Journal Journal: Greeen Acres is the place for me...
Are some people setting themselves up for a disaster, or what?
Submission + - OSX on AppleTV
An anonymous reader writes: As AppleTVhacks.net reports, hacker semthex, who already made AppleTV OS run on mac, now did it again and made AppleTV run OSX. The special kernel is powered with a processor emulation and allows to run full blown GUI and even iTunes.
Does this turn the little TV settop box into a third world mac-mini now?
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Submission + - Oz Govt at it again
Anonymous Coward writes: "The Australian Govt are hard at it again , finding ways to "Look after the needs of the people", while simultaneously looking after the needs (cough) of the riaa and mpaa...
Oh well.. :)"
Submission + - Chemical Analysis of Food Contaminants
evought writes: "In the fallout from the menu pet foods contamination issue, many people are angry that the FDA and the manufacturer could let any contaminant through the net. Having done my time in lab in college, I have an idea how difficult it could be to test a sample for any of hundreds of possibly dangerous chemicals, but it has been a long time and Internet searches are not turning up a lot of useful references for how things are done today. Other than having an idea that it involves mass spectrometry and gas chromatography, how much has the state of the art changed in the last decade plus? How is chemical analysis of food done these days? How long does it take? What are the chances of a false positive (such as the FDA now claiming that aminopterin is *not* in the food but the original lab sticking to their guns)?"
Submission + - Ocean Fortress The Principality of Sealand Sold
Jon writes: "After four weeks of negotiations and in a historic move, the founders of
Whitedust.net have purchased the Principality
of Sealand for an undisclosed sum.
The Whitedust.net founders, represented at negotiations by Paul S.
Gates, and the Bates family are both said to be pleased by the
settlement figure, which will not be announced in keeping with the final
agreement. More details here."
Submission + - Death of the cell phone charger
jerthebear writes: "How much money could you make from a technology that replaces electrical wires? A startup called Powercast, along with the more than 100 companies that have inked agreements with it, is about to start finding out. Powercast and its first major partner, electronics giant Philips, are set to launch their first device powered by electricity broadcast through the air.
Link to story"
Link to story"
Submission + - Tweako - A New Social Site for
tweako writes: "Tweako is a new social news aimed at programmers that just launched a couple of hours ago. Tweako bears a certain similarity to Digg, but instead of news headlines the user submitted content is geared toward tutorials, guides, resources and services.
I wouldn't go so far as to call it a Digg clone, but even if you did, a Digg clone for tutorials and the like is a good idea.
In addition to submitting links, registered users can post tutorials and the like directly on Tweako. All the submitted content can be tagged, commented on and voted for by other users.
Registering at Tweako is free and creating the account lets you set up a profile that can track your voting and submission history. There are also tools for sending private messages and initiating a chats with fellow users in you "buddy" list. In addition to a site-wide feed there are also topic and user based RSS feeds.
The site is broken into fourteen broad categories ranging from tips for Mac or Windows users to Rails tutorials. And for something that just went public there's a decent amount of content on the site.
http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/03/tweako_a _social.html"
I wouldn't go so far as to call it a Digg clone, but even if you did, a Digg clone for tutorials and the like is a good idea.
In addition to submitting links, registered users can post tutorials and the like directly on Tweako. All the submitted content can be tagged, commented on and voted for by other users.
Registering at Tweako is free and creating the account lets you set up a profile that can track your voting and submission history. There are also tools for sending private messages and initiating a chats with fellow users in you "buddy" list. In addition to a site-wide feed there are also topic and user based RSS feeds.
The site is broken into fourteen broad categories ranging from tips for Mac or Windows users to Rails tutorials. And for something that just went public there's a decent amount of content on the site.
http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/03/tweako_
Submission + - Australian Mandatory ISP filtering will block P2P
rippie78 writes: "Whirlpool the Australian broadband news site has broken the story that
The federal government has shocked industry by rushing a bill through parliament that will compel ISPs to block all P2P traffic.
"
Submission + - Ubuntu running on the Xbox 360
Anonymous Coward writes: "Cpasjuste has managed to get Ubuntu (comunity developed Linux-based operating system) running on the Xbox 360. It contains all the standard applications such as a WEB BROWSER, spreadsheet software, instant messaging software and more. To get it running King Kong is required as well as the vulnerable kernels. Read more about it here at:
http://forums.maxconsole.net/showthread.php?p=4670 13#post467013
The news stub can be found here:
http://www.maxconsole.net/?mode=news&newsid=15411"
Submission + - Synthetic Snail Slime for Climbing Robots
Frumious Wombat writes: A team of engineers have set a small robot climbing walls in order to compare how natural and artificial snail slimes work. Co-worker Randy Ewoldt, of MIT, said: "An important result is that snail mucus per se is not required for robots to climb walls. We can make our own adhesive locomotion material with commercial products (instead) of harvesting slime from a snail farm." The real article is here for the technically (or gastropodically) inclined.
I, for one, welcome our ubiquitious, wall-climbing, robot overlords.
I, for one, welcome our ubiquitious, wall-climbing, robot overlords.
Submission + - Wikimedia Foundation, others sued for defamation
An anonymous reader writes: Barbara Bauer, a literary agent, filed a defamation suit in the Superior Court of New Jersey on March 23. Among the plaintiffs are the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc., the Nielsen Haydens, and the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organization which runs Wikipedia and its sister projects. The suit's docket number is L-001169-07 in Monmouth; it can be viewed on the court's website.
Since the filing, Bauer's article on Wikipedia has been deleted by Doc glasgow, citing Wikipedia's policy on biographies of living persons. The deletion has since been brought up for discussion at deletion review. Discussion of the matter has also occurred on the Wikimedia mailing lists.
Since the filing, Bauer's article on Wikipedia has been deleted by Doc glasgow, citing Wikipedia's policy on biographies of living persons. The deletion has since been brought up for discussion at deletion review. Discussion of the matter has also occurred on the Wikimedia mailing lists.
Submission + - Paul Cohen Has Died
Mikkeles writes: "Paul Cohen passed away on March 23. He was known for proving the independence of the Continuum Hypothesis and the Axiom of Choice from the Zermelo Fraenkel axioms for set theory."
Submission + - NASA Confirms Solar Storm near 2012
An anonymous reader writes: `This week researchers announced that a storm is coming — the most intense solar maximum in fifty years. The prediction comes from a team led by Mausumi Dikpati of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). "The next sunspot cycle will be 30% to 50% stronger than the previous one," she says. If correct, the years ahead could produce a burst of solar activity second only to the historic Solar Max of 1958.`
`Dikpati's forecast puts Solar Max at 2012. Hathaway believes it will arrive sooner, in 2010 or 2011.`
Anyone familiar with the Mayan Calendar? December 21, 2012 (13.0.0.0.0 in the Mayan Calendar) Coincidence?
`Dikpati's forecast puts Solar Max at 2012. Hathaway believes it will arrive sooner, in 2010 or 2011.`
Anyone familiar with the Mayan Calendar? December 21, 2012 (13.0.0.0.0 in the Mayan Calendar) Coincidence?
Submission + - TV Network Freezing Sets With DRM
violet16 writes: Some Australians with LG-brand digital TVs have found their sets locking up when trying to watch shows on the nation's most popular free-to-air network, Channel Nine. Given Nine's history of aggressive opposition to PVRs, and that the problem apparently goes away if macrovision copy protection is stripped from the signal, some suspect that DRM is yet again to blame. Meanwhile LG is advising consumers of this helpful temporary workaround: unplug your television and wait 30 minutes before turning it back on.
