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Submission + - Massive climate change concert to be announced

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kitzilla
kitzilla writes: "Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore is in London today to announce the biggest concert event in history, raising awareness about global warming. The seven-venue event — including London; Washington, DC; Rio de Janeiro; Shanghai; Capetown; and Kyoto — will "dwarf" both the LiveAid and Live8 concerts, according to organizers. Up to 2.5 million people will take part in activities coordinated with the still-unbranded series."
Announcements

Submission + - Father of Instant Ramen Passes.

Submitted by
Chained Fei
Chained Fei writes: "Ando Momofuku, Father of the Instant Ramen, passed away on January 5th at the age of 96. http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/national/news/200701 06p2a00m0na013000c.html He concocted the idea for Instant Ramen after WW2, hoping to reduce the amount of poor nourishment for soldiers in the field. If not for this great man, many a poor college student would have starved over the years."
The Internet

YouTube Blocked in Brazil 387

Posted by Zonk from the down-with-love dept.
keeboo writes "The popular video sharing site YouTube is now blocked in Brazil due to a local court decision last Thursday. The site was ordered to block the uploaded sex videos of Brazilian media starlet Daniela Cicarelli and, although it complied, many users kept re-uploading it to the site. After the failure of YouTube to keep the video off of the site, the domain was blocked nationwide at a DNS level. Predictably, many Brazilians are annoyed and I've started to receive even SPAMs protesting on this blocking. From the article: 'The case now goes automatically to a three-member panel of judges who will decide whether to make the order permanent and whether to fine YouTube as much as US$119,000 (euro91,000) for each day the video was viewable, said Rubens Decousseau Tilkian.'"
Security

Submission + - Blurring images to hide information is not secure

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Dheera Venkatraman explains in a webpage how an attacker might be able to extract personal information such as check or credit card numbers, from images blurred with a mosaic effect, potentially exposing the data behind hundreds of images of blurred checks found online, and provides a ficticious example. While much needs to be developed to apply such an algorithm to real photographic images, he offers a simple, yet obvious solution: cover up the sensitive information, don't blur it.
User Journal

Journal Journal: Apple pwns other manufacturers on Amazon

Journal by gizmateer

Apple pwned other manufacturers in several Amazon categories garnering the top spot in categories including MP3 plyaers, laptops and desktops over the holiday season. There were actually six different iPod models in the top ten for MP3 players, three MacBooks in the top ten and four different Apple systems in the desktop category.

Media (Apple)

Submission + - Apple witohut Jobs?

Submitted by CDPatten
CDPatten writes: The internet is buzzing with speculation that Steve Jobs may step down over reports that he profited $7.5 million in stock options by falsifying an executive board meeting. The financial times has a good overview of the unfolding story.

From the Article:

"Steve Jobs, chief executive of Apple Computer, was handed 7.5m stock options in 2001 without the required authorization from the company's board of directors, according to people familiar with the matter.

Records that purported to show a full board meeting had taken place to approve Mr Jobs' remuneration, as required by Apple's procedures, were later falsified. These are now among the pieces of evidence being weighed by the Securities and Exchange Commission as it decides whether to pursue a case against the company or any individuals over the affair, according to these people."
Microsoft

Submission + - Windows Live Mail (beta) snubs Linux users

Submitted by
tuxtattoo
tuxtattoo writes: "So it would seem that Microsoft is once again snubbing Linux users. Using Firefox to use the beta version of Microsoft's Live Mail seems to work just fine in OSX or Windows. But, it seems the same version of Firefox on Linux only warrants the "Lite" (ie — stripped down and super lame) version. See this message when logging in using Firefox in Linux:

"This version works better with your browser. The full version of Mail runs on Internet Explorer 6.0 and higher (make sure you check the system requirements before you install it). The full version also works on Firefox 1.5."

Further tests verify this is indeed the case. By changing your Firefox user agent to say your OS is OSX or Windows the full functionality becomes available to you in Linux. Going the other way, making your user agent say you are using Linux even though you are in Windows or OSX will give you the lite version.

I know, I'm lame for even having a hotmail account. I guess I deserve it."
Sci-Fi

Submission + - The Mathematics of Full-Wave Invibility/Cloaking

Submitted by
urscientist
urscientist writes: "November 30, 2006: The invisibility cloak recently built by scientists at Duke University and Imperial College in London has received enormous attention all over the world. This breakthrough cloaking device makes a copper disk invisible at specific microwave frequencies. As it turns out, Mathematics Professor Allan Greenleaf of the University of Rochester along with Matti Lassas, who is now at the Helsinki University of Technology, and Gunther Uhlmann of the University of Washington, started the mathematics behind invisibility several years ago in the context of medical imaging and quantum mechanics. Joined by fourth member Yaroslav Kurylev of Loughborough University, the team has announced the mathematics of full-wave invisibility at all frequencies (http://www.arxiv.org/abs/math.AP/0611185). In their latest work, they examine the problem of cloaking not just passive objects, but also active devices that are emitting electromagnetic waves, and show that this requires modifying the original constructions.

http://www.seas.rochester.edu/~gresh/math/math_113 006.html"
Windows

Submission + - Ten big Dutch counties say 'enough' to Microsoft

Submitted by
Hans Kwint
Hans Kwint writes: "In February 2003, the program "Open Source and Open Source Software (OSSOS) for the Dutch government" started, funded by the Dutch government. One of the main tasks was to make the government independent from single software suppliers, among which are Microsoft and SAP. After three years, the effort starts bearing fruit. Ten big municipalities — together 2,7 million inhabitants and including Amsterdam and The Hague — signed a manifest. I'll try to explain what's in the manifest, what that might mean for the future, and for the monopoly of Microsoft in the Dutch government."
Communications

Submission + - Morse Code: A Fading Signal

Submitted by
srizah
srizah writes: "http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/27/business/27morse .html?_r=1&ref=business&oref=slogin FCC will not need ham radio operators to have a proficiency in dits and dahs anymore. Ham radio operators will however still nurture the code as they consider it their bedrock. Morse code lingers in our minds as the pioneering image of communications and there is a resistance to let it go."
The Internet

Submission + - Virgin deflowered by Wikipedia

Submitted by
lee
lee writes: "Virgin Unite, the charitable arm of Virgin Group, is matching one for one all donations to Wikimedia Foundation for a 24 hour period. When this period began, a link to Virgin Unite was placed in the site notice on all Wikimedia projects. A mere twelve (12) minutes later their site was down for the count due to overwhelming traffic. As of now the site notice is no longer pointing directly to the Virgin Unite site, but instead redirects to an article on the Wikimedia Foundation wiki. One Wikipedia editor blogged this here."
User Journal

Journal Journal: Sick for the holidays

Journal by SiliconJesus

I had managed to keep the disease at bay for two weeks, but alas, I too am now ill with flu-like symptoms.

What's worse is my son has HIVES from the virus that struck him down.

God this sucks. Off to get more NyQuil.

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