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Comment NoScript (Score 1) 747

by commrade (#27302931) Attached to: Richard Stallman Warns About Non-Free Web Apps

NoScript supports javascript surrogates now. So you could actually run replacement versions of commonly used scripts. There's not much of a ui to it yet but I just checked about:config and it looks like I'm already doing this.

Stallman is once again unpopular but correct.
The Courts

Court Reinstates Proof-of-Age Requirement For Nude Ads 267

Posted by timothy from the barely-legal dept.
arbitraryaardvark writes "An Ohio swinger's magazine objects to keeping proof on file that its advertisers are over 18. I reported here in 2007 that the 6th circuit struck down U.S.C. Title 18, Section 2257 as a First Amendment violation. The full 6th circuit has now overturned that ruling. The case might continue to the Supreme Court. The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports."
Space

Spitzer's 5-Gigapixel Milky Way 124

Posted by kdawson from the zoom-zoom dept.
James Harold writes "Today NASA unveiled a new infrared mosaic of our galaxy. The result of over 800,000 individual images collected by the Spitzer Space Telescope, it is the largest, highest-resolution, and most sensitive infrared picture ever taken of the Milky Way (and will likely remain so for the foreseeable future). Because Spitzer sees in infrared, it penetrates much farther into the galaxy, revealing previously hidden star clusters, star-forming regions, shocked gases, glowing 'bubbles' and more. The complete mosaic is about 400,000 by 13,000 pixels, and a 180' printed version is being shown at the American Astronomical Society meeting in St. Louis. A zoomable, annotated version of two different variants on the image (as well as some additional information on the science) is available at Alien Earths, a NASA- and NSF-supported education site." The Spitzer survey is already causing a stir potentially bigger than that raised when Pluto was deemed not a planet: two minor spiral arms of the Milky Way may be demoted.
Biotech

Bacteria Found Alive In Ice 120,000 Years Old 326

Posted by kdawson from the by-some-definitions-of-alive dept.
FiReaNGeL notes research presented this morning at Penn State on the discovery of a new, ultra-small species of bacteria that has survived for more than 120,000 years within the ice of a Greenland glacier at a depth of nearly two miles. From the psu.edu announcement: "The microorganism's ability to persist in this low-temperature, high-pressure, reduced-oxygen, and nutrient-poor habitat makes it particularly useful for studying how life, in general, can survive in a variety of extreme environments on Earth and possibly elsewhere in the solar system. This new species is among the ubiquitous, yet mysterious, ultra-small bacteria, which are so tiny that they are able to pass through microbiological filters. Called Chryseobacterium greenlandensis, the species is related genetically to certain bacteria found in fish, marine mud, and the roots of some plants."
Businesses

Submission + - Rural Telecommuting

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: I'm a consultant with over 20 years of professional experience in application and database development with some networking/security and web development experience under my belt, and I'm currently finishing up my Masters' in Comp. Sci (via distance learning). I'm sick and tired of both consulting and living on the East Coast and I'm looking to move west where there's some more "elbow room" (Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Utah, or the like — mountains or high desert a must) and the opportunity to live in a more "rural" fashion. My question to the slashdot community is this: Given that a large percentage of technology jobs are clustered around the larger metro areas, what advice (serious, please) do any of you have regarding the easiest and/or best way to make a transition from my current situation to a work-from-home opportunity that would allow me to live where I wanted without forcing me to change my career to firewatcher?

Feed Toward A Unified Description Of Dark Energy And Dark Matter (sciencedaily.com)

From feed by sdfeed
From various independent observations, cosmologists have established that ordinary matter, made of protons and neutrons, accounts for only 4% of the total energy content of the Universe. The remaining 96% is made of puzzling ingredients Dark Matter and Dark Energy. Researchers at the Laboratory Universe and Theories from the Observatory of Paris and the Belgian Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique have recently suggested the Abnormally Weighting Energy (AWE) Hypothesis to describe the dark side of the Universe as a revolutionary aspect of gravitational physics.

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