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Apple Voiding Smokers' Warranties?
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/N5g0j-EFzPM/Apple-Voiding-Smokers-Warranties
Mr2001 writes "Consumerist reports that Apple is refusing to work on computers that have been used in smoking households. 'The Apple store called and informed me that due to the computer having been used in a house where there was smoking, [the warranty has been voided] and they refuse to work on the machine "due to health risks of second hand smoke,"' wrote one customer. Another said, 'When I asked for an explanation, she said [the owner of the iMac is] a smoker and it's contaminated with cigarette smoke, which they consider a bio-hazard! I checked my Applecare warranty and it says nothing about not honoring warranties if the owner is a smoker.' Apple claims that honoring the warranty would be an OSHA violation. (Remember when they claimed enabling 802.11n for free would be a Sarbanes-Oxley violation?)"<p><a href="http://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/11/21/147253/Apple-Voiding-Smokers-Warranties?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/11/21/147253"></a></p><p><a href="http://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/11/21/147253/Apple-Voiding-Smokers-Warranties?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/gFPhB6oRRPU/Pittsburgh-To-Tax-Students
societyofrobots writes "Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl has proposed taxing college and professional students for the privilege of receiving an education in the city. The proposed tax will charge students in the city at a rate of 1% of their yearly tuition — which, at Carnegie Mellon, would mean roughly a $400 tax (PDF) on most students. As the tax proposal hit local media outlets this week, the mayor repeatedly emphasized the burden that college students have placed on city services, and the need for students to pay their 'fair share.'"<p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/11/21/1234231/Pittsburgh-To-Tax-Students?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/11/21/1234231"></a></p><p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/11/21/1234231/Pittsburgh-To-Tax-Students?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/6gS-jSS6PpA/Major-Electronics-Firms-Support-Ending-Use-of-Conflict-Minerals
tburton writes "The US House of Representatives yesterday released the Conflict Minerals Trade Act (HR 4128) to try and end the international trade of tungsten, tantalum and col-tan, the mining of which is accused of fueling violent rape and murder in eastern Congo. Since the very same minerals power the most popular consumer electronics from HP, Verizon, Nokia, RIM and Intel, the Information Technology Industry Council has quickly signed a statement of support. Advocacy groups are hopeful these commitments prove to be meaningful as consumers begin to question the end result of the supply chains powering their favorite gadget."<p><a href="http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/09/11/21/0417223/Major-Electronics-Firms-Support-Ending-Use-of-Conflict-Minerals?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/11/21/0417223"></a></p><p><a href="http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/09/11/21/0417223/Major-Electronics-Firms-Support-Ending-Use-of-Conflict-Minerals?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/BFfRT1dHLo0/Bing-Censoring-All-Simplified-Chinese-Language-Queries
boggis writes "Nicholas Kristof, a New York Times journalist, is calling for a boycott of Microsoft's Bing. They have censored search requests at the request of the Chinese Government (like certain others). The difference is that Bing has censored all searches done anywhere in simplified Chinese characters (the characters used in mainland China). This means that a Chinese speaker searching for Tiananmen anywhere in the world now gets the impression that it is just a lovely place to visit."<p><a href="http://search.slashdot.org/story/09/11/21/0158213/Bing-Censoring-All-Simplified-Chinese-Language-Queries?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/11/21/0158213"></a></p><p><a href="http://search.slashdot.org/story/09/11/21/0158213/Bing-Censoring-All-Simplified-Chinese-Language-Queries?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/z7ppVddn32w/Cyber-Attacks-On-US-Military-Jump-Sharply-In-2009
angry tapir writes "Cyber attacks on the US Department of Defense — many of them coming from China — have jumped sharply in 2009, a US congressional committee has reported. Citing data provided by the US Strategic Command, the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission said that there were 43,785 malicious cyber incidents targeting Defense systems in the first half of the year. That's a big jump. In all of 2008, there were 54,640 such incidents. If cyber attacks maintain this pace, the yearly increase will be around 60 percent. The full report (PDF) is available online."<p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/11/21/0238253/Cyber-Attacks-On-US-Military-Jump-Sharply-In-2009?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/11/21/0238253"></a></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/11/21/0238253/Cyber-Attacks-On-US-Military-Jump-Sharply-In-2009?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/ls_qtJaN13s/RFID-Fingerprints-To-Fight-Tag-Cloning
Bourdain writes with news out of the University of Arkansas, where researchers are looking for ways to combat counterfeit RFID tags. Passive tags typically wait for a reader to transmit a signal of the appropriate strength and frequency before sending their own transmission. The scientists found that the amount of power required to trigger this varies quite a bit from one tag to the next, especially when many different frequencies are sampled. This and other physical characteristics give the tag its own "fingerprint" that is independent of the signal information stored in its memory, which the researchers say will facilitate the detection of cloned tags.<p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/11/21/0354209/RFID-Fingerprints-To-Fight-Tag-Cloning?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/11/21/0354209"></a></p><p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/11/21/0354209/RFID-Fingerprints-To-Fight-Tag-Cloning?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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<a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/5ph9mdXVkfG0lVTZhp1xhFYuuCU/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/5ph9mdXVkfG0lVTZhp1xhFYuuCU/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/ls_qtJaN13s" height="1" width="1"/>Soulskill2009-11-21T05:00:00+00:00privacycloning-is-bad-haven't-you-seen-scifiyro4747,44,37,28,14,7,3http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/11/21/0354209/RFID-Fingerprints-To-Fight-Tag-Cloning?from=rssTry Out Chrome OS In a Virtual Machine
