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Comments: 1 +-   Testing Network Changes When No Test Labs Exist? on Thursday December 24, @06:14PM

Posted by timothy on Thursday December 24, @06:14PM
from the michael-gurski-special dept.
networking
vvaduva writes "The ugly truth is that many network guys secretly work on production equipment all the time, or test things on production networks when they face impossible deadlines. Management often expects us to get a job done but refuse to provide funds for expensive lab equipment, test circuits and for reasonable time to get testing done before moving equipment or configs into production. How do most of you handle such situations, and what recommendation do you have for creating a network test lab on the cheap, especially when core network devices are vendor-centric, like Cisco?"
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Comments: 51 +-   Really Misleading Ads From Broadband Providers on Thursday December 24, @05:18PM

Posted by timothy on Thursday December 24, @05:18PM
from the should-have-been-in-the-tos dept.
business
Bourdain writes "Gizmodo has put together a good compilation of the — seemingly almost criminally — misleading (largely plain wrong) advertising from our favorite local monopolies. My personal favorite is from AT&T which states you need 3mbps to use social networking sites like Facebook."
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Comments: 73 +-   Launching Frequently Key To NASA Success on Thursday December 24, @04:22PM

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday December 24, @04:22PM
from the more-is-better dept.
nasa
teeks99 writes "Even NASA could benefit from the 'Launch Often' idea that is frequently referred to in the software development community. However, in NASA's case, the 'launch' is a bit more literal. Edward Lu, writing in the New York Times, points out that by lowering the consequences of launch failure, and making frequent launches available to engineers, NASA could open up a new wave of innovation in space exploration. If there were weekly launches of a rocket, there would be many opportunities for new ideas to be tried out in communications, remote sensing, orbital debris mitigation, robotic exploration, and even in developing technology for human spaceflight. Another benefit would be that the rockets would be well understood, which would improve reliability."
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Comments: 24 +-   Amazing New Movies of Saturn's Moons on Thursday December 24, @03:28PM

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday December 24, @03:28PM
from the that's-a-lot-of-flowery-words dept.
space
RobGoldsmith writes "Like sugar plum fairies in 'The Nutcracker,' the moons of Saturn performed a celestial ballet before the eyes of NASA's Cassini spacecraft. New movies frame the moons' silent dance against the majestic sweep of the planet's rings and show as many as four moons gliding around one another."
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Comments: 144 +-   IsoHunt Guilty of Inducing Infringement on Thursday December 24, @02:33PM

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday December 24, @02:33PM
from the i-didn't-know-isos-were-endangered dept.
news
roju writes "The MPAA has won a summary judgment against torrent indexing site isoHunt for inducing copyright infringement. Michael Geist notes that '[t]he judge ruled that the isoHunt case is little different from other US cases such as Napster and Grokster, therefore concluding that there is no need to proceed to a full trial and granting Columbia Pictures request for summary judgment.' Attorney Ben Sheffner, who worked on the case for Fox, explains some of the implications, noting that 'the most significant ruling in the opinion was the court's holding that the DMCA's safe harbors are simply not available where inducement has been established.' This case could have implications on other indexing sites, and creates a gap in the DMCA safe harbor provisions that could have far-reaching implications on other sites."
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Comments: 31 +-   Networked Christmas Tree Controlled By Twitter on Thursday December 24, @01:44PM

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday December 24, @01:44PM
from the ho-ho-ho dept.
xmas
An anonymous reader writes "What's Twitter good for? How about crowd sourcing control of your Christmas tree. Dangerous Prototypes built an open source, networked Christmas tree that you can control from Twitter. Send a color or hexadecimal color code to @tweet_tree, then watch the color change on the live video stream. This project is based on an updated version of the open source business card size web server covered previously."
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Comments: 74 +-   More on the Waterworld Goldilocks Planet on Thursday December 24, @12:51PM

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday December 24, @12:51PM
from the wouldn't-wanna-live-there dept.
space
goldilocksmission writes with this snippet from Goldilocks Mission: "News spread recently about a super-earth-sized planet that has been recently discovered to contain one of the most essential compounds for life to exist in the universe: water. ... GJ1214b is a massive planet that can house about six earths and is about forty light-years away from us. ... The significant discovery leap of detecting Gliese 581d to the more goldilocks planet oriented GJ1214b is a testament to the advances in the technology of detecting earth-like exoplanets."
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Comments: 195 +-   Is Neurostim Becoming a Reality? on Thursday December 24, @11:58AM

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday December 24, @11:58AM
from the implantable-happy-sauce dept.
biotech
destinyland writes "There is a current mass market for 'cognitive enhancement' products — and arguments about the black market potential for neurostim. 'The same neurostim device that uses electric impulses from a brain implant to treat people with Parkinson's Disease can be tweaked by a few millimeters and pulse rates to make cocaine addicts feel like they are high all the time... Mix the glamour of surgical self-improvement with the geekiness of high-tech gadget fetishism and you have a niche cosmetic neurostim market waiting to be tapped...'"
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Comments: 256 +-   "Home Batteries" Power Houses For a Week on Thursday December 24, @11:05AM

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday December 24, @11:05AM
from the probably-bigger-than-c dept.
power
tjansen writes "Panasonic has announced plans to create 'home batteries.' They are lithium-ion batteries large enough to power a house for a week, making energy sources such as solar and wind power more feasible. Also, you can buy energy when it is cheapest, and don't need to worry about power outages anymore."
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Comments: 339 +-   All GPLed Code Removed From MonoDevelop on Thursday December 24, @10:17AM

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday December 24, @10:17AM
from the those-who-write-the-code-make-the-rules dept.
novell
rysiek writes "A few days ago, Miguel de Icaza wrote on his blog that the whole of MonoDevelop is now 'free' of GPL-licensed code. 'MonoDevelop code is now LGPLv2 and MIT X11 licensed. We have removed all of the GPL code, allowing addins to use Apache, MS-PL code as well as allowing proprietary add-ins to be used with MonoDevelop (like RemObject's Oxygene).'"
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