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Submission + - Is There Any Room For E-Mail in 'Enterprise 2.0'? (socialcomputingmagazine.com) 2

Submitted by jg21
jg21 writes: According to this article in Social Computing Magazine, the increasingly widely used label Enterprise 2.0 signifies, above all, software enabling collaboration — what TFA calls "a many-to-many communication medium that creates interaction" – and therefore does *NOT* really include email, which the author characterizes as a "one-to-one communication medium ... more about instruction." What are the realistic chances that actual collaboration will become the number one form of communication in the enterprise, displacing email?
Music

Submission + - Eminem's Publisher Sues Apple Over Downloads

Submitted by purpledinoz
purpledinoz writes: PC World has an interesting article about a lawsuit Eminem has filed against Apple: "The music publishing companies that represent rap artist Eminem have filed a multimillion-dollar suit against Apple Inc. for selling downloads of Eminem's music on iTunes online music service without compensating them. The suit could have ramifications for the current compensation plan that online music services have for divvying up profits between record labels and the publishing companies that hold rights to artists' songs."
The Courts

Submission + - Dell Punishes Workers By Closing Call Center

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: After employees at Dell's Roseburg, Oregon call center filed a lawsuit about violations of state and federal labor law Dell responds by closing the call center and stating "the closure has nothing to do with a lawsuit filed by employees of the Roseburg center in February". This act in itself seems to be another violation of labor law due the closure being a retaliatory act.
Biotech

Submission + - Chernobyl Mushrooms Feeding on Radiation

Submitted by cowtamer
cowtamer writes: According to a National Geographic Article certain fungi can use ionizing radiation to perform "radiosynthesis" using the pigment melanin (the same one in our skin that protects us from UV radiation). It is speculated that this might be useful on long space voyages where energy from the Sun is not readily available.
Education

Submission + - Who should I vote for? (myspaceiscoolerthanyourspace.com)

Submitted by
oddbrett
oddbrett writes: "With an approaching election in 2008, we're seeing a lot of information, a lot of spin, and a lot of data coming from biased sources. This quiz will compare your political beliefs with that of the candidates in the 2008 presidential election. Keep in mind, this is only a comparison of political beliefs and does not take into account how strongly you or the candidates feel on the topic.

http://www.myspaceiscoolerthanyourspace.com/index. php?page=vote"
Technology (Apple)

Submission + - How Apple Can Win The PC Battle (readwriteweb.com)

Submitted by
ReadWriteWeb
ReadWriteWeb writes: "Despite dropping the word computer from its name, Apple still desperately wants to win the PC market. And recent statistics show they are making progress. Just a year ago Apple's share was close to 2%. Now Apple's Desktops have crossed 10% and the MacBooks now closing on 15% of the laptop market. This puts MacBooks in 4th place behind HP, Toshiba and Gateway. The figures are likely to increase in the 3rd quarter, which is traditionally strong for Apple, because of the back-to-school sales.

Despite the fact that Macs are on the rise and iPods rule already, one can't help but wonder: why are people still using PCs if Macs are so great? One reason is of course cost — Apple computers are usually more expensive than PCs. But another reason is Inertia. When it comes to switch, the cost is not just measured in dollars — it is measured in time and brain power. In addition to cost and learning barriers, there are big corporate barriers as well."
User Journal

Journal SPAM: Dating A Married Man

Journal by melpol
Dating a married MAN can lead to lots of problems and it does not make sense for a single woman to do it, but dating lots of married MEN changes the picture around and you can have a great time. If a few dozen horny married men had your cell phone number you would be kept busy twenty four hours a day seven days a week, and be in a position to pick the time and place to meet. You would also be able to choose the guy that best fits your mood. On days that you are extremely horny you can arrange a
Windows

Submission + - Linux in Virtual PC 2007 Problems

Submitted by
Tokimasa
Tokimasa writes: "I was recently installing some Linux distros on a network at work, some in a Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 setting. However, it some distros just didn't work on Virtual PC — usually, the problem was the graphics not displaying. After heading off to Google, it seemed like other people had this problem. However, there was no one answer — some people blamed video drivers, some blamed the creators of the distro, while others blamed Microsoft. There was no definitive solution on the distro sites or the Virtual PC site.

