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Submission + - A Free XML-Based Operating System

Dotnaught writes: "For the past five years, Xcerion has been working on an XML-based Internet operating system (XIOS) that runs inside a Web browser and promises radically reduced development time. To provide developers with an incentive to write for the platform, Xcerion's back-end system is designed to route revenue, either from subscription fees or from ads served to users of free programs, to application authors. Think of it as Google AdSense, except for programmers rather than publishers. Is it absurd to think this poses a threat to Google and Microsoft?"
Power

Scotland Building Wave Power Farms 211

eldavojohn writes "Scottish engineers are taking advantage of the huge ocean coast that Scotland enjoys by building a 'wave farm' to harvest electricity from the ocean's powerful waves. These big red tubes have been named the Pelamis System after a sea snake. Max Carcas, the business developer for the firm, says it is 'a bit like a ship at anchor or a flag on a flagpole, it self orientates into the waves ... Waves then travel down the length of the machine and in doing so each of the sections, each of these train carriages, moves up and down and side to side.' These snake-like movements push hydraulic fluid through generators to produce electricity."

Comment Need help with "Neutrality" definition (Score 1) 251

I read the wikipedia write-up on Net Neutrality but it looks to me like it means whatever you want it to mean. So if someone says "I support Network Neutrality" here on slashdot, what does that mean to us?

Personally, I oppose legislation governing traffic and I want ISPs to give equal priority to each packet/frame/whatever that they handle -- so do I support "Net Neutrality"?

All comments welcome -- flames too -- I'm lost.

TIA

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