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Submission + - Digg losing control of their site

Submitted by Fo0eY
Fo0eY writes: The folks at Digg.com have let the social news genie out of the bottle, and now they can't control it. Since the HD-DVD encryption code was discovered and published, readers at Digg have been repeatedly submitting stories with the 16 digit hex code in the titles and bodies. Just as quickly as these posts crawl up the Digg charts, admins seem to be deleting them.
Enlightenment

Submission + - New Layer of Ancient Greek Writings Detected

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geert2705
geert2705 writes: "New Layer of Ancient Greek Writings Detected in Medieval Book The discovery is the third ancient text to emerge from the layers of writing on the much reused pages. In 2002 researchers had uncovered writings by the mathematician Archimedes and the fourth-century B.C. politician Hyperides. Last year one of the pages was found to contain a famous work by Archimedes about buoyancy that had previously been known only from an incomplete Latin translation. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/04/07 0426-aristotle-book.html"
Encryption

Submission + - Church reveals 600 year old musical code

Submitted by
Person99
Person99 writes: "A father and son have deciphered a musical code in a Scottish church's arches. It is supposedly a 600-year old musical code. Quote from the article: A Scottish church which featured in the bestselling novel "The Da Vinci Code" has revealed another mystery hidden in secret code for almost 600 years. A father and son who became fascinated by symbols carved into the chapel's arches say they have deciphered a musical score encrypted in them. Thomas Mitchell, a 75-year-old musician and ex-Royal Air Force code breaker, and his composer and pianist son Stuart, described the piece as "frozen music." "The music has been frozen in time by symbolism," Mitchell told European media, which details the 27-year project to crack the chapel's code. "It was only a matter of time before the symbolism began to thaw out and begin to make sense to scientific and musical perception." The 15th Century Rosslyn Chapel, about seven miles south of the Scottish capital Edinburgh, featured in the last part of Dan Brown's "The Da Vinci Code" — one of the most successful novels of all time which has been turned into a Hollywood film. Stuart Mitchell said he and his father were intrigued by 13 intricately carved angel musicians on the arches of the chapel and by 213 carved cubes depicting geometric-type patterns. "They are of such exquisite detail and so beautiful that we thought there must be a message here." Years of research led the Mitchells to an ancient musical system called cymatics, or Chladni patterns, which are formed by sound waves at specific pitches. The two men matched each of the patterns on the carved cubes to a Chladni pitch, and were able finally to unlock the melody."
Intel

Submission + - Quad-core computers getting more affordable

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: If you have been playing with the idea to buy a quad-core computer, but refused to shell out $5000 or more, you may be surprised to hear that there is suddenly a system that is in your reach. Ok, now we all expected that prices would come down sooner or later, especially, after Intel's latest price round, but I was somewhat baffled about the dramatic price drop: Gateway is offering a decent $2100 retail system with an overclockable Q6600 CPU from Intel, which is, according to TG Daily, at least $700 below the nearest competitor's offering. We are still a bit away from calling these computers mainstream, but at least there's a light at the end of the tunnel, right?
Music

Submission + - Album giveaway could ignite music revolution

Submitted by Denyer
Denyer writes: A couple of years ago, Seattle group Harvey Danger released their album Little By Little online, free, forever. Now press elsewhere are increasingly giving coverage to the idea that music serves better as the advertising for live shows and merchandise, and UK band The Crimea have thrown themselves into the ring with their second album, Secrets of the Witching Hour. What do Slashdot readers think: is there value in recordings themselves any more, or are they mostly something to be shared and attract attention to a band's other endeavours?
Republicans

Submission + - Arctic Ice melting much faster than models predict

Submitted by Socguy
Socguy writes: Arctic sea ice is melting three times faster than many scientists have projected, U.S. researchers reported Monday, just days ahead of the next major international report on climate change. http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2007/05/01/clim ate-arctic.html

Scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the University of Colorado in Boulder, using actual measurements, concluded Arctic sea ice has declined at an average rate of about 7.8 per cent a decade between 1953 and 2006.

By contrast, 18 computer models used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a United Nations-sponsored climate research group, estimated an average rate of decline of 2.5 per cent a decade over the same period, the researchers said.

They said the discrepancy between their observations and computer projections indicate computer models may have failed to portray the entire impact of increasing levels of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
Encryption

Submission + - DRM and who's a closed system

Submitted by
MacLeeMan
MacLeeMan writes: "So the claim is that Apple's DRM is somehow wrong because you need to buy from the iTunes store via the iTunes application (available free for Windows and Mac) and then play it on an iPod or jump through a hoop or two (supported by the free iTunes application) to get your download to play on anything other than a iPod. Why is it that I'm not hearing jack SH*% about Microsoft's DRM that forced me to run Windows Media Player under the Windows OS to even view a Microsoft DRM protected video that my daughter's school uses in her home school classes and prohibits me from doing anything other than view it? The videos on this CD/DVD are NOT VIEWABLE BY ANYTHING OTHER THAN MICROSOFT MEDIA PLAYER RUNNING UNDER MICROSOFT WINDOWS OS. So instead of "being forced to download and use a free application", I am forced to buy a license to the Windows OS and either run it on an Intel box or under emulation...for a cost of more than $100. Microsoft's recommended viewer for Mac (Flip4Mac) cannot play Microsoft DRM files. Microsoft has cancelled support for its MediaPlayer for Mac and "has no plans to support DRM on Macs" http://www.flip4mac.com/knowledge/kb_0056.htm Why haven't the "champions for consumers" taken Micro$oft to task on this rape of our rights??????? If Apple is S-O-O-O Evil in it's DRM.....what the hell is Microsoft??"

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