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Comment: Re:This is one of the reason I want to see this mo (Score 1) 279

by duncan99 on Thursday May 01 2008, @01:12PM (#23266108) Attached to: The Science of Iron Man

They're getting ready to redo it, apparently... http://www.superheroes-r-us.com/index.php/2008/all-new-iron-manual-on-may-14/ Here's info on the first one: http://www.advancediron.org/iron-man-specials/the-iron-manual-1993

Mozilla quietly resurrects Eudora 0

Submitted by Stony Stevenson on Wednesday September 05 2007, @06:47AM

Stony Stevenson writes "Developers at the Mozilla Foundation have released the first beta versions of the new Eudora email application. The Eudora 8.0 beta releases for Mac and Windows are the first new versions of since Qualcomm discontinued commercial development of the application in October 2006, turning it over to the open source community.

Since then, a new version of Eudora codenamed Penelope has been built from elements of Mozilla's Thunderbird. "We are committed to preserving the Eudora user experience and maintaining maximum compatibility for developers and users with Thunderbird," said the developers."

Rural broadband crisis hurts residents & compa-> 1

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Ian Lamont

on Monday August 27 2007, @01:20PM

Ian Lamont writes "Thanks to profit-oriented telco industry in the U.S., rural residents don't have as much access to broadband services as those who live in urban or suburban areas. According to the federal government, just 17% of rural U.S. households subscribe to broadband service. But the problem is more than a conflict between Wall Street and small-town residents wanting to surf the 'Net or play Warcraft — the lack of broadband access prevents many businesses from growing and diversifying rural economies, as it's expensive or impossible to get broadband:

Soon after moving to Gilsum, N.H. (population 811), [Kim] Rossey learned that he couldn't get broadband to support his Web programming business, TooCoolWebs. DSL wasn't available, and the local cable service provider wasn't interested in extending the cabling for its broadband service the three-tenths of a mile required to reach Rossey's house — even if he paid the full $7,000 cost. Rossey ended up signing a two-year, $450-per-month contract for a T1 line that delivers 1.44Mbit/sec. of bandwidth. He pays 10 times more than the cable provider would have charged and receives one quarter of the bandwidth.
The author also notes that larger businesses are being crimped, from a national call center to a national retailer which claims 17% of its store locations can't get broadband."
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Top 10 Wackiest Conspiracy Theories 0

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 13 2007, @08:14AM

An anonymous reader writes "Dinosauroid-like Alien Reptiles are dominating the World, Apollo 11 Moon Landings were faked by NASA, September 11 was orchestrated by the U. S. government, Barcodes are really intended to Control people, Microsoft sends messages on Wingdings Font, U.S. military caused the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, The Nazis had a Moon Base, Kentucky Fried Chicken makes black men impotent? All these "facts" explored..."

Corporate IT security-> 0

Submitted by

Thomas Allen

on Monday August 13 2007, @06:46AM

Thomas Allen writes "We all know that employees often represent our biggest security risk. But the Wall Street Journal seems to be giving them more fodder for breaching corporate security. Bob Evans of InformationWeek takes the Journal to task for what he calls irresponsible advice on how to "circumvent corporate IT policies to breach network security, visit blocked sites without getting caught, access confidential work documents remotely, and otherwise trash every cybersecurity policy a company has." As an IT professional, I found the Journal's coverage very troubling, so I'm glad they're being called on it."
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