad Deal 490

Posted by CmdrTaco from the talking-to-you-cliff dept.
theodp writes "Many US colleges and universities have notices posted on their websites informing US companies that they're tax chumps if they hire students who are US citizens. 'In fact, a company may save money by hiring international students because the majority of them are exempt from Social Security (FICA) and Medicare tax requirements,' advises the taxpayer-supported University of Pittsburgh (pdf) as it makes the case against hiring its own US students. You'll find identical pitches made by the University of Delaware, the University of Cincinnati, Kansas State University, the University of Southern California, the University of Wisconsin, Iowa State University, and other public colleges and universities. The same message is also echoed by private schools, such as John Hopkins University, Brown University, Rollins College and Loyola University Chicago."

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