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Submission + - Giant New Telescope To Find Earth Like Planets (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by

Sableye

on Friday July 13, 2007 @07:30PM

Sableye writes: "A new Giant Telescope has been built by a spanish led group to hopefully help find earth like planets, amongst other things. The telescope itself has taken 7 long years to build and is at an altitude of 2,400m(7,900ft) on the island of La Palma but don'nt expect to get your own anytime soon it cost 130m euros (about $175m). You can view alot of images of the new telescope on there official webpage."

Submission + - Technology Predicts Earthquakes (newsblaze.com)

Submitted by

newsblaze

on Friday June 29, 2007 @01:46AM

newsblaze writes: "Japan's Meteorological agency distribution network connects to the Internet, sending a signal to activate a device that delivers a loud countdown of up to 20 seconds preceding the beginning of a tremor. The Agency is to begin the first warning broadcast on radio and television within four months and later this year starts sending to a new version of cell phones. In Shake, Rattle & Roll — Don`t Panic, Strasbaugh outlines how it works and notes that JEITA, Electronic Industries Association of Japan says there can be false alarms. As long as there aren't too many and people take notice, that will be OK. I know, wrong Quake, but how to classify this?"

Submission + - New low for Cisco (networkworld.com)

Submitted by

carusoj

on Thursday June 28, 2007 @02:40PM

carusoj writes: "Cisco has added a new entry-level certification: the Cisco Certified Entry Networking Technician (CCENT), which is a halfway point to the previous entry-level program, the Cisco Certified Networking Associate (CCNA), Network World writes. Many network managers are already questioning the new certification, noting that it really just "caters to the Acronym Abusers by offering up yet another one that people are going to flaunt all over their signatures and resumes.""

Submission + - Litigation to Stop Stem Cell Funding Over

Submitted by jcgam69 on Wednesday May 16, 2007 @07:09PM

jcgam69 writes: According to the California State Controller's office, the California Supreme Court has denied a petition to review the constitutionality of Proposition 71, which voters approved in 2004 to spend $3 billion in tax dollars over 10 years on stem cell research in the state. That means California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, which was also formed as part of Prop 71, is finally free to distribute funds.

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2007/05/litigat ion_to_s.html

Submission + - Amazon to Open DRM-Free MP3 Music Download Store

Submitted by mtnlion1 on Wednesday May 16, 2007 @07:07PM

mtnlion1 writes: Amazon.com announced it will launch a digital music store later this year offering millions of songs in the DRM-free MP3 format from more than 12,000 record labels. EMI Music's digital catalog is the latest addition to the store. Every song and album in the Amazon.com digital music store will be available exclusively in the MP3 format without digital rights management (DRM) software. Amazon's DRM-free MP3s will free customers to play their music on virtually any of their personal devices — including PCs, Macs(TM), iPods(TM), Zunes(TM), Zens(TM) — and to burn songs to CDs for personal use.

http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060 &p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1003003&highlight=

Submission + - Vimeo Responds to Harsh Criticism

Submitted by

Ace905

on Wednesday May 16, 2007 @07:04PM

Ace905 writes: "Jakob Lodwick of Vimeo responds to a private bloggers article on the flaws of Vimeo for sharing video clips. The article is very critical of Vimeo's ability to stand out from the competition, and points out that their most popular producers have chosen Vimeo only because they work for them, or are being promoted by the company. The article is available by clicking here."

Submission + - Dems Partner with YouTube & Google for '08 Deb

Submitted by

remove office

on Wednesday May 16, 2007 @06:49PM

remove office writes: "Earlier this month, Slashdotters read an article I wrote about how CNN plans to release its upcoming Democratic presidential debate under a Creative Commons type license that would allow people to reuse the footage without restriction. Now the Democratic National Committee has gone one step further and announced that their CNN debate will be cosponsored with YouTube and Google, raising the possibility that debate footage will be made available online for free. Previously, both Fox News and MSNBC have made short clips from the debates they sponsored available in streaming Flash and Windows Media formats, interrupted by more commercials than they were originally broadcast with."

Submission + - UCLA student fixes iBook G4 logic board problem.

