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Photo. Experts Say 'Stop Deleting!'

Submitted by

Ant

on Monday May 14 2007, @07:59PM

Ant writes "This ABC News story says that look through any old photo album and you'll find them: wonderfully terrible family photos./photographs — the crying baby, the poorly lighted shot, the out-of-focus family, the off-center portrait. But digital cameras are changing all that, and some say family photography is becoming a lost art... Seen on Blue's News."

Web site allows users to keep track of their moods

Submitted by

jbrodkin

on Wednesday February 07 2007, @11:41AM

jbrodkin writes "This is a story about a Web site created by a Carnegie Mellon student allowing people to track their moods throughout the day by choosing colors and words that describe their emotions. The site tracks peoples' moods over time and allows them to share their moods with friends and family. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/020607-moodj am.html"

Bruce Schneier mulls psychology of security

Submitted by

bednarz

on Wednesday February 07 2007, @11:37AM

bednarz writes "Cryptography expert Bruce Schneier says security decisions often are much less rational than one would prefer. He spoke at the RSA conference about the battle that goes on in the brain when responding to security issues. From the article: The primitive portion of the brain, called the amygdala, feels fear and incites a fear-or-flight response, he pointed out. "It's very fast, faster than consciousness. But it can be overridden by higher parts of the brain." The neocortex, which in a mammalian brain is associated with consciousness, is slower but "adaptive and flexible," said Schneier, designed to work toward confronting fear and making decisions to promote security. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/020707-rsa-s chneier.html"

Apple Public Letter on DRM

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 07 2007, @11:30AM

An anonymous reader writes "Apple explains why it uses DRM for iTunes online music store. Looks to the public to pressure the Music industry for a change to DRM-free music. http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughtsonmusic/"

FSF will not ban Novell.

Submitted by lanswitch on Wednesday February 07 2007, @11:07AM

lanswitch writes "The fsf is not planning to ban Novell. Since Linux is (mostly) gplv2, it is not possible to ban 'em. And the gplv3 is not yet ready. http://enterprise.linux.com/enterprise/07/02/05/18 1235.shtml?tid=23&tid=51&tid=11"

Swedish Armed Forces Chooses Red Hat

Submitted by FFFFHALTFFFF on Wednesday February 07 2007, @10:40AM

FFFFHALTFFFF writes "Bussines Wire are reporting that Swedish Armed Forces made a decision to migrate its Windows NT servers replacing for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. According the release the main reason to migrate is "... primarily based on its advanced security features, but additionally the strong support, ease of migration and compatibility with existing in-house software were important factors". The full press release can be read here."

OEM Vista Activation Tested

Submitted by

VistaVic

on Friday January 26 2007, @11:05AM

VistaVic writes "Ever since Microsoft first announced plans for an updated user license on the retail versions of Windows Vista, debate has been raging as to what would happen with the OEM versions. OEM operating systems are popular with enthusiasts because of their lower prices but if Microsoft would not allow them to transfer the license to a new PC (or a heavily upgraded PC) then the OEM license wouldn't be of much use. PC Perspective has taken one of the early OEM versions that was released last week and put the activation to the test and found that indeed they could move the license to another PC after activation, but it required a call Microsoft's activation center."

Scientist Develops Caffeinated Baked Goods

Submitted by Zephyros on Friday January 26 2007, @10:52AM

Zephyros writes "The AP is reporting on a scientist who has found a way to get caffeine into donuts, bagels, and other baked goods without the bitter flavor. Each piece has as much caffeine as two cups of coffee. No word on when or where they will be available, but for those of us that just don't get the same kick from the morning cuppa that we used to, this may be another tasty delivery vector to look forward to for that jump-start."

Dutch might implement a tax on music downloads

Submitted by

sheean.nl

on Friday January 26 2007, @10:51AM

sheean.nl writes "The Dutch technology news-site Tweakers.net is reporting that the two major Dutch parties are considering implementing a "compensation-fee" (Dutch) on downloads of music via the internet.

According to the parties, record companies should accept that music is being downloaded from the internet without being paid for. As a compensation measure, a levy could be put on all internet subscriptions.

Dutch politician Van Dam (Labour party) considers the fight against the illegal spreading of music-files via the internet a lost one. "We must be realistic." Van Dam is interested in the idea of compensating musicians and authors for their loss of income. A prerequisite is that record companies accept that music is being spread via the internet and must thus reduce the use of DRM and other security measures.

The Christian-Democrats also consider the idea. According to Christian-Democrat Van Vroonhoven, many internet-users are using their connection to download files from the internet without paying for it. Because of this, she too is in favour of this proposal, as long as users no longer have to pay for separate downloads as well.

The two parties are currently still working on forming a coalition after the elections of last November."

Geronimo Beans and the EJB Query Language

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 26 2007, @10:25AM

An anonymous reader writes "The EJB Query Language (EJB QL) allows you to write queries without any knowledge of the relational schema governing the entity beans. This tutorial explains core concepts of the EJB QL with the help of an example Web application using an entity bean that you'll deploy on the Apache Geronimo application server."