XenoRyet - Slashdot User

Submission + - 100 years of astronomical data to be digitized.

Submitted by Maximum Prophet on Tuesday July 10, 2007 @02:28PM

Maximum Prophet writes: Anyone with a spare $5,000,000, please contact the people in this article: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/10/science/10astro. html
Harvard has over 100 years of glass photographic plates taken from observatories all over the world. They've built a special scanner, but need funds to complete the project. Perhaps they should talk to Google?

Submission + - Re-inventing Multiplication (comradesmack.com)

Submitted by

Comrade Smack

on Tuesday July 10, 2007 @02:05PM

Comrade Smack writes: "In the process of mentally calculating complex math, I found myself thinking of an easier way to multiply numbers. I came up with a new method, though no necessarily easier, it is definitely newer. It goes to prove that multiplication can be done as the inverse of division in the standard division-form."

Submission + - Using Google to be Evil (9news.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 10, 2007 @01:04PM

An anonymous reader writes: Robbers use Google to break into a safe.

Submission + - Raised floor is dead (techtarget.com)

Submitted by

mstansberry

on Tuesday July 10, 2007 @12:57PM

mstansberry writes: "Blogger Chuck Goolsbee manages two data centers, one raised floor and one solid floor. In this post, Goolsbee explains why he will never go back to raised floors and makes the case for overhead distribution. From the article: To me raised floor stands as an echo of older days, when "The Data center" contained a handful of mainframes, a minicomputer or two, and men with white shirts and pocket protectors loading tapes and sitting at terminals. Entirely raised floor design just does not effectively scale to the density needs of a modern facility. The overall benefits of a solid floor have convinced me to never look back at raised floor except as nostalgia. I suspect that I am in the minority though, as so few people have had the opportunity to experience both options first-hand."

Submission + - Hubble Spots Widespread Changes on Jupiter

Submitted by

SeaDour

on Tuesday July 10, 2007 @12:51PM

SeaDour writes: "Recent images of Jupiter from the Hubble Space Telescope taken a little over two months apart are showing dramatic changes in the gas giant's overall appearance. 'Between March 25 and June 5, Hubble's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 captured entire bands of clouds changing color. Zones have darkened into belts and belts have lightened and transformed into zones. Cloud features have rapidly altered in shape and size.' These large-scale shifts in Jupiter's atmosphere have been noticed before in the 1980s and 90s, but never with such fine resolution. Astronomers do not yet have a solid explanation for the phenomenon."

Submission + - Recording all human knowledge (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by TENxOXR on Tuesday July 10, 2007 @12:39PM

TENxOXR writes: UK science fiction writer Charles Stross, author of novels Accelerando and Singularity Sky, posits a future in which all human experience is recorded on devices the size of a grain of sand.

We've had agriculture for about 12,000 years, towns for eight to 10,000 years, and writing for about 5,000 years. But we're still living in the dark ages leading up to the dawn of history.

Submission + - the evolution of interning (mentosintern.com)

Submitted by

marcus sams

on Tuesday July 10, 2007 @12:24PM

marcus sams writes: "I'm sure this is a little more light hearted than the stuff you guys are used to reporting, but it's pretty cool. It seems like an evolution of some things that have come before it (Subserviant Chicken and maybe Justin.TV), but it does a lot of things those couldn't. First of all I've never seen something where you could interact in real time with another human. Plus the kid is really funny and makes for a truly entertaining experience. Like I said this isn't really programmer nerd stuff, but I thought you might enjoy it. -marcus"

Submission + - Eating Healthy at Fast Food Restaurants (drgourmet.com)

Submitted by

Food Geek

on Tuesday July 10, 2007 @12:23PM

Food Geek writes: "A handy set of lists of the healthier options at various fast food restaurants, including Taco Bell and McDonald's, compiled by a doctor who's also a chef."

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 + - Commodore Returns to PC Gaming

Submitted by XenoRyet on Tuesday March 06, 2007 @06:49PM

XenoRyet writes: Wired reports:

Commodore Gaming, a distant inheritor of an illustrious name in computing history, has announced that it will launch its gaming PCs at the forthcoming CeBit show in Hannover, Germany. Summoning the ghosts of of the last century's bestselling C64 and Amiga, the new machines hope to refresh the memories of thousands of 1980s gamers.

Submission + - Including security codes in battery packs

Submitted by

Alan Smith, Sr.

on Tuesday March 06, 2007 @06:32PM

Alan Smith, Sr. writes: ""Battery packs are just one common consumer application that's making use of highly sophisticated hashing algorithms to validate their use." Thats a quote from the 3/5 EDN Is there really a reason to put a security system in a 9V battery? Com'on...lets be serious. Or..are they?"

Submission + - "Video Games made me do it" defence fails.

Submitted by

provigilman

on Tuesday March 06, 2007 @06:30PM

provigilman writes: " GamePolitics reports that the Oregon man using the "Video Games made me do it" defense has been sentenced to life in prison by the presiding Judge. 19 year old Patrick Morris had been charged with murder for the 2006 shotgun killing of a 15 year old boy as part of a bad drug deal."

Submission + - SPAM: An architectural plan of the cell

Submitted by

FiReaNGeL

on Tuesday March 06, 2007 @06:28PM

FiReaNGeL writes: "Researchers at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and the University of Colorado have now obtained the first 3D visualization of a complete eukaryotic cell at a resolution high enough to resolve the cytoskeleton's precise architectural plan in fission yeast. The image of this unicellular organism reveals remarkable insights into the fine structure of the cytoskeleton as well as its interactions with other parts of the cell. "Our 3D image of fission yeast can serve as a reference map of the cell for all biologists interested in its architecture," says Johanna Höög. "You can extract information about all sorts of cellular structures and processes from it or use it to place findings into the spatial context of the cell.""

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?"

Submission + - SOE Striving to progress Star Wars Galaxies

Submitted by Achan on Tuesday March 06, 2007 @06:15PM

Achan writes: Star Wars Galaxies Forums show us leadership changes are underway. Julio Torres has been removed and we see the game has no clear direction now. DeadMeat tells us there are no plans for an expansion in 2007, there are no plans for updating space content, and asks people for their feedback. They ask for player feedback, however the first thing noticed in the thread is excessive deletions of postings, and telling people they will not role back to pre-nge, the highly controversial changes that almost killed the game. However they still boast they are proud of the current game. Noticeably, SOE responses are much friendlier than in the past. After reading all SOE posts in this thread, one can assume they are working with a low budget and skeleton crew, thoughts?

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