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Submission + - Record Digital TV with your PS3 (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by on Friday August 24, 2007 @03:42AM

An anonymous reader writes: PlayStation 3 (PS3) users in Europe will soon be able to record and playback digital TV on their console. Sony has unveiled a TV tuner which plugs into the PS3 and turns it into a personal video recorder like Sky+.

Submission + - Also LCD TVs can burn in (hdtvinfo.eu)

Submitted by xbox360cooldown on Friday August 24, 2007 @02:09AM

xbox360cooldown writes: Despite the myth that only Plasma panels suffer from screen burn in, LCD panels also can burn in.

http://www.hdtvinfo.eu/content/view/157/1/

"Burn In" is a commonly used term to describe image retention; a condition that occurs when a previously displayed video image, such as a channel logo, or video game score, remains visible on a display well after it originally appeared.

Pictured is a 22" Japanese model Sharp LCD HDTV used for a computer software ad. The retained images appear at the top-right as Japanese text and on the bottom-right as the price in yen (the 0" is clearly burned-in)

http://www.hdtvinfo.eu/pics/LCD_burn-in.jpg

Submission + - Cold Fusion's Commercialization Begs Funding (wired.com)

Submitted by

Sterling Allan

on Friday August 24, 2007 @01:44AM

Sterling Allan writes: "A recent conference on Cold Fusion at MIT concludes that with 3,000+ published studies from around the world describing excess energy from tabletop fusion devices, the question of whether Cold Fusion is real is not the issue. According to Wired's report on the conference, now the question is whether or not it can be made commercially viable, and to answer that, some serious funding is needed."

Submission + - Emptiness of the Universe (physorg.com)

Submitted by igny on Thursday August 23, 2007 @08:41PM

igny writes: University of Minnesota astronomers have found an enormous hole in the Universe, nearly a billion light-years across, empty of both normal matter such as stars, galaxies and gas, as well as the mysterious, unseen "dark matter." While earlier studies have shown holes, or voids, in the large-scale structure of the Universe, this new discovery dwarfs them all.

Submission + - Why No High-MPG Diesels For The U.S.?

Submitted by

gbulmash

on Thursday August 23, 2007 @08:26PM

gbulmash writes: "While looking for a high-MPG minivan, wagon, or SUV, I've been finding that the pickings in the U.S. are pretty slim, but that there are plenty of fuel-efficient diesel models in Europe that get even better mileage than some of the larger hybrids for sale in the U.S. With the U.S. having so many people driving so many miles, it seems ridiculous that even Ford is offering highly fuel efficient diesels in Europe that they don't/won't offer here. Is there an actual plausible reason why these models aren't being brought to American markets aside from "marketing objectives"?"

Submission + - Nokia phones to be DRM'd to death (itpro.co.uk)

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Monday August 06, 2007 @05:24AM

Anonymous Coward writes: "I see in this report by IT PRO that Nokia has taken the Microsoft shilling and will put DRM into its Symbian-based cell phones. This is a bad idea and needs to be stopped! I think we should embrace Linux phones!"

Submission + - Automatix Activly Dangerous to Ubuntu

Submitted by exeme on Saturday August 04, 2007 @06:21AM

exeme writes: Ubuntu developer Matthew Garrett has recently analysed famed Ubuntu illegal software installer Automatix and found it to be actively dangerous to Ubuntu desktop systems. In a detailed report which only took Garrett a couple of hours he found many serious, show-stopper bugs and concluded that Ubuntu could not officially support Automatix in its current state. Garrett also goes on to say that simple Debian packages could provide all of the functionality of Automatix without any of the problems it exhibits.

Submission + - Digitized Apollo Flight Films Available Online (spaceref.com)

Submitted by

Pooua

on Saturday August 04, 2007 @03:53AM

Pooua writes: "SpaceRef reports that NASA and Arizona State University have teamed up to offer all of NASA's Apollo lunar images online at no charge. The images are scanned at high resolution, then offered as 16-bit TIFF or 8-bit PNG or ISIS files. The project is expected to take 3 years, but some images are already available. The ASU-NASA website is Arizona State University Apollo Image Archive"

Submission + - Indiana University Dumps Google for ChaCha

Submitted by

theodp

on Saturday August 04, 2007 @03:24AM

theodp writes: "Come Monday, no more Indiana University searches will be powered by computer-driven Google. Only by people-powered ChaCha. The move was announced by new IU President Michael McRobbie, who until recently sat on ChaCha's Board of Directors (5-29 SEC filing, PDF). IU will draft hundreds of librarians and IT employees to be ChaCha Guides for the university's websites, although a FAQ accompanying IU's press release tells librarians not to expect any checks for their efforts from ChaCha, which IU notes is backed by Amazon's Jeff Bezos and Compaq founder Rod Canion."

