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Comment Re:Why talk (Score 1) 525

by Viper Daimao (#23809393) Attached to: GE Microbes Make Ersatz Crude Oil From Many Sources
"if the process really worked they would be commercializing it"

FTA:

âoeOur plan is to have a demonstration-scale plant operational by 2010 and, in parallel, weâ(TM)ll be working on the design and construction of a commercial-scale facility to open in 2011,â says Mr Pal, adding that if LS9 used Brazilian sugar cane as its feedstock, its fuel would probably cost about $50 a barrel.
AMD

Submission + - AMD: "Barcelona" 40% faster than "Clov

Submitted by Dysfnctnl85
Dysfnctnl85 writes: AMD is claiming that the launch of their Barcelona chipset will represent a shift in focus for the company from price to performance. A ZDNet Blog cites that the 65nm Clovertown will be available later this year and "rather concentrate on price, AMD are instead emphasizing performance." Also from the blog: "Intel is eager to claw back some of the server market share from AMD, and this is where Clovertown comes in. Clovertown is the codename for Intel's latest quad-core Xeon 5300 line. The Xeon 5300 line will represent excellent value for money since Intel plans on pricing them the same as its dual core Xeon 5100 processors. That could make things tough for AMD."
Education

Submission + - Professors want to ban Wikipedia

Submitted by
Inisheer
Inisheer writes: "History professors at Middlebury College are tired of having all their students submit the same bad information on term papers. The culprit: Wikipedia — the user-created encyclopedia that's full of great stuff, and also full of inaccuracies. Now the the entire History department has voted to ban students from using it. Other professors agree, but note that they're also enthusiastic contributors to Wikipedia. Read the full story here"
Google

Journal Journal: Google Kills "Google-Bombs"

Journal by PoliTech
Google Kills Bush's Miserable Failure Search & Other Google Bombs.

After just over two years, Google has finally defused the "Google Bomb" that has returned US President George W. Bush at the top of its results in a search on miserable failure. The move wasn't a post-State Of The Union Address gift for Bush. Instead, it's part of an overall algorithm change designed to stop such mass link pranks from working.
Slashback

Submission + - Windows-tax savings for Dell n-series evaporates

Submitted by Alsee
Alsee writes: When the Dell Sells Open Source Computers story ran, a detailed price comparison between the E520 Windows systems and the Windows-free E520n systems appeared to show a nice effective discount for avoiding the Windows tax. No more, Dell's prices have been updated. The base price for the Windows system has dropped by $50 and a $70 anomoly in the E520 monitor options has been fixed. The upshot is that there is approximately $zero effective value in buying a Dell n-series trying to avoid the Windows tax. You are better off buying a Dell with Windows preinstalled and calling in to demand the EULA guaranteed refund for the unused OS.
Handhelds

Submission + - How iPhone Stacks Up to other Mobiles

Submitted by DECS
DECS writes: RoughlyDrafted has a series of articles looking at how Apple's iPhone compares to other smartphones, including the Motorola Q famously cited by Steve Ballmer, other popular or high-end smartphones including the Sony Ericsson P990, HTC TyTN, Palm Treo and RIM BlackBerry, and of course, the LG Prada phone. Also noted is why Apple put OS X on the iPhone but not other PCs, a comparison of how Palm and Windows Mobile phones differ in Flash RAM use, and how the minimal version of OS X on the iPhone differs from Microsoft's WinCE on the Windows Mobile platform.
United States

Submission + - USPS Delivers Mail With Only A Map

Submitted by
atanas
atanas writes: "When blogger Ron Pristas read the story about the UK Royal Mail delivering a letter with only a map, he decided to put the US Postal Service to the test. And when he got the letter back as undeliverable, he did not give up but tried mailing it again from a different facility. Ron's persistence paid off! The envelope is now in the hands of its intended recipient. http://blog.entchev.com/2007/01/25/the-us-postal-s ervice-is-as-good-as-the-uk-royal-mail.aspx"

Father of Internet Warns Against Net Neutrality 322

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the my-two-dads dept.
An anonymous reader writes "At a recent talk at the Computer History Museum Robert Kahn, co-inventor of TCP/IP, warned against net neutrality legislation that could hinder experimentation and innovation. Calling 'net neutrality' a slogan, Khan also cautioned against 'dogmatic views of network architecture.' A video of the talk is also available."
HP

Submission + - Pretexting Now Illegal

Submitted by
Investigative Lead
Investigative Lead writes: "Pretexting, better known as lying, is now illegal thanks to a law signed by President Bush last week. While the new law doesn't address many of the other times private investigators may lie in order to gather private information, it at least stops them from gathering telephone records under false pretenses. The bill itself was introduced late last year, but only finally got the necessary support after the HP spying scandal broke, where they used PIs on their own board members in order to identify press leaks. Anyone trying some of those techniques now could end up with a maximum of 10 years in prison."
Education

Submission + - New free online OpenOffice tutorials

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An anonymous reader writes: There's a new series of free online tutorials for OpenOffice at: http://inpics.net/

They're free, as in beer — there's no charge to use them. And unlike most tutorials, these are based on pictures instead of words — good for getting newbies up to speed.

That's important, because mental "switching costs" are some of the biggest obstacles to the adoption of desktop Linux. Windows users say, "I already know how to use Microsoft Office. Why should I take the time to learn something else?" These tutorials, by making it easy for them to learn OpenOffice, make it easier for them to start using a Linux distro that includes it.
Power

Submission + - Big Red Button disasters

Submitted by FredDC
FredDC writes: The Daily WTF? has a story about a Big Red Button disaster. What Big Red Button disaster have you experienced? caused? heared about? Or can happen any day now?
Networking

Submission + - Robert Kahn: Net neutrality is "just a slogan&

Submitted by
Starble
Starble writes: "While Kahn's fellow TCP/IP inventor has gone to bat (and to work) for Google and net neutrality, earlier this month Kahn answered a question about net neutrality at a forum that diverges rather starkly from Cerf's position. He agrees the net shouldn't be allowed to "fragment" but thinks you can't innovate with the regulations Cerf is calling for. Ahh... old friends.

Video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEpzbXVPTOk"

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