ICO says it would have very serious concerns "if employers in the UK has asked employees to access Facebook and password

The Office of the Information Commissioner has warned employers in the UK which would have "serious concerns", if you ask login and password from Facebook employees or applicants , following reports of the United States these requests.

A spokesman for the ICO said. "The Data Protection Act in the UK clearly states that organizations should not have too much information on individuals, and may ask why such information is necessary first"

United States, two U.S. senators are asking the U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to determine whether the practice of employers requiring passwords of Facebook in job interviews violates federal law .

concerned by reports of the practice, Democratic Sens. Chuck Schumer of New York and Connecticut, Richard Blumenthal, said they are asking the Department of Justice and the U.S. Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity to launch investigations. Senators are to send letters to agency heads.

Associated Press reported last week that some public and private organizations across the country are asking job applicants their data carriers. The practice has alarmed privacy advocates, but its legality is still cloudy in the United States.

In the UK, however, could potentially put employers who violate the Act on Data Protection, as it would constitute an "excessive" information about an individual, the ICO said. "We are seriously concerned if this practice became the norm in the UK," a spokesman said.

Friday, Facebook has warned employers not to ask job applicants for their passwords on the site so they can immerse themselves in their profiles, noting that break their conditions. The company threatened legal action against applications that do not meet their long-standing policy against the sharing of passwords.

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leader warned that if the employer finds that the applicant is a member of a protected group, the employer may be vulnerable to allegations of discrimination if it is not hire this person . Facebook profiles often include personal information such as gender, race, religion and age - all data is protected against use to determine the suitability of employment by the Federal Labor Law. The same restrictions apply in the UK.

not your passwords is a fundamental principle of online behavior. Besides privacy, Facebook believes that the practice is a security risk.

Senator Schumer said in a statement: "At a time when more and more of our personal information private and our social interactions are online, it is essential that all individuals should be able to choose for themselves what type of personal information that aims to discover and protect the privacy of candidates to employers. This is especially important during the job search process, when the power is on one side of the fence. "

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update the system newcomer in late November.


As expected, next month will introduce Nintendo 3DS day the possibility that users capture their own videos in 3D.


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Xbox 360, PS3, Capcom, cert: 15, which appears

Leaving the zombie saved the day of the assassination of aa resident evil

Each character in this shooting game based on a platoon role and skill set, whether the demolition, control or cure, which can be improved by gaining experience from missions. While a single mode is provided, the game is the best known online with humans instead of AI disappointing to fill their ranks. Multiplayer modes offer some variety, but mostly familiar tropes adapt the base defense and Team Deathmatch. However, although the idea at the heart of the

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vice president of Epic Games, the design of the console, says it has more to offer.


six years in their life cycle, we have not seen the best that Xbox 360 has to offer - and developers can get more from the system


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been clear for some time that there is no real reason why electronic security are prohibited during takeoff and landing. Moreover, no legitimate reason not to allow mobile phones on aircraft technology, whatever - that one is more just to keep the other passengers to get into a rage at having to listen to others' half interviews. However, it seems that people are increasingly tired of being unable to use their new electronic books elegant or Tablet PC (not just iPads, of course) on the aircraft takeoff and landing. Nick Bilton, more in the New York Times, asked the FAA what was going on with this, and admitted that he takes a "new look" on these devices and whether they should be allowed to be used in those days. Of course, as he points out, this could lead to a lot of paperwork - including all possible devices through significant evidence:

Abby Lunardini, vice president of corporate communications for Virgin America, said that the current guidelines require that the carrier must prove each version of a single device before it can be approved by the FAA For example, if the airline sought approval for the iPad, which would prove the first iPhone, iPad 2 and the new iPad, each on a separate flight on which none of the passengers of the aircraft.

have to do the same for all versions of Kindle. Would have to do this for each different model aircraft in its fleet. And America, JetBlue, United, Air Wisconsin, etc., would do the same. (It is not surprising, the FAA maintains smartphones of the table and not easily hundreds of different models on the market.)



said Ms. Lunardini Virgin America wishes perform these tests, but the current guidelines to be "prohibitive, especially for an airline with a fleet that is still relatively low in the air in commercial flights like ours."
But, hopefully, a process better and more efficient can be found, and people will really be able to use these devices on airplanes that are not only more than 10,000 feet. ..
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Unlike Chapman stupid "Hawking sculpture, paper and sketch acute Hockney iPhone does justice to two real giants

I wrote earlier picture of Jake and Dinos Chapman horrible and rough that the physicist Stephen Hawking in his Übermensch sculpture. I vaguely when asked what a portrait of David Hockney with the same man today could be as ... but had no idea there were actually created. Visit the Science Museum in London has recently been paralyzed by a design sensitive, attentive and sharp on the screen of your Hawking 70 years of his life and work.

The portrait was done in line art style of Picasso, 1920, and that meant to be ... yes, Hockney. In 1978, the artist depicts Hawking, several years before his book A Brief History of Time is the vanguard theory of a celebrity in the world.

