Comment Re:Safari (Score 0) 550
Why not ? You paid for those gigs. USE them.
Google Desktop for Mac Released 186
Julio Ojeda-Zapata writes "Google on Tuesday will release a Mac version of Google Desktop. This software, like the PC version, indexes the content of a hard drive and serves it up on familiar Google-style search-result Web pages (or via a its own drop-down results list, if you prefer). But Google Desktop for the Mac is streamlined compared to the busy, gadget-y Windows version, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. The focus is squarely on search — including local indexing of an online Gmail account of your choice. It will also index your iDisk."
Submission + - RIAA sues sites hosting leaked Year Zero tracks
no reason to be here writes: "The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), which has become notorious for suing anyone from high school students to retirees for downloading music from the web, has gone after web sites such as Idolator that have posted leaked songs from the upcoming NINE INCH NAILS album, "Year Zero". The problem, however, is that the tracks were leaked intentionally. Several songs from the album were left on computer hard drives at venues on the band's current European tour, with fans finding and posting them on the web for others to download and swap. According to Billboard.com, the RIAA sent cease-and-desist emails to web sites that posted the tracks, leading one industry source to say, "These f***ing idiots are going after a campaign that the label signed off on."
Submission + - Optical tech could make people, aircraft invisible
coondoggie writes: "So you thought only Romulans had a cloaking device? Hardly. Purdue researchers using nanotechnology this week have taken a step toward creating an optical cloaking device that could make objects invisible. "How to create a design that works for all colors of visible light at the same time will be a big technical challenge, but we believe it's possible," he said. "It is clearly doable. In principle, this cloak could be arbitrarily large, as large as a person or an aircraft." Two requirements are needed to render an object invisible: Light must not reflect off of the object, and the light must bend around the object so that people would see only the background and not the cloaked object itself, according to researchers.
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Submission + - US Nuclear Security Agency loses computers
Repton writes: "The office in charge of protecting American technical secrets about nuclear weapons from foreign spies is missing 20 desktop computers, at least 14 of which have been used for classified information, the Energy Department inspector general reported on Friday."
Submission + - Man with tuberculosis jailed for not wearing mask
DaMattster writes: PHOENIX, Arizona (AP) — Behind the county hospital's tall cinderblock walls, a 27-year-old tuberculosis patient who spent years living in Russia sits in a jail cell equipped with a ventilation system that keeps germs from escaping.
Robert Daniels has been locked up indefinitely, perhaps for the rest of his life, since last July. But he has not been charged with a crime. Instead, he suffers from an extensively drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis, or XDR-TB. It is considered virtually untreatable.
Feed News: European Commission sues Apple, others over pricing (macworld.com)
Feed Google primes DoubleClick bum rush (theregister.com)
Submission + - Child porn 'art' to be made illegal in UK
zugurudumba writes: "http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/ne ws/2007/04/03/nporn03.xml
Drawings, images and sculptures depicting child sexual abuse are to be made illegal, the UK Government said yesterday.
People caught in possession of "non-photographic" child pornography, which is currently legal to own, will face a three-year jail term.
Ministers said "genuine works of art" were not the target for the new law — though there will be concern that heavy-handed policing could see galleries raided."
Drawings, images and sculptures depicting child sexual abuse are to be made illegal, the UK Government said yesterday.
People caught in possession of "non-photographic" child pornography, which is currently legal to own, will face a three-year jail term.
Ministers said "genuine works of art" were not the target for the new law — though there will be concern that heavy-handed policing could see galleries raided."
Feed Visual-cortex simulator sees animals as humans do (pheedo.com)
The software may help explain how we make snap visual decisions and could provide new ways to build vision software for robots and security cameras
Feed French go for fastest train title (theregister.com)
560km/h target for TGV
The French will today attempt to claim the world's fastest "train on rails" title by accelerating a modified TGV to a white-knuckle 560km/h (350mph), the BBC reports.
Submission + - EMI's entire catalogue available DRM free
rohan972 writes: The Sydney Morning Herald reports: EMI Music has become the first of the big four record companies to break from the pack and make its entire catalogue available as downloads free of copy control measures.
The announcement to offer the unprotected format was made in London overnight by EMI Group CEO Eric Nicoli. He was joined by Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who said his company's market-leading iTunes Store would also carry the new EMI tracks, marking the first time that DRM-free music would be offered to on iTunes.
The announcement to offer the unprotected format was made in London overnight by EMI Group CEO Eric Nicoli. He was joined by Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who said his company's market-leading iTunes Store would also carry the new EMI tracks, marking the first time that DRM-free music would be offered to on iTunes.
Submission + - Microsoft Conflicted about Contributing to Samba
kripkenstein writes: "Ben Galbraith reports from a recent talk by Sam Ramji, in charge of Open Source Technical Strategy at Microsoft. Ramji is quoted as saying,
(Jeremy Allison is part of the Samba project.) Ramji's approach to the connection between Microsoft and FOSS seems to by crystallized by quotes such as these:"Would I like to contribute to Samba? You bet. Am I constrained by the fact [Jeremy Allision] testified against us in the EU and the general politics between Steve [Ballmer] and Jeremy [Allison]? Yes. My hands are tied. That sucks.
So, by 2015, will FOSS have been Embraced and Extended by Microsoft?"If someone upgrades to Vista because they hear that Firefox runs better on Vista than on WinXP, I'm happy with that.
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In 1995, Microsoft was the company that missed the Internet. In 2005, I don't think you could say that. [In 2005 it] was the company that missed open-source. In 2015, I don't think you're going to be able to say that.
