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The Military

Submission + - NoTerror.info site for anti-terror campaign

Submitted by isdale
isdale writes: Cristian Lowe is an excellent embedded reporter/blogger currently in Iraq. His latest post covers a TV ad campaign designed to convince locals to fight terror groups. He links to a website from the campaign sponsors and asks for a bit o'help tracking down backers. Should be trivial for \. crowd.

(quote) So I'm waiting in the PAO tent at Warhorse last night and the only TV channels on the tube are Arab media. I was watching an Iraqi news channel out of the corner of my eye and spotted an ad that showed a group of masked men charging out of several black Mercedes sedans and firing AK-47s into the air. Then the camera shifts to a Sunni-looking sheik type, who links arms with a Shiite imam-looking dude which gets the crowd going to confront the "terrorists." It was a well done ad and made me think of Anderson's article.

The commercial referenced a web site called "noterror.info." If you go there, you can see several more of the organization's ad campaigns. It's unclear who's behind the site, and I don't have the resources at my disposal to find out (here's where our readers might be able to lend a hand). (endquote)
Censorship

Submission + - MySpace: No place for Atheists?

Submitted by oldfartbob
oldfartbob writes: Reported from the Secular Student Alliance"

MySpace Deletes Largest Atheist Group in the World. Cleveland, OH. — Social networking site, MySpace.com, panders to religious intolerants by deleting atheist users, groups and content. Early this month, MySpace again deleted the Atheist and Agnostic Group (35,000 members). This deletion, due largely to complaints from people who find atheism offensive, marks the second time MySpace has cancelled the group since November 2007.
Medicine

Submission + - U of A scientists' 'Lab on a Chip' to cut costs (ualberta.ca)

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keesdenhartigh
keesdenhartigh writes: "U of A scientists' 'Lab on a Chip' to cut costs for genetic testing (Jan 29, 2008) EDMONTON — The benefits of a new genetic-testing unit developed at the University of Alberta don't stop with the fact that an entire lab fits into a bread box.It is also cheaper and quicker than the currently available genetic testing. The tests, used to spot certain viruses, types of cancer or correct drug dosages — is hampered by large labs, months-long backlogs and high costs. http://www.engineering.ualberta.ca/ece/news.cfm?story=72514"
The Internet

Submission + - Drop-Catching Domains Is Big Business (websitemagazine.com)

Submitted by WebsiteMag
WebsiteMag writes: The Colation Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA) this week released a study on drop-catching — a process whereby a domain that has expired is released into the pool of available names and is instantly re-registered by another party. Historically, drop-catching is the first step to more serious abuses such as domain tasting, domain kiting and typo-squatting. Read Drop Catching Domains IS Big Business.
Space

Submission + - America's Space Age turn 50 thanks to JPL (msn.com)

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Bryansix
Bryansix writes: "Today marks the 50th anniversary of America entering the Space Age. It all started when "Von Braun's team readied the Army's Juno 1 rocket, a modified Redstone ballistic missile. JPL built the satellite, which would carry scientific experiments designed under the direction of the University of Iowa's James Van Allen."

The sattelite that was launched made an important discovery for science as well. "The data returned by the satellite showed that Earth was not surrounded by a swarm of killer pebbles, as some scientists had feared. However, the cosmic-ray readings hinted at the existence of bands of radiation surrounding the planet — an unexpected result that led to the discovery of the Van Allen Belts.""
Wireless Networking

Submission + - Turbocharge your router with Tomato

Submitted by bryanlb
bryanlb writes: Here we are going to show you how to take your router, and turobocharge it with extra features from Tomato. I will be using the WRT54GL for this tutorial. If you do not have one of the supported routers listed below... (..more..)
Microsoft

Submission + - Time for a Vista Do-Over? (pcmag.com)

Submitted by
DigitalDame2
DigitalDame2 writes: ""There's nothing wrong with Vista," PC Mag editor-in-chief Lance Ulanoff tells a Microsoft rep at this year's CES. "but you guys have a big problem on your hands. Perception is reality, and the perception is that Vista is a dud." He goes on to confess that the operating system is too complex and burdened by things people don't need. Plus, Vista sometimes seems so slow. Ulanoff gives four suggestions for a complete Vista makeover, like starting with new code and creating a universal interface table. But will Microsoft really listen?"
Microsoft

Microsoft Believes IBM Masterminded Anti-OOXML Initiative 274

Posted by Zonk from the may-have-been-some-structural-flaws dept.
mahuyar writes "Microsoft executives have accused IBM of leading the campaign against their initiative to have Office Open XML approved by the International Organization for Standardization. 'Nicos Tsilas, senior director of interoperability and IP policy at Microsoft, said that IBM and the likes of the Free Software Foundation have been lobbying governments to mandate the rival OpenDocument Format (ODF) standard to the exclusion of any other format. "They have made this a religious and highly political debate," Tsilas said. "They are doing this because it is advancing their business model. Over 50 percent of IBM's revenues come from consulting services."'"
The Courts

Submission + - See no evil...

