Comment 2P = Dual Socket (Score 2, Informative) 181
Single socket (1P), Dual socket (2P).
Submission + - HP to Lay Off 24,600 In Wake of EDS Acquisition (infoworld.com)
snydeq writes: "Hewlett-Packard will lay off about 24,600 employees over the next three years in an effort to streamline the company following its $13.9 billion acquisition of Electronic Data Systems last month. The layoffs, which represent 7.5 percent of its workforce, will be part of a three-year restructuring program. Nearly half of the reductions will come in the U.S. The acquisition vaults HP to No. 2 behind IBM in the services market, leaving customers to wonder whether the combined entity will be worth its new services billing."
Submission + - ICANN posts comments on generic TLD's
rviana writes: Intellectual Property Watch has a story discussing ICANN's "need" for more generic top-level domains. On Thursday, ICANN posted a summary of the 18 comments received during their month-long comment period, which ended on September 7th The comments noted that the auction model, or the use of the money from the auction were not adequately described. Read the full story from ip-watch here, and read ICANN's proposal here.
(Full Disclosure, my wife works for IP-watch and covered this story.)
Submission + - IPv6 and the business-case skeptics (networkworld.com)
Julie188 writes: "Experts keep screaming that the IPv4 sky is falling. Three such experts were recently asked point blank to state an irrefutable business case for moving to IPv6 now and their answer was more plausible than the old excuse (the lack of addresses and a yet-to-be-seen killer IPv6 app). They said that there isn't a business case. No company that is satisfied with all of its Internet services will need to move, even in the next few years. They also pointed out that Microsoft is a unique position in the industry both causing adoption through its IPv6 support in its OSes and hindering adoption by not extending IPv6 support into very many of its apps. (That's classic for Microsoft, aye?)"
Submission + - Dropbox Launches Linux Client (getdropbox.com)
frenetic3 writes: "Dropbox came out of private beta today and finally made its Linux client available for download. It's kind of like rsync and svn but totally seamless and integrated into nautilus, and also lets you sync/share folders with other people (including on Windows or Mac.) Perfect if you're sick of hacking cron scripts to push files around or carrying USB drives."
Submission + - Oil Deposit Could Increase US reserves by 10x 1
HighWizard writes: America is sitting on top of a super massive 200 billion barrel Oil Field that could potentially make America Energy Independent and until now has largely gone unnoticed. Thanks to new technology the Bakken Formation in North Dakota could boost America's Oil reserves by an incredible 10 times, giving western economies the trump card against OPEC's short squeeze on oil supply and making foreign threats of disrupted supply irrelevant.
Submission + - Adobe Announces CS4: 64-Bit for Windows
HighWizard writes: Adobe Systems has shared the first scrap of information about its next version of Photoshop, CS4, and it's a doozy: there will be a 64-bit version of the photo-editing software, but only for Windows and not for Mac OS X.
Comment False Positives? (Score 5, Insightful) 404
I'm guessing this would allow me to make people slow down on my street by simply making them "think" there is a speed trap there. Not a terrible idea, if enough people use it. Though how many false positives will it take before confidence in the system is shot?
Submission + - Google creates time paradox
HighWizard writes: It looks as though Google now allows you to customize time. This April Fools day they even managed to include a flux capacitor to get around the Grandfather paradox.
Submission + - Roy Scheider dies at 75
HighWizard writes: US actor Roy Scheider, best known for playing the police chief in the Jaws movies and as Captain Nathan Bridger on SeaQuest DSV, has died at the age of 75.
Submission + - Zero Point Energy Machine, Fiction or law breaker? (thestar.com)
lb746 writes: Thane Heins a backyard scientist has possibly developed a device that can do the unthinkable, perpetual motion. Currently the machine is being shown to multiple universities with the intent to debunk and figure out what is really happening. MIT was just shown the device and currently has no initial claims if it's really true or explanations of how it's happening.
Link to a YouTube of the device: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpIdu1lWVW0
Link to a YouTube of the device: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpIdu1lWVW0
Submission + - Cinelerra community forks the video editor (linux.com)
Velmont writes: "The community surrounding Cinelerra, one of the premier non-linear video editors for Linux, has decided to strike off in its own direction and rewrite Cinelerra under a new codebase. According to Hermann Vosseler from the Cinelerra-CV community, "Chances are that by simply continuing as we always did, Cinelerra will suddenly be really outdated. Some other free tool with many effect plugins, bangs, and whistles — but delivering only amateur quality — will eventually take most of the user base, leaving the (obviously small number of) people needing professional grade quality with no free alternative to the commercial video editing solutions". In the "already coding, but pre-alpha stage" the community is now brainstorming for a new name."
Submission + - Mitt Romney will suspend
HighWizard writes: Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney will suspend his bid for the Republican presidential nomination, GOP sources tell CNN.
Submission + - Library of Congress uploads pictures to flickr
HighWizard writes: Via: Weberence The US Library of Congress vast photo archive is set to be available on FlickR in an attempt to get the public to comment on the pictures and perhaps provide further information. The archive has more than 14,000,000 photos.
This move called "The Commons" is also a call to the world community to give access to countless files and records from all organizations in a common effort to preserve information and historical evidence.
This move called "The Commons" is also a call to the world community to give access to countless files and records from all organizations in a common effort to preserve information and historical evidence.
Submission + - Muslims Attempt to Censor Wikipedia
Nom du Keyboard writes: As reported on Fox News and The New York Times, some Muslims are attempting to censor Wikipedia because of images of Muhammad contained in the article about him. So does one religion get to tell the rest of the world how they must behave because they'll be offended otherwise, or does the Internet represent all views, even when that view may be offensive to some particular minority?
