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Submission + - 250,000 iPhones bought to be hacked (nytimes.com)

Submitted by 8tim8 on Tuesday October 23, 2007 @08:34AM

8tim8 writes: In the middle of a New York Times article on Apple's recent sales strength, this line appears: "In response to analysts' questions, Timothy Cook, Apple's chief operating officer, acknowledged that as many as 250,000 iPhones had been purchased but then not activated for service with AT&T, Apple's exclusive wireless partner in the United States." I knew that some had been bought to be opened up, but a quarter million of them?

Submission + - So, what's the best way to watch live football? (diaryland.com)

Submitted by

bizbornata

on Friday September 28, 2007 @10:36AM

bizbornata writes: "So, what's the best way to watch live football?"

Submission + - Apple's aims to stop second-hand iPod trading (cnet.co.uk) 4

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 28, 2007 @09:57AM

An anonymous reader writes: CNet is running a story that highlights how Apple's apparently generous offering of free iPod engraving, is actually an effort to curb any resale of used iPods. This stops any second-hand trading and forces buyers to seek brand-new models, full-price, directly from Apple. One commenter notes that this engraving also voids any option of replacement iPods through AppleCare.

Submission + - First Retail Water-Cooled DDR2 Memory Tested

Submitted by Twistedmelon on Tuesday March 06, 2007 @07:00PM

Twistedmelon writes: We've all heard of water cooling for processors and even graphics processors, in today's high end PCs. However, a water cooled memory module is something that hasn't been done until now. OCZ Technology recently announced their line of Flex XLC Water-Cooled RAM, with its integrated heat-spreaders that can be connected to any standard water cooling system. The memory operates much cooler under load with tight timings at DDR2-800 speeds. For those with water-cooling setups, these DIMMs could easily be tapped into an existing system allowing for quiet and robust cooling for your system memory as well.

Submission + - Will sites that create a music community work?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 06, 2007 @06:58PM

An anonymous reader writes: Everyone on /. hates the **AA so what (legal) alternatives are there on the web that bring bands and (potential) fans together to make music that ends up being free to all?

I know of one alternative — http://www.sellaband.com/ — what do people think of the business model? Does anyone think it has a good chance of working in the long term?

What other similar sites are there like this?

(Disclosure: I am a believer on sellaband but I have no involvement in the company that runs it)

Submission + - lunar dustbusters

Submitted by

Maggie McKee

on Tuesday March 06, 2007 @06:57PM

Maggie McKee writes: "While hailed as a potential source of oxygen and metals, Moon dust could lodge in astronauts' lungs, possibly causing long-term health effects. Now, NASA is working on a number of ways to reduce the amount of lunar dust astronauts are exposed to — from simple grates on the floor to magnetic wands and giant lint rollers."

Submission + - New MMORPG Tries "Crowd Sourcing"

Submitted by

KingSkippus

on Tuesday March 06, 2007 @06:55PM

KingSkippus writes: "BBC news is reporting that publisher Acclaim Games is working with developer Dave Perry to develop Top Secret, a new MMORPG using 'crowd sourcing.' It will be a commercial game with a paid professional core team that works with a larger volunteer community to develop the code, stories, art, and audio in the game. Perry says, 'With 20,000 people signed up we are already the biggest development team in history. We will end up with 100,000 people on this team. If 1% is any good, we are good to go.' Could this be a missing link that brings us commercial-quality community-developed gaming?"

Submission + - What does it take to survive the Slashdot effect?

Submitted by

Dave

on Tuesday March 06, 2007 @06:26PM

Dave writes: "How much hardware, bandwidth, etc. does it take for a server to survive the Slashdot effect? Is the Fark or Digg effect worse than Slashdot? Is there a guaranteed way to avoid these effects?"

What Breakfast Gets You Going? 365

Posted by Cliff on Friday January 19, 2007 @08:45AM from the first-thing-in-the-morning dept.

Crash McBang asks: "Apparently many are foregoing the morning coffee for something sweeter, according to a recent article in RedOrbit. 'There is nothing better than the feel of Coke on the back of your throat in the morning,' said McKinsey, a morning pop drinker since the 1970s, savoring the cold, stinging sensation that coffee drinkers just don't get. What gets you going after waking up?"

Submission + - Youtube - New Direction for BBC online content?

Submitted by

youthoftoday

on Friday January 19, 2007 @08:23AM

youthoftoday writes: "The BBC has pioneered the delivery of audio and video content from their Radio and TV services, recently updating the look and feel of their media player. But a quick glance at the Radio 4 website shows an embedded YouTube video. Is this the BBC's answer to the recently slashed budget?"

Submission + - Your Own PC to forecast future Weather

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Friday January 19, 2007 @07:10AM

Anonymous Coward writes: "A computer model of climate run on home PCs in conjunction with the BBC has yielded its first results. About 250,000 people downloaded software from climateprediction.net onto their home computers, each running a single simulation of the future. The results suggest the UK could be about 3C warmer than now in 75 years' time, agreeing with other models. Each downloaded a software pack from climateprediction.net which ran when their computer was otherwise idle, with results being fed back to the central server. Each simulation required about three months of computing time on an average PC!"

Submission + - Ruby on Rails 1.2 Final released!

Submitted by

Pieter Steyn

on Friday January 19, 2007 @06:30AM

Pieter Steyn writes: "Get out your party balloons and funny hats because were there, baby. Yes, sire, Rails 1.2 is finally available in all its glory. It took a little longer than we initially anticipated to get everything lined up (and even then we had a tiny snag that bumped us straight from 1.2.0 to 1.2.1 before this announcement even had time to be written). So hopefully its been worth the wait. Who am I kidding. Of course its been worth the wait. We got the RESTful flavor with new encouragement for resource-oriented architectures. Were taking mime types, HTTP status codes, and multiple representations of the same resource serious. And of course theres the international pizzazz of multibyte-safe UTF-8 wrangling. Thats just some of the headliner features. On top of that, theres an absolutely staggering amount of polish being dished out. The CHANGELOG for Action Pack alone contains some two hundred entries. Active Record has another 170-something on top of that. All possible due to the amazing work of our wonderful and glorious community. People from all over the world doing their bit, however big or small, to increase the diameter of your smile. Thats love, people. http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2007/1/19/rails-1-2- rest-admiration-http-lovefest-and-utf-8-celebratio ns"

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