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Comment fixed that for you (Score -1, Troll) 106

"I suggest that facebook maintain honest, truthful posts as a separate list or filter that people can opt into. Do whatever they want on that list with Trump's tweets, conservative bloggers, and whatnot - just make it local to their list and invite people to use the list via opt-in."

Fixed that for you.....

Comment Re: Not really news (Score 1) 280

as a lifetime gymnastics coach who has coached at every level from beginners to elite i can tell you that any comparison here of men and women's gymnastics is invalid. unlike sports like tennis and track, male and female gymnastics differ to such a degree that they are more different than alike. women have 4 events and men have 6, the only common events are vault and floor with floor having the significant difference that the women do a routine to music, the men do not and that engenders differences not readily apparent to non-gymnasts. women have to learn two sets of skills for floor, tumbling skills and dance skills, some of which are quite difficult and dangerous. i witnessed a young lady blow out the medial collaterals on both knees doing a straddle jump, a seemingly elementary skill. in other words, floor is two events for women, one for men. and women's gymnastics is a jumping sport, three events centered on leg strength, men's gymnastics is an upper body strength centered sport, 4 events with no leg support, all upper body strength. that being said, simone is so beyond the rest of the field that she would give some guys a real run for their money in pure tumbling and vault, and her endurance on floor would whip many men due to all the non stop movement in her routine to get all the dance and tumbling in, men get some rest between passes. i can tell you that all the male gymnasts have unending respect for her and would not want to meet her in a dark ally at night, if you know what i mean and i think you do. that girl can whip some you know what. pardon the lack of caps, keyboard issues....

Submission + - Grace Hopper, UNIVAC, and the First Programming Language

M-Saunders writes: It weighed 13 tons, had 5,200 vacuum tubes, and took up a whole garage, but the UNIVAC I was an incredible machine for its time. Memory was provided by tanks of liquid mercury, while the clock speed was a whopping 2.25 MHz. The UNIVAC I was one of the first commercial general-purpose computers produced, with 46 shipped, and Linux Voice has taken an in-depth look at it. Learn its fascinating instruction set, and also check out FLOW-MATIC, the first English-language data processing language created by American computing pioneer Grace Hopper.

Submission + - EFF: Amazon, AT&T, And Snapchat Most Likely To Rat On You To The Gov't (itworld.com) 1

jfruh writes: The EFF has released its annual "Who Has Your Back" report, which uses publicly available records to see which web companies do the most to resist government demands for your personal data, by requiring warrants and being transparent about requests received. Social media giants Facebook and Twitter scored quite well; Snapchat was at the botto of the list, and Amazon and AT&T didn't do much better.
The Courts

Appeals Court Says RIAA Hearing Can't Be Streamed 208

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "The US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit has overturned a lower court order permitting webcast of an oral argument in an RIAA case, SONY BMG Music Entertainment v. Tenenbaum, in Boston. As one commentator put it, the decision gives the RIAA permission to 'cower behind the same legal system they're using to pillory innocent people.' Ironically, the appeals court's own hearing had been webcast, via an mp3 file. The court admitted that this was not an appropriate case for a 'prerogative writ' of 'mandamus,' but claimed to have authority to issue a writ of 'advisory mandamus.' The opinion came as a bit of a surprise to me because the judges appeared, during the oral argument, to have a handle on the issues. The decision gave me no such impression. From where I sit, the decision was wrong in a number of respects, among them: (a) it contradicted the plain wording of the district court rule, (b) it ignored the First Amendment implications, and (c) there is no such thing as 'advisory' mandamus or 'advisory' anything — our federal courts are specifically precluded from giving advisory opinions."
Space

