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Air Force bounces Windows XP, goes Windows 7-> 0

Submitted by coondoggie on Monday November 01 2010, @12:50PM

coondoggie writes "The US Air Force said it has begun a service-wide upgrade of operating systems to Windows 7, the plan to complete the upgrade across the service by December 2011.
For those average users currently using Vista, which is a majority of the Air Force the upgrade will be nearly transparent. The biggest changes will be seen by those changing from Windows XP."
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Why Computer Science Grads are unemployable-> 0

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 01 2010, @12:37PM

An anonymous reader writes "A banking headhunter lets rip at the pathetic quality of new computer science graduates who only know Java and seem scared of the technology they are supposed to have mastered. To make it even nastier Dominic Connor is a CS grad himself, having debugged O/S code for IBM and Microsoft, a task that newbies seem to reagrd with the suspersititous fear you'd expect from medieval peasants."
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OpenOffice declare their independence from Oracle-> 0

Submitted by Google85 on Tuesday September 28 2010, @06:03AM

Google85 writes "The OpenOffice.org Project has unveiled a major restructuring that separates itself from Oracle and that takes responsibility for OpenOffice away from a single company.
From now on, OpenOffice's development and direction will be decided by a steering committee of developers and national language project managers.
Driving home the changes, OpenOffice.org project is now The Document Foundation while the OpenOffice.org suite has been given the temporary name of LibreOffice."
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Ex-Air Force come clean on UFO visits-> 0

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AbbeyRoad

on Tuesday September 28 2010, @05:36AM

AbbeyRoad writes "An ex-U.S. air force chief has given an astonishing account of an encounter with a UFO at an air force base in Suffolk. Charles Halt is one of a number of senior former airmen who went public today over claims that UFOs had tampered with nuclear missiles in the U.S. and the UK. Mr Halt, who retired in 1991, told a press conference that he was working at RAF Bentwater near Rendelsham in Suffolk in 1980 when he had the terrifying encounter. He said that early one morning in December 1980 several of his base's security forces saw lights in the forest near Woodbridge."
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Alien hunters plan to supercharge search for ET -> 0

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 20 2010, @07:12AM

An anonymous reader writes "The Seti Institute's research director Jill Tarter talks about how telescope array and supercomputer upgrades will help the institute search for evidence of alien life in the vicinity of at least one million stars over the next 10 years — 500 times more than have been examined in the past."
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Universal physics 'constant' actually varies-> 0

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 20 2010, @05:42AM

An anonymous reader writes "The fine structure constant, a measure of the electromagnetic force that binds electrons to their nuclei in atoms, is not a constant: it varies in different areas of the universe, report Australian and British astronomers."
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OpenX Vulnerability leaves sites open to attack-> 0

Submitted by bossanovalithium on Thursday September 16 2010, @07:33AM

bossanovalithium writes "An OpenX vulnerability is leaving legitimate and popular websites wide open to malware attacks — by getting into the nuts and bolts and tinkering with the advertising.

Tucows, the popular download site, confirmed that it's part of an OpenX server vulnerability. "We detected the intrusion, patched the vulnerability in OpenX and resolved the issue quickly," said general manager Andy Walker.

The code is being loaded in from external domains. When planted on a website it hosts a downloadable exploit from advertising servers which will put the Bredolab trojan onto a computer."
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Skyhook sues Google over Motorola map deal -> 0

Submitted by AHuxley on Thursday September 16 2010, @07:31AM

AHuxley writes "Location-services provider Skyhook Wireless is taking Google to federal and state court in Massachusetts.
Patent infringement claims and business interference relate to Android and Google Maps not allowing Skyhook's mapping technology Motorola's Android handsets.
Did Google ask for Skyhook's technology be removed from Motorola handsets or Google would remove Android certification from those handsets?
A separate complaint regarding the patent claims was filed in federal court.
Skyhook was funded in part by Allen & Company (http://www.skyhookwireless.com/whoweare/management.php). Allen & Company had George Tenet of CIA fame as a managing director."
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google-hr-spying-> 0

Submitted by on Thursday September 16 2010, @07:13AM

An anonymous reader writes "I was reading through this wired news item (http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/09/google-spy) and have an experience which is kinda similar and would like to know your thoughts if this is breach of privacy policy by google. I have an anonymous private blog which i host on blogspot.com, this blog is not linked or published or advertised anywhere. After applying to google for an open position i found many hits on my statcounter on the blog which tell that the blog was read by someone in google network. These hits were not by the search-bot which has its own signature when it crawls up on sites. The only thing that could link me to this blog specified in the resume was my email id — and this private blog of mine is linked to this email id.

Your thought? — Is this breach of privacy?"
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Quantity vs. Quality in game development 0

Submitted by on Thursday September 16 2010, @06:58AM

An anonymous reader writes "I am a flash game developer for an educational company. I've been here for over a year now and have been slowly changing the culture of the game development. We now have small beta groups for new games and outsource a lot less. The owner has started to get impatient though and wants to get more and more games out. I see about 3 new game proposals a week and they are starting to talk about freelancing out the ones I don't have time to do. They expect the entire build time of a game to be under 40 hours before moving on to the next game. Is there a good way to get the owner to understand that we need quality over quantity? Or am I wrong and should we just keep putting out a large quantity without a focus on the individual quality?"