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Submission + - Team to Use PS3,YDL in DARPA Urban Challenge

Submitted by

fistfullast33l

on Saturday August 04, 2007 @09:03PM

fistfullast33l writes: "While the PS3's Linux distribution has taken some hits for running inside a hypervisor that limits access to some hardware, the Axion Racing team has announced they will be using a PS3 running Yellow Dog Linux in their entry for the DARPA Urban Challenge in November 2007. "We felt having cars drive themselves was getting a little too easy, so we threw the Sony PlayStation into our bag of tricks," joked Bill Kehaly, Axion Racing's team leader. The PS3 will be in charge of examining information from an RGB road finding camera, and will be utilizing the Cell processor's multithreading capabilities to do so."

Submission + - Saltwater as an Energy Source (youtube.com)

Submitted by Everette Scott on Tuesday June 05, 2007 @12:42AM

Everette Scott writes: John Kanzius, an inventor from Erie, PA, has discovered a method for turning ordinary saltwater into usable energy. Kanzius uses a machine he invented to create radio waves to actually ignite ordinary saltwater. The energy created is in the form of a flame that won't even burn a paper towel. The flame burns at approximately 3000 degrees Fahrenheit. The energy created has been used to power a specially designed engine for up to 2 minutes. He also believes that the machine could be used to fight cancer.
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Saltwater as an energy source? Go figure...

Submission + - Need suggestions about where to post warning Blog

Submitted by on Friday June 01, 2007 @10:53PM

An anonymous reader writes: Had an extremely bad/exasperating experience with a so-called Web developer/designer "team" based in Russia. I definitely want to warn other prospective clients to AVOID making the same mistake I made and working with or trusting these people/person/site again. Can anyone suggest helpful sites that would suffer my blog and its bad news, where it would reach this audience of prospective clients looking to get a cheap website built, so they can avoid my misfortune?

Submission + - From the anti-intuitve desk: Web Hurts Porn! (nytimes.com)

Submitted by

ctwxman

on Friday June 01, 2007 @10:26PM

ctwxman writes: "Look around the web more than a few seconds and it's tough to avoid stumbling over porn (honest boss, I stumbled over it). It's that incredible availability and the ease with which porn can be created that's taken the steam out of steamy movies. From The New York Times: "And unlike consumers looking for music and other media, viewers of pornography do not seem to mind giving up brand-name producers and performers for anonymous ones, or a well-lighted movie set for a ratty couch at an amateur videographer's house." I believe the Times is saying, "content is kink!""

Submission + - Kazhaks Ask for Presidential Tech Advice

Submitted by

ryutin

on Friday June 01, 2007 @07:46PM

ryutin writes: "Kazhakstan is preparing for a presidential webcast on June 7.

The #1 question on the mind of Kazhak's to ask President Nursultan Nabarbayev: "How does one patch KDE under FreeBSD?" I guess the Beastie rules in Kazhakstan.

The #2 question is "when the authorities will start chopping off civil servants' tongues for lying to the president in the most outrageous way?" Perhaps Borat is at work here. For the love of humanity, I hope so..."

Submission + - Java Interview Questions (interviewquestion.us)

Submitted by

chattous

on Thursday May 31, 2007 @02:16AM

chattous writes: "With respect to multithreading, synchronization is the capability to control the access of multiple threads to shared resources. Without synchonization, it is possible for one thread to modify a shared variable while another thread is in the process of using or updating same shared variable. This usually leads to significant errors."

Submission + - New OSX86 Site Hits The Scene! (osxx86.info)

Submitted by

The Creator 1

on Thursday May 31, 2007 @01:59AM

The Creator 1 writes: "A new OSX86 website has hit the scene. This website has a few of the insanleymac and hackint0sh people on it and currently has no censoring. This community started about a year ago when OSx86 became popular. It is mainly a forum but there is also an installation guide to get osx86 working on your computer without much trouble. The people there are friendly and i find it to be a great site compared to insanelymac. The site really helped me with getting osx86 running and a huge thanks to all the mods and the 3 admins there!"

Submission + - Discover Magazine Archive Made Available

Submitted by

laggist

on Wednesday May 23, 2007 @03:07AM

laggist writes: "Today while I was surfing around online, I realised that Discover Magazine had made it's entire archive freely accessible since mid-March 2007. I thought it was strange that I didn't get the scoop since I read slashdot all the time, so here it is for all you Slashdotters — read away!"

Submission + - Is Ubuntu the Linux for Law Firms?

Submitted by hax0r_this on Wednesday May 23, 2007 @02:15AM

hax0r_this writes: Law.com is running a story questioning whether Ubuntu is the remedy to the Vista woes that law firms (like everyone else) are suffering. "To Vista or not to Vista; is that really the question? With Microsoft's long-awaited operating-system upgrade, well ... upon us ... it might be time to consider alternatives. Apple's fine Unix-based OS X is certainly an option, but if you're balking at investing in the new hardware you'll need to support Microsoft's new graphically seductive, resource-gobbling OS, do you really want to replace all your Windows machines with Macs?" The article touches on Ubuntu's plug and play abilities, criticizes its default color scheme and seems to conclude that "The feature of Ubuntu that is most likely to move this distro into the enterprise competitively is Canonicals' licensing model. The company does not impose a restriction on deploying a Linux enterprise subscription on every server. Instead, Ubuntu is free software licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL)."

Submission + - Sex Offender Banned By MySpace Asks, Why Me?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 23, 2007 @01:33AM

An anonymous reader writes: A registered sex offender tells WIRED what it's like to be one of the 7,000 offenders kicked off MySpace as part of its new database-driven purge. "Carl H." claims his nonviolent sex crime was committed nine years ago, and didn't involve children. "I use (MySpace) for the most part to find good music bands to listen to, as well as more buddies to game with... Are we so choked by fear as a country that we've forgotten or denied the ability of persons to change?" MySpace has an appeal process, but only in cases of misidentification.

Submission + - Why didn't Xerox sue Microsoft over point & cl

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Wednesday May 23, 2007 @12:41AM

Anonymous Coward writes: "I found a 1986 Xerox patent for what looks like a point and click browsing interface for disk drives. Also seperating the screen into 'panels' which can perform different functions. Windows 1.0 came out in December 1985? I have heard that both Microsoft and Apple stole the windows concept from Xerox but this is the first actual paper I have seen on the subject. Which I found searching Google Patents"

Submission + - interview with Symantec official about botnets

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Wednesday May 23, 2007 @12:25AM

Anonymous Coward writes: "listen to a half-hour interview with Oliver Friedrichs, Director of Emerging Technologies, Symantec Security Response, talking about "Cyberwar in the Baltics: the Attack on Estonia and the Botnet Threat," at: http://www.etopiamedia.net/isc/pages/isc1-5551212. html"

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