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Submission + - Walmart downloads reject Firefox, Apple browsers

Submitted by babooo404 on Saturday February 10, 2007 @06:30PM

babooo404 writes: Last week, Walmart launched their online video download service. Immediately there were posts that the service did not work with the Firefox or Safari browsers. There was a collective, "WTF" when this happened as this is 2007, not 1997. Now it appears that reports are out that Walmart has COMPLETELY turned off the ability to get into the application at all by Firefox, Safari or any other browser it does not like.

http://www.centernetworks.com/walmart-in-bed-with- microsoft-no-to-firefox

China Creates Massive Online ID Database 142

Posted by kdawson on Saturday February 10, 2007 @06:16PM from the watching-1.3-billion dept.

schwaang writes that while the US continues to hash out concerns over the Real ID Act, which aims to create a national ID by standardizing state driver's licenses, China has already implemented a massive online ID database, which they say will help prevent fraud. From the Xinhua English-language site: "Anyone can now send a text message or visit the country's population information center's website, to check if the name and the ID number of a person's identity card match. If they do match the ID card-holder's picture also appears, said the Ministry, adding that no other information is available to ensure a citizen's privacy is protected. Completed at the end of 2006, China's population information database, the world's largest, contains personal information on 1.3 billion citizens. Giving public accessing to the database is also designed to correct mistakes if an individual discovers that their name, number and picture don't match."

Storing Wind Power In Cold Stores 242

Posted by kdawson on Saturday February 10, 2007 @05:14PM from the timeshifting-the-wind dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "According to Nature, a European-funded project has been launched to store electricity created from wind in refrigerated warehouses used to store food. As the production of wind energy is variable every day, it cannot easily be accommodated on the electrical grid. So the 'Night Wind' project wants to store wind energy produced at night in refrigerated warehouses and to release this energy during daytime peak hours. The first tests will be done in the Netherlands this year. And as the cold stores exist already, practically no extra cost should be incurred to store as much as 50,000 megawatt-hours of energy. Here are additional details and a picture illustrating this brilliant idea."

Submission + - Interview on a Serious Game with clinical data

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 10, 2007 @05:11PM

An anonymous reader writes: Great interview about a Serious Game that trains working memory, used so far with kids with ADD/ ADHD.

http://www.sharpbrains.com/blog/2007/02/09/add-adh d-and-working-memory-training-interview-with-notre -dames-bradley-gibson/

Bonus: try for yourself Chandler's experiment on inattentional blindness, mentioned in the middle of the article.

Submission + - Open Source Point of Sale software?

Submitted by

DogDude

on Saturday February 10, 2007 @04:54PM

DogDude writes: "I own a brick-and-mortar retail store. We do a good volume of business, and we plan to start opening more locations soon. We've outgrown out current Point-of-Sale system (POS), and I'm shopping for a new one. There are plenty of good, mature, proprietary systems out there already. I'm looking for information on OSS POS systems that are also mature, stable, and well supported. It seems that most OSS POS projects are either tiny, relatively unsupported, and lacking many critical features, or they're so large and complex that they can only be implemented by a Fortune 500 company with a dedicated IT staff. I'm looking for something robust that will work out of the box, yet still scale appropriately for a mid-sized company. Suggestions?"

Submission + - Groklaw's PJ takes a health break...

Submitted by on Saturday February 10, 2007 @04:51PM

An anonymous reader writes: PJ's announcement at Groklaw
We all wish her well and hope she is back soon... but not before she is well.

Submission + - Feng-GUI : Feng Shui for graphic user interfaces

Submitted by

Feng-GUI

on Saturday February 10, 2007 @04:13PM

Feng-GUI writes: "http://www.feng-gui.com/ is an online heatmap generator of how people look at your website? Designers, Photographers, Web Developers, Creatives ! Find out how people View your website or image and which areas are getting most of the attention. The ViewFinder Heatmap service, simulates human visual attention and creates an attention heatmap."

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