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Biotech

Submission + - Medical Wikis Featured in Nature Medicine

Submitted by S. Adams
S. Adams writes: Two high impact medical journals, BMJ and Nature Medicine have featured articles discussing the impact of Web 2.0 and Wiki software and the future of medical infomatics. Both have stirred some debate on the potential impact of the technology to benefit patient care as well of some of the risk if not used properly. http://www.nature.com/nm/journal/v13/n3/abs/nm0307 -231.html (subscription required) http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/333/7582/1283? maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext= askdrwiki&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&resourcetype=HWC IT (open Access)
Patents

Submission + - US Patent Office To Try Wiki Style Patent Reviews

Submitted by
bendodge
bendodge writes: "From the Washington Post:

The Patent and Trademark Office is starting a pilot project that will not only post patent applications on the Web and invite comments but also use a community rating system designed to push the most respected comments to the top of the file, for serious consideration by the agency's examiners. A first for the federal government, the system resembles the one used by Wikipedia, the popular user-created online encyclopedia.
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Google

Submission + - Is Google developing a mobile phone?

Submitted by pasun
pasun writes: A VC, putting two and two together, conjectures that Google is developing a mobile phone. He points to some acquisitions that Google has made and people it has hired: Andy (Rubin) is a systems guy and so its a good bet that hes working on an OS for the famed Google Phone. ... in July 2005 Google also acquired Reqwireless, a mobile applications company ... It is the Skia acquisition that ties together the Google Phone story for me.
Privacy

Submission + - Google subpoenaed for a Blogger poster's IP

Submitted by
Jawfish
Jawfish writes: "Santa Barbara based Blogabarbara says today that an anonymous post to the Google-hosted blog has attracted the litigious attention of local billionaire newspaper owner Wendy McCaw, subject of the posting. The owner of Blogabarbara says Google has been subpoenaed for the IP address of this anonymous blogger and that Google may well provide the data.

http://blogabarbara.blogspot.com/2007/03/subpoena- to-anonymous-made-by-ampersand.html

This sounds like a privacy problem to me.

To understand the wild and wacky background of this, you need to go to http://www.craigsmithsblog.com/ and read about how this wannabe publisher has wrecked a pretty good local paper, the Santa Barbara News-Press. The NLRB is investigating. also of interest: http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/artic le_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003547492"
Programming

Submission + - uCalc Language Builder for creating prog. language

Submitted by
Daniel Corbier
Daniel Corbier writes: "uCalc Language Builder , which lets programmers create programming languages by writing code in a very simple bootstrapping language specifically designed for the purpose, without the need for Lex, Yacc, or large volumes of code, is available for download (beta). Though still a work in progress, it already includes versions of languages as different as Basic, Forth, Lisp, and more. The code for those languages is in plain text files, that users can load right into the generic uCalc interpreter, which then turns into an interpreter for that language. The developer requests feedback on this concept."
Movies

Submission + - MPAA says 2006 was great, whats the P2P fuss?

Submitted by
Jared Moya
Jared Moya writes: "According to a new MPAA press release, 2006 was a great time to be in the movie biz, with the highest profit margins in years. Their "bullish year," as they refer to it, thereby heaps a ton of skepticism upon all of their claims that illegal P2P and file-sharing services will be the death knell of their industry. It's eerily reminiscent of a study done back in June of 2005 by Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Koleman Strumpf called "The Effect of File Sharing on Record Sales — An Empirical Analysis" that effectively argued that contrary to the claims of the recording industry illegal music downloads have had no noticeable effects on music sales. Is the movie industry full of "bull" as well?"
Perl

Submission + - Develop Powerful Application for IDS with Perl

Submitted by IdaAshley
IdaAshley writes: This tutorial takes you through the process of setting up the Perl Database Interface (DBI) to work with the IBM Informix Dynamic Server (IDS). See examples of how to exercise a variety of DBI features and learn how to configure CPAN module installation, driver installation, script automation, data structures, pitfalls, and Perl interaction with IDS.
Censorship

Submission + - Law student web forum: Free speech gone too far?

