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Comment Re:Second that! (Score 1) 183

by Giloo (#26254315) Attached to: Smart Spam Filtering For Forums and Blogs?

Though it certainly looks effective, what makes it powerful is also a drawback, you have to send all the content you want to be checked to them. Maybe that's because my tinfoil hat is getting too big, but in many cases, I'd like to avoid spam AND keep the content for myself.

Of course, here the guy is asking for forum/blogs which are in main case submissions for publicly available content, so I guess it would fit.
First Person Shooters (Games)

Submission + - Christmas joke or real Duke Nukem present? (gamershell.com)

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Giloo
Giloo writes: "It seems that 3D Realms released a Video Trailer of the upcoming Duke Nukem Forever game. Is this just another vaporware advertisement, or a real gift, and shall we expect the game sooner than anyone would have expected?
I wonder how many stupid things would happen on the day it comes out however, given the fact that the release date of Duke Nukem Forever was subject to so many jokes and bets... Oh, and yes, the 3D Realms site is going down under a heavy load of hungry gamers as it seems."
Power

MIT Wirelessly Powers a Lightbulb 394

Posted by Zonk from the magic-tubes-and-pots-and-pans-bits-and-pieces-and dept.
kcurtis writes "According to the Boston Globe, MIT Researchers have powered a light bulb remotely. The successful experiment lit a 60-watt light bulb from a power source two meters away, with no physical connection between the power source and the light bulb. Details about WiTricity, or wireless electricity, are scheduled to be reported today in Science Express, the advance online publication of the journal Science, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said. 'The team from MIT is not the first group to suggest wireless energy transfer. Nineteenth-century physicist and engineer Nikola Tesla experimented with long-range wireless energy transfer, but his most ambitious attempt - the 29m high aerial known as Wardenclyffe Tower, in New York - failed when he ran out of money. Others have worked on highly directional mechanisms of energy transfer such as lasers. However, unlike the MIT work, these require an uninterrupted line of sight, and are therefore not good for powering objects around the home.'"

Feed Microsoft vs. Teradata (theregister.com)

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Data Warehousing – there really isn't just one answer

Column Microsoft and Teradata are both significant players in the BI market but they have wildly different approaches to the challenges of extracting information from data. The reason lies in the fact that the two companies elected to solve two very different, but equally intractable, computational problems in order to get their BI systems to perform well.
Music

Jobs to Labels- Lose the DRM & We'll Talk Price 459

Posted by CmdrTaco from the ten-bucks-a-gig dept.
eldavojohn writes "Apple CEO Steve Jobs has been talking smack about DRM and has recently issued a verbal offer to major music lables stating that if they are willing to lose the DRM, he'd be willing to raise his 99 cent price for those iTunes songs. These tracks (such as the recent EMI deal) would also have better sound quality & cost about 30 cents more."
Music

Linux as A Musician's OS? 309

Posted by CmdrTaco from the but-there's-no-protools dept.
lazyeye writes "Keyboard Magazine has an in-depth article about the state of music production on Linux. While it does introduce Linux to the average musician, the article does get into some of the available music applications and music-oriented Linux distributions out there. From the opening paragraph 'You might think there's no way a free operating system written by volunteers could compete when it comes to music production. But in the past couple of years, all the tools you need to make music have arrived on Linux.'"
Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft To Sell Windows For $3

Submitted by
aacool
aacool writes: "In case you think, this is a part of Bill Gates' philanthropic efforts, it doesn't seem like it. If it's not philanthropy, it doesn't seem like it would help their business either. Either Microsoft is just desperate for doing something different, or they have run out of ideas. Of course, $3 can't beat free."
Microsoft

Microsoft Is Sued For Patent Violation Over .NET 288

Posted by Zonk from the is-it-weird-to-root-for-the-megacorp-on-this-one dept.
randomErr writes "As reported by Info World, Microsoft was issued a cease and desist order on February 7 of this year by Vertical Computer Systems. The order was for patent infringement by the current implementations of the .NET framework. Both the .NET framework and Vertical Computer Systems' SiteFlash use XML to create component-based structures that are used to build and operate web sites. Vertical Computer Systems is requesting a full jury trial. If VCS prevails, .NET technology implementations as we know them may completely change and Microsoft would probably have to pay out a hefty sum."
Networking

Submission + - Fixing the IPv6 dilema

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jd
jd writes: "In an attempt to attract more people to using IPv6, a New Zealand group is offering free porn to those with access to an IPv6 tunnel or connection. This may or may not work, considering that the country involved has a hundred times as many sheep as humans, which may create a degree of scepticism over what exactly is on offer."
Programming

Submission + - C#, C++, Delphi and Java compilers tested

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Developer named Master Alex, took LZMA SDK and compiled a set of benchmark using SDK as an algorithm base. Here he put an archive with source and compiled in Delphi, C#, C++ and Java binaries. Results are put here and retested here. See, Java runtime code speed in decompressing under Windows x64 is only 15% slower then that of C++.

So, the question is can you provide an optimized code in Delphi 7 so it achieve the same (+-10%) speed as C++ compiled code? Or is it impossible? It presumed that Delphi binaries are very fast, almost of C++ speed.
Google

Submission + - Is This Google's Achilles Heel?

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Tony Hung
Tony Hung writes: "Google seems all-powerful (Galactus-like, even), but a post by one of Google's search guys, Matt Cutts reveals a little more than I think was intended. Namely, Google seems to want an "honor" system as it applies to the issue of paid links, and now wants folks to report on other sites which have paid links. Why is this? I think its because Google has no way of sorting out which links are paid and which ones aren't. And if the system of link-worth presumes that worth occurs because individuals truly believe that something is worth linking to, then paying for that link — or even the possibility of paying for that link — undermines the entire system. And possibly Google."
Biotech

All Blood Converted to Type O? 206

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the pumped-iron dept.
UnanimousCoward writes "The BBC is reporting that scientists claim to have discovered a technique to convert all blood into Type O with the discovery of an enzyme that can strip the A and B antigens. This has implications to transform the stored blood supply into transfusable blood for all. It does not address the RH negative issue, however."
The Internet

Submission + - Never Mention "hotmail" In Your CV

Submitted by Pete
Pete writes: A guy, who works in the department of a Human Resources consultancy company, says they made a selection process in which, among other things, they asked for a person with ample experience in using the internet (navigation, searches, formats...). They received 50 candidacies, from which 30 came from Hotmail-directions, all of them erased as they entered. The reason: You can't pretend being an internet expert and use a Hotmail account at the same time.

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