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Submission + - Google May Blur Canadian Faces and License Plates

Submitted by KingK
KingK writes: "Google is considering a Canadian launch of its Street View map feature, which offers street-level close-ups of city centers, but would blur people's faces and vehicle license plates to respect tougher Canadian privacy laws..."
Enlightenment

Submission + - Researchers create gravity in lab experiment

Submitted by jcgam69
jcgam69 writes: Scientists funded by the European Space Agency have measured the gravitational equivalent of a magnetic field for the first time in a laboratory. Under certain special conditions the effect is much larger than expected from general relativity and could help physicists to make a significant step towards the long-sought-after quantum theory of gravity.
GNU is Not Unix

Submission + - Richard Stallman, missing in Peru

Submitted by rockwood
rockwood writes: WikiNews is reporting that according to e-mails and forum posts obtained by Wikinews, Stallman was traveling from Lima to Chimbote with a man named Mario Ramos on August 15, when the quake struck and was expected to arrive in Chimbote on Monday August 20, but he has not been heard from since the disaster.
Amiga

Submission + - Minimig: Amiga on FPGA with GPL'd verilog code (hetnet.nl)

Submitted by
akkartik
akkartik writes: "Minimig stands for Mini Amiga. Minimig is an FPGA-based re-implementation of the original Amiga 500 hardware. In it's current form, Minimig is a single PCB measuring only 12*12cm which makes it the smallest "Amiga" ever made and the first new "Amiga" in almost 14 years!"
Amiga

Submission + - Hacker does a DIY Amiga in FPGA (hetnet.nl)

Submitted by
An anonymous reader writes: Developer Dennis van Weeren recently announced completion of his from-scratch completely re-engineered Amiga chipset. His PCB design is fully operational and compatible and his verilog code has been released under GPL. Will this finally give the Amiga community a new breath of life?
Communications

Submission + - Question of Piracy

Submitted by
kaylar
kaylar writes: "Before there was recording media one had to attend the theatre
to see/hear a performance. Subsequently there were motion pictures
which still required one attend a theatre.

Radio and Television destroyed this paradigm allowing one
to buy the equipment, plug it in, and hear or see and hear
a performance without further expenditure.

With the advent of tape recorders I could take what I
was getting for free on the radio, put it onto a tape
and hear it when I chose.

(You can continue the historical background up to
dling on your computer)

The point is this, the 'losers' in piracy are not
the artistes or performers,they are the greedy
middlemen who make money off another's work.

Do the artistes get anything more or less when
I record a song from the radio or a show on
television? Nope. They got paid already, they
got paid when the station aired it.

I have no intention of buying a CD when I only
like one tune, or in buying DVDs. Just want to
see this episode and forget it.

The entire idea of piracy needs to be countered.
Especially where it suggests that the artistes
are the ones losing money.

How much money does an artiste actually get when
you buy the CD or DVD..and how much goes to the
battallion of middlemen, who have been rendered
redundant?"
United States

Submission + - The Top 25 inventions of 2007

Submitted by
coondoggie
coondoggie writes: "Ever wonder where the next great idea will com from? Well, seems likely it could come from this group: The History Channel and Invent Now, a subsidiary of the National Inventors Hall of Fame Foundation, today named the Top 25 Inventions of 2007. These top 25 creators come from 17 states across the U.S. and their inventions cover a myriad categories, ranging from medical advancements such as a modular, information technology platform for motorized wheelchairs called the Gryphon Shield to environmental breakthroughs such as a green home powered by solar and geothermal energy. Other inventions include a shield designed to protect windows during hurricanes to a method that forces diesel engines to take in and re-use their own exhaust, reducing pollution. http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/1274 1"
America Online

Submission + - AOL: The biggest Wi-Fi privacy invader ever?

Submitted by
PetManimal
PetManimal writes: "Preston Gralla points to a project being carried out by Skyhook Wireless, an AOL business partner, to build a private database of 16 million Wi-Fi routers throughout the U.S. and Canada, including network name and precise location. Skyhook has been gathering the data by driving trucks with Wi-Fi and GPS gear up and down streets in 2,500 cities and towns in North America. The data is apparently being gathered to support the AIM "Near Me" plugin which will show potential instant messaging buddies in your vicinity, but Gralla sees a more sinister side of the Skyhook project:

... Who's to say that they're only gathering basic information about your router? Will they also gather whether it uses encryption or not? Will they grab other information as well? One thing is very clear: Skyhook Wireless isn't spending all this money just so it can support an AOL plug-in. Its ultimate goal, it says on its Web site, "is to expand the market for Location-Based Services (LBS) by making precise location information accessible to users and application providers." In other words, the data will be made available to the highest bidder.
"
Robotics

Submission + - Beer Launcher

Submitted by
wittmania
wittmania writes: "John Cornwell has built a beer launcher that has a 10 can magazine and can launch a beer up to 13 feet. It is controlled by a keyless entry remote which allows the "user" to lift a beer out of the mini-fridge, loading it into the catapult. The user then uses the remote to aim and fire the launcher. Cornwell has a video showing the Beer Launcher in action."

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