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Submission + - CERN, LHC sets new luminosity world record (web.cern.ch)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 22, 2011 @06:46AM

An anonymous reader writes: Since last night, the Large Hadron Collider is officially the most powerful accelerator in the world. While the record energy level has been reached last year, the new luminosity level, surpassing Fermilabs achievements, happened recently. “Higher intensity means more data, and more data means greater discovery potential.”, as CERN Director General Rolf Heuer says.

Submission + - Selling Pixels - History Of Virtual Economies (stormdriver.com)

Submitted by

StormDriver

on Friday April 22, 2011 @06:41AM

StormDriver writes: "Today, virtual economies are much larger than those of many countries. In 2010 people worldwide spent $7 billion real dollars buying pixels of various shapes and sizes. That’s more than GDP of Mongolia, Malta or Haiti. And some of those pixels are really expensive. The highest amount paid for a virtual item is currently $635,000 dollars – that’s how much an anonymous person paid for the virtual night club on a virtual planet in massively multiplayer Entropia Universe game. I wonder if he got some virtual booze and virtual strippers to sweeten the deal?"

Submission + - NSF, Microsoft award 13 researchers free cloud (networkworld.com)

Submitted by alphadogg on Friday April 22, 2011 @06:24AM

alphadogg writes: Microsoft and the National Science Foundation, which in February announced plans to fund a collaborative cloud computing program for researchers, this week have revealed the program's award recipients. Thirteen awards worth a total of about $4.5 million will provide researchers from schools such as Virginia Tech and Cornell that are investigating everything from cloud security to mobile cloud computing with free access to Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud computing platform for 2 years, along with access to support personnel who will help researchers exploit the platform. The Azure platform is designed to host, scale and manage Web apps via Microsoft data centers.

Submission + - Samsung Strikes Back, Sues Apple

Submitted by chrb on Friday April 22, 2011 @05:56AM

chrb writes: Only days after Apple sued Samsung over alleged patent infringement, Samsung has struck back and filed patent lawsuits against Apple in South Korea, Japan and Germany.

Submission + - Pirate Party of Canada Starts VPN for Freedom (slipslurp.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 22, 2011 @04:33AM

An anonymous reader writes: The Pirate Party of Canada has announced that it will extend a VPN originally set up to allow people in Tunisia to browse freely while internet censorship was imposed there. Canada may soon be added to that list since the ruling Conservative Party has vowed to introduce a bill hat would provide unprecedented systematic interception and monitoring of Canadians’ personal communications. So the Pirate Party of Canada has announced it will extend that service to Canadians.

Submission + - Righthaven Gets Punked By Invalid Whois (domainnamewire.com)

Submitted by

typosquatting

on Friday April 22, 2011 @04:08AM

typosquatting writes: "Andrew Allemann of Domain Name Wire reports that Righthaven's website has been disabled and currently shows an invalid whois notice from Go Daddy. Anyone can make a complaint about invalid whois information. In Go Daddy’s case, the company sends a notice to the customer and gives them time to respond (assuming the email doesn’t bounce right away). If the domain owner doesn’t respond then the domain gets suspended and the customer is charged $10. Righthaven has been lambasted for its aggressive lawsuits, including its request that sites with copyright-infringing material hand over their domain names. So it’s a bit ironic."

Submission + - Sony vs Hackers - Who wins? (eurasia.nu)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 21, 2011 @03:59AM

An anonymous reader writes: A console hacker over at eurasia.nu with the alias modrobert has posted an interesting story about the recent legal debacle in the PS3 hacker scene and finishes off with a twist. He suggests Sony (aka the giant enemy crab) are hurting their own business by sending their lawyers after the hackers and that hardcore gamers, what used to be the most dedicated fans, who love their console hardware and games so much they can't get enough from just buying stuff, but also finds it exciting to hack around with their console and play more games than they can afford, are now the bitter enemies of Sony who totally lost sight of their business goals.

Submission + - Tarsnap with up to $2000 Bug Bounty (tarsnap.com)

Submitted by Monoecus on Thursday April 21, 2011 @03:59AM

Monoecus writes: The opensource encrypted and very cheap backup service tarsnap started to offer up to $2000 bounties for bug hunters after a user found a critical security bug in the code (he got $500).

Submission + - imslp.org Taken Down Thanks to MPA (imslpforums.org)

Submitted by dsavi on Thursday April 21, 2011 @03:35AM

dsavi writes: The International Music Score Library Project's website imslp.org (A library of public domain scores and recordings of classical music) has been taken down by GoDaddy per a DMCA takedown request from the Music Publisher's Association. According to the MPA, a score of Rachmanioff's Bells is under copyright in the US, while according to IMSLP it is most definitely not. A DMCA counter-notice has been issued to GoDaddy by IMSLP, unfortunately there is a ten-day waiting period before the domain can be restored. While the imslp.org domain is down, the music library can still be accessed at PetrucciLibrary.org. Anyone who is interested in helping with counter-suing the MPA can email imslproject at yahoo dot ca.

Submission + - Why use code version control for solo developing ? (a32.me)

Submitted by

ameoba32

on Thursday April 21, 2011 @02:57AM

ameoba32 writes: "Is it really useful to use source code management tools for solo developing ?"

Submission + - Valve want's to sell your robot clothes. (pcgamer.com)

Submitted by Runelaron on Thursday April 21, 2011 @02:43AM

Runelaron writes: There's been a recent question as to Valve Software being pre-occupied with steam. So much so that it delays the development of their games. (The only reason they exist in the first place) Now we see a new market emerge from steam, Virtual Apparel in Portal 2. Before, these items only existed to be fun rewards for dedicated players and to extend the replay value of the games. Now that Valve is using development time just to create items that can be bought and traded. Are they just looking for more ways to make a quick buck, Or are they trying to enrich the players experience with more options at a cost?

Submission + - Intel Confirms It's Working With Android Honeycomb (ostatic.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 21, 2011 @02:40AM

An anonymous reader writes: Intel powered Android phones and tablets might hit the market within a year. Intel President and Chief Executive Paul Otellini reveals that Intel is working with Android and more.

Submission + - Doom 2 gets ported to PocketBook 360 Plus e-reader (databytez.com)

Submitted by

alphaalogi

on Monday April 11, 2011 @04:30AM

alphaalogi writes: "Porting Doom to unexpected devices may be one of the oldest tricks in the game-porting book, but seeing it (or Doom 2, no less) run in a somewhat playable fashion on an e-reader is still a feat worth noting. That was recently done on the as yet unreleased PocketBook 360 Plus e-reader, apparently in an effort to demonstrate its new Pearl E Ink display and Freescale processor. Head on past the break to check out the results for yourself — and, no, Doom 2 unfortunately won’t actually be included with the e-reader."

Submission + - FreeBSD 8.2 Released (freebsd.org)

Submitted by meta coder on Thursday February 24, 2011 @10:05PM

meta coder writes: This is the third release from the 8-STABLE branch which improves on the functionality of FreeBSD 8.1 and introduces some new features. Some of the highlights includes improvements in Xen support and various bugfixes

Submission + - WikiLeaks Will Unveil Major Bank Scandal (forbes.com)

Submitted by Atmanman on Tuesday November 30, 2010 @09:24AM

Atmanman writes: When wikileaks anounced it was releasing 251,287 US diplomatic cables we all thought we knew what was meant by its earlier ominous words that, "The coming months will see a new world, where global history is redefined." It now appears the organisation is sitting on a huge treasure trove of information so big that it has stopped taking submissions.

Among data to be released are tens of thousands of documents from a major U.S. banking firm, material from pharmaceutical companies, finance firms and energy companies.

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