Why Is Windows So Awful with Battery Life?; OS X 10.9 Mavericks Review

To view a web version of this message, click here Send this message to a friend Why Is Windows So Awful with Battery Life? First Experimental Evidence That Time Is an Emergent Quantum Phenomenon OS X 10.9 Mavericks Review Call Yourself a Hacker, Lose Your 4th Amendment Rights Experian Sold Social Security Numbers to ID Theft Service Hot Comment: "I've got a degree. It didn't teach me a damned thing about IT, but..." From the Vault: Judge Rules 4-Year-Old Can Be Sued Watch It: Why Facebook Does Not Like Social Fixer Extension Poll Booth: I've done my current job in X time zones ... Why Is Windows So Awful with Battery Life? Jeff Atwood at Coding Horror is trying to figure out why the battery life for devices running Windows is so much worse than similar (or identical) devices running other operating systems. For example, although the Surface Pro 2 made great strides over the original Surface Pro, it still lags far behind Android and iOS tablets. Sound Off>> First Experimental Evidence That Time Is an Emergent Quantum Phenomenon Quantum physicists have performed an experiment that shows how time is an emergent phenomenon based on entanglement, in which case the contradiction between quantum mechanics and general relativity seems to melt away. Sound Off>> OS X 10.9 Mavericks Review John Siracusa at Ars Technica has put together a comprehensive review of Apple's OS X 10.9 Mavericks. This is the first time a major OS X update has been free, and it works on any device that supports Mountain Lion. This suggests Apple is trying to boost adoption rates as high as possible. Sound Off>> Call Yourself a Hacker, Lose Your 4th Amendment Rights As described on the DigitalBond blog, a security researcher was subjected to a court ordered search in which a lack of pre-notification was premised on his self-description as a "hacker." Sound Off>> Experian Sold Social Security Numbers to ID Theft Service Experian -- one of the three national U.S. credit bureaus -- reportedly sold social security numbers through its subsidiary to the operators of a website that offered all of the information online for a price. The website marketed the ability to look up full Social Security numbers, birthdays, drivers license records and financial information on millions of Americans. Sound Off>>   Re: I'm a non-degree slacker "I've got a degree. It didn't teach me a damned thing about IT, but I've got the degree. The degree helps get your resume through the HR drones, though, but not much else." --by morgan_greywolf Read More>>   Judge Rules 4-Year-Old Can Be Sued Three years ago, a New York Supreme Court justice ruled that a girl could be sued over accusations the then 4-year-old ran over an 87-year-old woman while racing a bicycle with training wheels on a Manhattan sidewalk. The accident resulted in the elderly woman suffering a hip fracture that required surgery. Read More>> Why Facebook Does Not Like Social Fixer Extension SlashTV: Social Fixer is a plug-in that lets people view their feeds on Facebook more efficiently. And although it makes no changes to Facebook's servers and is not dependent on Facebook's APIs, the social media company demanded that creator Matt Kruze remove certain features if he doesn't want to be banned from the site. The company already removed his Social Fixer page from Facebook. Kruze talks to Timothy Lord about the ordeal. Watch the Video>> I've done my current job in X time zones ... Where X is 1 Where X is 2-3 Where X is 3-6 Where X is 7-12 Where X is >12 All of them Do you count unemployment? Cast Your Vote>>   Follow Slashdot on Twitter and Facebook. To unsubscribe, click here or send an email to: unsubscribe-213087@elabs10.com To ensure delivery of this newsletter to your inbox and to enable images, please add slashdot@newsletters.slashdot.org to your e-mail address book or safe senders list. Slashdot | 594 Howard Street, Suite 300 | San Francisco, CA 94105 To view our Privacy Policy click here.