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/baR_ogeailQ/Try-Out-Chrome-OS-In-a-Virtual-Machine
itwbennett writes "Some very generous Alpha OS geeks have snagged the Chrome OS source code and compiled a version to share with the rest of us, writes blogger Peter Smith. 'The build comes in the form of a virtual machine, which means you'll need VMWare or VirtualBox running, and of course the image of Chrome OS itself. The folks at gdgt are distributing the latter, and they've set up a page with all the links you'll need. You'll need to create a gdgt account if you don't have one yet. The Chrome OS image is only a bit over 300 megs, so it's a fast download. If you need a little more handholding, TechCrunch has a step-by-step guide to getting Chrome OS installed and running using VirtualBox, and a Chrome OS torrent they link to.'"<p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/11/21/0022253/Try-Out-Chrome-OS-In-a-Virtual-Machine?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/11/21/0022253"></a></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/11/21/0022253/Try-Out-Chrome-OS-In-a-Virtual-Machine?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/K-OPPpQN8v4/iPhone-Game-Piracy-the-Rule-Rather-Than-the-Exception
An anonymous reader writes "Many game developers don't think of the iPhone as being a system which has extensive game piracy. But recent comments by developers and analysts have shown otherwise, and Gamasutra speaks to multiple parties to evaluate the size of the problem and whether there's anything that can be done about it. Quoting: 'Greg Yardley confirms that getting ripped off by pirates is the rule rather than the exception. Yardley is co-founder and CEO of Manhattan-based Pinch Media, a company that provides analytic software for iPhone games. ... "What we've determined is that over 60% of iPhone applications have definitively been pirated based on our checks," he reveals, "and the number is probably higher than that." While it's impossible to estimate how much money developers are losing, it involves more than the price of the game, he says. "What developers lose is not necessarily the sale," he explains, "because I don't believe pirates would have bought the game if they hadn't stolen it. But when there is a back-end infrastructure associated with a game, that is an ongoing incremental cost that becomes a straight loss for the developer."'"<p><a href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/11/21/0011222/iPhone-Game-Piracy-the-Rule-Rather-Than-the-Exception?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/11/21/0011222"></a></p><p><a href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/11/21/0011222/iPhone-Game-Piracy-the-Rule-Rather-Than-the-Exception?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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<a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/XKVuZKpcJmRTRi5nEb7SqwB0sk0/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/XKVuZKpcJmRTRi5nEb7SqwB0sk0/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/K-OPPpQN8v4" height="1" width="1"/>Soulskill2009-11-21T00:52:00+00:00cellphoneshey-some-people-can't-afford-that-99-centsgames196196,187,150,116,36,19,15http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/11/21/0011222/iPhone-Game-Piracy-the-Rule-Rather-Than-the-Exception?from=rssNew Microsoft Silverlight Features Have Windows Bias
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/D1ZWno177oI/New-Microsoft-Silverlight-Features-Have-Windows-Bias
An anonymous reader writes with this quote from a story at El Reg about an early look at the Silverlight 4 beta: "There are ... major changes to Silverlight's out-of-browser functionality, a loose equivalent to Adobe Systems' AIR runtime for Flash. Even when fully sandboxed, which means having the same permissions that would apply to a browser-hosted Silverlight applet, out-of-browser applications get an HTML control, custom window settings, and the ability to fire pop-up notifications. ... Unfortunately, some of these features are not what they first appear. The HTML control in Silverlight 4 is not a new embedded browser from Microsoft, but uses components from Internet Explorer on Windows, or Safari on the Mac, which means that the same content might render differently. The HTML control only works out-of-browser, and simply displays a blank space if browser-hosted. Clipboard support is text-only in the Silverlight 4 beta, though this could change for the full release. More seriously, COM automation is a Windows-only feature, introducing differentiation between the Mac and Windows implementations."<p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/11/20/2314220/New-Microsoft-Silverlight-Features-Have-Windows-Bias?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/11/20/2314220"></a></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/11/20/2314220/New-Microsoft-Silverlight-Features-Have-Windows-Bias?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/G5E_QK0duNc/How-Heavy-Is-the-Internet
