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Comment Re:google cache (Score 1) 711

by clawoo on Friday January 02, 2009 @02:26PM (#26302281) Attached to: Why Mirroring Is Not a Backup Solution

Well actually it is not as easy as it seems, because each page had a design of its own. I mean, writing a crawler to go through Google's results list (or any other service that indexes pages) is quite a simple task. But the problem here is that apparently members could customize their journalspaces which means that unless the HTML output was standardized, it would be hell to try to get some sense out of each page.

NASA Plans Lunar Mobile Phone Network 164

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday February 19, 2008 @01:34PM from the dark-side-of-the-moon-minutes-cost-more-money dept.

If NASA and the British National Space Centre succeed in their 'MoonLite mission' you won't be able to say, "In space no one can hear your ringtone." They plan on building a satellite system/phone network that would provide full four-bar signal coverage for colonists living in the base NASA wants to build at the south pole of the moon after 2020.

Submission + - Group puts Windows Update library on CD (apcmag.com)

Submitted by

KrispyKofta

on Monday February 11, 2008 @09:29PM

KrispyKofta writes: "When was the last time you installed a fresh copy of Windows XP SP2? The process is still straightforward and relatively quick...but then you think "I'll just make sure the patches are up to date", and then proceed to stare with horror at the 100+ security updates and critical fixes which Windows Update or WSUS demands you install. And it takes forever. Now, a group has put all of the updates into one downloadable CD, from which you can update PCs without an internet connection. It's poor man's XP SP3, but even when SP3 is out, the project will continue to offer a CD which will install all patches offline."

Excel 2007 Multiplication Bug 806

Posted by kdawson on Monday September 24, 2007 @10:37PM from the be-fruitful-and-all-that dept.

tibbar66 writes with news of a serious multiplication bug in Excel 2007, which has been reported to the company. The example that first came to light is =850*77.1 — which gives a result of 100,000 instead of the correct 65,535. It seems that any formula that should evaluate to 65,535 will act strangely. One poster in the forum noted these behaviors: "Suppose the formula is in A1. =A1+1 returns 100,001, which appears to show the formula is in fact 100,000... =A1*2 returns 131,070, as if A1 had 65,535 (which it should have been). =A1*1 keeps it at 100,000. =A1-1 returns 65,534. =A1/1 is still 100,000. =A1/2 returns 32767.5."

Submission + - Robotic submarine maps worlds deepest sinkhole

Submitted by holy_calamity on Monday May 21, 2007 @05:34AM

holy_calamity writes: The world's deepest water-filled sinkhole has finally been mapped — by a robotic submarine who's descendants may swim on one of Jupiter's moons. The last attempt to find the bottom yielded the SCUBA diving depth record and the death of a diving legend. The sub's SONAR found that the divers were about 10m from the floor, and that the sinkhole which is over 300m deep could be connected to even deeper caves.

Submission + - NYT Shines a Light on Firefox's Financial Sucess

Submitted by

NewsCloud

on Monday May 21, 2007 @03:03AM

NewsCloud writes: "Noam Cohen raises the issue of Mozilla's amazing financial success with Firefox's Google relationship.:

"Thanks to the Google agreement, the Mozilla Foundation went from revenue of nearly $6 million in 2004 to more than $52 million the next year [similar revenue is expected in 2006]...In 2005, the foundation created a subsidiary, the for-profit Mozilla Corporation,...mainly to deal with the tax and other issues related to the Google contract...By creating a corporation to run the Firefox project, Mozilla was committing to be less transparent. In part, that is because Google insists on the secrecy of "its arrangement and agreements," said board member Mitch Kapor.

The article compares this approach to Wikipedia's ongoing fundraisers and raises the issue of transparency in open source projects. i.e. should Firefox's 1,000 to 2,000 developers and 80,000 evangelists have full knowledge of how revenue is spent as well as the extent to which Google is able to influence strategy vs. other stakeholders."

Astronomers Again Baffled by Solar Observations 299

Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday May 05, 2007 @05:28AM from the back-to-the-drawing-board dept.

SteakNShake writes "Once again professional astronomers are struggling to understand observations of the sun. ScienceDaily reports that a team from Saint Andrew's University announced that the sun's magnetic fields dominate the behavior of the corona via a mechanism dubbed the 'solar skeleton.' Computer models continue to be built to mimic the observed behavior of the sun in terms of magnetic fields but apparently the ball is still being dropped; no mention in the announcement is made of the electric fields that must be the cause of the observed magnetic fields. Also conspicuously absent from the press releases is the conclusion that the sun's corona is so-dominated by electric and magnetic fields because it is a plasma. In light of past and present research revealing the electrical nature of the universe, this kind of crippling ignorance among professional astrophysicists is astonishing."

Two Major Debian Releases In One Day 189

Posted by kdawson on Sunday April 08, 2007 @02:19AM from the busy-busy dept.

AndyCater writes "If all goes according to plan, Debian should release both an update to Debian Sarge (3.1r6, henceforth to be oldstable) and a new stable release (Debian 4.0, which was codenamed Etch) — and announce the results of the election for Debian Project Leader — all within 12 hours. Sarge was updated late on April 7th UTC, Sam Hocevar was announced as DPL at about 00:30 UTC, and preparations for the release of Debian Etch are ongoing and look good for later on the 8th."

