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Honda Makes Motorcycle Talk To Oncoming Cars 146

Posted by timothy on Wednesday October 22, 2008 @04:12PM from the ground-traffic-control dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The system generates warnings to riders and drivers of other vehicles by continuous exchange of positioning data from satellite GPS sources. This is particularly relevant as road users approach intersections, alerting them to other vehicles that are potentially on a collision course, allowing avoidance manoeuvres."

Submission + - Music File-Sharing Site OiNK Shut Down

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 23, 2007 @03:59PM

An anonymous reader writes: Forbes is reporting that fle-sharing Web site OiNK.cd, described by the IFPI as the world's biggest source of pirated pre-release albums, now displays the following message: "This site has been closed as a result of a criminal investigation by IFPI [International Federation of the Phonographic Industry], BPI [British Phonographic Industry], Cleveland [U.K.] police and the Fiscal Investigation Unit of the Dutch police, into suspected illegal music distribution. A criminal investigation continues into the identities and activities of the site's users." The site had been the subject of a two-year investigation overseen by Interpol and known as "Operation Ark Royal." According to police, OiNK provided illegal downloads of pre-release music and media to its members, who'd joined the site on an invite-only basis and were asked to contribute donations via debit or credit card. That money, believed to be in the region of hundreds of thousands of pounds, is being tracked down by the IFPI and the BPI.

Submission + - Oink.cd shut down by IFPI

Submitted by Hatta on Tuesday October 23, 2007 @01:43PM

Hatta writes: A special message greeted some of the estimated 180,000 paid members of music file-sharing Web site OiNK.cd when they tried to access it on Tuesday: "This site has been closed as a result of a criminal investigation by IFPI [International Federation of the Phonographic Industry], BPI [British Phonographic Industry], Cleveland [U.K.] police and the Fiscal Investigation Unit of the Dutch police, into suspected illegal music distribution. A criminal investigation continues into the identities and activities of the site's users."

Submission + - Oink Bittorrent Tracker raided and Admin Arrested (techwag.com)

Submitted by

bubblah

on Tuesday October 23, 2007 @10:54AM

bubblah writes: "In what is sure to be a solid case of Deja Vu, this time the owner of Oink.cd a bittorrent tracker finds that the servers are confiscated, and he is in jail. Hot on the heels of Demonoid, then TV-Links, now it is Oink that finds itself shutdown, and the admin arrested. As the major sites where people get media continue to face growing and continual pressure over illegal content, users will find themselves with fewer and fewer options. It also means that there will be more reliance on those sites that are still up and running like Pirate Bay and Stage 6. http://techwag.com/index.php/2007/10/23/another-pirate-site-gets-raided-this-time-is-it-oink/"

Submission + - Thermal Paint that Generates Electricity (pesn.com)

Submitted by

sterlingda

on Tuesday October 02, 2007 @01:42AM

sterlingda writes: "Industrial Nanotech, Inc. an emerging global leader in nanotechnology, has announced that the Company is now in the development stage of a thermal insulation material that will generate electricity. The company presently produces a Nansulate coating, which, when applied to industrial piping prevents corrosion and is said to lower energy use by 10-20%. "After almost three years of research on producing thin sheets of thermal insulation which use the temperature differential that insulation inherently creates as a source for generating electricity, we are moving to the development stage and designing the first prototype material and filing the patents necessary to protect this valuable intellectual property," states Stuart Burchill, CEO of Industrial Nanotech, Inc."

Submission + - Can you spot a phish? Play Carnegie Mellon's game (networkworld.com)

Submitted by

bednarz

on Tuesday September 25, 2007 @02:39PM

bednarz writes: "Scientists at Carnegie Mellon University have developed an online game designed to teach Internet users about the dangers of phishing. Featuring a cartoon fish named Phil, the game, called Anti-Phishing Phil, has been tested in CMU's Privacy and Security Laboratory. Officials with the lab say users who spent 15 minutes playing the interactive, online game were better able to discern fraudulent Web sites than those who simply read tutorials about the threat. Network World has the story: http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/092507-phish-carnegie-mellon.html"

Firefox 3 Antiphishing Sends Your URLs To Google 296

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday September 25, 2007 @02:34PM from the clickstream-of-the-world dept.

iritant writes "As we were discussing, Gran Paradiso — the latest version of Firefox — is nearing release. Gran Paradiso includes a form of malware protection that checks every URL against a known list of sites. It does so by sending each URL to Google. In other words, if people enable this feature, they get some malware protection, and Google gets a wealth of information about which sites are popular (or, for that matter, which sites should be checked for malware). Fair deal? Not to worry — the feature is disabled by default."

Submission + - Laptop failures/Portable/ DIY:U1 server ?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 25, 2007 @02:03PM

An anonymous reader writes: I'm a busy electrical engineer. I need a portable, rugged, fast computer system that I can drag from office to office to home. I rarely need battery powered operation. I've been using an HP ZD7000 for 3 years. It died twice this summer due to motherboard and/or video driver failures. Thus far HP has covered the fixes, but I am thinking I need to dump it ASAP. What I really need is a total desktop system the size of a briefcase. I am tired of buying laptops because they aren't upgradeable, you can't fix them yourself, the screens are too small, etc. I'm thinking I could build a neat but ugly portable desktop system using a 1U or 1.5U short server chassis, a 20 inch LCD display and a wireless keyboard and mouse. I'd mount the LCD to/inside the 1U/1.5U case and stand it up on end. It would be ugly, but very, very functional. Has anyone done anything like this ? What do you use for high power portable computing ?

Submission + - Citrix announced agreement to acquire XenSource (citrix.com)

Submitted by on Saturday August 18, 2007 @08:02AM

An anonymous reader writes: "Citrix has signed a definitive agreement to acquire XenSource a leader in enterprise-grade virtual infrastructure solutions. The acquisition moves Citrix into adjacent and fast growing datacenter and desktop virtualization markets." For near $500 million, including about $100 million of unvested options, Citrix would be purchasing VMWare's closest competitor in the Server Virtualization market, with XenEnterprise v4 offering technology similar to VMWare's flasgship — and arguably overtake them as a combined solution, as VMWare offers little in the realm of Application and Desktop Virtualization. Though subject to the customary closing conditions, both boards of directors have approved the transaction, and the deal is expected to close in Q4 of 2007.

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