An anonymous reader writes "Ever wondered how much the internet physically weighs? 498,438,559,990kg, according to CNET. To reach this figure, they added together public data on the weight of every computer, server and connecting cable. To this they added 6,075,000kg of iPhones, and over 6,800,000kg of Blackberries. Finally, they added the weight of 287,524 viruses and 85 billion+ webpages."<p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/11/20/170212/How-Heavy-Is-the-Internet?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/11/20/170212"></a></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/11/20/170212/How-Heavy-Is-the-Internet?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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<a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/hwxOiY0ylU4iNIYQ-VPj-NNTVFQ/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/hwxOiY0ylU4iNIYQ-VPj-NNTVFQ/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/G5E_QK0duNc" height="1" width="1"/>samzenpus2009-11-20T23:08:00+00:00internethe's-not-heavy-he's-my-routertechnology157157,154,113,80,14,10,8http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/11/20/170212/How-Heavy-Is-the-Internet?from=rssAnti-Smoking Vaccine Is Nearing the Market
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/H9FV5dQZklo/Anti-Smoking-Vaccine-Is-Nearing-the-Market
eldavojohn writes "Almost 6 years ago we discussed a vaccine to help people quit smoking as it entered human clinical trials. Now it looks like the finishing touches have been put on a deal that will go into effect once phase III testing of the drug now called NicVAX is completed. NicVAX was developed by Nabi Biopharmaceuticals, who have agreed to license it to GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals; it is expected to complete phase III testing successfully. Others have fallen short of this goal, in pursuit of a smoking-cessation market expected to hit $4.6 billion worldwide by 2016. Nabi has also sold an experimental vaccine for staph infections; and in 2008 we discussed news of a cocaine vaccine."<p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/20/1853204/Anti-Smoking-Vaccine-Is-Nearing-the-Market?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/11/20/1853204"></a></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/20/1853204/Anti-Smoking-Vaccine-Is-Nearing-the-Market?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/O1FlJ6ji2pQ/iPhone-Owners-Demand-To-See-Apple-Source-Code
CWmike writes "iPhone owners charging Apple and AT&T with breaking antitrust laws asked a federal judge this week to force Apple to hand over the iPhone source code, court documents show. The lawsuit, which was filed in October 2007, accuses Apple and AT&T of violating antitrust laws, including the Sherman Act, by agreeing to a multi-year deal that locks US iPhone owners into using the mobile carrier. On Wednesday, the plaintiffs asked US District Court Judge James Ware to compel Apple to produce the source code for the iPhone 1.1.1 software, an update that Apple issued in September 2007. The update crippled iPhones that had been unlocked, or 'jailbroken,' so that they could be used with mobile providers other than AT&T. The iPhone 1.1.1 'bricked' those first-generation iPhones that had been hacked, rendering them useless and wiping all personal data from the device. The plaintiffs say that the source code is necessary to determine whether all iPhones were given the same 1.1.1 update, and whether it was designed to brick all or just some hacked iPhones."<p><a href="http://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/11/20/2022250/iPhone-Owners-Demand-To-See-Apple-Source-Code?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/11/20/2022250"></a></p><p><a href="http://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/11/20/2022250/iPhone-Owners-Demand-To-See-Apple-Source-Code?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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feldhaus writes "The BBC reports that the first beams for over one year have been successfully sent around the complete circumference of the Large Hadron Collider. Engineers do not yet have a stable circulating beam but they hope to by 0600 GMT on Saturday."<p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/20/2123234/Proton-Beams-Sent-Around-the-LHC?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/11/20/2123234"></a></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/20/2123234/Proton-Beams-Sent-Around-the-LHC?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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Ricky writes "Many wonder why Microsoft doesn't offer nightly builds of Internet Explorer — or at least something more frequent than months-to-years. Ars talks with Microsoft's general manager for IE, who says the IE9 development cycle will look much the same as previous versions. Not a great idea."<p><a href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/09/11/20/1829216/Microsofts-Lack-of-Nightly-Builds-For-IE?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/11/20/1829216"></a></p><p><a href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/09/11/20/1829216/Microsofts-Lack-of-Nightly-Builds-For-IE?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/1md6anPHY2g/Some-Claim-Android-App-Store-Worse-Than-iPhones
eldavojohn writes "If you think the iPhone app store is the only mobile game store suffering an exodus, some game publishers claim Android's app store isn't much better, for a different reason — it doesn't generate much revenue. In fact, French game developer Gameloft (which owes 13% of its profits to iPhone game sales), said, 'We have significantly cut our investment in Android platform, just like... many others. It is not as neatly done as on the iPhone. Google has not been very good to entice customers to actually buy products. On Android nobody is making significant revenue. We are selling 400 times more games on iPhone than on Android.' So the trade-off seems to be more sales but an annoying approval process, versus a lack of sales promotions and no annoyance around approval. It seems that those in it for money will opt for iPhone, and those in it for distribution will opt for Android. Or maybe someone will get it right one of these days?"<p><a href="http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/09/11/20/1558259/Some-Claim-Android-App-Store-Worse-Than-iPhones?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/11/20/1558259"></a></p><p><a href="http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/09/11/20/1558259/Some-Claim-Android-App-Store-Worse-Than-iPhones?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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