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Submission + - Global Warming Oppression Goes Both Ways (washingtontimes.com) 1

Submitted by

Reverend Darkness

on Friday July 27, 2007 @02:12PM

Reverend Darkness writes: "With all of the stories about climate change scientists being silenced by the Bush Administration comes an EPA investigation into a letter from the president of ACORE that threatens the career of a scientist who dares question the cause of climate change. From the article (in the Washington Times):

"It is my intention to destroy your career as a liar," Mr. Eckhart wrote. "If you produce one more editorial against climate change, I will launch a campaign against your professional integrity. I will call you a liar and charlatan to the Harvard community of which you and I are members. I will call you out as a man who has been bought by Corporate America. Go ahead, guy. Take me on."

... and it's not the first time he's made such threats."

Submission + - Historical Look At First Linux Kernel (kerneltrap.org)

Submitted by LinuxFan on Thursday July 26, 2007 @04:59PM

LinuxFan writes: KernelTrap has a fascinating article about the first Linux kernel, version 0.01, complete with source code and photos of Linus Torvalds as a young man attending the University of Helsinki. Torvalds originally planned to call the kernel "Freax", and in his first announcement noted, "I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones." He also stressed that the kernel was very much tied to the i386 processor, "simply, I'd say that porting is impossible." Humble beginnings.

Submission + - Benoit Murder on Wikipedia Before Publicly Known?

Submitted by on Thursday June 28, 2007 @03:01PM

An anonymous reader writes: Fox News is reporting that the Wikipedia page for Chris Benoit was updated with information on his wife's death at least 13 hours before police found her body. According to Fox News, the IP where the edit came from is located in Stamford, CT, home of World Wrestling Entertainment.

Submission + - LightZone for Linux free

Submitted by

wolflarsen0

on Thursday February 15, 2007 @03:27PM

wolflarsen0 writes: "Like many companies, Light Crafts releases its flagship application — the RAW photo converter LightZone — for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. But although the Windows and OS X versions of LightZone cost hundreds of dollars, the Linux version is absolutely free. It is a lucky break, too, because LightZone is a powerful tool that bests many of its expensive competitors on both quality and ease of use."

Submission + - Spyware given seal of approval to be installed

Submitted by smooth wombat on Thursday February 15, 2007 @02:27PM

smooth wombat writes: Just when you thought headway was being made against spyware, along comes TRUSTe which has certified the first ten applications that have passed the certification process for TRUSTe's Trusted Download Program.

From the press release:

"The companies whose applications have passed the challenging certification process for the Trusted Download whitelist are all demonstrating a commitment to protecting consumer privacy," said Fran Maier, executive director and president of TRUSTe. "By completely informing users about the particulars of the downloads they offer up front, the participating companies are increasing transparency and giving control to users."

Some of the software which has been certified includes Coupon Bar 5.0 from Coupons Inc, Crawler Toolbar 4.5.0 from Crawler LLC and Save/SaveNow from WhenU.com.

Submission + - Female Gamers have More Sex

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 15, 2007 @01:50PM

An anonymous reader writes: A Belgian research firm found that girls who never play computer games have less sex than girls who do play games on their PC or gaming consoles. Breeze says the girls who do play games have sex 4.3 times a week, while the girls who never play games only go to bed 3.2 times a week.

Submission + - Earth's constant hum explained

Submitted by

MattSparkes

on Thursday February 15, 2007 @01:41PM

MattSparkes writes: "It has been known for some time that there is a constant hum that emanates from the Earth, which can be heard near 10 millihertz on a seismometer. The problem was that nobody knew what caused it. It has now been shown that it is caused by waves on the bottom of the sea, and more specifically "by the combination of two waves of the same frequency travelling in opposite directions""

Submission + - Has open-source lost its halo?

Submitted by

PetManimal

on Thursday February 15, 2007 @12:49PM

PetManimal writes: "Open-source software development once had a reputation as a grassroots movement, but it is increasingly a mainstream IT profit center, and according to Computerworld, some in the industry are asking whether "open source" has become a cloak used by IT vendors large and small to disguise ruthless and self-serving behavior. Citing an online opinion piece by Gordon Haff, an analyst at Illuminata Inc., the article notes that HP and IBM have not only profited from open-source at the expense of competitors, but have also boosted their images in the open-source community. The Computerworld article also mentions the efforts by the Microsoft/Windows camp to promote open-source credentials:

[InfoWorld columnist Dave] Rosenberg is more disturbed by the bandwagon jumpers: the companies, mostly startups, belatedly going open-source in order to "ride a trend," while paying only lip service to the community and its values. Take Aras Corp., a provider of Windows-based product lifecycle management (PLM) software that in January decided to go open-source. Rosenberg depicted the firm in his blog as an opportunistic Johnny-Come-Lately. "I'm not impressed when a company whose software is totally built on Microsoft technologies goes open-source," said Rosenberg, who even suspects that the company is being promoted by Microsoft "as a shill" to burnish Redmond's image in open-source circles.
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Submission + - The most politically incorrect games ever

Submitted by

The Bike Blog

on Tuesday February 06, 2007 @01:03PM

The Bike Blog writes: "These are two of the most politically dangerous board games ever. In the first you play as either a superpower or terrorist organisation, and compete for world power. In the second you compete either as evolution or intelligent design. "This game didn't happen by accident," the creator said in a statement. "It was intelligently designed.""

