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Comment Quality of delivery (Score 1) 111

The quality of delivery itself was a major problem for us. We would order food from a local grocery store, and some items would not be there, some would be substituted, and some would be wrong, and some would be there that we didn't order.

So the data we have here is difficult to use as a baseline, because of shortages and newness of delivery methods being such a strong factor skewing the data.

Submission + - Xbox Fitness users will soon lose access to workout videos they bought (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by insitus
insitus writes: Xbox users who purchased training videos through the Xbox Fitness app probably thought they were buying a workout program they'd be able to use regularly for the life of the Xbox One, at the very least. Instead, those videos will soon be completely unavailable to those who paid for them up front, according to a "sunset" plan announced by Microsoft yesterday evening.

Submission + - How Sony, Microsoft, and Other Gadget Makers Violate Federal Warranty Law (vice.com)

Submitted by citadrianne
citadrianne writes: There are big “no trespassing” signs affixed to most of our electronics.

If you own a gaming console, laptop, or computer, it’s likely you’ve seen one of these warnings in the form of a sticker placed over a screw or a seam: “Warranty void if removed.”

In addition, big manufacturers such as Sony, Microsoft, and Apple explicitly note or imply in their official agreements that their year-long manufacturer warranties—which entitle you to a replacement or repair if your device is defective—are void if consumers attempt to repair their gadgets or take them to a third party repair professional.
What almost no one knows is that these stickers and clauses are illegal under a federal law passed in 1975 called the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act.

To be clear, federal law says you can open your electronics without voiding the warranty, regardless of what the language of that warranty says.

Submission + - Physicists Confirm A Pear-Shaped Nucleus, And It Could Ruin Time Travel Forever (sciencealert.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Physicists have confirmed the existence of pear-shaped nuclei, which challenges the fundamental theories of physics that explain our Universe. "We've found these nuclei literally point towards a direction in space. This relates to a direction in time, providing there's a well-defined direction in time and we will always travel from past to present," Marcus Scheck from the University of the West of Scotland told Kenneth MacDonald at BBC News. Until recently, it was generally accepted that nuclei of atoms could only be one of three shapes: spherical, discus, or rugby ball. The first discovery of a pear-shaped nucleus was back in 2013, when physicists at CERN discovered isotope Radium-224. Now, that find has been confirmed by a second study, which shows that the nucleus of the isotope Barium-144 is too asymmetrical and pear-shaped. In regards to time travel, Scheck says that this uneven distribution of mass and charge caused Barium-144's nuclear to "point" in a certain direction in spacetime, and this bias could explain why time seems to only want to go from past to present, and not backwards, even if the laws of physics don't care which way it goes.

Comment Re:"Religious Hacker"? (Score 1) 161

by nevlow (#52396235) Attached to: Religious Hacker Defaces 111 Escort Sites

Hmmm, we have the words "Moroccan," "Quran," "religious," "pro-Palestine" . . . something seems to be missing ..

I'm not
Sure if something was
Left out of the story.
All I know is something seems to be
Missing from the discussion.

I wonder if there is a reason for the abstraction and missing element? I'm pretty sure if the hacker was Christian that would have been mentioned.

Must be some of
Us who
See what's happening.
Like,
It's all the time,
Man.

Submission + - DEA wants access to medical records — without warrant (thedailybeast.com)

Submitted by mi
mi writes: Unlike in cases of commerically-held data, where the Third Party doctrine allows police warrantless access, prescription drug monitoring databases are maintained by state-governments.

The difference is lost to the Obama Administration, which argues that "since the records have already been submitted to a third party (a state's PDMP) that patients no longer enjoy an expectation of privacy."

The DEA has claimed for years that under federal law it has the authority to access the states' prescription drug databases using only an “administrative subpoena.” These are unilaterally issued orders that do not require a showing of probable cause before a court, like what’s required to obtain a warrant.

Some states — like Oregon — fight it, some — like Wisconsin — do not.

The federal government is eager to see all these databases linked. The Department of Justice has developed a software platform to facilitate sharing among all state PDMPs. So far 32 states already share their PDMP data through a National Association of Boards of Pharmacy program.

The Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (CARA), which passed Congress in March, calls for expanding sharing of PDMDBs.

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