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Submission + - Hydrogen generation on demand

Submitted by fragMasterFlash on Thursday May 17, 2007 @04:01PM

fragMasterFlash writes: Physorg.com has an article detailing on-demand hydrogen generation techniques being perfected at Purdue University. "The hydrogen is generated on demand, so you only produce as much as you need when you need it"

Submission + - Kids Environment Influences Reproductive Function

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Thursday May 17, 2007 @03:46PM

Anonymous Coward writes: "Researchers demonstrate that female reproductive function is influenced by childhood environment. This suggests there is a critical window of time from about 0-8 years of age that determines the rate at which girls physically mature and how high their reproductive hormone levels reach as adults."

Submission + - Why is OpenDNS redirecting Google?

Submitted by bradt on Thursday May 17, 2007 @03:39PM

bradt writes: Yesterday, a friend suggested that I check out OpenDNS.com as a way to "speed up" my internet connection... I did a few DNS lookups with dig to see if they were faster than my ISP, and discovered that OpenDNS is redirecting www.google.com to their domain! It seems that this issue has been going on for at least a month, and has been discussed in the OpenDNS Forum and in Google Groups as well.

Submission + - Web 2.0: Find Mirrors And Caches Of Popular Digg N

Submitted by

msgbeepa

on Thursday May 17, 2007 @03:38PM

msgbeepa writes: "DuggBack is a service trying to help you find mirrors and caches of popular Digg news items. It is a service that lets you quickly find and shuffle through complete website mirrors and web caches of sites that has been hit by the Digg Effect."

Submission + - Poland: Held by police for translating movies

Submitted by

michuk

on Thursday May 17, 2007 @03:34PM

michuk writes: "Nine people involved in a community portal Napisy.org were held for questioning by the Polish police forces this Wednesday. They will be probably accused of publishing illegal translations of foreign movies (which is forbidden by Polish copyright law). Napisy.org website was shut down immediately afterwards by the German forces (since the servers were located in Germany). The service was the most popular Polish on-line portal where users were free to submit translated subtitles for popular movies."

Submission + - SF Elections Adopts Open Voting Policy

Submitted by Onymous Coward on Thursday May 17, 2007 @03:18PM

Onymous Coward writes: Last night (May 16), the San Francisco Elections Committee established two policies that promote Open Voting: that reasonable effort should be used to select technology that is at a minimum publicly-disclosed, and to prioritize systems and vendors that provide open voting-level security and transparency when contracting. The Open Voting Consortium provides an announcement.

Submission + - Review of Motorola Z6 running on new Linux platfor

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Thursday May 17, 2007 @03:13PM

Anonymous Coward writes: "MobileBurn.com has published a complete review of the new Motorola MOTOROKR Z6, one of the company's new mobile phones that run on a Linux platform. There is even a screen shot showing part of the GNU Public License on one page."

Submission + - Nuclear Waste

Submitted by Take my taxes, please. on Thursday May 17, 2007 @03:08PM

Take my taxes, please. writes: I have a friend who works for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. This person told me that chairman Dale E. Klein (http://interactive.snm.org/index.cfm?PageID=5308& RPID=277) has mandated that the NRC convert its office software systems to Microsoft products (Word, Excel, Outlook, etc.) from Corel's suite, switching over a system that, in my friend's opine, 'works just fine'. This sounds fishy to me. Being that the current systems interact with other proprietary systems within the commission, does this retraining, reprogramming, and extra licensing sound like an efficient streamlining move, or a disruptive mandate to fix what ain't broken so that the organization matches what the new boss is most comfortable with? I feel for my friend, but I feel more for my tax bill.

Submission + - GOP Chairman Trying to Bar Ron Paul

Submitted by

Hubbell

on Thursday May 17, 2007 @02:41PM

Hubbell writes: "Saul Anuzis, Chairman of GOP in Michigan is starting a petition to bar Ron Paul from future GOP debates "because of remarks the Texas congressman made that suggested the Sept. 11 attacks were the fault of U.S. foreign policy.""

