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An anonymous reader writes "CoolTechZone.com has reviewed Cardo's latest S640 wireless Bluetooth headset. What makes this headset so unique is that unlike an over the ear design, this one clips on to your shirt which makes it less obvious and tiring to your ears. Apparently it's the world first headset with a design like this. The author concludes, "All in all, the Cardo S640 ($59.99) is a must have product for mobile users who are looking for an excellent and unobtrusive way of keeping in touch with family and friends."
http://www.cooltechzone.com/Reviews/Audio_Reviews/Cardo_S640_Bluetooth_Headset_Review_200707202886/

TasaDasa writes "WASHINGTON (Reuters ) — A man with an unusually tiny brain managed to live an entirely normal life despite his condition, caused by a fluid buildup in his skull, French researchers reported on Thursday. Scans of the 44-year-old man's brain showed that a huge fluid-filled chamber called a ventricle took up most of the room in his skull, leaving little more than a thin sheet of actual brain tissue."

An anonymous reader writes "Now that RoboCup is over, you may be looking for other robot challenges. This summer there are at least two competitions and a couple of sweepstakes to give away robots. The easy way: you can enter to win robots by taking a survey on Robots and Education, or answer a 1-question quiz on dinosaurs to win a Pleo (hint: the devil did NOT bury fossilized dinos to test your faith). The harder way: you can win $5k or some Creates from iRobot by designing and building your own creation. Finally, you can enter the premier research robotics competition and exhibition at AAAI."

LinuxCowboy writes "I have a website that has a web service that I want to access from a mobile phone/pda/smartphone/blackberry via a custom application. What platform(s) do people recommend for development? I've been warned that certain service providers really limit what types of applications can be installed and used on their devices, so any issues you've had deploying and/or running custom apps on a given platform is useful as well. I do, however, live in the US, so I'm afraid that for now I am only interested in carriers and platforms that are available here."

BethEllen writes "Hi — Saw today's post on the Chinese nuclear sub prototype visible on Google Maps. Thought you would be interested in this slide show highlighting some of the cooler, and stranger, sights found using Google Earth, including crop circles and a 1.8-square-mile scale model of a disputed region on the border of China and India. http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,134186/article.h tml?tk=pr_googe-ss Best, Beth"
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,134186/article.html?tk=pr_googe-ss

NEMESIS09 writes "A state forensics scientist who said she tested DNA in her husband's underwear to find out whether he was cheating could be disciplined if investigators determine she violated the use of state equipment. I'm really glad my wife isn't a Forensic Scientist! ;0)

http://kutv.com/watercooler/local_story_186145825. html"

Computer performance have increased at an amazing rate in recent years, and unfortunately so does power consumption. An ultimate gaming system equipped with a quad-core processor, two NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra, 4 sticks of DDR2 memory and a few hard drives can easily consume 500W without doing anything! To reduce power wastage, a few industry standards have been developed to make our computers work more efficiently like APM and ACPI. ACPI is the successor of APM and is explained in detail in this article.

Spc. Sharki writes "A technology tested by U.S. Joint Forces Command (USJFCOM) designed to locate enemy combatants by the sound of their weapons is ready for testing in a combat environment, according to USJFCOM officials."
http://www.jfcom.mil/newslink/storyarchive/2007/pa062107.html

hoyeru writes "We asked Americans about current events, history and cultural literacy. And we got some pretty disheartening results.

Even today, more than four years into the war in Iraq, as many as four in ten Americans (41 percent) still believe Saddam Hussein's regime was directly involved in financing, planning or carrying out the terrorist attacks on 9/11, even though no evidence has surfaced to support a connection. A majority of Americans were similarly unable to pick Saudi Arabia in a multiple-choice question about the country where most of the 9/11 hijackers were born. Just 43 percent got it right — and a full 20 percent thought most came from Iraq.

http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/2249

or from http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19375611/site/newsweek /"

An anonymous reader writes "With all the recent talk of cooperation between Microsoft and Linux vendors, it's nice to see Linux offering a helping hand to Microsoft's latest offspring. A review at LinuxDevices takes a look at the recently introduced firewall-in-USB-key from Israeli startup Yoggie. The Yoggie Pico works in conjunction with low-level Windows drivers that sit below the TCP/IP stack, commandeering network traffic from all interfaces, and routing it to Yoggie via USB (the Pico contains a 13-layer firewall stack, including various patented agents). To test the Pico, the author connects it to a Windows Vista PC, and pummels the setup with security auditing scripts downloaded from Nessus.org. The author concludes, 'The Vista host failed to crash, despite warnings from Nessus.org about the potency of its scripts, and we continued using it to surf the Web, blissfully unaware of the attack except when we checked the Yoggie's dashboard, or noticed the wildly blinking lights on our switch.'"

Jennifer MacMahon writes "

Press Start | Programs; and right-click on "Accessories," then press "Open." Close the window that opens up, then go to your taskbar (next to the system clock) and hover over an icon, what do you see?

For 13 years, Windows has had a bug where tooltips will appear behind the taskbar, making them impossible to read. This bug was invented along with explorer.exe back in 1994 with Windows 95, and now, 13 years later, still persists in Windows Vista & Microsoft's only "solution" is to reboot your PC!

A 3rd party patch by NeoSmart Technologies' called ToolTipFixer seems to have accomplished what Microsoft couldn't — in just 2 hours and 88kb at that!"
http://neosmart.net/blog/2007/windows-xps-repulsive-hidden-tooltip-bug-fixed/

mzs writes "Do you think your job is bad? What if you had to scuba dive in toxic chemicals AND surrounded by hypodermic needles? That's right the 2007 Worst Jobs in Science as per Popular Science are in. Anyone have it worse than these folks?"
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/printerfriendly/science/0203101256a23110vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html

An anonymous reader writes "A group of researchers have written a paper that lays out an attacks against Tor, in enough detail to cause Roger Dingledine a fair amount of heartburn. The essential attacks are: Tor doesn't verify claims of uptime or bandwidth, allowing an attacker to advertise more than it need deliver, and thus draw traffic. If the attacker controls the entry and exit node and has decent clocks, then the attacker can link these together and trace someone through the network. Yowza!"

virusfree writes "Sorting has always been important in computer science. An article has been published about BitFast, a new algorithm (belongs to Hash algorithms family) that can sort a linked list up to 10 times faster than MergeSort Source codes are available to download and test it yourself"

athar writes "The Canadian Supreme Court, in an unanimous 9-0 decision, struck down the security certificate regime in Canada, whereby foreigners could be detained indefinitely on the basis of secret evidence, with no real ability to challenge their detention. The Court ruled that the regime violated the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and has given the government one year to rectify the regime. The decision is in stark contrast to the current legal situation in the United States."