Hawking His portraits are important documents of what really mattered in the culture of our time. Like Einstein, Epstein, always looking, when much of the art that makes the headlines has been completely forgotten. Art tries to catch up with science - and this Hockney effortlessly using your iPhone to make a portrait of a hero with no intellectual pretensions. Hockney Hawking is a tribute to two people who change the game

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coach Laurent Hasson beats the drum for HTML5

How

RIM may return to wetting the developers? Technical director of the BlackBerry platform company Web Laurent Hasson gave a speech at the London Summit web this morning, describing why web apps can be the key to return to BlackBerry.

began by admitting that many people do not even know the BlackBerry is a web platform, or to assume that it is horrible to use based on their experiences as native applications for RIM devices.

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"It's a shame because many people feel that way," he said, citing the example of a BlackBerry developer that the development was "a walk in the park . Central Park, around midnight, in the 80's, only ... "

"Basically, a lot has changed," he said Hasson, noting that last year, RIM launched its first WebKit browser, and full BlackBerry WebWorks web-app platform through their tablets and smartphones, and Web development tools for people to use.

"Say No to NIBS," said Hasson - NIBS be "native is better syndrome", the motto of RIM is apparently used to deter developers to focus exclusively on native applications (for devices Other companies, most likely).

"native will always be a couple more stages [technical], but the site is fully competitive for most applications ... An application does not mean that HTML5 does not have access to an App Store and this does not mean you do not have access to native APIs. "

Hasson also spoke about the BlackBerry Messaging (BBM), the service as something that developers should integrate into their applications as needed.

"With the application BBM compatible, 20% of applications in the App Store that are downloaded are BBM-enabled," said Hasson. "Using BBM to make your application more sticky that really works . " And RIM has worked to ensure that developers can create Web applications that use BBM as well.
Hasson said that 90% of users Playbook update to the latest version of the operating system in a month of its release -. Surprising given the fact that it includes features such as email, contacts and calendar

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30m downloads later, game design OMGPOP social Zynga raises takeover rumors

OMGPOP American society is the last independent developer or cause a frenzy of mobile games, racing game with his draw social Something more than 30 million downloads in iPhone OS and Android just six weeks after its output.

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The game draws its inspiration from Pictionary, and adjusts the text with friends at social asynchronous gameplay around it. Players have the words: Elvis, Football, Zombie, etc. - and based on the screen of Facebook friends to guess

game designer, Dan Porter, who is also CEO of OMGPOP, told GigaOm draw something is adding 1m downloads every day, has generated over 2 billion photos , and is a "minimum of six figures" in the newspaper (in dollars) of revenue from a mixture of paid downloads, by applying Purchasing and advertising.

According to industry analyst AppData site, draw something now has 13 million daily active users (DAU), making it the most popular social game in the world for that metric. It's even ahead of Zynga words with friends and Cityville (8.4 million and 7.9, respectively, at the time of writing.

No wonder Zynga might be interested in purchasing OMGPOP. TechCrunch says that both companies are already in talks, although other social gaming companies such as Gree and Dena believes that in the game too.

Furthermore, GigaOm suggests that the price may be $ 200. All negotiations should be interesting: Zynga has the ability to make your own version of clone - Draw with friends, for example.

What is happening here, though? Draw something that seems to be a real word of mouth phenomenon, and that appeals to a broad demographic range - mothers and non-technicians by hardcore gamers, judging by my Twitter and Facebook newline Time
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"I just wanted this to be fun no winners or losers ... I'm a game designer and I do not pretend to be one, so I really do not make the rules of a game Most designers have said that you need results or league tables, but not feeling well, so ... We do not make games for people who do not put games on your phone. C It is thus that happens on a large scale. "
The other interesting thing about Draw something is that it demonstrates the continuing ability of the App Store and Google Play (formerly Market) to spawn a successful independently developed, unlike expectations of consolidation in the market as it passes from the time.

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psychology is social media Facebook and others offer friendships with the platform self-image obsessions and shallow

The researchers found a direct relationship between the number of friends you have on Facebook and the degree to which you are a "danger to society" narcissistic, confirming the findings of many social media skeptics.

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people who score high on the questionnaire on the narcissistic personality inventory had more friends on Facebook, labeling more often and update their son news more regularly.

The survey comes as increasing evidence that young people are increasingly narcissistic, and obsessed with self-image and friendships.

The latest study, published in the Journal of personality and individual differences, also found that narcissists have responded more aggressively to negative comments made by them on the walls of public and social network changed their profile photos View the most.

a number of previous studies have linked with narcissism, the use of Facebook, but that's part of the first evidence for a direct link between Facebook friends and most elements "toxic" of the narcissistic personality disorders.

researchers at Western Illinois University studied the habits of Facebook 294 students, aged between 18 and 65, and measures two "socially disruptive" elements of narcissism - exhibitionism great (GE) and right / operator (EE).

includes'' self-absorption, vanity, superiority, and exhibitionistic tendencies "and people who score high on this aspect of the narcissistic need to be constantly in the spotlight. They often say things terrible and inappropriate self-disclosure, as it can not bear to be ignored or lose the opportunity for self-promotion.

