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parallel_prankster writes "Older adults who drank coffee — caffeinated or decaffeinated — had a lower risk of death [full paper is paywalled, at the New England Journal of Medicine] overall than others who did not drink coffee, according to a study by researchers from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health, and AARP. Coffee drinkers were less likely to die from heart disease, respiratory disease, stroke, injuries and accidents, diabetes, and infections, although the association was not seen for cancer. These results from a large study of older adults were observed after adjustment for the effects of other risk factors on mortality, such as smoking and alcohol consumption. They also found that the association between coffee and reduction in risk of death increased with the amount of coffee consumed. Relative to men and women who did not drink coffee, those who consumed three or more cups of coffee per day had approximately a 10 percent lower risk of death. Researchers caution, however, that they can't be sure whether these associations mean that drinking coffee actually makes people live longer."
Speaking to Congress this week, FCC Boss Julius Genachowski stated that the agency hasn't received a single net neutrality complaint since the FCC's neutrality rules went into effect late last year. Part of that is because the rules don't do very much, failing to cover wireless in any meaningful way, while allowing pretty much any network behavior so long as it can be defended as an action that's necessary to protect network integrity. Another reason because the mere threat of being watched by regulators and the press has kept carriers on their best behavior since Comcast was yelled at for throttling all upstream traffic.
Despite being utterly toothless, the rules are still being assaulted by partisans and Verizon, who prefer their regulators utterly powerless (while fearing the rules could be expanded someday to oh -- actually do something). Genachowski informed the Senate Appropriations subcommittee (which was meeting to approve an FCC budget request) that if the rules are overturned, he may push to codify them into law:
Federal Communications Commission chairman Julius Genachowski told a Senate Commerce Committee hearing audience Wednesday that the agency had not received a single complaint in the six months since its Open Internet order went into effect, but also said that if a court overturns it, he would urge Congress to codify it. He would not rule out classifying ISPs as a Title II service if the court overturned, but said he is on the record as saying "that it not the best idea."
Despite being rather empty, data clearly shows that the mere threat of a regulator doing its job has had an impact on heavy-handed throttling and other practices. It seems likely that Genachowski's threat is an empty one, as the agency has long had the opportunity to classify ISPs as Title II service providers, but has avoided the option because of the even more significant legal bloodshed that would be involved. Either direction the FCC heads they face lawsuits as ISPs work tirelelessly to ensure there's nobody other than themselves busily watching the nations over-priced broadband duopoly henhouse. read comment(s)
strawberryshakes writes "The death knell for IE6 was sounded a couple of years ago, but seems like some people just can't let go. Many UK government departments are still using IE6, which is so old — 11 years old to be exact — it can't cope with social media — which the government is trying to get its staff to use more to engage with citizens."
nonprofiteer writes "The Pentagon is increasingly transforming the military into an unmanned force, taking soldiers out of harm's way and replacing them with drones and robots. In 2011, it spent $6 billion on unmanned systems. The problem is that the unmanned systems don't work well together thanks to contractors building proprietary control systems (to lock government into exclusive relationships and to make extra money). A company called DreamHammer plans to have a solution to this — a universal remote control that could integrate all robots and drones into one control system. It would save money and allow anyone to build apps for drones. 'DreamHammer CTO Chris Diebner compares it with a smartphone OS — on which drones and features for those drones can be run like apps. Of course, Ballista is doing something on a much larger scale. It means that it takes fewer people to fly more drones and that new features can be rolled out without the need to develop and build a new version of a Predator, for example.'"
An anonymous reader writes "Google+ is a lonely place. At least according to a new study that paints the social networking site as a virtual tumbleweed town. Using information culled from the public timelines of 40,000 randomly selected members, data analysis firm RJMetrics found that the Google+ population, which currently numbers 170 million, is largely disengaged, with user activity rapidly decaying—at least when it comes to public posts. According to RJMetrics, 30 percent of first-time Google+ public posters don't post again. Of those who make five public posts, only 15 percent post again. The average time lapse between posts is 12 days, and RJMetrics cites a cohort analysis showing that members tend to make fewer public posts with each successive month. And the response to public posts on Google+ is extremely weak. The average post receives fewer than one reply, fewer than one '+1' (the equivalent to Facebook's 'Like'), and fewer than one re-share — basically most posts in the study did not garner any response."
