WhiteDragon - Slashdot User

Submission + - Google Issues Cease & Desist to Open Source An (linux-mag.com)

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WhiteDragon

on Tuesday September 29, 2009 @10:33AM

WhiteDragon writes: "Google recently cracked down on popular Android modder Cyanogen. Does this mark the beginning of the end for Android or just a speed-bump on the way to market dominance?"

Submission + - Girl with one eye wants webcam prosthetic (slashdot.org)

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on Monday November 17, 2008 @08:07PM

WhiteDragon writes: "Engadget is reporting on Tanya Vlach, a San Francisco-based artist, who lost her eye in a 2005 car accident, and now keeps a blog chronicling the "monocular life." She's got a real-enough looking prosthetic peeper, but Tanya's a self-described "sci-fi geek," and, with the approval of her doctor, she's put out a call for engineers to build her a camera... for her fake eye."

Submission + - Planet Mercury is Shrinking

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on Friday July 04, 2008 @09:15AM

WhiteDragon writes: "The LA Times is reporting that NASA's MESSENGER probe has discovered the planet Mercury is shrinking. So far, the planet has shrunk by more than a mile in diameter."

Submission + - Giant Rat, Tiny Possim Discovered in Indonesian Ju (nationalgeographic.com)

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on Tuesday December 18, 2007 @10:44AM

WhiteDragon writes: "Researchers in a remote jungle in Indonesia have discovered a giant rat and a tiny possum that are apparently new to science, underscoring the stunning biodiversity of the Southeast Asian nation, scientists announced Monday. More information at the National Geographic story"

Submission + - Pro-golfer Fuzzy Zoeller suing Wikipedia Editor

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on Sunday February 25, 2007 @06:39PM

WhiteDragon writes: "According to IT Wire, pro-golfer Fuzzy Zoeller is suing a consulting firm after allegedly defamatory language about him that had been placed on the Wikipedia article was traced to their IP address."

Submission + - Invisibility cloak created

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on Thursday October 19, 2006 @10:24PM

WhiteDragon writes: "According to the BBC, scientists at Duke University have created a cloak that wraps electromagnetic waves around a target, as if the target weren't there."

Submission + - Toshiba Creates Three-Layered Disc

Submitted by WhiteDragon on Monday September 11, 2006 @09:57AM

WhiteDragon writes: Accordign to this gizmodo article, Toshiba has created a hybrid disc that can play in a standard DVD player and in a HD-DVD player. The disc has one layer of DVD on the bottom, a middle layer that can be either DVD or HD-DVD content, and HD-DVD on the top.

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