Feed Appeals court: Vonage can sign up new customers, for now (com.com)
Blog: A federal appeals court on Tuesday granted Vonage a second reprieve in its attempts to continue to sign up customers while a patent...
Submission + - EFF lawyer warns of e-learning patent dangers
flakeman2 writes: "There's a new schoolyard bully."
Feed Principal sues ex-students over MySpace profiles (com.com)
Administrator claims four students who allegedly posted parody profiles to the social-networking site bruised his reputation.
Submission + - Bastille Linux: Introduction and installation
JaneWalkek6847 writes: "Bastille Linux is an automated security tool, ideal for cross-platform environments. Get started here with an introduction and instructions for installation."
Submission + - 0.57721 to the Max
lugannerd writes: Northwestern University student Alex Yee recently set a world record by doing his homework.
Using his laptop computer, Yee earned the math equivalent of an Olympic medal for calculating the Euler-Mascheroni Constant to more that 116 million decimal places, shattering the old record of 108 million.
Article in the Chicago trib => http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-07040 80373apr09,1,409043.story?coll=chi-news-hed
Submission + - SPAM: Wal-Mart engineer firing is backfiring
alphadogg writes: "The ugly story of a Wal-Mart firing of an engineer and the story he has to tell about the big retailer's questionable security practices.
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Feed Galaxy's 'wunderkind' stars may actually be old pro's (pheedo.com)
The 'baby' stars that appear to have been born impossibly close to the Milky Way's black hole could instead be ancient interlopers with a youthful glow
Feed Mac 911: Encoding for Apple TV (macworld.com)
Feed News: Don't believe the hype: The 21 biggest IT flops (macworld.com)
Submission + - Is the Internet Ready to Break?
DebNY writes: The rapid rise of Web video and broadband net access "may overwhelm some of the Internet's backbones" in 2007, while "ISPs may struggle to keep pace with demand." So says a study from the Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMT) group at Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu. But reports of the Internet's imminent demise are greatly exaggerated, says Ed Cone of CIO Insight. "An Internet that is broken or seriously impaired at its core would obviously be bad for business in all kinds of ways...but as in the case of the most notorious prognostication of impending disaster, made in 1995 by Ethernet co-inventor Robert Metcalfe, the doom seers seem likely to eat their words. In fact, the supply of available bandwidth, especially at the core of the net, looks healthier than the pessimists would have it — or even bother to support with hard numbers when pressed to defend their arguments."
Submission + - Does Slashdot still matter?
Submission + - One Man's Vista Experience
neiljt writes: BBC Business Editor Robert Peston has been having a time of it with Vista. In an open letter to Bill Gates, he raises points such as the lack of drivers for his HP iPaq Pocket PC, and a failure of the new OS to remember Outlook XP passwords.
Submission + - Debian sets tentative release date for Etch
Headbonk writes: Luk Claes announced yesterday on debian-devel-announce that the debian release managers are ready to set a tentative release date of April 2 for Etch aka Debian 4.0
2 Apr 2007: 0 RC bugs. Barring any problems that would cause us to need to re-roll the installer <knock on wood>, we should be ready to release.
Submission + - The fine art of PHP V5.2 memory management
An anonymous reader writes: There are many improvements that have taken place in PHP V5.2, and one critical area is that of memory management. To understand the implications of these new features, this article delves into memory management functions in PHP5.2, tweaking the memory manager, limiting memory usage and consides why allocation overhead and speed are a big deal.
Submission + - Happy Pi Day
yummy writes: Today's date, March 14, or 3/14 in standard U.S. notation, corresponds with the first three digits of pi, 3.14. The number represents the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. Today also happens to be the birthday of the physicist Albert Einstein 128 years ago.
Celebrants will gather at the Exploratorium science museum in San Francisco to eat pie, recite pi, sing songs about pi, write ``pi-ku'' (haiku poetry about pi) and celebrate Einstein's birthday, said Ron Hipschman, a physicist at the museum.
