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Submission + - Fat Planet Discovered

Submitted by ExE122
ExE122 writes: Scientists have discovered an unusually fat planet approximately eight times the size of Jupiter. The planet, HAT-P-2b, is the largest planet discovered to date. This new discovery contains "so much gravity a 150-pound person would weigh in at more than a ton".
Privacy

Submission + - Canadian Poppy Quarter Caused 'Spy Coin' Warning

Submitted by
gambit3
gambit3 writes: "An odd-looking Canadian coin with a bright red flower was the culprit behind the U.S. Defense Department's false espionage warning earlier this year. The silver-colored 25-cent piece features the red image of a poppy — Canada's flower of remembrance — inlaid over a maple leaf. Fear of these coins led to a sensational warning from the Defense Security Service, an agency of the Defense Department, that mysterious coins with radio frequency transmitters were found planted on U.S. contractors with classified security clearances."
GUI

Submission + - Cross platform XML GUI. What to choose?

Submitted by mindflow
mindflow writes: Sooner or later most of the new software development with Microsoft as platform will be done after the dot.net 3.0 model. This means the ability to better organize software projects towards matching designer and programmer roles. I believe this is an important move and one which I will try to pursue. However I still believe that cross platform ability is important. A quick search for xml gui java on google results in a plethora of interesting projects. At this point it seems difficult to predict what will become a popular standard, if any. Therefore I would like to try this question on the readers of slashdot. What should I pursue if I want to develop cross platform xml based gui applications? And will any of these technologies become a standard for web applications?
The Internet

Submission + - Use Web search engines to locate XML

Submitted by IndioMan
IndioMan writes: XML was designed for the Web, and so it follows that XML is meant to be found by Web search engines. You might need to take advantage of this when you seek a particular XML document. Or perhaps you need examples of XML in a particular format. You have a variety of advanced Web search engine features to use in such cases. In this tip I'll present a variety of techniques and gotchas to help you in your quest.
Programming

Submission + - Memory leak patterns in JavaScript

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Plugging memory leaks in JavaScript is easy enough when you know what causes them. This article walks you through the basics of circular references in JavaScript and explain why they can cause problems in certain browsers, especially when combined with closures. After seeing some of the common memory leak patterns you should watch out for, you'll learn a variety of easy ways to work around them.
Censorship

Submission + - Ontario Government Bans Gov't Access To Facebook

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The Ontario Government has banned access to Facebook for thousands of government employees, arguing that it serves no useful purpose in the workplace. The move comes soon after Ontario schools began suspending students for posting derogatory comments on the social networking site.
The Internet

Submission + - How To Start A Web Host Part 1

Submitted by
LeeCu
LeeCu writes: "What you are about to read is the past 4 years in my life of starting a web hosting business.

First off let me start by saying thanks for reading if you do. This article must not be reproduce in any way shape or form period.

So you want to start your own web hosting company? Well guess what? Your in a long line of many others that has wanted to start they're own business. Most have succeeded, some have failed. Which group will you be in? Well that depends on your attitude. If you have the I CAN DO attitude then more then likely you will succeed, BUT, if you go in thinking I am going get rich quick, well then just stay away from it. YOU WILL FAIL.

I use to drive truck for a living and got tired of being burned by the trucking companies. So I searched around for other lines of work, but none appealed to me more then owning my own business. There's nothing like being your own boss right? You can do what you want, when you want. So with my experience in customer communications I said "I CAN DO THIS". Well phase 1 of my new venture was to research, research, research. I bought an old computer and downloaded Redhat. I installed redhat with out a hitch. So i fire up the box and there's no GUI. Immediately I thought "What the hell did I get myself into?". Well I started searching the web on everything linux. Google is the best place to start. I found tons of information but the place i always went to was linuxnewbie.org, which is now Just Linux. There is a wealth of information there. If you are ever stuck or can't find an answer just go to linuxnewbie.org

Linux is just like DOS use to be. Nowadays though most linux disto comes with a GUI. I chose Redhat due to its popular rating as a web based server. You can choose what ever distro you want as there are 100's if not 1000's out there. Anyway back to the story. Learn all you can about linux that you can. You will need it. Some resellers offer SSH Access some don't. I would recommend going with one that offers SSH, due to the fact you can log in and monitor your host's server with the command "TOP" (without the quotes).
Now once you get your box set up, fool around with it. Try to get someone to break into your box, and breech the security of it. If they succeed you need to learn how to set your ipchains up. ipchains and iptables are the linux firewall. You should never store any personal info on this box while you are learning linux. After you are able to have your box secured try setting up a basic run of the mill web server. Fool around with the http.conf some, try different stuff."
United States