Submitted by
The Xoxo Reader
The Xoxo Reader writes: "Today's Washington Post carries a front-page article on the internet message board AutoAdmit (a.k.a. Xoxohth), which proclaims itself the "most prestigious law school discussion board in the world." The message board has recently come under fire for emphasizing a free speech policy that allows its users to discuss, criticize, and attack other law students and lawyers by name. Is this an example of free speech and anonymity gone too far, or is internet trolling just a necessary side effect of a policy that otherwise promotes insightful discussion of the legal community?"
Businesses

Submission + - How hard is it to get a tech job in California?

Submitted by
An anonymous reader writes: I have recently moved from the UK to San Francisco and am trying to get a tech job here. My experience has been difficult. I've had some interviews, but I find that getting feedback just does not happen. One of the companies is a (well known company) that told me they would get back in a week. I heard nothing for a month. Emailing them has produced no response. I assume I did not get the job, but is this typical of how companies treat candidates?

I have also applied to lots positions and got no response at all. This has been direct through comany websites and through job sites.

I was wondering if others can provide some insight into what I am doing wrong?

To give a bit of background I've worked for 10yrs in IT in programming and application support/operations. I also have a degree in Comp Sci.
Mozilla

Submission + - 20 must-have Firefox extensions

Submitted by
mrbluze
mrbluze writes: "Computerworld has an article: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?com mand=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=development&art icleId=9011975&taxonomyId=11&intsrc=kc_feat which reviews 20 useful Firefox extensions. I must admit this was a very fruitful read and identified some extensions that don't usually come up when you browse the 'popular' list on the website.

Do fellow slashdotters have other extensions they cannot live without?"
Businesses

Submission + - Geek Squad fails, $415 charge. Linux recovers HD

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Seems the Geek Squad and Best Buy horror stories never stop coming in. The latest is a piece over at the Consumerist where someone went to Geek Squad to attempt to recover data off a hard drive that apparently crashed. For $415 and 8 days of time, the Best Buy Geek Squad techs failed to recover any data from the drive. The author later tried to recover his data using a friend's Linux box and after 20 minutes, most of his data was recovered. After attempting to get a refund for something that the Geek Squad techs were unable to do, he only managed to get under 1/2 off the fees that he was charged... having to pay almost $250 for nothing.
Programming

Submission + - Delphi for PHP

Submitted by jbohumil
jbohumil writes: Borland is rolling out Delphi for PHP.
According to the press release ...

Important features of Delphi for PHP include:
  • RAD environment for PHP
  • VCL for PHP — Open source PHP 5 visual component library with more than 50 extendable and reusable components with seamless AJAX integration
  • Out-of-the-box database integration with InterBase, MySQL, Oracle®, Microsoft SQL Server, and other popular databases Integrated PHP debugger
  • Deployment of PHP applications on Windows, Linux, Solaris and other platforms
  • Internationalization support for applications
  • Drag and drop database application development using the Data Explorer for InterBase and MySQL
  • Code editor with Code Insight, Code Explorer, and Code Templates, making it easier and faster to write PHP code
VCL for PHP is based on the most popular open source PHP scripts and libraries, including Qooxdoo, Adodb, DynAPI, Smarty, XAjax and JSCalendar. Inspired by VCL for Delphi, the component architecture is 100 percent written in PHP. Developers can create and integrate components into the IDE and extend the existing components to fit their needs. VCL for PHP is an open source library available on SourceForge at http://sourceforge.net/projects/vcl4php

This sounds pretty cool, I loved Delphi for win32 up until version 3. What do you all think? Does this have the potential to take web applications to a higher level of sophistication by using reusable components and drag and drop ajax controls?
Wii

Submission + - Maxis Developer says Wii "sucks ass"

Submitted by
Toastercookie
Toastercookie writes: "During a session at GDC this morning titled 'Burning Mad — Game Publishers Rant,' time was taken about half way through to allow developers a chance to spew their own rants. One speaker, Chris Hecker, currently working on Spore at Maxis, took the opportunity to call out Nintendo for not taking games seriously."

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