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Windows phone compared to two generation old HTC
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

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Democratic Party’s voter registration app is now free and open-source software
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
the Democratic National Committee.

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New Help Desk - Uptight Infinity Edition flashes its GUI
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, January 29 2013 @ 07:26 AM EST

Help Desk Comic

Wayne
http://madhatter.ca

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Phone unlocking ban could hit you in the wallet
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.

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How NewEgg beat a patent troll
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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Libor Lies Revealed in Rigging of $300,000,000,000,000 = The biggest financial fraud of all time
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

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  • Wrong link! - Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, January 29 2013 @ 01:15 PM EST
  • Try This - Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, January 29 2013 @ 01:51 PM EST
Sir Tim Berners-Lee on gov web spying
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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You are being MICROattacked, from various angles, in a SOFT manner.

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Farrell: "Swartz would be alive but for Ortiz "
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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Homeland Security: Disable UPnP
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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The Uneven Progress of Equal Opportunity
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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Death of the netbook?
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
limitations.

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