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Submission + - The Voynich Manuscript Decoded? (edithsherwood.com) 1

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MBCook
MBCook writes: "The Voynich Manuscript has confounded attempts to decode it for nearly 100 years. A person named Edith Sherwood, who has previously suggested a possible link to DaVinci, has a new idea: perhaps the text is simply anagrams of Italian words. There are three pages of examples from the herb section of the book, showing the original text, the plaintext Italian words, and the English equivalents. Has someone cracked the code?"
Digital

Submission + - Jeff Bezos: 'Sorry for remotely erasing "1984& (nytimes.com)

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levicivita writes: From the down-but-not-out NYT comes an article (warning login may be required) about user backlash against Kindle's embedded DRM: "Last week, Jeffrey P. Bezos, chief executive of Amazon, offered an apparently heartfelt and anguished mea culpa to customers whose digital editions of George Orwell's "1984" were remotely deleted from their Kindle reading devices. Though copies of the books were sold by a bookseller that did not have legal rights to the novel, Mr. Bezos wrote on a company forum that Amazon's " 'solution' to the problem was stupid, thoughtless and painfully out of line with our principles." Jeff's post is here.
Censorship

Submission + - AT&T blocks img.4chan.org from customers (reddit.com) 11

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bmecoli
bmecoli writes: "AT&T seems to be blocking img.4chan.net which hosts the infamous /b/ (random) board, as well as /r9k/. Those who have contacted AT&T representatives were told that the site is in fact blocked, so this isn't a technical problem, and all the other 4chan subdomains work fine."
Government

Submission + - Should Copyright Of Academic Works Be Abolished? (harvard.edu)

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Dr_Ken
Dr_Ken writes: "From the Tech Dirt summary of this Harvard Cyber-Law Center study: "I've even heard of academics who had to redo pretty much the identical experiment because they couldn't even cite their own earlier results for fear of a copyright claim. It leads to wacky situations where academics either ignore the fact that the journals they published in hold the copyright on their work, or they're forced to jump through hoops to retain certain rights. That's bad for everyone." Indeed it is and especially so given the huge amounts of tax dollars spent doing research that then gets published in proprietary journals where it can't be accessed without payment."
Space

Submission + - Is Jupiter Earth's Cosmic Protector?

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Hugh Pickens
Hugh Pickens writes: "Last Sunday an object, probably a comet that nobody saw coming, plowed into Jupiter's colorful cloud tops, splashing up debris and leaving a black eye the size of the Pacific Ocean — the second time in in 15 years that this had happened — after Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 fell apart and its pieces crashed into Jupiter in 1994, leaving Earth-size marks that persisted up to a year. Better Jupiter than Earth say astronomers who say that part of what makes Earth such a nice place to live is that Jupiter's overbearing gravity acts as a gravitational shield deflecting incoming space junk away from the inner solar system where it could do to humans what an asteroid apparently did for the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. "If anything like that had hit the Earth it would have been curtains for us, so we can feel very happy that Jupiter is doing its vacuum-cleaner job and hoovering up all these large pieces before they come for us," says Australian amateur astronomer Anthony Wesley who first noticed the mark on Jupiter. But other say the warm and fuzzy image of the King of Planets as father-protector may not be true. In 1770 Comet Lexell whizzed by the earth missing us by a cosmic whisker after passing close to Jupiter, which diverted it into a new orbit and straight toward Earth. The comet made two passes around the Sun and in 1779 again passed very close to Jupiter, which then threw it back out of the solar system. "It was as if Jupiter aimed at us and missed," said Dr. Brian G. Marsden of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, who complains that the comet would never have come anywhere near the Earth if Jupiter hadn't thrown it at us in the first place."
Cellphones

Licensed C64 Emulator Rejected From App Store 277

Posted by Soulskill from the insufficient-quantities-of-hip dept.
Miasik.Net writes "A fully licensed Commodore 64 iPhone emulator has been rejected from the App Store. The excuse Apple used is a clause in the SDK agreement which doesn't allow for applications that run executable code. It seems Sega is exempt from that clause, because some of its games on the iPhone are emulators running original ROM code."
Intel

Submission + - Intel Enter New HafniumTransistors Era with Penryn (techluver.com)

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Tech.Luver
Tech.Luver writes: "Intel plans to roll out its newest generation of processors, Monday, flexing its manufacturing muscle with a sophisticated new process that crams up to 40 percent more transistors onto the Penryn chips. The world's largest semiconductor company expects to start shipping 16 new microprocessors — which also boast inventive new materials to stanch electricity loss — for use in servers and high-end gaming PCs . The chip maker will now use Hafnium in combination with a pair of secret metal oxides instead of silicon dioxide to craft the insulation layer of the gate that controls current. The tweaking of the materials counts as the most significant change to transistors in about forty years, according to Intel co-founder Gordon Moore. Fifteen of the new chips will run server computers, or systems that dish out data on corporate networks and the Internet, while one model is designed for personal computers. ( http://techluver.com/2007/11/11/intel-to-enter-in-to-new-era-of-transistors-made-of-hafnium-with-faster-smaller-45nm-penryn-processors/ )"
Privacy

Submission + - The New Facebook Ads: Another Privacy Debacle? (concurringopinions.com)

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privacyprof
privacyprof writes: "Facebook recently announced a new advertising scheme called "Social Ads." Instead of using celebrities to hawk products, it will use pictures of Facebook users. Facebook might be entering into another privacy debacle. Facebook assumes that if people rate products highly or write good things about a product then they consent to being used in an advertisement for it. But such an assumption is wrong. When Facebook created a system that notified people's friends about new changes to people's profiles, the result was outrage. Facebook thought that there wasn't a privacy problem since the information was public. But as I argue in my book, The Future of Reputation,, Facebook didn't understand that privacy amounts to much more than keeping secrets — it involves controlling accessibility to personal data. With Social Ads, Facebook is again misunderstanding privacy — just because people say positive things about a product does not mean that they want to be used to shill it. People whose images are used in an advertisement without their consent might be able to sue under the tort of appropriation of name or likeness: "One who appropriates to his own use or benefit the name or likeness of another is subject to liability to the other for invasion of his privacy." Restatement (Second) of Torts 652C."

Comment Re:It's CSS thats the problem (Score 1) 414

by Mekabyte (#19932299) Attached to: W3C Considering An HTML 5
You can define multiple classes per element. To solve your example, you could have a color class with a single color: attribute that would be changed and your span would have something like: style="spanStyle1 corporateColorDuJour" Not as elegant as variables, but it avoids the search and replace problem.

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