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Microsoft Employees Love Their iPhones
portscan writes There is an entertaining and telling article in the Wall Street Journal about iPhone use by Microsoft employees. Apparently, despite it being frowned upon by senior management, iPhone use is rampant among the Redmond rank and file. The
Obama Backs MPAA, RIAA, and ACTA
boarder8925 writes In a move sure to surprise no one, Obama has come out on the side of the MPAA/RIAA and has backed the ACTA: Were going to aggressively protect our intellectual property, Obama said in his speech, Our single
What Aspects of Open Source Projects Do You Avoid?
paulproteus writes Im a Debian developer and a part-time contributor to a few smaller projects. I do a lot of free software-y and open source-y things. Sometimes, though, I dont do them. I figure some other Slashdotters might have similar
How To Make Your Own iPhone RFID Reader
andylim writes Its been rumoured for some time now that Apple will include RFID technology in a future iPhone. An RFID-packing iPhone could interact with various objects including opening doors and it could even be used in shops to register
Classmates.com Settles Lawsuit Over Phony Friends
Hugh Pickens writes Techflash reports that Classmates.com has agreed to pay up to $9.5 million to its users to settle a lawsuit that accused the social network of sending deceptive emails that made people believe their old friends from high
How Sony and Microsoft Hope To Crack the Motion Control Market
An editorial at Eurogamer delves into what Sony and Microsoft hope to achieve with their upcoming console motion control systems, despite entering the market several years after Nintendo set the standard. The cards Sony has placed on the table this
Venezuela's Chavez To Limit Internet Freedom
terets1 writes Reuters reports that Venezuelas leader, Hugo Chavez, issued a call on Saturday for internet controls to prevent rumors and inaccurate reporting from spreading. He specifically cited a case in which a website incorrectly reported that a senior minister
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The iPad paradox: Less is more
A strange trend has emerged that violates the more-is-better ethos of American consumer culture. Some products and services are touting limitations as desirable features. And consumers are loving it.
Google's Matt Cutts Clarifies "Delusions"
Valleywag used a recent podcast I did as material for two points in Six Delusions of Google’s Arrogant Leaders. The two assertions that used my comments as material were “Google’s wealth means Google ‘gets it’” and “Google must sacrifice user
YouTube - Firefox Personas Video - How To
http://seanseo.com/ Learn how to use FireFox Personas in this step by step video. Get Personas For Firefox. NOW full setup instructions..............
Pi Day: Google Doodle Celebrates Math Nerds Everywhere
Google’s new logo, which you can see on the top right, contains not only the famous πr2 formula, but five other uses of π: measuring the volume of a sphere (V = 4⁄3 πr3), computing the circumference of a circle
U.S. to Roll Out Major Broadband Policy - Yahoo! News
U.S. regulators will announce a major Internet policy this week to revolutionize how Americans communicate and play, proposing a dramatic increase in broadband speeds that could let people download a high-definition film in minutes instead of hours.
Dear Mozilla, please fix this. Thank you.
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Google Street View: Survey Raises Privacy Concerns
Google Street View, which has now been expanded to cover more than 95 per cent of Britain’s roads, is being seen as a “service for burglars”, according to new research.
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At SXSWi, Facebook flexes its gaming muscle
The social networks annual developer get-together as part of the South by Southwest Interactive Festival was focused on how it can bring its Facebook Connect technology to gamers on disparate platforms.
Fiorina follows 'Demon Sheep' with heavenly hot air
A new ad for former HP CEO Carly Fiorinas campaign for the Senate takes the extremes of her Demon Sheep ad to even more exalted levels.
Venezuelan president calls for Internet regulation
Hugo Chavez says the Internet cannot be something open where anything is said and done and demands crackdown on a critical news site.
How to make Chatroulette a useful video network
There is a way that Chatroulette could become a lot more than a place for people to show off their private parts
Shirky: Napster tapped into our primate instincts
We dont want to share goods, but we want to share information, the NYU professor said at a SXSWi talk, and Napster transformed music into information.
Digg 2.0 unveiled at SXSW, 'faster,' 'instant'
At Diggs packed South by Southwest party Saturday night, CEO Jay Adelson surprised the audience by announcing a revamped version of the service with a big slate of new features.