Submission + - The demise of the Nokia E90 communicator

Submitted by S3D on Friday August 03, 2007 @03:25AM

S3D writes: Nokia is not quite famous for the great smartphone design, but in the case of E90 Communicator hardware looks nice. However where Nokia completly failed is software side — the The Register think. The first mistake was replacing business oriented S80 platform with consumer oriented S60. S60 is designed for one-thumb actions — not an adequate choice for full-keyboard communicator. The article go on listing deficiencies and missing features, concluding that Nokia, trying to impress gadget bloggers completely forgot core market of business users. Immature 3rd party application market for Symbian make it unlikely those deficiencies will be fixed.

Submission + - GOP Preparing to Steal the 2008 Election (newyorker.com)

Submitted by on Friday August 03, 2007 @02:37AM

An anonymous reader writes: Hendrik Hertzberg of The New Yorker reports that Californians vote next year on a radical change to the allotment of their state's electoral college votes. Republican sponsors call themselves Californians for Equal Representation, but if their measure passes, it's more likely than ever that a Republican will win the Presidency without winning the popular vote.

Submission + - Ruling by Secret US Court Allegedly Reduces Spying

Submitted by conspirator57 on Friday August 03, 2007 @01:20AM

conspirator57 writes: TFA http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la- na-spying2aug02,0,5813563.story?coll=la-home-cente r states that the US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (a court that no citizen can establish standing to appear before) has ruled against Executive requests for so-called "basket warrants" as violating the 4th amendment to the Constitution, namely that such warrants do not meet the clearly expressed criteria in the second half of the amendment. To accomplish this they must have looked startlingly like British general warrants which were the original motivation for the 4th amendment. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrant_(law) for more.

TFA is very sympathetic to the Executive branch, going on to depict ways in which we're all less safe because of this ruling. Personally, I feel safer with more rulings like this one. Just wish the process were a bit more transparent.

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

Submission + - Top 10 IT products of the past 40 years (computerworld.com)

Submitted by

Ian Lamont

on Tuesday July 10, 2007 @06:23PM

Ian Lamont writes: "Computerworld has compiled a list of the ten most important IT technologies and products of the last 40 years. Some of them are no surprise — Ethernet, Linux, the PC — but others are unexpected, such as Netscape Navigator, which was picked over Mosaic for inclusion in the list because of cookies. There are a few obscurities that many /. readers have probably never heard of — IBM System/370 and an early 90s SAP accounting package."

Submission + - Alternatives to Google?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 05, 2007 @07:24AM

An anonymous reader writes: It seems that more and more, we're hearing stories about Google that put its "don't be evil" philosophy into question. The problem, however, is that Google is very good at the services it offers. What other alternatives do the slashdot crowd use? Is there another search engine that comes even close to Google for relevancy, that at the same time is no more doubtable in terms of business ethics? What about a free email provider that offers comparible storage and reliability, not to mention free POP access?
I'm perfectly willing to explore alternatives, but I've been using Google for such a long time now that I barely know where to start looking. I can't imagine Yahoo! is much a better company (maybe I'm wrong?), and I don't want to go with Microsoft's offerings. Surely there have to be other worthwhile choices?

Submission + - Beijing accused of being world virus capital

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 05, 2007 @01:34AM

An anonymous reader writes: The Chinese capital city Beijing tops the global league table for distributing viruses, a new survey has reported.

According to UK-based managed security services companyNetwork Box, Beijing accounts for 40 percent of all viruses that passed though the company's servers in June, and 5.25 percent of detected spam.

This compares with slightly lower percentages for cities in countries noted for having a malware problem. Moscow was second for spam with 5.12 percent, Seoul third with 3.58 percent, Turk in Turkey fourth with 3.4 percent, and London in fifth place on 2.47 percent, statistics that are likely to be skewed to some extent by the company's UK-based customer base.

But it is in the area of virus distribution that Beijing outpaces other cities in the Network Box figures. Its 40 percent score contrasts markedly with much smaller scores for other locations. Not all of these are prominent — the obscure town of Wattleup near Perth in Australia comes is number 2 in the chart, with 3.68 percent of viruses. Madrid in Spain is third with 2.48 percent, Taipei In Taiwan fourth with 2.35 percent, and Henan in China fifth on 1.71 percent.

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