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Submission + - Mozilla CEO slams Apple's Steve Jobs

Submitted by

Kurtz'sKompund

on Monday June 18, 2007 @07:23AM

Kurtz'sKompund writes: "John Lilly, Mozilla's chief operating officer, has slammed Apple chief executive officer Steve Jobs following the launch of Safari for Windows. http://www.computerworlduk.com/technology/internet /applications/news/index.cfm?newsid=3539"

Submission + - Google smear campaign exposed

Submitted by

Mark Doughty

on Sunday June 10, 2007 @06:24AM

Mark Doughty writes: "According to a blog posting here: http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry1491.html Google has gone on the attack after Privacy International published an interim report daring to suggest that Google privacy sucked so bad it was bottom of the entire list of Internet companies researched."

Female Sharks Can Reproduce Alone 293

Posted by Zonk on Wednesday May 23, 2007 @11:43AM from the i-thought-the-federal-government-banned-cloning dept.

mikesd81 writes "The Washington Post has an article about a team of American and Irish researchers that have discovered that some female sharks can reproduce without having sex, the first time that scientists have found the unusual capacity in such an ancient vertebrate species. Their report concludes that sharks can reproduce asexually through the process known as parthenogenesis (the growth and development of an embryo or seed without fertilization by a male). Scientists started investigating after a female hammerhead shark was mysteriously born at Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo in a tank that housed 3 female sharks. It was originally thought one had stored sperm from a male shark before fertilizing an egg. However, baby shark's genetic makeup perfectly matched one of the females in the tank, with no sign of a male parent."

Submission + - Chess Grandmaster Kasparov Arrested in Moscow

Submitted by carre4 on Saturday April 14, 2007 @03:42PM

carre4 writes: Former world chess champion Garry Kasparov was arrested in Moscow during an anti-Kremlin demonstration along with at least 100 other activists. Kasparov now leads the strongest opposition movement in Russia as previously discussed on Slashdot. This march was part of the Dissenters' Marches that have been held in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Nizhny Novgorod in spite of refused permits.

Submission + - Donkey Kong Scene Made of Post-It Notes

Submitted by gEvil (beta) on Tuesday April 10, 2007 @09:53AM

gEvil (beta) writes: Some crazy kids at UC Santa Cruz have created a building-sized recreation of the first level of Donkey Kong out of Post-It(TM) notes stuck to the E2 building's windows. There are a number of images showing the progress of this ten-person, five-hour process.

Microsoft set to Announce Zune 360 and 180 66

Posted by Zonk on Sunday April 01, 2007 @06:30PM from the moving-up-in-the-world dept.

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Blueberry Bob writes "Just in time for the iPhone June launch, Microsoft is planning to launch the Zune 360 and 180. The 360 will be a widescreen video and music player available in 40 and 80 GB models, whereas the 180 will be a smaller device similar in size to the iPod nano. Oddly enough, only the 180 model will feature a cellphone — Microsoft believes that the combined cellphone/music player market is better served in compact players. 'Although the default behavior will be to connect the Zune 360 and 180 to a Windows machine and use the default Zune software (which is also undergoing a revamp) it will be possible to put the Zune 360 in to disk mode and the device will be treated like any ordinary USB storage device and will therefore be accessible from Mac and Linux machines too. The built in indexing in the 360 will allow you to easily search for songs, however out of the box it's not possible to create playlists on the 360 itself, they still need to be managed by the Zune software.'"

Third Stargate TV Series Named 240

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday March 25, 2007 @09:14AM from the lot-better-than-just-calling-it-stargate-fetus dept.

GateWorld has a story about the new Stargate series. "The working title of the third 'Stargate' television series is 'Stargate Universe', executive producer Robert C. Cooper told GateWorld. The show currently exists in the form of a one-page treatment of the story and characters. Cooper and executive producer Brad Wright will start writing the pilot after shooting on the two 'Stargate SG-1' movies finishes in June. Meanwhile, new episodes of 'SG-1' and 'Atlantis' start airing April 13 in the U.S., on The SCI FI Channel. "

Apple TV Already Being Hacked 260

Posted by kdawson on Saturday March 24, 2007 @02:44PM from the let-me-at-it dept.

