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Comment Re:IBM's hardware vendor mind is taking over (Score 1) 863

by jwhitener (#29826661) Attached to: IBM's Answer To Windows 7 Is Ubuntu Linux

I don't know if it has gotten better, but I tried wine with many games and Macromedia products (fireworks, dreamweaver, etc..) and none of it worked well.

Relying on the wine developers keeping pace with products designed for windows, and keeping pace with Microsoft api/quirks isn't a winning strategy for Linux adoption.
Science

Submission + - Element 114 Verified (physicstoday.org)

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ExRex
ExRex writes: "A team at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has confirmed the results of researchers at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia, who first reported producing the superheavy element 114 in 1999. Such independent verification is important, particularly given evidence of fabricated results for other superheavy elements.
If you're a subscriber to Physical Review Letters you can download the full article."
Math

12M Digit Prime Number Sets Record, Nets $100,000 232

Posted by CmdrTaco from the that's-a-lotta-bits dept.
coondoggie writes "A 12-million-digit prime number, the largest such number ever discovered, has landed a voluntary math research group a $100,000 prize from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). The number, known as a Mersenne prime, is the 45th known Mersenne prime, written shorthand as 2 to the power of 43,112,609, minus 1 . A Mersenne number is a positive integer that is one less than a power of two, the group stated. The computing project called the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) made the discovery on a computer at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Mathematics Department."

Comment Re:Slow news day (Score 1) 554

by TRRosen (#29732383) Attached to: Blogger Loses Unemployment Check Because of Ads

Unemployment is administered by the states but is a federal program. Rules are the same everywhere. The rules however are really really screwed up. the system can't handle non traditional income. If she was working 4 hours a week at a deli making that money there would have been no problem. She would recieve her benefits minus her income.

Submission + - Bullet train for California (google.com)

Submitted by marquinhocb
marquinhocb writes: Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger requested $4.7 billion in federal stimulus money Friday to help build an 800-mile bullet train system from San Diego to San Francisco.
      "We're traveling on our trains at the same speed as 100 years ago," the governor said. "That is inexcusable. America must catch up."
      Planners said the train would be able to travel from Los Angeles to San Francisco in two hours and 40 minutes, traveling at speeds of more than 200 miles per hour.

About damned time! There comes a point when "let's add another lane" is no longer a viable option!
Hardware

Submission + - Columbian Computer Maker Builds Dual-Atom Netbook (infoworld.com)

Submitted by snydeq
snydeq writes: Colombian computer maker Haleron has designed a netbook that combines Atom processors in an effort to provide the performance of a standard laptop at a price more affordable to Latin Americans. The Swordfish Net N102 includes two Atom N270 processors running at 1.6GHz. Haleron worked for six months to modify Intel's 945 chipset to run the two processors. The processors divide the workload, much like a dual-core processor does, the company said. The netbook, which begs the question, when does a netbook stop being a netbook, comes with Windows XP Home Edition. 'We found that it works best on the Windows XP operating system. Both Windows Vista and the new Windows 7 performed below Windows XP in the load sharing department,' the company said.
Idle

Submission + - Ex-cop fights $194 speeding ticket costing $15,000

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Roger Rude, a retired Sonoma County sheriff's lieutenant, is still fighting a speeding ticket his step-son, Shaun Malone, received in 2007. Shaun Malone was allegedly going 62 mph in a 45-mph zone, according to a Petaluma police officer. To the officer's surprise, Malone was using a GPS tracking device which reported his speed to an online database every 30 seconds. At the time of stop, the GPS reported Malone's speed at 45 mph. Rude has been helping Malone fight the speeding ticket for over two years. The Petaluma Police Department has spent $15,000 in the prosecution of this case. The case is now in the hands of the Commissioner according to the Pressdemocrat
Portables

Submission + - Asus Plans Dual-Display E-Reader (gearlog.com)

Submitted by adeelarshad82
adeelarshad82 writes: Yet more confirmation has emerged that Asus plans its own e-book reader. An Asus representative in the U.K. appears to have confirmed this, with the additional details that there may be a value-priced as well as a premium version. Unlike current ebook readers, which take the form of a single flat screen, the Asus device has a hinged spine, like a printed book. This, in theory, enables its owner to read an ebook much like a normal book, using the touchscreen to "turn" the pages from one screen to the next.
The Courts

Submission + - SPAM: FTC whacks four more big telemarketing scammers

Submitted by
coondoggie
coondoggie writes: "The Federal Trade Commission today settled charges with four telemarketing scammers who were charging for products that were never ordered, making bogus claims about their products, and harassing consumers with unwanted phone calls, the commission stated. With the settlements, defendants in nine of the 13 scammers charged in last year's wide-ranging FTC crackdown known as "Tele-PHONEY" have settled FTC's charges, and courts have permanently prohibited the telemarketers' illegal activity, garnered profits and suspended operations of unscrupulous telemarketers who allegedly defrauded more than 500,000 consumers, resulting in losses of more than $100 million. The settlements contain judgments totaling more than $27.6 million, although as is unfortunately the case with many of these judgments, large portions have been suspended by the courts. [spam URL stripped]"
Link to Original Source
Security

Submission + - Defcon, Black Hat attendee finds more dodgy ATMs (computerworlduk.com) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: As if it weren't enough that one bogus ATM was discovered collecting card details at the Riviera in Las Vegas where Black Hat and Defcon attendees were staying, one presenter suspects that ATMs at the Rio were compromised as well. Chris Paget tried to take out $200 and the machine never gave him the money despite debiting his account. At least five other people were affected. The hotel staff allowed the machines to keep running and threatened that Paget could be prosecuted for vandalism if he unplugged them. The Secret Service confirmed on Monday that they're investigating. It could be an inside job, or the machines may be infected with malware, as was found earlier this year in Eastern Europe.
Education

Submission + - HS Student Isolates Polystyrene-eating Microbe (wired.com)

Submitted by
cmholm
cmholm writes: "Although I had for years assumed that plastics eventually biodegrade, my recent reading of Weisman's The World Without Us reminded me that just because garbage has broken down into pieces that I can't see doesn't mean it isn't still polluting the biosphere. Weisman's book suggests that we're pretty much stuck with most plastics until something evolves to eat them. Perhaps we just need to introduce the diner to the dinner. A Waterloo, Ontario teen's 2008 science fair experiment found polystyrene's match in the team of the relatively uncommon Sphingomonas and Pseudomonas bacterias. At 37 degrees and optimal bacterial concentration, with a bit of sodium acetate thrown in, Burd achieved 43 per cent degradation within six weeks, rather than thousands of years."

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