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Comment Re:insane (Score 1) 689

by neomage86 on Thursday August 14, 2008 @07:23AM (#24597017) Attached to: Apple's Market Cap Exceeds Google's

Because, if you assume that they continue to make 3B/year in profit, the time value of that annuity is over 70 Billion (assuming a discount rate of 4%). If you see even moderate growth, imagining that annuity having a net present value of a 120 billion isn't unreasonable.

Submission + - Repair computer, be forced to repurchase OS

Submitted by on Tuesday January 30, 2007 @09:14PM

An anonymous reader writes: Recently, I have been bit by a computer repair on an emachines computer that involved a system board replacement. Though this was strictly a repair, not an upgrade, neither MS or emachines will provide for activation of the system. Why should a user have to purchase another copy of XP after repairing a computer? The systemboard is listed on the emachines website, but costs 4x what an off-the-shelf board with the same chipset/capabilities costs, and furthermore is not actually available. The emachines rep even said repurchasing XP was my only option. This seems to me patently unfair and of questionable legality. Is it possible that there are enough disgruntled consumers bit by this problem to generate a class-action lawsuit?

Feed Is Your Work Computer Private? (wired.com)

From feed by wiredfeed on Tuesday January 30, 2007 @08:12PM

A judicial panel flip-flops, finding that workers have constitutional rights when it comes to government searches of their employer-provided computers. In 27B Stroke 6.

Journal Journal: NJ Schools testing for weekend drinking. 1

Journal by vettenyy on Tuesday January 30, 2007 @05:52PM

So I came across this article on FoxNews.com. Apparently, in a New Jersey school district, they are testing student's urine for weekend drinking. From the article: "Under the program, students who test positive will not be kicked off teams or barred from extracurricular activities, Reynolds said. Instead, they will receive counseling -- and their parents will be notified." This to me is clearly a privacy issue, since the test is

Journal Journal: Solution to Music DRM

Journal by Secwind on Wednesday January 24, 2007 @01:41AM

Forget MP3 DRM, what they need is to import high frequency sound that's invisible to human ears to identify the owner of the file in each song they sell. The goal is not to disturb the way you use the song you purchased, and able to track down where it is spread easily.

Submission + - Google developing new 'iBook'

Submitted by nettamere on Sunday January 21, 2007 @01:13AM

nettamere writes: According to ITWire.com Google is plotting to do for books what the iPod has done for music: make them purchasable by download to a portable access device. Could civilisation as we know it be under threat?

The UK's Times newspaper reported that "Google is working on a system that would allow readers to download entire books to their computers in a format that they could read on screen or on mobile devices such as a Blackberry."

It quoted Jens Redmer, director of Google Book Search in Europe, speaking at 'Unbound', an invitation-only conference at the New York Public Library, saying: "We are working on a platform that will let publishers give readers full access to a book online." Redmer said that the project was likely to come to fruition "sooner rather than later".

The Times said the initiative would be part of Google's Book Search service and its partnership with publishers, which makes books searchable online. Readers are then linked to sites such as Amazon where they can buy a physical copy of the book.

The news immediately lead Sunday Times commentator, Bryan Appleyard to bemoan the fact that: "We are, it seems, about to lose physical contact with books, the primary experience and foundation of civilisation for the last 500 years." [Full Story]

Submission + - MIT Labs Moves Ahead In Synthesizing Spider Silk

Submitted by icepick72 on Sunday January 21, 2007 @12:22AM

icepick72 writes: A team from MIT's Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies (ISN) announced they have devised a new way to create Lycra-like materials (like organic Spider's silk) in a lab. The naturally occurring substance — on a weight basis — is stronger than even steel and it is theorized a pencil-thin thread could stop a 747 in mid-flight.

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