#OMGConan: The big Digg party Twitter hoax
At about 8 p.m. central time Saturday night, the word spread on Twitter like wildfire that Conan OBrien was joining Internet TV network Revision3. But it was actually a hoax that hundreds participated in.
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Next Firefox to drop Mac OS X 10.4 support
Mozilla has officially decided that the next major version of Firefox will require at least Mac OS X 10.5 when running on Apple computers. by Stephen Shankland CNET News
Microsoft re-releases Blue Screen of Death fix
Microsoft is re-releasing the patch that caused Windows systems to crash in February with a Blue Screen of Death. by Richard Thurston ZDNet UK
Cray, Microsoft join forces on cloud datacenters
Supercomputer maker Crays custom engineering group has teamed up with Microsoft Research to look into lowering the costs of running cloud-computing datacenters. by Matthew Broersma ZDNet UK
Obama lines up with copyright owners
As a presidential candidate, Barack Obama was a young technology fan who appeared to be an establishment outsider. But he now appears to have lined up on the side of copyright owners. by Greg Sandoval CNET News
Why no one cares about privacy anymore
Google co-founder Sergey Brin adores the companys social network called Google Buzz. We know this because an engineer working five feet from Brin used Google Buzz to say so. by Declan McCullagh CNET News
Judges uphold Word patent-infringement ruling
A US Court of Appeals panel has upheld a judgement that Microsoft infringed on another companys patent with its custom XML tags in Word 2003 and Word 2007. by David Meyer ZDNet UK
Three arrested over 12.7m PC botnet
Authorities in Spain have arrested three men accused of operating a massive botnet which stole credit card and bank log-in data and infected computers in half the Fortune 1,000 companies. by Elinor Mills CNET News
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Research Reveals Early Signs of Autism in Some Kids
BALTIMORE—Some infants headed for a diagnosis of autism, or autism spectrum disorder as it’s officially known, can be reliably identified at 14 months old based on the presence of five key behavior problems, according to an ongoing long-term study described
Big Earthquakes Cause Premature Births
A new study of a 2005 earthquake in Chile supports the surprising hypothesis that pregnant women who experience earthquakes during the first trimester of their pregnancies have increased risk of premature birth and slightly smaller babies.While the drops in birth
Video: Cold, Little Comet Is No Match for the Big, Hot Sun
A small, newly discovered comet will not get a chance to enjoy its fame for long.As you can see in this image sequence obtained by NASA’s Solar and Heliosopheric Observatory, the comet is on a collision course with the sun.
Solar Slumber May Have Been Caused by Magnetic Flows
Newly reported observations of gas flows on the solar surface may explain why the sun recently had such an extended case of the doldrums.From 2008 through the first half of 2009, the sun had a puzzling dearth of sunspots, flares
Desperate Efforts to Save Endangered Bats May Fail
A desperate attempt to keep endangered Virginia big-eared bats alive in captivity has shown just how difficult that noble task may be.The effort was prompted by the discovery of White Nose Syndrome, an extremely virulent disease that has killed more
The ’70s Photos That Made Us Want to Save Earth
<< previous image | next image >>Two years after Richard Nixon created the Environmental Protection Agency, the new institution sent out 100 photographers to document the nation’s environment writ large.Now, those photos have made it out of the root cellar
You Are a Tamagotchi: Turning Your Health Into a Game
In the mid 1990s, a craze swept Japan and crested its way onto American shores: Kids were going crazy for the Tamagotchi, an egg-shaped digital pet. Every few hours, users would press a couple buttons to feed their Tamagotchi, play
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In Pictures: GDC 2010, Day 2
Loyds second day on the floor of GDC 2010 comes back to us in the form of a picture story. Real-time motion capture, virtual reality, stereoscopic showings from Nvidia and Sony, plus a brain wave detector kit were all on
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GDC 2010, Day 1: The Missing Middle
This years Game Developer Conference is in full swing, and Loyd Case is on the ground, reporting the latest goings-on. His Day 1 coverage includes AMDs push for open-standard physics, Windows Phone 7, Playstation Move, real-world gaming, and Surface.
