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Submission + - surveillance moths and weaponized insects (blogspot.com)

Submitted by

nanotrends

on Tuesday June 19, 2007 @01:19PM

nanotrends writes: "MIT and iRobot people are helping DARPA to create surveillance moths The moths are chipped at the pupa stage and are controlled using a machine learning chip."This could lead to weaponized insects. Control poisonous insects or disease carrying insects or crop destroying insects. This is related to machine controlled pidgeons"

Submission + - Inkjet cartridges lie about being empty (mcox.com)

Submitted by Artemis on Tuesday June 19, 2007 @01:15PM

Artemis writes: Epson has released a report they commissioned on "empty" inkjet cartridges. The interesting part? The cartridge and the printer disagree on when it is actually out of ink! The study looked into the efficiency of both single and multi-ink cartridges. The cartridges were measured before and after use and were considered empty when the printed reported they were empty. The Kodak EasyShare 5300 ranked worst in the study, indicating it was out of ink where it was still actually 64% full! These results are horrible, but even the best inkjet printers left an average of 20% of the ink in their cartridges when they were reported empty.

Submission + - Firefox forecast to beat IE 6 and IE 7 in August! (abraxor.com)

Submitted by

Grumbling Gnome

on Tuesday June 19, 2007 @01:04PM

Grumbling Gnome writes: "This Abraxor study forecasts the leading browser version in August and September to be Firefox. This will be the first time a none-Microsoft browser version has had market lead since the first browser war when Netscape version 4 ruled."

Submission + - World's first Blu-Ray/HD-DVD Combo drive! (cdrinfo.com)

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Tuesday June 19, 2007 @01:02PM

Anonymous Coward writes: "Finally, the world's first 4x Blu-ray Recorder and at the same time HD-DVD reader hits the market. LG's HL-DT-ST BD-RE GGW-H10N covers both High definition formats and with a retail price of $1200, doesn't leave anyone worry about format war, now you can have both formats playable at your PC!"

Submission + - Mandriva will not partner with Microsoft (opensourcelearning.info)

Submitted by

JanStedehouder

on Tuesday June 19, 2007 @12:54PM

JanStedehouder writes: "After some opening shots the Mandriva management decided to release a statement that they are not willing to partner with Microsoft, especially not under the threat of patent infringements. The statement can be found here: http://corp.mandriva.com/webteam/2007/06/19/we-wil l-not-go-to-canossa/

It took a few days and I can only hope that many other distributors follow with clear statements."

Submission + - The Usefulness of the Simple Command Line

Submitted by Michael on Friday January 05, 2007 @11:44AM

Michael writes: Sugarcodes is a new site that has extremely basic functionality but, like old-timer YubNub , is an awesome productivity tool for many users. It's basically nothing more than a command line, where a search of just about any web service can be conducted using a simple dedicated command. "g books" does a search on Google for books... From an article on TechCrunch

360 Achievements More Popular Than Microsoft Imagined 117

Posted by Zonk on Friday January 05, 2007 @11:27AM from the flaunting-those-sk1llz dept.

GameDaily is hosting an article looking at the phenomenal popularity of Achivements on the Xbox 360. Even the marketing team that came up with the idea is floored by the incredible popularity of what CliffyB referred to as 'nerd cred'. From the article: "Achievement points are changing the way gamers play. While the tendency had been for people to play a game through to the end and then toss it into a closet, many gamers are now going back and playing them again, this time to unlock achievements to boost their Gamerscore. Or if they only played the single-player version, to go back and play the multiplayer or online component. Or to go out and buy games they would not ordinarily have purchased. Or to rent games."

Bookmark Google's Answer to Filling Jobs Is an Algorithm (slashdot.org)

by numba1son on Friday January 05, 2007 @10:50AM

Submission + - Portable Solar Power for $180

Submitted by

KarMax

on Friday January 05, 2007 @09:26AM

KarMax writes: "This portable solar power can be done (and improved) by everyone, is really easy and you can buy all you need from eBay.
From the article:

For about $180, I brought together all the components needed to power a typical laptop for a couple hours solely on solar power. It's great for emergencies, or just knowing you are powering something real with a completely renewable resource.
This kit weighs about 2 lbs, costs $180, and will power my Macbook for 1.75 hours (1.83ghz, browsing the web and checking email via Airport Extreme, bluetooth off, screen brightness about 70%) with a little more than 5 hours of good sun.
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Submission + - U.S. Warrantless Wiretap Extends Into Mail

Submitted by

s31523

on Friday January 05, 2007 @08:38AM

s31523 writes: "Several slashdot articles on the United States rulings on warrantless wiretaps have been the subject of much debate. Many people feel that if you aren't doing something wrong, then you should have nothing to worry about. Others feel the privacy violation is unacceptable and paves the path for other rights being "waived". The others might be right. Yahoo is reporting yet another presidential signing that has wording that can be construed as giving the government the right to open US mail without a warrant. FTA, "The executive branch shall construe subsection 404(c) of title 39, as enacted by subsection 1010(e) of the act, which provides for opening of an item of a class of mail otherwise sealed against inspection, in a manner consistent, to the maximum extent permissible, with the need to conduct searches in exigent circumstances, such as to protect human life and safety against hazardous materials, and the need for physical searches specifically authorized by law for foreign intelligence collection.""

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