TunesBoy writes "Only a couple of days after being shipped, the Apple TV is already being modified in a variety of ways. A thread at Something Awful discusses installing VLC, and a dedicated site, AppleTVHacks.net, has appeared and is cataloging hacks including a hard-drive upgrade tutorial. Did Apple intend for the Apple TV to be so easy to upgrade and hack?"

Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) Beta Released 429

Posted by Zonk on Friday March 23, 2007 @03:28PM from the enjoy-your-irritable-deer dept.

vivaoporto writes "The Beta version of the popular Linux distribution, Ubuntu 7.04, was released today. Codenamed Feisty Fawn, the CD images can be downloaded from the Canonical Servers, and the final version is due to be released next month. Get it while it's hot! Read more about it on the official wiki."

France Opens Secret UFO Files 379

Posted by CowboyNeal on Friday March 23, 2007 @05:29AM from the mulder-and-scully dept.

Radon360 notes that France has become the first country to open its files on UFOs. A new website lists over 1600 sightings dating back to the 1950s. "The online archives, which will be updated as new cases are reported, catalogues in minute detail cases ranging from the easily dismissed to a handful that continue to perplex even hard-nosed scientists. Known as OVNIs in French, UFOs have always generated intense interest along with countless conspiracy theories about secretive government cover-ups of findings deemed too sensitive or alarming for public consumption."

Lego MMOG Announced 61

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday March 06, 2007 @05:16AM from the swordhand-connects-to-the-orc's-face dept.

Gamespot is reporting that a Lego Massively Multiplayer Game aimed at kids is in the works. Developer NetDevil, makers of Auto Assault, will be working on the project. No firm details beyond the project's announcement at this point, but the site slates the game for a 2008 launch.

Submission + - Beer Launcher

Submitted by

wittmania

on Friday March 02, 2007 @03:51PM

wittmania writes: "John Cornwell has built a beer launcher that has a 10 can magazine and can launch a beer up to 13 feet. It is controlled by a keyless entry remote which allows the "user" to lift a beer out of the mini-fridge, loading it into the catapult. The user then uses the remote to aim and fire the launcher. Cornwell has a video showing the Beer Launcher in action."

Interstellar Ark 703

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday February 18, 2007 @10:17AM from the yeah-good-luck-with-that dept.

xantox writes "There are three strategies to travel 10.5 light-years from Earth to Epsilon Eridani and bring humanity into a new stellar system : 1) Wait for future discovery of Star Trek physics and go there almost instantaneously, 2) Build a relativistic rocket powered by antimatter and go there in 22 years by accelerating constantly at 1g, provided that you master stellar amounts of energy (so, nothing realistic until now), but what about 3): go there by classical means, by building a gigantic Ark of several miles in radius, propulsed by nuclear fusion and featuring artificial gravity, oceans and cities, for a travel of seven centuries — where many generations of men and women would live ? This new speculation uses some actual physics and math to figure out how far are our fantasies of space travel from their actual implementation."

"Very Severe Hole" In Vista UAC Design 813

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday February 13, 2007 @05:07PM from the she-said-he-said dept.

Cuts and bruises writes "Hacker Joanna Rutkowska has flagged a "very severe hole" in the design of Windows Vista's User Account Controls (UAC) feature. The issue is that Vista automatically assumes that all setup programs (application installers) should be run with administrator privileges — and gives the user no option to let them run without elevated privileges. This means that a freeware Tetris installer would be allowed to load kernel drivers. Microsoft's Mark Russinovich acknowledges the risk factor but says it was a 'design choice' to balance security with ease of use."

Matt Groening Talks About Futurama's Comeback 156

Posted by Zonk on Friday February 02, 2007 @06:46PM from the you-seem-malnourished-are-you-suffering-from-internal-parasites- dept.

Joel Keller writes "When I was at the Television Critics Association press tour earlier last month, I briefly talked to Matt Groening about Futurama's comeback. I posted the interview to TV Squad a couple of days ago. The man behind the Simpsons and Futurama talks about the latter's comeback, the fun of doing sci-fi in a comedy format, and a few words about the first episode to air on Comedy Central."

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