Comment Say goodbye to the landscaping business (Score -1) 374
And all the jobs and tax revenue that comes with it. Using electric tools is unsustainable commercially or lese they would have already done it.
Comment Who said anything about mobile phones? (Score 1) 254
Panasonic DECT 6.0 cordless phone. Battery lasts at least a week.
US Blocks Huawei From Building LTE Network 156
An anonymous reader writes "The U.S. government has cited national security as a reason not to let Chinese company Huawei build an LTE public safety network. They're worried about Huawei's close ties to the Chinese government and the threat of any devices Huawei manufactures being bugged. Of course, whoever gets the contract is going to be manufacturing their devices in China anyway, but it looks like a Chinese company won't be allowed to deploy the infrastructure."
Find My IPhone Used To Locate Plane Crash In Chile 95
spagiola writes "Late last week, a military transport aircraft with 17 people on -board went missing near Robinson Crusoe, Chile. The relatives of one of the crash victims logged into Find My iPhone and were able to isolate the coordinates of the last known whereabouts of the plane before it crashed. From the article: 'Rear Admiral Francisco García-Huidobro explained the founding that
garnered a lot of attention today, and it has to do with an iPhone belonging to
one of the victims of the aereal accident in Juan Fernández, in a beach
in Bahía Carvajal. The phone signal could be captured thanks to the GPS system, however, water
ended up shutting it down. Nevertheless, García Huidoro explained that they
managed to plot the last position from where the signal was last generated, which
will be made public tomorrow.'"
Sprint Files Suit Against AT&T T-Mobile Merger 132
zacharye writes with a news post in BGR. From the article: "Sprint ... announced that it has filed a lawsuit with a federal court in the U.S. District of Columbia in an effort to block AT&T's planned $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom. The suit is related to the Department of Justice's lawsuit, which was filed on August 31st. 'Sprint opposes AT&T's proposed takeover of T-Mobile,' Sprint's vice president of litigation Suzan Haller said. 'With today's legal action, we are continuing that advocacy on behalf of consumers and competition, and expect to contribute our expertise and resources in proving that the proposed transaction is illegal.'"
Comment So my 78 year-old grandma... (Score 1) 326
who uses LibreOffice because she can't afford the brand name suite should learn java and contribute to the project or else she's an idiot?
I like OpenSource projects, but some people who are big pushers of it sure have a way of sticking their foot in the mouth.
SignalGuru Helps Drivers Avoid Red Lights 436
cylonlover writes "Researchers at MIT and Princeton have now devised a system, dubbed SignalGuru (PDF), that gathers visual data from the cameras of a network of dashboard-mounted smartphones and tells drivers the optimal speed to drive at to avoid waiting at the next set of lights." In their testing, the system saved drivers about 20 percent in fuel.
Comment Re:What do you love? (Score 1) 368
According to the description meta tag: "Get more of what you love by searching across numerous Google products with one click."
Comment Re:"Backed by Obama and business groups..." (Score 0) 205
Now they just need to reform software and business process patents.
Bittorrent and uTorrent Sued For Patent Violations 182
dutchwhizzman writes "Bittorrent and uTorrent have been sued for using certain techniques in their clients and the bittorrent protocol. From the article it appears technologies are being used that were submitted in a 1999 patent that was subsequently approved in 2007. This itself is not uncommon, but given the technologies involved, HTTP could very well be prior art, or it could violate at least part of the same protocol."
Comment Old man/lady names (Score 0) 722
I worked in an IT shop where we named all in house servers old man names. Mortimer, Eugene, Floyd, Jarvis, Horace, Leroy, etc. Any offsite servers were old lady names. Agatha, Gertrude, Agnes, etc.
Old Worm Digs New Dirt At Pentagon 26
ColdWetDog writes "Remember the Agent.BTZ worm that caused significant problems at military installations back in 2008? Now, three years after what the Pentagon called the most significant breach of US military networks ever, new versions of the malware blamed for the attack are still roiling US networks."
Chinese Paper Warns Google May Pay Price For Hacking Claims 165
suraj.sun writes with this excerpt from a Reuters report:
"Google has become a 'political tool' vilifying the Chinese government, an official Beijing newspaper said on Monday, warning that the US internet giant's statements about hacking attacks traced to China could hurt its business. The tough warning appeared in the overseas edition of the People's Daily, the leading newspaper of China's ruling Communist Party, indicating that political tensions between the United States and China over Internet security could linger. Last week, Google said it had broken up an effort to steal the passwords of hundreds of Google email account holders, including US government officials, Chinese human rights advocates and journalists. It said the attacks appeared to come from China."
Comment Cave Story (Score 0) 8
A great little indie game that is easy to play, has a compelling story, and is done in the "classic" side-scrolling style.
Comment Yawn (Score 0) 142
Another story about Linux on retail hardw....zzzzzzzzzzzzz.
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