Submission + - NASA moon rocket may shake too much (yahoo.com)

caffiend666 writes: "According to an AP New Article: "Engineers are concerned that the new rocket meant to replace the space shuttle and send astronauts on their way to the moon could shake violently during the first few minutes of flight, possibly destroying the entire vehicle.... NASA officials hope to have a plan for fixing the design as early as March, and they do not expect it to delay the goal of returning astronauts to the moon by 2020.... The shaking problem, which is common to solid rocket boosters, involves pulses of added acceleration caused by gas vortices in the rocket similar to the wake that develops behind a fast-moving boat...." Astronauts always desribed the shuttle ride as rocky until the SRBs fall off, I was wondering what would happen when they no longer had the counter-weight of the main tank and the orbiter."
Hardware Hacking

MacBook Air's Battery is Actually Easy to Replace 420

pizzach noted that the MacBook Air battery is actually fairly easy to replace. "All it requires is a philips screwdriver. Unlike some of Apple's other products, the battery is not so soldered in which should make a lot of people at least a little bit happier." I think I'll have to wait for something with a bigger screen and a faster clock speed.
Microsoft

Microsoft Threatens Startups Over Account Info 156

HangingChad writes "According to Fortune, there are reports that Microsoft is trying to strong arm startups to give preferential treatment to MSN Messenger and are using account information as leverage. 'If the company wants to offer other IM services (from Yahoo, Google or AOL, say), Messenger must get top billing. And if the startup wants to offer any other IM service, it must pay Microsoft 25 cents a user per year for a site license.' Of course, if the company is willing to use Messenger exclusively 'fee will be discounted 100 percent.' Getting detailed information is difficult as many of the companies being approached are afraid of reprisals."
Television

Cable Industry to Standardize Under Tru2Way 216

smooth wombat writes "In a move to stave off the FCC, cable operators have now agreed upon one standard to allow TVs and other gear that will work regardless of cable provider. This standard should allow the development of new services and features that rely on two-way communication over the cable network. The core of the matter is this: there are tvs and other devices which can receive digital programming but cannot talk back to the network. As a result, subscribers must rent out boxes from cable companies. This new standard should, in theory, do away with having to rent a box. There are two downsides to this standard. First, Sony has not signed onto the cable industry's idea and second, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin wants to put forth a proposal for a more open and competitive environment using a completely different standard."

Feed Engadget: Palm: assimilate with Android or die (engadget.com)

Filed under: Cellphones, Features


Make no mistake, Google dropped a bombshell all over the mobile industry today with today's Android announcement. Since the dawn of the handset we've seen little more than one proprietary device, system, and application environment after the next; when we're lucky, maybe some of those systems deigned 3rd parties worthy of developing something more than Java code for 'em. Even despite the endless promise of Linux and years of tilting towards open source cellphones has resulted in effectively nothing for mainstream wireless customers -- but all that changes today with the announcement of the first free, open, standard (and standards-based) mobile OS.

It's no surprise that Apple, Microsoft, Nokia, and RIM were absent participating in Android and the OHA; each of those power-players has built its mobile business around its own separate mobile platform: OS X, Windows Mobile, Symbian, and BlackBerry, respectively. But the cellphone company we expected to be first in line for Android and the Open Handset Alliance, the one manufacturer that is truly desperate for a powerful, pre-developed, open Linux mobile OS, is nowhere to be found. We are, of course, talking about Palm.

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Feed The homemade GPS speed camera detector (engadget.com)

Filed under: GPS, Transportation

Although this device may be of limited usefulness outside of its creator's home country of Sweden, the project's inspiring ingenuity isn't restricted to the borders of the Scandinavian state. This particular speed camera detector does the same job that most off-the-shelf (and often illegal) speed camera detectors do: it detects fixed speed cameras by referencing itself against a database of camera locations using built in GPS. This example does exactly the same job, but with the same "you get to see its guts!" flair that we've come to expect from hacks. The best part about the hack is that it integrates into the sun shield for quick hiding, and that the part costs are undoubtedly cheaper than the commercial solutions out there. If you want in on the homemade speed detection avoidance scene, then you can hit up the creator at his email address and he'll apparently help you out with a parts list and instructions, although we expect he'll post this online after the slew of emails he or she is about to receive.

[Via hackaday]

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