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Submission + - The Pirate Bay servers offline after raid by swedish police (forbes.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 01, 2012 @04:41PM

An anonymous reader writes: Stockholm police raided the free-speech focused firm (PRQ) Monday and took four of its servers, the company’s owner Mikael Viborg told the Swedish news outlet Nyheter24.
While a number of bittorrent-based filesharing sites including PRQ’s most notorious client, the Pirate Bay, have been down for most of Monday as well as PRQ’s own website, Viborg told the Swedish news site that the site outages were the result of a technical issue, rather than the police’s seizure of servers.

Submission + - Auto Makers Announce Electric Car Charging Standard (motorward.com)

Submitted by Overly Critical Guy on Friday May 04, 2012 @05:26PM

Overly Critical Guy writes: Auto makers are launching a universal EV charger that charges an electric vehicle in 15 to 20 minutes. The standard, called Combined Charging System, has been approved by the Society of Automative Engineers and ACEA, the European association of vehicle manufacturers, as the standard for fast-charging electric vehicles.

Submission + - Apple Quietly Updates iPad 2's Processor (anandtech.com)

Submitted by bonch on Friday May 04, 2012 @04:24PM

bonch writes: Apple has quietly replaced the iPad 2's A5 with a smaller 32nm die that increases battery life by 15 to 30%. It's theorized that Apple is using the iPad 2 as a test bed for the new hardware platform, which shrinks the surface area of the A5 to 57% of the previous size.

Comment Re:I find this hard to believe (Score 1) 105

by jeremyjo on Monday April 23, 2012 @03:38PM (#39774921) Attached to: Proof-of-Concept Android Trojan Uses Motion Sensors To Steal Passwords

I find it hard to believe that the motion sensor can be sensitive enough to detect such minuscule changes, when I sometimes need to tap the phone against the desk to have it acknowledge rotation.

The motion sensor is sending data, it's just that the application you're using doesn't have the the processing power to do anything about it right then. Luckily malware tends to be coded much more efficiently than desirable apps.

Comment Re:Best: stop using Symantec and MS-Windows produc (Score 2) 149

by jeremyjo on Thursday January 26, 2012 @11:08AM (#38828597) Attached to: Symantec Tells Customers To Stop Using pcAnywhere

Are you kidding? If we're supposed to stop using pcAnywhere because the source code is out there, just think how unsecure Linux is! It's source code has been out there way longer.

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