It is most worrisome that there are reports of radiation level near Tokyo is increasing.

"A group of Tokyo parents filed a request Tuesday asking the metropolitan government to change the way it determines radiation levels in the capital after their own study found relatively high levels of contamination around Koto Ward."
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20110608a6.html

5.77 microsieverts per hour of radiation measured near Tokyo at ground level
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9a0Q1v93SA

DOSbox provide MT-32 emulation, basically just pass the midi to the host OS midi driver.

Since 2 years ago you can already get those media player box like Patriot Box Office for around $50 that run Linux and can play many 1080p media, with network port, HDMI (cable included)+composite video, multiple USB port, IR remote and power brick.

They will use this tower to power their Archimedes II orbital laser.

Indeed.

- an antivirus software that rise alarm base on a two letter directory name inside \Windows , even when it is empty.

- a "security researcher" that take the alarm at face value and never check if is actually there, check if the process run, what kind of content it was logging and where it is sending them.

- a low level support manager confirm the software's existence, probably thinking about the fan speed and temperature monitoring software.

After submitting the story I found a more detail story from The Independent.

It mention the chess program used is called "Firebird". From google there are many reference for it in various chess forums as an open source chess engine but I can't find an official page in English.

I guess they are very hard to spoof but still easy to jam?

Last week South Korea believes North Korea was testing their new GPS jammer from Russia.

http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2011/03/07/2011030700567.html

The anti-chinese xenophobia on this site has been obvious for years, but it just follow general western media trend.
Take a look at this 'minor' item from wikileak that only got half a page of text:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503543_162-20027157-503543.html
If the spy ranking is changed, do you think it will not show up in front pages on all media?

I will watch it to see if Alex can chit-chat with it with regular questions, like "Where are you from?", "What's your job?", "Married? Any kids?", "Do you like... human?"

Will I need to dump my GPU/laptop/phone to the landfill in 2 years if I want stable HD streaming because only new hardware support WebM? Can we stick with what is already working great without generating more e-waste?

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The Russian don't pretend to be nice guys - not much to hide for them.

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