U.S. appearance includes "a sense of merit the respect and the desire to manipulate and exploit others."

"Facebook provides a platform for people to self-promotion, change of profile views and showing how many hundreds of friends you have. I know some who are more 1000. "

Dr Viv Vignoles, professor of social psychology at the University of Sussex, said there was "clear evidence" of studies in the United States that students are increasingly narcissistic.

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'Ve heard about this project for several months now, and I'm excited to see it is finally released. F.A.T. Laboratory and Sy-Lab officially launched its free universal kit construction, a set of instructions for the 3D printer to create impressive about 80 "adapter" bricks that allow you to connect ten (sort of) play sets for children popular construction:





included are the link between the following sets: Lego, Duplo, fischertechnik Gears! Gears! Gears!, K'Nex, Krinkles (blocks of hair), Lincoln Logs, Tinker, and Zome Zoob. There is also a huge block universal adapter. I must admit I'm a little disappointed that Megabloks not make the cut, as my son tends to come and go between them and duplicate. If they want are available in the Thingverse, although you will obviously need a 3D printer to actually do something with them. Here are some pictures that launched the team in action:

The general idea is really cool. Children do not care if Lego and Tinker of the same company. They want to work well together. This is part of the fun of tinkering. But of course, the toy companies want to "control" the market and pretend that there are toys. Recognizing that nobody else toy is considered an error - even if in reality

adds value toys, allowing

make with them. In the past we have seen Lego, in particular, be very aggressive in trying to block competitors.

Of course, this raises the big question: what about the right of intellectual property with this offer? Commercial nature that may protect against the problems of brands, even if it seems silly that effectively providing useful terminals for

sale

might call serious legal trouble. Anyway, I know guys who put this together last
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amount of time exploring the various legal issues at stake here, and have a detailed discussion of same - with a clear recognition that even after being as careful as possible to avoid violating anyone's rights, are not yet considered:

Some may express concern that the construction kit universal free enterprise violates the prerogative as copyright, design right, trade city trademarks or patents systems compatible toys. We encourage those who are willing to enforce those rights

please think of the children

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NASA has developed a pair of augmented reality glasses specially designed for commercial airline pilots to see the worst conditions for visual . The glasses include a heads-up display showing a virtual overlay of the runway and the airport, the head tracking technology and voice control - features that can help drivers keep their eyes where it is needed ... Continue reading NASA AR headset lets pilots see through the fog


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two-week delay in thousands of pounds paid irritates developers of smartphone platform from Google, who say they need to get more people working on problems

Android developers across Europe warn that Google needs to put a human face on the relationships of its creator, after being forced to wait without explanation for more than two weeks for hundreds of thousands of pounds of payments for application sales.

without the company will suffer in competition with Apple, Microsoft and RIM in the smartphone space, they warn. "I had an email contact, there are no answers to my questions, in essence, there is no confirmation that there is a problem, however, I am still owed several thousand pounds" said a developer of the application before The Guardian payments began arriving - two weeks late - on Friday.

Despite weeks of complaints in the forum of the company, and one issue of The Guardian to Google introduced on Tuesday of this week, the company provided no explanation for why the bank payments totaling several thousand book was not intended for developers in countries like the UK, Germany, France, Netherlands, Ireland, Sweden and Norway. Some entries in the subjects suggests that U.S. developers were also affected.

Although payments began to come into the bank accounts of developers, on Friday, which have been delayed beyond the normal payment date - that this month would have been Friday, March 2 . Documents say that even though Google has a "technical problem", application developers must be paid before the 15th. However, payments are started on March 16.

Google spends 70% of the payments you receive when users buy apps for Android in its market, formerly known as Android Market Play now renamed Google. Unlike Apple's App Store, developers can download versions of their applications without the approval, then you can get paid for Google Apps, when purchasing.

The search giant has apparently tried to rationalize their relationships with developers to make it as automated as possible. This led to anger among developers, pointing to a simple message forum post from someone saying that Google was "aware" of the problem and display another from someone who said he had a team "three people" working on the Google Checkout - used to collect payments -. "After everybody had left"

"What is really surprising is that Google consider establishing a forum in a manner appropriate to resolve the situation," said an angry developer.

which could affect Google if developers decide that the Google payment system is unreliable or difficult to handle. "The speed of payment [Apple] is slower than Google, you get the arrears of one month, so much money through March January 3," a developer who also writes applications for Apple App Store told the Guardian. "But the payment is reliable and consistent If you need to talk to a human being, at any time please contact one is not perfect - .. They lean towards automation Cheap -. but is light years ahead of Google " aa
The developer said that Apple had originally tried the same thing for Google to fully automate the system, and has no equipment of man-located support. "They toast - application programmers were rejected without resorting But if you piss off a developer without support staff trained to explain and reassure, then you will bite a lot of hands that feed on a Similarly, Google this road is dangerous ... were deliberately designed a fully automated system that scales up to no cost to them. "

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