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Submission + - ITunes music sharing makes for awkward neighbors

Submitted by scottyscout on Friday January 12, 2007 @02:06PM

scottyscout writes: A cool NPR story about a reporter who meets his neighbor through her iTunes library when she freeloads on his wireless network.

One night, NPR reporter David Kestenbaum was listening to music on iTunes. And he was bored with his playlist. Then he noticed something strange — a mysterious folder called "Anna's Music" had popped up his screen. He'd never seen it before.

Submission + - How many LEDs do you have on?

Submitted by olddoc on Friday January 12, 2007 @01:56PM

olddoc writes: How many LEDs do you have on in your computer room?
1-10
11-50
50-100
Can't see! Too much glare.

Journal Journal: Call it a night Cowboy 8

Journal by Marxist Hacker 42 on Friday January 12, 2007 @01:56PM

And so I'll post something interesting here that I wrote in reply to somebody saying that mortgages were a good deal:

Submission + - Small Project Lockout Code to Ensure Dev Payment

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 12, 2007 @01:54PM

An anonymous reader writes: What do people use on small-scale projects (non contractual) such as web sites and data processing scripts to ensure payment? I work almost exclusively with scripting languages such as Perl and Python and wonder if there is any "standard" way to obfuscate self-destruct routines that render the software useless after a short period of time. The method needs to be simple, yet not "easily" broken by your average office IT worker by simply editing out the code or resetting a system clock. Ideally, there would be something that after so many uses would lock out the code, followed up by a MD5 sum checker that would further lock it out if any changes were made to the target script. Any ideas?

Mars Probe May Have Spotted Sojourner Rover 149

Posted by Zonk on Friday January 12, 2007 @01:29PM from the born-free-as-free-as-the-wind-blows dept.

Maggie McKee writes "NASA's eagle-eyed Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter may have spotted the tiny, toaster oven-sized Sojourner rover just a few meters away from its companion, the Mars Pathfinder lander. It appears to have crawled there in an attempt to re-establish contact with the lander after the lander had already died. But the pictures aren't clear enough to definitively ID the rover, and it's possible Sojourner simply took off on its own. If it were miraculously still alive after 10 years, it could be 3 kilometers away from Pathfinder — and probably impossible to find, even with MRO."

Submission + - Economic impact of FLOSS on innovation

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Friday January 12, 2007 @01:19PM

Anonymous Coward writes: "Economic impact of FLOSS on innovation and competitiveness of the EU ICT sector © 2006 MERIT. Prepared on November 20, 2006 1 Study on the: Economic impact of open source software on innovation and the competitiveness of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) sector in the EU Final report Prepared on November 20, 2006 Lead contractor: UNU-MERIT, the Netherlands Subcontractors: Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain University of Limerick, Ireland Society for Public Information Spaces, France Business Innovation Centre of Alto Adige-Südtirol, Italy Prepared by: Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, MERIT Disclaimer The opinions expressed in this Study are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Commission. Contract ENTR/04/112. http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/ict/policy/doc/2006 -11-20-flossimpact.pdf"

Feed The Real Adult Expo (wired.com)

From feed by wiredfeed on Friday January 12, 2007 @01:12PM

Sex-tech is emerging from the fringe to the middle of the main convention floor. But where are the webcams? Commentary by Regina Lynn.

Submission + - Efficient HPC using low-power components ?

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Friday January 12, 2007 @12:59PM

Anonymous Coward writes: "Most High Performance Computing systems use lots of 1U or 2U racked nodes with dual processor/dual core opterons or xeons. Such systems consume large amounts of electrical power and usually require additional electricity supplies and cooling plant. Do any Slashdotters utilise more power efficient computing nodes which still have reasonable floating point/subsystem performance to build their computing clusters ?"

Journal Journal: Pentagon Abandons Active-Duty Time Limit 1

Journal by Real World Stuff on Friday January 12, 2007 @12:50PM

http://www.spokesmanreview.com/ap/story.asp?AP_ID=D8MJFVUG0

By ROBERT BURNS
AP Military Writer
January 11, 2007

WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon has abandoned its limit on the time a citizen-soldier can be required to serve on active duty, officials said Thursday, a major change that reflects an Army stretched thin by longer-than-expected combat in Iraq.

Submission + - New Year's Resolutions Revealed

Submitted by

njkid1

on Friday January 12, 2007 @12:40PM

njkid1 writes: "With three new consoles on the market battling it out and the continued strength of the portable space, 2007 is sure to be an exciting year for the game industry. But what are your resolutions for the New Year? Also see wht the top gaming pros had to say!!http://biz.gamedaily.com/industry/feature/?id =14945&ncid=AOLGAM000500000000012"

Submission + - First Internet-Enabled Game for the Commodore 64

Submitted by

Leif_Bloomquist

on Friday January 12, 2007 @12:32PM

Leif_Bloomquist writes: "At the World of Commodore 2006, we previewed our rewrite of the Commodore 64 classic 'Artillery Duel' that can be played over an Ethernet LAN or the Internet. A playable beta has now been released. We hope it will be the first of many new games written to take advantage of Ethernet cards now available for the C64!"

Submission + - Biodiesel from pond scum

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 12, 2007 @12:25PM

An anonymous reader writes: At ksl.com, there is a report that the Utah State University Biofuels program is working on a way to create biodiesel from pond scum. They say that they can get 200 times as much biodiesel per acre than you can by using soybeans, and that it can be done on land that is not prime agricultural land.

Does Income Inequality Matter? 1186

Posted by Cliff on Friday January 12, 2007 @12:16PM from the an-issue-worth-discussing dept.

theodp is concerned about the following: "Alarmed by Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein's record-setting $53M bonus, Charles Wheelan (aka The Naked Economist) argues that income inequality matters. Wheelan notes that the Gini Coefficient (a measure of income inequality) for the U.S. has been moving away from countries like Japan and Sweden and closer to that of Brazil, where the murder rate is 5X that of NYC and crime is materially impacting GDP."

Journal Journal: MUSIC: Song of the Day: "I Must Have Been Blind" - B. Perry 12

Journal by eno2001 on Friday January 12, 2007 @12:13PM

I Must Have Been Blind - Performed by Brendan Perry (formerly of Dead Can Dance)
From: Eye of the Hunter
Written by: Tim Buckley

Here I am believing words again
Here I am trying to find your love again
Here I am down on my knees again
Praying for a love we used to know

Submission + - Exxon cuts ties to Global Warming Skeptics

Submitted by cyclocommuter on Friday January 12, 2007 @12:12PM

cyclocommuter writes: MSNBC has this article about Exxon seemingly having a change of heart and is now "in talks" to look at curbing greenhouse gases.

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