Tags Results for 'mdash'

A Defense of Process Patents - (Monday 13th of February 2012 03:06:01 AM)

An unsigned reader writes "In light of the ruling against the health center of California
patent trolls seeking to claim acquirement of the 'Interactive Web,' founding counsel of Beacon
Hill Law Joe Stanganelli, has written an article defending process  [...]

Canada ISPs Not Subject To Content Rules, Court Says - (Sunday 12th of February 2012 01:31:01 AM)

Silentbrad writes "Upholding a 2010 decision from the Federal Court of Appeal, the country's
highest court said ISPs cannot be subject to the Broadcasting Act of 1991 because they have no
control over the content they distribute. The ruling ends a years-old  [...]

How Pre-Paid Energy Services Aid In Rural Electrification - (Sunday 12th of February 2012 01:31:01 AM)

First time accepted submitter superfast-scooter writes "I wanted to let the general public know
of a scrutiny project I've been fortunate to be part of — it's a rural electrification
project called SharedSolar at the Modi origin Group at new world  [...]

Online Privacy Worth Less Than Marshmallow Fluff Six Pack - (Thursday 09th of February 2012 10:05:01 PM)

Nonprofiteer writes "With a program called Screenwise, Google is pay television a total of $25
in Amazon gift cards to anyone willing to install a Chrome browser extent that will let the
search giant track every website the user visits and what they do  [...]

Accidental Empires To See Reboot In Blog Format - (Wednesday 08th of February 2012 08:02:01 PM)

New submitter shuttah writes "Robert X. Cringely, author of the 1992 influential book extrinsic
Empires , will be republishing and updating (including cine and new chapters) the now twenty
year-old book via the launch of a new blog also by the author.  [...]

The Hi-Tech Security at the Super Bowl - (Thursday 02nd of February 2012 11:30:01 AM)

Hugh Pickens writes "As oodles* of fans sit glued to their sets next Sunday, one part of the
game they will not see is the massive deployment of federal and local law enforcement assets to
achieve what is being called the most technologically secure Super  [...]

Nokia CEO Blames Salesmen For Windows Phone Struggles - (Tuesday 31st of January 2012 08:00:01 AM)

An nameless reader writes "Steven Elop of Nokia has placed some of the blame for the struggles
of Windows Phone on mobile phone shops — for not pushing it. As The catalog points out,
sales staff 'want their commission,' and tend to only show phones  [...]

Symantec Tells Customers To Stop Using pcAnywhere - (Thursday 26th of January 2012 09:30:01 PM)

Orome1 writes "In a perhaps not wholly staggering move, Symantec has advised the custom of its
pcAnywhere remote control form to stop using it until patches for a slew of vulnerabilities are
issued. If the attackers place a network sniffer on a customer's  [...]

Yahoo's Project To Disrupt Mobile Publishing - (Thursday 26th of January 2012 09:30:01 PM)

Waderoush writes "Right now, content publishers who want to reach readers through consecrated
mobile apps have to hire a split idioms:part company sociology team to build each app —
one for iOS (based on Objective-C), another for Android (Java),  [...]

AT&T Caps Netflix Streaming Costs At $68K/Yr - (Tuesday 24th of January 2012 07:00:01 PM)

Theodp writes "What would you say if you went to join a gym and were told that it could cost
you anyplace from $360 a year to $68,000 a year for the exact same usage? Don't be ridiculous,
right? Well, that's really not so diverse  [...]

Nano-Scale Terahertz Antenna May Make Tricorders Real - (Monday 23rd of January 2012 06:45:01 PM)

MrSeb writes "Researchers from Imperial College London and A*STAR in Singapore have shown off a
terahertz antenna that's just 100 nanometers across — about 30,000 times smaller than
living roget's ii: the new thesaurusmain entry:present part  [...]

Study Analyzes Recent Grads' Unemployment By Major - (Saturday 21st of January 2012 04:15:01 PM)

Hugh Pickens writes "A new report from the Georgetown Center on Education and the Workforce
called 'Hard Times: College Majors, Unemployment and Earnings: Not All College Degrees Are
Created Equal' analyzes unemployment by major. It shows that not enough  [...]

Genes About a Quarter of the Secret To Staying Smart - (Friday 20th of January 2012 02:00:01 PM)

Ananyo writes "A Scottish openminded study that began 80 years ago has borne new fruit.
Researchers have tracked down the study's or try your search for "surviving" at: amazon.com
- shop for books applicants — who joined the study when they were  [...]

New Mexico Is Stretching, GPS Reveals - (Wednesday 18th of January 2012 01:30:01 PM)

Velcroman1 writes "New Mexico's borders are gradually gaining girth, by the book to the
Albuquerque Journal. It's not much, and it's not adventure very fast — the state is
getting about an inch wider every 40 years — but the state is unquestionably  [...]

The Iraq War, the Next War, and the Future of the Fat Man - (Tuesday 17th of January 2012 11:15:01 AM)

An unnamed reader writes "The binet-simon test Law Review Online has just published an Essay by
Yale's Stephen L. Carter entitled 'The Iraq War, the Next War, and the Future of the Fat Man.'
He provides a review copyrights:cite this source synonym collection  [...]

