Time for the latest instalment of “shit people are saying/guessing about the next Xbox console”! This week we have two reports, one from IGN and the other from Fudzilla. More »
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This is not a metaphorical view inside a nuclear reactor. This is for real-real.
This month, the good folks at TEPCO sent a remote-controlled endoscope and thermometer into the containment vessel of Fukishima’s crippled reactor #2, hoping to learn something about the level of cooling water, the state of the fuel rods, and the temperature in the reactor. The view is obscured by steam, the effects of radiation, and (are you sitting down) actual goddam gamma rays just whizzing by. According to the PBS Frontline blog, those are the little streaks and flashes that you see in this video.
The probe revealed corroded piping and dripping humidity, but did not reveal the water’s surface level, which TEPCO had expected to be as high as four meters. The containment vessel was flooded with seawater during the reactor meltdown when other attempts to cool it failed. Current water levels inside the reactor remain unknown.
The probe’s thermometer function proved more revealing; it recorded the interior temperature at 44.7 degrees centigrade (112 degrees Farenheit), demonstrating that the unit’s own thermometer, thought to be off by as many as 20 degrees, is still functioning accurately.
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It wasn’t long ago that wireless networking in Windows was a hodgepodge mess of vendor-specific drivers and apps all conspiring against Microsoft’s default interface. Windows 7 solved this in part by streamlining WiFi connectivity, but it appears once again that Microsoft wants to extend the idea to 3G and 4G networking in Windows 8 — with built-in data activation and usage tools to boot. So, if you’ve been longing to show VZAccess Manager the door, you’ll find more details in the source link below.
Microsoft outlines Windows 8 wireless improvements originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 24 Jan 2012 09:10:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
In July, we wrote about an ongoing case wherein a woman accused of fraud was being asked by the prosecution to provide the password to access her computer’s data, which otherwise would remain encrypted and unreadable, weakening their case. They got permission to compel her to reveal the password, but the defense said that it was unconstitutional to do so, as providing that information was essentially self-incriminating testimony.
The defense and the prosecution disagree, there is no single compelling precedent, and even the Supreme Court, which has weighed in on a similar topic, isn’t quite sure what to make of the situation. So, doing what Judges are made to do, Judge Robert Blackburn made a decision: “the Fifth Amendment is not implicated by requiring production of the unencrypted contents of the Toshiba Satellite M305 laptop computer.”
His opinion, which is embedded at the end of the post, is not a poorly informed or foolish one (like some inevitably are in tech), though it isn’t very transparent. One earlier decision in a child pornography case, though the situations are not particularly analogous, is more lucid and describes its reasoning in more detail, something that may be important in a potentially major precedent-setting case.
The interpretation he gives, notably, eschews analogies (the battle has been over whether providing the password is an expressive act or more akin to simply handing over a key) and sticks to what he feels are the more relevant legal realities: the location and nature of the data is known by the prosecution, the owner of the data and the laptop have also been established, and whatever documents are discovered will be authenticated not by the defendant’s production of the password but by other means. To him, it seems, everyone is arguing over the wrong aspects of the case. It’s a practical decision, but because it is so practical (and specific to this case), it probably won’t live long as a serious precedent.
The question everybody is asking is not whether Ramona Fricosu will be convicted of fraud, but how access to data should be considered in a courtroom. It’s long, long past time when this should have been settled definitively.
But the debate over whether access is “more like” one thing or another, over which there are precedents already, doesn’t seem very forward-thinking. This doesn’t seem like an issue that’s going to be settled by this kind of decision, unfortunately, because as the debate shows, nothing is really an adequate comparator for something like a password to an encrypted drive. The parallels are only superficial, and building legal precedent on superficial similarities just because it’s easier for some people to grasp is no way to build the future.
Unsurprisingly, Fricosu’s lawyers are fighting the decision, asking for a stay of execution on the order so they can take it to the next level, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals. No doubt the debate will go on for some time, but this case will certainly be considered one of the key documents.
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Federal Judge Rules You May Be Forced To Provide Decryption Password
Last week, the internet breathed a sigh of relief as the team at GreenPois0n finally released an untethered jailbreak for Mac users with an iPhone 4S or iPad 2 running iOS 5.0.1. Today, they quietly released a Windows version of GreenPois0n Absinthe, so PC users can get in on the fun too. Hit the link to download the tool, and see our always up-to-date guide for a full walkthrough on how to use it to jailbreak your device. [GreenPois0n] More »
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It looks like that redesign was worth it. The Google-owned video site has recently revealed that it’s now streaming 4 billion videos every day, up 25 percent on daily views from eight months earlier. According to Reuter‘s report, the site now has to deal with around 60 hours of uploaded video every minute. As long as those education videos are kept separate and the cat content keeps coming, we’ll be happy.
Update: Check out the official stats on Google’s YouTube blog post, in the video embedded after the break, or a site chock-full of relevant visualizations the company has put together at OneHourPerSecond.com
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It looks like that redesign was worth it. The Google-owned video site has recently revealed that it’s now streaming 4 billion videos every day, up 25 percent on daily views from eight months earlier. According to Reuter‘s report, the site now has to deal with around 60 hours of uploaded video every minute. As long as those education videos are kept separate and the cat content keeps coming, we’ll be happy.
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in February, President Obama surprised Steve Jobs with a question of what
it would take to make the iPhones in the United States, rather than China.
Jobs replied that the iPhone could never be made in the United States
… and no, it’s not because American labor costs (in fact, labor
cost is a tiny fraction of the cost of making an iPhone). It’s because
America simply doesn’t have the manufacturing might anymore:
“Apple’s an example of why it’s so hard to create
middle-class jobs in the U.S. now,” said Jared Bernstein, who
until last year was an economic adviser to the White House.“If it’s the pinnacle of capitalism, we should be worried.”
Apple executives say that going overseas, at this point, is their
only option. One former executive described how the company relied upon
a Chinese factory to revamp iPhone manufacturing just weeks before the
device was due on shelves. Apple had redesigned the iPhone’s screen
at the last minute, forcing an assembly line overhaul. New screens began
arriving at the plant near midnight.A foreman immediately roused 8,000 workers inside the company’s
dormitories, according to the executive. Each employee was given a biscuit
and a cup of tea, guided to a workstation and within half an hour started
a 12-hour shift fitting glass screens into beveled frames. Within 96
hours, the plant was producing over 10,000 iPhones a day.“The speed and flexibility is breathtaking,” the executive
said. “There’s no American plant that can match that.”
Charles Duhigg and Keith Bradsher wrote this intriguing article over
at The New York Times about the death of manufacturing and the disappearing
American middle class – if you read only one thing today, make it this
one: Link
| TLDR? Here it is in video
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Can America Make the iPhone? (Hint: It’s Not About The Labor Cost)
angry tapir writes “A Virginia judge has sentenced Matthew David Howard Smith, a founder of the NinjaVideo.net website, to 14 months in prison, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Friday. Smith was indicted along with four others late last year. The DOJ charged that they illegally provided copyright-protected movies and TV programs for download from the NinjaVideo.net website. The site operated from February 2008 until authorities shut it down in June 2010.”
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