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Submission + - Scientists Turn T-Shirts Into Body Armor (ecouterre.com)

Submitted by ByronScott
ByronScott writes: A Hanes Beefy that can deflect bullets may sound like the stuff of comic books, but scientists have developed a way of bulking up an ordinary T-shirt to create wearable armor. By splicing the carbon in the cotton with boron, the third hardest material on the planet, researchers at the University of South Carolina markedly increased the fabric’s toughness. The result is a lightweight shirt reinforced with boron carbide—the same material used to shield military tanks.

Submission + - Economist: Shorten copyright terms (economist.com)

Submitted by lxmota
lxmota writes: The Economist says that long copyright terms are hindering creativity, and that shortening them is the way to go: 'Largely thanks to the entertainment industry’s lawyers and lobbyists, copyright’s scope and duration have vastly increased. In America, copyright holders get 95 years’ protection as a result of an extension granted in 1998, derided by critics as the "Mickey Mouse Protection Act". They are now calling for even greater protection, and there have been efforts to introduce similar terms in Europe. Such arguments should be resisted: it is time to tip the balance back.'
Handhelds

Submission + - Fusion Garage's JooJoo Gets Reviewed

Submitted by adeelarshad82
adeelarshad82 writes: Fusion Garage's JooJoo measures 7.8 by 12.8 by 0.7 inches (HWD) and weighing 2.4 pounds. Its bright, good-looking 12.1-inch multi-touch capacitive wide screen features 1,366-by-768-pixel resolution. However, all that glitters is not gold. The device looks alluring at first sight but this is contradictory to the user experience that lies ahead. It only has 4GB of storage space, which according to Fusion Garage is for caching. The networking hardware includes support for 802.11b/g Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR, but Bluetooth functionality is not yet enabled. There is a USB port but it only works for mouse and keyboard at the moment. There is also a built-in 1.3 megapixel camera which is currently compatible with a limited number of software. JooJoo runs browser-based operating system which was created from Linux and Webkit. JooJoo tends get very hot, takes its time turning back on from sleep mode and the touchscreen is not very responsive. On the bright side though, setting up network connections is easy, web pages load up fast and JooJoo supports flash which means using sites like Hulu. According to the JooJoo review, Fusion Garage plans to make software updates in the future which will take care of some of the device's limitation but at the moment this device is not worth the same amount as an iPad.

Submission + - Time travel insurance?!? (timetravelfund.com) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A fund to resurrect yourself 500 years into the future. For only $10 you can set up a fund to be brought back into the future 500 years from now. There are some restrictions such if you have been convicted of a violent crime, commit suicide just to 'automajically' be brought into the future...etc. While this seems like a scheme it makes you think the 'what-if' factor and if something like this were possible for a few bucks why not?
http://www.timetravelfund.com/
The Military

Submission + - The Thrill of Flying the SR-71 Blackbird (gizmodo.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: If you always wondered how it was to fly the mighty SR-71 Blackbird, you have to read this pilot's story about a real mission over Lybia, during the Reagan years, with missiles flying to get the aircraft down left, right, and center. What an amazing airplane it was.
Firefox

Submission + - Years-old privacy hole to be closed in Firefox? (theregister.co.uk)

Submitted by garg0yle
garg0yle writes: Firefox developers have announced they're close to plugging a security hole which allows websites to find out what other sites you visit — a hole which plagues virtually all browsers, and has been around for years (Microsoft categorized it as a bug in 2002). The fix won't actually completely remove the possibility, but it will make it a lot harder to exploit.

From the article: "It's also worth noting that most of the attacks can be eliminated by blocking a site's ability to run Javascript. That means users of the NoScript add-on for Firefox will in many cases be protected against the attack. ... Any site that has the ability to run code also has the ability to silently pilfer your browsing history."

Submission + - "Humans are too stupid to prevent climate change" (wmbriggs.com)

Submitted by mattstat
mattstat writes: Gaia is one sick planet. She's as cancer-prone as a four-pack-a-day smoker. Tumorous species are regularly cropping up, and just as regularly being purged from the body Earth. And talk about fickle? How about the radical cosmetic surgery Gaia did to herself 250-million years ago? The old Permian look was out; Triassic was in. So she ruthlessly carved out 90% of her own species!
Unix

Submission + - SCO vs Novell: Novell wins

Submitted by Aim Here
Aim Here writes: Breaking News: According to Novell's website, and the Salt Lake Tribune, the jury in the SCO vs Novell trial has returned a verdict: Novell owns the Unix copyrights. This also means that SCO's case against IBM must surely collapse too, and likely the now bankrupt SCO group itself. It's taken 7 years, but the US court system has eventually done the right thing...

Submission + - Lego shops test "augmented reality" technology

Submitted by ErkDemon
ErkDemon writes: The toymaker Lego are no strangers to robotics and virtual reality Lego, but for the last few months the company has also been trialling new 'augmented reality'-based point-of-sale displays (the Lego Digital Box Kiosk) in some of their shops, that allow customers to see themselves interacting with Lego models, on-screen.

It's a great thing to play with. Trouble is: at what point does the sales tool become more fun than the toy?

Submission + - Perry Bible Fellowship Domain Sniped?

Submitted by oDDmON oUT
oDDmON oUT writes: Early this morning I went for my daily random of PBF only to find the expected page replaced with this. Checking the Google cache gave the same thing.

A quick whois elicited this result:
Administrative Contact:
      Empius Interactive Pty Ltd
      Michael Shortill (mike@mike.net.au)
      +61.61400943558
      Fax:
      PO Box 398
      Wanneroo
      Perth, WA 6065
      AU
The record shows a creation date of 2010-03-23, with an update on the 24th.

Empius bills itself as "a dynamic and creative Internet-based company which offers exceptional products and services at very competitive prices. Our passion for technology and innovation is what drives us to continuously offer you better products and services." Others, including the AU Domain Regulator have found Empius' activities suspect at best. I'm left wondering what Nicholas Gurewitch has to say about this.

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