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by Ansoni-San (#25405987) Attached to: Microsoft Considers "Instant On" Windows
At work it sometimes takes me an hour to get in. Yes, it's because the network is crap even though we've got money falling out of our asses. (I guess IT doesn't get any, or they're too lazy to improve things)

Either way, there's your anecdotal evidence. Just as useful as your's. GP was talking about a work environment, which usually means a network.
NASA

Submission + - Radical Transparency at NASA?!

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An anonymous reader writes: Aaron Rowe over at Wired has an article about a couple of young scientists at NASA's Ames Research Center working to open source the space program through software development and other ways to allow the public to participate in real NASA programs. According to Robert Schingler, the NASA CoLab project manager, "CoLab is building an infrastructure to encourage and facilitate direct participation from the talented and interested public..." Apparently, the group holds weekly meetings on their island in the popular online virtual world Second Life. This should be of real interest to Slashdotters. The article also notes that there will be a massive science and technology party at NASA Ames this Friday night open to the public. I don't know about you, but as my first opportunity to visit the inside of a NASA center, I'm sure going!
Google

Submission + - Google Pushes Open Source OCR

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SocialWorm
SocialWorm writes: "Google has just announced work on OCRopus, which it says it hopes will "advance the state of the art in optical character recognition and related technologies." OCRopus will be available under the Apache 2.0 License. Obviously, there may be search and image search implications from OCRopus."

Feed SanDisk in Music Deal (nytimes.com)

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SanDisk and Yahoo will start selling a digital music player, the Sansa Connect, that lets users download songs wirelessly.
The Internet

Submission + - Internet Radio May Stream North to Canada

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An anonymous reader writes: With U.S. copyright royalties threatening to kill Internet radio in the U.S., Michael Geist explains why webcasters considering a move to Canada will find that the legal framework for Internet radio trades costs for complexity. There are two main areas of concern from a Canadian perspective — broadcast regulation and copyright fees. The broadcast side is surprisingly regulation-free, but there are at least three Canadian copyright collectives lining up to collect from Internet radio stations.

Feed Joytech's Sharp Shooter looks like Wii Blaster, but isn't (engadget.com)

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Filed under: Gaming, Peripherals

So while Wii fans wait around for the promised "Zapper Style" Wiimote shell (a.k.a. "The Blaster"), peripherals big shot Joytech has snuck onto the scene with a similar product called the Sharp Shooter. The lack of details on Joytech's site means all we know is that "the Sharp Shooter brings Wii shooting games to life with amazing realism," though how the contraption actually pulls this off is still somewhat of a mystery. No word on price or release dates either, but we can comfort ourselves in knowing that when the Shooter does hit shelves, it will work on "ALL TV's and displays" (emphasis theirs, not ours).

[Via Joystiq]

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Feed Getting Dirty May Lift Your Mood (sciencedaily.com)

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Treatment of mice with a "friendly" bacteria, normally found in the soil, altered their behavior in a way similar to that produced by antidepressant drugs, reports research published in the latest issue of Neuroscience. These findings aid the understanding of why an imbalance in the immune system leaves some individuals vulnerable to mood disorders like depression.
Privacy

Submission + - China Govt restricts U-18's to 3hrs online gaming

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1MC writes: Seems the Chinese govt is requiring game houses to modify MMOG's to restrict under 18 users to 3hr's "productive" gameplay per day. This "anti-addiction" software must be in place within 4 months, with games not compliant by July 15 liable to be shut down in China. Net9, Shanda and NetEase will be moving to comply with the government regulations.
Users will have to register with their real names and Chinese identity card numbers to be allowed access to the games.
http://english.people.com.cn/200704/10/eng20070410 _364977.html

Feed NYPD Intelligence Op Targets Dot-Matrix Graffiti Bike (wired.com)

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Joshua Kinberg's internet-connected, sidewalk printing graffiti bike got him a lot of attention ahead of the 2004 Republican National Convention; he was BoingBoinged, Slashdotted and featured on CNN and in Popular Science. Then there's the secret file the NYPD built on him.


Censorship

Submission + - Kremlin Seeks to Control Online Media

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reporter
reporter writes: "According to a disturbing report just published by Bloomberg, "As the Kremlin gears up for the election of Putin's successor next March, Soviet-style controls are being extended to online news after a presidential decree last month set up a new agency to supervise both mass media and the Web." However, unless the Kremlin pursues Chinese-style/Turkish-style blocking of the Internet-Protocol addresses of web sites like SlashDot or "The Economist", even the Kremlin cannot control the online media. If Putin pulled the plug on an anti-Putin web site inside Russia, the anti-Putin web site could simply be migrated offshore to a server in, say, the United States."

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