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Comment Re:Aren't normal LCDs a bit fragile for this? (Score 1) 146

by feagle814 on Monday May 07, 2007 @10:27AM (#19020503) Attached to: Transform a Regular LCD Into a Touchscreen

I've taken apart my Tablet screen and it's just a normal LCD screen with a thin piece of glass in front (anti-glare treated) and a Wacom digitizer behind it. They don't manufacture the LCD special for it; they just sandwich it between tablet parts.

Wi-Fi Penetration Tester In Your Pocket 121

Posted by kdawson on Thursday February 08, 2007 @11:36AM from the happy-to-see-me? dept.

00*789*00 writes "ZDNet has a story about the public launch of Immunity's Silica, a portable hacking device that can search for and join 802.11 (Wi-Fi) access points, scan other connections for open ports, and automatically launch code execution exploits from a built-in exploit platform."

Microsoft Answers Vista DRM Critics' Claims 627

Posted by Zonk on Saturday January 20, 2007 @09:27PM from the don't-believe-everything-you-read-on-the-interwebs dept.

skepsis writes "Recently there have been some stories on Slashdot claiming that Vista would downgrade the quality of audio and video for every application in a machine where protected content was running. One of the stories painted a scary scenario where a 'medical IT worker who's using a medical imaging PC while listening to audio/video played back by the computer' would have his medical images 'deliberately degraded.' A post has been put up on the Vista team blog explaining exactly how the content protection works, and it turns out the medical IT staff and audio pros can relax. From the post: 'It's important to emphasize that while Windows Vista has the necessary infrastructure to support commercial content scenarios, this infrastructure is designed to minimize impact on other types of content and other activities on the same PC. For example, if a user were viewing medical imagery concurrently with playback of video which required image constraint, only the commercial video would be constrained -- not the medical image or other things on the user's desktop.'"

Study Explains Evolution's Molecular Advance 477

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Saturday April 08, 2006 @02:14PM from the good-for-some-bad-for-others dept.

pnewhook writes "The New York Times is reporting that 'by reconstructing ancient genes from long-extinct animals, scientists have for the first time demonstrated the step-by-step progression of how evolution created a new piece of molecular machinery by reusing and modifying existing parts. The researchers say the findings, published today in the journal Science, offer a counterargument to doubters of evolution who question how a progression of small changes could produce the intricate mechanisms found in living cells.'"

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