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Comment Re:Why do I get (Score 4, Insightful) 108

by Korin43 (#30501896) Attached to: Library Groups Ask DOJ To Oversee Google Books
But in this case they will have a monopoly simply because no one else has bothered to do what they're planning to do. Why should they be punished for being the only ones who want to digitize everything? I read constantly about how horrible it will be that Google will be the only ones doing this, but if people actually thought competition would help, there would already be a competitor.
Science

LHC Has First Collisions After Years of Waiting 324

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the no-black-holes-or-gateways-to-hell-yet dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Only four days after the first attempt to send a particle beam around the LHC, we have arrived at the point when all four experiments got their first real collisions from the machine. This was met by celebrations and champagne, as people have been waiting years and years for this moment. It is a testament to the engineering of the machine that collisions were reached already, so few days after restarting. The LHC had already demonstrated ca 10h stable beams, and now also stable beams in both directions at the same time. In the coming weeks, we need only wait for increased intensity and the first attempts at acceleration."
NASA

Submission + - SPAM: NASA takes ice hunt Earth-bound

Submitted by coondoggie
coondoggie writes: While NASA is crashing into the moon to look for ice, it's also looking for the frozen stuff here on Earth, only in a much more conventional way. The space agency said on Oct. 15 it will start a series of 17 flights to study changes to Antarctica's sea ice, glaciers and ice sheets. The flights are part of what NASA calls Operation Ice Bridge, a six-year project that is the largest airborne survey ever made of ice at Earth's polar regions. Researchers will work from NASA's DC-8, an airborne laboratory equipped with laser mapping instruments, ice-penetrating radar and gravity instruments. Data collected from the mission will help scientists better predict how changes to the massive Antarctic ice sheet will contribute to future sea level rise around the world, NASA stated.
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Patents

Submission + - Imports of Toyota Prius May Be Banned (bloomberg.com) 1

Submitted by JynxMe
JynxMe writes: Paice, a tiny Florida company that has patented a way to apply force to a car's wheels from the electric motor or the internal combustion engine.

Paice thinks that Toyota (TM) is infringing on its technology, and is going after the automaker in court. The legal spat became much more serious for Toyota this week, when the U.S. International Trade Commission decided to investigate the matter. In the worst-case scenario for Toyota, the commission could ban the hybrid Camry, third-generation Prius, Lexus HS250h sedan and Lexus RX450h SUV.
Businesses

Submission + - Microsoft, Yahoo Reach 10-Year Search Engine Deal 1

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nandemoari
nandemoari writes: "Microsoft has finally acquired long-time search engine rival Yahoo Inc in a 10 year search engine partnership. The deal, which has been in the works on-and-off for over a year has been finalized and made public earlier today. Yahoo agreed to use Microsoft's Bing search engine on its sites, while Microsoft will use Yahoo's search technology. Yahoo will sell ads on both sites and the two companies will share revenue from traffic generated on Yahoo sites. Yahoo expects the partnership will save $275M it would have previously invested in search technology, boosting its annual profit by $500M."
Microsoft

Submission + - Linus: MS Hatred is a Disease

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WED Fan
WED Fan writes: "Linus Torvalds has given an interview commenting on Microsoft's recent and on-going contribution of code. In it, he takes a pretty sharp crack at some in the Open Source and/or free software movements:

I may make jokes about Microsoft at times, but at the same time, I think the Microsoft hatred is a disease.

He also decries those bent on hatred and exclusion:

There are 'extremists' in the free software world, but that's one major reason why I don't call what I do 'free software' any more. I don't want to be associated with the people for whom it's about exclusion and hatred.

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Comment Re:Work Experience (Score 1) 834

by Vaakku (#27914181) Attached to: Go For a Masters, Or Not?
Funny.... I Don't have ANY degree but ~10 years experience on networks. Last time I was employed they clearly said that they don't care about degrees, all they cared was what I'm REALLY capable to do. Show me a person who can work out of college/university with all of Cisco/Juniper/Extreme... There is a slight difference with academica and real world. Coding might be different story but most gifted coders I have seen haven't been graduated either.
Mars

Mars Lander Faces Slow Death 212

Posted by Soulskill from the this-lander-will-self-destruct-in-five-months dept.
Riding with Robots writes "It's the beginning of the end for the Phoenix Mars Lander. As winter approaches in the Martian arctic, NASA says it's in a 'race against time and the elements' in its efforts to prolong the robotic spacecraft's life. Starting today, mission managers will begin to gradually shut the lander's systems down, hoping to conserve dwindling solar power and thereby extend the remaining systems' useful life. 'Originally scheduled to last 90 days, Phoenix has completed a fifth month of exploration in the Martian arctic. As expected, with the Martian northern hemisphere shifting from summer to fall, the lander is generating less power due to shorter days and fewer hours of sunlight reaching its solar panels. At the same time, the spacecraft requires more power to run several survival heaters that allow it to operate even as temperatures decline.'"
Security

Cubicle Security For Laptops, Electronics? 532

Posted by kdawson from the down-sizing-needn't-mean-down-securing dept.
kamikasee writes "I recently found out that I'm going to be moved from an office to a cubicle. The cubicle area is not very secure, and I'm worried about things wandering off. My boss has offered to buy some equipment to help me secure things, but so far I haven't found anything that fits my requirements. Google and Amazon searches are overwhelmed by lockable key cabinets and larger pieces of furniture. Here are some of the requirements: The main issue with traditional solutions (e.g. locking things in a drawer) is convenience. I use a laptop with a second LCD monitor. There's also an external keyboard and mouse and a USB hard drive. I leave my laptop on at night so I can remote-desktop into it, so I'm not really happy about putting it in a drawer (no ventilation), plus I don't like the idea of having to 'unharness' everything every time I want to put it away. I don't trust cable locks. Besides, cable locks won't help me secure my the USB drive and other electronics that might wander off. The solution I imagine is a lockable, ventilated metal box that would sit under the monitor and house most of the electronics. If it was big enough, I could stick my laptop into it at night (while leaving it running) and feel confident that it would still be there in the morning. I'd be open to other types of solutions. Surely someone else must have dealt with this problem."
Linux Business

A Peek Into Tomorrow's Linux 126

Posted by samzenpus from the window-of-the-future dept.
jellybeans writes "MadPenguin.org takes a peek into the world of Linux as it looks going forward. "I hear this argument all the time. How companies trying to make Linux more accessible, through any means necessary, so long as they abide by the GPL, are working against the vision of Linux from the beginning. This is asinine. The vision, based on my own interpretation of Linux was always about choice."

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