Submitted by rootednoob
rootednoob writes: I'm a Systems Admin for a small company that provides IT support for small to medium businesses. A client of mine has refused to establish any @clientdomain.com email addresses. When I spoke to their in-house IT facilitator, he informed me that they have all their employees utilize a "Popular Web based e-mail that doesn't support POP3." What concerns me is their reasoning behind it. They feel that if everyone uses the web e-mail that they are not liable for anything sent through by employees, and that they are not responsible for keeping records of all their messages, yet they "recommend" to everyone to use the same provider, and that the account begins with the company initials, i.e. abc-joesmith@ya-who.com. I'm just curios if this is valid, or if it's wishful thinking waiting to bite them in the ass...
Microsoft

Bill Gates Calls for a 'Kinder Capitalism' 601

Posted by Zonk from the kindness-starts-at-home dept.
Strudelkugel writes "The Wall Street Journal reports that Microsoft's Chairman Bill Gates is going to call for a revision of capitalism. He will argue that the economics that drive much of the world should use market forces to address the needs of poor countries, which he feels are currently being ignored. 'We have to find a way to make the aspects of capitalism that serve wealthier people serve poorer people as well,' Mr. Gates will say in a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. 'Key to Mr. Gates's plan will be for businesses to dedicate their top people to poor issues — an approach he feels is more powerful than traditional corporate donations and volunteer work. Governments should set policies and disburse funds to create financial incentives for businesses to improve the lives of the poor, he plans to say. Mr. Gates's argument for the potential profitability of serving the poor is certain to raise skepticism, and some people may point out that poverty became a priority for Mr. Gates only after he'd earned billions building up Microsoft. But Mr. Gates is emphatic that he's not calling for a fundamental change in how capitalism works.'"
Security

Submission + - Job Changes in IT

Submitted by
ez151
ez151 writes: "For the last several years I have been a very happy Network Admin\Sys Admin\Help Desk Manager at a small manufacturer, less than 200 computers with around 10 servers. I help run a mixed shop with Windows and Mac clients, VMware SAN with Windows Server 2003 servers and some flavors of Linux thrown in as well. Basic stuff. The company I am with is in the midst of a severe financial crunch. There has been some of the dreaded "downsizing" already, mainly on the production side, but the writing is on the wall for us in admin/management. I went over some of the tech in place now because I have received a contract job offer 6 months/1 year in a data center. Little more pay, different work schedule, but what has really caught my attention is the promise of playing with all those shiny new toys. Thousands of T-1's to manage, Cisco's, Juniper's, F5's, all the colors of Linux imaginable, every server brand under the Sun(sorry for the pun), UNIX, AIX, those terminal monitors on carts to console in and so much more it makes my head spin. Now long term security is definitely a factor in my decision, but what would my fellow Slashdotters do? Jump the sinking ship and go for the maybe short-term, new shiny data center experience, stay and use a bucket to help bail out the water or just keep looking?"
Education

Submission + - SPAM: Schools will increase spending on open source

Submitted by alphadogg-nw
alphadogg-nw writes: Educational institutions will increase spending on open-source software and services over the next few years, but that doesn't mean proprietary software will be left in the dark, according to a new report covering 14 countries. Market research company Datamonitor predicts that primary and secondary schools and universities will spend $489.9 million on open-source software by 2012, up from $286.2 million now. A small minority of schools have opted for open-source for "philosophical" reasons, such as a desire not to give their money to a commercial software company. However, most decisions to use open-source were strategic, he said.
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Feed Tom's Hardware: 'We Will Rock Your Gold Atoms!' - New Electron Microscope Laughs At Rock Music (pheedo.com)

From feed by thfeed
Electron microscopes are great for viewing atomic details, but don't you just hate it when nearby scientists start blaring Queen's ‘We Will Rock You'? Well the researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory were fed up with rock music shaking up their atoms and have developed a new microscope that can maintain stability under intense vibration.

Feed Engadget: The FCC's 700MHz auction: what you need to know (engadget.com)

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Filed under: Features, Wireless

We'll admit, wireless spectrum auctions aren't the most exciting thing in the world -- but as wireless spectrum auctions go, the FCC's 700MHz auction kicking off today is a doozy. What's it all about and what does it mean to you? Head on over to Engadget Mobile to find out everything you need to know (and a few things you don't) about the FCC's multi-billion dollar spectacular!

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