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Authored by: DannyB on Friday, April 26 2013 @ 01:03 PM EDT |
unXis changes its legal name in Delaware registry to Xinuos, Inc.
So goes the musical chairs renaming game.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, April 26 2013 @ 05:47 PM EDT |
"Salesforce.com, a pillow manufacturer and an employee of
the pillow maker
are caught up in a complex three-way legal
battle, with a US$125,000
American Express bill and an
allegedly failed software implementation at the
center of the
dispute." link
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, April 26 2013 @ 06:05 PM EDT |
Interesting article by Cringely, referring to a video, Education and Immigration Reform: Reigniting American
Competitiveness and Economic Opportunity (transcript), featuring Microsoft's Brad Smith
talking about hiring problems in the US and influencing STEM education in
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, April 26 2013 @ 06:43 PM EDT |
`Glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup®, is the
most popular
herbicide used worldwide. The industry asserts
it is minimally toxic to humans,
but here we argue
otherwise. Residues are found in the main foods of the
Western diet, comprised primarily of sugar, corn, soy and
wheat. Glyphosate's
inhibition of cytochrome P450 (CYP)
enzymes is an overlooked component of its
toxicity to
mammals. CYP enzymes play crucial roles in biology, one of
which
is to detoxify xenobiotics. Thus, glyphosate enhances
the damaging effects of
other food borne chemical residues
and environmental toxins. Negative impact on
the body is
insidious and manifests slowly over time as inflammation
damages
cellular systems throughout the body.'
`Here, we show how
interference with CYP enzymes acts
synergistically with disruption of the
biosynthesis of
aromatic amino acids by gut bacteria, as well as impairment
in
serum sulfate transport. Consequences are most of the
diseases and conditions
associated with a Western diet,
which include gastrointestinal disorders,
obesity, diabetes,
heart disease, depression, autism, infertility, cancer and
Alzheimer’s disease. We explain the documented effects of
glyphosate and its
ability to induce disease, and we show
that glyphosate is the “textbook
example” of exogenous
semiotic entropy: the disruption of homeostasis by
environmental toxins.' link[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, April 26 2013 @ 06:57 PM EDT |
"Wednesday will be the third anniversary of the biggest
corporate tax break
in Washington State history. On April
10, 2010, the Legislature changed the
definition of the
state’s royalty tax and effectively granted amnesty to
Microsoft, helping the company lock up $1.51 billion in
savings from its
thirteen-year Nevada tax dodge."
"The changes were led by Rep.
Ross Hunter, Chair of the
Finance Committee and a 17 year ex-Microsoft veteran.
If you
include the impact of the company’s 1997 lobbying to cut the
royalty
tax rate by 2/3, Microsoft’s Nevada accounting has
saved the company more than
$4.37 billion."
"Coincidentally, Washington State has had to
cut $4
billion from K-12 and Higher Education in the last five
years."
link
What happens when
you put Microsoft managers in charge
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, April 26 2013 @ 07:42 PM EDT |
After three bad experiences with tablets I am looking again for a 7 inch
tablet.
My first, a Cruz, was replaced by retailer when I queried the battery seeming to
go flat unexpectedly. I just wanted to know what would happen if the battery
packed up soon after the warranty ended. It had a 800x480 screen, Android 2.0
with "do it yourself" update to 2.2. I had no other problems with it.
They gave a full refund against a new "better" house brand tablet with
Android 4.0 and a 1024x600? screen.
Big mistake.
The first after less than 2 months went "POP" and a 1/3 full battery
was dead flat. When recharged (with care to ensure it didn't catch fire) it had
also lost the internal system memory and wouldn't install most apps. It's
battery life was shorter than the Cruz and the wide screen was not very good for
reading ebooks which was one of main requirements. It wouldn't write to the ext
card which was annoying. Replaced without problem.
The second had even shorter battery life, under 2 hours use and sometimes about
a day standby. Still using Android 4.0 but a slightly later build it would write
to ext sd card. However the key board process stopped running several times and
required a full reboot to restart. Often when restarting after charging it also
had another process "media" that stopped, I didn't know what it was
for so just killed it. Often after restarting the wifi would not start either.
The wi-fi would also stop and then restart for no reason. I was having it on
the charger more than off, no use as a portable device. It has now been fully
refunded.
My needs are for reading ebooks, a bit of browsing and it would be nice to be
able to write to ext sd card (some versions of android don't). Long battery life
both on standby and in use and 7 inch screen but not wide screen shape. Not
really interested in having a camera and don't need ability for 3G.
I have "choice?" locally (New Zealand) of Acer B1-A17 (8Gb) or Asus
ME172V (16Gb) both with 1024x600 screen about the price of preceding tablets or
buy from the auction site something about the same specification with unknown
name but half the price. Or do I build my own with a 7 inch touch screen, stick
a RaspPi A (or similar with lower power use) on to the back, attach a couple of
lithium batteries and plug in a usb wifi dongle.
It would not look as good but would be repairable and run Linux rather than
Android which would have advantages. Not cost to much either.
What are the implications of single/double/quad core on tablet battery life?
Similarly with memory 256Mb/512Mb/1Gb?
16Gb built in storage would be luxury, 8 Gb of storage would be good but 4Gb
would not be a problem. I have 16Gb SD/microSD cards for more storage. Does the
storage effect battery life also?
What resolution is best for battery life? Capacitive sensing is essential as far
as I can tell. But what is difference between ISP and TN? Or other types? Is a
820x480 that disastrous? The 1024x600 is not very good for reading ebooks.
