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Submission + - Weightless Hawking

Submitted by obyom on Thursday March 01, 2007 @11:30AM

obyom writes: According to CNN: "Renowned theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, who wrote the best-selling book, 'A Brief History of Time,' soon will experience a brief history with weightlessness."

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/space/03/01/hawking.s pace.ap/index.html

Be careful, Stephen.

Submission + - Voting systems company threatens Dutch state

Submitted by Eelco on Thursday March 01, 2007 @05:42AM

Eelco writes: The monopolist provider of software used during elections in The Netherlands has threatened the Dutch state after the state ordered security enhancements right before the parliamental elections of 2006. This was discovered by the we-don't-trust-voting-computers foundation who received, invoking the Dutch Freedom of Information Act, shocking internal documents from the Dutch Electoral Council. In one of the e-mails, the companies owner Jan Groenendaal threatens (translated) that his company will cease all activity if Rop Gonggrijp of the we-don't-trust-voting-computers foundation becomes a member of the independent commission that is investigating the future of the electoral process. Moreover, he demands the state to buy his company, in exchange for his cooporation during the next national elections. The full story shows a weird an almost not imaginable relationship between the Dutch state and the company that provides all software to tabulate election results, as well as the software used in 90% of the voting machines itself.

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by Kirks11 on Thursday March 01, 2007 @02:07AM

Submission + - Can you run an open GSM network?

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Wednesday February 28, 2007 @11:28PM

Anonymous Coward writes: "Here in Vancouver cellphone companies are charging ridiculous amounts for basic cellphone plans. I'm wondering if it's possible to run an open/almost free GSM network on a small college campus. Assuming we could find the hardware and get the rights, is there open source software out there to handle all this?"

Submission + - Simple computation using dominos

Submitted by on Wednesday February 28, 2007 @08:39PM

An anonymous reader writes: When silicon fails to beat Moores law, maybe dominos can help. This guy has created a half adder in dominos as a proof of concept for domino computation. If he intends to make a full domino computer he's going to need an awful lot of dominos...

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