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Submission + - What's the best bank for a geek?

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Ben174
Ben174 writes: "I've banked at a couple different banks and haven't yet been able to find one that offers the features I need. I'd like to find a bank that supports open standards, such exporting my statement data to a XML file format. I'd also like to write scripts to monitor my account and send me emails when my balance reaches X, or if a transaction occurs within X miles from my zip code. Do any banks currently support this?"
Operating Systems

Submission + - Windows Drive from HP laptop boots in Macbook

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Sitrucious
Sitrucious writes: "Today I decided to upgrade my Macbook. I had a 160 GB drive lying around so I figured I'd throw it in. What to my surprise but when I hold down the Option key and select the drive it booted right up. The problem was that it was my Gentoo Drive. I never configured the install for the Macbook but it was installed on another Intel Core 2 System. So I started to pic at my brain and decided to try my Windows Vista drive for the same laptop. Sure enough it also booted. Of course there are a few driver issues currently but I have network connection and I am even running Glass. I currently do not have audio but I'm still impressed with the fact that it booted. Has anyone else tried this?"

Feed Placental Mammals Newer Than Previously Thought (sciencedaily.com)

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Molecular studies have reported divergence times of modern placental orders long before the Cretaceous--Tertiary boundary and far older than paleontological data. By accounting for complex evolution of mitochondrial genome, scientists obtained a much younger time at the root of placental mammals, 84 million years ago instead of around 122 million years ago.

Feed Sleep Enforces The Temporal Sequence In Memory (sciencedaily.com)

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We have usually quite strong memories of past events like an exciting holiday or a pleasant birthday party. However it is not clear how the brain keeps track of the temporal sequence in such memories: did Paul spill a glass of wine before or after Mary left the party? A research group has now provided evidence that sleep not only strengthens the content of a memory but also the particular order in which they were experienced.
Space

Submission + - Mars probe may have spotted lost Sojourner rover

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Maggie McKee
Maggie McKee writes: "NASA's eagle-eyed Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter may have spotted the tiny, toaster oven-sized Sojourner rover just a few meters away from its companion, the Mars Pathfinder lander. It appears to have crawled there in an attempt to re-establish contact with the lander after the lander had already died. But the pictures aren't clear enough to definitively ID the rover, and it's possible Sojourner simply took off on its own. If it were miraculously still alive after 10 years, it could be 3 kilometers away from Pathfinder — and probably impossible to find, even with MRO."
Sci-Fi

Submission + - Hitting a golf ball with a laser at 33,000 feet

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coondoggie
coondoggie writes: "The European Space Agency (ESA) announced this week it had relayed optical laser links from an aircraft. The agency says the relay was a first for the industry and would ultimately offer faster, more reliable interference free-data- relay applications with airborne carriers. The system could also have defense and or military applications. No timetable for services based on such as system were disclosed. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/122006-golf- ball-laser.html"
Security

Submission + - First-Person Account of Social Engineering Attack

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darkreadingman
darkreadingman writes: "A penetration tester tells how he broke into a bank's network dressed as a copier repairman. Some good lessons here — many companies spend millions on network security, but don't teach their employees how to challenge a stranger in the building. Social engineering at the company site can be one of the most difficult attacks to defend. http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=111 503&WT.svl=column1_1"
Space

Submission + - Colonize Space or Face Extinction: Stephen Hawking

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Physicist Stephen Hawking has said that we must "spread out into space and establish colonies" to ensure a safe future for humankind. He said that staying on Earth would leave all life vulnerable to global extinction events such as nuclear war or asteroid collision. Hawking was being interviewed by BBC Radio 4's Today program, shortly before receiving the United Kingdom's highest award for science, the Royal Society's Copley Medal. Hawking proposed colonization missions to other star systems, using "matter/anti-matter annihilation" to travel at just below the speed of light. In the interview, he also revealed a more personal space ambition: "My next goal is to go into space, maybe Richard Branson will help me." Branson is the founder of Virgin Galactic, a suborbital space travel company.
Media

Submission + - NBC's Today blames YouTube but misses the story

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isaacbowman
isaacbowman writes: "The website the World's Greatest Guy claims that the Today show on NBC just ran a story this morning "about how YouTube was aiding criminals by hosting videos on how to defeat locks through lock picking. A similar theme of anti-YouTube lock picking started to show up in UK based news media outlets earlier this morning — All Headline News, Metro UK, Life Style Extra... the Today show was just trying to jump on a story that was just starting to hit the UK and wanted to be the first in the US to catch the wave rather than report on why the lock industry fails to protect us... in the tech world perhaps we are just too used to open source and whitehat hacking. We constantly get bombarded with security flaws and errors. We have a community of thousands who's sole purpose is to discover the stupid little mistakes that happen and then expose them to the world. That is what it takes to motivate change. That is capitalism. That is a free and open market society.""
Wii

Submission + - Wii Broke It

Submitted by $RANDOMLUSER
$RANDOMLUSER writes: Yahoo and Wii Have a Problem are reporting that the wrist strap on the Wii has a tendency to fray and break — just when you need it most, when the controller slips from your hand. It seems that where the strap attaches to the controller is the weakest point. People are reporting broken TVs, laptops, windows and vases. Maybe some chicken wire, as used in front of a biker-bar stage would help.
Enlightenment

Submission + - Top 5 Linux Myths Debunked

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Random Abyss has an article on the Top 5 Linux On Laptop Myths. Good information there for anyone considering loading Linux on their new laptop. Most interesting to me was the bit about Dell's warranty:
If you buy a Dell notebook and run Linux on it, does Dell's hardware warranty still apply? Absolutely.
The Courts

Submission + - EFF, ACLU, et al file suit for re-vote in Sarasota

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Voters from Sarasota County announced today that they are filing suit in state court in Tallahassee asking for a re-vote in Florida's 13th congressional district. On Monday, the Florida Elections Canvassing Commission certified Vern Buchanan as the winner of the Congressional District 13 race by 363 votes, despite the fact that electronic ballots cast by more than 18,000 people in Sarasota County showed no vote for either candidate in a high profile congressional race. This is an undervote rate of more than 16%, compared to an undervote rate of 2.5% in the paper absentee ballots and 1% in the U.S. Senate race on the same electronic ballot.

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