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  Terminator gene ban suggested in Canada 2007-06-04 17:56 innocent_white_lamb

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."
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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."
http://www.eyeos.org/
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  Does SPF really work? 2007-05-29 00:08 Intelopment

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?"
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  Microsoft Ordered Off New Zealand School Macs. 2007-05-28 22:49 BiggerIsBetter

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."
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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"
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  26 climate change myths debunked 2007-05-16 13:21 Anonymous Coward

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."
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  NASA Detects "California-sized" Antarctic 2007-05-16 13:13 u-bend

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."
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  Amazon to Launch DRM-free Music Store 2007-05-16 12:15 Strudelkugel

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."
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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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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!


http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/117180511/
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Submitted by tinpan on Monday May 14 2007, @01:19PM
tinpan writes "I've got a communication problem. When non-technical managers ask me to explain technical choices, they often make choices I recommend against and they later regret. I can tell that they do not understand their choice because of how they are explaining things to each other, but they usually refuse further explanation.

So it's time for some education. I want to get better at communicating technical subjects to non-technical people. More accurately, I want to get better at helping non-technical people make better technical decisions and I'm willing to accept it may include some understanding of "selling your idea."

What books, online courses and/or seminars do you recommend and why?"
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From feed by sdfeed on Monday May 07 2007, @02:32PM
A new study in mice raises a tantalizing possibility -- that humans may one day be able to eat any kind of fat they want without raising their risk of heart disease.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/05/070507133022.htm
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From feed by nsfeed on Monday May 07 2007, @02:13PM
The brightest supernova ever recorded may have been triggered by an exotic process involving antimatter, new observations suggest

http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?i=94aca0e3bd47ed68f326656c681c0b16
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  Cold Fusionat room temperature possible after all? 2007-05-05 15:25 StarfishOne

Submitted by StarfishOne on Saturday May 05 2007, @03:25PM
StarfishOne writes "DailyTech reports the following interesting bit of news today:

" Cold fusion, the ability to generate nuclear power at room temperatures, has proven to be a highly elusive feat. In fact, it is considered by many experts to be a mere pipe dream — a potentially unlimited source of clean energy that remains tantalizing, but so far unattainable.

However, a recently published academic paper from the Navy's Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (Spawar) in San Diego throws cold water on skeptics of cold fusion. Appearing in the respected journal Naturwissenschaften, which counts Albert Einstein among its distinguished authors, the article claims that Spawar scientists Stanislaw Szpak and Pamela Mosier-Boss have achieved a low energy nuclear reaction (LERN) that can be replicated and verified by the scientific community."


NewScientist is also running an article on this subject, but that article is only available for subscribers."
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Submitted by kitzilla on Sunday April 22 2007, @03:24PM
kitzilla writes "Hybrid/Organic LED lighting. Hyper-efficient solar cells. Practical wave power. So far, 2007 has been a barnburner year for environmental technology. Here's an interesting list of some of more practical, market-bound examples. Looks like companies realize "green" is also the color of money."
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  Open Source Domestic Violence 2007-04-22 15:10 mynameismonkey

Submitted by mynameismonkey on Sunday April 22 2007, @03:10PM
mynameismonkey writes " No Private Matter! Ending Abuse in Intimate & Family Relations is now open for voting. Part of Changemakers, an open source model for social solutions that is seeking to break out of the narrow channel of intellectual talent available to the foundations and open up funding to collaborative projects and the diverse community of people to whom funding is often not an option. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is sponsoring this particular competition, and provides an interesting twist on the open source model, as well as shining some light on innovative ways the philosophy is spreading. As a community we spend a lot of time trying to find business cases, but are we aware of how the non-profit community can further benefit from the open source culture?"
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