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Submission + - Black diamonds come from space

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Roland Piquepaille

on Thursday January 11, 2007 @12:56PM

Roland Piquepaille writes: "Two teams of U.S. researchers have found that carbonados — or black diamonds — come from outer space. Helped with funds from the National Science Foundation (NSF), they discovered nitrogen and hydrogen in these porous black diamonds found only in Brazil and the Central African Republic. And these elements are not found in conventional diamonds extracted from mines from volcanic rocks. They think these carbonados were part of asteroids which landed on Earth about 3 billion years ago. Read more for additional explanations and a picture of such a not-so-pretty diamond."

Submission + - PI faces charges in HP pretexting case

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BillyBurrito

on Thursday January 11, 2007 @12:50PM

BillyBurrito writes: "It seems that there will be "someone held accountable" for the privacy violations that have rocked the Hewlett Packard Board in 2006. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/01/11/ap/busin ess/mainD8MITHV00.shtml (AP) A private investigator accused of posing as a journalist to access the reporter's private phone records as part of the boardroom spying scandal at Hewlett-Packard Co. was charged Wednesday with federal identity theft and conspiracy charges, prosecutors said. Bryan Wagner is accused of using the Social Security number of the unidentified journalist to illegally gain access to the phone logs, according to the criminal charges filed in San Jose federal court by U.S. Attorney Kevin V. Ryan's office. Wagner is also accused of conspiring to illegally obtain and transmit personal information on HP directors, journalists and employees as part of the computer and printer maker's crusade to ferret out the source of boardroom leaks to the media."

Submission + - OLPC Nepal makes a Landmark

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bokey

on Thursday January 11, 2007 @12:42PM

bokey writes: "Last week Rwanda announced its commitment to OLPC. This week a local non-profit group, OLPC Nepal, announced its intention to make OLPC a reality in this himalayan nation. Like Rwanda, Nepal is a poor, land-locked nation with few natural resources. Unlike Rwanda, OLPC Nepal has yet to secure government buy-in. They are actively working to change that. Let's hope they are successful."

Submission + - Networking in Extreme Conditions?

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222

on Thursday January 11, 2007 @12:33PM

222 writes: "Mission: Create an intermediate distribution frame. Difficulty: A few feet away, industrial equipment will be generating roughly 2000 degree heat. Bonus: Keep the network switches inside the IDF from melting.
Does anyone have experience in making IT work in such extreme conditions? Is there an enclosure in existence that can handle this type of abuse? This is essentially what I've been asked to accomplish, and now I'm asking my Slashdot brethren the questions; "Can it be done? Do we have the technology?""

Submission + - UK road taxing petition gains support

Submitted by on Thursday January 11, 2007 @12:08PM

An anonymous reader writes: A petition against the planned tracking system for UK car drivers is starting to gain support from the public now. The UK government plans to have a black box fitted to every vehicle which would allow a satellite system to track their journey with prices starting from as little as 2p per mile raising to as much as £1.34 per mile. However, such as system could be also be used to track the exact location of the vehicle at any given time and should you accidently creep over the speed limit you could find yourself in receipt of a ticket. A recent cost analysis on the average user showed a non working mum taking her kids to school paid £86 per month which is a massive increase from the current £160 per year.

Submission + - Fox News Censorship

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crhylove

on Thursday January 11, 2007 @11:34AM

crhylove writes: "I was watching Fox news between 7 and 7:30 this morning, and they were talking about the proposed new 20,000 troops being sent to Iraq. They asked a reporter what he thought, and it seemed like he was trying to say that 20,000 extra troops would not help at all. There was a brief bit of fuzz, he was suddenly gone, and the main talking head said "we're having some satellite trouble.." then a different Fox reporter came on talking about what a great idea 20,000 new troops would be. Did any body else see that this morning? I'm in California, and the channel I was watching was Fox channel 6 (San Diego). Anybody got it Tivo-ed? Was this some non-Fox person pirating them for 5 seconds? Was this one of their own reporters not following the company line and getting shut off? What the hell was that?"

Journal Journal: NO bugged Canadian Coins! 1

Journal by Lars T. on Thursday January 11, 2007 @07:09AM

A recent Slashdot story asked: Bugged Canadian Coins?. Now The Globe and Mail has an update on the story - or rather the non-story. "Defence contractors had apparently been give certain special-issue Canadian coins, the unfamiliar look of which caused them to be concerned about the money, a source said. That led to

Submission + - TiVo for Motorola Cable Boxes & Series 3 Updat

Submitted by

TheTechLounge

on Wednesday January 10, 2007 @10:00PM

TheTechLounge writes: "Tivo, probably my favorite Consumer Electronics company, made a few important announcements here at CES 2007. The first and most important announcement is the unveiling of the TiVo software ported to work on Motorola cable boxes that are subscribed to the Comcast cable network. The next feature is an update to the Series 3 software that allows you to view pictures in HD."

Cisco Sues Apple Over iPhone Trademark 556

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday January 10, 2007 @08:28PM from the that-didn't-take-long dept.

lucabrasi999 writes "It appears that Apple may be running out of items that they can prefix with the letter "i". Cisco is suing Apple over trademark infringement. Cisco claims to own the rights to the "iPhone" trademark since they purchased Infogear in 2000. Infogear filed for the rights to the trademark in 1996."

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