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Next Generation T9 Keyboard Technology 150

Posted by samzenpus from the type-in-a-new-way dept.
Iddo Genuth writes "Cliff Kushler, the inventor of the T9 keyboard technology for numeric keypads, has developed a new alphanumeric entry technology for touch-screen laptops and Smartphone devices. This latest technology, named Swype, works with an on-screen QWERTY keyboard similar to ones found on Windows Mobile and the iPhone. The difference from the usual method of typing in the letters is that a finger or stylus is used to slide in the first letter, then without lifting the finger, the user continues writing the entire word. Only once the word is completed can the finger be lifted off. According to the developers, this leads to a much faster way of 'typing,' or as we might call it soon, 'swiping.'"

Comment Re:Disclaimer: IAAMB (Score 1) 245

by cibyr (#26232653) Attached to: Amateurs Are Trying Genetic Engineering At Home

No, but anyone who's that interested CAN have one of these in their garage (or on their desk, more likely), and get their design fabbed by these guys fairly cheaply.

Sure, it's not quite as easy as hacking on open source, but hobbyist CPU design is definitely possible. Especially when you consider there ARE open source CPU designs out there.

Comment Re:Does this... (Score 1) 487

by cibyr (#25624419) Attached to: Wayland, a New X Server For Linux

Then you're missing the point of Gentoo, which is to let you do whatever the hell you want.

One of the ways this is achieved is compiling almost everything from source, with your own configure compiler options. Except it makes doing that really really easy; once you've done things the Gentoo way everything else seems to be really inflexible, full of busywork or both.
The Courts

Ted "A Series of Tubes" Stevens Found Guilty 565

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the now-a-series-of-cells dept.
techmuse writes "According to a series of tubes sites, Senator Ted Stevens has been found guilty of lying about free home renovations that he received from an oil contractor. He faces up to 5 years in jail, and the outcome of his current reelection bid is now in doubt. 'The conviction came after a tumultuous week in the jury room. First there were complaints about an unruly juror, then another had to be replaced when she left Washington following the death of her father. Finally, jurors on Monday discovered a discrepancy in the indictment that had been overlooked by prosecutors. Jury deliberations in this historic trial have at times been as contentious as some of the proceedings The Justice Department indicted Stevens on July 29, and the Alaska Republican took a huge legal gamble and asked for a speedy trial in order to resolve the charges before Election Day. Judge Emmet Sullivan complied with Stevens' request, and in less than three months from the time of his indictment, Stevens was found guilty.'"
Databases

The 1-Petabyte Barrier Is Crumbling 217

Posted by CmdrTaco from the so-much-data dept.
CurtMonash writes "I had been a database industry analyst for a decade before I found 1-gigabyte databases to write about. Now it is 15 years later, and the 1-petabyte barrier is crumbling. Specifically, we are about to see data warehouses — running on commercial database management systems — that contain over 1 petabyte of actual user data. For example, Greenplum is slated to have two of them within 60 days. Given how close it was a year ago, Teradata may have crossed the 1-petabyte mark by now too. And by the way, Yahoo already has a petabyte+ database running on a home-grown system. Meanwhile, the 100-terabyte mark is almost old hat. Besides the vendors already mentioned above, others with 100+ terabyte databases deployed include Netezza, DATAllegro, Dataupia, and even SAS."
The Almighty Buck

Submission + - Google, MS Not Keen on Irish Subsidiary Tax Search

Submitted by theodp
theodp writes: Commenting on a GAO study which revealed that 2 out of 3 U.S. corporations paid no federal income taxes from 1998-2005, Sen. Cal Levin charged that 'too many corporations are using tax trickery to send their profits overseas.' The Irish Times follows up with a report that Irish subsidiaries owned by U.S. multinationals are taking the further step of converting to unlimited liability status, protecting the financial performance of their Irish operations from public view. They include Microsoft's incredibly-profitable Irish subsidiaries Round Island One and Flat Island Company, Google Ireland Holdings, and a subsidiary of Apple Computer. The conversions to unlimited status have occurred over the last three years as U.S. tax authorities have increased their scrutiny of international mechanisms used by American multinationals to reduce their taxes at home.
The Courts

Submission + - SPAM: Internet Fraud: Many Complaints, Few Repercussions

Submitted by
narramissic
narramissic writes: "Unless you're peddling child porn, there's not much chance you'll see the inside of a courtroom for Internet-related crime, according to research released Tuesday. The Center for American Progress and the Center for Democracy and Technology compared the number of complaints that state attorneys general offices receive to how many lawsuits the states bring against spammers, spyware creators and other online fraudsters. Not all states report such numbers, but the 20 that do said that they received 20,000 Internet-related complaints in 2006 and 2007. Yet during that same time period, attorneys general brought only 168 Internet-related cases to court, with 60 percent of those related to child porn, the researchers found."
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Mozilla

Submission + - Qt Port of Mozilla and Firefox 3 (maemo.org)

Submitted by Ali
Ali writes: The Mozilla and Nokia teams have been working hard to port Firefox 3 and the Mozilla Platform to Qt and there are now some solid results available from their efforts. An experimental build of Firefox Qt is available and you can download the sources from Mozilla's mercurial repository. The plan is to merge the Qt branch into the central Mozilla branch to make the port official.
More information at http://browser.garage.maemo.org/news/10/
Microsoft

Submission + - IE7 Alters Gmail Contents (mosspod.com) 1

Submitted by Caleb
Caleb writes: A friend sent out the latest clip for Ghost Humpers, our episodic mockumentary. Downloading the quicktime movie from Gmail gave me a compressed version. I thought that was odd. After a little searching, I found an option to download attachments as a zip file. Simply replace "disp=attd" with "disp=zip" in the attachment URL. IE7 was changing this to "disp=indzip" for the same result; on its own. This piqued my curiosity. I searched Gmail for more attachments. A WMV file gave me an unmodified URL. A DOC file gave me an unmodified URL. Files with Apple specific extensions of MOV, MOVIE, MOOV, MOVIEPROJ, QT, and QTCH gave the modified URL. What was going on? Firefox, Safari, and Opera all gave me the unmodified URLs for every file. Therefore, there are only two options: either Google is giving IE7 a modified URL or Microsoft has coded IE7 to look for a list of extensions within Gmail and modify the attachment URL. The first option seemed highly unlikely. Changing the user agent of Firefox to IE7 and testing pointed directly at Microsoft. Sending 14037 files to myself showed me what IE7 was looking for.
Security

Submission + - Security bloggers point out TSA concerns, gripes (zdnet.com)

Submitted by
SecureThroughObscure
SecureThroughObscure writes: "Security bloggers Rafal Los and Nate McFeters pointed out several concerns and gripes with the current stance of TSA. This started with an article by Los, who commented on observations from a recent trip he had taken that seemed to point out numerous ridiculous examples of what is acceptible and what is not for TSA, and followed into McFeters commenting on his own thoughts from the Los article, as well as publishing a new article which provided thoughts about security in other forms of transportation including trains. The end result is that the bloggers are pointing out that security on planes is an illusion that is not really there. SecureThroughObscure"
Music

Submission + - Radiohead remix using obsolete hardware (engadget.com)

Submitted by
snappyjack
snappyjack writes: "Radiohead, who is currently holding a contest to remix the single "Nude", has received quite an ingenious submission (endgadget.com) from James Houston. Using only amplified sounds made by elderly hardware (such as dot matrix printers, scanners, and oscilloscopes), Houston has re-created the song in a way even one of the most revolutionary bands on the planet can tip it's hat to."

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