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Submission + - For those interested, Coursera's Algorithms class commences today (coursera.org)

Submitted by abhatt on Monday January 28, 2013 @09:25AM

abhatt writes: The part1 of the Design and Analysis of algorithms course has commenced from today.

The course majorly covers the big-oh notation, divide-and-conquer strategy, probability, shortest-path algo and binary search trees.

Submission + - Polite feedback on logon issues sees Simcity user banned from EA forums

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 28, 2013 @08:34AM

An anonymous reader writes: EA's latest Simcity game requires users to log on online even for single player. After being unable to log on for three hours, one of its users chimed in with his very polite $0.02 opinion, only to get himself banned by EA admins. Another great victory for DRM.

Submission + - Eventstays (eventstays.com)

Submitted by shellenaa80 on Thursday January 10, 2013 @09:15AM

shellenaa80 writes: Find the perfect home to stay for the big game.

Submission + - Nokia seems to be hijacking traffic on its phones, grabbing HTTPS data too (thenextweb.com)

Submitted by abhatt on Thursday January 10, 2013 @09:09AM

abhatt writes: Case best explained in the article:

On Wednesday, security professional Gaurang Pandya outlined how Nokia is hijacking Internet browsing traffic on some of its phones. As a result, the company technically has access to all your Internet content, including sensitive data that is sent over secure connections (HTTPS), such as banking credentials and pretty much any other usernames and passwords you use to login to services on the Internet.

Submission + - 'Brain' found in KFC meal (globalpost.com) 1

Submitted by abhatt on Wednesday January 09, 2013 @08:47AM

abhatt writes: In a 'WTF' moment a brain like material was found in a UK students grand meal at KFC.
What else to say ?
Meanwhile, KFC is now saying that the brain type material could actually be a Kidney and not exactly brain as suspected !

Hope you had your meal already :-P

Submission + - Nokia Confirms It's Keeping An Open Mind About Using Android In Future (techcrunch.com)

Submitted by abhatt on Tuesday January 08, 2013 @10:12AM

abhatt writes: That is what i had been wondering since Nokia decided to side up with Microsoft. Nokia has confirmed that it is keeping an "open mind" about using Android going forward.
Apparently, Microsoft is not taking supporting Nokia over its Windows OS serious. I am so much looking forward to this.

Submission + - Google finds unauthorized certificate for google.com,scrambles to protect users (computerworld.com)

Submitted by abhatt on Friday January 04, 2013 @12:20PM

abhatt writes: Google has discovered fraudulent SSL certificate for its google.com domain in late December ! Further, in an recent update, it has announced the issue to other browser makers and has taken steps to update its Chrome browser to detect the fraudulent certificate.

Investigations have further revealed that there were 2 and not one fraudulent certificates that were issued for the domain Google.com !

Submission + - Previously Unseen Stage of Planet Formation Observed (yahoo.com)

Submitted by

SchrodingerZ

on Friday January 04, 2013 @02:40AM

SchrodingerZ writes: "Seen from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile; scientists have detected a gas giant planet focusing material from a gas cloud towards a main star. The star, HD 142527, is a young 2 million years old, and is 450 light-years from Earth. The system has 'A disk of spinning dust and gas left over from its formation... and from this material, planets are being created'. The planetesimals, are drawing material from the dust cloud inward, effectively fueling the expansion of the parent star, currently twice the size of our own Sun. 'Theoretical simulations have predicted such bridges between outer and inner portions of disks surrounding stars, but none have been directly observed until now.' Simon Casassus, lead scientist at the University of Chile, stated that 'Currently, the only mechanism known to produce such gap-crossing dense molecular flows, with residual carbon monoxide gas more diffusely spread out inside the gap, is planetary formation.' While the planets currently are not visible, their presence is very noticeable, more examination of the dust cloud is needed to precisely pinpoint the planet(s)."

Submission + - Intel takes step towards power efficient processors with limited Ivy Bridge chip (dbune.com)

Submitted by abhatt on Thursday January 03, 2013 @10:16AM

abhatt writes: Intel is set to debut the most power efficient chip in the world — a limited edition "Ivy Bridge" processor in the upcoming annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas convention. Only a select group tablet and ultrabook vendors will receive the limited Ivy Bridge chips.

Comment it has to be flight sim (Score 1) 951

by abhatt on Saturday November 24, 2012 @06:43PM (#42083811) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Video Games Keep You From Using Linux?

Microsoft flight simulator.

Submission + - Saudis biggest YouTube viewers in world (dbune.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 24, 2012 @05:33PM

An anonymous reader writes: The saudis are the biggest consumers of online video content (youtube) according to ArabNet. The claim is made during the first digital conference in the Saudia by the CEO of ArabNet. According to the claim most of the youtube traffic in Saudia originates from smartphones.

Submission + - Goats can form accents :-) say experts (dbune.com)

Submitted by abhatt on Monday February 20, 2012 @07:29AM

abhatt writes: Don't be proud that only you have an accent being a human.. As the new study states.. experts once believed that only a select group of animals, such as humans, elephants, whales, bats and dolphins, had the ability to modify vocal sounds to reflect their surroundings, but a new study shows that goats can be added to that list.

Submission + - Surgeons remove sword from Chinese boy's head (dbune.com)

Submitted by

abhatt

on Thursday July 28, 2011 @02:49PM

abhatt writes: "Ouch !
Chinese surgeons have successfully removed a Sword from a Chinese boy's head ! 15-year-old Zhang Bin was 'playing' with friends who had brought a Japanese sword (play?) which slipped and stuck in Zhang's head."

Submission + - Japanese scientists turn sewage into edible steak (dbune.com)

Submitted by

abhatt

on Monday June 20, 2011 @01:18PM

abhatt writes: "Ready to eat "Feces Steak" ?

Japanese scientists trying to find a way how to use sewage mud have converted human waste in Tokyo's sewers into edible meat.

The team of researches led by Mitsuyuki Ikeda found after laboratory tests that bacteria-rich human feces in sewers are high in protein so they decided to make it useful as meat."

Submission + - Gay judge's ruling upheld on same-sex marriage (dbune.com)

Submitted by abhatt on Wednesday June 15, 2011 @12:17PM

abhatt writes: From the article:
Gay advocates in California have won against an effort from conservatives to nullify a court decision declaring Proposition 8, the state's ban on same-sex marriage, unconstitutional.

Ruling on a decision issued by his predecessor, U.S. District Court Chief Judge James Ware said late Wednesday a judge's personal circumstances should not be basis for recusal or disqualification.

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