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Submission + - VeriSign implants 222 people with RFID chips

Submitted by

cnet-declan

on Monday February 12, 2007 @07:40PM

cnet-declan writes: "Anyone remember VeriChip, a company that came up with the idea of implanting chips in humans for tracking them? They've been behind ideas like RFID tagging immigrant and guest workers at the border, and they've persuaded a former Bush Health Secretary to get himself chipped. In this CNET News.com article, we offer an update on how successful the idea has been. It turns out that, according to IPO documents, 222 people have been implanted, with sales revenue of $100,000."

Submission + - ATi Unveils the R600

Submitted by

MBrichacek

on Monday February 12, 2007 @07:29PM

MBrichacek writes: "VR-Zone has learned about some new details on 80nm R600 today and there will be 2 SKUs at launch; XTX and XT. There will be 2 versions of R600XTX; one is for OEM/SI and the other for retail. Both feature 1GB DDR4 memories on board but the OEM version is 12.4" long to be exact and the retail is 9.5" long. This picture shows a 12.4" OEM version. The power consumption of the card is huge at 270W for 12" version and 240W for 9.5" version. As for R600XT, it will have 512MB of GDDR3 memories onboard, 9.5" long and consumes 240W of power. Lastly, there is a cheaper R600XL SKU to be launched at a later date. Good luck fitting this thing into your case!"

Feed Upgrade to Vista, Get More DRM (wired.com)

From feed by wiredfeed on Monday February 12, 2007 @07:12PM

Watching "premium content" in Windows Vista requires users to play nice with Microsoft's built-in digital rights controls. In Monkey Bites.

Submission + - SAP skills shortage driving up salaries

Submitted by

bednarz

on Monday February 12, 2007 @07:10PM

bednarz writes: "A shortage of skilled SAP workers is making it difficult for IT departments to fill open jobs and caused the average salary for certain high-level SAP professionals to rise 15.6% in the past year. Consulting firm Foote Partners says the average base salary for directors of SAP program management rose from $115,468 to $133,500 in the calendar year that just ended. This increase dwarfs the typical increases in IT salaries of 3% to 5% a year. Network World has the story: http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/021207-sap-w orkers.html"

Submission + - Bee Farmers Buzzing About Misfortunes

Submitted by

Da3vid

on Monday February 12, 2007 @06:52PM

Da3vid writes: "Bees have been mysteriously disappearing. Beekeepers in 22 states report losses of up to 80 percent. Speculation is that mites or poor nectar has caused their demise, but scientists haven't reached any conclusions. One farmer estimates that he will lose $350,000 based only on his current losses. In only a matter of days, entire hives have been lost. Is this a problem we have already seen the effects of, or is it just developing?"

Submission + - Building a silicon brain

Submitted by

prostoalex

on Monday February 12, 2007 @06:31PM

prostoalex writes: "MIT Technology Review reports on Stanford scientists replicating the processes inside the human brain with silicon: "Kwabena Boahen, a neuroengineer at Stanford University, is planning the most ambitious neuromorphic project to date: creating a silicon model of the cortex. The first-generation design will be composed of a circuit board with 16 chips, each containing a 256-by-256 array of silicon neurons. Groups of neurons can be set to have different electrical properties, mimicking different types of cells in the cortex. Engineers can also program specific connections between the cells to model the architecture in different parts of the cortex.""

Submission + - Julie Amero wrongly convicted? The spyware defense

Submitted by Anonymous Howard on Monday February 12, 2007 @06:28PM

Anonymous Howard writes: Substitute teacher Julie Amero faces up to 40 years in prison for exposing kids to porn using a classroom computer, but the facts strongly suggest that she was wrongfully convicted. Many issues remain, from the need for an independent computer forensics investigation and the presence of spyware and adware on the Windows 98 machine, to bad or incomplete legal work on both sides of this criminal case. It appears that spyware caused Julie Amero's conviction. She will be sentenced on March 2, 2007. This is a new development from the previously story on Slashdot.

Submission + - GPL version of kqemu

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 12, 2007 @06:20PM

An anonymous reader writes: I just noticed that kqemu has finally been released with a GPL license. This grants qemu full virtualization, even without a *really* new computer.

Submission + - Yahoo! India violates Bloggers' copyright

Submitted by

evuraan

on Monday February 12, 2007 @06:20PM

evuraan writes: "Yahoo! India violates copyrights. Yahoo India copied contents from a blogger, without much hesitation to fuel their Indian Language Portal. At least 5 recipes from a blog was lifted and published by Yahoo! India. The prima facie evidence shows this whole thing was done on purpose. 1. The pictures of the recipes were changed while using on the portal. 2. Some of the paragraphs were moved down and up on the recipe 3. Some sentences where structurally changed a little bit. More here..!"

Submission + - Why Do Games Sell?

Submitted by simoniker on Monday February 12, 2007 @06:18PM

simoniker writes: Game designer Pierre-Alexandre Garneau has published a new article compiling a list of factors that make games popular, and although he notes: "The test assumes that the game is good — if it's bad, chances are it won't sell no matter how high it scores on this test", his comparison of GTA 3 and Psychonauts tries to apply common-sense reasoning to why one sold well and the other did not.

Motorola Unveils Phone That Bends 100

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday February 12, 2007 @06:14PM from the flexible-communications dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to CNET, who are out at 3GSM in Barcelona, Motorola has unveiled a phone that bends in order to make putting it up to your face more comfortable. The Motorola Z8, as the bendy phone is called, runs on a Symbian based platform and also displays video at up to 30 frames per second."

Submission + - Vista's successor, Vienna, announced

Submitted by

pestilence669

on Monday February 12, 2007 @05:58PM

pestilence669 writes: "Windows Vienna, Vista Successor, is due to be out in two years. So what will be the coolest new feature in Vienna?

According to Fathi, that's still being worked out. "We're going to look at a fundamental piece of enabling technology. Maybe its hypervisors, I don't know what it is," he said. "Maybe it's a new user interface paradigm for consumers."

— I don't know about you, but I'd prefer less crashing, more drivers, and better resource management."

Submission + - Brave New World? A defense of paradise-engineering

Submitted by Maria Williams on Monday February 12, 2007 @05:55PM

Maria Williams writes: David Pearce, cofounder of the World Transhumanist Association (WTA) argues that Huxley's Brave New World gave the idea of being happy all the time a bad rep and it would be better if we were genetically engineered to be always happy.

Submission + - Congress Wants ISPs to Log Your Online Life

Submitted by

walmartshopper67

on Monday February 12, 2007 @05:50PM

walmartshopper67 writes: "Crooks and Liars is reporting that Representative Lamar Smith (R-TX) has introduced a bill that would require ISPs to "record all users' surfing activity, IM conversations and email traffic indefinitely". The bill would impose heavy fines and jail time on ISPs that do not save the required information. Not that this will pass, but come on, how can anyone think this is a good idea?"

Submission + - GameStop Cracking Down on M-Rated Game Sales

Submitted by

njkid1

on Monday February 12, 2007 @05:50PM

njkid1 writes: "It would appear that GameStop just made the industry's voluntary carding program mandatory as part of a strict new corporate policy to keep "M" rated games out of the hands of minors. If an employee sells a Mature game to a minor, he/she will be fired immediately. http://biz.gamedaily.com/industry/feature/?id=1522 2&ncid=AOLGAM000500000000012"

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