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Comment: Re:Whimsy (Score 2, Interesting) 335

by DkY on Wednesday November 14 2007, @09:41AM (#21348471) Attached to: Japan's Melody Roads Play Music as You Drive

US national debt is about $9 trillion http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/09/06/notebook/main3238787.shtml

You might have been thinking about the federal public debt which was $5.04 trillion.
You get from 5.04 to 9 by adding in intragovernment debt obligations which include among other things, money that individual states owe.

How the Japanese figure is arrived at seems to be less well documented though I'm sure its out there somewhere..

Terminator gene ban suggested in Canada

Submitted by innocent_white_lamb on Monday June 04 2007, @05:56PM

innocent_white_lamb writes "A member of the Canadian Parliament has proposed legislation to outlaw the development and deployment of "terminator genes" that prevent seeds from germinating so farmers have to re-purchase seed every year instead of saving the seeds from last year's crop. The legislation is not expected to pass due to opposition from the Agriculture Minister."

eyeOS 1.0 released, OSS Web Operating System and I->

Submitted by eneas on Monday June 04 2007, @05:55PM

eneas writes "eyeOS 1.0 has been released, introducing the eyeOS Toolkit to develop complex web applications as in a traditional IDE. eyeOS 1.0 tries to break up with the "webOS" tendence to imitate a desktop without innovating. The new eyeOS 1.0 allows new libraries and services to be introduced easily to the system, providing a really flexible solution, and creating a real Operating System, that can be used online. It's Open Source, can be downloaded here and used here."
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Does SPF really work?

Submitted by

Intelopment

on Tuesday May 29 2007, @12:08AM

Intelopment writes "My Domain name has recently been used a lot as the REPLY field by some inconsiderate spammer and my ISP has suggested that I consider using the Open SPF service (http://openspf.org/) as a way to stop spammers from using my domain name for their REPLY field. From what I can tell it requires the receiving mail server to actually participate in the SPF service, which is where I get my doubts. Does anyone have any experience with this service? Does it work? Are many ISPs using openSFP?"

Microsoft Ordered Off New Zealand School Macs.

Submitted by

BiggerIsBetter

on Monday May 28 2007, @10:49PM

BiggerIsBetter writes "The New Zealand Education Ministry has ordered the removal of Microsoft Office software from 25,000 Apple Macintoshes used in schools around New Zealand. The reason being that Microsoft wanted machines to be licensed whether they used the software or not. "The ministry could not justify the extra $2.7 million being given to Microsoft for software that would not be used," Education Minister Steve Maharey is quoted as saying."

Five things the Linux community doesn't understand

Submitted by

AlexGr

on Tuesday May 22 2007, @12:36PM

AlexGr writes "By Adrian Kingsley-Hughes (ZDNet Blogs) This question may seem to be flame bait, but it raises a valid point: Why is it that the average computer user still chooses to spend hundreds of dollars on Windows or Mac when there are countless Linux alternatives that they could download, install and make use of completely free of charge? http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=420"

26 climate change myths debunked

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 16 2007, @01:21PM

An anonymous reader writes "There's a lot at stake with global warming, so for those not sure what to believe, New Scientist has debunked the most common climate myths. It has the key graphs, links to all the original research, but it also acknowledges that the scientists themselves sometimes exaggerate. My favourite: It's all down to cosmic rays."

NASA Detects "California-sized" Antarctic

Submitted by

u-bend

on Wednesday May 16 2007, @01:13PM

u-bend writes "Discovery has an article about a massive melt detected in a region of Antarctica previously thought to be virtually impervious to such a climate shift.

From the article:
'A team of scientists from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and the University of Colorado said new satellite imagery had revealed a vast expanse of snow melt in 2005 where it had previously been considered unlikely.

The NASA statement described the findings as "the most significant melt observed using satellites during the past three decades."'

Rather interesting in light of recent discussions about the pros and cons of global warming."

Amazon to Launch DRM-free Music Store

Submitted by Strudelkugel on Wednesday May 16 2007, @12:15PM

Strudelkugel writes "Business Wire reports Amazon.com will launch a digital music store later this year offering millions of songs in the DRM-free MP3 format from more than 12,000 record labels. EMI Music's digital catalog is the latest addition to the store. Every song and album in the Amazon.com digital music store will be available exclusively in the MP3 format without digital rights management (DRM) software. Amazon's DRM-free MP3s will free customers to play their music on virtually any of their personal devices — including PCs, Macs(TM), iPods(TM), Zunes(TM), Zens(TM) — and to burn songs to CDs for personal use."

iPhone delayed until October, Leopard delayed again until January->

From feed by engfeed on Wednesday May 16 2007, @11:52AM

Filed under: Cellphones, Desktops, Laptops

This one doesn't bode well for Mac fans and the iPhone-hopeful: we have it on authority that as of today, the iPhone launch is being pushed back from June to... October (!), and Leopard is again seeing a delay, this time being pushed back to January. The WWDC beta will still be handed out, but it looks like Apple quality takes time, and we're sure Jobs would remind everyone that it's not always about "throwing money at the problem". Just how much time are these two hotly anticipated products really going to take, though?

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