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+ - World's largest OTEC power plant planned for China->

Submitted by cylonlover
cylonlover writes "Lockheed Martin has been getting its feet wet in the renewable energy game for some time. In the 1970s it helped build the world’s first successful floating Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) system that generated net power, and in 2009 it was awarded a contract to develop an OTEC pilot plant in Hawaii. That project has apparently been canceled but the company has now shifted its OTEC sights westward by teaming up with Hong Kong-based Reignwood Group to co-develop a 10 MW pilot plant that will be built off the coast of southern China."
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+ - Drug Site Silk Road Says It Will Survive Bitcoin's Volatility ->

Submitted by Sparrowvsrevolution
Sparrowvsrevolution writes "Bitcoin's recent spike and then collapse in value has convinced many that it's too unstable to use as a practical currency. But not the founder of Silk Road, the black market drug site that exclusively accepts Bitcoin in exchange for heroin, cocaine and practically every other drug imaginable. Silk Road's creator, who calls himself the Dread Pirate Roberts, broke his usual media silence to issue a short statement that Silk Road will survive Bitcoin's bubble and bust. The market's prices are generally pegged to the dollar, with prices in Bitcoin fluctuating to account for movements in the exchange rate. And Roberts explained that vendors on the site have the option to also hedge the Bitcoins that buyers place in escrow for their products, so that they can't lose money due to Bitcoin's volatility while the drugs are in the mail. As a result, only about 1,000 of the site's more than 11,000 product listings were taken down during the recent crash."
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+ - Gunfire at MIT's Stata Center, Officer Dead 13

Submitted by theodp
theodp writes "Earlier tonight, The Tech broke news that gunshots were reported at MIT near 32 Vassar Street (the Ray and Maria Stata Center for Computer, Information, and Intelligence Sciences), and one officer was shot and taken to Mass General Hospital. MIT's Emergency Information page also reports that injuries have been reported. From the midnight update, 'Police are sweeping the campus at this time, please continue to stay indoors and remain inside until further notice.' Sadly, CNN is now reporting that the university police officer has died. Look for updates on Twitter."

+ - Ask Slashdot: Why does Xorg+Gnome looks better than Windows?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes "I dual boot Windows 7 (for games) and Ubuntu with Gnome 3 (for development, and other things). One thing I've noticed is that the fonts and other visual attributes of Gnome look /much/ better than windows on the same hardware. It almost seems like Xorg uses antialiasing for it's fonts, or other settings. Why does Windows 7 looks so terrible on the visual side, and is there a solution?"

+ - Teen stunned at portrayal as Mass. bombing suspect->

Submitted by Okian Warrior
Okian Warrior writes "The 4chan crowd, poring over images of the Boston marathon, identified two dark-skinned and bag-carrying suspects (among others). This was then picked up by The New York Post, who ran the image on Thursday's front page with the headline "Feds seek these two pictured at Boston Marathon". And now, a completely innocent teen now finds himself scared to leave his home."
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+ - Shooting at MIT->

Submitted by Aphonia
Aphonia writes "There was a shooting at MIT. A police officer is down, near the home of CSAIL.
"Update on shooter incident. Responding agencies continue to investigate the situation. The scene is outside of Building 32 (Stata) and 76 (Koch) near Vassar and Main Streets. Injuries have been reported. The situation is still very active and we ask everyone to stay inside. ""
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+ - Not Selling Washing Machines Key to Kobo Overtaking Amazon - CEO->

Submitted by DavidGilbert99
DavidGilbert99 writes "Kobo, the Canadian-based ebook company is number two in the market, behind the behemoth that is Amazon. So what does the CEO Michael Serbinis think is the one thing which will allow them to overtake the e-commerce giant? "We don't sell any washing machines, we don't sell radios. We are not focused on the next server farm to offer data services. It is a question of focus."
Serbinis goes on to tell IBTimes UK: "From an organisation standpoint at Kobo, this is all we do. Everyone at Kobo, all we focus on is creating a great experience for book-lovers.""
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Comment: Re:Testing people too, not just the network ... (Score 1) 238

The testing/auditing is not necessarily only to evaluate the network, evaluating the admin/security team may also be part of the plan. In other words part of the test may be to verify that these folks get worried in a reasonably short amount of time and take appropriate actions.

Exactly. If a human activity is part of the required response action, then that activity is also to be tested and measured.

Comment: Re:Yup (Score 1) 6

by Jerry Smith (#42738407) Attached to: Bring it on, bitches

fruitful |frotfl|
adjective
(of a tree, a plant, or land) producing much fruit; fertile. See note at fertile .
>>>>>> producing good or helpful results; productive : years of fruitful collaboration | the two days of talks had been fruitful.
  (of a person) producing many offspring.

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