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Submission + - RIP Leonard Nimoy

Submitted by Esther Schindler on Friday February 27, 2015 @01:21PM

Esther Schindler writes: According to the NY Times, Leonard Nimoy died on Friday morning at his home in the Bel Air section of Los Angeles. He was 83.

He was, and always shall be, our friend.

Submission + - Supreme Court rules cell phones can't be searched without a warrant (nytimes.com)

Submitted by CarlThansk on Wednesday June 25, 2014 @10:48AM

CarlThansk writes: The courts have long debated on if cell phones can be searched during an arrest without a warrant. Today, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the police need warrants to search the cellphones of people they arrest.

"Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., writing for the court, said the vast amount of data contained on modern cellphones must be protected from routine inspection."

Submission + - Former Google Exec: Facebook, Twitter Are Killing Search

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 08, 2012 @03:06AM

An anonymous reader writes: Former Google executive Stafford Masie believes that traditional search is dying because users are choosing to query their friends and followers on services like Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr. Here's the quote from the video: 'The pie of search query volumes in the world – that business is shrinking. Why? Because people are going and doing search queries – search query volumes are moving towards social containers. They’re moving away from static pages being searched and they’re moving more towards dynamic real-time stream content. Like Twitter. Like Tumblr. Like Facebook. Those things have a better result because the penetration, the personalization associated with it, and the constant freshness of the content. So I believe that Google’s search volume – the business Google is in on the search side – that business is shrinking. And they’ve got to do something about it.'

Submission + - Robert Boisjoly dies at 73, engineer who tried to stop Challenger launch (latimes.com)

Submitted by demachina on Wednesday February 08, 2012 @02:27AM

demachina writes: Robert Boisjoly dies at 73. Boisjoly, Allan J. McDonald and three others argued through the night to stop the Challenger launch but Joseph Kilminster, their boss at Morton Thiokol overruled them and NASA managers didn't listen to the engineers. Both Boisjoly and McDonald were blackballed for speaking out. NASA's mismanagement "is not going to stop until somebody gets sent to hard rock hotel," Boisjoly said. "I don't care how many commissions you have. These guys have a way of numbing their brains. They have destroyed $5 billion worth of hardware and 14 lives because of their nonsense."

Comment Sports impact (Score 1) 236

by lp60068 on Tuesday February 07, 2012 @06:32PM (#38960531) Attached to: Fracture Putty Can Heal a Broken Bone In Days

This could have a big impact in the sports world. I wonder if Peyton Manning could have played in 2011 if he had access to this type of treatment.

Submission + - AT&T Responds to DoJ Lawsuit, Repubs Question (nytimes.com) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 09, 2011 @05:13PM

An anonymous reader writes: Last week the Department of Justice filed an antitrust complaint to stop the merger between AT&T and T-Mobile USA. Now, AT&T has responded, arguing that the merger would benefit consumers by increasing competition and freeing up spectrum. "That means increased output, higher quality service, fewer dropped calls,and lower prices to consumers than without the merger," they say. Meanwhile, House Republicans have sent a letter to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski and Attorney General Eric Holder asking for an explanation of "what went into the decision to challenge the merger and whether the agencies considered the impact on jobs and economic growth."

Comment Re:Just who do they think they are anyway? (Score 1) 259

by lp60068 on Wednesday August 05, 2009 @06:17PM (#28964289) Attached to: Apple Balks, Finally Relents, At Possible User Queries of Dictionary App

They should apply a common sense standard - can you look up the word in the printed version of the dictionary? Then let it in. When I was a kid I looked dirty words in the dictionary. So what? Why do we continue to underestimate kids? In grade school we were using 4 letter words all the time and tried to come up with different combinations. lol - we never got the words from the dictionary, but from others using the words.

Submission + - Gaming skills directly linked to surgical skills

Submitted by

Orinthe

on Tuesday February 20, 2007 @02:22AM

Orinthe writes: "According to Reuters, a new study involving 33 surgeons at a New York hospital shows "a strong correlation between video game skills and a surgeon's capabilities". A statement by the senior author of the study even suggests the use of video games as a training tool for surgeons. Another of the study's authors cautions parents to curb excessive gaming, however: "spending that much time playing video games is not going to help their child's chances of getting into medical school"."

Submission + - 12 crackpot deas that could transform tech

Submitted by

InfoWorldMike

on Monday February 19, 2007 @11:40PM

InfoWorldMike writes: "Technologies that push the envelope of the plausible capture our curiosity almost as quickly as the could-be crackpots who dare to concoct them become targets of our derision. Here are a dozen, from the harebrained to the practical, that have a history of raising eyebrows and just might have a hand in transforming the future of the technology landscape: Superconducting computing, solid-state drives, autonomic computing, DC power, holographic and phase-change storage, artificial intelligence, e-books, desktop web apps, Project Blackbox, quantum computing/cryptography, and the semantic Web. Check out InfoWorld's slideshow of these top crackpot contenders and nominate your favs here."

How Jobs Played Hardball In iPhone Birth 479

Posted by kdawson on Monday February 19, 2007 @08:21PM from the my-customer-dammit dept.

Carl Bialik from WSJ writes "Apple bucked the rules of the cellphone industry when creating the iPhone by wresting control away from normally powerful wireless carriers, the Wall Street Journal reports. From the article: 'Only three executives at the carrier, which is now the wireless unit of AT&T Inc., got to see the iPhone before it was announced. Cingular agreed to leave its brand off the body of the phone. Upsetting some Cingular insiders, it also abandoned its usual insistence that phone makers carry its software for Web surfing, ringtones and other services... Mr. Jobs once referred to telecom operators as "orifices" that other companies, including phone makers, must go through to reach consumers. While meeting with Cingular and other wireless operators he often reminded them of his view, dismissing them as commodities and telling them that they would never understand the Web and entertainment industry the way Apple did, a person familiar with the talks says.'"

Comment New Computers get Vista (Score 2, Insightful) 437

by lp60068 on Monday February 12, 2007 @07:05PM (#17989696) Attached to: Vista Not Playing Nice With FPS Games

The problem is trying to buy a new computer without getting Vista. My dad needs a new computer and plays strategy/role playing games and how do I explain to him that his high-end Dell computer with Vista is going to crash playing some games. Talk about bleeding edge.

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