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Submission + - Ethernet Turns 40 Years Old (theinquirer.net)

Submitted by alancronin
alancronin writes: Four decades ago the Ethernet protocol made its debut as a way to connect machines in close proximity, today it is the networking layer two protocol of choice for local area networks (LANs), wide area networks (WANs) and everything in between. For many people Ethernet is merely the RJ45 jack on the back of a laptop, but its relative ubiquity and simplicity belie what Ethernet has done for the networking industry and in turn for consumers and enterprises. Ethernet has in the space of 40 years gone from a technology that many in the industry viewed as something not fit for high bandwidth, dependable communications to the default data link protocol.

Submission + - PayPal Unveils New Android SDK, US Developers Get It on May 15

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: PayPal on Monday announced a new Android SDK that tries to make it easier for developers to accept in-app payments on Google’s mobile platform. The company says the software development kit will be available for US developers on May 15. The Android debut comes just over two months after the mobile SDK for iOS, which supports iOS 5+ on all varieties of iPhone and iPad screen sizes and resolutions. At the time, PayPal said an Android flavor was coming, and now it has delivered: its SDK will support version 2.2, meaning Froyo (released in May 2010), and above.

Submission + - 3D printing the Solar System (shapeways.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: So here is a 3D print schematic on Shapeways for printing the Solar System. From the description:

A to-scale model of the solar system, perfect for any mad scientist's desktop! Includes all 8 planets, their planetary-massed moons, the 5 official dwarf planets (Ceres, Pluto, Haumea, Makemake, and Eris) and 4 other that are almost certain to be dwarf planets (Orcus, Quaoar, 225088 "Snow White", and Sedna)! Each concentric ring represents a different ratio scale. The Inner Planets are at a 1AU:17mm scale, the Gas Giants are at 1AU:3mm, the TNO Belt is at 1AU:1.2mm, the Scattered Disk Objects are at 1AU:0.7mm, and Sedna (an Inner Oort Cloud Object) is all the way out at 1AU:0.1mm! Each ring shows one of the objects from the previous ring to maintain their scale relationship. All the planetary spheres are on the same Logarithmic scale, including all the satellites, so feel free to compare Sedna to Ganymede!

Submission + - Seizure monitoring smart belt uses tech borrowed from lie detectors (geek.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A group of students at Rice University believe they have come up with a solution to monitoring a person who suffers from seizures using an intelligent belt and a smartphone.

The Seizure Monitoring and Response Transducer (SMART) belt attaches around the chest and forms an electrical connection inside the belt. It then proceeds to monitor both respiration and electrodermal activity using two silver/silver chloride electrodes (as used in lie detectors) and a breathing sensor that works with the fabric of the belt stretching as the wearer breathes.

At the moment a seizure is detected the module uses a Bluetooth link to inform care givers that there’s a problem. This can be done either via a phone or PC using a predefined alert, for example, a text message could be sent or a PC may sound an alarm.

It's cheap, comfortable, and should hopefully become an actual product millions of seizure suffering individuals can buy.

Submission + - Massive Amount of Malware Targets Older Java Flaws

Submitted by Trailrunner7
Trailrunner7 writes: It’s no secret that Java has moved to the top of the target list for many attackers. It has all the ingredients they love: ubiquity, cross-platform support and, best of all, lots of vulnerabilities. Malware targeting Java flaws has become a major problem, and new statistics show that this epidemic is following much the same pattern as malware exploiting Microsoft vulnerabilities has for years.

Research from Microsoft shows that there has been a huge spike in malware targeting Java vulnerabilities since the third quarter of 2011, and much of the activity has centered on patched vulnerabilities in Java. Part of the reason for this phenomenon may be that attackers like vulnerabilities that are in multiple versions of Java, rather than just one specific version.

Submission + - Urine Test May Detect Pregnancy Problems (acs.org)

Submitted by MTorrice
MTorrice writes: By analyzing chemicals in the urine of expectant mothers, doctors could diagnose problems in pregnancy in the second trimester, earlier than with many current tests, according to a new study. Researchers connected signatures of certain chemicals in pregnant women's urine to complications, such as preeclampsia, preterm delivery, and gestational diabetes. The chemical signatures appeared in the women's urine before they were diagnosed with the conditions.

Submission + - Sun Microsystems' stars: Where are they now? (networkworld.com)

Submitted by alphadogg
alphadogg writes: Sun was founded Andy Bechtolsheim, Vinod Khosla, Scott McNealy and Bill Joy in 1982. The company went public in 1986 and was raking in $1 billion in annual sales by 1988. One of the brightest lights in Silicon Valley for more than two decades, Sun’s bread and butter was high-performance workstations and servers running Sun’s SPARC chips and Sun’s Solaris operating system. The company was also a staunch open source supporter. The recession that began in late 2007 pummeled the financial industry, which accounted for about a third of Sun revenues. The company never recovered and was sold to Oracle in 2009 for $7.4 billion. While Sun is gone, memories linger for former employees. Sun exec Mike Dillon says, "Although it has been three years since the sale to Oracle, not a week goes by that I don’t speak to some former employee or Sun partner. Most of the people have significant jobs and careers, but when describing those other jobs, they always stare wistfully away and say something along the lines of: 'but, it’s not like Sun.'”

Submission + - Bloomberg admits to snooping on the stock terminals it leased. (nytimes.com)

Submitted by sir lox elroy
sir lox elroy writes: Evidently Bloomberg wanted that little extra inside information. They have admitted to snooping on the users of their stock terminals they leased. Bloomberg reporters were told "to use the terminals to get an edge in the competitive world of financial journalism" which let them "view subscribers’ contact information and, in some cases, monitor login activity in order to advance news coverage".

Submission + - The NEW Current Status of Wireless 1

Submitted by PalletBoy
PalletBoy writes: I submitted a question on Monday September 12, 2005 @ 02:20PM to /. entitled "What is the Current Status of WiMAX?". 8 years later we are finally up and running on microwave hops from tower to tower directly back to Fiber. The RTT's between our location and the fiber pop are averaging 7ms. This tech is way cheaper than the combo of DSL and T1s we had (roughly 1/3) and is also 12x faster and scalable to gigabit levels once our biz requires it.

With the new possibility of the spectrum auction and the coming
5G tech, how soon before DSL, Cable, and fiber tech like Fios get added to The Big Internet Museum?

Comment Microsoft will not learn (Score 3, Insightful) 628

by ravenswood1000 (#43465267) Attached to: Windows 8.1 May Restore Boot-To-Desktop, Start Button
Microsoft will never learn no matter how much thier customer base screams and will alway assume they are doing things correctly and everyone else is wrong. Yes, they need to settle in on windows 7 and give up for a bit becase they can't do it right. Wouldn't hurt to fire some guy by the name of Ballmar either.

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