Mozilla Foundation Sues Microsoft Over Tabbed Browsing 149

Posted by Zonk on Sunday April 01, 2007 @05:17AM from the total-copy-cats dept.

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According to the german tech-site heise.de, the Mozilla Foundation is suing Microsoft over the use of tabbed browsing in Internet Explorer 7. The Mozilla Foundation owns the patent 5,160,296 through one of their developers (Solomon Katz, a former Opera dev) and has begun suing Microsoft in Mountainview, California. The Foundation wants that MS immediately ceases to distribute IE 7 and pays 1.4 Billion dollars in damages. Heise reports that Microsoft has issued no official response, but is contemplating to ship IE 7 NT (no tabs).

Comment Re:In unrelated news... (Score 1) 1856

by clawoo on Saturday March 31, 2007 @06:03PM (#18559707) Attached to: 48% of Americans Reject Evolution

No, wait, you must be joking. I presume you are joking, it's April's fools in Europe already. Where exactly did you get the 51% number? Of the "physical scientists"? How about metaphysical ones? How about self imagined ones?

When asked for proof scientists will say those things? What scientists? That is just plain aberrant beyond any drug induced reason.
Evolution is supported by fossils, by the genetic drift, by gene flow, by artificial hybridization and one of the most important, by speciation.

How the hell can anyone get from evolution to creating life in the lab?

Is KDE 4.0 the Holy Grail of Desktops? 511

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday March 29, 2007 @11:02AM from the what-does-that-make-gnome-then dept.

An anonymous reader writes "With KDE 4.0 being expected some time this year, expectation runs high in the linux/unix users camp and the media read a lot between the lines of what the KDE developers say and do. In some ways KDE will provide a standard as to how a desktop should look and behave. This interesting article wonders whether KDE 4.0 will become the complete desktop which will meet the needs of a wide cross section of computer users. One of the common complaints that some Linux users have over KDE is that it is too cluttered. And by addressing this need without putting off the power users, the KDE developers could make it an all in one Desktop. Keep in mind that KDE 4.0 is based on Qt 4.0 and so can be easily ported to Windows and other OSes too which makes this thought doubly relevant."

UK Taps 439,000 Phones, Now Wants To Monitor MPs 290

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday February 20, 2007 @10:11AM from the note-quite-enough dept.

JPMH writes "With the largest density of CCTV cameras in the world, and an increasing network of automatic number-plate recognition cameras on main roads, Britain has long been a pioneer for the surveillance society. Now new official figures reveal that UK agencies monitored 439,000 telephones and email addresses in a 15 month period between 2005 and 2006. The Interception of Communications Commissioner is seeking the right for agencies to be allowed to monitor the communications of Members of Parliament as well, something which has been forbidden since the 1960s. It must be that it is bringing their numbers down: on the law of averages they should be monitoring at least 5 of the MPs."

Journal Journal: Linux : Tipping Point !!

Journal by cijal on Tuesday February 20, 2007 @09:59AM

I happened to attend a FSG (Free Software Group) meet in Cochin a few years back. One of the hard core 'Free'dom fighters in the group, proclaimed with impunity that Linux has reached the masses and that "even his mom uses it on an everyday basis".

The last part caught my attention. It has always been difficult to measure if Linux was ready for the masses; what better way than to have your mom use it everyday to prove a point !!

March To Be Month of PHP Bugs 292

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday February 20, 2007 @09:04AM from the open-season dept.

PHP writes "Stefan Esser is the founder of both the Hardened-PHP Project and the PHP Security Response Team (which he recently left). During an interview with SecurityFocus he announced the upcoming Month of PHP bugs initiative in March." Quoting: "We will disclose different types of bugs, mainly buffer overflows or double free (/destruction) vulnerabilities, some only local, but some remotely triggerable... Additionally there are some trivial bypass vulnerabilities in PHP's own protection features... As a vulnerability reporter you feel kinda puzzled how people among the PHP Security Response Team can claim in public that they do not know about any security vulnerability in PHP, when you disclosed about 20 holes to them in the two weeks before. At this point you stop bothering whether anyone considers the disclosure of unreported vulnerabilities unethical. Additionally a few of the reported bugs have been known for years among the PHP developers and will most probably never be fixed. In total we have more than 31 bugs to disclose, and therefore there will be days when more than one vulnerability will be disclosed."

Submission + - Europe's Plan to Track Phone and Net Use

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 20, 2007 @03:50AM

An anonymous reader writes: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/20/business/worldbu siness/20privacy.html February 20, 2007 Europe's Plan to Track Phone and Net Use PARIS, Feb. 19 — European governments are preparing legislation to require companies to keep detailed data about people's Internet and phone use that goes beyond what the countries will be required to do under a European Union directive. In Germany, a proposal from the Ministry of Justice would essentially prohibit using false information to create an e-mail account, making the standard Internet practice of creating accounts with pseudonyms illegal.

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