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Alan Turing Gets an Apology From Prime Minister Brown 576

Posted by timothy from the mitigation-is-tricky-50-years-later dept.
99luftballon writes "The British government has officially apologized for the treatment of Alan Turing in the post war era. An online petition got more than enough signatures to force an official statement and Prime Minister Gordon Brown has issued a lengthy apology. 'Thousands of people have come together to demand justice for Alan Turing and recognition of the appalling way he was treated. While Turing was dealt with under the law of the time and we can't put the clock back, his treatment was of course utterly unfair and I am pleased to have the chance to say how deeply sorry I and we all are for what happened to him. So on behalf of the British government, and all those who live freely thanks to Alan's work I am very proud to say: we're sorry, you deserved so much better.'"
Microsoft

Microsoft Launches Its Own Open Source Foundation 344

Posted by timothy from the said-the-spider-to-the-fly dept.
darthcamaro writes "Microsoft already had its own open source (OSI-approved) licenses, its own open source project hosting site and now it's adding its own non-profit open source foundation. That's right, the company that is still banging the patent drum against open source now has its own 501(c)(6) open source foundation. Officially called the CodePlex Foundation, it's a separate effort from the CodePlex site and is aimed at helping to get more commercial developers involved in open source. Considering how they continue to attack Linux and open source, will anyone take them seriously?"
Biotech

Bacteria Used To Make Radioactive Metals Inert 237

Posted by CmdrTaco from the a-million-and-one-uses dept.
Serenissima writes "Researcher Judy Wall is experimenting with bacteria that can cleanse the radioactivity from toxic areas by rendering the heavy metals into non-toxic, inert versions. The technology is not without its flaws (the bacteria can't exist in an oxygenated environment yet), but it does have the potential to cleanse some of the world's hazardous sites. From the article: 'The bacteria Wall is studying are bio-corrosives and can change the solubility of heavy metals. They can take uranium and convert it to uraninite, a nearly insoluble substance.'"
Social Networks

Twitter To Add Money-Making Features 89

Posted by CmdrTaco from the yeah-good-luck-with-that dept.
dreemteem writes "Twitter co-founder Biz Stone told reporters in Mexico City this week that the company expects to add revenue-generating features to the micro-blogging site in the fourth quarter, according to a report from Bloomberg.com."
Portables (Apple)

FOIA Documents Detail iPods Overheating, Catching Fire 314

Posted by kdawson from the is-it-hot-in-here dept.
suraj.sun passes along a report from a Seattle TV station that has been investigating reports of Apple iPods overheating and bursting into flames. "An exclusive KIRO 7 Investigation reveals an alarming number of Apple brand iPod MP3 players have suddenly burst into flames and smoke, injuring people and damaging property. It's an investigation that Apple has apparently been trying to keep out of the public eye. It took more than 7 months for KIRO 7 Consumer Investigator Amy Clancy to get her hands on documents concerning Apple's iPods from the Consumer Product Safety Commission because Apple's lawyers filed exemption after exemption. In the end, the CPSC released more than 800 pages which reveal, for the very first time, a comprehensive look that shows, on a number of occasions, iPods have suddenly burst into flames, started to smoke, and even burned their owners. ... Apple refused to comment, and refused to answer all of the other questions [the reporter] has been asking of the company since November."
Networking

Guaranteed Transmission Protocols For Windows? 536

Posted by timothy from the no-charge-for-autocompression dept.
Michael writes "Part of our business at my work involves transferring mission critical files across a 2 mbit microwave connection, into a government-run telecommunications center with a very dodgy internal network and then finally to our own server inside the center. The computers at both ends run Windows. What sort of protocols or tools are available to me that will guarantee to get the data transferred across better than a straight Windows file system copy? Since before I started working here, they've been using FTP to upload the files, but many times the copied files are a few kilobytes smaller than the originals."
Software

Submission + - Best Method for IT Electronic Documentation?

Submitted by tjpatter
tjpatter writes: We are looking to implement an electronic documentation system for our IT office. Based on past experience and Internet searching we have found that there are many different technologies out there to help us with our goal, however each of them seems to have some kind of drawback or requires massive amounts of manual work (cross-linking, etc.). Some of the requirements of such a system are the ability to document the hardware, the software, any installation procedures, and so on for our many servers and services. We would also like the system to have the ability to keep an incident log for each server and have that log tied back to the server's main documentation page. Hopefully that makes sense? It is hard to explain... What kind of systems do other organizations use for such a task? Is a wiki all we need or do we need an object modeling application that mimics our rack structure? The less manual work involved the better! Any insight would prove to be very valuable!

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