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Submission + - The Electron is a Sphere (sciencedaily.com)

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lee1

on Wednesday May 25, 2011 @04:25PM

lee1 writes: "In a 10 year long experiment, scientists at Imperial College have made the most precise measurement so far of the shape of the electron. It's round. So round, in fact, that if the electron were enlarged to the size of the solar system, its shape would diverge from a perfect sphere less than the width of a human hair. The experiment continues in the search for even greater precision. There are implications for understanding processes in the early universe, namely the mysterious fate of the antimatter."

Submission + - NASA Rejoins Space Race with Manned DeepSpacecraft (inhabitat.com)

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Laura K. Cowan

on Wednesday May 25, 2011 @02:14PM

Laura K. Cowan writes: "NASA is back in the future-tech space race with a new manned deep space craft called the Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle, which aims to take astronauts on longer missions to deep space, eventually to planets such as Mars where only unmanned crafts have previously traveled. The MPCV holds 4 astronauts, is currently capable of 3-week missions, and not only could take mankind to new frontiers but is billed as being "10 times safer... than the current space shuttle." Maybe there is hope for space travel outside the X Prize."

Comment Fake (Score 1) 1

by asurry on Wednesday May 25, 2011 @09:24AM (#36238586) Attached to: Age of Conan now free to play

Not true, probably linked to a malware download.

Submission + - Lego fan creates 250,000-brick Garrison of Moriah (wired.co.uk)

Submitted by Lanxon on Wednesday May 25, 2011 @09:05AM

Lanxon writes: Usually, the only constraint on building a Lego creation is your imagination. Unless, that is, you build a giant structure which demands its own "Lego Room". One Lego fan has done just that: say hello to the Garrison of Moriah, and the 50 metre square room it inhabits. Inspired by the fantastic buildings featured likes of Star Wars and Lord of the Rings, Garrison-creator Gerry Burrows has built a detailed (and huge) sculpture to scale of the tiny Lego people who have the honour of inhabiting it.

Submission + - Doctors to Patients: First, Do No Yelp Harm

Submitted by theodp on Wednesday May 25, 2011 @08:15AM

theodp writes: When he walked into the dentist's office, Ars Technica's Timothy B. Lee was looking for cleaner teeth, but was shown the door after expressing outrage at being asked to first sign a 'mutual privacy agreement' calling for him to transfer ownership of any public commentary he might write in the future about his experience to the good doctor. Lee reports that similar censorious copyright agreements are popping up in doctors' offices across the country. 'Doctors and dentists are understandably worried about damage to their reputations from negative reviews,' writes Lee, but 'censoring patients is the wrong way for doctors to deal with online criticism.'

Submission + - Fedora 16 will number user UIDs from 1000 (fedoraproject.org)

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dotancohen

on Wednesday May 25, 2011 @08:08AM

dotancohen writes: "Sharing users between Fedora and Debian-based distros just got a little easier. Beginning with Fedora 16, the Red-Hat based distro will number it's human user UIDs starting from 1000, as opposed to the old 500. Though this change is intended to facilitate interoperability with other distros, it risks breaking backward compatibility with older Fedora releases including the newly released Fedora 15."

Submission + - Apple Plans to Push Update to Address MacDefender (threatpost.com)

Submitted by Trailrunner7 on Wednesday May 25, 2011 @07:55AM

Trailrunner7 writes: Apple is planning to release an update specifically designed to protect users against the MacDefender malware that has been circulating for the last couple of weeks. The update for Mac OS X will automatically find and remove the malware on an infected machine and also will warn users if another infection attempt is detected.

The planned update from Apple is a rare move by the company, whose users until quite recently haven't 't had to contend with much of a malware problem. The MacDefender scareware attack emerged in early May and is being used by attackers to trick users into downloading and installing a malicious application. Like other scareware attacks, MacDefender tells users that they have a piece of malware on their machine and they need to install MacDefender to help remedy the problem.

Comment Re:Use subversion either hosted or your own server (Score 1) 302

by asurry on Monday July 20, 2009 @05:04PM (#28762737) Attached to: Collaborative Software For Pair Programming?

Yeah, but seeing one of the requirements for it to be "dead simple to use" really rules git out. It was my first thought too though.

Comment Re:You must mean the iPhone (Score 1) 695

by asurry on Tuesday April 21, 2009 @11:45PM (#27671307) Attached to: Windows 7 Starter Edition — 3 Apps Only

I'm really surprised to hear this. I had an HTC Apache with Windows Mobile 6. I pretty much had to follow this daily ritual: 1) Constantly closing background apps to keep the phone from crawling to a snails' pace. 2) Rebooting the phone at least 3 times daily. 3) Having to turn-off 3G to make sure I would get more than 4 hours of battery life. 4) Turn off any form of push e-mail whatsoever. See #3. Keep in mind that this was with the regular first-party MS apps included with the OS (IE, Notepad, etc). Everyone I've talked to that has had a Windows Mobile phone has had the same experience. Either you're really lucky, or you've got some magic touch that the rest of us desperately needed.

This is why I choose to use the N95 which runs Symbian. I nearly never have any problems with it, the developer pool is plenty large enough and it is being open sourced. Not having tested Android yet, I'd have to call it the best mainstream mobile OS.

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