Comment Re:Won't download to my mac... (Score 1) 327
I was able to get it on bittorrent. Link here.
Submission + - New York Times sued over URL linking .. (cnet.com) 1
Davros writes: GateHouse Media, which publishes more than 100 papers in Massachusetts, accuses the Times of violating copyright by allowing its Boston Globe online unit to copy verbatim the headlines and first sentences from articles published on sites owned by GateHouse
Submission + - MIT Open Courseware Aircraft Systems Engineering L (orbitalhub.com)
dj writes: "If you want free lecture notes, exams, and videos from MIT, without any registration required, you can find them at MIT Open Courseware. MIT Open Courseware reflects most of the undergraduate and graduate subjects taught at MIT. One of the courses that caught my eye was an engineering course called Aircraft Systems Engineering.
Even if the formal title of the course is Aircraft Systems Engineering, the lectures are focused on Space Shuttle design. If you are a space enthusiast and have a technical background, you will probably enjoy these lectures."
Submission + - Microsoft Zunes Committing Mass Suicide! (jackthehack.com)
jddeluxe writes: There are multiple reports springing up all over the internet of a mass suicide of Micro$oft 30Mb Zune players globally. Check Zune forums; Gizmodo; or other such sites, the reports are spreading rapidly, except apparently to the Micro$oft official Zune site.
Let the M$ bashing/Steve Jobs conspiracy theorums begin!
Submission + - Banned Words List Carries Its First Emoticon (yahoo.com)
DynaSoar writes: "Lake Superior State College in Michigan's Upper Peninsula ("The land of four seasons: June, July, August and Winter") has just published its 34th annual List of Words to Be Banished from the Queen's English for Mis-use, Over-use and General Uselessness. Besides such unsurprising inclusions such as "green" corporations being "game changing" due to concern with their "carbon foot print", this year's list contains an emoticon for the first time — not a smiley face or variant, but the 'heart' symbol made from the characters 'less than' and 'three'. It's perhaps a sign of the evolution of language, or at least of this volunteer linguistic watchdog group, that a symbol compounded of two characters, neither of them a letter, is considered not only a word, but a particularly egregious one."
The Dirty Jobs of IT 162
dantwood writes "In an Infoworld article, Dan Tynan writes about the '7 Dirtiest Jobs' in IT. Number three? Enterprise espionage engineer (black ops). 'Seeking slippery individuals comfortable with lying, cheating, stealing, breaking, and entering for penetration testing of enterprise networks. Requirements include familiarity with hacking, malware, and forgery; must be able to plausibly impersonate a pest control specialist or a fire marshal. Please submit rap sheet along with resume.'" Paging Mike Rowe, Mike Rowe to the IT desk.
Submission + - SPAM: FAA mandates major aircraft "Black Box" up
coondoggie writes: "The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) today mandated significant upgrades to aircraft cockpit voice and flight data recorders in an effort to help investigators retrieve more and better data from airplane accidents and mishaps. Today's mandate means manufacturers such as Honeywell and L-3 Communications as well as operators of airplanes and helicopters with 10 or more seats, must employ voice recorders, also known as black boxes, that capture the last two hours of cockpit audio instead of the current 15 to 30 minutes. The new rules also require an independent backup power source for the voice recorders to allow continued recording for nine to 11 minutes if all aircraft power sources are lost or interrupted. Voice recorders also must use solid state technology instead of magnetic tape, which is vulnerable to damage and loss of reliability, the FAA said.
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Submission + - SPAM: Good visuals for Total Lunar Eclipse at Shadow and
WirePosted writes: "The Shadow and Substance website has good animation and visuals on the total lunar eclipse seen on the evening of Wednesday, February 20, 2008, following into the morning of Thursday, February 21."
