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Feed Malaysia Decides Not To Force Bloggers To Register (techdirt.com)

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Following last week's news of a proposal in Malaysia to force bloggers to register with the government, it appears that common sense has won out. There were clearly some politicians who recognized registering bloggers wasn't a very good idea (and was merely a kneejerk reaction to some trouble some politicians had had with critical bloggers). So it's good to see that those politicians effectively got that point across and the plan to force bloggers to register has been rejected. The government still warned bloggers not to publish "rumors" or "offensive remarks" because existing laws will be used against them -- but said that forcing them to actually register was unlikely to be an effective tool.

Feed Smallest Organic Light-emitters Created (sciencedaily.com)

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Scientists have produced microscopic "nanolamps" -- light-emitting nanofibers about the size of a virus or the tiniest of bacteria. The potential applications are in flexible electronic products, which are being made increasingly smaller.
Hardware Hacking

Journal Journal: Default Passwords For All Devices

Journal by Asemunu
Working with passworded devices can be quite challenging when when their passwords are not known. But in such cases reseting the device to its default setting is a way forward but when the default password is not known, then you are still stranded.

Feed The 2006 Engadget Awards: Vote for Laptop of the Year (engadget.com)

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Filed under: Announcements, Laptops

Now's your chance to cast your ballot for the 2006 ! Our Engadget Awards nominees are listed below, and you've got until 11.59PM EST on Sunday, April 15th to file your vote. You can only vote once, so make it count, and may the best tech win! The nominees: Apple MacBook Pro, Apple MacBook, Asus G1, Dell XPS M1710, HP Pavilion DV6000, Lenovo ThinkPad X60, and Sony VAIO SZ.

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BOLD MOVES: THE FUTURE OF FORD A new documentary series. Be part of the transformation as it happens in real-time

Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!
Businesses

Submission + - Open Source as the Cure for Proprietary Woes

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Anonymous Coward
Anonymous Coward writes: "There is a syndrome that has lately been plaguing the "Big 4" proprietary vendors. I will call it the "Acquisition/Confusion Syndrome." It can be severely damaging, and anyone exposed to it is susceptible to infection. The point of exposure occurs when a "Big 4" vendor acquires a smaller, focused start-up in the hopes of expanding their offerings to their customers. It is shortly after this that the "Big 4" carrier becomes contagious and contaminates their customers, who begin showing symptoms almost immediately. It starts with a feeling of claustrophobia, of being locked-in to a vendor, and the customer breaks into cold sweat as he is forced to dig deep into his pockets and cough up large sums of money for new, complex product offerings. When IBM acquired Micromuse, Tivoli announced the End Of Life (EOL) of their existing monitoring solution and began transitioning customers into their NetCool offering for an added cost. Customers were required to re-purchase the new NetCool/Micromuse technology rather than acquire it through an upgrade- essentially buying a new product altogether. Word on the street is that after HP acquired Mercury, they strongly "encouraged" their channel partners and end users to deploy the Sitescope product. Then come the neurological symptoms- dissatisfaction, anger, confusion, and disorientation. IBM's and HP's customer base no doubt felt all of these as they were forced to spend more and learn a complicated, brand new product. Even though the customers exhibit the brunt of the symptoms, the "Big 4" are not left unscathed, although the disease does have a longer incubation period on the vendor end. As their customers become sicker and begin to die out over time, these large, strong, monolithic vendors weaken and, eventually, risk complete economic paralysis. But there is treatment. Daily use of open source software, with its lower costs and higher flexibility, could ease the symptoms of ailing midsized businesses and, as a result, relieve some of the pressure from the "Big 4." Open source could be the simple, effective, speedy cure for this growing epidemic."
Announcements

Submission + - Linux Marketing Campaign Seeks $350k in 40 Days

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helios17
helios17 writes: "Lobby4Linux announced an ambitious project to raise $350,000 or more to sponsor "Team Linux" with a big logo on the side of an Indy 500 race car. The Tux 500 project combines the efforts of volunteers at Lobby4Linux, Bob Moore, a visible GNU/Linux administrator, and Acceleration Marketing to sponsor the race car. If the group raises the money in 40 days to become a primary sponsor, the Linux name stands to reach millions of households. The Team Linux effort is not about marketing Red Hat or Novell to IT professionals; it is about making GNU/Linux a household name. http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/85530/index.h tml"
XBox (Games)

Submission + - $1,000,000 Videogame Pro Circuit

Submitted by Zyphon
Zyphon writes: Major League Gaming is giving away $1 million to professional video game players. The first link is more advertising it, but it's their only official press release I could find. The index page (2nd link) gives some more info about the company. Pretty crazy cash for just playing games.

http://www.mlgpro.com/?q=node/123489

http://www.mlgpro.com/?q=about/index

Cheers,
Andy
User Journal

Journal SPAM: US ready to strike Iran within days 5

Journal by Jeremiah Cornelius

Acknowledgement to Russian Information Agency Novosti (March 30, 2007)

Russian intelligence has information that the US Armed Forces have nearly completed preparations for a possible military operation against Iran, and will be ready to strike in early April, a security official said.

Official data says the US's military presence in the region has reached the level of March 2003 when the US invaded Iraq.
Portables (Apple)

Submission + - First iPod virus discovered

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InfoWorldMike
InfoWorldMike writes: "Security researchers have found what they believe to be the first proof-of-concept attack designed specifically to infect Apple's popular iPod portable multimedia devices. In a blog post on its Web site, Russian anti-virus specialists Kaspersky Lab published details of the threat, dubbed Podloso, which it claims can be launched and run on an iPod. However, in order for the attack to take root, an iPod must have Linux installed, which is probably still fairly rare as it demands that users add the software themselves. Still, in the enterprise, one could imagine that news of the test threat could lead more IT departments to ban the use of iPods on their networks. Some companies have already forbidden use of the handheld devices because they pose a risk for unauthorized data storage."
User Journal

Journal Journal: The World of Hello World, Google MyMAPS 1

Journal by BlackIcejane
The World of Hello World

A map of programming languages and rough locations in the world where they were created.

Colors correspond to four major epochs:
blue - first languages,
green - establishing paradigms,
yellow - consolidation and modules,
pink - the Internet age.

Created by Bo Majewski on Mar 28

Feed Snowmelt Monitored In The Baltic Sea Watershed Region In Near Real Time (sciencedaily.com)

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As spring melt of winter snow is underway in the Baltic Sea watershed region, satellites are monitoring and mapping the snow melting process to help local authorities manage water supplies and predict and prepare for floods. Remote sensing is the only technique capable of providing a comprehensive view over such a large area.

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