Comment Re:It's GDM setting.... (Score 1) 15
I appreciate you spelling it out.
--1/4 brain
Comment Use a fountain pen! (Score 1) 364
Find yourself a nice fountain pen, a good quick drying ink and some nice fountain pen friendly paper. Fountain pens are cool. I made notes in the margins of the professors preprinted notes. I found it tremendously helpful to write down a summary of what I was hearing.
Submission + - It's Steve Jobs Turn (reuters.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Twelve years ago Bill Gates had to deal with lawyers questioning him in regards to the Microsoft antitrust case. Now it might be that other tech mogul's turn. Steve Jobs has been ordered to answer questions regarding Apple's iTunes music monopoly.
Submission + - Google Introduces New Android Features
adeelarshad82 writes: Google introduced the next generation of interaction with its Android operating system by introducing a set of new features. The most prominent one is the voice-driven actions. Google executives outlined 12 new "Voice Actions for Android," including phone calls, reminder e-mails, direction search, and music search. The app is called "Voice Search," requires Android 2.2, and is available in the Android Market now. Voice actions can be triggered by clicking the "microphone" icon on the screen. Saying "call John Smith at home" will trigger the contacts list and voice dialer, "find art museums in Amsterdam" would launch a Google Maps application, and "listen to Ace of Base" will search for music from the artist on Pandora, Last.fm, or another music application. Another improvement worth a mention is "Chrome to Phone," allows users to click on a new "mobile phone" icon to send links, YouTube videos, even directions, to the phone. So far, the features are exclusive to Android phones and U.S. English, although the capabilities will be moved to other languages and other operating systems (including the iPhone) in the future.
Submission + - Stupid data center tricks (computerworld.com)
jcatcw writes: A university network is brought down when two network cables are plugged into the wrong hub. An employee is injured after an ill-timed entry into a data center. Overheated systems are shut down by a thermostat setting changed from Fahrenheit to Celsius. And, of course, Big Red Buttons. These are just a few of the data center disasters caused by human folly.
Researchers Find Problems With RFID Passport Cards 172
An anonymous reader writes "Researchers at the University of Washington have found that RFID tags used in two new types of border-crossing documents in the US are vulnerable to snooping and copying. The information in these tags could be copied on to another, off-the-shelf tag, which might be used to impersonate the legitimate holder of the card." You can also read the summary of the researchers' report.
Comment same problem with audio recording (Score 1) 743
As a nature sound recording geek I find myself in the position of being suspected of _________ by anyone that happens to see me with a big fuzzy microphone. For some reason people are more suspicious of recordists than photographers. It's more of a problem with the urban recordists (phonography). Many of us have to resort to concert taper type stealth techniques to record in public areas.
