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Submission + - Adobe To Take Photoshop Online

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Mr. Linton
Mr. Linton writes: "In this CNET article Adobe is apparently planning to take Photoshop to the web. From the article: "the hosted Photoshop service is set to be free and marketed as an entry-level version of Adobe's more sophisticated image-editing tools, including Photoshop and Photoshop Elements. Chizen envisions revenue from the Photoshop service coming from online advertising.""
Music

Submission + - Recording Industry Claims Canada "Awash in Pir

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The Canadian Recording Industry Association is back in the news with claims that Canada is "awash in piracy" supported by yet-another bought-and-paid for survey by a polling firm. Michael Geist debunks the claims, demonstrating that they are wildly inaccurate and amount to little more than the fact that Canadians like fake Louis Vuitton handbags.
The Courts

Submission + - Top Canadian Court strikes down detention law

Submitted by
athar
athar writes: "The Canadian Supreme Court, in an unanimous 9-0 decision, struck down the security certificate regime in Canada, whereby foreigners could be detained indefinitely on the basis of secret evidence, with no real ability to challenge their detention. The Court ruled that the regime violated the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and has given the government one year to rectify the regime. The decision is in stark contrast to the current legal situation in the United States."
Education

Submission + - Should sites like Wikipedia be blocked at schools?

Submitted by Londovir
Londovir writes: Recently our school board made the decision to block Wikipedia from our school district's WAN system. This was a complete block — there aren't even provisions in place for teachers or administrators to input a password to bypass the restriction. The reason given was that Wikipedia (being user created and edited) did not represent a credible or reliable source of reference for schools. My question is: should we block sites such as Wikipedia because students may be exposed to misinformation, or should we encourage sites such as Wikipedia as an outlet for students to investigate and determine validity of information? What's your opinion?
Microsoft

Submission + - Ballmer repeats threats against Linux

Submitted by daria42
daria42 writes: Steve Ballmer has reissued Microsoft's patent threat against Linux, warning open-source vendors that they must respect his company's intellectual property. In a no-nonsense presentation to New York financial analysts last week, Microsoft's chief executive said the company's partnership with Novell, which it signed in November 2006, "demonstrated clearly the value of intellectual property, even in the open-source world."
Data Storage

Recording Your Entire Life 211

Posted by kdawson from the as-we-may-think dept.
Scientific American has an article on Gordon Bell's 9-year-long experiment of recording great swaths of his life on digital media. The idea harks back to an article by Vannevar Bush in the 1940s, which arguably presaged hypertext and the Web as well. Bell, the father of the VAX computer and now with Microsoft Research, first published a paper on his experiment in CACM in 2001. The goal is to record "all of Bell's communications with other people and machines, as well as the images he sees, the sounds he hears and the Web sites he visits." Storage requirements are estimated at a modest 18 GB a year, 1.1 TB over a 60-year span. Not a lot if the article's projection comes to pass — that we will all be walking around with 1 TB of storage in our portable devices by 2015. The article is co-authored by Jim Gemmell, who wrote the software for the MyLifeBits project.
Space

Submission + - Temp. difference observed between Sun's poles

Submitted by ATestR
ATestR writes: From the Article (science.nasa.gov), one pole of the sun is cooler than the other. That's the surprising conclusion announced today by scientists who have been analyzing data from the ESA-NASA Ulysses spacecraft.

Measurements of the Northern Solar pole taken by Ulysses in 1994 and 1995 observed a temperature difference of 7 — 8 percent from the recent measurements taken of the Southern pole. Since the average Solar temperature has been measured to be constant during this twelve year period, the scientists invovled with the project are scratching their heads over the difference.
Operating Systems

Submission + - The Open Source in Mac OS X Server

Submitted by DECS
DECS writes: Apple has used open source to rapidly build a server business after its previous efforts fell flat in the mid 90s. Open Source in Mac OS X Server explains how Apple balances its commercial and open developments, why the criticism of Apple's Darwin project is inevitable, and how open source has fueled rapid progress in five versions of Mac OS X Server.
Privacy

Submission + - Scientist make quantum encryption breakthrough

Submitted by
Madas
Madas writes: "Scientists working in Cambridge, England have managed to make quantum encryption completely secure by putting decoy pulses in the key transmission stream. According to the story this paves the way for safe, encrypted high-speed data links. Could this allow completely private transmission of data away from snooping eyes and ears? Or will it mean film studios can stop movies from being copied when travelling on the internet?"

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