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Submission + - What makes mars magnetic? (spaceflightnow.com)

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lecithin

on Thursday August 23, 2007 @01:15PM

lecithin writes: "Spaceflightnow has a story regarding a puzzle to astronomers and geologists. What makes mars magnetic? If you could pick up a rock from the surface of Mars, then the chances are it would be magnetic. And yet, Mars doesn't have a magnetic field coming from its core. These rocks are clinging to the signal of an ancient magnetic field, dating back billions of years, to the times when Mars had a magnetic field like Earth's."

Submission + - GSP Development -- Recommended platforms?

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WillMcIver

on Thursday August 23, 2007 @01:02PM

WillMcIver writes: "I am interested in recommendations for USB GPS receivers for use in developing custom applications. Java and Mac OS X support would be ideal, but not necessary. I have a Garmin GPS 18 USB. There is a public SDK for it, but in my opinion, there is insufficient support or code examples for it. Locating a device compatible with GPSBabel or similar tools may be one way to go."

Submission + - Cheap Geographic Web Site Load Balancing

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David Tiberio

on Thursday January 11, 2007 @05:25PM

David Tiberio writes: "I have about 20 geographically dispersed web hosting accounts averaging $10 per month. I load balance my traffic on these servers with DNS failover. My total cost is about $300 per month for the entire setup including DNS failover service. I have 100% uptime, and fast performance, separating apps and media on different datacenters. Users go to their nearest datacenter. Here's how I did it."

Submission + - Blu-ray says NO to porn, porn says NO to Blu-ray

Submitted by Sarusa on Thursday January 11, 2007 @05:14PM

Sarusa writes: If this is true, it's Beta vs VHS all over again and HD-DVD may be the foregone winner of the format wars. First, Heise reports (summarized from the German by sgknox.com) that Digital Playground (NSFW), who were committed to Blu-ray last year, are now producing HD-DVD titles instead. No Blu-ray disk manufacturer would make their disks because Sony doesn't want porn on Blu-ray (just as with Betamax). Second, as reported by tgdaily, the porn industry at CES overwhelmingly favors HD-DVD because it's much cheaper and easier to produce. As noted in the tgdaily article, porn was a huge factor in VHS winning the VHS/Beta format wars even though most people don't like to acknowledge it. Porn, like gaming, pushes tech adoption.

Submission + - A Cheaper iPhone?

Submitted by mattnyc99 on Thursday January 11, 2007 @04:49PM

mattnyc99 writes: Now that it's been a full 48 hours since the iPhone announcement, some of the "wow" factor is transitioning into the cold reality of how expensive the thing is. The result? A ton of chatter about cheaper alternatives (or at least Apple's coming competition), from the open-sourced Moko to Samsung's secret weapon to an LG model that the masses are claiming Steve Jobs ripped off. Would you settle for anything less than the iPhone cometh?

Submission + - Another H-1B fight looms in Congress

Submitted by on Thursday January 11, 2007 @02:29PM

An anonymous reader writes: http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/01/08/HNh1bpus h_1.html Demand for new H-1B workers for the current fiscal year was so high that the USCIS reached the annual cap of 65,000 visas less than two months after it began accepting applications, the shortest period ever. An additional 20,000 visas limited to workers with advanced degrees from U.S. universities was gone in four months. The strong demand likely means that proposals to raise the H-1B cap will again be introduced in Congress, according to officials from industry and labor groups.

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