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In-Store iPhone Shenanigans Land Teens in Hot Water

Four California teens say they were detained and photographed at an Apple store after they tried to download third-party software into one of the iPhones on display. They said they were under the impression that they'd been banished from all Apple stores, but the company denies that they've been blacklisted.

When Robots Live Among Us

When Josh Bongard’s creatures come to life —he must first turn them on—it is obvious that they know nothing about the world. They thrash and fling themselves around, discovering not that they have bodies but that bodies exist, not that they can move but that motion is possible. Gradually they grow more certain—more conscious, you might say. As they do, you sense, coming from somewhere deep inside, a note of triumph like a toddler’s first step.

Dinosaur tracks found on Arabian Peninsula

Scientists say they have found dinosaur tracks on the Arabian Peninsula, a discovery they say may shed more light on where dinosaurs lived, their migration patterns and how they evolved they way they did.

Dinosaur tracks found on Arabian Peninsula

Scientists say they have found dinosaur tracks on the Arabian Peninsula, a discovery they say may shed more light on where dinosaurs lived, their migration patterns and how they evolved they way they did.

Dinosaur tracks found on Arabian Peninsula

ATHENS, Ohio - Scientists say they have found dinosaur tracks on the Arabian Peninsula, a discovery they say may shed more light on where dinosaurs lived, their migration patterns and how they evolved they way they did.

Dinosaur Tracks Found On Arabian Peninsula

(AP) Scientists say they have found dinosaur tracks on the Arabian Peninsula, a discovery they say may shed more light on where dinosaurs lived, their migration patterns and how they evolved they way they did.

Dinosaur tracks found on Arabian Peninsula

ATHENS, Ohio (AP) -- Scientists say they have found dinosaur tracks on the Arabian Peninsula, a discovery they say may shed more light on where dinosaurs lived, their migration patterns and how they evolved they way they did.

GNOME in the Age of Decadence

IconThe KDE project saw the writing on the wall. They saw that they had reached a certain limit when it came to what could be done with the KDE 3.x series - they named it the "big friggin' wall", and decided that in order to get over that wall, incremental updates wouldn't do - they needed massive changes, a big jump, and they went for it. It's been a rough road, but it seems as if KDE 4.1 is showing signs of the vision becoming a reality. And it now seems as if several people within the GNOME community are seeing the writing on the wall too: GNOME 2.x has reached its goal - now what?

Multi-page PDF To Multi-page TIFF and Archiving?

GeorgeMonroy writes "One of my clients has aperture cards that they have been scanning into multi-page PDF files — but now they want them in multi-page TIFFs instead. One of the reasons they gave for this is that TIFF files require less storage space. While that is true, I wonder if TIFF is the best format going into the future. Are TIFFs better than PDFs for future use? I wonder what format you think would last longer. Are there any other formats that you think would be better or more future-proof? To me, storage is not a good enough reason to go to TIFF, because storage prices are always dropping anyway. Also, since they already have many of these files in PDF format and they want to convert them into multipage TIFFs, are there any programs that you can recommend that will perform batch processing of files so that we do not have to co

Records don't awe ageless Jayasuriya

The beauty about Sanath Jayasuriya, Virender Sehwag and Adam Gilchrist is that there are certain records they are the most likely to set - and they don't give a damn about it. For them the journey is the thing. They can't bear to take the joy out of their batting just because they are close to a record - in that sense, they derive a Keith Miller-like sense of pleasure from their cricket.

AOL Users Will Need to Pay $2 a Month For Phone Support

destinyland writes "8.7 million AOL subscribers face a new 20% fee increase next month — unless they agree to never call AOL's technical support lines. They'll have to use AOL chat for support or the online help "portal" unless their issue is a failed connection — and they're being enrolled in the program by default unless they opt out. Ominously, AOL used the exact same wording as when they quietly changed their terms of service to allow them to sell subscribers' home phone numbers to telemarketers. 'Your continued subscription to the AOL service constitutes your acceptance of this change.'"

Of Mice and Methylation

Eric Lander's group has a new paper in the advance online section of Nature in which they describe how they used high-throughput reduced representation bisulphite sequencing coupled with single-molecule-based sequencing to generate DNA methylation maps from mouse primary tissues, including embryonic stem cells, embryonic-stem-cell-derived, and primary neural cells. They found that methylation patterns correlate with histone methylation patterns rather than with the genome sequence. They also say that CpG methylation is dynamic and that weak CpG islands associated with certain development genes undergo hypermethylation in vitro in a pattern they say is similar to what occurs in tumors.

