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US Marines Achieve Faster Maintenance with Augmented Reality

Posted by horuskol 121 days ago in Science & Technology (http://www.technologyreview.com)
In the not-too-distant future, it might be possible to slip on a pair of augmented-reality (AR) goggles instead of fumbling with a manual while trying to repair a car engine. Instructions overlaid on the real world would show how to complete a task by identifying, for example, exactly where the ignition coil was, and how to wire it up correctly
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The Secret Origin of Windows

Posted by JediLlama 2 days ago in Computers & Consoles (http://technologizer.com)
Few people understand Microsoft better than Tandy Trower, who worked at the company from 1981-2009. Trower was the product manager who ultimately shipped Windows 1.0, an endeavor that some advised him was a path toward a ruined career. Four product managers had already tried and failed to ship Windows before him, and he initially thought that he was being assigned an impossible task. In this follow-up to yesterday’s story on the future of Windows, Trower recounts the inside story of his experience in transforming Windows from vaporware into a product that has left an unmistakable imprint on the world, 25 years after it was first released.
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Vodafone-Distributed Handset Found Pre-installed With Mariposa Bot

Posted by JediLlama 2 days ago in Computers & Consoles (http://threatpost.com)
Security researchers have found the Mariposa bot client pre-installed on a mobile phone handset distributed in Europe, and say that the malware looks to have been installed on the phone's memory card.

The phone, the HTC Magic, runs the Google Android mobile operating system, and is a low-priced handset distributed by Vodafone. A researcher at Panda Security received one of the handsets recently, and upon attaching it to her PC, found that the phone was pre-loaded with the Mariposa bot client. Mariposa has been in the news of late thanks to some arrests connected to the operation of the botnet.

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Exclusive: South Park's First Ever Deleted Scene

Posted by JediLlama 2 days ago in Entertainment (http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com)
Sometimes deleted scenes are cool, but often they're kind of a disappointment. "Oh yeah, I guess I can see why they cut out this 15-minute montage of Iron Man preparing and eating a pastrami hoagie." I don't know if that's why the upcoming South Park: The Complete Thirteenth Season is going to be the series' first DVD set to include deleted scenes, but I do know that from the looks of this one, it was worth the wait.
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South Park Parodies the "Gingers Do Have Souls" Kid | Comedy Central Insider Blog

Posted by JediLlama 1 day 13 hours ago in Entertainment (http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com)
After slamming South Park in defense of his carrot-topped brethren on YouTube to the tune of nearly four million views, the famous "Gingers do have souls" kid has now been immortalized by the very show he claims to hate in this preview clip from South Park's upcoming 14th season.
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Lesbian panic shuts down Mississippi high-school prom

Posted by JediLlama 18 hours ago in News (http://www.boingboing.net)
Mississippi's Itawamba County school district has cancelled a prom after Constance McMillen, an 18-year-old student, asked permission to bring her girlfriend as her date. The student planned to wear a tux. The school district's bureaucratic non-excuse for the cancellation is that it's "due to the distractions to the educational process caused by recent events." The district appears to be tap-dancing around the reason for the cancellation in an effort to avoid openly saying "We are scared of teh ghey," since that would open them up to legal liability. The ACLU isn't buying it. They've told the school district that they've got until Wednesday to change the policy or else.
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Irish American priest defends expelling schoolchild of lesbian couple

Posted by JediLlama 13 hours ago in Religion (http://www.irishcentral.com)
An Irish American pastor in Boulder, Colorado has defended his decision not to allow a child of a lesbian couple to continue to attend Catholic school in his parish. The child is currently in pre-school there.
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