Has anyone else had this problem? If so, what did you do to resolve it?"
Portables

Submission + - Are laptops OK on bicycles? (science.ca)

Submitted by bshell
bshell writes: I commute to work by bicycle and I've been strapping my PowerBook to the bike rack carrier on the back of my bike. It's enclosed in a typical computer carry bag, and strapped down by bungie cords, but it gets all the road vibrations on there. After years, there seems to be no adverse effects. Do other Slashdot readers concur? Does anyone think that subjecting a laptop computer to the daily bumps and bangs of a bicycle commute is harmful to the machine, or are laptop computers fundamentally constructed to handle this sort of treatment? Your experiences might be instructive to other readers.
Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft sued on Vista name

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Philippe Gildas, a French journalist and TV moderator, is suing Microsoft for trade mark infringement. Philippe Gildas had reserved the tradename Vista in 2003 to use it for a new TV channel. The TV channel will be lauched in next November but the name has been used by Microsoft in between. The links are in French so use your preferred translation tool...
It's funny. Laugh.

Submission + - No goat sex at the Olympics, rules BBC (theregister.co.uk)

Submitted by csplinter
csplinter writes: The Web 2.0-tastic BBC just loves "user generated content". So when London's Olympic team unveiled its logo for the 2012 games to much mockery earlier today, what could be better than unleashing the Wisdom of the Crowd? After all, anyone can do better than the official expensive design disaster. One entry, submitted by "Sean Stayte", won the approval of the BBC sitekeepers and was published as one of the twelve best submissions. In Sean's words:

Here is my design for the Olympic logo. It is very simple and so memorable. The hands represent Britain pulling together to reveal the Olympics."
(See Image Here)
Indeed so.

However, it also represents one of the most iconic and notorious shock pictures on the Web, which was originally hosted at goats.cx. Sean's splendid contribution has now been replaced — without comment from the BBC. Wikipedia, which once again proves that it's the undisputed champ of documenting anal-related web trivia, wasted no time in updating this important page,and has a screen grab here. Get there before some joker replaces it with the real goats.cx picture. Sean, we salute you.
Patents

Submission + - 2008 Presidential Candidates and Tech Issues

Submitted by
Tokimasa
Tokimasa writes: "Following last night's debate with the Democratic presidential hopefuls and tomorrow's debate with the Republican presidential candidates, I noticed that the questions addressed issues that affect the American people as a whole — education, health care, the "war on terror" and combating terrorism, Iraq, Iran, North Korea, China, jobs and the economy, gas prices, and energy.

But what about issues that are important to the technical savvy Americans, including those in technical industries? Issues such as intellectual property reform (especially copyrights and patents), funding for research and development (both private and government led), DMCA, and other topics that might be of interest to engineers and scientists? Why are these topics not discussed (or even mentioned) during a campaign?

Is there any material out there that discusses how each candidate stands on issues that are of interest to certain groups (in my case, engineers and those working in highly technical fields)?"
Software

Submission + - A hardware-software symbiosis

Submitted by
Roland Piquepaille
Roland Piquepaille writes: "We all want smaller and faster computers. Of course, this increases the complexity of the work of computer designers. But now, computer scientists from the University of Virginia are coming with a radical new idea which may revolutionize computer design. They've developed Tortola, a virtual interface that enables hardware and software to communicate and to solve problems together. This approach can be applied to get a better performance from a specific system. It also can be used in the areas of security or power consumption. And it soon could be commercialized with the help of IBM and Intel. Read more for additional details about the Tortola project and how a specific application will run."

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