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Submission + - Mac OS X Lion Has A Browser-Only Mode (digitizor.com)

Submitted by dkd903
dkd903 writes: It turns out that there is a feature in OS X Lion which no one expected and was never announced at WWDC. The feature we are talking about is “Restart to Safari”. As you might have guessed from the name, this feature makes it possible to restart the Mac into just the Safari browser and nothing else.
Google

Submission + - Why Doesn't 'Google Kids' Exist? 2

Submitted by theodp
theodp writes: Slate's Michael Agger wishes there was a website his 6-year-old son could visit on his own to watch amateur Star Wars Lego movies and other stuff he's curious about. 'But I don't leave him alone on YouTube,' he laments, 'because I never know if some strange-ass video will appear in the 'Related Videos' section.' The now defunct TotLoL was one such site, offering handpicked child-appropriate YouTube videos, at least until it was done in by a change in YouTube's Terms of Service. Agger suggests that Google should create Google Kids, a search engine that filters the Web for children. 'Think back to when you were a kid and your parents dropped you off at the library,' explains Agger. 'In the children's section, the only 'inappropriate' stuff to be found was Judy Blume's Forever, which someone's older sister had usually already checked out anyway. Similarly, Google Kids would be a sort of children's section of the Web, focused on providing high-quality results based on age.' In the meantime, Agger can always have his kids spend a little quality time with Michael Jackson over at AOL Kids.
Games

Submission + - JavaScript Gameboy Emulator, Redux (i-programmer.info) 1

Submitted by Prosthetic_Lips
Prosthetic_Lips writes: Now we have a GameBoy Color emulator written in HTML5/JavaScript and it will run ROM images stored locally. What is amazing is that it runs the games at a playable speed.

Yes, this was first covered 6 months ago ( http://developers.slashdot.org/story/10/11/05/2334206/A-JavaScript-Gameboy-Emulator-Detailed-In-8-Parts ), but it seems like it is pretty complete at this point. You can load roms stored locally, and keep data using localStorage.

Submission + - The Internet is killing local news, says the FCC (google.com)

Submitted by Art3x
Art3x writes: The rise of the Internet has led to a 'shortage of local, professional, accountability reporting' says a a 475-page report by the FCC, and the consequences could be 'more government waste, more local corruption,' 'less effective schools' and other problems. Even though there are more media choices today than ever, newspapers have been laying off reporters, leaving a gap that is yet to be filled.
NASA

Submission + - Universe edge is home to 1M-mile-wide bubbles (networkworld.com)

Submitted by
coondoggie
coondoggie writes: "you could fly to the edge of our universe you'd find giant magnetic bubbles about 100 million miles wide.

That's what computer models digesting data from NASA's Voyager spacecraft, which are now close to 10 billion miles away from Earth, are suggesting as they try to figure out the information being beamed from the edge of our solar system."
Supercomputing

Submission + - Do Supercomputers Still Matter? (hp.com)

Submitted by
Esther Schindler
Esther Schindler writes: "The innovations that are redefining the way businesses compute today were made feasible by supercomputers, the first platforms to enable parallel processing on a scale anywhere close to that of the cloud. Supercomputing would have been a lost art had it not been for the capability of everyday PC processors to be stacked together by the thousands — a technology for the high end made possible at the low end. But now, writes Scott Fulton in an exhaustive technical essay, a looming engineering bottleneck may have already rendered it technically and financially impossible for supercomputers to continue evolving at the current rate. Can the cloud go forward if the “grid” on which it’s based grinds to a halt?"
Google

Submission + - Google's infrastructure is obsolete - ex-employee (dbune.com)

Submitted by abhatt
abhatt writes: Google's infrastructure may not be as high-tech as outsiders are being made to believe, according to revelations' by former engineer of the Internet giant.

The ex-googler says the tools at Google were made by "engineers in a vacuum, rather than by developers who have need of tools."

Submission + - SCOTUS rules against AT&T on LEC access/pricin (bloomberg.com)

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes: Established local telephone companies including AT&T Inc. (T) must share disputed parts of their networks with competitors at cost, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled.