Submitted by iBookUser on Wednesday May 16, 2007 @06:34PM

iBookUser writes: Apple refuses to acknowledge logic board soldering problems in many iBook G4s. This guide explains how to fix your iBook G4 if you are experiencing the "fan of death". Over a hundred people have posted that this hack has worked for them. http://coreyarnold.org/ibook/

Submission + - Ring Provides Evidence For Dark Matter

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GoogleRuinedMyLife

on Wednesday May 16, 2007 @06:33PM

GoogleRuinedMyLife writes: "A team of US researches from Johns Hopkins University has observed some of the strongest evidence to date of the existence of Dark Matter in the universe (requires free registration). From the article: "A ring-shaped distribution of mass in a galaxy cluster five billion light-years from Earth is the strongest evidence yet for the existence of dark matter. This is the claim of physicists from the US and Europe, who have used data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to see how gravity is bending the light around the cluster. Unlike previous searches in other galaxy clusters, this would be the first time dark matter has been seen isolated in its own separate structure.""

Submission + - Vista more secure than Linux

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 16, 2007 @06:14PM

An anonymous reader writes: FiringSquad has a great editorial on "Microsoft vs the World." In this first part, they focus on Windows Vista x64 security and explain why it's actually very well engineered. Linux on the other hand, has terrible security — the users just happen to be smarter.

Submission + - Nasa unveils Hubble's successor

Submitted by

dalutong

on Thursday May 10, 2007 @09:14PM

dalutong writes: "BBC News has an article detailing NASA's replacement for the much-loved Hubble telescope. The $4.5 billion telescope will be placed in orbit 1.5 million km from Earth and will be almost three times the size of the Hubble. It is set to launch in 2013. They plan to service the Hubble in 2008."

Submission + - Ten steps to the end of freedom

Submitted by

mdsolar

on Sunday April 29, 2007 @11:05PM

mdsolar writes: "Naomi Wolf, never shy to speak up, has published a piece in the Guardian that I found disturbing. It is call "Fascist America, in 10 easy steps" and it works through a number of issues that have been discussed on slashdot. Her ten steps are:

1. Invoke a terrifying internal and external enemy
2. Create a gulag
3. Develop a thug caste
4. Set up an internal surveillance system
5. Harass citizens' groups
6. Engage in arbitrary detention and release
7. Target key individuals
8. Control the press
9. Dissent equals treason
10. Suspend the rule of law

Her thoughts on number 3 seemed especially provocative to me, leading me to wonder, does an all volunteer army lead to the creation of private armies?

Towards the end she says this:

Right now, only a handful of patriots are trying to hold back the tide of tyranny for the rest of us — staff at the Center for Constitutional Rights, who faced death threats for representing the detainees yet persisted all the way to the Supreme Court; activists at the American Civil Liberties Union; and prominent conservatives trying to roll back the corrosive new laws, under the banner of a new group called the American Freedom Agenda. This small, disparate collection of people needs everybody's help, including that of Europeans and others internationally who are willing to put pressure on the administration because they can see what a US unrestrained by real democracy at home can mean for the rest of the world.
Other issues, like messing up elections, didn't make her list but what she does cover seems spooky."

Submission + - NSA Oversight Act introduced in House

Submitted by Watson Ladd on Saturday April 28, 2007 @10:09PM

Watson Ladd writes: A bill has been introduced in the house of representatives that would end the warrantless spying on Americans that the NSA has been performing, and make it clear that FISA or the normal warrant process are the sole means through which electronic surveillance may be authorized. The NSA Oversight Act was introduced on January 4, 2007 and is currently stuck in committee.

Submission + - Debugging the US Constitution

Submitted by

P. Orin Zack

on Saturday April 28, 2007 @09:08PM

P. Orin Zack writes: "Say you're fond of a massively multi-player real-world role-playing game that has run off the rails, and you want to fix it. What do you do? The ground rules of this game are public, and include a method of changing them. The activities within this game are governed not only by these ground rules, but also by in-game laws that are created by the players themselves. Time is limited, because the universe looks like it will soon crash and burn, and you cannot reboot the system.

I'm speaking of the real-life game that runs in an operating system called the US Constitution. The ground rules define a set of checks and balances, for example, but the programmers overlooked some issues, such as a check and balance pair that would enable the Governors of the several states to overrule perverse laws passed by Congress or defeat implementation by the Executive.

So my question for the community is this: if you could revise the rules in the Constitution to fix the problems which threaten to crash the system, what changes would you make?"

Submission + - Sony uses decapitated goat to promote PS3

Submitted by ulatekh on Saturday April 28, 2007 @08:53PM

ulatekh writes: In what has to be a new low, Sony recently threw a party to promote God Of War II, featuring an actual decapitated goat. Guests at the event were even invited to reach inside the goat's still-warm carcass to eat offal from its stomach.

They should have stopped at the topless girls.

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