"Transparent and accurate billing is a top priority for AT&T. In fact, we've created tools that let our customers check their voice and data usage at any time during their billing cycle to help eliminate bill surprises. We have only recently learned of the complaint, but I can tell you that we intend to defend ourselves vigorously."Via Electronista
The company expects to begin delivering the updated version of the chipset to customers in late February and expects full volume recovery in April. Intel stands behind its products and is committed to product quality. For computer makers and other Intel customers that have bought potentially affected chipsets or systems, Intel will work with its OEM partners to accept the return of the affected chipsets, and plans to support modifications or replacements needed on motherboards or systems. The systems with the affected support chips have only been shipping since January 9th and the company believes that relatively few consumers are impacted by this issue.While few end users may be impacted by the flawed chipset, it's clear that this will impact Intel financials, but Intel believes it will not materially affect overall 2011 earnings. The company did note that the problem will cut revenue by $300 million in the first quarter. At the time of this writing, Intel stock is down about 1.16 percent to $21.21, down about $0.25.
"Ambam's father Bitam used to display the same behaviour if he had handfuls of food to carry. Ambam also has a full sister, Tamba, and a half sister at Howletts, who also sometimes stand and walk in the same way. All gorillas can do it to some extent but we haven't got any who do it like Ambam and he is quite a celebrity at the park.Although the behavior is not all that unusual, the video has drawn attention to The Aspinall Foundation. Western Lowland Gorillas are critically endangered, and the Aspinali Foundation requests that those interested adopt one of them, or any of a number of other animals, here.
We think he might use it to get a height advantage to look over the wall when keepers come to feed him and standing up can also help him in looking for food generally in his enclosure as it gives him a better vantage point. Ambam can also carry a lot more food if he stands and uses both hands and walking on two feet also means he doesn't get his hands wet when it is raining!"
What is not working... pretty much everything else, no accelerometer, no wlan, no sound. Haven't started working on those things yet.Via: Engadget, XDA-Developers
I get a tatt every time I come to Hawaii. I think this one is pretty sweet, unless facebook shuts down soon 0_o http://plixi.com/p/72961385It's not likely that Facebook will shut down, except in the form of random Internet rumors. Thus, T-Pain is pretty safe.
“Changing technology and how guests access entertainment has reduced the revenue hotels and their owners derive from in-room movies, including adult content.”It isn't just about porn, either. The ability to carry media-playing mobile devices means that many simply load up their devices prior to a trip, or stream it from Netflix and other vendors. Recently, in fact, USA Today reported that hotel-room movie provider LodgeNet, whose clients include Marriott and Hilton, showed a 19 percent drop in its guest-entertainment revenue from 2008 to 2009.
"Marriott sees porn as a rapidly declining source of income, so they [figure they] might as well get ahead of the competition and make this a good PR message."There's another reason, besides the reason to get free wi-fi in many hotel rooms, and the technology they carry: online porn is not censored as hotel room porn is. As Quentin Boyer, spokesman for the adult entertainment studio Pink Visual said,
“It’s also true that in many hotels the adult fare is highly edited and censored, while online content generally — well — isn’t.It's also true that despite Apple CEO Steve Jobs' assertions, the iPad is not absent from porn-viewing devices. It's easy to load videos on the device, and also to browse the Internet for porn, despite Jobs' claims.
“My legislation would provide a mechanism for the government to work with the private sector in the event of a true cyber emergency. It would give our nation the best tools available to swiftly respond to a significant threat.”There has been rampant speculation that the U.S. could already do the sort of disabling of the Internet that Egypt has done, but those thinking along those lines have to remember the scale differences between the two countries. ISPs in the U.S. are not restricted to just a few, as in Egypt. On the other hand, the sort of "kill switch" being mentioned in the legislation will make it far easier to close down the Internet in the event of a cascading cyber-attack.
"No amount of tightening of what constitutes 'critical infrastructure' will prevent abuse without meaningful judicial review. Blocking judicial review of this key question essentially says that the rule of law goes out the window if and when a major crisis occurs."It is an interesting statement, as many said the rule of law went out the window once 9/11 occurred, with the passing of the Patriot Act and events such as Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo.
The Internet is vital to free speech and free inquiry, and Americans rely on it every day to access and to convey information. Any cybersecurity action the government requires that would infringe on these rights of free speech and free inquiry must meet a traditional First Amendment strict scrutiny test: (i) the action must further a compelling governmental interest; (ii) it must be narrowly tailored to advance that interest; and (iii) it must be the least restrictive means of achieving that interest. Finally, the bill should also be amended to require an independent assessment of the effect on free speech, privacy and other civil liberties of the measures undertaken to respond to each emergency the President declares. It is imperative that cybersecurity legislation not erode our rights.Among those who signed the letter are the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the ACLU, Center for Democracy & Technology, Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, and the American Library Association.
"They told me it was a gun and that I was not allowed to take it on the plane. I showed them politely that it had no moveable parts and no hole down the gun barrel. But they kept saying it was a gun.”The figure was an expensive one, about $300. Since the figure would not be complete without the gun, she was told she could remove the "firearm" and mail it to herself.
