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Submission + - Cheney Exempts Self From Presidential Orders (speaker.gov) 1

Submitted by

cybermage

on Thursday June 21, 2007 @02:49PM

cybermage writes: "Even in the face of Cheney's office's involvement in the leaking of information related to national security, such as the Valerie Plame incident, vice president Cheney has exempted his office from complying with a presidential order that sets out procedures for the safe handling of national security information."

Submission + - Windows Genuine Advantage Authenticated on Ubuntu

Submitted by

mikus

on Thursday June 21, 2007 @02:46PM

mikus writes: "Just more proof how worthless Microsoft's security is for even their "Genuine Advantage" program, WGA was defeated using Ubuntu, IEs4Linux, and their non-ActiveX authentication to download patches or such from the beast. Ubuntu forums cover the shenanigans with video!

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=475709"

Submission + - The Comparison Shopper (blogspot.com)

Submitted by

samsonovster

on Thursday June 21, 2007 @02:37PM

samsonovster writes: "There are so many mfrs.: Canon, Nikon, Panasonic, Sony, Samsung etc. One makes sensors; the others make LCD-panels and some of them only assemble devices, which is best? What's I need — a DSLR or Compact Camera? What should buy first: HD-camcorder or LCD-panel with 1980x1080 resolutions? And they all try to persuade us they make what we need — buy it! How to make a right choice and not to pay for useless gadgets? There are my own experience of using these gadgets and many interesting images."

Feed New Scientist: Ionic liquid offers greener recycling of plastics (pheedo.com)

From feed by nsfeed on Thursday June 21, 2007 @01:52PM

Using molten salts to dissolve tough plastics like Kevlar into their base chemicals could provide a greener recycling solution

Submission + - 40% of all electricity used by turned off devices (i-hacked.com)

Submitted by WWMPCDD on Thursday June 21, 2007 @01:30PM

WWMPCDD writes: The Department of Energy estimates that in the average home, 40 percent of all electricity used to power home electronics is consumed while the products are turned off. Add that all up, and it equals the annual output of 17 power plants, the government says.

Feed New Scientist: US vaccines on trial over link to autism (pheedo.com)

From feed by nsfeed on Thursday June 21, 2007 @09:52AM

A question mark hangs over the credentials of experts advising parents in the latest autism court case

Feed Homeland Security IT chief blamed for cyberwoes (com.com)

From feed by cnetfeed on Wednesday June 20, 2007 @06:52PM

Top Democrat suggests CIO isn't fit to keep his job amid reports of security-related "incidents." CIO points to "significant progress."

Feed NVIDIA launches Tesla: GPUs are the new CPUs (engadget.com)

From feed by engfeed on Wednesday June 20, 2007 @06:52PM

Filed under: Desktops

We've seen a couple cautious attempts at leveraging the raw floating-point capabilities of modern high-powered graphics cards, but NVIDIA is taking the gloves off with the launch of Tesla, its new general-purpose computing platform built on the 8-series graphics cards we all know and love. According to NVIDIA, the only way to skirt the inevitable collapse of Moore's Law is to join the GPU and CPU together, so two of the three Tesla configs are in the form of workstation upgrades -- a $1,499 single GPU PCI Express card and a $7,500 dual-GPU "deskside supercomputer" that plugs into a custom PCI controller. The truly crazy can pony up a full $12,000 for NVIDIA's first rack units, the four-GPU Tesla S870, which has a peak performance of 2 Teraflops. We're hearing the card and deskside unit will be available in August and that the servers will start shipping in November or December -- perfect for the Engadget Folding@Home holiday rush.

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Feed AMD getting out of fabrication? (engadget.com)

From feed by engfeed on Wednesday June 20, 2007 @06:52PM

Filed under: Desktops

What do you do when you're always playing catch-up to Intel, watching your workstation market share slip, and piling up something like $2 billion in debt? Well if you're AMD, you seriously consider dropping your fabrication business. According to reports, the company is currently investigating its options for outsourcing more (or all) of its manufacturing to third-party firms in deals similar to the ones it has with Chartered Semiconductor and Taiwan Semiconductor. There are drawbacks, of course, including the possibility of longer development times due to the separation of design and manufacturing (the last thing AMD wants, considering recent Barcelona delay rumors). Regardless of what its final decision will be, it's clear that the news has already hurt the struggling chipmaker in the short-term by causing several market analysts to downgrade the company's stock.

[Via Techmeme]

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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!

