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Submission + - Vista destroys image data of RAW files

Submitted by Anonymous Reader
Anonymous Reader writes: Canon has advised that the original image data of RAW images (such as title, subject, rating, tags, comments) shot with an EOS-1D or EOS-1Ds cameras may be lost when images are rotated or edited using Windows Explorer or Windows Gallery on Vista. The support notice can be found here
GNU is Not Unix

Submission + - Stallman to step down as Emacs maintainer

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davids-world.com
davids-world.com writes: "Richard Stallman is planning to step down as head maintainer of the GNU Emacs project. In an e-mail to fellow Emacs developers, he today asked for candidates to succeed him. RMS wrote the first extensible Emacs text editor in 1975 at MIT's AI Lab. Seen by many as the founder and chief advocate of the free software movement, Stallman has also been actively involved in Emacs' development. GNU Emacs 22, due soon, will be the first major release of the editor since 2001."
Censorship

Submission + - Will Blogging Get Me Fired?

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petercasier
petercasier writes: "Will blogging get me fired? A blogger muses on the sudden recent success of one of his pieces. What are the norms of self discipline and self censorship (in a way) to be used when writing about controversial issues? And what are the commonalities between a young attractive US flight attendant and the highest ranking UN official in Sudan? Well, they both got fired about their blog. Kind of."
Biotech

Submission + - The Cancerous Role Viruses May Play

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eldavojohn
eldavojohn writes: "New Scientist is running a brief article on viruses playing a role in causing cancer. From the article, "During tumour development, the chromosomes of affected cells often become wildly rearranged, but no one knew why. Duelli and Lazebnik suspected that cell fusion — when two or more cells unite by merging membranes — might be to blame. Several common viruses can initiate this process.""
Security

Submission + - Security risk of OSS software

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: WordPress announced that someone cracked their server and inserted malicious code in their product. This, in itself, has nothing to do specifically with Open Source Software — the same problem could have arisen with proprietary software that is made available on an imperfectly-secured web site. OSS may be more susceptible to this kind of problem, however, because the software is often distributed through a wide variety of mirrors, and because their servers are by nature more open to access to the general public. How many OSS distributions supply an MD5 hash, and how many users check their download against it? Does anyone besides me prefer to download directly from the originating organization, instead of from a server at some university that might be hacked?
NASA

Submission + - Computer Scientists Tackle Pioneer Anomaly

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eldavojohn
eldavojohn writes: "Computer scientists are analyzing the data of the well known Pioneer Anomaly. For those of you not familiar with it, both Pioneer 10 & 11 suffered severe deviations from their expected course at they travelled out into our outer solar system. From the article, "The source of the deceleration has long been suspected to be heat escaping from the small nuclear generators onboard, known as RTGs (Radioisotope Thermal Generators). Previous analyses that claimed to rule out this effect have been contested. To supply a definitive answer, an international team of scientists are re-analysing the tracking data and the telemetry data." The current assumption is that the direction of the decelleration is towards the Earth which would almost certainly indicate the anomaly was caused by faulty technology or an artefact of receiving the data at the ground stations. "If, however, the direction is towards the Sun, new gravitational physics may be needed to explain the effect.""
Music

Submission + - Wil Wheaton Reviews Linux Music Players

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An anonymous reader writes: In his weekly "Geek in Review" Wil Wheaton of Star Trek fame takes a look at music on Linux:

While Linux is still not entirely ready for people like my parents, it's really matured over the years, and in many cases it "just works" [...] In fact, Linux has grown up so much and so well, today I can devote an entire column to some of the cooler media players available to Linux users.
The result?

Amarok is much more than just another music player or iTunes clone; in fact, it blows iTunes away. It is Kryptonite to iTunes Superman. It's the Death Star to iTunes' Alderaan. It's — well, I guess I should tell you why it's so great, huh?
Businesses

Submission + - Is age 40 too old for IT or Software Development?

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An anonymous reader writes: I have read some stuff on Dice.com's message boards where some people are claiming that after age 40 or so that jobs become very scarce in the IT profession. I was wondering how prevalent this really is, and in particular I was wondering how hard it would be to actually start a career in IT or Software Development at age 40.

I recently finished up a degree in physics, and I have done a little basic IT support as well as some programming as part of my job working in an environmental testing lab. How difficult would it be to start a computer career at age 40, and what industries and fields will have the most problem with my age and which will have the least problem with my age?
Education

Submission + - 500-in-one Electronics kits, any recommendations?

Submitted by Oneamp
Oneamp writes: I'm interested in a "500-in-one" type electronics kit. Amazon lists a few (for example). But I've seen some user reviews that maybe they are not all they're cracked up to be. Most of the complaints seem to be of the "Manual sucks" variety. I'm sold on the idea, but I was wondering if any of you slashdotters had actual experience with any of these kits and can recommend a good one.
Games

VR Game Ties Depression To Brain Area 94

Posted by Zonk from the get-out-of-my-head dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Science Daily is reporting that scientists are using a VR videogame that challenges spatial memory as a new tool to map out depression in the brain. 'Spatial memory' is how you orient yourself in space and remember how to get to places in the outside world. Researchers have found that depressed people performed poorly on the video game compared, suggesting that their hippocampi (where spatial memory is based) were not working properly."
The Internet

Submission + - Web 2.0 applications vs. desktop applications

Submitted by
Stan Schroeder
Stan Schroeder writes: "How do Web 2.0 applications and services really compare to desktop applications? What conditions do Web 2.0 startups have to meet to make sure they can't easily be replaced (because of zero switching cost) by another application, or to make sure that they add enough value over their desktop counterparts to be competitive? The answer lies in the very definition of Web 2.0 and the multitude of possibilities it provides. Simply using the web as a platform is not going to cut it any more — the community is the key to the growth of almost all big Web 2.0 success stories."
Enlightenment

Submission + - Tim Berners-Lee Predicts Tech Future

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee testified before Congress on Thursday about the "digital future." He offered up a couple of predictions which went beyond generalities, including cell phones would use radio technology to communicate with everyday objects wrapped in surfaces equipped with digital billboards. He also talked about the Semantic Web, or a Web of "machine-processable data," which is under development at the U.K.'s Southhampton University, where Berners-Lee holds a position. Do you think such predictions are valuable, or is it "Star Trek" stuff which Congress ultimately can't understand and pays little attention to.

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