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Submission + - Head of LinuxChix Brazil looks to pass torch

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lisah
lisah writes: "LinuxChix Brazil's Sulamita Garcia tells Linux.com that, despite an enjoyable four-year run as head of the chapter, it's time to move on and let someone else take over the reins. Involved in the Linux community since 1999, Garcia has been an avid supporter of women in the open source community but says there isn't necessarily as wide a gender gap as many would believe. '[A]fter working with LinuxChix and getting in touch with so many more women that I ever thought would exist in FOSS communities, I strongly believe there are a lot more than we think,' she says. 'They just tend to be a lot less vocal than men.'"
Biotech

Journal Journal: Temporary blood vessel shunt to be used to save limbs in war 157

Journal by Stile 65

The FDA has just approved for military use a shunt which allows partially-severed limbs to continue to get circulation. According to the article, "For most, it won't be a matter of saving a limb outright but rather salvaging the quality of a wounded leg or arm." This is because "The tubelike device is designed to connect the two ends of a severed blood vessel, providing a temporary bridge or shunt around a wound to restore blood flow to an
Operating Systems

Submission + - Where Are Operating Systems Headed?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Dr. Dobb's Michael Swaine breaks down the question of where operating systems are headed. Among his teasers: Is Vista the last version of desktop Windows? (Counterintuitively, he says no.); Did Linux miss it's window on the desktop? (Maybe.) And, most interestingly, are OSes at this point no longer necessary? Where do you weigh in on these Big 3 questions?
Biotech

Submission + - Microfluidic bubble logic

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Renckens
Renckens writes: "The fine scientists from MIT have proposed an alternative to the electronic circuit using bubbles in microfluidics. Bubble logic AND/OR/NOT gates, as well as more advanced structures, have been demonstrated, allowing for Boolean logic through use of bubbles on chip. On lab-on-a-chip devices, this means that droplets of chemicals can now carry binary information as well as their chemical payload. This will allow the addition of a whole new toolset to the already impressive range of possibilities for biotechnological analysis. The stroy from MIT newsflash can be found in the url below. More interested users are referred to the full publication in Science: M. Prakash et al. — Science 315 p832 (2007).

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/bubbles.html"
Censorship

Submission + - Ban from blogging due to "electronic missiles&

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An anonymous reader writes: Web 2.0 news site 901am reports that Australian Olympic Athletes will be banned from Blogging at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics due to the risk that they may launch "electronic missiles". Australian Olympic Committee spokesman Craig Phillips said that Blogging would erode the sanctuary of the Olympic village and that athletes blogging would undermine team spirit.
United States

Submission + - Harvard Physicists Bring Light to a Complete Halt

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tetrikphimvin
tetrikphimvin writes: "In a quantum mechanical sleight of hand, Harvard physicists have shown that they can not only bring a pulse of light, the fleetest of nature's particles, to a complete halt, but also resuscitate the light at a different location and let it continue on its way.
"It's been a wonderful problem to try to wrap your brain around," said Lene Vestergaard Hau, a professor of physics at Harvard and senior author of a paper describing the experiment that appears today in the journal Nature. "There are so many doors that open up." This is also noted in Harvard's Gazette here, which includes video links."
The Internet

Submission + - Google Warns: Internet cannot handle TV Broadcasts

Submitted by OakLEE
OakLEE writes: Google and European Cable Companies are concerned about the growing trend toward putting broadcast quality television shows on the internet. From the article:

"The Web infrastructure, and even Google's (infrastructure) doesn't scale. It's not going to offer the quality of service that consumers expect," Vincent Dureau, Google's head of TV technology, said at the Cable Europe Congress.
. . .
"Most of the IP (Internet protocol or data) traffic is peer-to-peer (file swapping), and most of that is video. Every year we have to invest substantially just to maintain the user experience. In fact it has actually decreased," said Spanish cable operator ONO Chief Executive Richard Alden.

