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How the Internet Is Changing Language 295

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday August 18, 2010 @02:25AM from the l337-speak dept.

Ant writes "BBC News reports on how the internet is changing language. What was once understandable only to the tech savvy has become common. From the article: 'To Google' has become a universally understood verb and many countries are developing their own Internet slang. But is the Web changing language and is everyone up to speed?'"

ISPs Lie About Broadband "Up To" Speeds 547

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday August 17, 2010 @09:47PM from the lies-and-damned-lies dept.

Haffner writes "Ars Technica has an article detailing the difference between ISP advertised 'up to x Mbps' speeds and the actual speeds, in addition to some possible solutions. They find that on average, the advertised speeds were 'up to 6.7 Mbps' while the real median was 3 Mbps and the mean was 4 Mbps. This implies that ISPs were falsely advertising by at least 50%."

Wikileaks Now Hosted By the Swedish Pirate Party 438

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday August 17, 2010 @04:30PM from the i-voted-for-the-other-guy dept.

oskii writes "During his visit to the the Swedish capital Stockholm, Wikileaks spokesman Julian Assange has struck a deal with the local Pirate Party. The party, which participates in the national elections next month, will host several new Wikileaks servers to protect freedom of press and help the whistleblower site to carry out its operation."

Linux Wall Warts Small On Size, Big On Possibilities 316

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday August 17, 2010 @03:47PM from the yes-have-some dept.

davidmwilliams writes "Every geek and technology lover will undoubtedly have stumbled across online adverts for tiny headless Linux-powered devices that are barely larger than the power point they plug into. What can you actually do with them? Plenty, it seems!"

Submission + - The Future of Tech Support (infoworld.com)

Submitted by

snydeq

on Tuesday August 17, 2010 @02:59PM

snydeq writes: "InfoWorld's Christina Tynan-Wood reports on 7 emerging technologies and strategies that could make tech support less of a living hell for those in need of a fix. Augmented reality, self-healing systems, robot surrogates, avatar support — most seem the stuff of science fiction, but many are much closer than we might expect. 'As products become more and more interconnected, support itself will break off from the current model and become a product of its own,' Tynan-Wood writes. 'The same model has already happened in corporate IT, where technicians must orchestrate knowledge and skills across a variety of technology products. Even as the techniques and technologies used by corporate IT will change in the coming years, the shift in consumer tech support to an integrated approach will pose new opportunities for today's techs.'"

Submission + - Google Ups Graphics Performance With Chrome 7? (conceivablytech.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 17, 2010 @02:16PM

An anonymous reader writes: Google was not kidding. Chrome 6 made it into Beta on August 11 and less than a week later we are seeing Chrome 7 as a developer release for the first time. There is not much new, since it is a seamless version upgrade over the preceding 6.0 developer version, but it appears that the software may actually see some graphics performance updates. ConceivablyTech found that Chrome 7 (which is still distributed under the Chromium label) is substantially faster in Microsoft’s speed demos that are designed to highlight IE9’s hardware acceleration. It’s not as fast as IE9 or Firefox, but Google is apparently playing with the code. An interesting side note is that Firefox is, at least in those demos, faster than IE9.

Submission + - Rapid Software Development Environment on Linux 1

Submitted by HotBits on Tuesday August 17, 2010 @02:04PM

HotBits writes: I'm looking for a modern rapid software development environment under Linux that I can use to replace VB6 under Windows. I'm an embedded systems hardware/software engineer and learned VB6 long ago. I find it the most productive way to rapidly develop tools and support applications for the systems that I work on. It's just been too easy to use for me to give up on yet, and is not where I spend most of my time.

It needs to be event driven, support incremental compiles and arbitrary code execution/continuation after breakpoints, 'IntelliSense', create GUI or functional components and applications, hierarchical error handling, actively maintained and extended, and not be dog slow. Better type checking and object modeling, thread support and a 'real' language would be major pluses.

It's past time for me to move on! Is there anything on Linux?

Submission + - Swedish Pirate Party to Host New WikiLeaks Servers (piratpartiet.se) 1

Submitted by Ezel on Tuesday August 17, 2010 @01:42PM

Ezel writes: The Pirate Party will host several new WikiLeaks servers. This was agreed during Julian Assange’s visit to Stockholm last weekend, and the Pirate Party is happy to announce that everything has been finalized.
Last week, the Pirate Party challenged the other Swedish parties to assist WikiLeaks in its democratic effort. The Pirate Party has been the first to step up uo the plate, and keeps calling on others to defend freedom of the press in Sweden. As a result, WikiLeaks have commissioned a number of new servers that will be hosted and taken care of by the Pirate Party.

The Pirate Party will provide bandwidth and hosting to WikiLeaks free of charge as part of its political mission.

Rocket Thrusters Used To Treat Sewage 73

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday August 17, 2010 @01:11PM from the burn-baby-burn dept.

Zothecula writes "Rocket engines are generally not thought of as being environmentally-friendly, but thanks to a newly-developed process, we may someday see them neutralizing the emissions from wastewater treatment plants. The same process would also see those plants generating their own power, thus meaning they would be both energy-neutral and emissions-free. Developed by two engineers at Stanford University, the system starts with the formation of nitrous oxide (N2O) and methane gas — something that treatment plants traditionally try to avoid."

Five Billionth Device About To Plug Into Internet 162

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday August 17, 2010 @11:29AM from the how-many-fingers-is-that dept.

alphadogg writes "Sometime this month, the 5 billionth device will plug into the Internet. And in 10 years, that number will grow by more than a factor of four, according to IMS Research, which tracks the installed base of equipment that can access the Internet."

New Firefox iFrame Bug Bypasses URL Protections 118

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday August 17, 2010 @09:48AM from the is-nothing-safe-any-more dept.

Trailrunner7 writes "There is a newly discovered vulnerability in Mozilla's flagship Firefox browser that could enable an attacker to trick a user into providing his login credentials for a given site by using an obfuscated URL. In most cases, Firefox will display an alert when a URL has been obfuscated, but by using an iFrame, an attacker can evade this layer of protection, possibly leading to a compromise of the user's sensitive information."

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