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Submission + - SCO Delisted

Submitted by Technician
Technician writes: I have been following the fall of SCO stock. When I checked their stock tonight I found the anouncement of the delisting instead of a chart. http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=SCOX "SCOX has failed to meet NASDAQ Capital Market continued listing requirement(s)."
Power

Submission + - Alloy of aluminum and gallium releases hydrogen

Submitted by
mdsolar
mdsolar writes: "Reuters is reporting on a method of releasing hydrogen from water by oxidizing aluminum in an alloy with gallium. The aluminum oxidizes leaving aluminum oxide, gallium and hydrogen gas in the presence of water. The Purdue scientists who discovered the effect think this may help to overcome difficulties with hydrogen storage. From the article:

On its own, aluminum will not react with water because it forms a protective skin when exposed to oxygen. Adding gallium keeps the film from forming, allowing the aluminum to react with oxygen in the water.
More details are give here."
Hardware Hacking

Submission + - Girl Puts Computer Parts In Stuffed Beaver

Submitted by
ErikInterlude
ErikInterlude writes: "First off, here's the link.

It's a slideshow demonstrating how an enterprising young lady acquired a stuffed beaver, hollowed it out, and placed all necessary parts inside to make it a computer. It's even got a DVD drive coming out of its belly!

I had no idea beavers were big enough to store all that hardware..."
User Journal

Journal Journal: Educational Captcha

Journal by sabufrancis
I got sick and tired of looking a captchas that only had a random collection of letters. No doubt they prevent automated web robots from processing some critical forms because you are forced to type the letters from the captcha image. But what a waste of time! So I thought, why not make the captchas teach something when the person is in the middle of filling a form. Kind of a digression some may say. And they may very well be right. But then some others (Edward de Bono for e.g.) may call it a d
Wireless Networking

Submission + - Indian railway stations to get Wi-Max

Submitted by ghoul
ghoul writes: According to this article Indian Railways has started the process of equipping railway stations with Wi-Max facilities. These will provide wireless access to within 5-6 km radius of railway stations as compared to the current 100-200 m radius of Wifi. I wonder why Google is using Wifi for San Francisco when WiMax is now available. This is another example of leapfrogging of technology. India never managed to roll out a complete copper landline system but ramped up mobile access so fast that there are now more mobiles than landline. Hence now there is phone connectivity and they have saved the cost of all that copper and fiber. Similarly they will save money on not having rolled out Wifi and going to WiMax directly. Also given that India has the largest network of railway stations in the world most villages do fall 5-6 km within the radius of a railway station so when this rollout is completed the entire country should have wireless access. Drawbacks — its not free and it wont work on moving trains
Movies

Submission + - Voice of Box dies at 81

Submitted by rat_axe
rat_axe writes: Veteran actor Roscoe Lee Browne died last Wednesday April 11 of cancer. Movie geeks will remember him as the voice of Box the robot in Logan's Run (1976) with the memorable line "Fish, and plankton, and sea greens, and protein from the sea." He also voiced Mr. Arrow in the animated Treasure Planet (2002).
The Almighty Buck

Submission + - Australian ISPs to disconnect file sharers?

Submitted by shadrach_au
shadrach_au writes: The Australian music industry has approached Internet service providers (ISP) to penalize people who illegally download music. Under the plan, record labels would identify Internet customers who are illegally downloading and service providers would give them three warnings before cutting off their phone and Internet connections. Recent research shows that 18 per cent of Australians regularly use filesharing programs like Limewire to illegally download songs from the Internet.
Spam

Submission + - use disposable email addresses to get rid of spam

Submitted by
lionair
lionair writes: "Does it annoy you when websites ask for your email address, for no reason other than to send you stuff you're not interested in? Well from now on, don't give them your email, give them Spaml! Just make up any email addressYouLike@spaml.com, then go to http://www.spaml.com/ to read it. Simple. No passwords, get what you want then leave."
The Media

Submission + - Popular Diet Myths Regarding Beer

Submitted by cb_is_cool
cb_is_cool writes: We've all heard the old cliche about having a "beer belly". Find out some of the facts regarding beer and related alcoholic beverages:

From the Article: An online expert for "The South Beach Diet" recently wrote: "This diet is constantly changing based on new research so some of the info in the book is out of date. One of those items, you will be happy to know, is the ban on beer ... One or two drinks [of beer] is unlikely to cause weight gain since it takes an extra 3500 calories over what the body needs to gain a pound of fat."

This sounds like something we can all drink to... :)
Upgrades

Submission + - New speed record on rails

Submitted by Melkman
Melkman writes: Today the french TGV train set an new speed record. With 574km/h (357mph) it is the fastest train on wheels. Only the Japanese Maglev has set a higher speed record for trains with 581 km/h. Too bad they didn't push just a little harder. You can see a movie of the record here. Akamai should be able to withstand a slashdotting :-).
Space

Submission + - India brings back orbiting satellite to earth.

Submitted by
bharatm
bharatm writes: ""In a pathbreaking event heralding its arrival as a space power with capability to recover an orbiting satellite, India today successfully brought back a spacecraft to earth, giving a new impetus to the proposed manned mission to space in the next decade." More news here and here"
Announcements

Submission + - Three UK cancels roaming costs in 7 countries

Submitted by pieggi
pieggi writes: I report you an article seen on 21talks.net (http://21talks.net/voip/3-roaming-fees) via voipblog.it:
"British mobile provider 3 has made an impressive step into the deregulation of the telecoms market. It abolished roaming charges for its UK customers in seven nations, meaning its UK users won't be charged for calling or receiving calls or text message on their regular cellphone when on trip."

The seven countries are Italy, Australia, the Republic of Ireland, Austria, Hong Kong, Sweden and Denmark.

The article links also a BBC article http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6263699.stm
Yahoo!

Submission + - Why Y! Answers Got Big but Google Answers flopped

Submitted by blogdig
blogdig writes: http://www.thebizofcoding.com/2007/01/why_yahoo_an swers_is_flourishi.html The simplicity of Yahoo! Answers is at the source of its surging popularity. Anyone can ask questions or provide answers. Yahoo's Rating and Reviews platform gives Reputation points to participants. Highly rated answers build a participants Reputation incentivising good participation. Google Answers on the other hand has been retired. It is no longer accepting new questions. When Google tried to build an online paid "Answers" product it made two mistakes: 1) Google blocked the Mass Participation that is typically required to build vibrant online communities....

PR Firm Behind Al Gore YouTube Spoof? 777

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the new-intarweb-trolls dept.
mytrip writes to tell us ABC News is reporting that a supposed amateur video posted to YouTube.com may have actually been designed and posted by a Republican public relations firm called DCI. From the article: "Public relations firms have long used computer technology to create bogus grassroots campaigns, which are called 'Astroturf.' Now these firms are being hired to push illusions on the Internet to create the false impression of real people blogging, e-mailing and making films."

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