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WirePosted writes "A new report from the Nemertes Research Group has studied the Internet's infrastructure and analyzed usage patterns to predict that Internet usage by consumers and corporations could 'outstrip network capacity' worldwide in just over two years, requiring massive financial investment. Will the Internet survive?"
http://www.itwire.com/content/view/15496/1103/

The map - created by bouncing sound and light off the ocean floor - pinpoints the source of the mythical 15-metre waves beloved of surfers

http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?i=6b29d26d74de8863a37bf762d6f2e2be

DrFlounder writes "The city of Boston has apparently blocked access to Boing Boing on the municipal wifi. This is possibly due to the website's known Mooninite sympathies."

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ddelmonte writes with a link to a brietbart story on the top ten April Fools Day hoaxes, as determined by the San Diego-based Museum of Hoaxes. Two great British examples: "In 1957, a BBC television show announced that thanks to a mild winter and the virtual elimination of the spaghetti weevil, Swiss farmers were enjoying a bumper spaghetti crop. Footage of Swiss farmers pulling strands of spaghetti from trees prompted a barrage of calls from people wanting to know how to grow their own spaghetti at home. In 1977, British newspaper The Guardian published a seven-page supplement for the 10th anniversary of San Serriffe, a small republic located in the Indian Ocean consisting of several semicolon-shaped islands. A series of articles described the geography and culture of the two main islands, named Upper Caisse and Lower Caisse."

In this page ( http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/internet/n ews/2007-01-20_12043853.html ) the italian ANSA press agengy states:

In Italy, to download and share from the internet music, film or programs covered by copyrights it is not a felony if the act is not made for monetary profit. This has been sentenced by the third penal section of the Corte di Cassazione (equivalent to USA supreme court).

This ruling cancelled a sentence to 3 months and 10 days jail time inflicted by two lesser courts to two students who had downloaded and shared such content from a Computer belonging to a student union in the university politecnico of Turin.

ari gold writes "i'm a high school music/CS teacher who is (and has been) looking around for some quality open source music software. music for music classes — open source so we can develop things and work with others on projects. where better to ask then right here? what DAWs are out there? audacity? rosegarden? are there software instruments/synths/modellers? can lilypond help where finale cant?

once we get it down here, people search the slashdot archives and enter the fantastic world of open source music.."

davidwr writes "Wired has an interesting editorial on laptop searches and seizures. It raises some interesting issues including: Employee rights against police searches in the workplace, routine vs. non-routine searches at ports of entry, the implications of never deleting files, police use of unrelated data found in a database search; using a single target to get a warrant to seize all information on a computer used by the many "real" targets of law enforcement, and more.
The article ends saying, "Of course, there's a chance that the courts will not recognize the different scope of privacy interests at stake in computer searches, or will not be adept at crafting a rule that gives enough leeway and guidance to law enforcement, while also protecting privacy. At that point, the Constitution may fail us, and we will have to turn to Congress to create rules that are better adapted for the information age.""

TrumpetPower! writes "This past Thursday, in response to questioning by Senator Arlen Specter (R, PA), US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales told the Senate Judiciary committee that ``The Constitution doesn't say every individual in the United States or citizen is hereby granted or assured the right of habeas corpus. '' The exchange between Mr. Gonzales and Senator Specter has received virtually no attention from the press; Google News currently has all of a dozen or so stories. Habeas corpus is the right, in America guaranteed by Article I, Section 9, of the Constitution, which ensures that people are not unjustly imprisoned and tried."

SpaceAdmiral writes "New York City is developing a plan to allow images to be sent to 911 emergency operators from cellphones. This will likely give emergency operators better information to pass along to responders. According to John A. Feinblatt, Mayor Michael Bloomberg's criminal justice coordinator, "The more information that the police have and the more quickly that they get it, the more likely that they are going to fight a crime.""

penguinbroker writes "Former Swiss military pilot Yves Rossy has created a wearable 10ft airfoil powered by four miniature kerosene powered turbines. Can we get a tutorial in MAKE please. From the article:

"Man has dreamt of flight ever since our ancestors first saw birds soaring into the sky.And even after the dream was realised, first with hot-air balloons and later with heavier-than-air aeroplanes, the dream remained unfulfilled... There is just enough lift generated by the 10ft aerofoil strapped to his back to negate the effects of gravity. At first, after the wings are unfolded electrically, he becomes a glider then, when the four kerosene-powered engines are turned on, he becomes a jetplane. Thanks to the engines, each of which develops 22kg of thrust, he can not only maintain altitude but actually gain height, he says, at a rate of several hundred feet a minute — until the fuel runs out six minutes later. He lands with a conventional parachute.""

Croakyvoice writes "JK Rowling has today given fans of the Harry Potter books the name of Book 7 of the very popular series via a Christmas present on her site, to get to the name you need to follow a complicated procedure but thankfully the name of the book has been revealed as Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows."

JackStrife17 writes "In an attempt to reduce the clutter in my home office, I've been gathering up all of my spare disk drives, cables, screws, mice and other miscellaneous bits that I have lying around. While a tall cardboard box filled with categorized plastic and anti-static bags was once a satisfactory system of organization, it is no longer working for me. I currently access my "box of holding" about once a day where locating and retrieving things I need has become a tedious affair. With dozens of different types of tools, components, and cables that every nerd needs regular access to, how does Slashdot organize and store its own collections of tech junk?"

A Komodo Dragon in a British zoo is pregnant this holiday season. The thing is, this mother-to-be has never mated.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/12/20/uk.komo do.reut/index.html

Watch for a star over England this weekend.

cakefool writes "What geeky Presents will you be giving this year? I'm not just talking about last years liveCD's, so to start you off, I'm giving a soldering station, lucky bags of components, bag of 555's and a 555 project book to my younger brother. Additional, have you received any geeky presents in the past?"