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Television

Submission + - Plasma or LCD in 12 Months

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: My old dependable Sony CRT telly is clearly now in its last 12 months. The question is whehter to go with a plasma or LCD display. The trick is that I won't be buying for up to 12 months (don't know exactly when the CRT will die).
Currently Panasonic is running 'plasma — superior' types of educational ads but I'd prefer to hear from a wide audience that already owns one of these two display types. In my uninformed opinion it seems that plasma is a 5-year-old technology that is being eclipsed by LCD. Is this the case?

Both camps seem to have solved their archillies heels; burn-in for plasma and viewing angle for LCD. Is one now (and in the new future) better than the other?

p.s I've given up waiting for SED
Privacy

Submission + - do Internet users want anonymity? 5

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: There's been quite a lot of research (academic and otherwise) on anonymous communication systems (TOR, Nyms, Crowds...). But the user population on even the most popular system, Tor, is an insignificant portion of the net user population. So I'm wondering, is anonymous communication useless, or is there just no killer app yet?

If someone implemented anonymous BitTorrent, would you sign up?
Windows

Submission + - An apparently new and quite serious Vista bug 1

Submitted by
Gazza
Gazza writes: "As a regular Slahdot reader, I knew I had to share this issue with you as I feel that this is, or should soon be, "breaking news" of sorts — it concerns a bug in Vista's Disk Cleanup tool that can (and has — see provided CNET forum link) render a user's computer unbootable and cause serious data loss. I personally experienced this problem yesterday, and I'm understandably concerned about such a serious bug existing in a popular operating system. Details of the bug are outlined in a CNET forum thread (my experience was the third posted on this thread) at 'http://forums.cnet.com/5208-12546_102-0.html?foru mID=133&threadID=255106&messageID=2531664' Do some investigative journalism on this one, it'll be big news in no time flat! Keep up the good work, Gazza"
Music

Submission + - IRENE Makes Old Sound Recordings Audible Again

Submitted by
orgelspieler
orgelspieler writes: "NPR is running a story on a safe way to reproduce sound from ancient phonographs that would otherwise be unplayable. The system, called IRENE, was installed in the Library of Congress last year. It can be used to replay records that are scratched, worn, broken, or just too fragile to play with a needle. It scans the groves optically and processes them into a sound file at speeds approaching real time. IRENE is great at removing pops and skips, but can add some hiss. Researchers are also working on a 3D model that is better at removing hiss."
Hardware Hacking

Submission + - Magnetic avalanches cause hard drive failure

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: According to this report by IT PRO, scientists working at the University of California have discovered the main reason of hard drive failure. According to researchers, some materials used in hard drives are better at damping spin precession than others. Spin precession of magnetic material effects its neighbors' polarity and this can spread and cause sections of hard drives to spontaneously change polarity and lose data. This is known as a magnetic avalanche. So next time Windows fails to start, you'll know why!
User Journal

Journal Journal: Civil Rights "What to do about the FBI"

Journal by aldahir
I don't know if this story is unique but I can't seem to find another story like it anywhere. I have heard of conspiracies and entrapment but no one so blatant. The FBI agents in this case got themselves caught on tape. They obtained a warrant by giving false testimony to a US magistrate. They then raided my home. I've tried everything from writing to my elected reps to hiring a lawyer. What can I do t o get my property back from the government? Any suggestions would help. The warrant can be f
Movies

Submission + - The Truth is Out There Returns

Submitted by DesertBlade
DesertBlade writes: Looks like Mulder and Scully will be re-uniting on screen in X-Files! Since Mulder left the show was never the same. Mulder, I mean Duchovny, is expecting to recieve the script as early as next week.
Patents

Submission + - Microsoft Patents the Mother of All Adware (arstechnica.com)

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An anonymous reader writes: Ars Technica has an article on the mother of all adware patent filed by Microsoft: "It's such a tremendously bad idea that it's almost bound to succeed. Microsoft has filed another patent, this one for an "advertising framework" that uses "context data" from your hard drive to show you advertisements and "apportion and credit advertising revenue" to ad suppliers in real time. Yes, Redmond wants to own the patent on the mother of all adware."
Mozilla

Submission + - Firefox gains at Microsoft's expense

Submitted by Daniel Hudson
Daniel Hudson writes: Firefox, is becoming increasingly popular, gaining on average an extra 3.1 percent of the market in 32 European countries in the past four months, according to French Web-monitoring company XiTi Monitor. Although Microsoft still has 66.5 percent of the browser market across Europe, in certain countries Firefox has now become very popular — especially in Eastern Europe. In Slovenia, Firefox has 47.9 percent of the market, while the browser now has over 39 percent market share in Poland, Hungary, and Croatia.
Technology (Apple)

Submission + - How Apple Can Win The PC Battle (readwriteweb.com)

Submitted by
ReadWriteWeb
ReadWriteWeb writes: "Despite dropping the word computer from its name, Apple still desperately wants to win the PC market. And recent statistics show they are making progress. Just a year ago Apple's share was close to 2%. Now Apple's Desktops have crossed 10% and the MacBooks now closing on 15% of the laptop market. This puts MacBooks in 4th place behind HP, Toshiba and Gateway. The figures are likely to increase in the 3rd quarter, which is traditionally strong for Apple, because of the back-to-school sales.

Despite the fact that Macs are on the rise and iPods rule already, one can't help but wonder: why are people still using PCs if Macs are so great? One reason is of course cost — Apple computers are usually more expensive than PCs. But another reason is Inertia. When it comes to switch, the cost is not just measured in dollars — it is measured in time and brain power. In addition to cost and learning barriers, there are big corporate barriers as well."
Privacy

Submission + - A human buffer overflow to defeat printer dots (seeingyellow.com)

Submitted by
An anonymous reader writes: The Seeing Yellow project wants us to contact printer manufacturers to at last get their statement about the yellow dots that laser printers include to allow tracing of individual printouts. They say one person who did this was paid a visit by the Secret Service!

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