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Which All-in-One Inkjet Printer is Cheapest to Use? 119

Posted by Cliff from the easy-on-the-wallet-please dept.
Ray asks: "A year or so ago, I got my dad a new computer system that included a Canon PX-160 printer/scanner/copier to replace his aging Lexmark with similar capabilities. On my next visit, I asked him how the new printer was working and he said the ink was killing him. The cartridges are expensive, they don't have much ink in them and there are no third party or refilled carts for it or (apparently) any other Canon. It looks like HP and Lexmark are the most likely to have (relatively) inexpensive supplies but what has your experience been with inkjet All-in-Ones as far as TCO goes?"
Programming

Submission + - Reasons to close source code?

Submitted by cowens
cowens writes: The last Ask Slashdot article got me to thinking about what reasons people have (or think they have) to close source code. Are any of these reasons valid? Can you think of any other reasons?
  1. You believe that your source code is so revolutionary that closing it will act as a significant barrier to your competitors.
  2. You are embarrassed by the code's lack of quality and are afraid of ridicule.
  3. You wish to license someone else's code and they are not FOSS friendly.
  4. You are afraid someone might discover a security flaw by examining the source code and exploit the flaw rather than reporting it to you.
  5. You are afraid of losing control of the project (similar to point 1).
  6. You have not actually considered why you want to close the source; AKA you are an idiot.
  7. It is what you have always done before; AKA you are a dinosaur and see point 6.
It's funny. Laugh.

Submission + - MacGyver Physics

Submitted by counterfriction
counterfriction writes: This month's issue of Symmetry, a magazine jointly published by SLAC and Fermilab, is featuring an article that points out the sometimes extemporaneous and unconventional solutions physicists have come up with in (and out of) the laboratory.
From TFA, 'Leon Lederman ... used a pocket knife, tape, and items on anyone's grocery list to confirm that interactions involving the weak force do now show perfect mirror symmetry, or parity, as scientists had long assumed.'
United States

Submission + - Getting out of IT, where to start?

Submitted by cavtroop
cavtroop writes: I've been doing IT for almost 12 years now, with the typical progression: pc support, server support, network support, etc. I used to love my job, and look forward to coming into work, learning something new, and surmounting challenging obstacles. After years of doing this and that in IT, I'm now an IT Generalist, and finding a job is getting tougher and tougher — most hiring managers are looking for subject matter experts. My lack of a degree (I joined the military, and went straight to work after that) is also beginning to hinder me greatly.

I've been giving some thought to getting out of IT lately. I find I no longer enjoy my work — most of the work I do provides little challenge, and I honestly don't remember the last time I learned something new and interesting. With the recent news of IBM possibly laying of 100k people plus (and the years long trend towards out-sourcing), the prospects of ever getting a meaningful IT job again are looking dim.

I think its time to hit the eject button on my IT career. But where to begin? I tried searching for a career counselor, but most of the hits were shady fly by night places, or people that just want to sell you a book.

Has anyone out there in /. land had a similar experience? What can I expect, and where can I start? Any tips, etc would be beneficial.
Censorship

Submission + - HD-DVD processing key and massive censorship

Submitted by
Rudd-O
Rudd-O writes: "After successful discovery of the HD-DVD processing key, massive unprecedented amounts of censorship, in the form of DMCA takedown notices (by the MPAA), have begun to circulate around the Internet. For example, Spooky Action at a Distance was killed. More disturbingly, my story got Dugg twice, with the second wave hitting 15.500 votes, and today I found out it had simply disappeared from Digg. How long until the long arm of the MPAA gets to my own site (run in Ecuador) and the rest of them holding the processing key? How long will we let rampant censorhip go, in the name of economic interest?"
Software

Submission + - Ext3cow Versioning File System released for 2.6

Submitted by
Zachary Peterson
Zachary Peterson writes: "Ext3cow, an open-source versioning file system based on ext3, has been released for 2.6 kernel. Ext3cow allows users to view their file system as it appeared at any point in time through a natural, time-shifiting interface. This is can be very useful for preventing data loss, revision control, intrusion detection, and meeting the requirments of data retention legislation. Kernel patches and details can be found at: http://www.ext3cow.com./"
Privacy

Submission + - Last Week to Tell DHS to STOP REAL ID

Submitted by
groschke
groschke writes: "A broad coalition of organizations across the United States is urging the public to submit comments rejecting the illegal national identification system created under the Department of Homeland Security's REAL ID program. Their website links to several portals you can use to submit your comments online, as well as some sample comments. REAL ID doesn't contain adequate privacy and security safeguards; makes getting a driver's license harder; and will make it easier for stalkers, identity thieves and corrupt government officials to access our personal information. The REAL ID Act passed with no hearings and this is your chance to speak up! The deadline is May 8th, 5pm Eastern."
Hardware Hacking

Submission + - AACS exploit and industry revenge

Submitted by
Guzabi
Guzabi writes: "Not a scoop, really, but ruud-o has published the (in)famous 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 some hours ago. This is actually a key that is part of the de-cyphering process for HD contents found on HD-DVD and Blu-Ray discs. There seems to be a storm over this on the web (despite the code being accessible for months now) as AACS-LA is desperately trying to shut down sites exhibiting the code. Read the full story below and if you feel like contributing to world freedom, you know what to do ;-)

http://rudd-o.com/archives/2007/04/30/spread-this- number/"
United States

Submission + - SF fire proves official WTC collapse explanation?

Submitted by sn00ker
sn00ker writes: As was widely reported by numerous agencies, a petrol tanker crashed into a freeway bridge in San Francisco and the subsequent fire caused a section to collapse within 25 minutes.

One of the core tenets of WTC conspiracy theory is that a simple petroleum-products fire could not cause sufficient structural weakness to have caused the towers to collapse. However, this incident seems to prove otherwise. Another nail in the conspiracy coffin, or more grist for the mill?
Science

A Step Towards an Invisibility Cloak 172

Posted by kdawson from the who-goes-there dept.
An anonymous reader alerts us to work out of Purdue University in Indiana, where researchers have produced a design for a method of cloaking objects of any shape and size at a single wavelength of visible light. The math for such an invisibility effect was worked out last year at Duke and in the UK, but the new work, to be published in Nature Photonics this month, is the first practical design. The lead researcher, Vladimir Shalaev, notes that even though the current design works only at a single wavelength, and so would not convey true invisibility, it could still be useful — against, for example, night-vision goggles or laser target designators. Shalaev calls the technical challenge of producing an all-wavelengths cloak "doable in principle."
Software

Submission + - AOL sues, Gaim is now Pidgin

Submitted by Pat J
Pat J writes: Gaim has announced that the reason for the long awaited 2.0.0 release has been an ongoing discussion with AOL over rights to the name AIM. Today, they announced on their blog that Gaim 2.0.0 will now be called Pidgin and will be released within a week or so. http://gaim.sourceforge.net/index.php?id=177.
Google

Submission + - Google to Viacom-The law is clear, and on our side

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Google responded to the opinion piece in the Washington Post by a Viacom Lawyer with a letter to the editor titled "An End Run on Copyright Law." "Viacom is attempting to rewrite established copyright law through a baseless lawsuit. In February, after negotiations broke down, Viacom requested that YouTube take down more than 100,000 videos. We did so immediately, working through a weekend. Viacom later withdrew some of those requests, apparently realizing that those videos were not infringing, after all. Though Viacom seems unable to determine what constitutes infringing content, its lawyers believe that we should have the responsibility and ability to do it for them. Fortunately, the law is clear, and on our side."

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