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Comment Re:One implication (Score 1) 368

by swebster on Wednesday July 08, 2009 @08:06PM (#28630345) Attached to: Human Sperm Produced In the Laboratory

The sexual orientation is irrelevant. What is perhaps interesting is two people of the same sex conceiving a child. It would be similarly interesting if two heterosexual people of the same sex conceived a child this way (could just be friends or something). I'm not sure if this qualifies as opening a can of worms though. I also don't know much about genetics and the ramifications there...

350,000 Linux (Virtual) Desktops Land In Brazil 109

Posted by timothy on Thursday February 19, 2009 @01:12PM from the rip-helio-gracie dept.

xufem writes "Millions of Brazilian schoolchildren will soon be 'brought up right' running Linux on over 350,000 seats each using PC sharing hardware and software from Userful and KDE. This is world's largest virtual desktop deployment and probably also the world's largest Linux deployment, and seems to have been selected over OLPC by Brazil. Definitely a moment to celebrate — and just in time for Brazilian Carnival which starts tomorrow!"

Time Warner/Viacom Rift Healed, Pending Details 75

Posted by timothy on Thursday January 01, 2009 @11:00PM from the idiot-boxers-hit-the-showers dept.

jwilcox154 writes "Yesterday a dispute over fee hikes had threatened a damaging blackout at a minute past midnight Thursday that would have prevented TWC subscribers from watching their favorite shows such as 'SpongeBob SquarePants' and 'The Colbert Report.' The two sides reached an agreement on Thursday, the first of January 2009. The companies stated the terms of the deal were not disclosed. Details must still be finalized over the next few days."

Submission + - Did D-Wave really demonstrate a quantum computer?

Submitted by Qubert on Monday February 19, 2007 @02:32AM

Qubert writes: Was D-Wave's quantum computer demo last week the real thing? Ars Technica takes a look inside the cold, black box and concludes that whatever was in there, it probably wasn't a 'pure' quantum computer: 'Jumping off the fence, we will say that we think D-Wave demonstrated a real device; however, we think their device is going to set off a debate in the physics community over where the boundary between classical and quantum computation is. At present, quantum computers are "globally phase coherent," which means that every qubit's state is entangled (and therefore correlated) with every other qubit... The D-wave system, however, is certainly not globally phase coherent, which raises the question of whether it is a quantum computer.'

Journal Journal: Plagiarized by Newspaper - What Should I Ask For? 6

Journal by gbulmash on Sunday February 18, 2007 @06:56PM

I recently discovered that The New York Daily News sports columnist, the Mighty Quinn, used one of my online humor columns from 1996 ("Dating Don'ts") as his February 13th, 2007 column, crediting it to some bartender in New Jersey. I didn't register it way back when, so six-figure statutory damages are out, but I can prov

Journal Journal: SIP over TCP - using it in NAT friendly way

Journal by neutrino38 on Sunday February 18, 2007 @04:49PM

I have recently browsed through the latest SIP RFC looking for ways to be more NAT friendly for VoIP.

What I found is not very conclusive: The latest RFC indeed tries to push TCP as default transport for SIP (Yessss signalling links are making a come back) but the use of TCP connection is left to a lot of ambiguities.

Submission + - Most Comprehensive Reverse Hash Lookup (MD5, etc)

Submitted by

Dustin Fineout

on Sunday February 18, 2007 @04:29PM

Dustin Fineout writes: "A new reverse hash look-up web site has been launched which conglomerates the separate efforts of many such sites into a single resource. http://md5.dustinfineout.com/ searches both local databases and several remote servers to create the most comprehensive reverse hash look-up available anywhere, and in under ten seconds.

The initial version, launched yesterday, offers reverse hash look-up for the MD5 algorithm on a total of six servers' databases. By the end of the week, support for SHA1, MD2, MD4, LanMan, and NTLM algorithms have been promised, as well as expanding the server pool to at least 10 different data sources. The web application also allows visitors to add entries to the datapool by checking for their existence in all servers in the datapool before adding to a local database. The source code for both the online PHP application and several Java programs are also scheduled to be released under the BSD license by the end of this week."

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