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Government

Submission + - Need a receipt on taxes? The Federal Tax Receipt (whitehouse.gov)

Submitted by
ndogg
ndogg writes: "The White House has opened up a tool that lets you see where your tax dollars are being spent. I put my numbers in and it showed that a little over a quarter goes towards defense and military spending (I'm not sure I'm getting my money's worth on that one), and a little under a quarter for health care."
Politics

Submission + - Too dumb to vote? (cnn.com) 4

Submitted by
telekon
telekon writes: "In this op-ed piece, CNN commentator LZ Granderson makes the (radical?) suggestion that in order to vote, people should have a basic grasp of civics.

"We wouldn't issue a driver's license to someone unable to pass the written test, knowing the potential damage that person could do behind the wheel. Why do we look at voting differently?""
Crime

Submission + - FBI raids wrong home, searching for WoW gold (gamepron.com)

Submitted by dotarray
dotarray writes: The FBI may have had the wrong address when they recently raided an apartment in Michigan, investigating a World of Warcraft gold-selling claim. No arrests have been made following the March 30 raid.
Apple

Submission + - Rumor: Best Buy blacklisted by Apple (tekgoblin.com)

Submitted by
tekgoblin
tekgoblin writes: "Looks like Best Buy could be in a little bit of trouble with Apple. It seems that Best Buy had been hoarding their supply of iPad 2's and telling customers that they had not more when in fact they did. Best Buy had a sales quota set each day for it's supply of iPad 2's which it met and then would stop selling the product for the rest of the day."
Transportation

Richard Branson Announces Virgin Oceanic Submarine 122

Posted by samzenpus from the 6-miles-down dept.
It's the tripnaut! writes "Richard Branson has just revealed that he intends to build a vessel capable of exploring some of the deepest parts of the oceans around the world. The article further states: 'The sub, which was designed by Graham Hawkes, weighs 8,000 lbs and is made of carbon fiber and titanium. It has an operating depth of 37,000 ft and can operate for 24 hours unaided.'"
Open Source

Submission + - Bitcoin Bounty Funds Animated Video (weusecoins.com)

Submitted by Blitzboom
Blitzboom writes: The community of the Bitcoin peer to peer currency has come up with a professionally done animated video introduction funded by a Bitcoin community bounty currently worth over 6000 Dollar at current exchange rates, making it the biggest Bitcoin bounty to date, as well as being the first. The producers intend to continue with a second more technical video.
AMD

Submission + - $55 Radeon HD 6450 fails to impress (techreport.com)

Submitted by crookedvulture
crookedvulture writes: Installing a budget graphics card is a good way to bolster the gaming chops of a low-end system with integrated graphics. However, some cards aren't much faster than the IGPs they were designed to replace. Take AMD's freshly minted Radeon HD 6450, for example. This $55 card offers DirectX 11 support and should wipe the floor with an Intel IGP. The thing is, the Radeon isn't much faster than Sandy Bridge's built-in graphics. The Radeon is quite a bit slower than a similarly priced GeForce GTS 430, too. And the real kicker? Both of those budget cards look a bit silly considering the vastly superior performance offered by graphics cards around the $100 mark. Integrated graphics implementations are more potent than ever, and that makes meaningful upgrades costlier than they've been before.
Android

Submission + - Google Kicks Grooveshark Out Of The Android Market (techspot.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Google has kicked Grooveshark out of the Android Market. It's currently unclear if Google will also remotely remove Grooveshark from Android smartphones on which the app has already been installed. The search giant has done this before, but only for malware-infested apps.

The move comes many months after Apple did the same on its App Store. After receiving complaints from the top record companies last year, the iOS version of Grooveshark disappeared in August 2010.

Submission + - Elderly Georgian woman cuts Armenian internet (guardian.co.uk)

Submitted by
welcher
welcher writes: "An elderly Georgian woman was scavenging for copper with a spade when she accidentally sliced through an underground cable and cut off internet services to nearly all of neighbouring Armenia.

The fibre-optic cable near Tiblisi, Georgia, supplies about 90% of Armenia's internet so the woman's unwitting sabotage had catastrophic consequences. Web users in the nation of 3.2 million people were left twiddling their thumbs for up to five hours. Large parts of Georgia and some areas of Azerbaijan were also affected.