Submission + - SPAM: Even Ethernet is going "green" with new IE

Submitted by

alphadogg

on Friday February 02, 2007 @12:24PM

alphadogg writes: "The IEEE wants to make idle or underutilized Ethernet connections more energy efficient, which could mean huge electrical cost savings for large enterprises. The trick: finding a way to subtley throttle between 10Mbps and 10Gbps. The idea is to save power in PCs and laptops (most of which ship with GigE cards now) when LAN links are idle, or not utilizing full bandwidth. Researchers estimate that U.S. companies could collectively save $450 million a year in power costs by using such a technology. [spam URL stripped]- energy-efficient.html"

Submission + - NFL Calls Foul on Church Superbowl Parties

Submitted by Kahlil in Virginia on Friday February 02, 2007 @11:55AM

Kahlil in Virginia writes: This article (http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID =/20070201/LOCAL/702010431/) from Indiana describes how the NFL is using its lawyers to intemidate and ban churches from hosting Superbowl parties. The NFL claims it is copyright infringement and that the churches are to refrain from hosing a party where the words Superbowl are used. The also cannot use a screen larger than 55". However, bars and other places are able to continue showing the program. This strikes me to be a fairly blatent abuse of a power the NFL does not have. Where is the law that says we, as a people, have a contract with the NFL to host parties and show the prgram? As long as the church is not receiving income from this and redistributing the program the NFL should have no leg to stand on. The NFL also blaims ratings and advertisement revenue as part of its decision.

Submission + - Oxygen HD sound cards take on X-Fi

Submitted by

TheRaindog

on Friday February 02, 2007 @11:54AM

TheRaindog writes: "Looking for an alternative to Creative's dominance of the sound card market? The Tech Report has an in-depth look at C-Media Oxygen HD-based soundcards from Auzentech and Sondigo. Support for real-time DTS and Dolby Digital Live encoding gives these cards a leg up on the X-Fi out of the gate, and one even features user-replaceable OPAMPs. The cards are compared with an X-Fi and integrated motherboard audio across a wide range of CPU utilization, 3D gaming, objective sound quality, and subjective listening tests that reveal where they shine, and more importantly, where they stumble."

Submission + - Help with Linux Backup and Archive Solutions

Submitted by

earlshaw03

on Friday February 02, 2007 @11:27AM

earlshaw03 writes: "I work for a small independent phone company and have a few questions regarding one of our Linux boxes that is our customer email server. We are running Debian and are having some issues backing up every users email. We had about 90GB worth of mail on the server, so we deceided to implement a new policy that all email that was not popped would be deleted after 90 days. We scoured sourceforge, freshmeat, and google to find a good archiving program that would allow us to accomplish this. The only one we could find was archivemail, which worked somewhat well, but we keep getting an error that stops the program about half way through, on the same user. It also stalls on other users as well. We have managed to work around these accounts and get the size down to 55GB worth of email. We are currently using Vembu Technologies StoreGrid product to backup this server. The backup usually took anywhere from 3-4 days for a full backup. So finally I am asking the Slashdot Community what do you use to Backup and archive/delete mail?"

Submission + - Payoffs to Global Warming Paris Attendees ?

Submitted by siasl on Friday February 02, 2007 @11:00AM

siasl writes: Maybe this needs to be in the "tinfoil hat" section but my wife was in the car this morning listening to WPLN Nashville when the story about the possible payoff of Global Warming attendees at the Paris conf came on. http://www.guardian.co.uk/frontpage/story/0,,20043 99,00.html Then, an hour later when the Global Warming coverage was to repeat. The sidebar about the payoffs was gone. Did WPLN (NPR) get a call to drop the story...... Who knows. /On Tinfoil hat

Submission + - New Tools Appearing Based off of Long Tail Concept

Submitted by

miklevin

on Friday February 02, 2007 @10:55AM

miklevin writes: "If you haven't heard of the term "the long tail" over the past year, you've had your head in the sand. The long tail concept is now spawning tools to help webmasters improve sites. http://www.hittail.com/ reveals in real-time the least utilized, most promising keywords hidden in the long tail of your natural search results, which are then presented to you as suggestions that when acted on can boost the natural search results of your site. Your only job is to create original content from those suggestions. It's that simple."

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