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B&N Pummels Microsoft Patent Claims with Prior-> 1

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itwbennett
itwbennett writes "As Slashdot readers will recall, Barnes & Noble is being particularly noisy about the patents Microsoft is leveraging against the Nook. Now the bookseller has filed a supplemental notice of prior art that contains a 43-page list of examples it believes counters Microsoft's claim that Nook violates five of Microsoft's patents. 'The list of prior art for the five patents that Microsoft claims the Nook infringes is very much a walk down memory lane,' says blogger Brian Proffitt. 'The first group of prior art evidence presented by Barnes & Noble for U.S. Patent No. 5,778,372 alone lists 172 pieces of prior art' and 'made reference to a lot of technology and people from the early days of the public Internet... like Mosaic, the NCSA, and (I kid you not) the Arena web browser. The list was like old home week for the early World Wide Web.'"
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Difficult Campground WIFI design 1

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MahlonS
MahlonS writes "I am a retired network hack wintering in my RV in a campground in southern GA. 3 years ago I reconfigured the wifi system to a marginal working ability, It now needs a serious upgrade, prompted by a new cable net connection replacing a DSL. 5 dual radio HP access points connect to a 6th via single or double radio hops in heavily wooded space. The main connect is an old Cisco router. Burying wire is frowned upon, due to shallow utilities. Since I'm not up on current wifi tech, are there solutions out there that would make this system work much better?"
Data Storage

Intel Preps Firmware Upgrade to Address SSD Bug->

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MojoKid
MojoKid writes "Semi-good news for Intel 320 Series SSD owners who might be suffering from the notorious 8MB bug. The Santa Clara chip maker is fully aware of the problem and is promising a new firmware update that will supposedly stomp out the annoying bug for good. "Intel has been investigating the "Bad Context 13x" error as seen on select Intel SSD 320 Series drives," Intel said in a statement. The company has been able to reproduce the the anomaly and has noted that it's fixable. As it stands, Intel is in the processing of validating the new firmware, though stopped short of announcing when it will be made available to the public."
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Science

Time travel proved impossible with a photon->

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An anonymous reader writes "In order to time travel all you have to do is manage to travel faster than the speed of light. It sounds quite simple when you put it like that, but the tough bit is managing to go fast enough to break through that speed barrier, a barrier that scientists now believe they have proved is impossible to exceed.

Professor Du Shengwang, physicist and head of a Hong Kong University Science and Technology research team, decided to prove that time travel was impossible once and for all. He did this by managing to measure the speed of a single photon in a vacuum using controllable waveforms. A photon is the basic unit of light and has no mass, it is also known as an elementary particle.

The experiment is relevant because for the past 10 years it has been thought optical pulses may be able to travel faster than light under specific circumstances. This is called superluminal. However, it was later proved wrong, but left scientists with questions about how fast a photon could travel as it would be the one particle that could potentially break the speed of light barrier.

Shengwang’s work has proved that is definitely not the case and Eintein’s theory that light is the “traffic law of the universe” still holds up as true. The research also goes beyond just proving light speed is the upper limit and offers insights into the transmission of quantum information."
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XBox (Games)

PS3 'Strong Contender' to Overtake Xbox 360->

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donniebaseball23 writes "Xbox 360 has been having an incredible year so far in 2011, but on a global scale Sony's PS3 is still gaining ground. In fact, this year PS3 has outpaced Xbox 360 by 10% worldwide, analysts have pointed out. While the Wii has clearly won the race for this console generation, the battle for second place is neck and neck, and PS3 has a good shot of overtaking Xbox 360. "As for second place, as far as the hardcore market is concerned, I'd say PS3 is a strong contender for that position," commented M2 Research analyst Billy Pidgeon."
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