Reuters is carrying the full article here.
Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft to send teacher to Siberian prison

Submitted by maird
maird writes: BBC News reports on the intervention of former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's to persuade Bill Gates to stop Microsoft from pursuing a criminal case against a school head teacher it accuses of pirating Microsoft software. If convicted, the accused could be sentenced to imprisonment in a Siberian camp. Perhaps they could withdraw the complaint and settle for an apology, a Siberian prison seems extreme to me. Besides, if he had publicly chosen not to buy Microsoft products for his school Microsoft would probably have done what it has before and given them to him for pennies anyway!
Biotech

Submission + - DNA to test old theory of Roman village in China

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Reverse Gear
Reverse Gear writes: "Many of the inhabitants of a lonely village in north western China seems to have distinctive western features.
An old theory from the 1950'ies suggests that an old roman legion which in 53BC had lost it's commander, Markus Craccus, in what is now Iran, had been traveling east as mercenaries until they were caught by the Chinese 17 years later. The Chinese described them as using a "fish-scale formation". The remainders of the legion is then suggested to have been the ancestors of the village.
Scientists are now trying to verify the fascinating theory by testing the DNA of the inhabitants of the Chinese village."
Google

Submission + - Google Bug

Submitted by
mayoor
mayoor writes: "I am a big fan of Google Personalized page. I have all my favorite bookmarks and rss feeds on my personalized page. Today, I found a new option on the Personalized page. I could send my rss feed I like, to a friend. I was curious to know how this option works. I selected this option and then typed in my friend's email address and checked the option to send it to my email id as well. I opened my mail box and checked to see what they have sent. I was shocked!! At the end of the url was my password to my google account. I asked my friend to check the mail, and read out the url sent by Google. He got my password. I no more trust the Google security. I was thinking, is this the google I always admired?"
Software

Submission + - Linux kernel 2.6.20 released

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diegocgteleline.es
diegocgteleline.es writes: "After two months of development, Linux 2.6.20 has been released. This release includes two different virtualization implementations: KVM: full-virtualization capabilities using Intel/AMD virtualization extensions and a paravirtualization implementation usable by different hypervisors. Aditionally, 2.6.20 includes PS3 support, a fault injection debugging feature, UDP-lite support, better per-process IO accounting, relative atime, relocatable x86 kernel, some x86 microoptimizations, lockless radix-tree readside, shared pagetables for hugetbl, and many other things. Read the list of changes for more details."
Databases

Submission + - Help Find Jim Gray

Submitted by bartc
bartc writes: Werner Vogels has a post on how you can help find Jim Gray, Jim Gray, a renowned computer scientist who was reported missing at sea on Sunday, January 28th, 2007. From his post:

Through a major effort by many people we were able to have the Digital Globe satellite make a run over the area on Thursday morning and have the data made available publicly. We have split these images into smaller tiles that can be easily scanned visually and stored into the Amazon S3 storage service. We then created tasks for reviewing these images and loaded then into the Amazon Mechanical Turk Service. This is where you come in. We need your help in reviewing these images to see whether you can locate Jim's boat in any of these images. Please go to the Amazon Mechanical Turk site and help us find Jim Gray.
United States

Submission + - The Search for Jim Gray

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A group effort, including engineers from Microsoft, Google, Amazon and NASA is continuing the search for Turing award winner Jim Gray. Using satellite imagery and high-altitude photographs they are searching for a sign of the 40 foot sailboat that disappeared last Sunday. You can help! Amazon's Mechanical Turk service is hosting DigitalGlobe satellite pictures and they are encouraging the public to help search them for signs of Jim.
Databases

Submission + - Internet to help in search and rescue for Jim Gray

Submitted by
Reverse Gear
Reverse Gear writes: "A lot of effort is being put into trying to help finding Turing award winner Jim Gray who went missing on the ocean some days ago, the search by the coast guard might very well have stopped by now.
One effort being made is analyzing more than 40.000 satellite images for anything that might resemble Jim Gray's sailboat, human eyes are needed to do this efficiently.
So this is the chance for everyone in the "global village" to do their little part in a search and rescue."

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