Comment Re: Not Gonna Happen (Score 1) 168
Wait - who said anything about better pay? For hourly workers, this would be 8 less hours of work a week, or worse pay.
Comment Re:From a trickle to a flood (Score 1) 35
Rankings are not entirely based on self-reported data, and haven't been for quite some time.
Comment Re:Life Span versus longevity. (Score 1) 121
I believe this to be true; however, since more people now have the opportunity to live longer, is that larger population of older folks more likely to have some members that will live longer? IE a larger population size may experience more outliers?
Comment Sunshine is the most powerful disinfectant (Score 1) 26
Louis Brandeis (although there are earlier similar concepts, his made it gain wide popularity)
Comment Millions of Telegram posters make more than $1mm? (Score 1) 54
Cuz that's all this affect, right? I'm not a fan of Apple's paywall but this is a tough banner to raise - 'Fight for the millionaires!!'
Comment Slavery is not a peculiarly American institution (Score 1) 1342
It was practiced thousands of years before the US existed; and still exists in many places today.
Comment Re:Demand is Still Rising... (Score 1) 229
It's not even flat in the US. It's just that people are producing their own power and don't use the utilities. Bad submitter, bad!
Submission + - China's ZTE And Huawei Join The German Patent Fray (fosspatents.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Germany has pretty much become the new Eastern District of Texas, the world's most popular patent battleground. After Apple, Samsung and Motorola, the Chinese are now going to Germany as well to sort out their domestic patent squabbles. Huawei and ZTE, arguably the People's Republic's leading wireless tech companies, started suing each other in April last year. On Friday the Mannheim Regional Court held a Huawei vs. ZTE hearing, reports a local patent watcher. Huawei says ZTE infringes a 4G/LTE handover patent and wants its rival's base stations and USB modem sticks banned in Germany. More clashes between the two are coming up in the same court and in other places in Europe, including France.
Submission + - Researchers Convert Phones into Secret Listening Devices (darkreading.com)
CowboyRobot writes: "Columbia University grad student Ang Cui demonstrated how networked printers and phones can be abused by attackers. "The attack I demonstrated is caused by the multiple vulnerabilities within the syscall interface of the CNU [Cisco Native Unix] kernel," Cui tells Dark Reading. "It is caused by the lack of input validation at the syscall interface, which allows arbitrary modification of kernel memory from userland, as well as arbitrary code execution within the kernel. This, in turn, allows the attacker to become root, gain control over the DSP [Digital Signal Processor], buttons, and LEDs on the phone. The attack I demonstrated patches the existing kernel and DSP in order to carry out stealthy mic exfiltration.""
Submission + - Solar Impulse announces flight across America for next year (gizmag.com)
cylonlover writes: Flush with success from their 6,000-km (3,728-mile) Europe-to-Africa round-trip flight earlier this year, the duo behind the Solar Impulse solar-powered aircraft are now planning on flying it across America next spring. It will mark the first time that a solar-powered plane has traversed the country. Solar Impulse partners Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg made the official announcement this Tuesday, although the logistics of the flight have yet to be finalized. They have stated that the trip will be broken into 20-hour legs, starting at San Francisco and proceeding to New York City. As with their previous multi-leg flights, the two pilots will take turns flying the aircraft.
Comment HITECH law changes make Google a Covered Entity (Score 1) 98
And therefore covered by HIPAA.
802.11n Should Be Finalized By September 104
adeelarshad82 writes "It's probable that the 802.11n standard will finally be approved at a scheduled IEEE meeting this September, ending a contentious round of infighting that has delayed the standard for years. For the 802.11n standard, progress has been agonizingly slow, dating back almost five years to 2004, when 802.11g held sway. It struggled throughout 2005 and 2006, when members supposedly settled on the TGnSync standard, then formed the Enhanced Wireless Consortium in 2006 to speed the process along. A draft version of 802.11n was approved in January 2006, prompting the first wave of routers based on the so-called draft-n standard shortly thereafter."
Comment Re:What about those who were ahead on trades? (Score 2, Informative) 280
Not sure that we can gather much great information from a blog that links to a blog that links to another blog
Submission + - HTML V5 and XHTML V2
An anonymous reader writes: While the intention of both HTML V5 and XHTML V2 is to improve on the existing versions, the approaches the developers chose to make those improvements is very different. And with differing philosophies come distinct results. For the first time in many years, the direction of upcoming browser versions is uncertain. This article uncover the bigger picture behind the details of these two standards.
Submission + - Digg.com Attempts to Supress HD-DVD Revolt
fieryprophet writes: "An astonishing number of HD-DVD encryption key releated stories have gone MIA, in many cases along with the digger who submitted it. As a result, many in the digg community are becoming disillusioned with the "democratic" news site and retaliating in clever and inventive ways. Search digg for HD-DVD song lyrics, coffee mugs, shirts, and more for a taste of the rebellion."
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