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Cheney is Definitely a Lying Shill for Corporation-> 0

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Mike Kuykendall

on Sunday August 12 2007, @11:20AM

Mike Kuykendall writes "The clearest video evidence yet of the duplicity of the current, corporate-sponsored Vice-President of the United States of America."
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Wrinkles in nanoscale-sized films 0

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Roland Piquepaille

on Sunday August 12 2007, @11:10AM

Roland Piquepaille writes "An international team of scientists from Chile, the Netherlands and the U.S. has found a very simple way to measure the material properties of thin films having a thickness of only a dozen nanometers. The researchers just dropped water on thin film floating in a Petri dish. This causes wrinkles to appear on the ultrathin polymer films they've tested. And they found that the number and length of the wrinkles are determined by the elasticity and thickness of the film. In other words, they've found an easy way to discover the mechanical properties of films which might be used for applications such as cosmetics, coatings, and nanoelectronics. Read more for additional references and pictures of wrinkles in nanotechnology-based films."

Mozilla IronMonkey and ScreamingMonkey 0

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mritunjai

on Sunday August 12 2007, @09:26AM

mritunjai writes "Mozilla foundation has started work on IronMonkey and ScreamingMonkey projects this summer. According to an interview given to Artima, this would be beginning of The Browser Scripting Revolution. IronMonkey is an effort to integrate Microsoft .NET CLR into Tamarin Javascript VM donated by Adobe to Mozilla. This would enable Mozilla browsers to eventually be able to run web applications written in Python (IronPython) and Ruby (IronRuby) and presumably other .NET languages like C# apart from Javascript. ScreamingMonkey is an effort to integrate the (.NET enabled) Tamarin VM into other browsers starting with Microsoft Internet Explorer. Java was not considered as it was not open source when the decision was taken."

Make Life Easy with XML Schema Standard Library 0

Submitted by IdaAshley on Thursday August 02 2007, @04:34PM

IdaAshley writes "XML validation enables you to create complex rules that define acceptable data. But they're no good to anybody unless you use them. In this tip, you learn to use the XML Schema Standard Type Library to simplify the process of requiring formatted data such as e-mail addresses and telephone numbers."

Midway Only One Solid Franchise Away from Profitab-> 0

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njkid1

on Thursday August 02 2007, @04:28PM

njkid1 writes "Midway and profitable aren't words that are readily associated with each other. Year after year the struggling publisher reports losses — last year's was $77.8 million — but Wedbush Morgan Securities analyst Michael Pachter thinks the publisher's fortunes could be on the rise."
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Electrostatic Magnet Motor Made from Kitchen Stuff-> 0

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Sterling Allan

on Thursday August 02 2007, @04:19PM

Sterling Allan writes "Scott F. Hall, an associate professor of art at the University of Central Florida, was tinkering around with stuff in his kitchen and came up with a continuously rotating mechanism that appears to harness electrostatic energy from the atmosphere — or something. The gizmo spins at around 80 revolutions per minute, and is constructed from a can of dog food, tooth picks, refrigerator magnets, a pencil, spring clips, and a small corner cut out of a box. Three toothpics are formed into an inverted tripod and spin atop the fourth toothpick held vertical by a spring clip that has magnets situated around the base. A graphite pencil is held over the the point of the inverted tripod via another spring clip sitting atop the can of dog food. Hall (suitable last name) posted a video at YouTube showing the gizmo running. The next day, he posted another video showing a round paperweight spinning (though not continuously) via magnets placed on its perimeter, with magnets on two adjoining dog food cans."
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Office 2008 for Mac delayed until January 2008 0

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thefickler

on Thursday August 02 2007, @04:06PM

thefickler writes "Microsoft has announced that Office 2008 for Mac, originally slated for a 2007 release, will now be released in January 2008. No specific reasons were pinpointed in the announcement other than the software was not meeting its quality checkpoints in June and July of this year. Surprise, surprise."

Burj Dubai - The new world's tallest building-> 2

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MoNSt3r

on Thursday August 02 2007, @04:01PM

MoNSt3r writes "Now coming back to the topic, Burj Dubai is being constructed in "New Downtown" of Dubai and on Saturday, 21 July 2007, the developers reported it's height as 512.1 metres with 141 completed floors surpassing the Taipei 101 (509.2 m) as the tallest high-rise building in the world. Amazing isn't it? :)"
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Mac users' Internet experience to remain seamless 2

Submitted by thefickler on Thursday August 02 2007, @04:00PM

thefickler writes "Mac users will continue to see the Internet as it was intended, thanks to the renewal of a font licensing agreement between Microsoft and Apple. At TypeCon2007 Microsoft and Apple announced they have renewed their font licensing agreement, giving Apple users ongoing use of the latest versions of Microsoft Windows core fonts.

Back in 1996 Microsoft started the "Core fonts for the Web" initiative. The idea of this initiative was to create a a standard pack of fonts that would be present on all or most computers, allowing web pages to be displayed consistently on different computers. While the project was terminated in 2002, some of the fonts defined as core fonts for the web have gone on to become known as "web safe fonts", and are therefore widely used by Internet developers."

Point and click Gmail hacking at Black Hat-> 0

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not5150

on Thursday August 02 2007, @03:51PM

not5150 writes "Using Gmail or most other webmail programs over an unsecured access points just got a bit more dangerous. At Black Hat, Robert Graham, CEO of errata security, showed how to capture and clone session cookies. He even hijacked a shocked attendee's Gmail account in the middle of his Black Hat speech."
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