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Introduction to HTML 5-> 1

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BradNeuberg

on Wednesday September 23 2009, @05:26AM

BradNeuberg writes "Excited about HTML 5? Check out this Introduction to HTML 5 we put together as part of Google's Developer Programs. In-depth coverage of the Canvas tag, SVG, Web Workers, App Cache, Geolocation, and more, chock full of demos and sample source code."
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Classy heist in Stockholm-> 0

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 23 2009, @04:27AM

An anonymous reader writes "A Stockholm cash depot was hit by a spectacular helicopter heist this morning in Sweden. A notably planned robbery, involving the police's own helicopter having been sabotaged, the robbers landing their helicopter on the cash depot, using explosives and then fleeing the "bird way" 30 miles before probably switching to a land vehicle. The helicopter has been found, but the robbers haven't. Will we see this story converted to a movie soon? :)"
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Firefox to replace menus with Office Ribbon -> 2

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Barence

on Wednesday September 23 2009, @04:14AM

Barence writes "Mozilla has announced that its plans to bring Office 2007's Ribbon interface to Firefox, as it looks to tidy up its "dated" browser. "Starting with Vista, and continuing with Windows 7, the menu bar is going away," notes Mozilla in its plans for revamping the Firefox user interface. "[It will] be replaced with things like the Windows Explorer contextual strip, or the Office Ribbon, [which is] now in Paint and WordPad, too." The change will also bring Windows' Aero Glass effects to the browser."
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At least 6000 websites censored from Turkey-> 0

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golge011

on Wednesday September 23 2009, @03:44AM

golge011 writes "Last friday (18/09/09) Myspace and Last.fm is blocked from Turkey. This time because of "intellectual property infringements" following a request by Mu-yap, the Turkish Phonographic Industry Society. Dr. Yaman Akdeniz summarizes situation in Turkey in this blog post."
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High-School Student Discovers Strange Astronomical-> 0

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Toren Altair

on Wednesday September 23 2009, @03:37AM

Toren Altair writes "A West Virginia high-school student analyzing data from a giant radio telescope has discovered a new astronomical object — a strange type of neutron star called a rotating radio transient.

Lucas Bolyard, a sophomore at South Harrison High School in Clarksburg, WV, made the discovery while participating in a project in which students are trained to scrutinize data from the National Science Foundation's giant Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT).

Rotating radio transients are thought to be similar to pulsars, superdense neutron stars that are the corpses of massive stars that exploded as supernovae. Pulsars are known for their lighthouse-like beams of radio waves that sweep through space as the neutron star rotates, creating a pulse as the beam sweeps by a radio telescope. While pulsars emit these radio waves continuously, rotating radio transients emit only sporadically, one burst at a time, with as much as several hours between bursts. Because of this, they are difficult to discover and observe, with the first one only discovered in 2006."
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Aussie data centres brace for dust storm barrage-> 0

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 23 2009, @03:27AM

An anonymous reader writes "Data centres and telcos in the Australian cities of Sydney and Brisbane have shut off external ventilation systems, restricted loading dock access and attended false alarms after a major dust storm choked the cities today. The storm is said to be the worst of its type ever recorded in Australia. Macquarie Telecom disengaged automatic deployment of fire-prevention gas from the fire alarm to prevent gas being released on a false alarm. Other major data centre operators reported clogged air filters and heat exchangers and said they would be performing cleaning and maintenance operations this week."
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Google Books Settlement Goes Back to Beta-> 0

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Miracle Jones

on Wednesday September 23 2009, @03:04AM

Miracle Jones writes "The Google books settlement has been removed from consideration by Google and the Author's Guild after the DOJ made it crystal clear that the settlement would not be ratified "as is" due to foreign rights, privacy, and antitrust reasons. The October 7th "fairness hearing" has been canceled, and the next step is a November 6th "status hearing" where the plaintiffs will reveal changes to the new settlement, such as how they plan to make the new settlement more fair, legal, and inclusive, and whether or not they will need to notify all the members of the class action lawsuit (7 million writers or so) YET AGAIN as a result of the changes. Some people are very happy about this."
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