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Submission + - History of infamous political ad unearthed (conelrad.com)

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Michael Ravnitzky
Michael Ravnitzky writes: "CONELRAD has published a complete history of the infamous and iconic Daisy Ad — Girl picking a daisy and counting leads to nuclear explosion — used by LBJ to beat Barry Goldwater in the 1964 Presidential Campaign. Bill Geerhart spent the last year researching the story and documenting its disputed authorship.

In addition to the collected video, audio, and historical documents, Bill interviewed the 'Daisy Girl' Birgitte Olsen, now all grown up and now able to count.
http://www.conelrad.com/daisy"
Music

Submission + - Zeppelin Reunion has Slashdot Effect

Submitted by cayenne8
cayenne8 writes: Apparently the long rumored Led Zeppelin reunion is going to happen. It will be a one off show with original members Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones and Jason Bohnam (John's son) in tribute to Ahmet Ertegun, a co-founder of Atlantic Records who died recently.

The website where you can register for a lottery for tickets has crashed due to demand for the tickets. Apparently, Led Zeppelin, a group long defunct, can still have the power to 'slashdot' a website. Why not? They did recently set records for their DVD released a couple of years ago. Is there any group today that will have that kind of staying power?

To add insult to injury to the crashed site, it is at Ahmettribute.com

A Look At Halo 3's $10 Million Ad Campaign 62

Posted by Zonk from the you've-already-seen-it dept.
Via Next Generation, a post on the Brand Week website that goes into some detail on the massive advertising campaign for Halo 3 orchestrated by Microsoft and the McCann-Erickson group. "The goal of the campaign is to bring Halo fans and nonfans up-to-speed as to where we are in Master Chief's epic battle to defeat the evil Covenant. While most major game titles begin their ad campaigns weeks before launch to build buzz, Halo 3 differs greatly. This mass-market push is actually the end of the of Halo 3 campaign. The TV push is the grand finale of a five-pronged attack Microsoft quietly launched last December. The carefully orchestrated onslaught was designed to make casual fans interested and core fans rabid as Microsoft aims to eclipse Halo 2's record-breaking $125 million in sales on day one. To date, Halo 3 is already on the books for one million preorders and counting. "
The Internet

NSF-Funded "Dark Web" to Battle Terrorists 258

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the whos-watching-the-watchers dept.
BuzzSkyline writes "The National Science Foundation has announced a new University of Arizona project, which they call the Dark Web, intended to monitor all terrorist activity on the Internet. The project relies on 'advanced techniques such as Web spidering, link analysis, content analysis, authorship analysis, sentiment analysis and multimedia analysis [to] find, catalog and analyze extremist activities online.' The coolest part of the project is a tool called Writeprint, which 'automatically extracts thousands of multilingual, structural, and semantic features to determine who is creating "anonymous" content' with an accuracy of 95%, according to the release."
PC Games (Games)

Submission + - Spore available for pre-order (amazon.com)

Submitted by The Iso
The Iso writes: Will Wright's long awaited game Spore can now be pre-ordered from Amazon.com. The release date is 2008-03-03, so all you "next Duke Nukem Forever" jokers can help yourselves to an ample serving of humble pie.

Software Company Sues Popular Australian Forum 121

Posted by CmdrTaco from the i'd-like-to-sue-a-bar-where-someone-was-mean-to-me dept.
Pugzly writes "In a recent announcement on the Whirlpool front page, it appears that accounting software maker 2clix is suing the founder of the forums as the founder "allowed statements 'relating to the Plaintiff and its software product that are both false and malicious' to be published on the Whirlpool forums."
Security

Submission + - Know Your Enemy: Malicious Web Servers (net-security.org)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: HNS has a paper that examines client-side attacks and evaluates methods to defend against client-side attacks on web browsers. First, it provides an overview of client-side attacks and introduces the honeypot technology that allows security researchers to detect and examine these attacks. Then it proceeds to examine a number of cases in which malicious web servers on the Internet were identified with honeypot technology and evaluates different defense methods. It concludes with a set of recommendations that one can implement to make web browsing safer.
AMD

Submission + - ZDNet : AMD Barcelona will be a disappointment (techarp.com)

Submitted by
crazyeyes
crazyeyes writes: "George Ou of ZDNet has this to say about the performance of the AMD Barcelona :


I can tell you right now that 2.0 GHz Barcelona will be disappointing compared to Intel Clovertown 80 watt E5335 or the low-voltage 50 watt L5335 2.0 Processor. It will likely be a little slower even at the same clock speed at 2.0 GHz for SPECint_rate2006. It will dominate the two socket space for SPECfp_rate2006 and based on numbers they posted at the analyst conference, the Barcelona 2.0 GHz quad-core in a dual-socket configuration will even beat an Intel 3.0 GHz quad-core Clovertown dual-socket server.
Looks like AMD is in big trouble. Investors should be careful about a dip in stock prices when actual benchmark results are out."
NASA

Submission + - Frozen smoke protects homes and insulates coats (timesonline.co.uk)

Submitted by Adam9
Adam9 writes: A miracle material for the 21st century could protect your home against bomb blasts, mop up oil spillages and even help man to fly to Mars. Aerogel, one of the world's lightest solids, can withstand a direct blast of 1kg of dynamite and protect against heat from a blowtorch at more than 1,300C. Scientists are working to discover new applications for the substance, ranging from the next generation of tennis rackets to super-insulated space suits for a manned mission to Mars.

Will Internet TV Crash the Internet? 267

Posted by CmdrTaco from the or-just-jack-the-rates dept.
Stony Stevenson writes "Analyst groups and Cisco have come out saying that the internet is heading for a crash unless it increases its bandwidth capabilities which are being strangled by the increased use of Web TV. Stan Schatt, research director at ABI said: "Uploading bandwidth is going to have to increase, and the cable providers are going to get killed on bandwidth as HD programming becomes more commonplace." He added that the solution to the problem is to change to digital switching and move to IPTV. "They will be brought kicking and screaming into the 21st century," he said. Cisco weighed into the argument, adding that it had found American video websites currently transmit more data per month than the entire amount of traffic sent over the internet in 2000."
Linux Business

Submission + - SCO Is Done (groklaw.net)

Submitted by pogopop77
pogopop77 writes: Judge Dale Kimball has ruled that Novell owns the UNIX and UnixWare copyrights, invalidating any remaining claims made by SCO against Linux (and IBM). Groklaw has the story here. That about does it for SCO.
Data Storage

Submission + - Hard Drives Should Meet Rated Capacity (petitiononline.com) 1

Submitted by
Maniac-X
Maniac-X writes: "A recent petition directed toward hard drive manufacturers telling them that consumers want more accurate drive capacity ratings.

Rate capacity in binary, instead of decimal. We want to take a hard drive home and format it to rated capacity. We're all tired of taking home a rated 320GB drive, and having it format to 298GB. This margin of error is simply unacceptable.
"

Terabyte Hard Drive Put To the Test 376

Posted by Zonk from the where-did-the-missing-69-gigs-go dept.
EconolineCrush writes "As a technical milestone, Hitachi's Deskstar 7K1000 hard drive is undeniably impressive. The drive is the first to pack a trillion bytes into a standard 3.5" form factor, and while some may argue the merits of tebi versus tera, that's still an astounding accomplishment. Hitachi also outfitted the drive with 32MB of cache—double what you get with standard desktop drives—making this latest Deskstar a leader in both cache size and total capacity. That looks like a great formula for success on paper, but how does it pan out in the real world? The Tech Report has tested the 7K1000's performance, noise levels, and power consumption against 18 other drives to find out, with surprising results."

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