256027
submission
Stony Stevenson writes:
Mozilla is to host a 24-hour web conference to develop new ideas for open source coding.
Mozilla 24 will be held on 14-15 September and will let developers around the world share ideas and bug fixes.
The event will host speakers including Dr Vint Cerf, chief internet evangelist at Google, and Dr Lawrence Lessig, founder of Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society.
Get your sleeping bags and popcorn ready!
256021
submission
rapid_snail writes:
Steve McIntyre, who operates the site climateaudit.org found some anomalies in the US temperature data used for climate modeling.
The problem was found to be a Y2K bug. NASA has confirmed this and published the corrected data on its website. Years of bad data has been corrected; 1998 is no longer the warmest year on record. In fact, 5 of the 10 warmest years on record now all occur before World War II. More info here
256019
submission
no-body writes:
Former owner of Allofmp3 aquitted in Russia — suit thrown out of court BBC
Judge: "The prosecution did not succeed in presenting persuasive evidence of his involvement in infringing copyright law,"
Apparently, Allofmp3 paid paid part of its income to ROMS, the Russian organisation which collects and distributes fees for copyright holders.
A Russian comment: "99 cent? That's the price for two bottles of wodka here. Nobody cann affort to pay that much for a MP3 file."
256017
submission
Bomarrow1 writes:
Louis Michaud believes that Man-Made Tornadoes could be the answer to global warming. He suggests that if hundreds of tornadoes were placed along the equator using warm water to power them they could solve the current energy problem. A side effect of this would be that they would aid in removing heat from the atmosphere by raising warm air to the outer limits of the atmosphere.
256007
submission
Funny Finder writes:
Doctors are just now beginning to see cases of mesothelioma appearing in electronic
production workers throughout the world. Since most producers of electronics have only been in business for less than twenty five years most of the cases of mesothelioma are just beginning to appear.
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