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Submission + - Hanks buys practical electric car: eBox

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OldSprocket writes: eBox has produced a very practical all-electric car. Veteran electric-driver Tom Hanks recently took delivery of the first off the line.

http://www.acpropulsion.com/releases/02-15-2007.ht m

Range and charging are decent: 150- mile range, full charge in 2 hours, 50-mile charge in 30 minutes.
Performance is OK too: 0-60mph in under 7 sec., top speed 95.

Feed Satellites Seek Substorm Source (wired.com)

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Five science satellites blast off on a single rocket -- it's a mission to find the source of powerful geomagnetic substorms in the Earth's atmosphere. By the Associated Press.


Graphics

Submission + - Rollable E Ink Display Becomes Real Product

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An anonymous reader writes: Two years ago Philips unveiled a prototype of a functional electronic-document reader, called the Readius, which could unroll its display to a scale larger than the device itself. Unfortunately, that was only a prototype. According to Cnet, however, Polymer Vision, which spun out from Philips in 2006, has redesigned the Readius and turned it into a real product that it is going to be available by the end of this year. There are some notable differences between this Readius and the prototype version, in particular, the ability to display 16 shades of grey instead of just 4 and the connectivity options. What doesn't make sense though, is given the energy efficiency and easy-to-read high contrast functionality of E Ink, why other than Motorola with its Motofone, has no other cell phone manufacturer incorporated E Ink technology into its handsets?
Google

Submission + - Google Opensource Project Hosting; End of SF Nigh?

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mdm42
mdm42 writes: "Meandering about the 'net on a slow Sunday morning, I tripped across Google Code's latest addition — Project Hosting. The entry page is a typically Google-sparse "Search Projects", with the slogan "Release Early, Release Often" beneath it. The page for creating a new project only offers the 7 most-widely-accepted opensource licenses.

Seems to me that Google have moved squarely into Sourceforge's turf, here. Does this spell the end of sf.net? (Or am I just late to the party, here?)"
Software

Submission + - Smart iWeb Publishing with iWebFlinger

Submitted by Anonymous Cow-Ward
Anonymous Cow-Ward writes: http://www.shullian.com/iWebFlinger/iWebFlinger.ht ml
iWebFlinger allows an iWeb user to choose a site to upload, an ftp server to upload to, and to optionally insert a favicon and your own html code. Best of all, your ftp passwords are secured via OS X's Keychain.
        Whats more, once you set up the source folder (which is the folder you publish your site to), and ftp server, the iWebFlinger daemon automatically checks for changes to the source folder. Then it finds only those files which have actually changed (not just their creation/modification times since iWeb changes them all), and uploads them.
Businesses

Submission + - New bill that will curb outrageous cell phone tax

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ziggz
ziggz writes: "If you have a cell phone, then you are probably aware that you are paying much more each month than the calling plan you signed up for. Why? Greedy Uncle Sam is hitting you up with double digit taxes. Everyone is required to pay a 6.05% federal tax plus all kinds of various trumped up state taxes. Baltimore, for example, simply decided to add a $3.50 additional tax to their residents' bills in 2005. A USA today article breaks down the total taxes you are paying by state, most averaging 15% or more. States have gotten so ridiculous in hiding taxes on your cell phone bill that Congress has finally stepped up by introducing the Cell Phone Tax Freedom Act of 2007. You can also have emails sent to your congressmen."
Movies

MPAA Violates Another Software License 297

Posted by Zonk from the that's-a-little-cold dept.
Patrick Robib, a blogger who wrote his own blogging engine called Forest Blog recently noticed that none other than the MPAA was using his work, and had completely violated his linkware license by removing all links back to the Forest Blog site, not crediting him in any way. The MPAA blog was using the Forest Blog software, but had completely stripped off his name, and links back to his site. He only found about it accidentally when he happened to visit the MPAA site.
Biotech

Suppressed Report Shows Cancer Link to GM Potatoes 325

Posted by Zonk from the politics-and-potatoes-and-science-mix-poorly dept.
Doc Ruby writes "After an 8-year-long court battle, Welsh activists have finally been allowed to released a Russian study showing an increased cancer risk linked to eating genetically modified potatoes. While the victory of the Welsh Greenpeace members in the courtroom would seem to vindicate the work of the Russian scientists that did the original research, there are still serious questions to be answered. The trials involved rats being fed several types of potatoes as feed. The rats who were fed GM potatoes suffered much more extensive damage to their organs than with any other type; just the same, serious questions remain about the validity of the findings. The Welsh group wants to use this information to stop the testing of GM crops in the UK, tests currently slated for the spring of this year."
Editorial

Submission + - The Role of Religion on Technology

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Anonymous Coward
Anonymous Coward writes: "Many types of media have been credited with being an influential force driving technology (such as porn), but is it possible that the next revolution in technology and software might come from an unlikely source, namely Religion? This appears to be a relatively untapped market, but as the article points out, the real progress might be how Religions themselves define the role of technology within the life of a Christian, which will in turn, make or break this potential "revolution"."
Data Storage

Google Releases Paper on Disk Reliability 267

Posted by Zonk from the fun-saturday-night-reading dept.
oski4410 writes "The Google engineers just published a paper on Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population. Based on a study of 100,000 disk drives over 5 years they find some interesting stuff. To quote from the abstract: 'Our analysis identifies several parameters from the drive's self monitoring facility (SMART) that correlate highly with failures. Despite this high correlation, we conclude that models based on SMART parameters alone are unlikely to be useful for predicting individual drive failures. Surprisingly, we found that temperature and activity levels were much less correlated with drive failures than previously reported.'"
Programming

Submission + - "Happy 2nd Birthday, AJAX!" Say Pre-AJAX P

Submitted by jg21
jg21 writes: AJAXWorld Magazine celebrates the second birthday of the coining of AJAX by going behind the scenes and asking the early pioneers of rich applications delivered into web browsers how it was for them from February 18, 2005, when suddenly a single, easy-to-comprehend term arrived to help them propagate their new-web goals.
Mozilla

Submission + - EverQuest II embeds Mozilla browser

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An anonymous reader writes: EverQuest II's next release will include an embedding of the Mozilla browser. It's currently live on the test server and has a few issues that will hopefully be resolved before release.

http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/posts/list.m?st art=15&topic_id=347230

Some interesting uses of the browser such as automatically searching for quest hints are being discussed on the interface board:

http://www.eq2interface.com/forums/showthread.php? t=7846

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