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Comment Re:Nothing in the EULA (Score 1) 136

by giminy on Tuesday December 16, 2008 @12:13PM (#26133405) Attached to: Realtek's Wireless Driver Drives Thoughts of an Apple Netbook

The fact that RealTek does not make -or may never make- hardware for Macs is immaterial.

But they do! RealTek makes chips which are placed on PCI wifi cards (check out the RTL8185).

With this driver, those wifi cards can be used in a Mac Pro or Power Macintosh with PCI slots.

So Realtek has a legitimate reason to make these drivers. osx86 support is just a side effect.

Journal SPAM: New US Law Mandates DNA Collection from All Newborns 12

Journal by Jeremiah Cornelius on Saturday May 03, 2008 @06:52PM

It sounds like the setup for the movie Gattaca, but the United States has enacted a Federal law mandating the creation of a national "DNA Warehouse", with the President's signature on April 24, 2008. Described as a "national contingency plan", justification for the new law, S. 1858, known as Th

Submission + - YORP effect observed and measured

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 10, 2007 @08:42PM

An anonymous reader writes: The Yarkovsky-O'Keefe-Radzievskii-Paddack (Yorp) effect describes the torque, or rotational force, created when light particles hit the surface of an object, causing it to heat up. The theory was proposed in order to explain various Solar System phenomena which show peculiar regular behaviour. From the article: Now, separate studies published in the journals Nature and Science have observed and measured the tiny stellar shoves on two spinning asteroids. They reveal that both are gradually starting to spin faster and faster, which could eventually create new Solar System landmarks. "If we can spin up an asteroid so fast, there's a really good chance that these objects will fly apart," said Dr Stephen Lowry, a planetary astronomer at Queen's University Belfast and lead author of one of two Science papers. In this case, the fragments could form a binary asteroid where two objects orbit each other, he said. "This is a phenomenon that gradually affects the evolution of the Solar System," said Dr Mikko Kaasalainen of the University of Helsinki, who is an author of the Nature paper.

Submission + - ICANN rides to the rescue in Registerfly meltdown

Submitted by

Sorthum

on Friday February 23, 2007 @02:25AM

Sorthum writes: "The Register has a story on ICANN's abrubt change in stance regarding the Registerfly meltdown. Maybe now we'll actually see some resolution for those poor souls still trapped on the floundering registrar?"

Submission + - Scientists Expose Weak DNA in HIV

Submitted by

Ace905

on Saturday February 17, 2007 @05:24AM

Ace905 writes: "The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases announced Thursday that they had discovered a very promising, "weak spot" in the HIV Virus. The HIV virus, a progenitor to full blown "Auto-Immune Deficiency Syndrome" or AIDS has eluded all attempts at a vaccine since it was discovered sometime in the 1970's. The major problem with developing a vaccine initially was isolating the virus. Conventional viruses are often defeated with existing drugs, or after being tested against new compounds. HIV has been unique, and staggering in it's ability to resist all attempts at treatment by mutating its' own genetic code. HIV is able to resist, with great effectiveness, any drug or combination drug-therapy that is used against it.

So far, our best efforts have been slowing down progression of the disease — but the number of people infected every year is rising and victims are estimated at 1.4 Million in North American alone, last year. Discovering a chain of vulnerable DNA on the HIV virus gives researchers a very exact target that can not resist damage."

Submission + - Comparison of Working at the 3 Big Software Giants

Submitted by

castironwok

on Saturday February 17, 2007 @04:35AM

castironwok writes: "Finally, everything you've ever wanted to know about being an employee at Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo. Tastyresearch describes his (or her) past few years interning and working at the three companies. Things I didn't know from before: Bill Gates wears old shoes, Google's internal security watches you like a hawk, the office styles of each company, and how to fill your suitcase with Google T-shirts. He calls the few select companies the 'prestigious internship circle', noting "once you have worked at one, it's a lot easier to get into another". But what *I* really want to know now, is who has a more equal male-female ratio?"

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