Submission + - GAO Study Contradicts Counterfeiting Claims

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A new study (pdf) from the U.S. General Accounting Office contains data confirming that claims about counterfeiting are massively overstated. Michael Geist notes that the report found that less than one percent of shipments entering the U.S. contained counterfeit goods, a far cry from the 5 to 7 percent of international trade that is often claimed.
IT

Boredom Drives Open-Source Developers? 199

Posted by CmdrTaco from the not-that-far-from-the-truth dept.
Henry McClyde writes "Chris Anderson of The Long Tail posted an article yesterday in which he claims that "spare cycles" — or boredom and the tons of people who wish they had something better to do — is what drives Web 2.0.... and the open source development community. While Web 2.0 in general is driven by "the long tail," NeoSmart seems to have taken up issue with Anderson's claims that open source developers (and other freeware programmers in general) do what they do because they're bored and have nothing better to spend their time on. Same with Wikipedia contributors, and bloggers in general."
Education

Submission + - Improve Our Knowledge Through The Internet

Submitted by
madalinna
madalinna writes: "As we all know, the Internet represents nowadays one of the most important means of communication. Its use is due to our constant need of getting new information in different fields, such as: culture and civilization, science, education. The Internet also facilitates communication between individuals, realizing virtual communities among people united by the same passions and ideas; and by doing this they overcome political, social and linguistic boundaries.

We can also use the Internet to enrich our knowledge, our culture, but, at the same time, we shouldn't forget the traditional methods of improving our knowledge. I t is said that the Internet gives us different points of view or different perspectives on how to approach a certain situation, but it's our job to establish a relation between the traditional methods of learning and the modern methods. I know that the advantages of using the Internet can be sometimes overwhelming, in a good way. The choice is ours. We can use it to enjoy ourselves or we can use it to solve our tasks, related to school. No matter what we choose, we know that we can learn a lot by connecting ourselves to the system, that is the Internet.

The Way To Improve Our Knowledge Through The Internet "
Businesses

Submission + - Web site helps callers slip past the recording

Submitted by
Anonymous Coward
Anonymous Coward writes: "Ever called a big company to ask a little question only to have your call answered by a recording that prompts you to more recordings — none of which leads to an answer or allows you to speak to a real person?

This situation frustrated Boston entrepreneur and consumer advocate Paul English. English, who already headed a successful online travel business called Kayak.com and had his own blog, first noted his findings on his blog for each company's phone system that he managed to beat. The list grew longer as visitors to his site offered their horror stories and revealed their secrets to reaching a live person. The response was so great, it grew to where he created GetHuman.com. It features an alphabetized list of company names, a letter grade reflecting their level of customer service, their phone number and directions on how to get to a human being as soon as possible."
HP

CNET Reporters Intend to Sue HP Over Surveillance 40

Posted by CmdrTaco from the wish-i-could-sue-someone dept.
theodp writes "The NY Times reports that three CNET journalists whose records, as well as those of their relatives, were scrutinized by pretexting investigators working for HP intend to sue the company for invasion of privacy. HP, who paid $14.5M to settle a lawsuit filed by the CA attorney general in connection with the spying, reportedly offered each reporter $10,000, roughly enough to cover legal bills. The CNET reporters have been banned from covering HP or its see-no-evil CEO, who BTW was rewarded with $20.33M in 2006 despite skipping his reading assignments."
Education

Submission + - Professor Takes His Scholarship to YouTube

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: There's a new video report about a Kansas State professor who got 2 million + hits with his video on YouTube that's basically a video version of his scholarly paper about Web 2.0. Will scholars start to make their points via online video instead of just print papers? (article)
Sun Microsystems

Submission + - Part of ZFS already under GPLv2

Submitted by
juskeeper
juskeeper writes: "According to this sun blogger http://blogs.sun.com/darren/entry/zfs_under_gplv2_ already_exists,in order to allow GRUB to boot root partition formatted with ZFS filesystem,Sun has put part of ZFS's source code into their GRUB source tree,thus make them under GPLv2 license,although RAID-Z and userland tools(probably the most substantial part) are not there yet."

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