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Submission + - Futurama Pre-Order Available (gotfuturama.com)

Submitted by

eldavojohn

on Friday August 24, 2007 @11:24AM

eldavojohn writes: "The first of four new Futurama full length DVDs is available for pre-order and is titled "Bender's Big Score" with a release date of November 27th, 2007."

Submission + - American Airlines testing in-flight broadband (aa.com)

Submitted by ptbarnett on Thursday August 23, 2007 @07:26PM

ptbarnett writes: American Airlines is testing in-flight broadband Internet on selected flights in 2008. WiFi will be used in the cabin, and AirCell will be used for a terrestrial uplink/downlink. Initial deployment will be on transcontinental 767 flights, and may be extended to the rest of their fleet if it is successful.

Submission + - Brian May gets PHD

Submitted by wellingtonsteve on Thursday August 23, 2007 @07:05PM

wellingtonsteve writes: Slashdot reported last month that Queen guitarist Brian May was planning to submit his PHD thesis in astrophysics (http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/ 28/0557236).

BBC news is reporting (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6961171. stm) that having yesterday passed his Viva in which he had to explain, defend and dicuss his work with other astrophysicists for over three hours, he has now been awarded the PHD.

Brian's official website has more (http://brianmay.com/brian/briannews/briannews.htm l)

Submission + - Smart Image Resizing Cuts Out Useless Pixels (ohgizmo.com) 1

Submitted by FsG on Thursday August 23, 2007 @04:44PM

FsG writes: Wouldn't it be useful if you could make images smaller by selectively removing the least important pixels? New research in computer science makes it possible to do just that, thereby shrinking images without either distorting them or making the important elements too small.

Submission + - SpamIntelligence Released Under GPL (spamint.com)

Submitted by

timbck2

on Tuesday August 21, 2007 @03:14PM

timbck2 writes: "SpamIntelligence, the excellent spam/phishing filter plugin for Outlook based on SpamAssassin and ClamAV, has been released under the GPL version 2. As a side note, the current maintainer of SpamIntelligence is looking for volunteers to take over the project. Any takers?"

Submission + - Wal-Mart ditches DRM, keeps censorship (arstechnica.com) 1

Submitted by Smiley Face on Tuesday August 21, 2007 @01:41PM

Smiley Face writes: Wal-Mart has hopped on the DRM-free bandwagon with today's announcement that it will be participating in Universal's DRM-free sales pilot. The quality looks good: 256Kbps MP3 for 94 cents apiece, but customers are likely to be turned off by the retail chain's continued censorship. 'It's a bit hard to believe that all the customers who shop at the world's largest retailer want censored versions of music, though, but that's what they get. Only edited versions of albums with parental advisories are available, just as they are in Wal-Mart's offline stores. This isn't a new policy; Wal-Mart's online music store has carried only edited versions for years, but it's worth pointing out to potential new users tempted by the lower prices and lack of DRM.'

Submission + - Bachelor's Degree of Uselessness? 1

Submitted by DarkMorph on Monday August 20, 2007 @04:22PM

DarkMorph writes: I have received my bachelor's degree in computer science back in May, and it's nearly September now, and my job search seems to be entirely in vain. So far I have had only one opportunity in California, which ended up being a big group interview and it was a dud. Lately I've found an online business that distributes resumes to thousands of recruiters nationwide. I received from them the list of 569 recruiters (with jobs in Florida where I live and California where I want to be) that they contacted with my resume and I still sit in silence after two weeks. My college degree doesn't seem to be very rewarding at all, and I don't know what to do about getting a job that pays enough for me to move out. The Slashdot community would be the best to address regarding employment due to the variety and quantity of readers, and I was wondering what would be a good step for me to do next? I know a handful of programming languages, and web languages, but I find C/C++ and Linux-related stuff the most interesting.

