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Transportation

Submission + - Tata Set to Launch World's Cheapest Car

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theodp
theodp writes: "Ready for one-automobile-per-child (OAPC)? India's giant Tata Group is on the verge of launching the world's cheapest car. The People's Car, slated to be unveiled January 10th at a New Delhi auto show, will carry a sticker price of 100,000 rupees ($2,500), which some analysts say could revolutionize automobile costs worldwide. The cheap car, a pet project of Cornell-trained architect Ratan Tata that he helped design, is aimed at improving driving safety by getting India's masses off their motorbikes and into cars."
Supercomputing

Submission + - Tata supercomputer is world's 4th best (rediff.com)

Submitted by
dineshrx5
dineshrx5 writes: "After proving its mettle in areas like steel, automotive and IT services on the global arena, corporate behemoth Tata group has now developed the world's fourth fastest supercomputer that can do 117.9 trillion calculations per second. The supercomputer "EKA", which means number one in Sanskrit, was named Asia's fastest and the world's fourth fastest in the Top 500 Supercomputer list announced at an International Conference for High Performance Computing at Reno (California), USA, on Monday night. This is the first time that such a system developed in India has been ranked among the world's ten fastest."

Comment Re:Great - We can do this, but should we? (Score 4, Insightful) 174

by vasanth (#20360535) Attached to: Content-Aware Image Resizing
Your comment seems to be similar to the headline on tabloids.. Just because a technology could be used for negative purposes does not mean that it should not be developed.. If your reasoning was used, we should have all been living in caves by now..

By your reasoning
Cars can be used by criminals to travel faster.
A knife can be used to kill
Electricity can be used to kill
Computers can be used by the govt to collect more information abt us effectively

Is that really what we want?

see the flaw in the logic?
Businesses

Submission + - Immigration laws force Microsoft to open in Canada

Submitted by
vasanth
vasanth writes: "US software behemoth Microsoft Corp. said Thursday it would soon open an office in Canada, lamenting tough immigration rules in the United States that make it difficult to hire foreign staff. The development office, to be opened in Vancouver, a three-hour drive north from Microsoft's Redmond, Washington headquarters, will initially be staffed by some 300 recruits from around the world, the company said. Eventually, it could grow to house as many as 1,000 employees."
Quickies

Submission + - UK petition for government IT projects to be open (pm.gov.uk)

Submitted by
FireFury03
FireFury03 writes: "There is a Petition on the UK government's website calling for publicly funded IT projects to be implemented as Free software. From the petition: "This would allow for more of the public to benefit from the development of the software since the code would be available for anyone to use and improve. Furthermore, compatibility with other Free licences (such as the GPL) would promote rapid development and reduced costs through the reuse of existing code.""
Announcements

Submission + - Perpetual motion exhibit grinds to a halt (kinetica-museum.org)

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JoeHep
JoeHep writes: "I'm staying in London for a couple of months and thought I would go see the 'Orbo' exhibit at the Kinetica museum. As it turns out, the hardest aspect of a perpetual motion device isn't keeping it running, it's starting it running. The exhibit has been postponed. From the Kinetica website — "KINETICA OPENING DELAYED: Due to technical difficulties the planned demonstration of Steorn's 'Orbo' free energy technology has been postponed until further notice. As a consequence, Kinetica Museum will not be open to the public during this period. A technical assessment is currently underway and information regarding the rescheduling of this demonstration will be posted on the websites of Steorn and Kinetica as soon as it becomes available. We apologise for this delay and appreciate your patience.""
Space

Submission + - New museum says dinosaurs were on Noah's Ark

Submitted by vasanth
vasanth writes: Like many modern museums, the newest U.S. tourist attraction includes some awesome exhibits — roaring dinosaurs and a life-sized ship. But only at the Creation Museum in Kentucky do the dinosaurs sail on the ship — Noah's Ark, to be precise.
Businesses

