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Submission + - A Look at CERN's LHC Grid-computing architecture (hpcwire.com)

Submitted by blair1q
blair1q writes: Using a 5-tiered architecture (from CERN's central computer at Tier 0 to individual scientists' desk/lap/palmtops at Tier 5), CERN is distributing LHC data and computation across resources worldwide to achieve aggregate computational power unprecedented in high-energy physics research. As an example, "researchers can sit at their laptops, write small programs or macros, submit the programs through the AliEn system, find the necessary ALICE data on AliEn servers and then run their jobs" on upper-tier systems. The full grid comprises small computers, supercomputers, compute clusters, and mass-storage data centers. This system allows 1,000 researchers at 130 organizations in 34 countries to crunch the data, which are disgorged at a rate of 1.25 GB per second from the LHC's detectors.
Iphone

Submission + - Apple's P2P APP (unitethecows.com)

Submitted by UniteTheCows
UniteTheCows writes: It has emerged that Apple has filed a patent for an iPhone app that facilitates peer-to-peer financial exchanges.

The app, referred to by Apple as "Transaction" will be able to initiate P2P payments in various ways, including...

Submission + - Pentagon hacker demands Government payback (thinq.co.uk)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Autistic hacker Gary McKinnon has called on the newly-elected British Government to put its money where its mouth is and tear up his extradition order.

Both David Cameron, the newly elected Prime Minister, and Nick Clegg, the Deputy Prime minister, voiced their support for McKinnon's campaign against extradition to the US on charges of hacking into US military and NASA computers, looking for evidence of UFOs.
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Cameron's coalition partner, Clegg had even joined McKinnon's mother, Janis Sharp on a protest march.

Many politicians in the new Government rallied behind McKinnon, whose hobby-hacking from his girlfriend's flat in Wood Green, North London, attracted the attention of US military cyber intelligence agents in 2002. McKinnon was diagnosed with autism while fighting the extradition order in court.

The US extradition relied on its insistence that McKinnon had intentionally caused $700,000 of damage to their computers.

McKinnon's solicitor, Karen Todner, wrote to the Home Secretary yesterday, asking whether, the new Liberal Conservative government will act upon their previous public statements that it would be unjust to extradite Mr McKinnon.
NASA

Atlantis Blasts Off On Final Mission 143

Posted by Soulskill from the to-boldly-go dept.
shuz writes "Space shuttle Atlantis lifted off today on its STS-132 mission to the International Space Station — the final flight for the venerable vehicle. The mission involves three spacewalks over 12 days (PDF), during which the team will replace six batteries on the port truss which store energy from solar panels on that truss, bolt on a spare space-to-ground Ku-band antenna, and attach a new tool platform to Canada's Dextre robotic arm." NASA has video of the historic launch and reader janek78 adds this quote from the mission summary: "Atlantis lifted off on its maiden voyage on Oct. 3, 1985, on mission 51-J. Later missions included the launch of the Magellan probe to Venus on STS-30 in May 1989, Galileo interplanetary probe to Jupiter on STS-34 in October 1989, the first shuttle docking to the Mir Space Station on STS-71 in June1995, and the final Hubble servicing mission on STS-125 in May 2009."
Privacy

Submission + - 5 lessons the kids at Facebook need to learn (infoworld.com)

Submitted by GMGruman
GMGruman writes: After being thoroughly spanked for its privacy sins, Facebook may — just may — finally be ready to listen to its users. InfoWorld's pseudonynous blogger Robert X. Cringely has a few NSFW words for the kids at Facebook in the form of 5 lessons the company really needs to learn, starting with pulling its head out of its a** and dealing with the ongoing privacy and security problems for real.

Comment Re:...speaking of naked greed (Score 1) 302

by Bob_Who (#32203484) Attached to: Facebook Calls All-Hands Meeting On Privacy

There is absolutely no reason whatsoever that Facebook needs to hand over private information -- other than naked greed.

Which may be why I misread the headline:

  All Hands Meet On Privates...
and now its morphing into:
(sit on my) facebook
Personal data, naked greed, and hands on privates - sounds like a www.inning.com.bo
Science

Submission + - Sylvania takes on 60-watt bulb with LED light | Gr (cnet.com) 1

Submitted by tugfoigel
tugfoigel writes: LED makers are introducing replacements for the popular 60-watt incandescent bulb that use about 80 percent less electricity and that could last for years and years.

The popular 60-watt incandescent light bulb is officially under attack from LED lighting technology.

Osram Sylvania on Thursday introduced a general-purpose LED light designed to replace screw-in incandescent, halogen, or compact fluorescent bulbs. It also said that it is working on a 75-watt replacement which is an LED.

Comment I keep deactivating my accounts.... (Score 2) 363

by Bob_Who (#32146484) Attached to: A Call For an Open, Distributed Alternative To Facebook

I can last about a week before I get really annoyed and shut it down. I've even tried multiple personalities. It all really ticks me off...I hate constantly having to confront their obfuscation and find no end to their "Bait and Click" corporate scum baggery. Its totally Zucks, if you know what I mean. I have not been back for three months now, since before they enacted recent changes that essentially put it all social data on the bathroom wall for all of eternity. Death won't be any excuse for them to stop marketing your data, since they never really cared if you live or die or even have a life. They sell your profile, whether or not you actually exist is irrelevant. Take it from all four of me.

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