Submission + - MIT startup unveils new 64-core CPU (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by single-threaded on Monday August 20, 2007 @02:23PM

single-threaded writes: Tilera, a startup out of MIT, has announced that it is shipping a 64-core CPU. Called the TILE64, the CPU is fabbed on a 90nm process and is clocked at anywhere from 600MHz to 900MHz. From Ars' coverage: 'what will make or break Tilera is not how many peak theoretical operations per second it's capable of (Tilera claims 192 billion 32-bit ops/sec), nor how energy-efficient its mesh network is, but how easy it is for programmers to extract performance from the device. That's the critical piece of TILE64's launch story that's missing right now, and it's what I'll keep an eye out for as I watch this product make its way in the market. Though there are any number of questions about this product that remain to be answered, one thing is for certain: TILE64 has indeed brought us into the era of 64 general-purpose, mesh-networked processor cores on a single chip, and that's a major milestone. '

Submission + - Voyager Spacecraft Celebrate 30th Anniversary (space.com)

Submitted by

Raver32

on Monday August 20, 2007 @02:11PM

Raver32 writes: "NASA's two Voyager spacecraft are celebrating three decades of flight as they careen toward interstellar space billions of miles from the solar system's edge. Voyager 2 launched on Aug. 20, 1977, and Voyager 1 launched on Sept. 5, 1977. Both spacecraft continue to return information from distances more than three times farther away than Pluto, where the sun's outer heliosphere meets the boundary of interstellar space. "The Voyager mission is a legend in the annals of space exploration. It opened our eyes to the scientific richness of the outer solar system, and it has pioneered the deepest exploration of the sun's domain ever conducted," said Alan Stern, associate administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. "It's a testament to Voyager's designers, builders and operators that both spacecraft continue to deliver important findings more than 25 years after their primary mission to Jupiter and Saturn concluded." Voyager 1 currently is the farthest human-made object at a distance from the sun of about 9.7 billion miles (15.6 billion kilometers). Voyager 2 is about 7.8 billion miles (12.6 billion kilometers)."

Submission + - dreamhost down for 20 hours, support site DOS

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 17, 2007 @02:00PM

An anonymous reader writes: dreamhost (www.dreamhost.com) has suffered a major failure, one of several in the last week. the current outage has lasted 20 hours as of this posting and affects thousands of domains. according to dreamhost, their support site is also down due to an ongoing DOS attack. users on the dreamhost message boards are of course loudly complaing, but perhaps the single strongest factor in driving the massive exodus of hosting customers is the company's inexplicable handling (or lack thereof) of the crisis. there is a near-complete lack of progress updates or other information. this is an example of how not to run a business.

Submission + - Mastering Ajax with JSON on the server side

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 16, 2007 @11:08AM

An anonymous reader writes: As discussed in the previous article in this series, JSON is a useful format for Ajax applications because it allows you to convert between JavaScript objects and string values quickly. In this final article of the series, you'll learn how to handle data sent to a server in the JSON format and how to reply to scripts using the same format.

Submission + - Linux Foundation launches kernel dev roadmap

Submitted by kwabbles on Wednesday August 15, 2007 @06:05PM

kwabbles writes: The Linux Weather Forecast was launched today, along with "current conditions" for kernel development, a "short-term forecast" and a "long-term forecast". Now developers and organizations that want to see when certain implementations/fixes are planned can look at this informative and handy site. http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/Linux_Weather_F orecast

Submission + - WOW

Submitted by R00BYtheN00BY on Wednesday August 15, 2007 @04:59PM

R00BYtheN00BY writes: u n00bs did it again STOP REJECTIN my stories i swear 2 god

Submission + - Lift Off: 50 Years of Hovercrafts (wired.com)

Submitted by ntmokey on Wednesday August 15, 2007 @12:56PM

ntmokey writes: While the flying car has seemingly lingered just out of grasp since the 1950's, its more-feasible brethren the hovercraft has been floating, skipping and vrooming around on all surfaces for the better half of a century. Wired has a look at the progress hovercraft have made over the last 50 years and some of the most promising new commercial models. If you're still dead set on a car that will let you buzz over other commuters on the way to work as you look down from 10,000 feet, well, they're on the way too.

Submission + - Baby Einstein Not So...Einsteinian? (time.com)

Submitted by

Derek Hudson

on Wednesday August 15, 2007 @12:06PM

Derek Hudson writes: "A research team at the University of Washington has discovered that simply plopping Junior down in front of the boob-tube and letting him suck up learnin' from a video may not be the best for his little mind; in fact, it may actually impede development. Although the article over at Time isn't kind to baby videos in general, The Baby Einstein videos have been specifically implicated in delaying vocabulary development in children 8-16 months old. In the words of Dr. Dimitri Christakis, who lead the study, "The more videos they watched, the fewer words they knew..." and, according to the LA Times Article, he "would rather babies watch 'American Idol' than these videos..." Ouch.

The article; however, doesn't mention whether or not the videos affect the youngins' grasp of theoretical physics."

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