Wednesday, 29 February 2012
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Tuesday, 28 February 2012
Romney's Low Opinion of the GOP "Base"
Mitt Romney was asked at a press conference in Michigan this morning about his inability to excite "the base" of the Republican party, and he replied:You know, it's very easy to excite the base with incendiary comments. We've seen throughout the campaign if you're willing to say really outrageous things that are accusative, attacking of President Obama, that you're going to jump up in the polls. I'm not willing to light my hair on fire to try and get support. I am who I am.
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2012 Phillip Island WSBK And WSS Saturday Press Release Round Up
Press releases and video from the World Superbike and World Supersport teams after Saturday's practice at Phillip Island:
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Monday, 27 February 2012
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Sunday, 26 February 2012
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The Compadre Video is pretty gnarly. Check it out if you've got 20 minutes.
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Saturday, 25 February 2012
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Friday, 24 February 2012
How Words Affect Your Life and What You Can Do About It
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2012 Phillip Island Test Day 1 WSBK And WSS Press Releases
Press releases from Infront and the World Superbike and World Superport teams after the first day of testing at Phillip Island:
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Thursday, 23 February 2012
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Why Tablets Should Replace TVs in New York City Taxis
Hop into the back seat of a cab, and you're likely to see one of those annoying mini-TV screens/credit card machines playing some banal news cast or commercial. To drown out that background noise, you stare at your smartphone and frantically check email and Facebook. Or maybe you put the phone away and strike up one of those "how's the weather"-type conversations with the cab driver. What if there was something better than either of these options?
If Square has its way, in tablets might soon replace TVs in New York City taxis. According to reports from CBS New York, Square recently met with the Taxi and Limousine Commission to discuss just that. To test things out, tablets would land in 50 cabs, replacing the current taxi TV system.
Taxi cab riders would be able to do and play whatever they want on the tablets. Think about it: Play Angry Birds, check email and Facebook, tweet about something random that the cab driver is doing, pin stuff to one of your Pinterest boards, book your next plane ticket to London, buy tickets to the movies, check your online bank statement, look at porn...the possibilities are endless. But is that a good thing?
With so much stimuli already available in an urban environment like New York City, the tablet with its endless possibilities could be overly distracting for both a passenger and the cab driver.
What if you, the cab rider, mess up the address of where you're going? And then when you arrive, you realize that you're in the wrong location? If you had been paying attention instead of busily tapping away on the in-cab tablet, you might have noticed. But technology is too alluring. We distract ourselves with the shiny glow of all-things-i, so much so that we do not know where we are going.
And then there's the whole "oops I forgot to sign-out" syndrome. Imagine jumping into the cab, only to find the previous user's email and Facebook accounts open. If you're a gentlemanlady, or a gentleman, or just a lady, you will promptly sign out off the random person's accounts. We know that ReadWriteWeb readers are proper chaps - but unfortunately, not everyone can be like us.
One way to avoid the entire "accidentally forgetting to logout" problem: Square could propose some sort of lock on the tablet, which would force the passenger to sign out of every currently running application before exiting the cab. This could even be connected with Square's payment technology, requiring passengers to sign out and pay before leaving the cab.
Additionally, the solitary experience of playing on a tablet might be a welcome alternative to the annoying noise of in-cab TVs. Manuel, a cab driver of 24 years, told 1010 WINS reporter Glenn Schuck that he really does dislike the noise of those TVs
"This thing is annoying all day long," Manuel told CBS. "I gotta listen to this thing time and time again. Nobody likes it. None of my passengers like it."
Tablets in cabs will pose new problems that both drivers and passengers will have to deal with. But for now, anything is better than the annoying drone of commercials and static.
Square is making a formal presentation to the Taxi and Limousine Commission on March 1.
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Wednesday, 22 February 2012
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Tuesday, 21 February 2012
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What Facebook Says About Your Potential Job Performance
Can a potential employer judge your potential work performance based on a Facebook profile? A new study forthcoming in the Journal of Applied Social Psychology says yes it can - in fact, even better than tests that human resource departments are used to running.
In this experiment, three "raters" were presented Facebook profiles of 56 college students who already had jobs. They spent about 10 minutes checking out the profiles, including the user's wall posts, photos, comments, education and hobbies, and then answered personality-related questions about this person. They were most curious about these two questions: Is this person dependable? Is this person emotionally stable? In showing up for any job, those are two of the most important traits.
Donald Kluemper, a management professor at Northern Illinois University, first released this study to the Chicago Tribune.
"Hiring specialists were just trying to eliminate someone who was doing something inappropriate," Kluemper told the Tribune. "What we did is try to assess the personality traits in a similar way that they might be assessed by a standardized test."