I see reviews that slate things for not having the best screen resolution but is
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, April 26 2013 @ 08:17 PM EDT |
"A federal court in Houston has rejected an FBI request
for a warrant to
hack into the computer of a suspect in an
attempted cyberheist .. The FBI in
March sought a warrant to
search a computer situated at a location unknown to
them and
belonging to an unknown suspect. In its request, the FBI
sought a
warrant that would allow investigators to
surreptitiously install software
capable of extracting
information from the target computer, identify its
location
and also take photos of those who used the system."
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, April 27 2013 @ 05:05 PM EDT |
A home science experiment that probed billions of Internet devices reveals that
thousands of industrial and business systems offer remote access to anyone.
What Happened When One Man Pinged the Whole
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- Let me guess - Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, April 28 2013 @ 11:27 AM EDT
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Authored by: SilverWave on Sunday, April 28 2013 @ 12:09 AM EDT |
The Dell Buyout:
Storm Warning for the Tech
Industry --- RMS: The 4 Freedoms
0 run the program for any purpose
1 study the source code and change it
2 make copies and distribute them
3 publish modified versions
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, April 28 2013 @ 07:01 AM EDT |
Here's my review after having Google Glass for
two weeks:
1. I
will never live a day of my life from now on without it
(or a competitor). It's
that significant.
2. The success of this totally depends on price. Each
audience I asked at the end of my presentations "who would
buy this?" As the
price got down to $200 literally every
hand went up. At $500 a few
hands went up. This was
consistent, whether talking with students, or more
mainstream, older audiences.
3. Nearly everyone had an emotional outburst
of "wow" or
"amazing" or "that's crazy" or "stunning."
4. At NextWeb 50
people surrounded me and wouldn't let me
leave until they had a chance at
trying them. I haven't seen
that kind of product angst at a conference for a
while. This
happened to me all week long, it is just crazy.
5. Most of the
privacy concerns I had before coming to
Germany just didn't show up. I was
shocked by how few
negative reactions I got (only one, where an audience member
said he wouldn't talk to me with them on). Funny, someone
asked me to try them
in a bathroom (I had them aimed up at
that time and refused).
6. There is a
total generational gap that I found. The older
people said they would use them,
probably, but were far more
skeptical, or, at minimum, less passionate about
the fact
that these are the future, than the 13-21-year-olds I
met.
https://plus.google.com/+Scobleizer/posts/ZLV9GdmkRzS[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, April 28 2013 @ 08:13 AM EDT |
"Earlier this month Finland’s largest ever Internet
piracy case ended with
four men being found guilty of
copyright infringement and two being exonerated.
The case
involved a so-called ‘topsite’ called Angel Falls and had an
interesting twist.
During the trial it was revealed that evidence
gathered by a
local anti-piracy group and the IFPI was also handed to a
“senior MPAA executive” who tampered with the evidence
before handing it to
the police." link[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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- MPAA punishment? - Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, April 28 2013 @ 12:17 PM EDT
- MPAA punishment? - Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, April 28 2013 @ 04:44 PM EDT
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, April 28 2013 @ 12:20 PM EDT |
Microsoft with their operating system pricing is suffering for the same thing
that occurred decades earlier with IBM main-frame pricing. When a company
develops something and then needs to set a per-unit price, they divide the
development cost based on an estimated number of units.
For one of the first IBM mainframes, IBM thought that the world-wide demand
would be about 50 computers. They then based the pricing on selling 50 units
and when they sold 500, they got the idea that this situation would last
forever. Of course, AmDahl, DEC and other companies came alone and eventually
took over a significant share of the market (I'd say that this time line is
somewhere around 25-30 years due to IBM defensive tactics).
MS priced MS-DOS (and its variants) based on a number of units that was vastly
below the actual market, got huge profits, and then made the assumption that
this could be sustained indefinitely. Why is the per-machine licensing for
windows-8 almost the same as the per-machine cost for windows 3.1.1 despite
having hundreds as many machines and most likely have smaller development cost.
I'd say the fat end of this MS curve started around 1988, 1990 or so , and so
far MS has been winning the desktop OS war using the available tools (forcing
OEMs to license windows for every machine, using the patent system, FUD tactics
against DR-DOS, OS/2 , etc). MS has built their internal economy based on the
idea that the O/S will generate significant profits and is going to have a rude
awaking when a "free" O/S takes over the personal computer. I do not
know if it will be a few years or longer, but I would guess that the 2020
ms-corp will have vastly smaller profits with the windows O/S being a much
smaller percentage of the total.
With the patent wars, we are seeing MS attempt to protect their turf as long as
possible, they will eventually lose, but it will be ugly for the next few years.
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- A-hem... - Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, April 28 2013 @ 11:01 PM EDT
- A-hem... - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 29 2013 @ 08:26 AM EDT
- That's because.. - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 29 2013 @ 08:41 AM EDT
- Replacing Ballmer - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 29 2013 @ 12:44 PM EDT
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, April 28 2013 @ 06:34 PM EDT |
An otherwise bland
video interview from cnn, until the question at 3'45". Watch the
reporter's slack jawed disbelief as
SANS' Alan Paller states the
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Authored by: hAckz0r on Monday, April 29 2013 @ 11:59 AM EDT |
Tell EPC Member States: Don't Let
Monsanto Buy Up Mother Earth!
Monsanto isn't satisfied with just
selling us herbicides and pesticides for coating our crops. Now they're using a
European legal loophole to patent away varieties of cucumber, broccoli, melons
and conventional ways of breeding fruits and veggies abroad -- forcing growers
to pay them for the very seeds they're planting!
--- The
Investors IP Law: The future health of a Corporation is measured as the inverse
of the number of IP lawsuits they are currently litigating. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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