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Submission + - Will Linux Ever Make it to the Desktop? (wildgardenseed.com)

Submitted by BlueParrot
BlueParrot writes: Almost every year someone declares it to be "The Year of the Linux Desktop." Yet, these pundits are wrong-every year. Definitely, Linux has made a lot of progress since the days of Red Hat 6.0, but it still has major architectural problems that have existed since the beginning (and actually, in the pre-Linux days as well). http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2007/04/15/will-linux-ever-make-it-to-the-desktop/

Feed Tom's Hardware: The Inquirer: Year End Predictions For 2008 (pheedo.com)

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Someone apparently pulled The Inquirer clan away from the pub long enough to think a clear thought about 2008. They've put together a top ten list of events they believe will happen. What are your thoughts? Is The Inquirer clan on the mark? Or off the wagon?
Security

Submission + - Jobs in Computer Forensics?

Submitted by raw-sewage
raw-sewage writes: I recently obtained a copy of Wietse Venema and Dan Farmer's Forensic Discovery. The book has piqued my interest in a career in computer forensics. Does anyone have experience with such a job? What kinds of firms (private or governmental) hire people to perform technological investigations?
Television

Submission + - Carl Sagan's "Cosmos" to return (discovery.com)

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Epeeist
Epeeist writes: "In 1980, the landmark series COSMOS premiered on public television. Since then, it is estimated that more than a billion people around the planet have seen the series. Now the Science Channel brings the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning COSMOS back, digitally remastered and with enhanced computer graphics."
PC Games (Games)

Submission + - 2007: PC Gaming Hardware Wrap-up (yougamers.com)

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Heartless Gamer
Heartless Gamer writes: "YouGamers.com has a wrap-up of the year that was in PC gaming hardware (captured via 3DMark06). Not surprising, Nvidia's 8800 series of cards leads the pack, while ATI lags behind significantly. A little surprising, Microsoft Vista and DX10 has had a steady year of growth. In a year of cheaper-than-normal memory, the average amount of RAM per PC is up. Overall, a great analysis of the PC gaming platform."
Space

Submission + - Largest Diamond in the galaxy discovered 5

Submitted by morpheus83
morpheus83 writes: Astronomers have discovered the largest diamond in the galaxy, located at a distance of 50 light years from earth in the Constellation Centaurus. The space diamond is virtually an enormous chunk of crystallized carbon, 4,000 kilometers in diameter which makes up ten billion trillion trillion carats or five million trillion trillion pounds. Scientists believe that the diamond is the heart of an extinct star that used to shine like the Sun.
Privacy

Submission + - What exactly is 2o7.net?

Submitted by rottenSoul
rottenSoul writes: I generally only allow specific cookies in my browser. Recently, I've seen a lot of 2o7.net cookies from 3rd party sites on mainstream sites. It's a web analytics company. Is this doubleclick2 or a harmless cookie? The cookie if different for each site but the root is the same. Here's what I found at 2o7.net: http://www.omniture.com/privacy/2o7?f=2o7#optout
Google

Submission + - Free Pascal, the number ONE compiler for Android (android-google.tk)

Submitted by
hoofdmannetje
hoofdmannetje writes: "Google has announced a contest for their mobile application Android. and they choose Java as their platform. But it turns out that the Free Pascal compiler of the Lazarus open source project is the number ONE compiler for Android project. as you can see on my website www.android-google.tk The enthousiastic developers of the lazarus project have succeeded in their effort to make a revival of the once very populair Turbo pascal compiler. They are winners. Regards"
Real Time Strategy (Games)

Submission + - The Secret to Winning at Rock, Paper, Scissors 1

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Time Slows Down
Time Slows Down writes: "While most people are aware that rock breaks scissors, scissors cut paper and paper covers stone, there is a psychological element to the game which many players may have missed. Recent research shows that rock is the most popular of the three possible moves in the game. That means that your opponent is likely to choose paper, because they will expect to you to start the game with stone so by going with scissors, you achieve an early victory. The scissors strategy has proven very successful in the past — in 2005 it secured auction house Christie's a £10 million deal. Rock, paper, scissors is also found in nature. A team of biologists described the curious mating strategies of a species of European lizard where some male lizards (call their type "rock") use force, invade the territory of fellow males to mate with females, others ("paper") favor deception, waiting until females are unguarded and sneaking in, and others ("scissors") work by cooperation, joining together to protect one another's females. Scientists speculate that such games may also describe human behavior in the corporate world, where strategies of force (takeovers), deception (fraud) and cooperation (mergers) also seem to supplant one another in an endless loop."
Handhelds

Submission + - Single-chip x86 chipsets around the corner? (linuxdevices.com)

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An anonymous reader writes: Kontron, a giant among industrial single-board computer vendors, yesterday revealed a credit-card sized board apparently based on a single-chip x86 chipset that clocks to 1.5GHz and supports a gig of RAM. It targets portable devices — not x86's usual forte. Kontron isn't saying whether the board uses a Via or an Intel chip(set) — both vendors reportedly have single-chip chipsets in the works, part of their respective missions to drive "x86 everywhere." At 1.5GHz, the new highly integrated x86 SoC — whatever it is — would certainly clobber the currently available crop of 386- and 486-class X86 SoCs, and if truly battery-friendly, could even make x86 somewhat more viable as a portable device architecture.
Media

Submission + - Plexiglas-like DVD to hold 1TB of data (computerworld.com)

Submitted by jcatcw
jcatcw writes: Lucas Mearian has a story about a company that plans to demonstrate a new DVD-format at the January CES conference. The .6mm thick disc stores 500GB of data by writing 5GB of data on each of 100 layers within a polymer material similar to Plexyglas. The Israel-based company, Mempile Inc., said its TeraDisc DVDs will offer 1TB of storage for consumers in the next few years, but it's also targeting corporate data archive needs with the new technology that write bits at the molecular level on the florescent-colored polymer. The company plans to sell its first product, a 700GB disc for $30.
Privacy

Submission + - Sears/Kmart "community" a front for spywar (ca.com)

Submitted by Arrogant-Bastard
Arrogant-Bastard writes: Attention Kmart (and Sears) shoppers: here's your chance to have everything you do with your web browser — including your visits to banking sites, etc. — logged by a third party with a history of involvement in spyware and spam. CA's security advisor blog (see link) is reporting that this malware is quietly installed — supposedly to facilitate participation in a "community"...that doesn't appear to actually exist.
Movies

Submission + - Why Blockbuster Total Access Doesn't Work

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: In theory, Blockbuster has a better offering than Netflix in that it "lets you rent online with the flexibility to exchange movies in-store, so you never have to wait for a movie." That is, according to the marketing pitch plastered all over its homepage. But I decided to see just how "total" Total Access is: http://www.techconsumer.com/2007/12/21/the-blockbuster-total-access-fallacy/
Privacy

Submission + - Scroogle.org alternative to Google.com spying

Submitted by carp3_noct3m
carp3_noct3m writes: Scroogle.org (please don't go to Scroogle.com, its pr0n) Offers a good alternative to Google.com and their lack of privacy. from http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/technology/article3055825.ece "The London-based watchdog Privacy International ranked Google as "hostile to privacy" in its survey of internet firms, its lowest rating. Rivals Yahoo and Microsoft also fared poorly." "Google, the industry leader, stores personal information for 18 months, as does Microsoft's search engine. Yahoo and Time Warner's AOL retain search requests for 13 months." So, if you're like me and have been looking for a Google alternative, this may be it, at least until its shutdown.

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