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Submission + - SPAM: Venezuela women wins miss universe title

Submitted by

aliensbpo

on Thursday August 27, 2009 @06:34AM

aliensbpo writes: "Venezuela women wins miss universe title Stefania Fernandez, belonging to Venezuela won the 2009 Miss Universe title in the Bahamas on Sunday night. She was clad in a flowing red gown. Miss Dominican Republic was the runner up. Fernandez outwitted Ada Aimee, the close competitor. The current winner has won the title for the seventh term. During the questionnaire session involving five shortlisted finalists, Fernandez said she believed women have broken the chains confining them to houses and have scaled to higher levels proving they are no less to men."
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Submission + - PC owners unconvinced by Blu-ray (pcauthority.com.au)

Submitted by Slatterz on Thursday August 27, 2009 @05:02AM

Slatterz writes: The high cost of drives and relatively small range of titles is being blamed for Blu-ray drives failing to catch on in the PC market. Research firm iSuppli has released new data that states the adoption of Blu-ray disk drives between 2009 and 2013 will only increase from 3.6 per cent of all systems to 16.3 per cent, while DVD/CD drives will retain more than four fifths of the market. The company said that the high cost of the drives, combined with the slow transition from DVD to Blu-ray by studios, will keep most buyers from finding a compelling reason to opt for a Blu-ray drive. The smaller size of notebook and desktop monitors also negates many of the advantages of Blu-ray's high-definition picture (although that doesn't seem to be stopping vendors like HP going for broke with Blu-ray notebooks).

Submission + - Awesome Article about the future potential of SSDs (tomshardware.com)

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Thursday August 27, 2009 @04:29AM

Anonymous Coward writes: "Toms Hardware combines 16 Intel Enterprise SSDs to a super fast RAID array, with up to 3.4 GB/s troughput. They used two LSI and one Adaptec controller for this test."

Comment Re:A moral point I've been pondering (Score 3, Interesting) 309

by Laminan on Thursday August 27, 2009 @03:23AM (#29213167) Attached to: China Admits Use of Death-Row Organs

Some people feel that they will not get the full medical care that they would have gotten otherwise. For instance when you do not opt-in, Doctors would hopefully fight until the very end to save you. Should you opt-in, when does the Doctor draw the line to save you versus save the organs for transplant. Doctors cannot save you AND the organs, so when people feel troubled that this creates a conflict of interest with their mortality at stake, they vote against it. This may be based on incorrect data, but it is a prevalent attitude.

Submission + - Atari is stealing music

Submitted by on Thursday August 27, 2009 @01:33AM

An anonymous reader writes: A few month after the fight when Atari was claimed to left out graphic artist Dan Schoening in the final credits of the game Ghostbusters: The Video Game, even though Sony / Sierra had given them his word he would be in the final credits.... Atari does it again. Swedish musician Jonne Dahlberg, also known as "svenzzon" , famous for his underground demoscene music found in many scene related productions, can now find his music in the videogame. No credits, no compensation. The music is played during a visit in the Arcade hall: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJVFntSiuWA and reflects the old commodore days. The music is actually a remix of Chris Huelsbecks old intro music to Turrican 2. Huelsbeck is also the legal owner to the Turrican music and he also confirms that no credits has been given to him, or Jonne Dahlberg. Its funny, these big publishers like Sony that stands for strict copyrights when asked about sites like The Pirate Bay, but when it comes to their own products, stealing is not an issue.

Submission + - First 2nd-Generation Pocket Projector Launched (pcmag.com)

Submitted by

Zan Ozimek

on Thursday August 27, 2009 @12:50AM

Zan Ozimek writes: "On Wednesday, 3M launched the 3M MPro120, the latest member of the company's MPro family of handheld pocket projectors. The MPro120 can be classified as a second-generation pico projector in that it replaces the MM100 projection engine of its predecessor, the 3M MPro110, with 3M's MM200 engine. The MM200 was initially shown at CES 2009 as a non-integrated component."

Submission + - Database Records and "In Plain Sight" Sear

Submitted by chriswaco on Thursday August 27, 2009 @12:24AM

chriswaco writes: A federal appeals court ruled that database records are not "in plain sight" when other records in the same database are subpoenaed.

The case involved Major League Baseball drug test results, but the implications are far wider.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/08/26/steroids.ruling/index.html

Submission + - Augustine Committee Deep Space Option Equals 'Look (examiner.com)

Submitted by

MarkWhittington

on Wednesday August 26, 2009 @11:46PM

MarkWhittington writes: "One of the options for space exploration beyond low Earth orbit that the Augustine Committee is considering is called Deep Space. Deep Space would send astronaut explorers to various destinations, such as Earth approaching asteroids, the moons of Mars, and so on without actually landing on any planet or large moon in the Solar System. Astronauts might "dock" with relatively smaller bodies such as asteroids or the Moons of Mars. Deep Space could be more accurately called the "Look but Don't Touch" Option. Deep Space is not really a path to anywhere."

High-Tech Blimps Earning Their Wings 200

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday August 26, 2009 @08:35PM from the truly-goodyear dept.

coondoggie writes "The US Army this week showed off its latest high-tech blimp laden with powerful radar systems capable of detecting incoming threats 340 miles away. The helium-filled blimps, or aerostats, are designed to hover over war zones or high-security areas and be on guard for incoming missiles or other threats. The Army wants them to reduce some of the need for manned and unmanned reconnaissance flights. The aerostat demonstrated this week is known as the Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Sensor System (JLENS), which is designed to fly up to an altitude of 10,000 feet. According to GlobalSecurity.org., the $1.4 billion JLENS is a large, unpowered elevated sensor moored to the ground by a long cable. From its position above the battlefield, the elevated sensors will allow incoming cruise missiles to be detected, tracked, and engaged by surface-based air defense systems even before the targets can be seen by the systems."

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