Efficiency Explored: Core i7-980X Versus Core i7-975
Intel is preemptively launching the first hexa-core desktop CPU weeks ahead of actual availability. But how does this 32nm monster perform
Intel Core i7-980X Extreme: Hello, Six-Core Computing
Already the performance leader in desktop processing, Intel is following its quad-core Bloomfield design up with Gulftown, a hexa-core design sporting 12MB of shared L3 cache. Is the lone Gulftown model, Core i7-980X Extreme, worth a $1,000 asking price?
Four Compression And Archiving Solutions Compared
Would you rather use 7-Zip, FreeArc, WinRAR, or WinZip? We put four of the most popular file archiving tools to the test, analyzing compression ratios and performance. Spoiler alert: WinZip 14, the latest version of this popular title, gets creamed.
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Marketing games: the art of the pole dance
Lets get one thing out of the way first: True Crime looks good. The game was demoed for me in a private suite, played live, and talked up by the developer. Mixing
The Weird Science of toilet plants and rhythmless reindeer
Well, thats one way to get a balanced diet: We all know that carnivorous plants have evolved in regions where the soil isnt very nutrient-rich, and they use their prey to supplement
A cheaper and more efficient solar-hydrogen system
As scientists continue to pursue alternative fuels that may enable us to break free of the fossil variety, a group of researchers has taken another step towards directly converting solar energy into fuel, in this case, hydrogen. A new system
iPad mania: hot presales, iBooks info, 3G model semipopular
iPad mania has hit since Apples answer to the tablet became available for pre-order on Friday morning. We already mentioned with glee that the mute switch has been transformed into an orientation
Week in Apple: iPad day looms, Mac gamers rejoice, and more
As St. Patricks Day draws near, Apple fans are counting themselves among the lucky. After all, Steam is finally coming to the Mac, the iPad finally has a ship date, and the
Week in tech: ad blocking, whitelisting, and privacy
The biggest story this past week on Ars was ad-blocking. You may not have realized it, but blocking ads truly hurts the websites you visit. We discussed why that is (diminished resources
Week in gaming: Ubisoft DRM, PlayStation Move, and God of War III
Those playing Assassins Creed 2 on the PC got a rude reminder of DRMs pitfalls when the servers that authenticate the game went down. Many complained on the companys official forum, and
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DRM is Dead, RIAA Says
The RIAA says DRM is dead. Wait. What? Who are you people and what have you done with the real RIAA?For years the RIAA has defended the use of DRM, much to the dislike of millions of honest customers who
Undercover Cop Arrests Undercover Cop
You have to wonder how effective an undercover operation is when one undercover cop arrests another undercover cop for trying to sell him drugs. Regardless, once the newspaper ran this story, everyone’s cover was blown. If either police department bothered
Apple Approves Marijuana App
Let’s see, you can’t get an iPhone app showing boobies but you can get an app to help you find weed. I guess I’m not surprised by an iToke app, we are after all talking about Apple here. You now
Microsoft Responds to Obama’s Xbox Criticism
Damn you Xbox machine for making our kids stay up late and be stupid. If my kid ends up being a high school drop out, we know who to blame now! For our kids to excel, we must accept our
New Pirate Bay to Be Based on Give-And-Take Models
Does anyone seriously think this is going to work? Remember how much everyone loved Napster? Remember how much they liked it once it became a legit site? Yeah, that’s what is going to happen here too. The more you give,
Creating Font Using a Car
Here is your creative font of the day (its free too). A group of people made a new font using a computer, a sophisticated camera tracking system and a car. I use my car all the time to make fonts
Ping Pong Table-Door
From the why didn’t I think of that files comes the amazing ping pong table/door! From the looks of it, this amazing product not only makes you popular, it gets you chicks too! Comments
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ASUS N61J-X2: Optimus GT325M Meets Arrandale
Mobile users that actually use their laptop unplugged for any extended amount of time should absolutely love NVIDIAs Optimus technology. The ASUS N61J pairs a higher spec GT325M GPU with an Arrandale processor to bump performance to the next level.
Designing Our Next GPU Test Suite
In keeping with our desire to refresh our GPU test suite periodically, we’re going to be redoing our GPU test suite to rotate in some more modern games, along with rotating in some DirectX11 games capable of taking advantage of
Intel Core i7 980X Overclocking Update: Breaking 4GHz With 6 Cores
Our initial 980X overclocking results were bad, so we put in more time and managed to push the chip past 4GHz....
