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The Almighty Buck

Submission + - Making less than dad did

Submitted by
gollum123
gollum123 writes: "cnn reports American men in their 30s are earning less than their father's generation did, challenging a long-held belief that each generation will be better off than the one that preceded it, according to a new study published Friday ( http://money.cnn.com/2007/05/25/pf/mobility_study/ index.htm?cnn=yes ) . The report, the first in an ongoing 18-month study on economic mobility in the United States, also revealed that the income growth of the median American household is declining. Relying on Census Bureau figures, the study's authors found that after adjusting for inflation, men in their 30s in 2004 had a median income of about $35,000 per year, for a 12 percent drop compared with $40,000 per year for men in the same age group in 1974. Even as male incomes have declined and household income growth has slowed, the nation's productivity has remained robust. The study's authors, who plan to examine relative mobility, or the ability of Americans to move up or or down in social strata, said their report shows the canonical belief in an American meritocracy may be unraveling."
Democrats

Submission + - Geek runs for congress wearing "Evil Genius

Submitted by
boyko.at.netqos
boyko.at.netqos writes: "Brian Boyko was ticked off that the Democrats sold us out by voting to authorizing spending for the war without a timetable attached. Lloyd Doggett — his Congressman — was one of those Democrats who voted for the war authorization, presumably because they felt that voters who opposed the war would have no choice but to re-elect them. Instead, Boyko got so fed up he launched his own primary challenge to Congressman Doggett — and he's doing it his way, wearing an "Evil Genius" T-shirt, putting up blog posts that state that he doesn't want dime one in fundraising, or listing out all his political scandals in a post called "Welcome to my closet, would you like to see my skeletons?" The biggest thing: Republicans use blogs as smear campaigns, Democrats use blogs as fundraising tools. This is a campaign blog that's an actual blog.

From the site:


"I've never been charged with a crime, although I could have been once, when I was 19. Let's just say that toaster ovens are a privilege, not a right, and I learned that the hard way.... My sexual proclivities are my business, and I don't want to talk about them. Rest assured, they are not illegal (unless you consider Playstation 2 controllers to be "vibrators" — it's illegal to own vibrators in Texas.) Statistically speaking, it's very likely that your sex life is much more interesting than mine; I am running in the 25th district of Texas, after all... I play Dungeons & Dragons and other geeky games."


Full disclosure: This blog post was submitted by the candidate."
Television

Submission + - NEUROS OSD - Linux Based Embedded Media Center

Submitted by Croakyvoice
Croakyvoice writes: New from Neuros is the Neuros OSD an open-source, Linux based embedded media center. You can record video from any source (cable, DVD, VCR, TiVO, Satellite, camcorder etc.), and read and write to multiple sources like iPod, PSP, SmartPhone, Hard drive, PC etc. It can also play media on your TV/entertainment center from portables (consoles, phones, pda etc.), digital camera, external HD, PC/internet etc.
Media

Submission + - Cinemas use night goggles to nab pirates

Submitted by
fluffman86
fluffman86 writes: "Reuters reports that movie theaters in Malaysia are cracking down on movie piracy by giving military style night vision goggles to ushers. According to the article, after cinema staff seat patrons, they don the NVGs in order to catch people who are recording the film with hand held camcorders. The article also mentions that Malaysia has purchased two DVD sniffing dogs — Lucky and Flo, in order to find large quantities of burned and pirated DVDs. There are some reports that there is a bounty for killing the dogs."
The Internet

Submission + - Lessons learned from 'Net root server attack

Submitted by
BobB
BobB writes: "There's some good news and some bad news for corporate network managers about the latest Internet root server attack. The good news is that the Internet demonstrated once again that it is the most resilient network infrastructure ever built. Companies shouldn't be afraid to put mission-critical applications such as voice and streaming video on the `Net because of these attacks, security experts say. The bad news is that that the Internet continues to be a target for vandals and criminals, particularly those looking to make money through extortion, fraud or theft. Experts say that most corporate Web sites and IP networks couldn't withstand the ferocity of the latest attacks. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/020807-inter net-root-server-hack.html"
The Almighty Buck

