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Submission + - SPAM: NanoArt online competition of 2008

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Roland Piquepaille
Roland Piquepaille writes: "Like last year, the NanoArt International Online Competition has started. In case you don't remember, NanoArt is 'a new art discipline related to micro/nanosculptures created by artists/scientists through chemical/physical processes and/or natural micro/nanostructures that are visualized with powerful research tools like Scanning Electron Microscope and Atomic Force Microscope.' You can vote until March 31, 2008 for your preferred NanoArt works. You can choose from 121 pictures sent by 37 nanoartists from 13 countries and 4 continents. But read more for additional details and to discover my favorite and fantastic NanoArt works."
United States

Submission + - Helium crisis approaching (stltoday.com)

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vrmlguy
vrmlguy writes: "In ten years, the National Helium Reserve will be depleted, according to an article in the St. Louis Post Dispatch. An article in Science Daily echoes the concern, quoting Dr. Lee Sobotka, of Washington University in St. Louis: "Helium is non-renewable and irreplaceable. Its properties are unique and unlike hydrocarbon fuels (natural gas or oil), there are no biosynthetic ways to make an alternative to helium. All should make better efforts to recycle it." On Earth, Helium is found mixed with natural gas, but few producers capture it. The US created a stockpile in 1925 for use by military dirigibles, but stopped stockpiling it in 1995 as a cost-saving measure."
Transportation

Submission + - Massive layoffs at Tesla motors (wordpress.com)

Submitted by sshir
sshir writes: According to Martin Eberhard's blog http://teslafounders.wordpress.com/ there are massive stealth layoffs at Tesla motors going on now. My speculation: judging by qualifications of fired personnel, it seems that "White star" is dead and more importantly, that Tesla Motors is preparing to be acquired purely as a patent holder company.
Government

Submission + - NH Primary Hand Counts != Diebold Machine Counts

Submitted by isdale
isdale writes: There are several reports showing the hand counts in New Hampshire Primary are quite different from the machine counts:
* Hand Count Shows 15% For Ron Paul
* Diebold favors Hillary, hand count for Obama

BlackBoxVoting.org has an article claiming Director of Sales and Marketing of the one and only contractor servicing the Diebold machines uses exclusively in NH has a criminal record.

Just thought the SlashDot folks would be interested.

Comment "dev board" ? (Score 5, Informative) 152

by MrTrick (#21274133) Attached to: Low-Cost Board Runs Linux, Google Apps
This is just a motherboard, with a C7 processor already attached to it. No memory, no non-volatile storage...

According to TFA, it "comes with gOS", but gOS doesn't sit anywhere on this 'dev board', it has to be installed onto a regular hard drive just like a normal computer.

Bad article. It's not a dev board, it's an entirely normal mobo. The ONLY thing about it that is even remotely special is that there are linux drivers for all its components.

If it were a dev board I'd want at least some attached flash storage, and some interesting pin headers.
Hardware Hacking

Submission + - A Giant Step toward Infinitesimal Machinery (physorg.com)

Submitted by
msaleem1
msaleem1 writes: "PhysOrg asks some great questions and attempts to explore potential answers: What are the ultimate limits to miniaturization? How small can machinery — with internal workings that move, turn, and vibrate — be produced? What is the smallest scale on which computers can be built?"
Privacy

Submission + - Japan to fingerprint all foreign visitors (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by azuredrake
azuredrake writes: According to the BBC, Japan's government is planning to fingerprint and photograph all visiting foreigners beginning on November 20th of this year. As support for the controversial programs, the country's justice minister has said "a friend of a friend" was a member of al-Qaeda who had visited the country illegally several times and had been involved in one of the bombings in Bali. While this seems more like political suicide than a convincing argument to violate the privacy of all visiting foreigners, the program itself is interesting. If it succeeds, other countries would surely follow suit, leading to a vast national database of fingerprints and photographs of travelers.
Censorship

Submission + - Poll Finds Support for Internet Regulation (techliberation.com) 1

Submitted by Brian Gordon
Brian Gordon writes: Digital rights activist Adam Thierer has a blog post giving his insights on a recent poll from 463 Communications finding that more than half of Americans believe that Internet content such as video should be controlled in some way by the government. From the poll, "Twenty-nine percent said it should be regulated just like television content while 24% said government should institute an online rating system similar to the one used by the movie industry. In contrast, only 36% said the blocking of Internet video would be unconstitutional."
Privacy

