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Operating Systems

Submission + - Revolutionary Operating System Released (losethos.com)

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losethos
losethos writes: "LoseThos V3.05, a 64-bit operating system for programmers has been released. It's command line syntax is based on C/C++. Documentation pulls-up source code where commands are self-explanitory. Programming has been dramatically stream-lined with graphics in source code, for example. Best of all, it's free and open source with all code included."
Technology (Apple)

Submission + - Chinese sold Unlocked Apple iPhone on Beijing's St (ifastnet.com)

Submitted by
a_skripko
a_skripko writes: "Chineses are again ahead of all. Pirate market in China will live forever, only 9 days ago was released first abnnouncement about Apple iPhone successfull unlocking, but today streets of Beijing are full with freely distributed advertisings of iPhone unlocking."
Security

Submission + - Americans may need passports to board flights? (cnn.com)

Submitted by
xanadu113
xanadu113 writes: "Americans may need passports to board domestic flights or to picnic in a national park next year if they live in one of the states defying the federal Real ID Act.

The act, signed in 2005 as part of an emergency military spending and tsunami relief bill, aims to weave driver's licenses and state ID cards into a sort of national identification system by May 2008. The law sets baseline criteria for how driver's licenses will be issued and what information they must contain."
Software

Submission + - Something suspicious over at vmwaRE

Submitted by Wheely
Wheely writes: A few days after a very successful IPO with all the free advertising that entails Vmware's download site is down and it is currently not possible to buy their software. We are being asked to not submit orders over the web though e-mail orders will be dealt with "as soon as possible". The reason given is for "user improvements and site upgrades". This seems a particularly careless time to be maintaining their site. Suspicious, unlucky or just plain dumb?
Software

Submission + - Skype goes down

Submitted by
siliconeyes
siliconeyes writes: "Skype has suffered a massive failure that is preventing people all over the globe from signing on to the popular IM/voice application. The Skype heartbeat website has been displaying the message Problems with Skype login for over 24 hours now. The Skype forums are full of people complaining about the lack of service. Even though SkypeIn and SkypeOut are shown as working normally on the heartbeat site, one has to wonder how they are supposed to use these services without being able to log in!"
The Internet

Submission + - A campaign to block Firefox users (whyfirefoxisblocked.com) 5

Submitted by rarwes
rarwes writes: A website is aiming at blocking Firefox users. This because a fraction of the Firefox users installed an Ad Blocker and thus stealing money from website owners that use ads. They recommend using IE, Opera or IE tab. From the site: Demographics have shown that not only are FireFox users a somewhat small percentage of the internet, they actually are even smaller in terms of online spending, therefore blocking FireFox seems to have only minimal financial drawbacks, whereas ending resource theft has tremendous financial rewards for honest, hard-working website owners and developers.
Software

Submission + - Adobe may launch Office rival 1

Submitted by Ulysees
Ulysees writes: Adobe may launch its own office-application suite, taking it into direct competition with Microsoft.

In an interview, Mike Downey, group manager for platform evangelism at Adobe, said that, although he could not reveal any plans at the moment, the possibility should not be dismissed.

"Though we have not yet announced any intentions to move into the office productivity-software market, considering that we have built this platform that makes it easy to build rich applications that run on both the desktop and the browser, I certainly wouldn't rule anything like that out," Downey told Wired.com.
Enlightenment

Submission + - What Does 'Single' Really Mean? (thisisby.us)

