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Submission + - global warming independent of solar activity (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by

polar red

on Wednesday July 11, 2007 @06:18AM

polar red writes: "Many people hold off the idea that humanity could be responsible for global warming. A common scapegoat is the story about rising solar activity. This study shows that the sun is not responsible for the warming in the last decades."

Submission + - Margaret Thatcher's Crimes against humanity

Submitted by

maxsydney1

on Wednesday July 11, 2007 @05:30AM

maxsydney1 writes: "What did the Vietnamese ever do to the Brits to deserve this:

"After 1975 the US imposed a punishing embargo on them [Vietnam], covering trade and humanitarian aid. Friends joined in. One of Margaret Thatcher's first acts on coming to power was to stop shipments of powdered milk to Vietnamese children."

"The new British prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, persuaded the EU to halt shipments of milk to Vietnamese children. The American objective was to continue the war by other means."

"In 1979, the new British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, persuaded the European Community to halt its regular shipments of milk to Vietnamese children. As a consequence, (the price of a kilo of milk powder in Vietnam rose to ten times e price of a kilo of meat. During visits in 1975 and 1978, I saw many children with distended bellies and fragile limbs in the towns as well as the countryside. According to World Health Organisation measurements, a third of all infants under five so deteriorated following the milk ban that the majority of them were stunted or likely to be, and a disproportionate number of the very youngest were reportedly going blind due to a lack of Vitamin A."

Taken from:
http://www.johnpilger.com/page.asp?partid=249
http://www.johnpilger.com/page.asp?partid=246
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Pilger_John/Hidd en_Agendas.html

Thatcher, your sins have not gone un-noticed."

Submission + - GalaxyZoo - hotor not for Galaxys

Submitted by nikmal on Wednesday July 11, 2007 @04:56AM

nikmal writes: GalaxyZoo, another project which harnesses the power of the collective intelligence of the internet — to classify a million galaxies. By taking part, you'll not only be contributing to scientific research, but you'll view parts of the Universe that literally no-one has ever seen before and get a sense of the glorious diversity of galaxies that pepper the sky. (also you will prevent the current researchers from going mad with boredom...)

Submission + - Blender Foundation to Create Open Movie, Open Game

Submitted by Eloquence on Monday June 11, 2007 @05:54AM

Eloquence writes: The Blender Foundation, which maintains the open source 3D tool Blender, has announced two new projects, codenamed Peach and Apricot. Project Peach will be a new open source movie, following in the footsteps of last year's Elephants Dream project (which was initially codenamed Orange). Apricot, on the other hand, will use Blender in conjunction with open source 3D framework Crystal Space to create an open game, thereby showcasing both technologies.

Submission + - Sony upset church by using cathedral in game

Submitted by

clickclickdrone

on Monday June 11, 2007 @05:36AM

clickclickdrone writes: "Sony have fallen foul of the Church of England by using detailed images and interiors of Manchester Cathedral without their consent. The CofE claim Sony have used the images in the violent game "Resistance: Fall of Man" without their permission although Sony say all neccessary permissions were sought and granted. You can read more at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/6739 575.stm
Whilst the Church's lists of things it wants Sony to do to make up for the alleged error does smack slightly of cashing in on events, it does serve to highlight the issues involved with the increasing use of detailed real world places in games. Photographers have to be careful selling photos of certain buildings whose owners have copyrighted the image such as the Millenium Wheel in London so do game's publishers who feature well known cities and landmarks also need to be more careful, especially when multiple agencies may have an interest in certain places and how they are presented to the public?"

Submission + - linuX-gamers Live DVD 0.9

Submitted by xer0c on Monday June 11, 2007 @05:14AM

xer0c writes: As a special for the LinuxTag 2007 in Berlin, the Linux-Gamers.net team developed a LiveDVD based on ArchLinux for instant gaming.

To their surprise, the DVD came as a bombshell. The visitors of the biggest european Open Source exhibition were amazed about what is possible with a LiveDVD, yet and took along almost 100 DVDs in exchange for a little donation.

Based on Arch Linux, this 2.4 GB bootable medium contains both the NVIDIA and ATI proprietary Linux drivers and includes the following 3D games: BzFLag, Enemy Territory, Glest, Nexuiz, Sauerbraten, Torcs, Tremulous, True Combat: Elite, Warsow and World of Padman.
This is a development build on the way to the 1.0 release, but users are encouraged to test the live DVD and provide suggestions for the upcoming stable release. For more information please read the release announcement and visit the project's web site.

Download the DVD image via BitTorrent or HTTP mirror: lg-live-0.9.iso (2,464MB).

Submission + - Giant gun proposed for space launches (antibogon.org)

Submitted by

Gary W. Longsine

on Monday June 11, 2007 @03:53AM

Gary W. Longsine writes: "New Scientist reports in Aim for the stars on a recent study which proposes launching durable supplies like water into space using a giant gun. It turns out that a regular gun won't be efficient enough, but a multi-stage gun based on a series of tubes might do the trick."