The Core i7 980X Review: Intel's First 6-Core CPU
Its got 6 cores, 12 threads and its good. Meet Intels Core i7 980X, the first Gulftown CPU. If youve got the money, theres nothing better....
ASUS M4A89GTD Pro - A Core Unlocking 890GX for $140
With less than a week of public release mileage under its belt, how close have ASUS come to hitting a home run with the M4A89GTD Pro? ...
AVA Direct Clevo X8100 SLI Gaming Notebook
AVA Direct, the custom computer manufacturer, has announced their most powerful notebook for gamers. The powerhouse notebook is an update of the older Clevo M980NU, replacing the Intel Core 2 Duo and NVIDIA GTX 280M SLI with a Core i7
Dell M6500: A Precision Strike on Bling
The Dell Precision M6500 is what we expect from a mobile workstation: high on quality and low on fluff. It’s also very expensive, but the cost of the hardware likely pales in comparison to the software it’s designed to run....
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Inside the E Wars: Apple's iPad
Been awhile since a post, been out enjoying the real world. Wanted to post about the iPad, which ships/shipped on April 3, 2010. iPad was big news at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Didnt talk much about it....
PyMOTW: Parsing XML Documents with ElementTree
Pythons xml.etree.ElementTree library makes it easy to use XML data in your application or library.
NoSQL: Staying for the feature presentation
I left the NoSQL Live conference in Boston with the impression thatfeatures rather than architecture drive the adoption of NoSQLprojects.
Personalization and the future of Digg
I recently talked to Joe Stump, CTO of SimpleGeo, about a number of topics related to location and databases. However, in the course of the interview, we also got around to discussing Digg. Previous to launching SimpleGeo, Joe was the
Lookup Performance in R
Recently, I became interested in maximizing lookup performance in R. Many problems require looking up values in tables. I decided to perform some tests to show how different lookup mechanisms performed in R. If youre not familiar with R, heres...
Four short links: 12 March 2010
Flickr Flow -- a season wheel, showing the relative popularity of colours in Flickr photos at different times of the year. Beautiful. (via gurneyjourney) Light Peak -- optical peripheral cabling and motherboard connections. (via timoreilly on twitter) British Museum Pilots
End every helpdesk request on a good note
One thing weve learned from the (relatively) new field of behavioral economics is that people tend to remember the pain towards the end of something, not the total pain. Thus if a painful surgery ends with a long period of...
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Microsoft admits security update errors
Phil Muncaster, V3.co.uk, Sunday 14 March 2010 at 09:15:00Redmond issues workaround for cosmetic issueMicrosoft has been forced to admit that a security update for its popularExcel application caused non-English text to appear on some
Barclays Bank programmer jailed for four years
Phil Muncaster, V3.co.uk, Saturday 13 March 2010 at 15:15:00Humza Zaman goes down for part in TJX and other data heistsA former programmer for Barclays bank has been sentenced to four years inprison for his
Street View slammed as 'service for burglars'
Phil Muncaster, V3.co.uk, Saturday 13 March 2010 at 15:00:00New report finds most UK citizens are against the technologyGoogle Street View is seen by most UK consumers as an intrusive technologyand nothing more than a
Top 10 women of technology
Iain Thomson and Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Saturday 13 March 2010 at 09:49:00Women who have changed the course of computing historyTo celebrateInternationalWomens Day Shaun and I decided to devote the Top 10
China says Google must censor or “pay the consequences”
Iain Thomson in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Saturday 13 March 2010 at 06:12:00Chinese minster starts talking toughGoogle must obey Chinese laws on censorship or “pay the consequences” asenior minister has warned.Google has said it willstopcensoring
FBI reports online crime losses double in 2009
Iain Thomson in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Saturday 13 March 2010 at 05:46:00Fraudsters stole half a billion dollars last yearFigures from the FBIs Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) show that the cost ofinternet fraud more
ICANN puts off .xxx decision
Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Saturday 13 March 2010 at 04:24:00Adult content domain proposal will not be decided until JuneThe Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has decidedto delay its decision
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Ogg Frog Magazine #6
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The Secret: A Review of Dulcinea Technologies Corporation's Debut Product
After weeks of e-mails and days of phone calls, yesterday I drove to San Jose for a demo of Michael David Crawfords secret project. Michael was eager to show off his work, but urged me not to share my interest
Cars, Value Engineering, and Bugs
Two trends in automotive development, value engineering and drive-by-wire have the potential to reduce driver safety. Toyotas recent travails provide some food for thought.
