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Submission + - Microsoft hands over technical data to EU

Submitted by hankwang on Thursday November 23, 2006 @07:46AM

hankwang writes: Reuters reports that Microsoft has handed over technical documents to the EU in order to enable the competition to make interoperable software. So far, the EU has imposed fines of €497 and €280 onto Microsoft for abuse of its monopoly. The deadline for this documentation was today. According to Microsoft, the documentation is over 8500 pages.

Submission + - Hexagonal pixels?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 18, 2006 @09:35AM

An anonymous reader writes: Has anybody ever stopped to question whether the square is the best possible shape for a pixel? Are there any reasons why triangles or hexagons can't work? It seems to me that hexagonal pixels might have several advantages over square pixels. To name one: six discrete straight paths from which to draw a line out from each pixel. Another: more fluid-looking shapes using anti-aliasing.

Submission + - Best method for foiling email harvesters?

Submitted by

pjp6259

on Sunday November 12, 2006 @03:10PM

pjp6259 writes: "One of the common ways that spammers generate email mailing lists is by harvesting email addressess from websites. But in many cases you also need to make it easy for your customers to reach you. I have found three common solutions to this problem:

Use an image to replace your email address.

Use ascii encodings for some/all of the characters.

Use javascript to concatenate and/or obfuscate your email address.

Which of these methods are most effective? Are email harvesters able to interpret javascript? What do you use?"

Submission + - Korean Paper Battery Safe, Dry and Noncombustible

Submitted by

thejrwr

on Sunday November 12, 2006 @02:02PM

thejrwr writes: "Coming hot on the heels of Japan's just-add-water power source, a team at Rocket of Korea has announced equally eco-friendly batteries made of paper.

The novelty of this aside, the practical considerations speak for themselves. Chemically incapable of polluting, releasing toxic ooze or combusting under pressure, the batteries can also be very thin, allowing use in such applications as credit cards and RFID tags

http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2006/11/korean_paper _ba.html"

Submission + - Long term memory-based behaviors

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 12, 2006 @01:44PM

An anonymous reader writes: How one particular protein contributes to long term memory and helps the brain remember things longer than an hour or two.
http://www.az10.com/content/science/news/00014/lon g-term-memory-based-behaviors.shtml

Submission + - Man's Vote for Himself Missing in E-Vote Count

Submitted by Catbeller on Sunday November 12, 2006 @01:12PM

Catbeller writes: From the "There's Your Smoking Gun Department": The AP is reporting that one Randy Wooten, mayoral candidate for Waldenburg Arkansas — a town of eighty people — discovered that the electronic voting system hadn't registered the one vote he knew had been cast for him, because he cast it himself. The Machine gave him zero votes. That would be an error rate of 3%, counting the actual votes cast — 18 and 18 for a total of 36. For those who haven't quite gotten the concept of e-voting, we have this quote:
Poinsett County Election Commissioner Junaway Payne said the issue had been discussed but no action taken yet. "It's our understanding from talking with the secretary of state's office that a court order would have to be obtained in order to open the machine and check the totals," Payne said. "The votes were cast on an electronic voting machine, but paper ballots were available."
Yep. Get the screwdrivers out, time to find that missing vote!

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