Want to read Slashdot from your mobile device? Point it at m.slashdot.org and keep reading!

 


Forgot your password?
Close
typodupeerror
×
Iphone

Submission + - Who are the jailbreakers?

Submitted by chrb
chrb writes: IOS jailbreakers gathered last month in London for MyGreatFest — the first conference dedicated to the jailbreaking scene. In a BBC article, the young jailbreakers discuss how they got into the scene, and what they are doing now. One reveals that, at 17 years old, he was too young to become an official iPhone developer, so he sold his apps in an app store for jailbroken phones, making over $100k.

Submission + - CCP to lay off 20% of its staff, refocus on EVE (eveonline.com)

Submitted by zergl
zergl writes: CCP games just announced that 20% of its staff will be laid off due to their overextension on developing three titles at the same time while bleeding subscribers on their flagship title EVE Online. The World Of Darkness MMO will be put on the back burner while remaining resources will be put towards EVE and getting Dust 514 launched successfully.
This comes as not much of a surprise considering the financial situation CCP was in with liquid assets about to run out well before the Dust launch next year which was discovered when the 2010 financial report was analyzed on a community forum.
Bitcoin

Submission + - bitcoin value implodes (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Apparently unbeknownst to slashdot's editors and in spite of their relentless promotion of bitcoin a few months ago, bitcoin value has completely tanked in the few short months since June. Is it still too late to return those mining GPUs we've bought to Best Buy?
Microsoft

Submission + - Ballmer: We're lucky Microsoft didn't buy Yahoo in (networkworld.com)

Submitted by alphadogg
alphadogg writes: Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer feels intensely fortunate that his company's $44 billion bid for Yahoo back in 2008 never materialized. "Sometimes you're lucky," he said with a smile at Web 2.0 Summit, responding to a question from conference co-chair John Battelle. Careful not to offend his search market partner, Ballmer put his comment in context, saying that any CEO would feel grateful for not making a major acquisition in the months prior to the global financial collapse that started in the second half of 2008.

Comment Re:This is a very interesting experiment (Score 3, Interesting) 59

by gnalle (#37759514) Attached to: Winged Robots Hint At the Origins of Flight

The wings only help because the robot was designed poorly. When the robot moves without wings the body of the robot jumps up and down and it rotates along a vertical axis, and that makes it hard for the robot to move. The wings stabilize the motion of the body and presses it towards the ground, and that allows the robot to move faster.

Real beetles don't have this problem because they move their legs in a more controlled fashion. I am sure that the sameis true for the dinasaurs that turned in to birds. Therefore this experiment does not prove a lot. The team is asking the right question, but they did not come up with a denifite answer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4V1631-Vcm4
Biotech

Submission + - New Vaccine Halves Malaria Risk (reuters.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: According to a report in Reuters, scientists are celebrating the end of a clinical trial which found a malaria vaccine reduces infection risk by half in children. From the article: 'While scientists say it is no "silver bullet" and will not end the mosquito-borne infection on its own, it is being hailed as a crucial weapon in the fight against malaria and one that could speed the path to eventual worldwide eradication. Malaria is caused by a parasite carried in the saliva of mosquitoes. It kills more than 780,000 people per year, most of them babies or very young children in Africa. Cohen's vaccine goes to work at the point when the parasite enters the human bloodstream after a mosquito bite. By stimulating an immune response, it can prevent the parasite from maturing and multiplying in the liver. ... Cohen said that if all goes to plan, RTS,S could be licensed and rolled out by 2015.'
Censorship

Submission + - French court orders ISP to block police misconduct (volokh.com)

Submitted by Freddybear
Freddybear writes: A French court has ordered ISPs to block access to Copwatch Nord Paris I-D-F, a website designed to allow civilians to post videos of alleged police misconduct. French police unions applauded the decision.
Medicine

Does Religion Influence Epidemics? 547

Posted by Soulskill from the flying-spaghetti-malaria dept.
sciencehabit writes "Whether or not they believe in God, evolutionary biologists may need to pay closer mind to religion. That's because religious beliefs can shape key behaviors in ways that evolutionary theory would not predict, particularly when it comes to dealing with disease. According to a new study, some of today's major religions emerged at the same time as widespread infectious diseases, and the two may have helped shape one another. The same dynamics may be reflected today in how people in Malawi deal with the AIDS epidemic."

Submission + - Nokia shows first Meego phone (engadget.com)

Submitted by Zebedeu
Zebedeu writes: Nokia has finally shown on video what Meego looks like running on their new N9.

Makes one wonder if it really is the best decision for them to go with WP7, or if a successful product launch might lead them to rethink their long-term smartphone strategy.

Comment EU's agricultural support (Score 2) 570

by gnalle (#35569234) Attached to: A Look At the World's Dwindling Food Supply

Ten years ago critics were worried that EU's agricultural support forced African farmers to give up on farming. Now we are worried that the rising food prices force African farmers to buy food from abroad. That confuses me.

Perhaps the problem is price fluctuations. A poor farmer cannot afford to invest in better production methods, because he cannot afford to risk bankrupcy. If the prices were more stable then the risks would be lower.

Slashdot Top Deals

You knew the job was dangerous when you took it, Fred. -- Superchicken

Close