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Submission + - BBC Reported WTC7 Collapse Before it Happened.

Submitted by

zero_jd

on Tuesday February 27, 2007 @05:57AM

zero_jd writes: "A video was recently posted to Google which originally aired on BBC world between 16:54 and 17:36 EST on September 11th, 2001. In the video, a report came in that the Salomon Smith Barney building (aka: World Trade Center 7) had just collapsed due to a weakened structure. The report, however, had come in some twenty minutes prior to the actual collapse of the building. The video then cuts to a live correspondent in New York speaking with downtown Manhattan in the background. While she is discussing the collapse with the news anchor, WTC7 is clearly still standing in the background behind her. Then, just minutes before the building actually collapsed, her feed was abruptly cut. Despite Google Video containing numerous copyrighted BBC documentaries, another embarassing BBC moment (the taxi driver incident), and 9/11 conspiracy videos, several copies of this particular video were removed within 24 hours. New copies are curretly continuing to appear, but it seems abundantly clear that someone wants them taken away. The conclusions to be drawn are left to the reader, of course."

Submission + - BBC Top Gear Launches Reliant Rocket

Submitted by slashmojo on Saturday February 24, 2007 @07:47PM

slashmojo writes: After providing presenter Richard Hammond with a near death rocket car experience, BBC car show Top Gear reached for greater heights and brought new life (briefly) to a Reliant Robin by adding wings and strapping it to a rocket to make what looks remarkably like a space shuttle.

Amazingly it actually launched quite successfully before crashing back to earth spectacularly after a malfunction prevented the car detaching from the rocket for landing. The impressive reliant rocket was constructed in Manchester (UK) and fortunately none of the Top Gear presenters were on board this time as it was flown by remote control. More about the launch here.

Submission + - Malicious Vista Voice Recognition

Submitted by TitusC3v5 on Friday February 02, 2007 @04:32AM

TitusC3v5 writes: According to an article at BBC, there are some outstanding issues with Vista's new voice recognition abilities. Opening yet another hole for attackers to exploit, Microsoft insists that we shouldn't be alarmed. ""The firm also said that voice commands could not be used for privileged functions such as creating a new user or formatting a drive."

Submission + - Can Nintendo Make It Back to the Top?

Submitted by

Jason McMaster

on Friday February 02, 2007 @01:05AM

Jason McMaster writes: "Over the last few generations, Nintendo has spent a lot of time in third place. The Wii, however, is the hottest item on the market right now. There are several different reasons that Nintendo fell out of grace before, and there's a chance that they will again. Giga Gamez sat down and talked with N'Gai Croal from Newsweek, Chris Baker from Wired and several others about what Nintendo could do right — and wrong — to change their current situation."

Submission + - Debian Router Project

Submitted by

An Anonymous Tank

on Thursday February 01, 2007 @11:50PM

An Anonymous Tank writes: "The Debian Router project by Vadim Berkgaut has been around for a bit now, but InfoWorld is writing about it in the story Secure Linux Appliances in the Enterprise. The Debian Router project home page seems geared towards use as a basic Linux router, but the InfoWorld article outlines a lot of alternative uses for the Debian Router Project. Also, Vadim has made some major updates to the project in the past 8 months which gave it an improved build process and support for booting from compact flash, disk-on-module, or USB flash drives."

Submission + - Reduce Your Linux Memory Footprint

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 01, 2007 @06:28PM

An anonymous reader writes: A lack of physical memory can severely hamper Linux performance. In this article, learn how to accurately measure the amount of memory your Linux system uses. You also get practical advice on reducing your memory requirements using an Ubuntu system as an example.

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Submission + - Startup to help bloggers blot out splogs

Submitted by

netbuzz

on Tuesday January 30, 2007 @05:19AM

netbuzz writes: "(Slashdot editors: Sorry about the resend, but I fear I may have sent an incorrect URL first time. If this posts, please use this one:

http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/1088 0

New service called Sentinel from startup Iwerx debuts at DEMO '07 this week and promises bloggers an easier and more effective means of curtailing the content and traffic thievery of sploggers. Given that 100,000 blogs are launched every day — and an alarming percentage of them are splogs — its easy to root for a startup headed down this path."

