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Comment Re:Turn down the volume (Score 1) 405

by pazu on Monday October 13, 2008 @12:34PM (#25357219) Attached to: Study Links Personal Music Players To Hearing Loss

I'd be too paranoid if I didn't hear anything like that as anything (car/cycle/scooter) could come up to me too sudden.

I don't know. I've developed a much greater awareness of my environment since I've started using noise isolating earphones.

Now, I listen to music quiet enough to still hear most street noise, if somewhat muffled, but the reduced aural perception forced me to use my other senses more effectively. You know how they say to always look at both sides before crossing a street? Now I actually do that.

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Submission + - Brazil migrates voting machines to Linux

Submitted by democracyhaha on Thursday September 18, 2008 @08:45AM

democracyhaha writes: Brazilian voting machines migrated to Linux operating system, informs Giuseppe Dutra Janino, secretary of technology for Brazil's Superior Electoral Court. The new machines are ready for deployment, and citizens will use them to choose their majors and aldermen in this year's elections in October 5th. G1 News has an article where Janino says Linux will be replacing VirtuOS and Windows CE as the operating system in the voting machines designed by engineer Carlos Rocha from OMNITECH, and licensed for manufacturing to Diebold-Procomp.

According to Janino, this change will bring three benefits. "The first is saving money", he says, "the government will no longer have to pay licensing fees for the proprietary operating systems". He acknowledges the need and costs to redevelop all software for the new operating system, but says "this cost will be offset gradually, as we save on licensing fees". He goes on, saying the second benefit "is transparency of the process. Before we couldn't show the operating system source code to entities like the Bar Association and political parties". Every 180 days the current source code for the software is sent for inspection to all interested parties and organizations, including all political parties and legal entities, before being digitally signed and installed on the machines. The third benefit, says Janino, "is security. Linux is robust and widely recognized as secure".

Voting machines have been used in all ballots in Brazil since 1998, and no fraud has been proved so far.

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Microsoft To Announce Jerry Seinfeld Ads Cancelled 587

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday September 18, 2008 @05:02AM from the put-it-to-bed dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Valleywag says the Jerry Seinfeld ads are over — In a phone call, Frank Shaw confirms that Microsoft is not going on with Seinfeld, and echoes his underlings' spin that the move was planned. There is the 'potential to do other things' with Seinfeld, which Shaw says is still 'possible.' He adds: 'People would have been happier if everyone loved the ads, but this was not unexpected.'"

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New Grads Shun IT Jobs As "Boring" 752

Posted by timothy on Tuesday June 24, 2008 @12:17PM from the work-from-home-chicks-dig-it dept.

whencanistop writes "Despite good job prospects, graduates think that a job in IT would be boring. Is this because of the fact that Bill Gates has made the whole industry look nerdy? Surely with so many (especially young) people being 'web first' with not just their buying habits, but now in terms of what they do in their spare time, we'd expect more of them to want to get a career in it?"

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De Icaza Pleads For Mono/.Net Cooperation 262

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday March 27, 2007 @05:17PM from the talk-to-me dept.

suka writes "In a recent interview with the online edition of an Austrian newspaper, Mono project-lead Miguel de Icaza pleads for cooperation between Mono and Microsoft's .Net: 'I think that the deal should include a technical Mono/.NET collaboration, and even go as far as Microsoft recommending Mono for all of their developers looking at migration'. The whole interview has some other interesting bits, like de Icaza's thoughts on open sourced Java and information about upcoming versions of Mono."

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