Hopeless romantic Chinese Ph.D candidate arrested
He did it for love and he is a model employee with his employer The Rutgers University according to his friends and colleagues And the TSA security officer that should have been stationed where the trespass occurred is on administrative
The Jarmidor, Part 3
Having discovered that Im not the only pipe-faggot on Kuro5hin I decided to see whether I could get my loose shag as moist as a 14 year old baptist girl at her first Jonas brothers concert. Unfortunately my girlfriend doesnt
15 Yards: The Unsportsmanlike Tax Evasion of the NFL
Superbowl XLIV approaches, pitting two potent offensive teams against one another. The inimitable Peyton Manning, this years winner of the National Football Leagues MVP award (his fourth, most of any player all time), will try to use his bottomless well
Obama The First Year
Hes accomplished quite a lot his first year. Heres my list of the most talked about on liberal blogs.
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When You Try To Figure Out Who Owns Imaginary 'Property,' Things Get Confusing Fast
Weve discussed in the past how copyright isnt really property at all, and trying to compare it to regular property leads to all sorts of confusing problems. Take, for example, this lawsuit, found via Michael Scott, over who owns the
Williams Sonoma Nastygrams Blogger Who Helps People Build Their Own Furniture
Brad Hubbard writes I regularly read a blog called Knock Off Wood -- a site where a woman teaches readers how to build various designer-looking pieces of furniture at home for a lot less. Its the best kind of maker
Google, Facebook Sued Because Without Some Random Patent No One Would Ever Access A Social Netw(...)
Wireless Ink was a company that I remember getting some buzz back in the 2005/2006 timeframe... and then they dropped completely off my radar. Honestly, I had thought they had gone out of business. So I was a bit surprised
Irony Alert: Hollywood Howard Berman To Introduce 'Internet Freedom' Bill
Earlier this year we noted this was likely, but now it appears that Rep. Howard Berman is getting ready to introduce an Internet Freedom Bill, that would limit how US companies could operate in internet-restricting countries. Now, weve already pointed
Viral Video Producers Want To Charge You To Embed Their Videos
You may have seen some of the rather popular videos by Common Craft, which has built a rather large following based on these videos about technology and social media using paper diagrams on whiteboards. What the videos are really good
Truncated RSS Is A Bad Business Decision
A few years back, I wrote about why we had found full text RSS feeds to be much more powerful and useful than truncated RSS feeds. The reason that many sites push truncated feeds is the belief that it will
Reuters Social Media Policy Gets It Half Right, Half Wrong
Just a couple of months ago, I wrote about something that I thought was really impressive by Thomson Reuters. A Reuters blogger wrote a blog post on his official Reuters blog questioning Reuters itself after rumors started spreading that the
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Russian University Aims to Have PetaFLOPS Supercomputer
Russian Parliament, Government Voy to Fund PetaFLOPS Supercomputer
AAA Game Titles Soon to Be Available on Mobile Phones - Epic Games
Best Game Titles Incoming to All Devices Near You, Says Epic Games
Fantastic 4: Four AMATech Coolers Reviewed
A new company, new coolers with catching names and attractive exterior, but pretty average cooling efficiency and no breakthroughs in the acoustic performance. Read more about these new interesting solutions in our roundup!
Intel Has a Luxury of Releasing Larrabee in Its Own time - Larrabee Engineer
Intels Larrabee Set to Come Back with a Vengeance
Court Puts on Hold Legal Battle Between Apple and Nokia
Court Will Only Hear Apple Vs. Nokia Case in 2012
Coolink Corator DS: Cooler with Gapless Direct Touch Technology
The new air cooler for CPUs proves remarkably efficient at a low level of noise and costs less than the renowned leaders in this field. Read more in our new review!
Smartbooks with Google Chrome Will Be More Expensive than Windows Netbooks - Analyst
Analyst Expects Google Chrome to Fail on the Market
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