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Doomsday miscalculation ?-> 0

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 23 2011, @02:20AM

An anonymous reader writes "A new report suggests that the Mayan prophecy of the doomsday December 12, 2012 may have been miscalculated by nearly 50-100 years during the conversion of the Mayan calendar to our own Gregorian."
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UK Teen Arrested Over Lulzsec Attacks-> 0

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 21 2011, @08:16AM

An anonymous reader writes "A 19-year-old man was held during a raid at a house in Wickford, Essex. A Scotland Yard spokesman said: "The arrest follows an investigation into network intrusions and distributed denial of service attacks against a number of international business and intelligence agencies by what is believed to be the same hacking group." The Serious and Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) were one of the agencies attacked."
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Brit Police SOCA Site Back After Lulzsec Blithi-> 0

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judgecorp

on Tuesday June 21 2011, @08:02AM

judgecorp writes "Hacker group Lulzsec claims it brought down the website of the Serious and Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) on Monday afternoon with a distributed denial of service attack. The site is now back and SOCA says no operational data was accessed"
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LulzSec suspected arrested by UK police-> 0

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 21 2011, @07:46AM

An anonymous reader writes "The UK's Police Computer e-Crime Unit (PCeU) has arrested a 19-year-old man in Wickford, Essex, in connection with the series of LulzSec attacks against organizations including the CIA, PBS and Sony.

The man, who has been arrested under the Computer Misuse and Fraud Act, has had his house searched and a significant amount of material taken away by police for forensic examination.

The PCeU worked with local Essex police and the FBI on the investigation."
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Biggest Changes in C++11 and Why You Should Care)-> 1

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Esther Schindler

on Monday June 20 2011, @02:33PM

Esther Schindler writes "It’s been 13 years since the first iteration of the C++ language. Danny Kalev, a former member of the C++ standards committee, explains how the programming language has been improved and how it can help you write better code."
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Silverlight Developers Rally Against Windows 8-> 1

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aesoteric

on Wednesday June 08 2011, @06:16PM

aesoteric writes "A legion of Silverlight developers have threatened revolt after Microsoft made no mention of Silverlight or .Net in the vendor's brief video preview for its upcoming Windows 8 operating system. Developers expressed fears Microsoft might let their investment in skills "die on the vine" as Redmond finally embraces open standards. Microsoft, for their part, have told developers they can't say more until September."
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Becoming a Scientist Over and Over Again-> 0

Submitted by purkinje on Wednesday June 08 2011, @04:10PM

purkinje writes "Erez Leiberman does physics, yes, but also linguistics, engineering, and molecular biology. He's a scientist, but rather than honing in on one area, he tackles questions that interest him--whatever field they fall in. He's mathematically analyzed the half-lives of verbs, determined how strands of DNA up in a cell's nucleus, and invented a special insole that helps the elderly improve their balance."
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MIT gives flow batteries a high energy treatment-> 0

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Shivetya

on Wednesday June 08 2011, @03:33PM

" rel="nofollow">Shivetya writes "Researches at MIT have improved on flow batteries to where the size needed to deliver the equivalent power of current batteries can be done in half the size. You could even go as far as pumping in new charged liquid and pump out the old for reuse."
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Linus named top 10 innovator on Wall Street-> 0

Submitted by xzvf on Wednesday June 08 2011, @03:06PM

xzvf writes "Linus Torvalds is being recognized by Wall Street & Technology magazine as a top 10 influencer."
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Federal courts to begin first digital video pilot-> 0

Submitted by

coondoggie

on Wednesday June 08 2011, @02:17PM

coondoggie writes "Federal district courts have been prohibited from allowing any sort of electronic dissemination of trials since 1946, but that is about to change.

Fourteen federal trial courts and 100 judges have been selected to take part in the federal Judiciary's three-year digital video pilot, which will begin July 18 and will go a long way towards determining the effect of cameras in courtrooms."
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