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Submission + - Urine Test May Detect Pregnancy Problems (acs.org)

Submitted by MTorrice
MTorrice writes: By analyzing chemicals in the urine of expectant mothers, doctors could diagnose problems in pregnancy in the second trimester, earlier than with many current tests, according to a new study. Researchers connected signatures of certain chemicals in pregnant women's urine to complications, such as preeclampsia, preterm delivery, and gestational diabetes. The chemical signatures appeared in the women's urine before they were diagnosed with the conditions.

Submission + - Sun Microsystems' stars: Where are they now? (networkworld.com)

Submitted by alphadogg
alphadogg writes: Sun was founded Andy Bechtolsheim, Vinod Khosla, Scott McNealy and Bill Joy in 1982. The company went public in 1986 and was raking in $1 billion in annual sales by 1988. One of the brightest lights in Silicon Valley for more than two decades, Sun’s bread and butter was high-performance workstations and servers running Sun’s SPARC chips and Sun’s Solaris operating system. The company was also a staunch open source supporter. The recession that began in late 2007 pummeled the financial industry, which accounted for about a third of Sun revenues. The company never recovered and was sold to Oracle in 2009 for $7.4 billion. While Sun is gone, memories linger for former employees. Sun exec Mike Dillon says, "Although it has been three years since the sale to Oracle, not a week goes by that I don’t speak to some former employee or Sun partner. Most of the people have significant jobs and careers, but when describing those other jobs, they always stare wistfully away and say something along the lines of: 'but, it’s not like Sun.'”

Submission + - Bloomberg admits to snooping on the stock terminals it leased. (nytimes.com)

Submitted by sir lox elroy
sir lox elroy writes: Evidently Bloomberg wanted that little extra inside information. They have admitted to snooping on the users of their stock terminals they leased. Bloomberg reporters were told "to use the terminals to get an edge in the competitive world of financial journalism" which let them "view subscribers’ contact information and, in some cases, monitor login activity in order to advance news coverage".

Submission + - The NEW Current Status of Wireless 1

Submitted by PalletBoy
PalletBoy writes: I submitted a question on Monday September 12, 2005 @ 02:20PM to /. entitled "What is the Current Status of WiMAX?". 8 years later we are finally up and running on microwave hops from tower to tower directly back to Fiber. The RTT's between our location and the fiber pop are averaging 7ms. This tech is way cheaper than the combo of DSL and T1s we had (roughly 1/3) and is also 12x faster and scalable to gigabit levels once our biz requires it.

With the new possibility of the spectrum auction and the coming
5G tech, how soon before DSL, Cable, and fiber tech like Fios get added to The Big Internet Museum?

Comment Microsoft will not learn (Score 3, Insightful) 628

by ravenswood1000 (#43465267) Attached to: Windows 8.1 May Restore Boot-To-Desktop, Start Button
Microsoft will never learn no matter how much thier customer base screams and will alway assume they are doing things correctly and everyone else is wrong. Yes, they need to settle in on windows 7 and give up for a bit becase they can't do it right. Wouldn't hurt to fire some guy by the name of Ballmar either.

Submission + - Dell pays Red Hat, SUSE Linux, and Canonical? (theregister.co.uk)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: If Dell wasn't so distracted with taking itself private, it might think about buying Canonical and having its own Linux business instead of giving all the software support money to Red Hat, SUSE Linux, and Canonical. The wonder is why Dell didn't do this a long time ago, really.

Submission + - What is R.A.I.N. based architecture? (youtube.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Gene Fay of Nine Technology gives you a tour of what it means to run online backup on a RAIN (Redundant Array of Independent Nodes) based architecture, and its advantages over the traditional SAN or NAS structure.

Submission + - Could an overdeveloped visual cortex have caused the Neanderthals extinction? (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by Spottywot
Spottywot writes: A study of Neanderthal skulls suggests that they became extinct because they had larger eyes than our species.

As a result, more of their brain was devoted to seeing in the long, dark nights in Europe, at the expense of high-level processing.

This ability enabled our species, Homo Sapiens, to fashion warmer clothes and develop larger social networks, helping us to survive the ice age in Europe.

The study is published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B Journal.A study of Neanderthal skulls suggests that they became extinct because they had larger eyes than our species.

As a result, more of their brain was devoted to seeing in the long, dark nights in Europe, at the expense of high-level processing.

This ability enabled our species, Homo Sapiens, to fashion warmer clothes and develop larger social networks, helping us to survive the ice age in Europe.

The study is published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B Journal.

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