Comment Why the link to secondary info? (Score 2) 11
The original blog post is here.
Comment Which Language? (Score 1) 137
Do they offer a Javascript/HTML5 interface?
Comment Re:See with that Apple patent (Score 1) 983
Comment Re:PDF slashdotted (Score 1) 325
Hosted via Google Docs:
Submission + - FBI issues warning about Bin Laden malware (myce.com)
Wesociety writes: Since word broke Monday night that U.S. military forces had killed Osama Bin Laden in a raid in Pakistan, the internet has been buzzing with links to media sources purporting to have the latest emerging information on the situation. It didn’t take long, however, for internet scammers to begin exploiting the situation for their own gain.
Submission + - Moving data at the speed of light (berkeley.edu)
lee1 writes: "Due to the 'interconnect bottleneck', sometime in the next decade, computers, regardless of their processing speed, will be incapable of moving data any faster. UC Berkeley engineers have recently developed a possible solution: a way to grow nanolasers directly onto a silicon surface and take advantage of the superior data carrying capacity of photons. The new technique could lead to highly efficient silicon photonics. As well as leading to faster computers, the nanolasers are expected to allow the engineering of new types of on-chip nanophotonic devices such as lasers, photodetectors, modulators and solar cells."
Submission + - Oracle subpoenas Apache Foundation in Google suit (techworld.com.au)
angry tapir writes: "Oracle has subpoenaed the Apache Software Foundation in connection with its ongoing intellectual property suit against Google. Oracle filed suit against Google in August, alleging that its Android mobile operating system infringes on seven of Oracle's Java patents. Google has denied any wrongdoing. The subpoena, which was received by ASF on Monday, seeks "the production of documents related to the use of Apache Harmony code in the Android software platform, and the unsuccessful attempt by Apache to secure an acceptable license to the Java SE Technology Compatibility Kit.""
Submission + - Sony Running Unpatched Servers with no Firewall (consumerist.com)
ewhenn writes: Security experts monitoring open Internet forums learned months ago that Sony was using outdated versions of the Apache Web server software, which "was unpatched and had no firewall installed." The issue was "reported in an open forum monitored by Sony employees" two to three months prior to the recent security breaches.
Submission + - Apple handcuffs web apps on iPhone home screen (theregister.co.uk)
SF Polack writes: "On Apple's iOS 4.3, HTML5 and JavaScript apps are running significantly slower when they're run from the iPhone or iPad home screen rather than Safari, and the OS is hindering the performance of these apps in other ways. The end result is that it that harder for web apps to compete with native iOS app sold through the App Store, where Apple takes a 30 per cent of sales."
Comment Re:more than 1 screen? (Score 1) 79
Sun's SunRay clients can support multiple monitors, I've seen over 4 monitors on their system.
Haskell 2010 Announced 173
paltemalte writes "Simon Marlow has posted an announcement of Haskell 2010, a new revision of the Haskell purely functional programming language. Good news for everyone interested in SMP and concurrency programming."
Proton Beams Sent Around the LHC 115
feldhaus writes "The BBC reports that the first beams for over one year have been successfully sent around the complete circumference of the Large Hadron Collider. Engineers do not yet have a stable circulating beam but they hope to by 0600 GMT on Saturday."
Ten Things We Still Don't Understand About Humans 397
ParticleGirl writes "New Scientist has an article examining 10 human features (bugs?) that we still don't understand, like blushing, laughing, and nose-picking. There are some interesting, speculative evolutionary explanations listed for each. '[Psychologist Robert R. Provine] thinks laughing began in our pre-human ancestors as a physiological response to tickling. Modern apes maintain the ancestral 'pant-pant' laugh when they are tickled during play, and this evolved into the human 'ha-ha.' Then, he argues, as our brains got bigger, laughter acquired a powerful social function — to bond people. Indeed, Robin Dunbar at the University of Oxford has found that laughing increases levels of endorphins, our body's natural opiates, which he believes helps to strengthen social relationships.'"
Submission + - Man Blames Cat for Downloading Child Porn 6
SupplyMission writes: In one of the rare cases where somebody has actually used a legal defense suggested in an "Ask Slashdot", a man in Florida is blaming his cat for 1000 child porn images that investigators found on his computer. Keith Griffin is being held on $250,000 bond. No word on when he will be appearing in court.
Submission + - Airline Says It Owns The Word "Northwest" 2
Freshly Exhumed writes: "Northwest® Airlines, the major airline whose market branding is being phased out after it was acquired by Delta, charges that it has exclusive ownership of the common, geographically descriptive term northwest." The Minnesota-based airline is going after the operator of a small, Spokane Washington web site that provides tourist information for visitors to the Pacific Northwest. From the Seattle Post-Intelligencer: '[the site's owner] said he has so far spent more than $4,000 in the past few months to defend his site, and he's looking at thousands more going forward as he faces battles in the U.S., U.K., and Australia.' Presumably the Government of Canada will be the next Northwest® target victim, what with their use of the term to name some of their Territories since 1870. I don't suppose Northwest® can sue the world's cartographers, geocachers, boy scouts, etc. can they?"
