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Government

Submission + - CIA analyst addresses public in Portsmouth, NH (fosters.com)

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How To Get Your Ex Back
How To Get Your Ex Back writes: "The story was first reported in The Portsmouth Times Newspaper, a small town paper and not online. The article, Former CIA Analyst Says Evidence Abounds for Impeachment, has been relayed to online new sites. Ray McGovern, a former CIA analyst, addressed a group of people in Portsmouth, NH, December 17th, with evidence relating directly to the non-evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and the President's desire to invade and cover up the truth. "Don't let anyone tell you the President was deceived by false intelligence ... they knew," McGovern said. Mr. McGovern is also supported by Dennis Kucinich, a lagging but hopeful Democratic Presidential Candidate. "The argument for impeachment is overwhelming," Randy Kezar of Kingston said after the event. "Impeachment is constitutionally required.""
Robotics

Submission + - i-Snake, a new robotic surgeon

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Roland Piquepaille
Roland Piquepaille writes: "Several newspapers in the UK have published today very short articles about the i-Snake, a new surgical robot which will be developed at the Imperial College London (ICL). For example, The Times of London writes that the ICL team has won a £2.1 million grant (2.84 million or US$4.2 million) to design this surgical robot over the next four or five years. This highly flexible robot 'could allow coronary bypass operations to be performed without the need for open-heart surgery.' And it would help heal your heart after travelling through blood vessels. The research team thinks that the i-Snake could also be used as a diagnosis tool replacing the eyes of a surgeon when looking inside us. But read more for many additional details."
OS X

Submission + - Emulated Mac OS X (csgraf.de)

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Alexander Graf
Alexander Graf writes: "Have you ever been in the position of running Linux as main Operating System on your Intel Mac and you were in dire need of an OSX only program? This is no longer a problem, as I modified Qemu and KVM to run Mac OS X, so you can just boot Mac OS X in a virtual machine, just like you did with Windows anyway.
If you don't have a Mac though, don't despair. This works for non-Macs too.

@staff I don't think this is enough of a description. Please ask me something I can answer directly your readers would like to know and visit the project site, especially the FAQ section.
http://alex.csgraf.de/self/?qemu/"
IBM

Submission + - IBM's U.S. Operations Continue to Shrivel

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theodp
theodp writes: "While you haven't seen any IBM press releases lately concerning U.S. layoffs or force reductions, Robert X. Cringely reports that IBM is getting leaner and meaner still. It's not that the company isn't continuing to lose U.S. workers, says Bob, they've just stopped talking about it. While the company boasted to Wall Street of its 20,000 additional hires in India last year, bringing IBM's Indian employment to 73,000 workers (100,000 in the 'BRIC' countries of Brazil, Russia, India, China), it took the fifth on how many workers it employs in the United States. The comments are also worth a gander, with tales from purported IBM and H-1B insiders. There's also a tip for Bob to check out an under-the-radar IBM subsidiary called GS Technical Services (aka GST Services), which apparently requires 'Immigration Partners' to conduct its business and allegedly pays abysmal salaries to IBM India employees located in the States according to tipster 'an ibmer.' On its cheesy website, GST advertises that it 'has U.S assignments available for global associates who possess highly specialized technical and applications development skills.'"
Microsoft

Submission + - Office 2003SP3: Old file formats, now unavailable! 3

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time961
time961 writes: "In Service Pack 3 for Office 2003, Microsoft has disabled support for many older file formats, so if you have old Word, Excel, 1-2-3, Quattro, or Corel Draw documents, watch out! They did this because the old formats are "less secure", which actually makes some sense, but only if you got the files from some untrustworthy source.

Naturally, they did this by default, and then documented a mind-bogglingly complex workaround (KB 938810) rather than providing a user interface for adjusting it, or even a set of awkward "Do you really want to do this?" dialog boxes to click through. And, of course, because these are, after all, old file formats, many users will encounter the problem only months or years after the software change, while groping around in dusty and now-inaccessible archives.

One of the better aspects of Office is its extensive compatibility mechanisms for old file formats. At least the support isn't completely gone—it's just really hard to use. Security is important, but there are better ways to fulfill this goal.

This was also covered by the Windows Secrets newsletter, although I can't find a story URL for it."
Government

Submission + - Convincing the Military to Embrace Open Source (linuxinsider.com)

Submitted by drewmoney
drewmoney writes: Misconceptions about open source software have made many U.S. Defense Department sectors reluctant to employ this technology. Although a 2003 department policy allows its use, many still believe that open source software poses an increased security risk to networks and that it is not supported as well as commercial products.
Google

Submission + - Now You See Hitler, Now You Don't at Google Jobs

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theodp
theodp writes: "Looks like Will Smith's Ix-nay-on-the-Itler-hay lesson wasn't lost on Google HR. On Wednesday, Valleywag pointed readers to a long-running Meet-a-Google-Intern recruiting pitch in which an intern cited Hitler-savvy co-workers when asked why he liked working for Google. By Friday, the same intern was still pitching Google internships, but his quote had been rewritten to remove the Hitler reference. Like love, a quick edit means never having to say you're sorry."
Wii

Submission + - Nintendo Wii Fully Hacked at 24C3, runs Homebrew (wiinintendo.net)

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cHALiTO
cHALiTO writes: "From the site:
The guys over at 24C3 just demoed a Wii hack that is set to provide native Wii homebrew in the near future (not running in GC mode, and with full access to all the Wii hardware!)
They were able to find encryption and decryption keys by doing full memory dumps at runtime over a custom serial interface. Using these keys, they were able to create a Wii 'game' that ran their own code (their demo happened to show live sensor/Wiimote information, amongst a few other things).
Read here and watch video here."
Government

Submission + - Poll: Wackiest Conspiracy Theory? 2

Submitted by crimson30
crimson30 writes: Poll: Wackiest Conspiracy Theory?

Fed/Internat'l Bankers
Moon Landing Hoax
Roswell
AIDS hoax
9/11 "Truth"
The Illuminati
Cowboy Neal Coverup
Censorship

Submission + - Facebook is censoring Ron Paul

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: It appears that Facebook is censoring searches for "Ron Paul". Searches for presidential candidate "Ron Paul" in Facebook Groups yield zero results. The reason isn't because there aren't any Ron Paul groups — a search for "Paul" shows hundreds. For some reason, the search is blocked. Other candidate show up just fine. More than 500 groups show up for each of John Edwards, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Mitt Romney and others. TechCrunch has the story.
Windows

Submission + - London Stock Exchange Down Due to Glitch

Submitted by mormop
mormop writes: If like me you feel slightly ill when you see the Microsoft get the FUD adverts you may smile a little after reading that the London Stock Exchange that has achieved unprecedented reliability by switching to server 2003 was today shut down for an unprecedented period of time by computer failure. To quote TFA, a stockbroker who did not wish to be named said: "We are paralysed. Nothing like this has happened before. I am extremely annoyed."

How much does several hours lost trading cost? I know you shouldn't mock the afflicted but somehow I just can't stop myself.

Click here for TFA
Hardware Hacking

Submission + - $60 Dev board for gOS

Submitted by BradWarden
BradWarden writes: For $60, developers and Linux hackers can now buy the guts of the recently unveiled $200 Everex TC2502 Linux PC. The compact, ultra-efficient, x86-compatible "gOS Dev Board" comes with "gOS," a lightweight Linux-based OS meant for use with Google Apps. http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5305482907.html http://www.clubit.com/product_detail.cfm?itemno=A4842001#

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