Who received the highest scores? Raters favored students who traveled, had more friends and showed interest in many hobbies. In other words, raters favored the well-rounded users. And those "partying" photos didn't count against the user - rather, raters believed that users who socialized were more likely to be extroverted and friendly.
Job recruiters are already using Facebook as a tool. Whereas LinkedIn is a professional-focused space where everyone puts on their "best", Facebook is a catch all, an odd mix of personal and professional. Many are already using their Facebook profile in more professional ways. Facebook Timeline users can receive custom-made MOO business cards. For those Facebook users who would like a bit more privacy, there's an option to create lists and share information only with certain groups of Facebook friends.
But should we really be judged by how we present ourselves on social networks, particularly Facebook? Because there is no real context to our social networked personas, it can be difficult to glean real meaning from an obtuse status update, a sad love song or a meme that you felt compelled to share in the moment. The banal details of our lives are uninteresting and not worth reading into. What social networks do give us a peek into is the personality of a user, and how that fits into the potential job opening. After all, your Facebook personality is quite like the real you.
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How Words Affect Your Life and What You Can Do About It
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From the streets of Portland, Maine comes an 11 minute video called '96 Mentality.
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Monday, 20 February 2012
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High Court, Citizens United II & the Election
Yesterday, the Supreme Court became a significant issue in the 2012 presidential election. The Court did not take center stage by deciding the constitutional challenges we are watching most closely: the cases involving the health care reform statute, Arizona’s S.B. 1070 immigration law, or the upcoming dispute on California’s Proposition 8 on gay marriage. Instead, it signaled that the November election itself may coincide with an argument over whether to overrule the single decision that the Obama Administration believes it can run...
Sunday, 19 February 2012
A Look at DeltaCloud: The Multi-Cloud API
Amazon Web Services, OpenStack, CloudStack, VMware... Developers have no shortage of IaaS offerings to support. And, lucky them, no shortage of different APIs to deal with, either. DeltaCloud, a top-level Apache project, is designed to help developers cut through the complexity and work with everything from EC2 to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager (RHEV-M).
DeltaCloud works with 11 different compute APIs (ranging from EC2 to vSphere) and five different storage APIs (including S3, Eucalyptus Walrus, and Google Storage). The 0.5 release also has experimental support for the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) Cloud Infrastructure Management Interface (CIMI).
What does DeltaCloud do? It's a server that accepts a standard REST API for doing things like creating new instances on the compute nodes, rebooting instances, getting hardware profiles and image details, and more. On the storage side, DeltaCloud provides a standard API for creating new "buckets," manipulating the buckets and storage "blobs," and reading/writing data. In short, the basic operations that users want for interacting with cloud services from any management tool or application.
The DeltaCloud server then translates the requests it receives into the appropriate API calls for the IaaS providers it supports. If a service doesn't have a native API for doing something, like providing a way to inject user data, then DeltaCloud advertises that fact so developers can work around it.
Why DeltaCloud?
David Lutterkort, the vice president of Apache DeltaCloud, says the idea is that users should not be "beholden to any one vendor."
The project was kicked off by Red Hat in 2010. Lutterkort says that the company "looked at the nascent cloud landscape and realized there is a big gap in terms of portability and data lock in. Writing applications to do anything with cloud pretty quickly locked [customers] into the cloud vendor's API." To counter this, Red Hat wanted to offer a vendor neutral API developed openly.
Red Hat took the first swipe at the code and then talked to customers and partners. Everybody liked the concept but worried about it being a Red Hat-only effort, so it was proposed as an Apache project and eventually accepted into the incubator. The Apache project announced that DeltaCloud graduated this week.
Lutterkort says that graduating from the incubator is not about the state of the code or actual project readiness. It's about "a community showing that they're active and growing, and that they can follow Apache processes." Lutterkort says that the project is also seeing substantial contributions from Rackspace, IBM, OpenNebula and (of course) Red Hat.
Right now Lutterkort says that DeltaCloud is being used by Red Hat's Aeolus and CloudForms projects, and that there's an Eclipse plugin that can be used to talk to clouds via DeltaCloud. He also says some providers are using the DeltaCloud API definitions with their own implementations, but may not actually be using the DeltaCloud code.
Marten Mickos, CEO of Eucalyptus, says that the company also sees DeltaCloud as important for customers to avoid lock-in. "We make sure that Deltacloud works well with Eucalyptus so that users of Deltacloud know that they can run it on top of Eucalyptus. It's important in the cloud world to avoid lock-in. Eucalyptus already does this by being open source and by following the leading industry API for clouds. Deltacloud further adds to this flexibility by being an overarching layer that can connect with multiple different underlying clouds."
In the absence of a unified cloud API, DeltaCloud might just be the next best thing. It's still early days and in rapid development, but if you're looking to support multiple clouds, you might want to take a look at DeltaCloud.
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