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Comment Being myself a teacher (Score 1) 256

I teach a class about PID control loops at 18-19 year old students in a technical degree in building mechanics and I'm looking into showing them more than the cursus objectives. I'll be showing them soldering, arduinos, basic PC repair and upgrade, potato gun construction, and thermal engine basics. Any other ideas? suggestions?

Google

Submission + - Gmail may hand over IP addresses of journalists (wikileaks.org) 2

An anonymous reader writes: A California court has issued a subpoena demanding Google reveal the IP addresses of journalists writing for a corruption busting journal from the Caribbean.

The August 28 subpoena, issued by the Superior Court, County of Santa Clara, as part of a "libel tourism" action taken by non-US property developers, demands detailed information about the operators of "tcijournal@gmail.com". The account is the main email address of the TCI Journal, the most influential journal covering the Turks & Caicos Islands. The Islands are a tourist mecca and tax haven in the Caribbean sea, and until August 14 were an independent British protectorate.

Games

Submission + - Nintendo Releases Free Wii Browser, Updates Flash

An anonymous reader writes: Nintendo has released an update for the Wii Internet Channel (the Opera browser). It is now a free download (if you already paid for it you get a free NES game), and finally supports Flash 9 content, after being limited to Flash 7 ever since it was launched in late 2006.
Netscape

Submission + - eBay sells Skype to Netscape founder

Julefrokost writes: "Computerworld has a story about eBay selling Skype. Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Netscape along with a group of investors, are reported to have paid $2 Billion for Skype. According to New York Times, Google was also a potential buyer. Also the original founders of Skype are said to have placed a bid, but Marc Andressen & Co was the highest bidder."

Comment Re:Color Me Unsuprised (Score 1) 554

I wouldn't say my view isnt't biased but here we go.

The canadian constitution separates competence fields that are federal and provincial. Telecom, employment insurance to name a few, are federal. Healthcare, education and culture are provincial.

Quebec isn't getting a larger part of the cake, it simply demands that, because it has two separate income tax systems, it gets back the money that it has overpaid because all other provinces have their income tax managed by the federal government. It's the provinces responsabilities to create their own specificities in their provincial government system. That's the way everyone is happy, with a strong, decentralised federal system that can adapt to local concerns.

We don't have the same mentality everywhere in Canada. Regional differences occur (think about the difference between BC and Saskatchewan).

However, I wouldn't agree that Quebec's economy would collapse after a secession (only angry canadians use the word separate, with it's negative connotation). Quebec's largest bank is owned by the people (Caisses Populaires Desjardins), as well as it's largest pension (Caisse de depot et de placement) fund, as it's largest investment fund (Fond de solidarite FTQ), as it's sole energy provider (Hydro-Quebec). Furthermore, Quebec healtcare is independant from the federal government, and healthcare insurance is free for everyone.

And i'd like to remind you that the only reason you're paying perequation is that you've got tar sands and the US is willing to pay more for non-foreing oil. If wasn't for that, you'd be receiving from us.

Power

MIT Building Batteries Using Viruses 98

thefickler writes "Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are now using viruses to build cathodes for Lithium-Ion batteries. Three years ago these same researchers found they could build an anode using viruses. Creating both the anode and cathode using viruses will make batteries easy to build. This nanoscale battery technology will allow batteries to be lightweight and to 'take the shape of their container' rather than creating containers for the batteries, which could open up new possibilities for car and electronics manufacturers."
Sun Microsystems

IBM About To Buy Sun For $7 Billion 699

plasticsquirrel was one of several readers to send in the sharpening rumors that IBM is on the verge of acquiring Sun Microsystems, as we discussed last week. The pricetag is reportedly $7 billion. According to the NYTimes's sources, "People familiar with the negotiations say a final agreement could be announced Friday, although it is more likely to be made public next week. IBM's board has already approved the deal, they said." After the demise of SGI, one has to wonder about the future of traditional Unix. If the deal goes through, only IBM, HP, and Fujitsu will be left as major competitors in the market for commercial Unix. And reader UnanimousCoward adds, "Sun only came into the consciousness of the unwashed masses with the company not being able to get E10K's out the door fast enough in the first bubble. We here will remember some pizza-box looking thing, establishing 32 MB of RAM as a standard, and when those masses were scratching their heads at slogans like 'The Network is the Computer.' Add your favorite Sun anecdote here."
Transportation

Quantum Setback For Warp Drives 627

KentuckyFC writes "Warp drives were generally considered impossible by mainstream scientists until 1994 when the physicist Michael Alcubierre worked out how to build a faster-than-light drive using the principles of general relativity. His thinking was that while relativity prevents faster-than-light travel relative to the fabric of spacetime, it places no restriction on the speed at which regions of spacetime may move relative to each other. So a small bubble of spacetime containing a spacecraft could travel faster than the speed of light, at least in principle. But one unanswered question was what happens to the bubble when quantum mechanics is taken into account. Now, a team of physicists have worked it out, and it's bad news: the bubble becomes unstable at superluminal speeds, making warp drives impossible (probably)."

Comment DRM (Score 0) 649

Am I wrong of you can only see the content of the iPod on the computer from which it has been transferred from?

Giving crippled DRM to heads of state, that's the new American diplomacy..."Hey here's a gift for you...wait...oh sorry, you'll have to break the DMCA to use it..."

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