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Submission + - Gentoo goes great on PS3 - see for yourself

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Nerbil
Nerbil writes: "So you've spent a lot of cash on a PS3, now its time to make it worth it! Compared to previous Linux distros for the PS3 such as Fedora and Yellow Dog, Gentoo is a cut above the rest. Who wouldn't love to play hi-res media files from their Playstation 3 in 720p/1080i? Find out what makes Gentoo a better alternate OS for the PS3 and how to install it!"
Mozilla

Submission + - Extension Adds an XGL-Like Effect to Firefox Tabs

Submitted by
jontk
jontk writes: "I was just over at CyberNet where they mentioned a Firefox extension called Tab Effect that was just released today. It adds a 3D "cube effect" when switching between tabs and has to be one of the coolest things I've seen since XGL itself. I had no problems getting it to work on my system but the author, along with a few commenters it looks like, ran into some issues with it crashing Firefox. Luckily I didn't have these problems and I can't wait to see this extension get developed even further!"
Spam

Submission + - Micro-level spam research: a new approach

Submitted by
Bert
Bert writes: "Spam has been researched a lot. But what The Spam Test is trying to do is turn the spam research around. In stead of looking at e-mail spam on a macro level, the people behind The Spam Test are preparing for an extensive micro-level spam study. In order to get an interesting amount of data they're asking internet users to help them.... by getting them spammed. Even though they are looking at this from the popular side of science, it looks like an interesting view on spam research none the less."
Security

Submission + - What does your dead man's switch do?

Submitted by
LqdEngineer
LqdEngineer writes: "How many of the Slashdot crowd use or have used a Dead Man's Switch designed to perform some action if you don't check in for a certain amount of time? Recently, I decided to put one together using MySQL and some Cron jobs, but I wanted to see what others have their Switches set up to do in the event you fail to check in. E-mails to loved ones? Send encryption keys to friends/family? Hate mail to your boss? Has anyone ever been on the receiving end of a Dead Man's e-mail? I can't even imagine how creepy that would feel."
Media

Submission + - BBC get their interlaced mixed up with progressive

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: It seems that even the technology pundits at the BBC's tommorrows world blog, are spewing forth misinformation to the masses. Apprently 1080i is inferiour as "Many televisions in the last year had a top resolution of 1080i — a slightly less high quality resolution where the lines in the image are shown sequentially instead of all at once in the case of 1080p." http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2007/01/how_ high_is_high_def.shtml
Google

Google Tops 100 Best Places To Work 317

Posted by kdawson from the perks-galore dept.
inetsee writes "Fortune Magazine's annual '100 Best Companies to Work For' list is out, and Google topped the list in their debut appearance. Some highlights of the benefits of working for Google that caught my eye were the free gourmet meals and the massages. The chance to spend 20% of your time working on your own personal projects also sounds very appealing. Of course, with resumes rolling in at the rate of thousands a day, the competition is fierce."
Education

Submission + - Sex lowers stress levels

Submitted by Ice Wewe
Ice Wewe writes: BBCNews has an article on how having penetrative intercourse can help with public speaking.

"New Scientist magazine reports that Stuart Brody, a psychologist at the University of Paisley, found having sex can help keep stress at bay. However, only penetrative intercourse did the trick — other forms of sex had no impact on stress levels at all.

... Volunteers who had had penetrative intercourse were found to be the least stressed, and their blood pressure returned to normal faster than those who had engaged in other forms of sexual activity such as masturbation. "
Google

Submission + - Free Wireless Access in S.F. a step closer

Submitted by Gyppo
Gyppo writes: San Francisco has signed an agreement with Google and Earthlink to provide free wireless Internet access to The City. As part of the contract, Google would offer free Internet service at 300 kilobits per second. EarthLink would own the network and offer a faster service, at 1 megabit per second, for $21.95 per month. The next step is a vote by the city's board of Supervisors "which promises ample debate over issues of ownership and revenue that could delay or derail the plan."
Security

Submission + - Web Security Trends Report: 2007 Forecast

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The Web Security Trends Report focuses on dynamic code obfuscation as a method to hide malicious code, a trend that is growing in popularity among hackers as a means of bypassing traditional signature-based solutions in order to propagate malware. The report also describes recent specific incidents of sophisticated hacker attacks that take advantage of Web 2.0 technologies to embed malicious code in high-traffic web sites. In addition, the report includes a review of web security threats that emerged this year and the outlook for security trends in 2007.
Sony

Submission + - PS3 Controller wins an Emmy for technology

Submitted by StarkinProgram
StarkinProgram writes: The Playstation 3 Controller, known as the Six Axis, has won an emmy. In particular, it has won a Technology and Engineering Emmy. Sony has certainly gotten creative with this product. Does Sony deserve this Emmy, and should the glory really go to the Nintendo Wiimote? Has the Sony hype gone too far?
Space

Submission + - NASA Will Go Metric on the Moon

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Space.com is reporting that NASA has decided to use the metric system for its new lunar missions. NASA hopes that metrication will allow easier international participation and safer missions. The loss of the Mars Climate Orbiter was blamed on an error converting between English units and metric units. 'When we made the announcement at the meeting, the reps for the other space agencies all gave a little cheer,' said a NASA official.
User Journal

Journal Journal: Dealing With Slowvertising 2

Journal by gbulmash
I've noticed both on my own pages and on the pages of others (like Yahoo) that sometimes a page will hang mid-render while waiting for a script-sourced ad to fill in a table cell or a div.

I thought this was only a problem on older browsers where the size of the ad/div wasn't specified, but I'm finding that this still happens on the newest browsers with divs and table cells.
Space

Submission + - Detection of Earth-like Civilizations Now Possible

Submitted by
Mr. McGibby
Mr. McGibby writes: "Astronomers have proposed an improved method of searching for intelligent extraterrestrial life using instruments like one now under construction in Australia. The Low Frequency Demonstrator (LFD) of the Mileura Wide-Field Array (MWA), a facility for radio astronomy, theoretically could detect Earth-like civilizations around any of the 1,000 nearest stars. The original paper describes the details."

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