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Comment Re:Hypocrisy at its finest (Score 0) 517

The Climategate emails have never been proven to have been stolen. Many people believe they were in fact leaked.

Doubt it.

The Climatic Research Unit email controversy began in November 2009 with the hacking of a server at the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia (UEA). Several weeks before the Copenhagen Summit on climate change, an unknown individual or group had breached CRU's server and thousands of emails and computer files were copied to various locations on the Internet.

The Climategate emails were true.

Wrong.

Eight committees investigated the allegations and published reports, finding no evidence of fraud or scientific misconduct.
Programming

Submission + - The 20th IOCCC Winners Announced (ioccc.org)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The 20th International Obfuscated C Code Contest ended on February 5th 2012. Here are the winners. According to the page, the source code for all the winning entries "has not been released yet." They will be available here "in late-February to mid-March."
Medicine

Submission + - Light barrier repels mosquitoes (forbes.com)

Submitted by kodiaktau
kodiaktau writes: Dr. Szabolcs Marka has received one of five $1M grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, to continue his experiments with using light beams to create mosquito barriers. This is the second grant he has received from the foundation and proves to be a deviation from the previous and more dangerous use of lasers to control mosquitoes. A video can be seen here
Censorship

Submission + - Coyne-Haught religious debate video released (uky.edu) 1

Submitted by tkel
tkel writes: On October 12, 2011 Theologian John Haught publicly debated prominent evolutionary scientist and atheist Jerry Coyne at the University of Kentucky. Although both agreed to a videotaping of the event, Haught later prohibited it's release because he felt he had been treated unfairly. Coyne released blog posts addressing the matter as an offense to free speech. Reviewing their new status in the blogosphere, Haught and his associates at the University of Kentucky have decided to release the video.
Windows

Submission + - No Windows 8 plot to lock out Linux (zdnet.com)

Submitted by Bucky24
Bucky24 writes: ZDNet's Ed Bott decided to contact major PC makers to find out the truth about Windows 8 SecureBoot. The responses are encouraging for those of us who run third party operating systems. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/leading-pc-makers-confirm-no-windows-8-plot-to-lock-out-linux/4185?tag=nl.e539

Dell plans to have a BIOS switch to allow SecureBoot to be disabled, and HP assures us that they will allow consumers to make their own choice as to what operating system to run, though they have not given details as to how.

Submission + - How to catch a thief? 2

Submitted by otaku244
otaku244 writes: I spent a day in Vancouver this week while working in Seattle. While I enjoyed the area, some Vancouver citizen decided to enjoy my Macbook Pro. Unfortunately, I didn't discover this until I was already back at my Seattle hotel. Needless to say, I am quite miffed at the whole experience.
Fortunately, I have LogMeIn installed on that machine. I provided the IP address to the VPD, but they say that laws don't allow warrants solely on the physical address tied to an IP. It sounds like the silver bullet is to take a picture of the person using the laptop. The question becomes, how do I convince the guy to run a script that will take a picture of him and smtp it to me?
I promise to post pics of the guy if this get's pulled off successfully!
Australia

Submission + - Australian Govt to streamline anti-piracy process (delimiter.com.au)

Submitted by daria42
daria42 writes: Remember how the mass piracy lawsuits common in the US are now coming to Australia? Of course you do. Well, now Australia's Government has come out backing the legal process which makes them possible — and is even promising to streamline it. Anti-piracy organisations will be jumping for joy — but I'm not sure how popular the move will be with the rest of the population.

Submission + - What To Do With Old Webcams

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: I work as an IT Admin at a school. We have just upgraded our entire webcam inventory (about 45 webcams, model Logitech Quickcam Communicate STX) and have all the old ones sitting around. I would like to know what a neat project would be with so many old ones. I was figuring that there would be an open project somewhere that involved mass amounts of webcams.
Wireless Networking

Submission + - Scientists Build Wireless Bicycle Brakes (itworld.com)

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itwbennett
itwbennett writes: "Computer scientists at a German university have built a set of brakes controlled using a small motor for a braking mechanism and wireless signaling device to tell it when to brake and how hard. 'Making a popular set of bike brakes wasn't really the point of the project,' says blogger Kevin Fogarty. 'The project was to find out how to make the wireless connections between two components of a system that has to operate in real time – with milliseconds of difference between success and failure – more reliable than systems normally are that are connected by a wire.'"
Australia

Submission + - Australian Malls to track shoopers by their phones (news.com.au) 2

Submitted by
Fluffeh
Fluffeh writes: "Australian shopping centres will monitor customers' mobile phones to track how often they visit, which stores they like and how long they stay. One unnamed Queensland shopping centre is next month due to become the first in the nation to fit receivers that detect unique mobile phone radio frequency codes to pinpoint location within two metres."
IBM

Submission + - IBM eyes brain-like computing (itnews.com.au)

Submitted by schliz
schliz writes: IBM's research director John E Kelly III has delivered an academic lecture in Australia, outlining its 'cognitive computing' aims and efforts as the 70-year 'programmable computing' era comes to a close. He spoke about Watson — the 'glimpse' of cognitive computing that beat humans at Jeopardy! in Feb — and efforts to mimic biological neurons and synapses on 'multi-state' chips. Computers that function like brains, he said, are needed to make sense of exascale data centres of the future.

computing’ to make sense of unprecedented amounts of noisy, unstructured data in various industry sectors today.
IBM has set its sights on a new era of ‘cognitive computing’ to make sense of unprecedented amounts of noisy, unstructured data in various industry sectors today.

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