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Submission + - Wikileaks.org Domain has been deleted (foxnews.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: WikiLeaks Domain Name Provider Says It Has Withdrawn Service to the Wikileaks.org Name. This is what the Cybersecurity Act of 2009, with it's various names, has bought you. The Executive branch of the USA now controls the Domain Names of Planet Earth. All slippery slopes go down hill.
Security

Submission + - Antivirus firms short-changing customers (pcpro.co.uk)

Submitted by Barence
Barence writes: Two leading security firms have been accused of ripping off customers by cutting short their antivirus subscriptions. AVG and Symantec are offering their own customers discounts on subscriptions via email or pop-ups, but the new subscriptions start immediately, "short-changing" users who had months left on their existing deal. Both Symantec and AVG “unashamedly” owned up to the practice, and said they had no plans to change their ways, instead advising their customers to upgrade as close as possible to the end of the subscription. However, the pair actively send out emails and pop-up messages that encourage customers to upgrade immediately.

Submission + - Wikileaks DNS revoked (news.com.au)

Submitted by taucross
taucross writes: WIKILEAKS has been taken offline after its domain host EveryDNS.net terminated the whistleblower website's account.
Education

Submission + - College class crowd-source their assignment (jjtok.io)

Submitted by jjtokyo
jjtokyo writes: Faced with the challenge of designing and publishing 10 psychology experiments in only 3 months, students in Temple University's Japan Campus have set up a website so that they could get some help from... pretty much anybody else in the world! Powered with software from University of Southern California's Institute for the Future of Book, the website (http://jjtok.io/3m10p) allows anyone to comment and debunk the students' writings. So far, the class has received expert feedback from a crowd as varied as a Science-published psychologist from the UK, a start-up CEO from South Africa, a lawyer from Switzerland, and a whole class of Psychology students from Temple's main campus in Philadelphia.
Australia

Australia Adopts EU's Geographical Indicator System For Wine 302

Posted by timothy from the all-official-like dept.
onreserve writes with an excerpt from a site dedicated to laws affecting wine: "[L]ast week, Australia signed an agreement with the European Union to comply with the geographical indicator (GI) system of the EU. The new agreement replaces an agreement signed in 1994 between the two wine powers and protects eleven of the EU drink labels and 112 of the Australian GI's. Specifically, this means that many of the wine products produced in Australia that were previously labeled according to European names, such as sherry and tokay, will no longer be labeled under these names. Wine producers in Australia will have three years to 'phase out' the use of such names on labels. Australian labels that will be discontinued include amontillado, Auslese, burgundy, chablis, champagne, claret, marsala, moselle, port, and sherry."

Submission + - Getting Control of Your Coffee Addiction (colonista.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Are you addicted to coffee? A good way to tell is if you find yourself experiencing withdrawal symptoms such as headaches, mood swings, and fatigue when you stay away from caffeine for a day or two. By drinking more water, you can help to soothe these withdrawal symptoms.

 
Robotics

The Best Robots of 2009 51

Posted by samzenpus from the best-of-show dept.
kkleiner writes "Singularity Hub has just unveiled its second annual roundup of the best robots of the year. In 2009 robots continued their advance towards world domination with several impressive breakouts in areas such as walking, automation, and agility, while still lacking in adaptability and reasoning ability. It will be several years until robots can gain the artificial intelligence that will truly make them remarkable, but in the meantime they are still pretty awesome."

Comment Re:Alternatives to 802.11a,g,n (Score 1) 267

by David at Eeyore (#29753907) Attached to: Wi-Fi Patent Victory Earns CSIRO $200 Million

Since being able to patent a novel technology (and reasonably claim some reward by licensing, as CSIRO has done) is what drives others to develop even more novel technologies which can be patented and licensed for reward and so on...

I wouldn't assume that it will be necessarily IBM or Intel or the cult fruity computer co. that will come up with the next great innovation.
User Journal

Journal Journal: Old Test Equipment

Journal by David at Eeyore

Sometimes, progress (the technological variety, that is) isn't all that it is cracked up to be... Long ago, in a previous life, I was working for a research institution in the electronics lab (over 30 years ago) and we had a lot of Tek and HP equipment; it was straightforward to use (once you worked out how to do stuff), it was accurate and _rarely_, if ever, failed in-service. Much of this kit is now regarded as "vintage" and judging by the activity on eBay is still in great demand.
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