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Submission + - Patriot Act raining on cloud computing? (networkworld.com) 1

Submitted by

Julie188

on Thursday May 22, 2008 @06:13PM

Julie188 writes: "The Canadian government is forbidding its IT organizations to use services which store or host the government's data outside their sovereign territory. They especially cannot use services where the data is stored in the United States because of fears over the Patriot Act. Whoa. Governments are turning the Internet into a cyberspace reflection of real-world geographic conflicts. (Google cooperating with the Chinese government is another example). What kinds of jurisdiction issues might people face as cloud computing becomes the norm and your data is stored in "offshore part" of the cloud?"

Journal SPAM: Working classes are less intelligent, says evolution expert 12

Journal by Jeremiah Cornelius on Thursday May 22, 2008 @04:47PM

"Then they should have fewer rights, too" Dept.:

Feed New York Times: Raising Yahoo Bid, Microsoft Steps Up Talks (nytimes.com)

From feed by nytfeed on Friday May 02, 2008 @03:12PM

In a breakthrough after a months-long standoff, Microsoft has increased its offer and intensified negotiations, a person involved in the talks said.

Feed Tom's Hardware: Graphene Could Replace Silicon One Day, Scientists Say (pheedo.com)

From feed by thfeed on Monday March 24, 2008 @02:53PM

College Park (MD) - Researchers found that electrons can travel substantially faster in graphene than in silicon, a standard material used in semiconductor products today.

Journal Journal: Is Total Information Awareness Alive and Well at NSA?

Journal by twitter on Wednesday March 19, 2008 @03:27PM

Richard Stallman points to the continued danger of domestic spying:

Submission + - 140 years later, mathematicians solve a big one (scientificblogging.com)

Submitted by

TaeKwonDood

on Monday March 03, 2008 @05:30PM

TaeKwonDood writes: "Mathematicians never give up. The Schwarz-Christoffel transformation is an elegant way to make complex problems faster to solve. But it didn't do well with irregular geometries or holes so it simplified too much for a lot of modern day mechanical engineering applications. 140 years later, this professor says he has done it. MatLab users rejoice!"

Submission + - Obituary: the Life of the Sony Trinitron (gizmodo.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 03, 2008 @04:50PM

An anonymous reader writes: After 280 millions tubes sold, Trinitron will be officially dead this month. Few Sony inventions have had the same gravitational pull as their Trinitron display technology, perhaps only second to the Walkman. Trinitron became synonym of the best quality TV sets and computer monitors in the planet, despite the thin cables that secured in place its aperture grille. This timeline shows TV history since 1873, how color TV became a reality in the 40s, and how Sony became the king of TV, with more than 100 million sets sold by 1994, to later fall under the weight of plasma and LCD technologies.

Journal SPAM: "Everybody in the country" was Subject of Illegal Wiretap 5

Journal by Jeremiah Cornelius on Monday March 03, 2008 @01:19PM

The Washington Post drops this bomb, in the middle of the page:

Submission + - Google Summer of Code 2008 is Announced (blogspot.com)

Submitted by

morrison

on Monday February 25, 2008 @03:31PM

morrison writes: "The 2008 Google Summer of Code(TM) is on! As previously covered before and now in its fourth year running, Google announces that they will once again be hosting a program that gives computer science students a $4500 stipend to work on open source software projects. Last year, Google funded over 900 students' projects in more than 90 countries. As noted in the program FAQ, this year they hope to do even more. The #gsoc IRC channel on Freenode is already buzzing with activity."

Journal Journal: First look at FireFox 3 UI Changes

Journal by Toreo asesino on Friday December 14, 2007 @09:29AM

The proposed new icons for FireFox 3 have been released for a sneak peek over at Alex Faaborg's blog. A key new feature in FireFox 3 is how it will blend natively into each environment, thus there are four sets of icons effectively; one for Vista, XP, OSX, and Linux.

Submission + - Robots that bounce in bed (nytimes.com)

Submitted by

nem75

on Friday December 14, 2007 @08:41AM

nem75 writes: "The NY Times has a review of British AI researcher David Levy's book "Love and Sex with Robots". He claims that within a span of about 50 years the day will come, when people could actually fall in love with life-like robots and want to live with them instead of a human mate. While this may seem far fetched at first, he has some pretty interesting views on this. Like the sexual part being the easyest thing, what with brothels exclusively offering life-like sex dolls already existing in Japan and South Korea. The case he builds goes much further though, and certainly provides food for thought."

Feed Science Daily: Scientists Preserve And Protect Foods Naturally (sciencedaily.com)

From feed by sdfeed on Tuesday August 21, 2007 @09:12AM

Chemists and food scientists joined forces to develop natural approaches to the prevention of food contamination and spoilage. They employed natural antimicrobial agents derived from sources such as cloves, oregano, thyme and paprika to create novel biodegradable polymers or plastics to potentially block the formation of bacterial biofilms on food surfaces and packaging. Biofilms may harbor multiple versions of infectious, disease-causing bacteria, such as Salmonella and E. coli.

Submission + - How to turn a Mini Maglite into a powerful laser (lifehacker.com) 3

Submitted by

Lucas123

on Wednesday August 08, 2007 @11:20AM

Lucas123 writes: "Using the laser from a DVD burner, this instructional video shows you how to create a hand-held laser that is powerful enough to light a match and pop a balloon. There's some soldering involved and the Maglite's bulb housing needs to be drilled out to fit the new laser diode, but with some basic skill, most people could do this. Just plain cool."

Submission + - Replacing atime With relatime in the Kernel (kerneltrap.org)

Submitted by

eldavojohn

on Wednesday August 08, 2007 @09:35AM

eldavojohn writes: "Our friend Jeremy at the Kernal Trap has has dug up some interesting criticism of atime from god himself, Linus Torvalds. As Linus submitted patches to improve relatime he noted: "I cannot over-emphasize how much of a deal it is in practice. Atime updates are by far the biggest IO performance deficiency that Linux has today. Getting rid of atime updates would give us more everyday Linux performance than all the pagecache speedups of the past 10 years, _combined_." And later severely beat atime about the head with a pointed stick: "It's also perhaps the most stupid Unix design idea of all times. Unix is really nice and well done, but think about this a bit: 'For every file that is read from the disk, lets do a ... write to the disk! And, for every file that is already cached and which we read from the cache ... do a write to the disk!" Well, I guess I can expect my Linux machine to become a little bit faster!"

Submission + - A CIO's View of Ubuntu (cio.com)

Submitted by

onehitwonder

on Tuesday July 31, 2007 @12:19PM

onehitwonder writes: "Well-known CIO John Halamka has rigorously tested six different operating systems over the course of a year in an effort to find a viable alternative to Microsoft Windows on his laptop and his company's computers. CIO.com reported his experiences in Windows vs. Linux vs. OS X and in a follow-up article on SUSE. In Windows vs. Linux vs. OS X: CIO John Halamka Tests Ubuntu, the CIO explains how Ubuntu stacks up against Novell SUSE 10, RHEL, Fedora, XP and Mac OS X, in a life-and-death business environment. He also shares his individual and enterprise desktop OS plans moving forward. Things are not going to be the same for him or his company: SUSE and Ubuntu have dealt Windows a blow."

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