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Submission + - Astronaut Behaviour

Submitted by Manifold Space Trave on Saturday February 17, 2007 @09:39PM

Manifold Space Trave writes: THIS may explain why a certain lady astronaut could not pass an MMPI ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota_Multiphasic _Personality_Inventory ) now but could before she went in space. http://www.discover.com/issues/jun-06/cover/?page= 2

Submission + - Instructor led Online Training possible?

Submitted by

revantj

on Saturday February 17, 2007 @09:17PM

revantj writes: "Hello,

I was just going through Google and found bunch of IT companies that provided training for various programming languages(C#, PHP, c++, etc.) That got me thinking would it be actually possible to provide Instructor Led Training online? I think with the right experienced instructors, good course material, system of testing and appropriate technology such a service could be possible and much more convenient. What do you guys think ?

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Submission + - Microsoft Wants Patent on Indentation

Submitted by

theodp

on Saturday February 17, 2007 @08:56PM

theodp writes: "Throw some text in a worksheet, make the columns small, and color the cells to denote a hierarchy. Like this. That, my friend, may constitute patent infringement for the next twenty years if the USPTO grants Microsoft the patent it's seeking for Minimizing Indenting (actual patent image). Just one more example of how Microsoft's lawyers are making the world a better place through more joyful and inclusive design."

Submission + - Researchers highlight a router route to pharming

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 17, 2007 @08:34PM

An anonymous reader writes: Researchers at Symantec, along with Sid Stamm and Markus Jakobsson of the Indiana University School of Informatics, have uncovered an almost trivial means of hijacking web browsing. The attack involves little more on the victim's part than simply visiting a web page. http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/105032/researchers-hig hlight-a-router-route-to-pharming.html

Creating Power From Wasted Heat 186

Posted by Zonk on Saturday February 17, 2007 @08:31PM from the that's-borg-technology dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "Today, about 90 percent of the world's electricity is created through an indirect and inefficient conversion of heat. It is estimated that two thirds of the heat used by thermoelectric converters are wasted and released. But now, researchers from the University of California at Berkeley have found a new way to convert this wasted heat into electricity by trapping organic molecules between metal nanoparticles. So far, this method of creating electricity creation is in its very early stage, but if it can scale up to mass production it may lead to a new and inexpensive source of energy."

Submission + - Google Search Screws Over SomethingAwful.com

Submitted by on Saturday February 17, 2007 @07:49PM

An anonymous reader writes: You may have heard of the humour website SomethingAwful.com. Apparently, for all of their long history they've been having a problem where their website is listed far down Google's results (often last) for searches related to the site (such as the names of features and articles on the site). For example, when I google for "Photoshop Phriday", the site isn't in the first ten pages of results, despite the fact that Google has indexed the relevent page. In fact, the first result is a noproxy.us proxied version of the relevant page, and the rest of the results are blog and forum entries referring to Something Awful. (Results are apparently better on many non-English versions of Google, however.)

It's far from clear what's causing this; the site's PageRank is apparently fine. Attempts to contact Google have fallen on deaf ears and dumb autoresponders. The site was even recently redesigned in the hope of fixing the problem, with no luck so far. Is the world's most popular search engine really this broken, and how much money are people bringing in from knowing the black magic to work around it?

Asteroid Highlighted as Impact Threat 297

Posted by Zonk on Saturday February 17, 2007 @07:49PM from the please-bring-your-seatbacks-and-traytables dept.

Maggie McKee writes "The asteroid Apophis has been traversing the void of space for untold years; in just a few decades time it will make a very close pass to Earth, and could make an unwelcome stop on our planet's surface. Even still, it's nothing to get too worked up about. The 20-million-tonne object has a 1 in 45,000 chance of hitting the Pacific Ocean in early April of 2036. If it did hit, it could trigger a tsunami that would do an untold amount of damage to the California coastline and many other places on Earth. Despite the low level of the threat, it's still a real enough danger to prompt the United Nations to develop a protocol about the scenario. We'll get a closeup look at the object in 2029, and at that point we should have a better idea of what 2036 will bring us."

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