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Comment Final Cut Pro the Industry Standard? (Score 1) 410

by BitLifter (#21221939) Attached to: Why Apple Should Acquire Adobe
FCP is definitely not the industry standard for professional video editing. That title is still held by Avid's Media Composer. Yes, the prosumer wannabe wedding video/Youtube editors running around with HDV cameras are using hacked copies of FCP, but anything with a real production budget is being cut on Avid Media Composer, the standard for professional editors.
Math

Winnie Wrote a Math Book 638

Posted by Zonk from the why-isn't-that-a-textbook dept.
SoyChemist writes "Hollywood is not known for providing a wealth of positive female role models. Danica McKellar, the actress that played Winnie Cooper on The Wonder Years and Elsie Snuffin on The West Wing, has written a math book for teenage girls. 'Math Doesn't Suck' is done in the style of a teen magazine. It even includes a horoscope, cute doodles of shoes and jewelry, and testimonials from attractive young career women that use math at work. It focuses on fractions and pre-algebra and uses mnemonics like calling a reciprocal a 'refliprocal', because you just take the fraction and flip it upside down. Wired interviewed McKellar about the new book and her crusade to eliminate the achievement gap between boys and girls in math courses. McKellar graduated Summa Cum Laude from UCLA. While studying there, she co-authored a proof and presented it at a conference. After she and Mayim Bialik — star of Blossom and a PhD in neuroscience — appeared in a 20/20 episode about intellectual actresses, several literary agents came knocking on her door."
Security

Worm Threat Forces Apple To Disable Software? 201

Posted by Zonk from the batten-down-the-hatches dept.
SkiifGeek writes "After the debacle that surrounded the announcement and non-disclosure of a worm that targets OS X, the vulnerability in mDNSResponder may have forced Apple to remove support for certain mDNSResponder capabilities with the recently released Security Update 2007-007. 'Seeming to closely follow the information disclosed by InfoSec Sellout, Apple's mDNSResponder update addresses a vulnerability that can be exploited by an attacker on the local network to gain a denial of service or arbitrary code execution condition. Apple goes on to identify that the vulnerability that they are addressing exists within the support for UPnP IGD... and that an attacker can exploit the vulnerability through simply sending a crafted network packet across the network. With the crafted network packet triggering a buffer overflow, it passes control of the vulnerable system to the attacker. Rather than patching the vulnerability and retaining the capability, Apple has completely disabled support for UPnP IGD (though there is no information about whether it is only a temporary disablement until vulnerabilities can be addressed).'"

Feed Engadget: Google 'still very interested' in 700MHz spectrum auction (engadget.com)

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Filed under: Cellphones, Wireless

Just in case you had any suspicion that Google may retract its interest in bidding for the 700MHz spectrum after the rules neglected to afford the winner wholesaling rights, Chris Sacca has intervened to clear things up. According to the search giant's head of special initiatives, the firm is "still very interested in the auction" despite not getting all of the rules for the spectrum sale set in its favor. Of course, the FCC did choose to approve the whole "open access" bit, and while Mr. Sacca declined to elaborate in order to keep details of Google's strategy on the DL, it seems safe to say that it will indeed be busting out the checkbook come auction time.

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Feed Science Daily: First Detailed View Of Molecular Structure May Usher In New Class Of Cancer Drug (sciencedaily.com)

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High resolution views of a receptor molecule that is implicated in cancer offer a clear target for the development of a new class of cancer drugs, researchers report in Cell. It is also anticipated that the new family of drugs may be applied for the treatment of gastrointestinal stromal tumor cancers that are resistant to Gleevec and Sutent. Although these drugs would target the same receptors as Gleevec and Sutent, they would do so by a different mechanism and may therefore be useful for patients who are resistant to these drugs.

Feed Science Daily: Cognitive Impairment Link Found In Older Adults Taking Popular Stomach Acid Medi (sciencedaily.com)

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Long-term use of histamine2 receptor antagonists, one class of drugs that blocks stomach acid, may be associated with cognitive impairment in older African-American adults. According to a new study, the risk for showing signs of cognitive impairment is 2.5 times greater for patients using these medications long-term.

Feed Science Daily: Cassini Finds Possible Origin Of One Of Saturn's Rings (sciencedaily.com)

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Cassini scientists may have identified the source of one of Saturn's more mysterious rings. Saturn's G ring likely is produced by relatively large, icy particles that reside within a bright arc on the ring's inner edge. The particles are confined within the arc by gravitational effects from Saturn's moon Mimas. Micro-meteoroids collide with the particles, releasing smaller, dust-sized particles that brighten the arc. The plasma in the giant planet's magnetic field sweeps through this arc continually, dragging out the fine particles, which create the G ring.
United States

Journal Journal: National Offense Day 3

Journal by pudge

I declare the last Friday in August, ever year, to be National Offense Day. This year it will be August 31st.

On this day, you will take offense at everything. And thereby, hopefully, get it out of your system.

So, for example, you would take offense at this journal entry, saying I am destroying America by encouraging people to be offensive, or perhaps by diluting the importance that offense has in holding together the fabric of society.

And so on.
Businesses

Submission + - Broadband providers impose bandwidth limits

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Interesting article in today's Boston Globe regarding treatment of "high-bandwidth users" by local broadband providers.
(http://www.boston.com/business/personaltech/artic les/2007/03/12/not_so_fast_broadband_providers_tel l_big_users?page=full)
It appears that your acceptable-use policy can be interpreted in unexpected ways.
Google

Submission + - Google assists Indian goverment censorship

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Google's Orkut has made a deal to provide IP addresses of posters of content deemed objectionable by Bombay police. They object to, among others, posts against certain Indian personalities, young women admiring Indian mobsters, and, amazingly, "anti-Indian words" (!).
Space

Submission + - New Horizons Probe Returns New Images of Jupiter

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SeaDour
SeaDour writes: "The Pluto-bound New Horizons space probe, launched a little over a year ago, recently succeeded in passing through a narrow navigational keyhole by Jupiter. Using the gas giant's tremendous gravity, the craft now has a significant boost toward its final destination, shaving three years off its journey. As it passed through the Jovian system, the probe took some fantastic images of the neighborhood, including detailed observations of erupting volcanoes on Io, time-lapse photography of Jupiter's tumultuous atmosphere, and even the faint ring system that was first discovered in Voyager photography. These new images prove the tremendous capabilities of the small probe, which is set to reach Pluto in 2015."
Intel

Intel Stomps Into Flash Memory 130

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the hoping-for-solid-returns dept.
jcatcw writes "Intel's first NAND flash memory product, the Z-U130 Value Solid-State Drive, is a challenge to other hardware vendors. Intel claims read rates of 28 MB/sec, write speeds of 20 MB/sec., and capacity of 1GB to 8GB, which is much smaller than products from SanDisk. 'But Intel also touts extreme reliability numbers, saying the Z-U130 has an average mean time between failure of 5 million hours compared with SanDisk, which touts an MTBF of 2 million hours.'"

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