Bankruptcy and car repossession

My daughter and son-in-law made a mistake by purchasing a financed vehicle with a HUGE interest rate. They are struggling financially and cannot afford the payment. They have been "robbing Peter to pay Paul" and it has caught up with them. The finance company is threatening repossession and they are on the verge of bankruptcy. If the vehicle is repossessed, are they still responsible for the outstanding debt if they are in bankruptcy?

Fair Trade Coffee & Open Source Java

"When Starbucks grew from regional powerhouse to cultural phenomenon, there was one small problem: the coffee they sold did not jive with their brand. So much so that in 2000 they printed millions of pamphlets in the US explaining why it was that even though they really, really wanted to sell organic, shade-grown, fairly traded coffee, that due to lack of adequate supply, customers should be delighted that they were at least committed to finding a way to sell some fairly traded coffee somehow. Over time, Starbucks has offered more and wider varieties of fairly traded coffee, and while many fair trade NGOs continue to complain that Starbucks is not all the way there, they appear to be making progress (not without some back-and-forth). And as a customer who prefers Starbucks when traveling (quad grande latte, thanks) and who also feels stro

Career Opportunities: How I Got My Job

In our July issue, PDN talks to over 20 professionals anonymously who work in the photography industry (but don't take pictures) about the things they like about their jobs, the things they aren't crazy about and, most intriguingly, what they earn in salary and other perks. Here six of those photo professionals talk about their career path and how they ending up doing what they do now.

Adobe Photoshop Elements 6

The affordability of digital cameras and SD cards and widespread distribution of tutorials and techniques of photography have transformed many crowds of consumers into amateur digital photographers. They buy 16GB SDHC cards to store the memories. They read the tutorials and techniques for taking good pictures. And they know that post-processing matters in photography. Sadly, they also realize that learning how to use a full blown version of Adobe Photoshop would take up a lot of their time and resources just for a few features that they'd probably need. Not to mention that the professional Adobe Photoshop version, in terms of costs, is out of range of most consumers. Adobe actually saw this trend and created a product just for the amateur photographers: I'm talking about Adobe Photoshop Elements -- for simplicity in use and attractive pri

EU Proposes Retroactive Copyright Extension

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "EU Commissioner Charlie McCreevy has unveiled a plan to retroactively extend musical copyrights by 45 years, which would make EU musical copyrights last 95 years total. Why? They're worried that musicians won't continue to collect royalties when they retire and this will give them an additional 45 years during which they won't have to produce any new music. Perhaps the only good point is that the retroactive extensions won't take effect for any works which aren't marketed in the first year after the extension. Additionally, while there are many non-musical retirees wishing they could get paid for 95 years after they finish working, McCreevy has not announced any new plans to help them."

add wow to your water

There are two things I'm kind of bad at: drinking water and taking my vitamins. I know that both are very important because they give you energy and make you look and feel healthy, but I still have a hard time consuming them on a regular basis. That's where 4C Totally Light 2Go Vitamin Stix come in. I have to admit I was skeptical about these little packets of powder. Maybe they'd taste chalky or artificial or too fruity or not fruity enough. Turns out, they made my water taste delicious, and they are chock full of Vitamin A, B, and C as well as zinc and other antioxidants to keep me energized and keep my immune system strong. I think the best part is that they are calorie-free and sugar-free, so I am not tacking on liquid calories to my daily intake (I prefer to chew my calories because food rocks).

Keeping Customer From Accessing My Database?

cyteen02 writes "We run a data processing and tracking system for a customer in the UK. We provide a simple Web site where the customer can display the tracking data held in our Oracle database. From these screens they can query based on a combination of 15 different data fields, so it's pretty flexible. We also provide a csv report overnight of the previous day's data processing, which they can load into their own SQL Server database and produce whatever reports they want. Occasionally they also want one-off specific detailed reports, so we write the SQL for that and send them the results in an Excel format spreadsheet. This all ticks along happily. However they have now asked for direct read-only access to our Oracle database, to be able to run ad-hoc queries without consulting us.

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