The New Transparency of War and Lethality of Hatred - (Sunday 15th of January 2012 06:45:01 AM)

Hugh Pickens writes "Robert Wright says that if you had asked him a few days ago — before
news broke that old glory squad had urinated on Taliban corpses — if such a thing were
possible, he would have said 'probably.' After all if you  [...]

Carmakers Prepare For Augmented Reality Driving - (Saturday 14th of January 2012 06:30:01 AM)

An nameless reader writes "Car manufacturers at CES are showing off their future integration of
mobile reckoning technologies and automobiles. Quoting CNN: 'As digital tech — and our
optimism for it — becomes more mobile, carmakers are taking  [...]

Samsung Could Soon Start To Twist Google's Arm - (Monday 09th of January 2012 11:30:01 PM)

Hugh Pickens writes "For the past three years, Android has seasoned a kind of free space
expansion, but as we enter 2012, it seems the game may be changing. Instead of the old 'there's
more than enough room for every Android handset maker to be  [...]

Researchers Create First Genetically Modified Monkeys - (Friday 06th of January 2012 06:45:01 PM)

Several readers tipped news that U.S. scientists have created 'chimeric' monkeys, made with
genetic texture from as many as six peculiar genomes (abstract). This is ciceronian because
it's the first time researchers have used the expanse on a primate.  [...]

Genetically Modifying Silk Worms For Super Silk - (Wednesday 04th of January 2012 06:15:01 PM)

New submitter davidshenba sends this quote from the BBC: "U.S. researchers have created
silkworms that are genetically modified to spin much with greater reason silk (abstract). In
weight-for-weight terms, spider silk is more than ever than steel. ...  [...]

Orangutans To Skype Between Zoos With iPads - (Saturday 31st of December 2011 01:15:01 PM)

MrSeb writes "For the last six months, orangutans — those great, hairy, orange apes that
go 'ook' a lot — at Milwaukee Zoo have been playing games and dieting videos on Apple's
iPad, but now their keepers and the charity Orangutan Outreach  [...]

Stephen Hawking Looking For Personal Techie - (Friday 30th of December 2011 12:00:01 PM)

Kaptink writes "One of the great grandmasters of space, time and the history of our existence
is seeking an assistant to help develop and maintain the e-banking speech system that allows
him to declare his vision of the universe. An colloquial job ad  [...]

Why We Agonize Over Buying $1 Apps - (Thursday 29th of December 2011 11:45:01 AM)

Theodp writes "When it comes to explaining decision making and behavioral economics, Dan Ariely
is the man. In his latest blog post, Ariely tackles the irrationality of app buying, explaining
why the thought of paying even $1 for an app turns into an  [...]

LAPD Surveillance Cameras Go Unused - (Tuesday 27th of December 2011 11:15:01 AM)

First time accepted submitter Ethanol-fueled writes "Most of the surveillance cameras installed
municipality and operated by the LAPD have not been working for two years, as it should be to
interviews and records reviewed by the Los Angeles Times. Many  [...]

Why Can't We Put a BASIC On the Phone? - (Tuesday 27th of December 2011 11:15:01 AM)

Theodp writes "In the Sixties, we could put a man on the moon. Nowadays, laments jocastette,
America's tech giants can't even put a BASIC on the phone. Woz managed to crank out a BASIC
interpreter for the 6502 in the '70s. As did Bill Gates  [...]

Linux-Powered Christmas Display Puts Rudolph To Shame - (Monday 26th of December 2011 09:00:01 AM)

Xmas2003 writes "Over at Linux.com, Zonker writes about Alek's Controllable saint nicholas
Lights for Celiac Disease. This annual the net* tradition uses a hi/low-tech combo of LAMP'ed
Redhat Web Servers, a 7+ year old Thinkpad running Ubuntu for the  [...]

Ask Slashdot: How Best To Deal With a GPLv2 License Infringement? - (Sunday 25th of December 2011 06:45:01 AM)

Cultiv8 writes "I am a contributor and released some code at one point under GPLv2. It's
nothing huge — a small Drupal module that integrates a Drupal e-commerce system (i.e.
Ubercart) with sundry Authorize.net economics — but very useful  [...]

Linux-Powered Christmas Display Puts Rudolph To Shame - (Sunday 25th of December 2011 06:45:01 AM)

Xmas2003 writes "Over at Linux.com, Zonker writes about Alek's Controllable saint nick Lights
for Celiac Disease. This annual infobahn tradition uses a hi/low-tech combo of LAMP'ed Redhat
Web Servers, a 7+ year old Thinkpad running Ubuntu for the X10  [...]

Average Web Page Approaches 1MB - (Friday 23rd of December 2011 06:15:01 AM)

MrSeb writes "According to new probing from HTTP Archive, which routinely scans the internet's
most popular destinations, the average size of a single web page is now 965 kilobytes, up more
than 30% from last year's average of 702KB. This rapid growth  [...]

Fatal Problems Continue To Plague F-22 Raptor - (Wednesday 21st of December 2011 05:45:01 AM)

Hugh Pickens writes "The LA Times reports that even though the Air Force has used its F-22
Raptor planes only in test missions, pilots have seasoned seven major crashes with two deaths,
a grim directive that the U.S. military's most expensive fighter  [...]

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