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Submission + - JavaScript Client Library for Google APIs Alpha ve (blogspot.com)

Submitted by Lomegor
Lomegor writes: Finally a JavaScript client for Google APIs has been released. Apparently, it uses JSONP or some other kind of asynchronous script loading to retrieve the methods from Google servers. It's really good to see this kind of development as client-side JavaScript developers have a hard time communicating with other servers' services (such as in single page dynamic web pages or extensions). It's still in Alpha, so not a good choice for use in production, but a good first step.

Comment Re:Where have I seen this before (Score 3, Insightful) 259

by Peter H.S. (#37610822) Attached to: Severe Arctic Ozone Loss

> But hey make up your mind, is this Arctic cold snap caused by Global Warming too, or what?

Yes. The colder air than usual in the stratosphere is caused by the fact that greenhouse gases insulate so much that less heat escape to space. Common sense actually. So yes, this phenomenon is a very good indication that the greenhouse effect is both real and increasing.

Really, only the anti-science loony fringe denies global climate changes now a days, the scientific evidence for man made influence on the present climate change keep on coming, and is getting confirmed from many different sources. AFAIK, not a single scientific study trying to find other causes than human influence, have succeded in explaining what is going on.

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Submission + - Ask Slashdot:How to Really get Started Programming 1

Submitted by Arch_Android
Arch_Android writes: Hello Slashdot! The last post on Computer Science curriculum got me thinking about my own, predicament, if you will. I'm 14 years old, and began programming when I was 11, in Python. Now, along the way, I've never really had any project to really "get into", so to speak. Mainly, I've been writing simple text editors, prime number calculators, chat servers, and other simple beginner projects. Now, I have a decent knowledge in Python and C, while I just need to learn some little syntactical things in Java and C++ (excepting STL. I can save that for later!). So basically, what I'm wondering is, where does an eager programmer go from here, and how did you really get into programming?
Electronic Frontier Foundation

Submission + - A Piece of Internet History Lost: IO.com Sold (prismnet.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The former Illuminati Online domain, IO.com, has been sold, and all existing customers will lose all services associated with the domain. A 1990 Secret Service raid on Steve Jackson Games, then owner of the Illuminati Online BBS and later the IO.com domain led to the creation of the EFF and was an important milestone in the fight for online rights. While the domain has been sold in the past, the services offered to customers always remained unchanged. However, this most recent sale, to an unnamed party, will result in all services being dropped on July 1, and people will lose email addresses, web pages, and shell accounts that many have had for 15+ years.
Businesses

Submission + - Apple Store Employees Looking To Unionize (itworld.com)

Submitted by
jfruhlinger
jfruhlinger writes: "With the Apple Store chain about to hit its 10th year of existence, some of its employees are looking to unionize. The Apple Retail Workers Union told Macworld that the issues they want to bargain over include "break schedules, training opportunities, the selection and hiring process for internal candidates for open positions, and wages"."
Australia

Submission + - Assange receives recognition down-under. (smh.com.au)

Submitted by c0lo
c0lo writes: Australian Wikileaks founder Julian Assange stands alongside the Dalai Lama and Nelson Mandela: Assange has been chosen by the Sydney Peace Foundation to receive a rare gold medal for peace with justice ***.
In related news: this Friday, in Federation Square, Melbourne, Assange joins (over the net) a discussion on wikileaks and freedom of speech. The discussion is campaigned by the GetUp Australia foundation, an independent, grass-roots community advocacy organisation with over 400000 members.

*** peace with justice relates to a way of thinking and acting which promotes non-violent solutions to every day problems and contributes to the development of civil societies.
The Internet

Submission + - Internode preps production IPv6 environment (computerworld.com.au)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Australian ISP Internode will move to a native internet protocol version 6 (IPv6) production environment later this year, following an extensive public trial that included more than 200 “power users”. The migration this year will enable dual stack IPv6 capability for all aspects of Internode’s broadband, Web, mail and hosting services. During the transition, new and existing Internode users must opt in to use the IPv6 environment, but the service provider intends to offer the service to users automatically by the end of the year.
Science

Submission + - Graphene film to shed water (sciguru.com)

Submitted by RogerRoast
RogerRoast writes: How about wiper free windshield for the car? A Vanderbilt researcher figured out how to create a freestanding film of graphene oxide and alter itls surface roughness so that it either causes water to bead up and run off or causes it to spread out in a thin layer. Potential applications range from self-cleaning glasses and clothes to antifogging surfaces to corrosion protection and snow-load protection on buildings.
Science

Play Pacman, Pinball, and Pong With a Paramecium 88

Posted by timothy from the why-I-don't-bathe dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Science is rarely ever this cool! 'Physicist Ingmar Riedel-Kruse and his team from Stanford University have done just that by creating versions of classic games that you can navigate by physically controlling living organisms. A game called PAC-mecium is Pacman with a twist: players use a console to change the polarity of an electrical field in a fluid chamber filled with paramecia, which makes the organisms move in different directions. A camera sends real-time images to a computer, where they are superimposed onto a game board (see video above). By looking at the screen, a player can guide the paramecia to eat virtual yeast cells and make them avoid Pacman-like fish. A microprocessor tracks the movement of the organisms to keep score.' Also available are versions of Pinball, Pong, and soccer."
Open Source

Linux 2.6.37 Released 135

Posted by samzenpus from the new-and-improved dept.
diegocg writes "Version 2.6.37 of the Linux kernel has been released. This version includes SMP scalability improvements for Ext4 and XFS, the removal of the Big Kernel Lock, support for per-cgroup IO throttling, a networking block device based on top of the Ceph clustered filesystem, several Btrfs improvements, more efficient static probes, perf support to probe modules, LZO compression in the hibernation image, PPP over IPv4 support, several networking microoptimizations and many other small changes, improvements and new drivers for devices like the Brocade BNA 10GB ethernet, Topcliff PCH gigabit, Atheros CARL9170, Atheros AR6003 and RealTek RTL8712U. The fanotify API has also been enabled. See the full changelog for more details."

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