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Submission + - Bill and Melinda Gates honorary doctors of medicin

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A Pirate
A Pirate writes: "Bill and Melinda Gates have been dubbed honorary doctors of medicine by karolinska Institutet. They receive this distinction for their work through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The article mentions the fact that it is not just because they donate money, but because they do it in in a scientific way to ensure that the money comes to good use and improve the quality of life in the long run. Up to date they've donated over 7.8 billion dollars to better causes. They will receive their distinctions next month at the Stockholm City Hall."
XBox (Games)

Submission + - Halo 3- release date and other

Submitted by daddomic
daddomic writes: daddomic writes "I heard that Halo 3 will be released in the fourth quarter of 2007. Anyone know of any information on this? Didn't Bill Gates say that the release of Halo 3 would be the same as the PS# release date? I'm pretty sure that he did say this. I havent played the beta multi player version, but does anynone else know if bungie is using the testers games that have the beta, like having surveys for those who play the beta?"

Feed NASA gunman: police blame work grudge (theregister.com)

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Performance review triggered shooting

A NASA employee who killed a colleague, took another hostage and then turned his gun on himself, was lashing out at the man he thought was responsible for his poor work review, police investigators have said.
Power

Bussard Gets Navy Funding For Fusion Research 146

Posted by kdawson from the only-2-mil-but-hey dept.
UnreasonableMan writes to let us know that Robert Bussard, the fusion researcher whose talk at Google was discussed here a few months back, has won continued funding from the Navy. The word on this spread from Kent Brewster at the Speculations blog, who reportedly had the word from Bussard himself. (The link is to another blog that reproduces Brewster's post, because Speculations has no permalink.)
United States

Submission + - Feds sue web hosting co for damages

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Web sites hosted by RegisterFly have been disappearing in dribs and drabs over the past year, and this has affected customers in a few countries, not just North America. According to US attorney Clarke Dummit, 75,000 customers had already lost their domains, and funds ranging from $10 to $100,000. From the story: "We're pursuing an injunction to shut the Web site down and are also suing for damages," Dummit said. So far there are 700 plaintiffs. Dummit expects to have a trial date within a year. RegisterFly's website says it's an ICANN accredited registrar.
Space

Submission + - Solar wind electric sail propulsion

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Tjeerd
Tjeerd writes: "The goal of sending probes anywhere in the Solar System in reasonable time has remained elusive. Finnish scientists have invented a new propulsion method which utilises the solar wind, promises high speed for small payloads and may be technically possible to build in the near future. The solar wind is a very tenuous but high speed (300-800 km/s) plasma stream blowing radially outward from the Sun. The solar wind powers the aurora and governs space weather. The average dynamic pressure (force per unit area) of the solar wind is 2 nanopascal, corresponding to 0.2 grams weight per square kilometre. Read the press release or visit the electric sailing site."
Power

Submission + - "Sliver Cell" - the better, flexible solar

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: By slicing one silicone disc into thin "slivers" produces a cheaper, more efficient solar cell.

I can't believe a search of Slashdot.org doesn't reveal more on this.

I just watched a report on Australia's ABC science show "Catalyst" reporting http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/s1865651.ht m on a new method for making cheaper, more efficient pure silicone-based Solar Cells by slicing "slivers" of silicone (as opposed to the current method of using a whole sheet of silicone) to produce a cheaper, flexible and more efficient solar panel.

Co-developed between Australian National University and Australian electricity supplier "Origin" they believe that they can make solar panels with a payback of 5-7 years against the current 25 years.

With funding they have a small production plan running now with a view to expand it.

http://www.originenergy.com.au/SLIVER/
Link includes Plant Photos and Fact Sheets.

This seems so amazingly simple that I can't believe it hasn't been thought of before.
Music

Submission + - Songbird -Impressive Media Player For Linux , Win

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Anonymous Coward
Anonymous Coward writes: "Songbird is a media player which allows playing of Popular Music files , Video files and Internet radio stations , it is one of the best looking media player available on Linux windows and Mac OS , besides being feature rich it's features can be extended by installing different extensions, Being based on same platform on which Mozilla Firefox is built the XUL platform , It has potential of doing what Firefox Did in browser market to media players . Article looks at features of Songbird with lots of ScreenShot . Read Review here :- http://linuxondesktop.blogspot.com/2007/03/softwar e-review-songbird-impressive.html"

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