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Submission + - Columbia University ending the Kermit Project (columbia.edu)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Columbia University has announced that the Kermit Project will be ended in July 2011, after more than 30 years in existence. Open Kermit (C-Kermit) will remain available, but without any support or ongoing development; Kermit-95, which cannot be open-sourced, will remain available for license purchases but without support or maintenance.

Submission + - Kodak Relationshifft removes unwanted exes (kodak.com)

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telekon
" rel="nofollow">telekon writes: "Tired of spending hours on Facebook untagging and deleting photos after every breakup? Pruning your Flickr stream too much of a hassle? Kodak has a solution. "We protect precious memories of the places you have been and the people you shared them with, minus the person with whom you just changed your relationship status — we call it Relationshiffft""

Submission + - GoDaddy CEO Kills Elephant, injures brand (smh.com.au)

Submitted by VTEX
VTEX writes: GoDaddy.com CEO Bob Parsons posted a graphic video of himself killing an elephant in Zimbabwe on his blog Thursday. GoDaddy is taking a lot of heat for the video, which details Parson's recent elephant hunt.
Idle

Submission + - France's new measure of well-being: Boredom (publicradio.org)

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mdsolar
mdsolar writes: "France is the latest country to move beyond Gross Domestic Product — or GDP — to measure economic success. And unlike many countries these days, the French are not switching to measures of well-being and happiness. Instead, the French Office of Economic Analysis has announced plans to systematically measure ennui."

Submission + - Pioneer Anomaly Solved By 1970s Computer Graphics (technologyreview.com)

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Frans Faase
Frans Faase writes: "A new computer model of the way heat is emitted by various parts of the Pioneer spacecraft, and reflected off others, finally solves one of the biggest mysteries in astrophysics. Previous calculations have only estimated the effect of reflections. A computer modeling technique called Phong shading was used to work out exactly how the the emitted heat is reflected and in which direction it ends up travelling. Taking into account the reflections on the antenna seem to make the anomaly disappear."
The Internet

Submission + - How much will we actually take? (arstechnica.com) 1

Submitted by Pabugs
Pabugs writes: US ISP providers — Unbridled greed — The rest of the planet leads by a (last) mile — I guess the US public really are simple dupes — beyond the greed of Wall Street putting our entire country and leadership of the free world at risk (which we paid them to get away with), EVERY facet of living in the US now reeks of corporate greed and passive acceptance on the part of the ppl. — Sad & pathetic acceptance -

Submission + - GLOBE at Night Aims to Map Global Light Pollution (globeatnight.org) 1

Submitted by Kilrah_il
Kilrah_il writes: Light pollution is a big problem this days, affecting not only astronomers and wild life, but also everyone else because of wasted energy. GLOBE at Night aims to raise awareness by urging people to go outside and find out how much light pollution there is in their area. "The campaign is easy and fun to do. First, you match the appearance of the constellation Orion in the first campaign (and Leo or Crux in the second campaign) with simple star maps of progressively fainter stars found. Then you submit your measurements, including the date, time, and location of your comparison. After all the campaign’s observations are submitted, the project’s organizers release a map of light-pollution levels worldwide."
AMD

Submission + - Intel processor launch 10-core Xeon in half 2011 (blogspot.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The recognized provider of chips, Intel has recently announced that the 10-core "Westmere-EX "Xeon is available before the end of the first half of 2011.

The chip will be the next successor to the fastest server processor from Intel, the Nehalem-EX which has eight cores, and was published in 2010.

Intel will use 32nm process technology to construct the 10-core "Westmere-EX" Xeon processor. It should be noted that the current chip Nehalem-EX is designed with the processing of 45-nm technology.

A spokesman for the chip manufacturer, said the next target high-end servers in data centers, large databases and other application needs.

The spokesman also said the systems Westmere EX chips is two socket supports up to 2 TB memory. new technologies help users update the server processors.

Meanwhile, Intel's main rival Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is preparing a new Bulldozer architecture-based 16-core (code-named Interlagos) start in the third quarter of this year.
Space

Submission + - Cold 'Star' No Hotter Than a Summer's Day (sciencemag.org)

Submitted by sciencehabit
sciencehabit writes: Researchers have found two brown dwarfs--so-called failed stars that are too small to sustain the stable burning of hydrogen--that are colder than any previously seen. They're so cold and so small that they are almost like giant planets. One's temperature is barely 300 kelvin--about as warm as a bright summer day on Earth. The two objects could be the first examples of a proposed class of ultra-cool brown dwarfs known as the Y-class. And because they are almost as cold as "gas giant" planets—Jupiter is about 150 K—studying them could offer a better handle on what the atmospheres of alien worlds look like.
The Military

UN Intervention Begins In Libya 688

Posted by timothy from the at-least-there's-no-war dept.
maliamnon writes "US, French, and British forces began enforcing a UN resolution (1973/2011) to defend civilians in Libya today. French aircraft are attacking tanks, while the US and possibly UK are supporting the operation with cruise missiles from sea." Update: 03/19 22:34 GMT by T : Adds reader bloggerkg: "More than 110 Tomahawk missiles fired from American and British ships and submarines hit about 20 Libyan air and missile defense targets in western portions of the country, US Vice Adm. William Gortney said at a Pentagon briefing. The US will conduct a damage assessment of the sites, which include SA-5 missiles and communications facilities. A senior US military official, who was not authorized to speak on the record, said the missiles landed near Misrata and Tripoli, the capital and Gadhafi's stronghold."
Microsoft

Internet Explorer From 1.0 To 9.0 129

Posted by CmdrTaco from the thats-how-he-rolls dept.
FrankNFurter writes "Remember the video of Andrew Tait upgrading Windows from 1.0 to 7. He did another one — this time installing all major versions of IE from 1.0 to 9.0." He actually does some interesting packet sniffing to see why sites aren't rendering, and amusingly shows MSIE 1.0 getting a 93/100 on the acid test... pretty impressive considering it lacks JS and CSS.

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