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Google Looks to "White Space" Spectrum 95

Posted by Zonk from the making-the-most-of-what-you-have dept.
Nerdposeur writes "After maneuvering the major carriers into agreeing to open access rules via the recent spectrum auction, Google appears to be looking into a new area of spectrum that could provide internet connectivity. 'In comments filed with the Federal Communications Commission, the Internet leader outlined plans for low-power devices that use local wireless airwaves to access the 'white space' between television channels. A Google executive called the plan 'Wi-Fi 2.0 or Wi-Fi on steroids.' Interestingly, Google has Microsoft, Intel, and others on their side in this one. Was this spectrum their target all along?"
Businesses

Someday You'll Hate Apple (And Google Too) 734

Posted by Zonk from the if-that-day-hasn't-arrived-already dept.
jfruhlinger writes "Think today's world, where Apple is the innovative underdog, Google is the company that does no evil, and Microsoft sits atop its throne as ruler of an evil empire. Will this state of affairs last forever? You must not remember the days when everybody loved that scrappy upstart Bill Gates. Don Reisinger muses on the fickleness of consumer loves and hates. 'It's that same [level of] success and its own questionable privacy practices that will lead to Google's PR downfall and propel it into a position of disdain going forward. Trust me, the future of Apple and Google may look bright from an economic standpoint, but these companies will be hated one day too. Sad, but true.'"
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Journal Journal: [Z80] The weather card design

Journal by Alioth

So, I'm making my first application board for the Z80 single board computer - a weather monitoring station board.

Feed Hyundai Mobis intros MDN7300 GPS / DMB device (engadget.com)

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Filed under: GPS, Portable Audio, Portable Video


Hyundai's Mobis subsidiary looks set to bust out yet another GPS/PMP/DMB device for the Korean market (which sure is lacking for such things), with its new MDN7300 model offering much of the usual fare in a nice enough package. That includes a 7-inch widescreen display (480x234), an Intel PXA 270 520MHz CPU, the de facto SiRF Star III GPS module, and an included 2GB SD memory card (presumably loaded with the usual compliment of maps). You'll also get a remote, a built-in FM transmitter to pump tunes through you car stereo, and a picture-in-picture feature for double the distraction while you're driving. No word on price, it seems, nor is there any indication of exactly when it'll be available.

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Movies

The Pirate Bay To Create YouTube Competitor 232

Posted by kdawson from the torrential dept.
Jared writes "The Pirate Bay has confirmed that is working on a streaming video site with user-generated content. A spokesman said the site will be modeled after YouTube but there will be 'no censorship': The Pirate Bay 'will not be the moral police' and determine what content stays or goes as is oftentimes the case with YouTube. He added that 'the community will have to do that.'" The site will be at thevideobay.org, but nothing is up there for the public yet.

Feed Drought Limits Tropical Plant Distributions, Scientists Report (sciencedaily.com)

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Drought tolerance is a critical determinant of tropical plant distributions, scientists report. In a novel coupling of experimental measurements and observed plant distributions across a tropical landscape, drought tolerance predicted plant distributions at both local and regional scales. This mechanism to explain a common observation will contribute significantly to models of land use and climate change.

Feed Study Of Damaged Gene Gives Insight Into Causes Of Mental Illness (sciencedaily.com)

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Scientists have pinpointed how different types of damage to the same gene can cause some people to suffer from schizophrenia while others have major depression. The findings provide further evidence that these illnesses are inherited, and may in the future help doctors pinpoint which patients will respond to different types of treatments.

Feed Month of ActiveX bugs yields results (theregister.com)

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On the up and up after all

Yet another blog promising a month of bugs has surfaced, this time poking security holes in ActiveX, and lo and behold, it has disclosed two important security holes in as many days.

Comment Re:open source (Score 1) 4

by phyxeld (#8353738) Attached to: Panther SOCKS configuration problem
I suppose I could... but patching programs that are actively developed is a pain. Assuming the upstream developers don't accept my patch, I'd have to start maintaining my own version, and I don't IRC enough for it to be worth my while.

Since apple's guidelines (stupidly, imho) tell developers that they should use the system wide settings for proxies, other programs are likely to be affected too. So what I'd like is a global fix that doesn't involve patching other people's software.

It would be cool to have a socks router of sorts, that I could run locally (and then put "localhost" in for the systemwide socks setting), and then I could configure it to route different ports (or even hosts) over different proxies... say, IRC here, port 80 here, except port 80 to this host go here instead. If such a proxy could speak socks5 on the port it listens on, and be able to route out over socks4 (for openssh) as one of it's output methods, that would rock.
Apple

Journal Journal: Panther SOCKS configuration problem 4

Journal by phyxeld

I want to use Colloquy over an SSH socks proxy. (OpenSSH's client can provide a SOCKS4 proxy with the -D option). Mozilla and other programs can already use the proxy without trouble when configured to do so in their own prefs.
Mozilla

Journal Journal: Mozilla 2

Journal by phyxeld

mmmmm. My mozilla.org software was a bit out of date.

wget http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/0.3/thunderbird-0.3-macosx.dmg.gz http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firebird/releases/0.7/MozillaFirebird-0.7-mac.dmg.gz http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.5/mozilla-mac-MachO-1.5.dmg.gz http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/camino/releases/Camino-0.7.dmg.gz

GNU is Not Unix

Journal Journal: Gnutella 6

Journal by phyxeld

I haven't used a p2p net in quite some time, and I needed to get a song this morning. So I installed gtk-gnutella on my debian box, and am now happily running it over X forwarding to my mac. I have pretty fast DSL, and a lot of music, so I opened a port on my firewall and configured gtk-gnutella to be an "ultra peer", whatever that means. My intent is to share some files while I'm downloading. For some reason, try as I might, I can't seem to do that. I've downloaded about a hundred files now,
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Journal Journal: Speakeasy's NetShare is a Scam 9

Journal by phyxeld

Speakeasy.net, the ISP recently referred to as the "world's greatest ISP" on the front of slashdot, is trying to scam people. The new NetShare plan sounds pretty good, from the available information on their public site. Speakeasy has long encouraged people to run free wireless APs, and it shouldn't be surprising that some people are using wireless technology to share DSL costs with their
Apple

Journal Journal: Why is Apple Music removing tracks? 2

Journal by phyxeld

I saw a billboard for applemusic.com in Emeryville yesterday. (Didn't they agree not to ever do that, back when Apple Records sued them?)
Whatever.

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