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Submission + - Apple Blesses 3rd-Party iPhone Software - Sort Of (arstechnica.com)

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StarKruzr

on Tuesday September 11, 2007 @03:03PM

StarKruzr writes: "Ars Technica is reporting that Apple's Greg Joswiak has said the company is officially taking a "neutral stance" on third-party binary applications for their mobile phone product. This means that while the iPhone community developers will get no help from Cupertino with respect to 3rd-party apps, Apple doesn't intend to do anything to prevent them from going nuts with whatever they want to write. Future Software Updates may break the hacks in one way or another, but it will be incidental rather than intentional. This is pretty great news for geeks who want a UNIX cell phone with a great interface. The iPhone software development community's progress has been accelerating rapidly, and this announcement can only mean that it will speed up even faster now that there is a measure of assurance from Apple that the phone will be "allowed" to be a platform rather than just a pretty device."

Submission + - Mathematicians Challenge Truthiness of Nullity

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bananaendian

on Sunday December 10, 2006 @05:32AM

bananaendian writes: "

Wikinews reports on new developments on the Nullity story. Mathematicians are furious at BBC News and Dr James Anderson from University of Reading for claiming that his theory of "nullity" is revolutionary for finally showing how to devide by zero. 'He's defined a non-solution to a non-problem!' they say. Dr. Anderson is already intending to profit from his "invention" by registering a company called Transreal Computing Ltd, whose mission statement is "to develop hardware and software to bring you fast and safe computation that does not fail on division by zero". It has also been suggested that the university of Reading, who recently closed their physics department, should drop CS and Math too and stick to folk dancing and knitting.
But is there really no Truthiness in Nullity?"

Submission + - Wiili Project Mysteriously Vanishes

Submitted by Jrabbit05 on Sunday December 10, 2006 @12:05AM

Jrabbit05 writes: WiiHacks has an article over the Wiili project and website. Tuxido, the owner of wiili.org has gone missing with over $450 of donations." "Wiili, a project to get Linux running on the Nintendo Wii Game Console, has been mentioned several times over the last few months on digg.com and Slashdot. Not being able to withstand the influx of traffic, their servers started to give, and the site started going down a lot. Donations were being collected to help pay for a new dedicated server through a service called ChipIn. As of Wednesday of this past week, the wiili server and all of it's files disappeared off the internet. The current status of WiiLi is unknown, the webmaster is gone, the site is down, and nobody knows if he cashed out the donations from ChipIn. He could be sick, on vacation, lost in the woods, taken out back by some thugs from Nintendo, who knows... But for now any attempts to access with wiili website result in a 'Index of /' page with no files in it. If anyone has information on how to find Tuxido, please post to this thread or come to IRC channel: #wiili on irc.freenode.net

RV Processes Own Fuel on Cross-Country Trip 165

Posted by Zonk on Saturday December 09, 2006 @05:12AM from the one-point-twenty-one-jiggawatts dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Frybrid has realized the dream of Dr. Emmet Brown's Delorean: putting garbage directly into your vehicle, and have it be turned into directly into fuel. This past fall, Frybrid installed a system into a 40' luxury RV that sucked up waste vegetable oil from the back of restaurants, removed the water and filtered it, and then burned the dry and cleaned vegetable oil as fuel. The family drove their converted RV from Seattle to Rhode Island on $47 worth of diesel fuel. Plans are underway for a smaller version of the system to fit in the bed of a pickup truck."

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