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Submission + - FBI Admits Carrier IQ Used For Law Enforcement (muckrock.com)

Submitted by bonch
bonch writes: A FOIA request has revealed that the FBI is using Carrier IQ data for investigative purposes. In response to a request for documents related to accessing Carrier IQ information, the FBI replied that it did have files but could not release them due to possible interference with an ongoing investigation. This would seem to contradict earlier claims by researchers that Carrier IQ isn't logging data.
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Submission + - 17-year-old wins $100K for creating cancer-killing (geek.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: 17-year-old Angeloa Zhang was recently awarded the $100,000 Grand Prize in the Individual category of the Siemens Competition in Math, Science & Technology. Her project was entitled “Design of Image-guided, Photo-thermal Controlled Drug Releasing Multifunctional Nanosystem for the Treatment of Cancer Stem Cells." The creation is the so-called “Swiss army knife of cancer treatment” which allows a nanoparticle to be delivered to a tumor where is proceeds to kills cancer stem cells.

Comment Resume Builder (Score 2) 523

by wiley001 (#38189360) Attached to: How Does a Self-Taught Computer Geek Get Hired?
As stated before..Take on some odd jobs (or do some demo work, not for a customer, but for building a portfolio). Once you have a decent size portfolio, showing how well you do in the field, you should be able to find an employer to 'take a risk' on you. (I say that loosely because although you could be the best programmer/designer ever, unfortunately you dont have a piece of paper backing that up). I was in a similar boat as you, only with Programming more so than design (C#, C++, AS3, etc). Once you build out a small little resume you can substitute a formal degree with work experience. I'm at my third programming job now (prior was a contract job and most recent was a game studio that shut down). All is well and the money is good, you just have to be patient and take your lumps. (Remember that youre technically 4yrs ahead of the curve. So even if you get a low(er) paying job, youre still coming out ahead.

Submission + - Limits on Growth of Energy Use and Economies (ucsd.edu) 1

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snoop.daub
snoop.daub writes: "Dr. Tom Murphy, professor of astrophysics at UCSD, has a new blog called "Do The Math", and the first few posts are doozies. In the first, he shows the impossibility of continued exponential growth in energy use. Even if a new, "free" energy source is developed, thermodynamic limits on efficiency mean that the heat associated with converting this energy into useful work will increase the temperature of the earth to unbearable levels within 300 years. In the second, he extends the argument to economic growth. The timescales there are faster, only 50-100 years. Fascinating stuff. Time to stop breeding, folks, or to get our butts into space."
Android

Submission + - Amazon App Store: Rotten To The Core (wordpress.com) 1

Submitted by suraj.sun
suraj.sun writes: Amazon's biggest feature by far, has been their Free App Of The Day promotion. Publicly their terms say that they pay developers 20% of the asking price of an app, even when they give it away free. To both consumers and naive developers alike, this seems like a big chance to make something rare in the Android world: real money. But here's the dirty secret Amazon don't want you to know, they don't pay developers a single cent. Before being featured by Amazon, you get an email like this one:

      " As you may already know, the Free App of the Day offer placement is one of the most visible and valuable spaces on the Amazon Appstore. We would like to include your app "[name removed]" in our Free App of the Day calendar. We have seen tremendous results from this promotion spot and believe it will bring you a great deal of positive reviews and traffic. It is an opportunity to build your brand especially in association with a brand like Amazon's. The current price of this placement is at 0% rev share for that one day you are placed. "

All this seemed way too one sided to us, Amazon is being predatory here, and asking developers (who are often desperate for exposure) to give away their app, in order to promote Amazon. In the end we agreed that we had entered the world of Android development as an experiment, and it would seem silly not to add more data to the experiment we were conducting. The day of our promotion came:

That’s right, Amazon gave away 101,491 copies of our app! At this point, we had a few seconds of excitement as well, had we mis-read the email and really earned $54,800 in one day? We would have done if our public agreement was in place, but we can now confirm that thanks to Amazon’s secret back-door deals, we made $0 on that day. That’s right, over 100,000 apps given away, $0 made.

https://shiftyjelly.wordpress.com/2011/08/02/amazon-app-store-rotten-to-the-core/
Bitcoin

Submission + - Bitcoin Trademarking Lawyer Now Sending Bogus DMCA (techdirt.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A couple weeks ago, Slashdot wrote about a lawyer named Michael Pascazi who was trying to trademark Bitcoin. Techdirt picked up on the story, via Slashdot, and wrote a post about it, which included Pascazi's evidence of the trademark. Pascazi has now sent Techdirt a bogus DMCA takedown request over the post, claiming that the header and footer in his stationary, which appears via an embed on the story violates his "copyright." He appears to be claiming that simply posting any version of his stationary is a copyright violation. It's not clear if the content in question is even copyrightable, and if it is how Techdirt's use isn't fair use.

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