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Rush Limbaugh Begs Steve Jobs For Bug Fixes 689

Posted by Zonk from the witty-political-repartee-goes-here dept.
jlgolson writes "Yesterday, Rush Limbaugh complained on his radio program about some problems that he was having with his Mac: 'Mr. Jobs, please help me. I know we don't agree on anything ... But can you put me to somebody that can get this going, because I know it's gotta work for most people. What am I doing wrong?' Eventually he shared that he was running into actual problems with Time Machine and Back to My Mac. Can you fix them?"
Space

Submission + - Atlantis Shuttle flight scrubbed (nasa.gov)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: During tanking, two of four LH2 Engine Cutoff (ECO) sensors failed to respond appropriately. The launch was scrubbed and the next attempt will be tomorrow, at 4:09 p.m.
Programming

Submission + - Granny Hackers make History (go.com)

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Catbus
Catbus writes: "During World War II the Army ran out of male mathematicians and turned to six women to program the world's first computer — ENIAC. Historian Kathy Kleiman has recorded oral histories of these women — now in their 80s — in her upcoming documentary film, "Invisible Computers.""
Windows

Lenovo Announces ThinkPads Preloaded With XP 192

Posted by kdawson from the give-'em-what-they-want dept.
BBCWatcher writes "Lenovo just announced new ThinkPad T61 models preloaded with Microsoft Windows XP. Ironically they're called ThinkPad T61 'TopSeller' models. Lenovo says they're aimed at small and medium-sized businesses. The XP TopSellers are available immediately, and the part numbers are 6465-03U, 7658-04U, and 7664-06U (PDF links). "Lenovo recommends Windows Vista Business"? Not so much."
Microsoft

Submission + - Users, Web developers vent over IE7

Submitted by
Spinlock_1977
Spinlock_1977 writes: "ComputerWorld is running a story about developers frustration with IE 7, and Microsoft's upcoming plans (or lack thereof) for it. From the article:

But the most pointed comment came from someone labeled only as dk. "You all continue to underestimate the dramatic spillover effect this poor developer experience has had and will continue to have on your other products and services. Let me drive this point home. I am a front-end programmer and a co-founder of a start-up. I can tell you categorically that my team won't download and play with Silverlight ... won't build a Live widget ... won't consider any Microsoft search or ad products in the future."
Windows

Submission + - WGA servers down to cause all problems(XP & Vi (microsoft.com)

Submitted by
Ant
Ant writes: "Boing Boing and Digg report that Microsoft (MS) Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) servers (which every Windows XP and Vista install phones home to) all failed sometime earlier today. The result? Every single Windows XP and Vista installation — except possibly those with volume license keys — is being marked as counterfeit when it tries to check in. Installations which are flagged as counterfeit switch to a "reduced functionality mode" which results in features being disabled... MS acknowledge the problem in its forum thread."
Quickies

Submission + - Digging Dinosaurs Made Underground Dens

Submitted by anthemaniac
anthemaniac writes: Scientists have long puzzled over how some dinosaurs and other creatures survived the asteroid impact that supposedly caused the KT mass extinction 65 million years ago and wiped out all the big dinos. One idea has been that smaller animals, including mammals, could have endured the fallout, the big chill, the subsequent volcanoes, and whatever else by burrowing. Now scientists have come up with the first evidence of burrowing dinosaurs. They speculate that underground dens might explain how some dinosaurs got through long, dark winters at high latitudes, too.
Democrats

Submission + - Presidential Web Sites: Urchin, Linux, and Apache

Submitted by
BigTimOBrien
BigTimOBrien writes: "There is a technology arms race in the 2008 presidential election. What technologies are being used by whom. this survey tries to get a sense of what is driving presidential web sites. Will the next president be propelled to the White House by ASP.NET (Hillary Clinton and John McCain) or will the next president be an Open Source president (Obama, Romney, or Edwards)?"
Space

Submission + - Avoiding Hubble trouble for NASA's big new scope

Submitted by
BobB
BobB writes: "A NASA infrared space telescope called the James Web Space Telescope scheduled to launch in 2013 will be built using open standards-based software designed to prevent problems caused when software programs developed by various agencies are incompatible with each other, as has been the case with the Hubble telescope. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/011907-softw are-hubble-nasa.html"
Space

Submission + - Electric Solar Sail to Propel Spacecraft Cheaper

Submitted by
mairas
mairas writes: "The electric solar wind sail, or a large set of long, thin conducting wires set up radially like the spokes of the wheel, may yet provide a relatively simple way to set up extremely large solar wind sails: a solar-powered electron gun is used to create a high positive voltage in the wires. Positively charged solar wind particles see the electric fields of the charged wires as opaque obstructions, thus accelerating the spacecraft. The article states that small payloads could be sent to Pluto in less than five years using electric solar wind sails."
Announcements

Submission + - New report to "end the debate" on climate

Submitted by duh P3rf3ss3r
duh P3rf3ss3r writes: The Toronto Star has obtained a section of the fourth report of the UN's International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), due to be released February 2. The article refers to the section as a "final draft" of the "Summary for Policy Makers" and says that the report will indicate that "It is very likely that (man-made) greenhouse gas increases caused most of the globally average temperature increases since the mid-20th century." The report also says that "Research since the third report was released in 2001 increases the certainty about climate change and the likely scale of most of its effects, including warmer temperatures and severe weather."

According to the Star article, "One crucial prediction has been made a bit less worrying: Although sea level is rising — for now, mainly because the oceans are warming to a depth of at least 3,000 metres, and expanding — the estimates for how much it will go up have been lowered."
Security

Submission + - CIBC loses sensitive customer information

Submitted by dreamturtle
dreamturtle writes: CBC News in Canada is reporting a security breach at Canada's fifth largest bank, The Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC). The Bank says that a backup computer file containing information on almost half a million of its Talvest Mutual Funds clients has gone missing whilst in transit. The information may have included client names, addresses, signatures, dates of birth, bank account numbers, beneficiary information and/or Social Insurance Numbers. The missing files contain everything that you need for identity theft. As of yet, There is no evidence the information has been accessed inappropriately. CIBC said it will compensate clients for any monetary loss arising from the security breach. Canada's privacy commissioner is investigating.

In 2004 it was revealed that CIBC was incorrectly faxing confidential information related to banking clients to a scrapyard in West Virginia over a period of three years.

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