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Submission + - Make your own Chromebook (extremetech.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: On June 15, Samsung and Acer will release the first consumer-oriented Chrome OS laptops, or Chromebooks as Google likes to call them. Both hardware- and software-wise, these netbooks are nothing special. In fact, for about $300 — a saving of about $150 — you can get a cheaper and more powerful netbook with Windows 7 pre-installed — and it only takes about 30 minutes to wipe Windows and install Chrome OS yourself. You'll end up with a better and cheaper Chromebook — and to top it off, you'll have a spare Windows 7 license that you can give to your mom.
Idle

Submission + - 3D Food creation (www.cbc.ca)

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MrShaggy
MrShaggy writes: "An engineering lab and a culinary school have teamed up to construct novel edible objects with 3D printers that use pureed foods in place of ink."
Science

Submission + - Evidence of extraterritorial life discovered (journalofcosmology.com)

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Anonymous Coward
Anonymous Coward writes: "NASA scientist Dr. Hoover claims he discovered evidence of extraterritorial life in a meteorite. He published his results in the March issue of Journal of Cosmology. Scroll down on the linked page to read the article. Front of the article there is an official statement form the editor in chief: "We believe Dr. Hoover's careful analysis provides definitive evidence of ancient microbial life on astral bodies some of which may predate the origin of Earth and this solar system. Dr. Richard Hoover is a highly respected scientist and astrobiologist with a prestigious record of accomplishment at NASA. Given the controversial nature of his discovery, we have invited 100 experts and have issued a general invitation to over 5000 scientists from the scientific community to review the paper and to offer their critical analysis.""

Submission + - 150 year old, Civil War Message Decoded (huffingtonpost.com)

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MrShaggy
MrShaggy writes: "RICHMOND, Va. — A glass vial stopped with a cork during the Civil War has been opened, revealing a coded message to the desperate Confederate commander in Vicksburg on the day the Mississippi city fell to Union forces 147 years ago. The dispatch offered no hope to doomed Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton:"
Firefox

Submission + - An FBI-Mozilla Connection? (indybay.org) 1

Submitted by AHuxley
AHuxley writes: Is a former Animal Liberation Front prisoner and FBI informant now working for Mozilla?
The indybay.org article has a link to grand jury testimony and notes the exchange for a reduced sentence.

Submission + - Woz on Neutrality (theatlantic.com)

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MrShaggy
MrShaggy writes: ""s. On the other hand, I'm a founder of the EFF and I care a lot about individuals and their own importance. Finally, the thought hit me that every time and in every way that the telecommunications careers have had power or control, we the people wind up getting screwed. Every audience that I speak this statement and phrase to bursts into applause.""

Submission + - 10 wacky USB devices (infoworld.com)

Submitted by GMGruman
GMGruman writes: Who doesn't like gadgets? In the spirit of holiday frivolity, and to help those looking for geek-oriented stocking stuffers, InfoWorld's Pete Babb has found 10 wacky USB devices that will amuse you, may surprise you, and perhaps even attract you.
Security

Submission + - Vendor Creates Malware to Sell its Product (net-security.org)

Submitted by Orome1
Orome1 writes: Chinese antivirus software companies seem to have a unusual strategy for keeping its services and products in demand — secretly developing threats themselves and unleashing them online, then turning around and making their products detect and remove them. This is supposedly a well known open secret in the industry, and the fact has come to light in the recent territory war between to Chinese antivirus companies — Rising Antivirus and Eastern Micropoint — which resulted in the 11 months long imprisonment of Micropoint's VP Tian Yakui and the suspended death sentence of one Yu Bing, who used to be the director of the Internet monitoring department of Beijing’s Municipal Public Security Bureau.
Google

Submission + - Google and Connecticut attorney lock horns! (dbune.com)

Submitted by dbune
dbune writes: Google and Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal have locked horns over the Wi-Fi data that is in the possession of Google. The data in question was apparently collected from the street view and Richard Blumenthal felt that Google didn’t have any right to the data.

Submission + - P2P Web Hosting Infrastructure? 1

Submitted by TheDarkener
TheDarkener writes: Is a redundant, decentralized and voluntary peer-to-peer network that focused on hosting web content (html/graphics/audio/video) possible? What are the pros and cons to this kind of network topology serving web content? Is the concept not practical enough to be adopted for those who would appreciate such a service? It seems that in thinking about the Wikileaks drama, Wikipedia funding drama, and other similar situations from the past (and future), a P2P network topology could potentially provide for resource sharing and redundancy.

Submission + - Fake SD cards on eBay (wordpress.com)

Submitted by Okian Warrior
Okian Warrior writes: Large capacity SD cards are going for under $20 on eBay.

Turns out, most of them are fake. Apparently, SD cards have a table describing the card as a disk — tracks/cyl, sectors/track, bytes/sector, and so on. Writing a fake table will make the OS think the card is larger than it physically is... with the result that most flash card "bargains" currently sold on eBay are fakes.

One estimate lists over one million fake flash cards per month , which is over 95% of all eBay memory card sales.

The end-user won't discover a problem until they have filled the card with data to it's (much smaller) physical limit, which may take some time on a camera, phone, or MP3 player. Once full, new data will overwrite existing data causing general disk corruption.

If you get one of these for Christmas, you might want to check to make sure it's not fake.

Submission + - Julian A. v. American Smear (www.cbc.ca)

Submitted by
MrShaggy
MrShaggy writes: "WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is accusing his detractors of conducting a successful smear campaign to destroy his reputation, but says his organization will "work around it."

"This has been a very successful smear campaign so far," Assange said Friday from Bungay, England, where he is currently out on bail.

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/12/17/wikileaks-assange-smear-campaign.html#ixzz18WDdhpw3"

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