Submission + - Thunderbird 2 beta 2 out

Submitted by

BadhriNath

on Wednesday January 24, 2007 @01:24AM

BadhriNath writes: "The new thunderbird 2 beta 2 has been released. The existing beta 1 gets automatically upgraded to the new beta release. Some good enhancements include the folder view upon mouse over and a bit more customization of the new mail alerts. But still the alert needs improvement so that the mail can be accessed directly from the alerts. [Or is it that I dont know where to click on the alert ??]. Overall, the upgrade from beta 1 meets expectations with some nice enhancements and bugfixes."

Submission + - Intel confirms discrete GPU plans

Submitted by

ryszards

on Tuesday January 23, 2007 @05:46AM

ryszards writes: "Intel have confirmed their reentry into the world of discrete graphics with a list of job openings for their Visual Computing Group. The careers page for the VCG makes note that the first focus is discrete, based on a many-core architecture and targetting the high-end, with a move down to embedded coming later.

This follows Intel's job postings for their Larrabee Development Group, with Larrabee now confirmed as the VCG. Therefore, after months (if not years) of rumors, a milestone has been reached. Intel has now declared, in their own words on their own site, "Look out, NVIDIA and AMD, here we come!". And with the microprocessor giant's previous commitments to open source drivers, the final product could become the choice of those running open OSes."

Submission + - Put yourself on the Google Map

Submitted by

E-Tray

on Tuesday January 23, 2007 @05:34AM

E-Tray writes: "Google Australia is celebrating Australia Day 2007 by photographing Sydney Harbour from the air on January 26th, and they want to make sure as many as possible squeeze into the picture."

Journal Journal: Sony PS3 Sales pass 2 million....two weeks late.

Journal by Schiper on Wednesday January 17, 2007 @03:17AM

Sony has shipped 1m PlayStation 3 consoles in Japan, the consumer electronics giant said yesterday, the day it hit that mark. However, the announcement was a tacit admission it has failed to hit the 2m-machine target it last year said to would reach by the end of 2006. Last week, Sony said it had shipped 1m PS3s in the US by the end of December. However, it only passed the 2m global shipments mark yesterday. It forecast

Submission + - Announcing Crystal Space 1.0

Submitted by

Jorrit

on Wednesday January 17, 2007 @01:44AM

Jorrit writes: "After nearly 10 years of development we finally release version 1.0 of Crystal Space. Crystal Space is an Open Source and portable 3D engine framework which runs on GNU/Linux, Windows, and MacOS/X. It is fully featured with support for vertex and fragment shaders, dynamic lighting and lightmaps, skeletal animation, physics, 3D sound, terrain engine, python support and much more.

Together with Crystal Space 1.0 we also release Crystal Entity Layer 1.0. This is a game layer on top of Crystal Space which makes it easier to develop games. Crystal Entity Layer is heavily oriented towards scripting (but also works in plain C++) and adds features like customizable third person camera, movement system, quest system, rule system, path finding and so on.

We would also like to announce a relatively new project called CELstart. To use Crystal Space and Crystal Entity Layer effectively you need to make your own C++ programs. If you download CELstart then you can start making full powered Crystal Space games by using only XML and/or Python scripts. It is by far the easiest way to make 3D games using Crystal Space.

Interested? Check us out at http://www.crystalspace3d.org/"

Submission + - HP beats Moore's Law

Submitted by

John H. Doe

on Tuesday January 16, 2007 @05:46PM

John H. Doe writes: "From the article: "A number type of nano-scale architecture developed in the research labs of Hewlett-Packard could beat Moore's Law and advance the progress of of microprocessor development three generations in one hit. The new architecture uses a design technique that will enable chip makers to pack eight times as many transistors as is currently possible on a standard 45nm field programmable gate array (FPGA) chip.""

Submission + - Procedural Hot Coffee Mod

Submitted by

a.d.venturer

on Tuesday January 16, 2007 @05:24PM

a.d.venturer writes: "Amidst the news that Brian Eno is producing procedural music for Spore, I find myself a little worried. When are we going to get our first procedural hot coffee mod? All it will take is a generated nipple or chorused voices repeating one of six banned words, and one offended parent, teenager (or younger) to record it. How is the ESRB supposed to review content that hasn't been generated yet, and potentially may never be?"

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