The unanimous ruling backs the position taken by the Federal Communications Commission in a fight stemming from the 1996 law that injected competition into the local telephone business. The law requires so-called incumbent local carriers, whose ranks also include Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ) and CenturyLink Inc. (CTL), to share their facilities with rivals.
Iphone

Submission + - Apple Rips off Rejected App? (theregister.co.uk)

Submitted by Haedrian
Haedrian writes: Apple is famous for going to absurd lengths to enforce its patents and trademarks. It recently sued Amazon for calling its app store Appstore. And it has publicly lectured competitors to “create their own original technology, not steal ours”.

Last year, UK-Developer Greg Hughes for submitted an app for wirelessly syncing iPhones with iTunes libraries, which was rejected from the official App Store.

Fast forward to Monday, when Apple unveiled a set of new features for the upcoming iOS 5, including the same wireless-syncing functionality. Cupertino wasn't even subtle about the appropriation, using the precise name and a near-identical logo to market the technology.
Youtube

Submission + - Bill Could Land YouTube LipSynch Artists In Prison (foxnews.com)

Submitted by plastick
plastick writes: Senate Bill 978, a bipartisan measure introduced last month by Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Sen. Christopher Coons (D-Del.), is backed by supporters who say it closes glaring loopholes in current copyright infringement law created by the realities of the digital age.

“As technology rapidly evolves, our laws must be updated to protect creativity and innovation,” said a statement by Cornyn.

But critics say a section of the bill provides for steep penalties — up to five years in prison — for “publicly performing” copyrighted material and embedding the video to sites like YouTube.

“It seems like (the bill) is attacking the core of the Internet itself, which is to promote communication amongst people all over the world,” said Hemanshu “Hemu” Nigam, a former White House counsel for online protection and the founder of the online safety advisory firm SSP Blue.
Science

Submission + - RFID Chips Infiltrate All Kinds of Things (discovermagazine.com)

Submitted by purkinje
purkinje writes: The same RFID chips used in some credit cards are now being used to track or identify all kinds of things. They're being tucked into poker chips to help casinos process winnings, implanted into animals so lost pets can be IDed, and sewn into hotel towels, in case guests decide to take their linens home. An edible version can even tell you where your food came from--and what its nutritional information is--via your phone.
The Courts

Submission + - Federal courts to begin first digital video pilot (networkworld.com)

Submitted by
coondoggie
coondoggie writes: "Federal district courts have been prohibited from allowing any sort of electronic dissemination of trials since 1946, but that is about to change.

Fourteen federal trial courts and 100 judges have been selected to take part in the federal Judiciary's three-year digital video pilot, which will begin July 18 and will go a long way towards determining the effect of cameras in courtrooms."

Comment Re:You seriously think (Score 2) 2

by Halborr (#35886040) Attached to: Lasers to replace sparkplugs in engines?
What technologies are you seeing that will replace it? Electric vehicles? Welcome to the cold north, where battery packs have even less capacity than room temperature. Turbines? Chrysler tried that in the 60's, it would only be good for a series hybrid. Diesel is an option, but US consumers are still wary because the crappy diesels of the 80's.

Comment Re:Everyone else uses H264/MPEG4 (Score 1) 336

by Halborr (#34848412) Attached to: Opera Supports Google Decision To Drop H.264

Um... Pardon me if I'm misunderstanding, but... A TV is a monitor and a tuner (a really basic computer). The PC takes care of all the decoding and just sends a video signal to your monitor. I'm not familiar with how HDMI works, so maybe that argument has some substance behind it with HDMI, but not with CRTs, which you seem to be arguing around.

Moreover, you still hook up your computer to your CRT tv? You can't get someone to give you their old CRT monitor? I just got a ~20" CRT monitor for FREE. They're not that hard to come by.

Dude, usually I'm behind the tech curve as well, but I feel like you're trying to name drop with CRT and VHS, except you're 12 years behind. You're making yourself look outdated.

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