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Submission + - Fermi Lab discovers Cascade B

Submitted by pnotequalsnp
pnotequalsnp writes: A new heavy particle has been discovered by physicists at the Fermi lab in Illinois.
The particle — known as cascade b — is special because it's the first of its kind to be made up of quarks representing all three quark families, the lab announced in a news release.
The Fermi lab article can be found at http://www.fnal.gov/pub/presspass/press_releases/D zero_baryon.html
Operating Systems

Submission + - Tuning your MySQL server for LAMP

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Allocating memory to the right places and giving mysqld an idea of what type of load to expect is one of the best things you can do to pump-up your performance. This article covers MySQL tuning, which is largely about understanding how things work, determining if they're working properly, making adjustments, and re-evaluating. Each component — Linux, Apache, PHP, or MySQL — has various needs. Understanding them individually helps eliminate the bottlenecks that can slow your application.
Space

The Impossibility of Colonizing the Galaxy 979

Posted by kdawson from the let's-settle-the-gobi-desert-first dept.
OriginalArlen writes "The science fiction writer Charlie Stross has written an excellent and comprehensive explanation of why, thousands of SF books, movies, and games notwithstanding, human colonization of other star systems is impossible. Although interstellar colonization seems common-sensical to many, Charlie makes a clear-headed and unarguable case, so far as I can see, that it ain't gonna happen without a 'magic wand' or two. Nevertheless it would be interesting to see reasoned responses from the community who believe that colonization is not merely possible, but inevitable — and even, as Hawking has said, vital for the survival of the species. So, who's right — Hawking or Stross?"
The Media

Submission + - Who programs your videos (mywaves.com)

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6
6 writes: "The battle for the video screen on your phone handset is starting to gain fire. In the end it may come down to a simple question of, "who do you want to decide what you see?

YouTUbe available on Verizon handsets and now through m.youtube.com only provides a 100 or so carefully editor graded videos. All under 5 minutes all selected to be as middle of the road inoffensive as can be.

By way of contrast a small upstart called mywaves, m.mywaves.com, presents over 50,000 channels aggregating almost every video blog on earth. Mywaves even allows you to build custom channels on the fly using search terms.

So who programs your videos, the editors or the geeks?"
Enlightenment

Submission + - Two young atheists visit the Creation Museum[PICS]

Submitted by christinabelle
christinabelle writes: Save yourself (and your money) by browsing through these images rather than attending the museum, located near Cincinnati. With the exception of a few videos, the museum's exhibits are documented in their entirety. The homemade t-shirts are worth a look alone. Look no further, here are your Answers in Genesis...
Real Time Strategy (Games)

Submission + - The Life of the Chinese Gold Farmer (nytimes.com)

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An anonymous reader writes: A NYT Magazine story about companies in China who pay people to goldfarm for a living. Free subscription to NYT Magazine online may be required.
Television

Submission + - great blogger at M2TV makes Comcast cower (multichannel.com)

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bill jackson
bill jackson writes: ""Comcast: the Fleecing of a Subscriber"..... This blogger, Mary McNamara, has really caught them this time! She's a regular reporter for Multichannel News (which is pretty much the bible of the cable industry) — and she spanks Comcast on her blog. She says she's "fed-up" with their "bait-and-switch and shakedown tactics."...and she gets very very specific about the Comcast consumer rip-off games. http://www.multichannel.com/blog/1300000330/post/4 0010804.html?"
Movies

Submission + - Motion Picture Industry revenue up in 2006 (hollywoodreporter.com)

Submitted by
Fusen
Fusen writes: "Even though we are subjected to numerous reports on piracy destroying the earth as we know it, a recent MPA study reveals that revenue from all filmed media increased 8% in 2006.

"After a disappointing 2005, the six major companies have received official confirmation from the MPA that their all-media revenue from filmed entertainment — comprising money from home video, television, theatrical and pay TV — expanded by 8% in 2006 to reach $42.6 billion.""
Communications

Submission + - Innovation, Social Media, and Knowledge Management

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jamesrayge
jamesrayge writes: "One concept of best practice in knowledge management is the community of interest. Communities gather around topics in discussion and collaboration, an important dynamic in the clustering of knowledge into manageable units. http://blogs.dovetailsoftware.com/blogs/main/archi ve/2007/03/12/Innovation_2C00_-Social-Media_2C00_- and-Knowledge-Management.aspx"
Programming

Submission + - Is computer science dead?

Submitted by warm sushi
warm sushi writes: An academic at the British Computing Society asks Is computer science dead? Citing falling student enrolments, and improved technology, British academic Neil McBride claims that off-the-shelf solutions are removing much of the demand for high level development skills: "As commercial software products have matured, it no longer makes sense for organisations to develop software from scratch. Accounting packages, enterprise resource packages, customer relationship management systems are the order of the day: stable, well-proven and easily available." Is that quote laughable? Or has the software development industry stabilised to an off-the-self commodity?
IBM

Submission + - IBM Takes Step Toward Light Powered Chips

Submitted by wndmltudtkd
wndmltudtkd writes: IBM says its researchers have built a device capable of slowing down the flow of light ,opening the door towards faster computing chips in the future. The researchers said last week that the advancements could one day allow normal computer chips to use light signals instead of electrical signals to send data. The transition would enable microchips to process more data in less time, the researchers said.
Robotics

Submission + - Are androids 'better' robots?

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Roland Piquepaille
Roland Piquepaille writes: "The latest issue of 'Connection Science' is dedicated to 'Android science.' This special issue was co-edited by Karl MacDorman, in the Human-Computer Interaction program of the School of Informatics, Indiana University, and Hiroshi Ishiguro, director of the Intelligent Robotics Lab at Osaka University. As you'll find out in "I, Robot; You, Human," these scientists have previously worked together on the development of Repliee Q1Expo, an android that was introduced at the 2005 World Exposition in Aizu, Japan. And throughout a selection of scientific papers, they try to answer this question: are androids 'better' than mechanical-looking robots? Read more for additional details and pictures of androids developed by the authors."
Networking

Submission + - How do slashdotters manage email on their laptops?

Submitted by
dotancohen
dotancohen writes: "I'll soon be getting a new Dell laptop that'll be running Fedora Core 5 or 6. I need to access the email stored on my home box from the laptop, and also to read new email sent to me while I'm not home (and the home box is shut down). If I run an IMAP server at home, then I can't read the mail when the home box is down. But if I pull from the POP3 server (and leave the mail on the server) then I won't be able to sort and file the mail while on the go. Is there anyway to sync the mail accounts between two linux boxen, assuming that I'm using the same mail client? I currently use Kmail, but I might switch to Eudora in April/March when it becomes available for Linux.

Thanks in advance."
User Journal

Journal Journal: The Prophet Mohammed Is a FAILURE 15

Journal by Marxist Hacker 42
As I see it, the main message of the Koran is really this: Give up your tribes and tribal Gods, and replace them with a Unified Nation of Islam and worshiping Allah Alone. Mohammed got this idea from what he saw (in 600 A.D.) as the strength of the Jews and the Christians- their unity (nevermind that 400 years later Christianity would experience the Great Schism and that 1200 years later Judaism under the pressure of secular oppression would split in thirds into Orthodox, Conservative, and Ref

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