Submission + - $25m Prize For Beating Global Warming

Submitted by
VE3OGG
VE3OGG writes: "While some may think the prize rather small for helping save the human race (other might be wondering why it should be saved at all), Sir Richard Branson announced on Friday the Virgin Earth Challenge and with it a $25 million prize for the first person to come up with a way of scrubbing greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere in the battle to beat global warming. The challenge is supported by former vice-president Al Gore. "Man created the problem and therefore man should solve the problem," Branson told a news conference to reveal the Virgin Earth Challenge."
Mozilla

Submission + - Redistribution problems faced by Mozilla

Submitted by
Kevin
Kevin writes: "Etre gratuit et être riche. Tel est le problème que rencontre actuellement la Mozilla fondation. La Mozilla Fondation est la fondation qui regroupe en son sein un ensemble de logiciels libres dont les plus connus sont Firefox et Thunderbird. Les logiciels sont ainsi développés, testés, améliorés par la communauté de manière bénévole."
Sun Microsystems

Submission + - Sun Solaris to go GPLv3?

Submitted by
VE3OGG
VE3OGG writes: "Sun seems to be really trying to harness the wild horse that is Linux developers. With the recent announcement that Java is now under the General Public License (v2.0), comes an announcement from Sun Chief Executive Jonathan Schwartz that Solaris may be moving from a CDDL to a GPLv3, along with Java. "I don't think we've been as effective as I'd like to be in going after the GPL community, because there's an awful lot of really bright people who think that's the license they prefer... We did version 2 with Java because version 3 wasn't out. When we have version 3, Java will likely go to 3." Will this spur a wider development of Solaris, or could moving Java from version 2 to 3 actually cause some developers to shun it?"
Unix

Submission + - Is Unix dead? Growing old definitely

Submitted by
coondoggie
coondoggie writes: "As x86 servers become increasingly capable, IT managers are taking a closer look at their Unix installations to determine whether a move to Linux or Windows might make sense, analysts say. "The defensible hill for Unix is the big, vertically scaling, mission-critical application, which is usually some type of database serving," says Andrew Butler, a vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner. "But increasingly, the appeal of Windows- and Linux-based systems running on cheaper, commodity hardware is becoming more and more compelling." http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/0205-7-speci al-focus.html"
Television

Submission + - Turner to pay Boston $2 Million over ATHF Scare

Submitted by DrEnter
DrEnter writes: After defeating the city of Boston and Homeland Security in a brief conflict last week involving small signs made from christmas tree lights, Turner Broadcasting has agreed to pay each of them $1 million. This is a far cry from the $500+ million Boston was claiming the Aqua Teen Hunger Force "war" had cost them. Maybe they realized that if this actually went to court, they would probably only end up with a bill for the court costs?
Music

Personality Secrets in Your MP3 Player 326

Posted by Hemos from the learning-more-about-you dept.
Jeremy Dean writes "Once past saying 'hello' and 'how are you?' to someone you've just met, what is next? How do we make friends and get to know other people? Psychologists have talked about the importance of body language, physical appearance and clothing but they've not been so keen on what we actually talk about. A recent study put participants in same-sex and opposite-sex pairings and told them to get to know each other over 6 weeks (Rentfrow & Gosling, 2006). Analysing the results, they found the most popular topic of conversation was music. What is it about music that's so useful when we first meet someone and what kind of information can we extract from the music another person likes? "
GNU is Not Unix

Submission + - Stallman says Linus is not a righteous dude

Submitted by
AlanS2002
AlanS2002 writes: "Nearthwort Obtain currently has a podcast interview with Richard Stallman on it's site. In the interview Richard answers some questions which seem to be the standard for Stallman interviews. Beyond this Stallman talks about why Linus Torvalds is not such a righteous dude and how Apple is as evil as Microsoft. Also discussed is the ease of use of F/OSS software as compared to proprietary software (such as Windows or OS X), the compatibility of F/OSS with market capitalism, the current status of human freedom and the reasons for Stallman's passion for the Free Software movement."

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