Submission + - Looking for TIBCO Business Works Replacement

Submitted by subrash on Tuesday June 05, 2007 @11:28AM

subrash writes: I Work in the SOA field and have been extensively using Business Works for SOA related integration. We also Use TIBCO Smart Sockets as our messaging layer. i am looking for a replacement for this combination. I know that APache MQ may be a good replacement for smart sockets as it is jms compliant and has a unix based C++ API but iam still looking for a replacement for TIBCO Business Works. TIBCO business works provided a very easy way to implement web services without needing to set up a webserver and without need to write too much code . it could connect to databases and our smartsockets layer. the problem is that tibco jacked up their contracts with us and the company is being held up because we cannot support tibcos prices anymore so we are now looking for an open-source non-propreitary solution for accomplishing the above. i heard of lazlo but has any body used them in this way an pointers would be helpful

Submission + - No goat sex at the Olympics, rules BBC (theregister.co.uk)

Submitted by csplinter on Tuesday June 05, 2007 @11:13AM

csplinter writes: The Web 2.0-tastic BBC just loves "user generated content". So when London's Olympic team unveiled its logo for the 2012 games to much mockery earlier today, what could be better than unleashing the Wisdom of the Crowd? After all, anyone can do better than the official expensive design disaster. One entry, submitted by "Sean Stayte", won the approval of the BBC sitekeepers and was published as one of the twelve best submissions. In Sean's words:

Here is my design for the Olympic logo. It is very simple and so memorable. The hands represent Britain pulling together to reveal the Olympics."
(See Image Here)

Indeed so.

However, it also represents one of the most iconic and notorious shock pictures on the Web, which was originally hosted at goats.cx. Sean's splendid contribution has now been replaced — without comment from the BBC. Wikipedia, which once again proves that it's the undisputed champ of documenting anal-related web trivia, wasted no time in updating this important page,and has a screen grab here. Get there before some joker replaces it with the real goats.cx picture. Sean, we salute you.

Submission + - Open Source solutions for Situation Rooms?

Submitted by

riffer

on Tuesday June 05, 2007 @11:07AM

riffer writes: "In my team at work we're looking to put together a Situation Room for dealing with IT security. We want something that allows multiple video inputs from different computers to go to one or two large screen displays (probably plasmas), with the ability to resize, zoom and move the sub-displays around. There are various commercial solutions but I'm hoping an open source application could be used. I've looked at MythTV and it seems to offer much of what we'd need, but it's oriented towards TV watching and recording, and our video inputs would not be from cable TV or video cameras. We want this to look and feel professional, for acceptance by fairly conservative (and not very geeky) upper-management. Any suggestions?"

Submission + - Microsoft take developer to court

Submitted by chrisbeatty on Tuesday June 05, 2007 @10:57AM

chrisbeatty writes: The Register are reporting that Microsoft are threatening a UK developer, Jamie Cansdale who built software to run unit tests in Visual Studio.

What starts as a jovial chat with a senior Microsoft manager has led to Microsoft beginning legal proceedings due to the program working for the free Visual Studio Express product. The developer is now refusing to back down, is Microsoft not just pushing the development community, the support & good press they give away from itself?

Submission + - The Top 15 USB geek gadgets (networkworld.com)

Submitted by

coondoggie

on Tuesday June 05, 2007 @10:56AM

coondoggie writes: "From humping dogs to running hamsters and gyrating Elvis' and desktop missile launchers, is there anything more fun that a truly geeky gadget? Well of course there is but after having witnessed the Dancing Elvis Phone at a recent trade show, Layer 8 wanted to see how geeky we could get. That naturally lead to the USB world where there's no end to the geeky things you can link to your PC. Here's the Top 15 I thought were the most amusing. Please feel free to let me know your favorites. 1. The Typing Speedometer Mouse Oh why not. This little mouse character sits on an exercise bike and well, the aster you type the faster the little rodent pedals and your typing speed is displayed on the LCD readout. A good time can be had by all. http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/1588 6"

Submission + - Only 244 genuine Windows Vista's sold in China

Submitted by

morpheus83

on Wednesday April 18, 2007 @06:57AM

morpheus83 writes: "Whilst Microsoft was bragging about the sales number of their latest OS Windows Vista, few would actually know that they have only managed to sell 244 copies in the whole of China in the first 2 weeks. You heard that right, and that's the number quoted from the headquarters of the Windows Vista chief (90% national volume) distributor in Beijing."

Submission + - Shape-shifting 'smart dust' to explore planets

Submitted by moon_monkey on Wednesday April 18, 2007 @05:44AM

moon_monkey writes: New Scientist has a story about computer simulations that show how 'smart dust' sensors ould explore other planets simply by changing their shape. John Barker, at the University of Glasgow, created computer models in which tens of thousands of devices measuring 1 cubic millimetre each travelled across the surface of Mars by switching their shape from smooth to dimpled. The smooth dust sensors are carried on the Martian wind, while the rough ones experience enough drag to fall back to the surface and Barker found that thousands of these devices could navigate 20 kilometers this way. They could perhaps be used this way for chemical or biological sensing and exploration.

Feed Orange and Vodafone cripple Nokia's flagship (theregister.com)

From feed by registerfeed on Wednesday April 18, 2007 @05:32AM

N95 comes with VoIP disabled

Nokia N95 handsets supplied by Orange and Vodafone, in the UK, have had their VoIP capability removed in what looks like a desperate move by the network operators to defend their voice revenue.

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