Dubbed "the spade-hacker" by local media, the woman is being investigated on suspicion of damaging property. She faces up to three years in prison if charged and convicted."
Earth

Submission + - What Japan's Disaster Tells Us about Peak Oil

Submitted by
Hugh Pickens writes
Hugh Pickens writes writes: "Brendan Barrett writes in the Guardian that for large parts of eastern Japan that were not directly hit by the tsunami on 11 March 2011, the current state of affairs in eastern Japan feels very much like a dry-run for peak oil. The earthquake and tsunami affected six of the 28 oil refineries in Japan and immediately gas rationing was introduced with a maximum of 20 liters per car (in some instances as low as 5 liters). TEPCO which serves a population of 44.5 million, lost one quarter of its supply capacity as a result of the quake and has been forced to implement a series of scheduled outages across the Kanto region. Japan's leaders acted rapidly and responsibly by putting fuel rationing in place almost from the start and at the same time, the general public and the private sector in the Kanto region were encouraged to comply with the scheduled power outages and to significantly reduce their energy consumption. Government officials also quickly recognized that people were hoarding food supplies and began to publicly request that they only buy what they need. "These food and bottled water shortages, power cuts, fuel-rationing and breakdowns in just-in-time manufacturing have been anticipated by those who take peak oil seriously," writes Barrett. If proponents of peak oil are correct, then the rest of the world may experience something similar within the next 5 to 10 years."
AMD

Submission + - AMD Closes In On Intel With Move To 32nm Chips (computerworld.com)

Submitted by
CWmike
CWmike writes: "AMD announced on Monday that the first laptops and desktops with its 32nm A-series chips will be available this quarter. The chips, codenamed Llano, mark the first time AMD has moved from a 45nm to a 32nm manufacturing process for its mainstream PC chips. It's a major step for a company that has been trailing Intel for several years now. Intel moved to a 32nm process early in 2010 with its Westmere family of chips. At the time, AMD was expected to move to a 32nm manufacturing process with its own chips in mid-2010, but that was delayed because of yield problems, giving Intel a head start. However, Dan Olds, an analyst with The Gabriel Consulting Group, said AMD may be late, but it's not too late. 'AMD didn't get to the 32nm party first, but they've finally made it and are aiming to make the most of it,' said Olds. 'I'd call them fashionably late and definitely not too late. Intel is obviously way ahead, but this new chip gives AMD something to talk about and perhaps a way to ratchet up their market share.'"

Submission + - Electromagnetic automobile suspension demonstrated (gizmag.com)

Submitted by cylonlover
cylonlover writes: Last December at the Future of Electric Vehicles conference in San Jose, a representative from The Netherlands' Eindhoven University of Technology presented research that his institution had been doing into a novel type of electromagnetic vehicle suspension. Now that a test car equipped with the suspension is about to appear at the AutoRAI exhibition in Amsterdam, the university has released some more details about the technology. For starters, it is not only electromagnetic but also active, meaning that it doesn't just mechanically respond to bumps in the road, but is controlled by an onboard computer. It is claimed to improve the overall ride quality of cars by 60 percent.
User Journal

Journal Journal: Is it just me or is slashcode fucked again? 5

Journal by Qzukk

It appears they've fixed the issue where trying to click anywhere in an expanded child with a collapsed parent opened the parent and rescrolled the window to the parent.
Science

Submission + - 10,000 Shipping Containers Lost At Sea Each Year (singularityhub.com)

Submitted by
kkleiner
kkleiner writes: "Right now, as you read this, there are five or six million shipping containers on enormous cargo ships sailing across the world’s oceans. And about every hour, on average, one is falling overboard never to be seen again. It’s estimated that 10,000 of these large containers are lost at sea each year. This month the Monterray Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) sent a robotic sub to investigate a shipping container that was lost in the Monterrey Bay National Marine Sanctuary in 2004. What’s happened to the sunken shipment in the past seven years? It’s become a warren for a variety of aquatic life on the ocean floor, providing a new habitat for species that might otherwise not be attracted to the area."

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