Link to Original Source
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Yahoo To Reject Microsoft Bid 302
Many outlets are echoing a subscribers-only report in the Wall Street Journal that Yahoo's board has decided to reject Microsoft's takeover offer. The NYTimes offers the only other independent reporting so far confirming this claim. The report says that Yahoo will formally reject the offer in a letter on Monday, since they believe it "massively undervalues" the company. Microsoft offered $31 per share, a 62% premium on the stock price at the time, for Yahoo; but the latter believes that no offer below $40 per share is tenable. The AP has some background on Yahoo's options in responding to the bid.
Submission + - Doping: Beyond Sports? (latimes.com)
runamock writes: The Los Angeles Times ran a story on the growing use of 'mind drugs':
'Forget sports doping. The next frontier is brain doping.. Despite the potential side effects, academics, classical musicians, corporate executives, students and even professional poker players have embraced the drugs to clarify their minds, improve their concentration or control their emotions.. Unlike the anabolic steroids, human growth hormone and blood-oxygen boosters that plague athletic competitions, the brain drugs haven't provoked similar outrage. People who take them say the drugs aren't giving them an unfair advantage but merely allow them to make the most of their hard-earned skills.'
Submission + - NORAD's Santa Tracking Goes Web 2.0 (noradsanta.org)
iluvcapra writes: NORAD Tracks Santa 2007, NORAD's perennial mission of tracking the progress of Santa's sleigh as he makes his yearly sortie, has gone Web 2.0 this year, including a Google Maps mashup showing Santa's current position on Earth (at time of submission, Keetmanshoop, Namibia), a KML link to let you track Santa on Google Earth, and plots and keyhole imagery on youtube.
My only question: When Santa crosses into the ADIZ, what does he set his squawk to?
My only question: When Santa crosses into the ADIZ, what does he set his squawk to?
Submission + - Linux Foundation's Desktop Linux Survey Results 2
__aajbyc7391 writes: While the Linux Foundation's third annual desktop Linux survey doesn't officially end until November 30th, the number of daily respondents have shrunk to a trickle and the Foundation is working on analyzing the results. This is an early look at the raw data. For starters, almost 20,000 self-selected users filled out this year's survey compared to fewer than 10,000 in 2006's survey. Not surprisingly, the Ubuntu family of Linuxes is the most popular among organizations, at 54.1 percent. This was followed by the Red Hat family — RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux/Fedora/CentOS) — with 50.2 percent. The Novell SUSE group — SLED (SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop) and openSUSE — came in third, with 35.2 percent.
Submission + - New Air Traffic System to Rely on AT&T Cell To (popularmechanics.com) 1
longacre writes: "The FAA has awarded the long anticipated first contract for development of its NextGen air traffic control system: a $1.8 billion deal with ITT Corporation, beating out bids from aerospace heavyweights such as Raytheon and Lockheed Martin. Interestingly, and perhaps frighteningly to anyone who has ever suffered shoddy cell phone reception, ITT's design will make use of hundreds of duties specially modified AT&T cellular phone towers which, in addition to their normal communications duties, will relay an aircraft's position to air traffic controllers and other aircraft in real time. The initial contract is only enough to wire and test the so-called ADS-B system in the Philadelphia area and around the Gulf of Mexico — hooking up the rest of the country will take an estimated 20 years with a $20 billion price tag."
Submission + - Mulberry Mail is now open source (mulberrymail.com)
Vultan writes: Mulberry Mail has been around for a number of years, but it became free (as in beer) a while back when Cyrusoft stopped marketing it and let its developer, Cyrus Daboo, take ownership of it. Daboo has just announced that Mulberry Mail is now open source under the Apache 2 license. Mulberry is a remarkably full-featured and mature piece of software: it should provide some interesting competition for Thunderbird.
Submission + - Guitar Hero's Publishers Got Sued By A Rock Band (xuecast.com)
XueCast writes: "The Romantics, a classic rock band from the United States has just filed a lawsuit against the popular Guitar Hero's developer and publishers, which are : Harmonix Music Systems, Activision and RedOctane. In Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s game title, Harmonix used sound-alike musicians in recording a song from the Romantics rock band in order to reduce cost, but according to the members of the rock band, the sound-alike musicians sound too much like them."