Submission + - Sand Holes Trump Sharks for Deadly Danger (cnn.com)

Submitted by iocat on Wednesday June 20, 2007 @06:49PM

iocat writes: Just in time for summer comes a new threat at the beach... the beach itself. According to a story on CNN , which sites an article in the New England Journal of Medicine, sand holes have killed more Americans (16) than shark attacks (12) in the period from 1990 — 2006. They can quickly collapse and crush or suffocate victims.

According to the article, one victim was " Matthew Gauruder, who died from a collapse at an after-prom beach party in Westerly, Rhode Island, in May 2001. The 17-year-old was playing football with friends when he jumped for a pass and fell backward into an eight-foot-deep hole someone had dug earlier. Would-be rescuers made the problem worse by caving in more sand as they tried to approach him. People at the scene said he may have been buried 15 minutes, said his mother, Mavis. "

A crusading father and son duo of doctors has pursued the issue for years, after the son witnessed a dangerous collapse while working a summer job as a life-guard on Martha's Vineyard. Apparently life-guards on the Vineyard are now instructed to kick people out of holes deeper than a child's waist.

Submission + - Global Cooling - The other shoe drops (canada.com)

Submitted by

fyngyrz

on Wednesday June 20, 2007 @06:40PM

fyngyrz writes: "As always, there are rumbles of discontent from the scientific community with regard to global warming. This article from R. Timothy Patterson, professor and director of the Ottawa-Carleton Geoscience Centre, Department of Earth Sciences, Carleton University, lays the overriding mechanism of climate change squarely at the feet of the various solar cycles. In the article, he explains that solar energy impacting the earth is part of the mechanism, while the sun's solar wind drives cloud formation in a complementary cycle that enhances the effect of the actual heat input. But that's not the kicker. The interesting part is he is predicting global cooling, rather than warming."

Submission + - Lawsuit shows how to sue spammers (com.com)

Submitted by

mytrip

on Wednesday June 20, 2007 @06:32PM

mytrip writes: "A recent decision in a lawsuit filed against a Florida credit counseling company offers a promising road map to follow for suing spammers.

An investigation of the sender traced the source back to a business called The Credit Counseling Foundation in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Hylkema, a Slashdot reader who once had an e-mail address at the aptly named Suespammers.org, filed a lawsuit in Washington claiming that Credit Counseling was spamming in violation of two state laws, and obtained a default judgment when the company never showed up to defend itself.

After receiving at least nine unsolicited e-mail messages offering credit counseling services, Washington state resident Joseph Hylkema did more than just consign the spam to his junk mail folder: he decided to get even.

Washington state law allows for damages of $1,000 per e-mail message. According to an announcement that Hylkema made in March 2002, though, a judge awarded him a default judgment of $31,575."

Submission + - Conservapedia - The Truth Will Set You Free (theregister.co.uk)

Submitted by

FraterNLST

on Wednesday June 20, 2007 @06:29PM

FraterNLST writes: "Most of us have heard of that joke that is the conservative answer to wikipedia — well, it's still alive and growing. This article gives some words from its founders, and some more brilliant extracts of "unbiased, conservative opinion."

I particularly like the one about Hillary Clinton being unsuited for president as she displays all the signs of classical narcissism. Oh, and she's a democrat, not that that would matter to an unbiased conservative."

Submission + - iPhone to Support Native YouTube Client (apple.com)

Submitted by

MattPat

on Wednesday June 20, 2007 @06:29PM

MattPat writes: "Much like the client currently available on the Apple TV, iPhone users will get a previously-unmentioned piece of functionality when the iPhone ships in 9 days: a native YouTube client.

Apple® today announced that iPhone(TM) users will be able to enjoy YouTube's originally-created content on their iPhones when they begin shipping on June 29. A new Apple-designed application on iPhone will wirelessly stream YouTube's content to iPhone over Wi-Fi or EDGE networks and play it on iPhone's stunning 3.5 inch display. ... "iPhone delivers the best YouTube mobile experience by far," said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. "Now users can enjoy YouTube wherever they are — on their iPhone, on their Mac or on a widescreen TV in their living room with Apple TV."

Apple already has a QuickTour of the functionality on its website."

Submission + - ZEITGEIST - The documentary (jasoncorradino.com)

Submitted by

absentmindedjwc

on Wednesday June 20, 2007 @05:59PM

absentmindedjwc writes: "This is a documentary split into three parts: Religion, 9/11, and the Fed. This work is completely brilliant, it conveys the importance of standing up against the government, as it is getting to the point where it is trying to control everyone. From the documentary: if the people knew about it, it would all fall like a house of cards."

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