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Comment Sound without Medium?? (Score 1) 223

by b1ufox on Wednesday July 02, 2008 @07:08AM (#24027751) Attached to: The Scream Aliens Hear From the Earth

Isn't it that sound cannot travel in vacuum? It needs a medium to travel. Is this some other kind of sound which travels without a medium? Or Is it that the summary of the article is not correct?

More Than Half of Known Vista Bugs are Unpatched 257

Posted by Zonk on Friday June 22, 2007 @10:05AM from the bugtracker-is-half-empty-attitude dept.

MsManhattan writes "Microsoft security executive Jeff Jones has disclosed that in the first six months of Vista's release, the company has patched fewer than half of the operating system's known bugs. Microsoft has fixed only 12 of 27 reported Vista vulnerabilities whereas it patched 36 of 39 known bugs in Windows XP in the first six months following its release. Jones says that's because "Windows Vista continues to show a trend of fewer total and fewer high-severity vulnerabilities at the six month mark compared to ... Windows XP," but he did not address the 15 unpatched flaws."

Final Draft of GPLv3 Allows Novell-Microsoft Deal 113

Posted by Zonk on Friday June 22, 2007 @08:47AM from the and-we-all-go-forward-singing-together dept.

famicommie writes "All of Novell's fingernail biting has been for naught. In a display of forgiveness and bridge building on behalf of the FSF, ZDNet reports that the final draft of the GPLv3 will close the infamous MS-Novell loophole while allowing deals made previously to continue. From the article: 'The final, last-call GPLv3 draft bans only future deals for what it described as tactical reasons in a 32-page explanation of changes. That means Novell doesn't have to worry about distributing software in SLES that's governed by the GPLv3 ... Drafting the new license has been a fractious process, but Eben Moglen, the Columbia University law school professor who has led much of the effort, believes consensus is forming. That agreement is particularly important in the open-source realm, where differing license requirements can erect barriers between different open-source projects.'"

Exec Confirms Google Phone 120

Posted by CmdrTaco on Friday March 16, 2007 @08:42AM from the let-the-battle-begin dept.

cyberianpan writes "The head of Google in Spain and Portugal has confirmed that Google is working on a mobile phone. "Some of the time the engineers are dedicated to developing a mobile phone," This could be the 20% free time development but publicizing that would be stupid. Obviously this phone could link in with Google Earth/Maps... it is a marketers dream for targeted advertising."

Submission + - Ballmer Says Google Is "Insane"

Submitted by

eldavojohn

on Friday March 16, 2007 @08:09AM

eldavojohn writes: "Steve Ballmer spoke a little bit about Google, commenting that it's pace of employee growth is "insane," and the company has few successful businesses outside of Internet search and advertising. Google's current number of employees is nearly doubling each year."

Submission + - High schooler is awarded $100,000 for research

Submitted by wired_LAIN on Friday March 16, 2007 @03:15AM

wired_LAIN writes: A teenager from Oklahoma was awarded $100,000 in the Intel Science Talent Search competition for building an inexpensive and accurate spectrograph that can identify the specific characteristics of different kinds of molecules. While normal spectrographs can cost between $20,000 and 100,000 to build, her spectrograph cost less than $500 dollars. The 40 finalists' projects were judged by a panel of 12 scientists, all well established in their respective fields. Among the judges were Vera Rubin , who proved Dark Matter, and Andrew Yeager, one of the pioneers of stem cell research. My only question is: why aren't these kids given more media coverage?

What Game Companies Want From Graduates 107

Posted by Zonk on Thursday March 15, 2007 @07:29PM from the so-you-want-to-be-a-game-designer dept.

simoniker writes "Game education site Game Career Guide has a new feature talking to recruiters from notable game companies like EA, Insomniac Games, and THQ. They discuss the best university courses and qualifications for getting hired to be a game developer. EA's Colleen McCreary comments on the rise of some TV-advertised mass market game schools: 'Our concern with for-profit institutions is that students may not learn the fundamental tools for understanding and solving complex issues... We are most likely to hire someone who has a BFA or MFA from a traditional art college and a BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science for our entry level artist and software engineer positions.'"

Red Hat Releases Enterprise Linux 5 60

Posted by Zonk on Thursday March 15, 2007 @06:43PM from the everyone-show-off-your-new-hat dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Red Hat has a new release out for Enterprise Linux, reports Ars Technica. Along with several anticipated new features, Enterprise Linux 5 marks the rollout of the RedHat Exchange (RHX), which will be a source for commercial third-party software applications. 'RHX will allow consumers to buy software support services for third-party open-source technologies like MySQL database software and SugarCRM customer management systems directly from Red Hat ... Linux vendor Novell, which recently partnered with Microsoft to provide stronger Windows interoperability, is already carving out a growing portion of the enterprise Linux market. Red Hat also has to contend with proprietary database vendor Oracle, who now offers commercial Linux support for Red Hat users.'"

Submission + - Score: IBM - 700,000 / SCO - 326

Submitted by

The Peanut Gallery

on Thursday March 15, 2007 @05:36PM

The Peanut Gallery writes: "After years of litigation to discover what, exactly, SCO was suing about, IBM has finally discovered that SCO's "mountain of code" is only 326 scattered lines. Worse, most of what is allegedly infringing are comments and simple header files, like errno.h, which probably aren't copyrightable for being unoriginal and dictated by externalities, aren't owned by SCO in any event, and which IBM has at least five separate licenses for, including the GPL, even if SCO actually owned those lines of code. In contrast, IBM is able to point out 700,000 lines of code, which they have properly registered copyrights for, which SCO is infringing upon if the Court rules that it has, in fact, repudiated the GPL. If this were a game show, I suspect SCO would be complaining that their buzzer wasn't working right about now."

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