“It’s excessive. Maybe there’s a laser from this toy that’s going to kill you too. The British are usually better than that. It’s the kind of thing you expect to happen in U.S. and Canada. We’ve thrown billions at airport security without making any noticeable difference.”The good thing is that Lloyd was able to give her husband the figure at the occasion of his retirement ceremony, last summer.
A tracker/site of a large scale such as this, needs to close registration for periods of time. The only way to register while registration is closed, is to be invited.To register, go to http://www.demonoid.me/register.php.
After more than ten days of intensive investigation and study, Facebook's security team realized something very, very bad was going on. The country's Internet service providers were running a malicious piece of code that was recording users' login information when they went to sites like Facebook.Basically, the ISPs were sucking in user data by an ISP level keylogger. Rather than having the keylogger installed on an individual machine, they were logging requests over the Internet. So Sullivan devised a two-step solution to the problem. These same changes were eventually rolled out to the rest of Facebook, this week in fact. Here's what Sullivan's team did, and eventually pushed out to the entirety of Facebook:
By January 5, it was clear that an entire country's worth of passwords were in the process of being stolen right in the midst of the greatest political upheaval in two decades. (Facebook's Chief Security Officer Joe) Sullivan and his team decided they needed a country-level solution -- and fast.
Sullivan's team rapidly coded a two-step response to the problem. First, all Tunisian requests for Facebook were routed to an https server. The Https protocol encrypts the information you send across it, so it's not susceptible to the keylogging strategy employed by the Tunisian ISPs.In the end, Facebook's security team ended up securing the passwords of most of their users in Tunisia. As criticized as some of its security FUBARs and privacy SNAFUs have been, Facebook was the hero, this time.
The second technical solution they implemented was a "roadblock" for anyone who had logged out and then back in during the time when the malicious code was running. Like Facebook's version of a "mother's maiden name" question to get access to your old password, it asks you to identify your friends in photos to complete an account login.
A Taste of What’s New from AndroidIs it war, as TechCrunch claims? We think it's already been war. In this case, as Googler Andrew Kovacs Tweeted, "actually sometimes a coincidence is just that."
You’re invited to an Android event at Google headquarters in Mountain View on Wednesday, February 2. Please join us for an in-depth look at Honeycomb, Android ecosystem news and hands-on demos.
In Angry Birds Rio, the original Angry Birds are kidnapped and taken to the magical city of Rio, where they eventually escape their captors and set out to to save their friends, Blu and Jewel – two rare macaws and the stars of the upcoming Fox motion picture, Rio. Angry Birds Rio will pair the physics-based gameplay of the original game with unique twists based on the highly-anticipated film.Angry Birds Rio will launch with 45 levels. More levels will be added later via app updates.
“What we’re doing is we’re building out the Angry Birds world. Pac-Man is only one game. Mario is a better benchmark.”Rovio recently announced plans for an Angry Birds animated series. Late last year they even created a line of plush toys.
Boeing-owned, California-based company Narus sold Telecom Egypt, the state-run Internet service provider, “real-time traffic intelligence” equipment, more commonly known as Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) technology. DPI is content-filtering technology that allows network managers to inspect, track and target content from Internet users and mobile phones as it passes through routers on the Web.Some are directly linking Narus to the takedown of the Internet in Egypt, but this technology is not related to that. Instead, this technology allows Egypt to closely monitor traffic which could mean the government can track the activities, emails, and more from anyone it wants to.
The company is also known for creating "NarusInsight," a supercomputer system allegedly used by the National Security Agency and other entities to perform mass surveillance and monitoring of public and corporate Internet communications in real time.
“What we are seeing in Egypt is a frightening example of how the power of technology can be abused. Commercial operators trafficking in Deep Packet Inspection technology to violate Internet users’ privacy is bad enough; in government hands, that same invasion of privacy can quickly lead to stark human rights violations.Might we worry about this in America? Readers, what do you think?
“Companies that profit from sales of this technology need to be held to a higher standard. The same technology U.S. and European companies want to use to monitor and monetize their customers’ online activities is being used by regimes in Iran, China, Burma and others for far more suspicious, and possibly brutal, purposes.
“The harm to democracy and the power to control the Internet are so disturbing that the threshold for the global trafficking in DPI must be set very high. That’s why, before DPI becomes more widely used around the world and at home, Congress must establish legitimate standards for preventing the use of such control and surveillance technologies as means to violate human rights.”
Want to know why AT&T isn't afraid of losing tons of its customers to the Verizon iPhone? One possible reason is that 90 percent of AT&T's iPhone customers remain under contract.
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With just 4 months of data, it's clear that the iPhone 4 is significantly more prone to physical damage than its predecessor. The aluminosilicate glass seem to crack at least as often as the old glass, and there is now twice as much surface area to break.Meanwhile, earlier that same month, a report on what was called "Glassgate" was issued. It said that because of the iPhone's glass back, cases that slide onto the device could trap particulate matter, scratching the back and eventually leading to a cracked back.