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+ - Gaddafi dies of wounds-> 0

Submitted by beaverdownunder on Thursday October 20, 2011 @08:22AM

beaverdownunder writes "(Reuters) — Former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi died of wounds suffered in his capture near his hometown of Sirte on Thursday, a senior NTC military official said.

National Transitional Council official Abdel Majid Mlegta told Reuters earlier that Gaddafi was captured and wounded in both legs at dawn on Thursday as he tried to flee in a convoy which NATO warplanes attacked.

"He was also hit in his head," the official said. "There was a lot of firing against his group and he died."

There was no independent confirmation of his remarks."
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+ - iPadian - iPad simulator for windows-> 0

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 20, 2011 @07:49AM

An anonymous reader writes "i would like to submit my software iPadian for review , it's a iPad simulator for windows . a standalone adobe air application (35 mb) including many web apps like games ,news, magazing , chats..."
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+ - British Police Force In Court Over Copyright 'Thef-> 0

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judgecorp

on Wednesday October 19, 2011 @10:51AM

judgecorp writes "The West Yorkshire police force is in the British High court today, accused of stealing intellectual property from a firn whose software decodes forensic data from mobile phones. Forensic Telecoms Services claims the force illegally used and sold copyright data from a commercial mobile phone forensics application it had been using in high profile cases."
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Comment: Re:Missing option - surprise! (Score 2) 585

by mr fog on Thursday May 19, 2011 @05:17AM (#36176444) Attached to: The world will end ...

Be careful about saying something in the future will happen at an unexpected time - it can lead to all sorts of logical paradoxical problems: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unexpected_hanging_paradox

Comment: Re:Carpentry (Score 1) 2288

by mr fog on Thursday April 21, 2011 @04:55AM (#35890868) Attached to: Why Does the US Cling To Imperial Measurements?

What a ridiculous argument. What's a tenth of a yard then?

Comment: Re:Not so bad to have different systems. (Score 1) 2288

by mr fog on Thursday April 21, 2011 @04:47AM (#35890832) Attached to: Why Does the US Cling To Imperial Measurements?

Er no. We buy beer in 568 millilitre measurements. Which just happens to be equal to an imperial pint....

Comment: Already blocked in some UK government bodies (Score 1) 178

by mr fog on Thursday March 24, 2011 @06:56AM (#35596712) Attached to: Aussie PM Office Calls For Government Ban On Gmail, Hotmail

My wife works for the FSA and cannot access gmail/yahoo there.

US Air Force Buying Another 2,200 PS3s 144

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday November 25, 2009 @05:02AM
from the quick-who-knows-a-good-ps3-flight-sim dept.

bleedingpegasus sends word that the US Air Force will be grabbing up 2,200 new PlayStation 3 consoles for research into supercomputing. They already have a cluster made from 336 of the old-style (non-Slim) consoles, which they've used for a variety of purposes, including "processing multiple radar images into higher resolution composite images (known as synthetic aperture radar image formation), high-def video processing, and 'neuromorphic computing.'" According to the Justification Review Document (DOC), "Once the hardware configuration is implemented, software code will be developed in-house for cluster implementation utilizing a Linux-based operating software."

Comment: How did they measure the hardness? (Score 2, Interesting) 450

by mr fog on Tuesday August 30, 2005 @07:11AM (#13434476) Attached to: New Material Harder Than Diamond

Reading TFA, they apparently used a Diamond Anvil Cell to measure the hardness. This apprently consists of "two opposing cone-shaped diamonds squeezed together by a lever arm" (wikipedia).

So my question is: If this stuff is harder than diamonds, surely the "opposing cone-shaped diamonds" would deform before the sample being measured?