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Mac Users More Liberal Than Windows Users 638

Posted by Soulskill from the we-needed-something-new-to-fight-about dept.
adeelarshad82 writes "A recent survey conducted on 400,000 people — in which 52% of respondents were self-described PC (Windows) people, 25% were Mac users and 23% were neither — showed that Mac users are more politically liberal than their PC-using counterparts. 58% of Mac users were 'liberal,' as compared to 38% of PC users. Amongst other things, the survey also indicated that Mac users were, on average, more urban, younger and more educated than PC users, which could potentially be a contributing factor toward being more liberal."
Apple

IPad 2 33% Thinner, 2x Faster, iOS 4.3 1118

Posted by CmdrTaco from the that's-a-paddling dept.
Steve Jobs was on hand today deliver a speech at Apple's iPad 2 event. The new iPad will feature dual-core processors, 2x faster CPU, and 9X faster graphics, front and rear cameras. And it's 33% thinner. Prices range from $499 to $829 depending on if you want 3G and 64 gigs, and it ships March 11. iOS 4.3 will ship at the same time.
Censorship

Libya SIGINT Jamming Satellites, Towers 463

Posted by timothy from the gentlemen-do-not-kill-a-bunch-of-citizens dept.
h00manist writes "Libya's Gaddafi apparently loves radio hacking. Signal jamming is being used to disable Thuraya satellite phones. Also being jammed is satellite TV network provider Arabsat, affecting vast areas in the Middle East, Gulf, Africa and Europe. Cellphone and internet transmissions are working only intermittently. Soldiers are confiscating electronics, too. This has gone on for days, allowing killing to be carried out largely hidden from the rest of the world, quite different from what happened in Egypt. The locations of the jamming signals are known to company executives — around the capital, Tripoli — but nobody can do anything. Only POTS is available, and it is monitored. Technically speaking, could this happen everywhere? Alternatives?"
Intel

Apple To Unveil Light Peak, New MacBook Pros This Week? 311

Posted by CmdrTaco from the because-they-can dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Apple will reportedly soon make an announcement regarding a new high-speed connection technology. And as luck would have it, this comes hot on the heels of a report that Apple will release a slew of new MacBook Pros later this week. For some time now, reports have abounded detailing Apple and Intel's cooperation on a new transfer technology dubbed Light Peak capable of transferring data at 10GB/s both up and down. Could this find its way into Apple's new lineup of MacBook Pros as has been previously rumored?"
Government

The Inner World of Gov-Sponsored White-Hat Hacking 146

Posted by samzenpus from the good-guy's-bad-guys dept.
romanval writes "Anonymous leaked emails of white-hat hacker firm HBGary shows how it develops and markets products to government agencies. From the article: 'In 2009, HBGary had partnered with the Advanced Information Systems group of defense contractor General Dynamics to work on a project euphemistically known as "Task B." The team had a simple mission: slip a piece of stealth software onto a target laptop without the owner's knowledge. They focused on ports—a laptop's interfaces to the world around it—including the familiar USB port, the less-common PCMCIA Type II card slot, the smaller ExpressCard slot, WiFi, and Firewire. No laptop would have all of these, but most recent machines would have at least two.'"
Businesses

Valve Beats Google, Apple For Profits Per Employee 194

Posted by Soulskill from the are-we-supposed-to-call-them-an-evil-empire-yet dept.
AndrewGOO9 writes "It should come with little surprise that Gabe Newell is well on his way to being one of the wealthiest men in gaming. In an age when console gamers would have many believe that the PC was on its way out the door, Newell and Valve's Steam stand as sentinels of the platform, offering a ridiculous amount of content to the 30 million users. With the lion's share of the downloadable market on the PC, it's no wonder that Steam has become the go-to for many and an incredible financial opportunity for Newell and Valve. According to Forbes, 'Newell says that, per employee, Valve is more profitable than Google and Apple. A potential buyer was rumored to have made an acquisition offer a few years back for the Steam piece only, but Newell supposedly refused to split the online storefront from Valve's game-publishing arm.'"
The Military

On Retirement, Israeli General Takes Credit for Stuxnet Attacks 334

Posted by timothy from the all-in-all-it's-been-a-good-run dept.
dinscott writes "Last month, The New York Times ran a story about Stuxnet having been developed by the Americans and the Israelis as a part of a joint project, but it was based on claims by confidential sources. It now seems that the information from these sources was correct. The Haaretz — Israel's oldest daily newspaper — reports on a surprising video that was played at a party organized for General Gabi Ashkenazi's last day on the job."
Businesses

Steve Jobs Taking Medical Leave of Absence 471

Posted by CmdrTaco from the zomg-everybody-panic dept.
Uttini writes "Apple CEO Steve Jobs has just announced that he is taking a medical leave of absence, according to a release issued by the company today. While it's unclear what the reason is for the medical leave, Jobs' previous medical history includes pancreatic cancer as well as a liver transplant. While Jobs is out, Tim Cook is to be responsible for all of Apple's day to day operations."
Technology

What To Load On a 4-Year-Old's Netbook? 742

Posted by samzenpus from the besides-plants-vs.-zombies dept.
nostrodecus writes "I have a nephew who is very young, but who has the techie gene — he found the Gruffalo on YouTube before anyone knew he could spell. Now he's almost 4, and I was thinking of giving him my netbook (Acer running XP), which I hardly use any more. So, of course, I will be deleting all the porn, but what should I load up on it? Are there tools/apps that I can load up on it to protect it and him from things he shouldn't see until college? Also, what apps or games could I load on it that a 4-year-old will get some use out of?"

Comment Re:The problem with computer sabotage... (Score 1) 334

by kfz-versicherung (#34245036) Attached to: Stuxnet Was Designed To Subtly Interfere With Uranium Enrichment

> One way for Israel to keep that from happening is to preemptively nuke Iran's nuclear capabilities.
I haven't heard such stupid and self righteous shit in a long time.
Thanks for resetting that timer.

Who says Israel isn't going to nuke everyone else? Shouldn't by that logic Israel be nuked?

Comment Re:Do you want economic collapse? (Score 1) 334

by kfz-versicherung (#34244846) Attached to: Stuxnet Was Designed To Subtly Interfere With Uranium Enrichment

> they wish to protect their ancestral homeland

By that logic we should support financially as well as ideologically an "everything goes" all-In war with non-native American citizen?

Nobody so far proved Iran wants to develop nuclear weapons. Its all hearsay.
And contrary to the US and Israel Iran has signed the Non-Proliferation treaty.
Biotech

Is DIY Algae Farming the Future? 322

Posted by timothy from the for-fun-and-food-and-friendship dept.
hex0D points to this "interview with Aaron Baum explaining why people growing algae at home for food can help the environment and their health, and what he's doing to facilitate this. 'We'd like to create an international network of people growing all kinds of algae in their homes in a small community scale, sharing information, doing it all in an open source way. We'd be like the Linux of algae – do-it-yourself with low-cost materials and shared information.' And one of the low-cost materials is your household urine."

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