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Submission + - New Evidence of Shrinking Arctic Ice Sheet 1

unapersson writes: The Guardian reports new evidence that has come to light after the US Military has declassified some of its Satellite photographs:

Graphic images that reveal the devastating impact of global warming in the Arctic have been released by the US military. The photographs, taken by spy satellites over the past decade, confirm that in recent years vast areas in high latitudes have lost their ice cover in summer months.

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13-Year-Old Trades iPod For a Walkman For a Week 354

BBC Magazine convinced 13-year-old Scott Campbell to trade in his iPod for a Walkman for a week and see what he thought. Scott thinks the iPod wins when it comes to sound quality, color, weight, and the shuffle feature. The Walkman, however, offers two headphone sockets, making it much easier to listen to music with a friend. My favorite part of the review is, "It took me three days to figure out that there was another side to the tape. That was not the only naive mistake that I made; I mistook the metal/normal switch on the Walkman for a genre-specific equalizer, but later I discovered that it was in fact used to switch between two different types of cassette."
Censorship

Submission + - Iran Moves to End 'Facebook Revolution'

Hugh Pickens writes: "The Times reports that the Iranian government is mounting a campaign to disrupt independent media organisations and websites that air doubts about the validity of the re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as the nation's president. Reports from Tehran say that social networking websites such as Facebook and Twitter were taken down after Mr Ahmadinejad claimed victory. SMS text messaging, a preferred medium of communication for young Iranians, has also been disabled. This is widely suspected to be the result of government interference, but could equally be caused by the poor quality of the network and the heavy demand it is experiencing. "The blocking of access to foreign news media has been stepped up. In addition to the blocking of the BBC's website, the Farsi-language satellite broadcasts of the Voice of America and BBC — which are very popular in Iran — have been partially jammed," says Reporters Without Borders, the media organisation that campaigns for a free press around the world. "The Internet is now very slow, like the mobile phone network. YouTube and Facebook are hard to access and pro-reform sites. . . are completely inaccessible." Mir Hussein Moussavi, the presidential challenger whom President Ahmedinejad claims to have defeated with 63.4 per cent of the vote and fellow presidential candidate Mehdi Karoubi have urged the population not to accept the "rigged results." There have been violent clashes between opposition supporters and security forces, with at least one death in the capital."

Comment Re:Sometimes "piracy" is only option! (Score 1) 708

How do they manage not to watch any? Flip through the Satellite & Digital services and you see loads of BBC programmes. They seem filled with the repeats people use to complain about fifteen years ago.

I wonder what happened to that public archive of all their content they mooted a few years back, to be shared over a P2P system. iPlayer seems a pretty small step in that direction.

Sun Microsystems

Submission + - Scott McNealy to Launch bid to take Sun private! (i-newswire.com)

jschmitz writes: "Scott McNealy announced that he has resigned as Chairman of the Board of Sun Microsystems ( NASDAQ: JAVA ) to link with an investor group to launch a counter-bid for the company. McNealy commented: "The terms IBM is offering are far below the intrinsic value of the company. IBM is trying to swoop in during a bad economic time and buy Sun assets and revenues with no regard to developing real value for Sun shareholders." The exact composition of the investor syndicate has not been announced but it does include Carl Icahn. Icahn is said to be prepared to use the same approach he employed with BEA Systems, another technology infrastructure company he successfully put into play. Eventually BEA went into the maw of Oracle."

Comment Re:Is Dreamweaver good? (Score 1) 318

Obtree (renamed Livelink WCM) was a bit like this. Templates were entered as a nested tree of objects with fragments of XML/HTML. Server side scripting was based around Mozilla's Spidermonkey engine with some additional libraries for database access etc.

Users used a GUI editor with administrator defined styles that were stored as XML objects in the database.

The main problems: it was closed source enterprise product with a price tag to match; the company that made it got taken over and now the product is at "end of life" to be replaced by something from a different bought in company; the authoring side could be buggy. It less us do a pure CSS design back in 2003 though, whereas a lot of CMS back then seemed to force you down a table design route.

Comment Re:LittleBigPlanet (Score 1) 178

LBP was a game made for game makers, not people who just want to get lost in a fantasy.

Are you sure you've actually played it? The game is excellent, full of constant surprises and an excellent multiplayer experience. We've played it a lot and the only person to really touch the level creation side of things is our five year old son.

Comment Re:Just for the record, only UK subjects (Score 2, Insightful) 366

Where does all this US loathing of the French come from? Perhaps you should send back the statue of liberty to teach them a lesson.

We've always had a reputation for hating the French but I've never seen the foaming at the mouth loathing shown by quite a few Americans, despite the UK having been involved in quite a few wars against the French. Including a little spat that ended in 1776.

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