Submitted by
Norah Retracks
Norah Retracks writes: "I don't think Webster's definition counts anymore. I don't date much. I've found dating to be very stressful. I've said before that I'd just like to bypass the dating stage and just get married. Now maybe the reason for my naive ness is because I don't date much, but isn't the status Single different from having a Dating status? I started talking to this guy and of course the normal thing to ask is: 'Are you seeing anyone?' or 'Are you single' I normally just ask the latter of the two. But now I've been told that that's the wrong thing to ask. Telling half truths, Why, O why do people do it? Maybe because it's not seen as lying? Whatever the case may be I will never fully understand. Anyway back to the story. I asked him if he was single. And his response was, 'Yes I am single' which I guess in a way is correct. I mean he wasn't in a relationship and he wasn't married. But what he failed to tell me and what I learned through six degrees of separation was that he had been dating someone. Of course I didn't find out this information until I had already been talking to him for awhile. Now I know people date more than one person at time, and there is nothing wrong with it, but from experience I have learned not to do it. The most I will do is talk to more than one person at the same time. However, I let both parties know that well in advance so there are no misconceptions. But what I don't do is date more than one person at the same time. From my experience someone always gets hurt and the last thing I need to do is develop feelings for multiple people at the same time; my life is complex enough as is. So because of some bad past experiences with the 'dating the field' thing, I decided to get to know people and then decide who I want to date. Weird? Could be but I would rather do that then deal with what I've dealt with in the past, but that's another story for another time. I don't like confrontation, but I also don't like to be played for a fool either. So I sat down and spoke with him about the whole thing and asked him why he never told me he was dating someone. His response, "You never asked." click the link to read the whole story...."
Censorship

Submission + - Australia to spend $189 million on fighting pr0n 2

Submitted by
mernil
mernil writes: "Australia's prime minister John Howard and opposition leader Kevin Rudd revealed the Australian government's sweeping new $189 million anti-pornography initiative on Friday at an event hosted by the Australian Christian Lobby. During the presentation, which was broadcast to over 700 Australian churches, Howard discussed Christian values and described the government's latest costly plans for preventing pictures of naked people from clogging The Tubes. /.../ Approximately $22 million will be spent on a broad "public awareness and education campaign" to inform parents of Internet safety issues, and another $11.7 million will be used to establish community outreach programs that will push "the Internet safety message" into thousands of schools. Additionally, the government plans to establish a consultative working group to find a "workable solution" to combat "the use of social networking web sites by predators to contact and groom children via the internet.""
Privacy

Submission + - Comcast Caches Web Pages 1

Submitted by
not-admin
not-admin writes: "A little over five years ago, Comcast received some major consumer backlash for their policy of caching web pages that users requested, along with the IP address of the requesting user. It appears now that this policy has been reinstated, at least for personal customers. While this does make practical sense for an ISP, it is unpractical in many cases where site content is generated on-demand. In situations like that a cache can cause problems, making a site cumbersome or even useless. In the evolving "Web 2.0" world of today, is caching a practical solution for ISPs or just another hassle for the consumer?"
Security

Submission + - China moving into a high-tec policestate (nytimes.com)

Submitted by Bebop_Tweaker
Bebop_Tweaker writes: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/12/business/worldbu siness/12security.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin Starting this month in a port neighborhood and then spreading across Shenzhen, a city of 12.4 million people, residency cards fitted with powerful computer chips programmed by the same company will be issued to most citizens. Data on the chip will include not just the citizen's name and address but also work history, educational background, religion, ethnicity, police record, medical insurance status and landlord's phone number. Even personal reproductive history will be included, for enforcement of China's controversial "one child" policy. Plans are being studied to add credit histories, subway travel payments and small purchases charged to the card
United States

Submission + - Back to the Future in a 98-Year-Old Electric Car

Submitted by
stalebread
stalebread writes: "NYTimes has an interesting article about the popularity of electric cars 100 years ago. The article focuses on Jay Leno's 1909 Baker Electric Coupe. From the article, "In an era in which gasoline-powered automobiles were noisy, smelly, greasy and problematic to start, [with] electric cars, ... [women] could simply drive to lunch, to shop, or to visit friends without fear of soiling their gloves, mussing their hair or setting their highly combustible crinoline dresses on fire. It'll go for about four or five hours on a single charge, at about 20 to 25 miles an hour. Its range is about 110 miles, just about what most electric cars made these days will do. So we really haven't come very far in a hundred years.""

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