Authored by: kg on Tuesday, January 29 2013 @ 02:27 AM EST |
Things must be really desperate in Redmond. I recently
received an email
from Windows Phone Insider. They linked a
video demonstrating how much better
the Nokia Lumea 920 is
at taking video. The odd thing about it is that they
compared it to a discontinued (!) 2 generation old HTC
Inspire 4G released
February 2011.
Now granted, Microsoft released the video last November.
But really? Comparing a current phone to a model almost 2
years old? I'd
expect better. It shouldn't be about the
upgrade path. Everyone expects
something better from a newer
phone. Is the Lumea really so bad that they don't
dare face
it off against a current model?
Link
to video
here --- IANAL
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, January 29 2013 @ 03:17 AM EST |
"We (the DNC) have relicensed the Democratic Party’s voter
registration application under a standard MIT license, and
accompanied the source code with an advisory notice regarding
the use of the software. I wanted to explain why we did this."
http://pauladamsmith.com/blog/2013/01/dnc_voter_reg_foss.html
Paul Smith is currently the Deputy Director of Technology at
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, January 29 2013 @ 07:26 AM EST |
Help Desk
Comic
Waynehttp://madhatter.ca
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Authored by: JamesK on Tuesday, January 29 2013 @ 10:03 AM EST |
As of Saturday, your options for owning an unlocked
phone become far more limited. You can ask your carrier to unlock it—and good
luck with that—or you can pay a premium to manufacturers like Apple or Google
for a new unlocked phone. You just can’t unlock your phone yourself—at least,
not legally. --- The following program contains immature subject
matter.
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Authored by: ankylosaurus on Tuesday, January 29 2013 @ 10:35 AM EST |
Interesting article:
How NewEgg crushed the shopping cart
patent and saved online retail
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, January 29 2013 @ 12:26 PM EST |
The manipulation flourished for years, even after bank supervisors
were made aware of the system’s flaws.
“We will never know the amounts of
money involved, but it has to be the biggest financial fraud of all time,” says
Adrian Blundell-Wignall, a special adviser to the secretary-general of the
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris. “Libor is the
basis for calculating practically every derivative known to
man.”
Liam Vaughan & Gavin Finch, Bloomberg[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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- Wrong link! - Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, January 29 2013 @ 01:15 PM EST
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Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Tuesday, January 29 2013 @ 03:36 PM EST |
Link
There is absolutely no doubt. It
becomes
very
obvious when they mess up, and ping and
dig work,
but http
traffic does not. Their filtering/
transparent http proxy software goes
braindead.
And when an ipv4 dnslookup returns an
ipv6 address,
there is
only one conclusion, they are
controlling your web
experience.
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Authored by: IMANAL_TOO on Tuesday, January 29 2013 @ 03:57 PM EST |
Nick Farrell of Fudzilla writes:
"It is starting to look more like hacker Aaron Swartz would be alive if it
had not been for the actions of Federal prosecutor Carmen Ortiz. Swartz killed
himself after the DoJ attempted to get him locked up for years for a trivial
case of hacking in which he took papers he was entitled to download. According
to the Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly State prosecutors who investigated Swartz
for hacking had planned to let him off with a stern warning. However federal
prosecutor Carmen Ortiz took the case over because she wanted to make an example
of the Internet activist."
Read more at
http://www.fudzilla.com/home/item/30291-swartz-would-be-alive-but-for-ortiz
That sounds bizarre.
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Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Tuesday, January 29 2013 @ 04:30 PM EST |
Link
DOH!
If you did not do this years ago,
you were not paying attention.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, January 29 2013 @ 10:00 PM EST |
Five years into the 21st century, the data reveal a surprisingly
high level of job segregation in which African-American men, white women and
especially African-American women only rarely worked in the same occupation in
the same workplace as white men. In order to create a completely integrated
private-sector workplace, more than half of all private sector workers would
need to change jobs.
In most workplaces, the face of authority looks
predictable. As the authors put it, “White men are often in positions in
management over everyone; white women tend to supervise other women, black men
to supervise black men and black women tend to supervise black women.”
While
overt discrimination based on race and sex is no longer culturally condoned,
both covert bias and institutional inertia perpetuate
inequality.
Nancy Folbre, New York
Times
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, January 29 2013 @ 11:58 PM EST |
I saw a report that Acer was the last major manufacturer to phase out production
of netbooks.
I'm not sure what is going on but 2 days ago I was in a local shop (sort of a
cross between a supermarket and a department store) and they have a computer
section. There were more 10 inch screen netbook form factor devices than
notebooks.
Offerings included Asus, Acer, HP, Toshiba, Samsung and Lenovo and 1 or more
lesser known brands. The Lenovo was labeled new; I don't know whether that meant
new model or new to the store. Most had an Intel Atom inside sticker.
They were priced between 200 and 300 USD.
Tablets are available but the iThings and Samsung offerings cost a lot more.
The cheaper 7 inch tablets are about the same price as the "dead"
netbooks and are no where near as convenient for activities that involve text
input; and higher education involves text input. (the bachelor level degrees
here seem to include a thesis)
In this country of 230 million plus with a growing economy and more and more
people looking for education I can't see the manufacturers abandoning the market
for something with a keyboard. Maybe some will but maybe some will be (or maybe
are) working on some way out from under MS's iron fist and stupid hardware
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