Submission + - Cracked before it's even out the door

Submitted by Lord_Ukko on Thursday May 17, 2007 @02:09PM

Lord_Ukko writes: The boys and girls have done it again. The new keys for AACS have already been cracked and the discs aren't even on store shelves yet. You can find the story on Ars Technica. Here is the link.

Submission + - Why the hate for database music management?

Submitted by

conigs

on Thursday May 17, 2007 @01:19PM

conigs writes: "One of the things we as geeks often champion is a database file system. We tend to agree that it would offer much more freedom over the antiquated file-folder paradigm. Our files are digital; they can live anywhere. Why should they be limited to existing in one folder/directory (saved searched/aliases/shortcuts/links aside)? If we acknowledge the advantages of a database file system, why do so many people rally against a database music/media library? Music already has a plethora of metadata associated with it, making flexible, on the fly organization possible. Why limit its organization to a rigid folder hierarchy? This issue tends to come about often when discussing iTunes/iPod and how so many people just want to drag their music from their file system and not be bothered by the database.

The general complaints about Apple/iTunes/iPods aside, what do people have against a database music library?"

Submission + - Don't suffer with constipation, Isagenix will help

Submitted by

noviorbis

on Thursday May 17, 2007 @01:08PM

noviorbis writes: "How to beat constipation, IBS, bloating, stomach pain and skin problems while gaining more energy and a flatter stomach at the same time Yes it can be done. It is so amazing, so many people suffer for years from the above mentioned problems, they use products such as Milk of Magnesia, Pepto Biznal and others, and believe they will cure them."

Submission + - Skill based immigration better than H1B?

Submitted by ghoul on Thursday May 17, 2007 @12:53PM

ghoul writes: Congress is talking about shifting to skill based immigration instead of family based immigration. This should immediately make it easier for Indian and Chinese Engineers and Scientists to immigrate on green cards without needing to go through the H1B no mans land. This is because under the current system they get stuck as the quota are set to be 7% of total from any country in the world irrespective of population size. This means the Vatican gets the same sized quota as China or India. In the new system the losers are Latin Americans who are mostly unskilled labourers (note mostly I know quite a few Brilliant latin american post grads) but used to be able to get in easier as there being a large number of latin american countires each country got 7%. How does the Slashdot community which has strong opinions on H1B feel about this? As these new workers will be on Green cards they wont be beholden to companies and should not depress the market as they wont take any shit from companies. In fact if the green card process can be shortened down to 6 months H1Bs can be abolished all together. Given this if people still feel this is not right are we still talking about protecting jobs or about fear of the stranger? Canada, Britain and Australia seem to be doing very well with these kind of point based systems.

Submission + - When will broadcast TV die?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 17, 2007 @12:49PM

An anonymous reader writes: This article about how to hook up your PC to your living room TV ends up predicting that "I think in the future, the broadcast stations will all turn off. There is a very limited amount of content on them." The billion+ videos on sites like YouTube, Revver or LuluTV dwarf the broadcast and cable stations that are "numbered in the hundreds." Is the snacky nature of Internet video going to rollover the old school broadcast stations? Or will the low cost of broadcasting to millions give the old stations a perpeptual advantage of the new Internet sites that must pay bandwidth to deliver each and every copy?

Submission + - FAQ: The H-1B battle

Submitted by jcatcw on Thursday May 17, 2007 @12:47PM

jcatcw writes: The federal government received, in a single day, far more applications for H-1B visas than the 65,000 alloted. Now, both the Senate and the House are considering raising the cap at the urging of high-tech companies. In the House, a broad immigration bill called the STRIVE Act of 2007, for Security Through Regularized Immigration and a Vibrant Economy, includes a proposal to raise the annual H-1B cap to 115,000 visas at first and to as many as 180,000 visas in the future — figures that could match what the Senate proposes in its reform bill. President Bush has repeatedly voiced support for an H-1B cap increase.

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