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Submission + - iPhone + eBooks: the Revolution (Finally) Begins? (wordpress.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 03, 2007 @05:57AM

An anonymous reader writes: The iPhone is often cited as a game-changer in the mobile arena. Yet the device's sharp display, user interface and form factor may herald the first effective moves in an activity that has long resisted the digital revolution — book reading. Despite years of efforts by proponents of ebooks, the lack of a killer reader device has hindered the transition for all but early adopters and other adventurers. The iPhone (and its progeny, especially those which evolve a larger screen) may finally smash open the gates. This video demonstrates the iPhone's potential to really start the revolution.

Submission + - Sony bales out of DSLR market

Submitted by

clickclickdrone

on Friday August 03, 2007 @05:42AM

clickclickdrone writes: "Having had trouble pulling market share away from Canon and Nikon, it seems Sony have called it a day in the DSLR market. http://stock-photo.blogspot.com/2007/08/sony-bails -out-of-dslr-market.html"

Submission + - Windows XP Service Pack 3

Submitted by

epsi

on Friday August 03, 2007 @05:22AM

epsi writes: "Windows XP SP 3 probably in 2008 — MS had a Roadmap in his recent Partner-Mag — and there was mentioned that a Service Pack 3 for Windows XP will be available in 2008..propably not the end of XP now? ;)"

Submission + - New FingerprintingTechnique to Reveal Race and Sex (telegraph.co.uk) 1

Submitted by

Tech.Luver

on Friday August 03, 2007 @05:07AM

Tech.Luver writes: "Telegraph reports, " A new fingerprinting technique that can identify the race and sex, and possibly the diet of suspects has been developed. Scientists have shown that using a gelatine-based gel and high-tech chemical analysis can provide significant clues to a person?s identity even if police do not hold existing fingerprint records. ""

Submission + - Ruling by Secret US Court Allegedly Reduces Spying

Submitted by conspirator57 on Friday August 03, 2007 @01:20AM

conspirator57 writes: TFA http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la- na-spying2aug02,0,5813563.story?coll=la-home-cente r states that the US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (a court that no citizen can establish standing to appear before) has ruled against Executive requests for so-called "basket warrants" as violating the 4th amendment to the Constitution, namely that such warrants do not meet the clearly expressed criteria in the second half of the amendment. To accomplish this they must have looked startlingly like British general warrants which were the original motivation for the 4th amendment. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrant_(law) for more.

TFA is very sympathetic to the Executive branch, going on to depict ways in which we're all less safe because of this ruling. Personally, I feel safer with more rulings like this one. Just wish the process were a bit more transparent.

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

Submission + - WPA bug in Vista, is that a security problem? (microsoft.com) 1

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Thursday August 02, 2007 @09:25PM

Anonymous Coward writes: "Many people, such as me-said-the-idiot, or maybe all, cannot connect to a WPA protected WiFi network with Vista. So many will have to use an unsecured network configuration in order to go online. Practically all new PC laptops sold now are bundled with Vista, so this could well become the biggest and easiest to exploit security leak.. Many posts on MS forum http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx? PostID=481371&SiteID=17 but apparently it still isn't considered a problem by MS.."

Submission + - Chernobyl Mushrooms Feeding on Radiation

Submitted by cowtamer on Thursday August 02, 2007 @07:52PM

cowtamer writes: According to a National Geographic Article certain fungi can use ionizing radiation to perform "radiosynthesis" using the pigment melanin (the same one in our skin that protects us from UV radiation). It is speculated that this might be useful on long space voyages where energy from the Sun is not readily available.

Journal Journal: Jobs Against Copy Protection 3

Journal by GMontag on Wednesday February 07, 2007 @03:40PM

During a smoke break I saw a blurb on CNN that Steve Jobs is calling for music companies to remove copy protection from their songs.

Isn't Steve Jobs running Apple Computer, the company that sues people over making computers the same color as theirs?

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