Submission + - India's GDP crosses $1 trillion with boom in IT

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An anonymous reader writes: With its booming IT sector India has joined the elite club of 12 countries with a trillion dollar economy, thanks to the continuing rally in rupee against the US dollar. The country's GDP crossed the trillion-dollar mark for the first time in history when rupee appreciated to below 41-level against the US greenback yesterday, Swiss investment bank Credit Suisse said in a report published on Thursday. And if you measure it using purchasing-power parities — an alternative to exchange rates which accounts for different price levels between countries — India is already the third-largest economy in the world, behind only the US and China.
Programming

How Would You Interview Potential Managers? 72

Posted by Cliff from the introducing-the-hot-seat dept.
martincmartin asks: "The company I work for is starting to interview development managers, and I've been asked to interview a bunch of them. While there's been a lot written on interviewing programmers and what makes a good manager, how do you interview a management candidate? What questions do you ask? What are good and bad answers? What else do you do?"
Power

Submission + - "Women's town" to put men in their place

Submitted by espamo
espamo writes: Chinese tourism authorities are seeking investment to build a novel concept attraction — the world's first "women's town," where men get punished for disobedience, an official said Thursday.
The motto of the new town would be "women never make mistakes, and men can never refuse women's requests," Chinese media have reported....
link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070426/od_nm/china_wo mentown_odd_dc
Novell

Submission + - Novell produces "Hello, I'm a Mac" parody

Submitted by
-=Moridin=-
-=Moridin=- writes: "Courtesy of an entry on the Cult of Mac WIRED blog, Novell has produced 3 (and counting?) parodies of Apple's "Hello, I'm a Mac" ads. Moreover, in the parodies, Linux is portrayed as... an attractive young woman. To quote one of the blog's comments: "Linux is a good looking hot young babe. You want to be with Linux. You wish your wife looked like Linux. Linux is friendly and approachable." You can play and download the videos from the index on Novell's Marketing Videos and Video Production home page. (For the impatient: PC Mac Linux 1 (YouTube, mpg, ogg); PC Mac Linux 2 (YouTube, mpg, ogg); PC Mac Linux 3 (YouTube, mpg, ogg).)"
The Internet

Submission + - New Website -- Outsource Everything!

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An anonymous reader writes: www.DoMyStuff.com is a new website which allows people to outsource everything! People are outsourcing taxes, trip planning, house work, errands, chores, etc... Users post a project (i.e. Do my laundry) and service providers submit bids to complete these tasks. Its a really cool interface, very easy to use, and looks pretty nice too. I am just excited that I can finally outsource everything annoying in my life...
The Internet

Submission + - COPPA ruled unconstitutional

Submitted by
networkBoy
networkBoy writes: "Parents are (should be) responsible of what their kids do online

A US federal judge ruled that a 1998 law called Child Online Protection Act is "unconstitutional", leaving parents with the responsibility to protect their children from online pornography.

The judge said that the law violates the freedom of speech, inflicting more damage to government's efforts to restrict access to pornography for children.
http://www.playfuls.com/news_06693_Is_Your_Child_S earching_for_Online_Porn_.html"
Music

Submission + - RIAA Now Going After a 10-year-old Girl

Submitted by
NewYorkCountryLawyer
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes: "The latest target of the RIAA's ire is a 10-year-old girl, in Oregon, who was 7 years old when the alleged infringement occurred, and whose disabled mother lives on Social Security. In Atlantic v. Andersen, an Oregon case which was widely reported in 2005 when the defendant counterclaimed against the RIAA under Oregon's RICO statute and other laws, defendant mother sought to limit the RIAA's deposition of the child to a telephone or videoconference deposition, and the RIAA has refused, instead insisting on being able to grill the little girl in person. Actual court documents, in *pdf format, here and here."
Networking

Submission + - Fastest Internet! 100 Mbps by Cisco and Videotron

Submitted by
The Ace
The Ace writes: "The fastest internet yet.. currently being testing in Canada. Whatch'a think \.ers?
From the article:
"Positive tests results
For more than a month Videotron customers have been successfully experimenting with increased speeds based on the Cisco Wideband solution deployed on the existing, proven Videotron Internet Protocol Next Generation Network (IP NGN). Videotron and Cisco are projecting they will reach the 100 Mbps objective in the next few months while maintaining the recognized high stability of the Videotron IP NGN."
Check it out here."

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