Submission + - Found Adulterous Material On Bosses Machine 2

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An anonymous reader writes: Help me out slashdot: I took my bosses machine to my work bench to repair it. Little did I know that he left a cdrom from a "Glamour Erotic Potography" studio. I.E. erotic pictures someone took for somebody else, (Not comercial PRON). I did not open the cd, but explorer listed the title.. the name of a female ex employee (He is married)! Not sure what to do now. He does not know I have the machine, his secretary does. However,he knows I was working on it, just not that i took it. So do I play dumb? Tell him that he left a bit something and try to play it off? Hand him the disk and remind him that IT guys are like preists?!! Come slashdot, be my conciense!
Math

Submission + - What's the best way to teach myself math? 4

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An anonymous reader writes: I have a secret. In high school I failed two out of three years of math classes and eventually dropped out of school completely. Although dropping out was the most foolish thing I have ever done, I am not dumb. I earned my general equivalency diploma as soon as was legally possible and from there went on to college and beyond. That was many years ago and my most basic algebra, trigonometry, and geometry skills are slipping away at an alarming rate. I'm looking for a self-guided course covering the equivalent of 4 years of high school mathematics including calculus. My math skills are holding me back. How can I turn this around?
Patents

Submission + - Redhat sued for Patent Infringement

Submitted by
tqft
tqft writes: "http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20071011205044141
"The first ever patent infringement litigation regarding Linux. Here's the patent, for those who can look at it without risk. If in doubt, don't. "
For those who can without fear read a patent:
http://www.google.com/patents?id=3tUkAAAAEBAJ&dq=5,072,412

http://www.setexasrecord.com/news/202417-recent-copyrightpatent-infringement-cases-filed-in-u.s.-district-courts

"Plaintiffs IP Innovation and Technology Licensing Corp. claim to have the rights to U.S. Patent No. 5,072,412 for a User Interface with Multiple Workspaces for Sharing Display System Objects issued Dec. 10, 1991 along with two other similar patents.
"

Get your game faces on. Party Time."
Space

Submission + - Hillary Clinton Declares War on Space Exploration (associatedcontent.com)

Submitted by
MarkWhittington
MarkWhittington writes: "Recently, Senator Hillary Clinton revealed her science agenda. Of great interest to people involved in making and debating space policy were the three bullets concerning the space program. To be brief and to the point, Hillary's agenda would be terrible news for anyone who supports space exploration and space commerce."
The Courts

Submission + - Possession of the Anarchist's Cookbook==Terrorist

Submitted by Anonymous Terrorist
Anonymous Terrorist writes: Back in the midsts of time, when I was a lad and gopher was the height of information retrieval I read The Anarchist's Cookbook in one huge text file. Now it appears the UK government considers possession of the book an offence under the Terrorism Act 2000 and is prosecuting a 17 year old boy, in part, for having a copy of the book.
Movies

Submission + - Do Content Provider Executives Read Online Forums? (networkhardware.com)

Submitted by
Dax
Dax writes: "I've been reading slashdot for nearly a decade now, and I've found it both useful and occasionally comical in many areas of life (especially when I implemented the Win2k ban on UCSB's ResNet...the /. comments made for hilarious reading that week). Throughout college and my career, I've relied on online forums such as these for feedback, and to get a vague sense of how it is for folks "in the trenches", so to speak.

Given the hundreds — if not thousands — of submissions to slashdot, digg, techdirt, et al regarding DRM and all of its catastrophic failures (let's use Blu-Ray and HD-DVD as the main example), do the decision makers and visionaries at these companies put any stock into the horribly negative feedback all over the web concerning these topics?

If so, why haven't we (consumers) seen shifts away from defective by design technologies? If not, why not? In my current position, I sell Cisco equipment...and my reputation can be made or slayed by what goes on in these forums, so I keep a serious eye open to constructive criticisms, or (hopefully more often), positive feedback. Why don't other executives?"

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