The Facebook IPO will encourage the social network company to up its fight with Google for the online advertising market. However, Google is not going to back down. While Facebook is a social network and Google a search engine, both companies make money from advertising, and they 're both battling for the same advertising dollars. Facebook has to solve for advertising, and most likely will do so by emulating and competing with Google. As a public company, Facebook will be driven by its investors to get ...
jones_supa writes "RunCore announces the global launch of its InVincible solid state drive, designed for mission-critical fields such as aerospace or military. The device improves upon a normal SSD by having two strategies for the drive to quickly render itself blank. First method goes through the disk, overwriting all data with garbage. Second one is less discreet and lets the smoke out of the circuitry by driving overcurrent to the NAND chips. Both ways can be ignited with a single push of a button, allowing James Bond -style rapid response to the situation on the field."
First time accepted submitter Arker writes "A federal judge granted a preliminary injunction late Wednesday to block provisions of the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act that would allow the military to indefinitely detain anyone it accuses of knowingly or unknowingly supporting terrorism. The Obama administration had argued, inter alia, that the plaintiffs, including whistleblower and transparency advocate Daniel Ellsberg and Icelandic Member of Parliament Birgitta Jonsdottir lacked standing, but Judge Katherine Forrest didnt buy it. Given recent statements from the administration, it seems safe to say this will be the start of a long court battle."
Two of the US largest wireless carriers, AT&T and Verizon are considering to roll out shared-data pricing plans this year. Fran Shammo, Verizon 's chief financial officer, has reportedly confirmed the news at an investor conference. Verizon will soon force subscribers to ditch their $30 per month unlimited data plans when they upgrade to 4G LTE phones. Instead, customers will be offered shared data plans, which will allow them to activate as many devices as they want under a single bucket of ...
In addition to announcing new shared data plans and the death of unlimited wireless, Verizon CFO Fran Shammo this week also announced that FiOS customers can expect a new slate of price hikes soon. Speaking at the JP Morgan investor conference this week, Shammo stated that the service's high rankings of late (FiOS recently came out tops in both Consumer Reports and ACSI rankings) means that the company feels it can charge a premium for the service, and start doing away with some of the more aggressive pricing promotions:
"I think you're seeing a little bit of pullback on those promotional-type items and the aggressiveness that we have in the marketplace," he said. He went onto say that strong customer satisfaction for the Fios TV product means that the company can charge more for the service. "Given the Consumer Reports article and the Consumer Index article, I think we can be less aggressive," he said. "Word-of-mouth is the best advertising we can get."
"You'll see us do some price increases here over the next two quarters to offset the content increase," Shammo said. "And that will also contribute more profitability to the bottom line...We are switching around our bundles and the customers that are coming out of the current bundles will be priced up to the newer bundles. So you are going to see really a shift over the next two to three quarters in price-ups coming out of FiOS." Shammo said that the company will increase fees on rental charges for set-top boxes and digital converters.
Granted, the fact that FiOS operates in a duopoly (and barely that sometimes) has more to do with the fact Shammo can hit consumers with new rates than the quality of the company's service. While the FiOS service itself sees high marks, the same Consumer Reports study Shammo cites notes that the company continues to struggle when it comes to billing users accurately.
It's also worth recalling that when Verizon got into the TV business, their lobbyists pushed a lot of state-level franchise laws (some of them awful wishlist laws that eroded consumer protections) with the promise that Verizon's entry into the market would lower television prices. read comment(s)
Kansas State University cybersecurity experts are developing a network that would be able to automatically change its setup and configuration in order to protect itself from hackers. Scott DeLoach, professor of computing and information sciences, and Xinming "Simon " Ou, associate professor of computing and information sciences were granted $1 million from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research to study this moving-target defense, a type of adaptive cybersecurity. "The ...
An anonymous reader writes "Not a single judge was fooled by the chatbots in the 2012 Loebner Prize, which was won by the bot Chip Vivant. According to a journalist who was a human decoy in this year's Turing Test, interactions with the humans was a tad robotic while the bots went off on crazy tangents talking about being a cat and offering condolences for the death of a pet dragon."
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