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Cell Phones Don't Increase Chances of Brain Cancer 320

Posted by kdawson on Friday December 04, 2009 @01:23PM from the as-close-to-proof-as-it-gets dept.

mclearn sends in news of "a very large, 30-year study of just about everyone in Scandinavia" that shows no link between mobile phone use and brain tumors. "Even though mobile telephone use soared in the 1990s and afterward, brain tumors did not become any more common during this time, the researchers reported in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Some activist groups and a few researchers have raised concerns about a link between mobile phones and several kinds of cancer, including brain tumors, although years of research have failed to establish a connection. ... 'From 1974 to 2003, the incidence rate of glioma (a type of brain tumor) increased by 0.5 per cent per year among men and by 0.2 per cent per year among women,' they wrote. Overall, there was no significant pattern."

Intel Shows 48-Core x86 Processor 366

Posted by timothy on Wednesday December 02, 2009 @05:26PM from the soon-will-be-in-calculators dept.

Vigile writes "Intel unveiled a completely new processor design today the company is dubbing the 'Single-chip Cloud Computer' (but was previously codenamed Bangalore). Justin Rattner, the company's CTO, discussed the new product at a press event in Santa Clara and revealed some interesting information about the goals and design of the new CPU. While terascale processing has been discussed for some time, this new CPU is the first to integrate full IA x86 cores rather than simple floating point units. The 48 cores are set 2 to a 'tile' and each tile communicates with others via a 2D mesh network capable of 256 GB/s rather than a large cache structure. "

iPhone 3.1 Spotted In Field Testing 136

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday November 30, 2009 @12:03PM from the under-ripe-fruit dept.

kai_hiwatari writes "Digitizor reports that the next generation of the iPhone was spotted in the analytics log of an iPhone app called iBart. The device, it seems, was identified as iPhone 3.1 in the log. When iPhone 2.1 was spotted, it was followed by iPhone 3G."

Linus Torvalds For Nobel Peace Prize? 541

Posted by kdawson on Friday November 20, 2009 @12:36PM from the nice-step-towards-world-domination dept.

An anonymous reader writes "I'm as much of a Linux fanboy as anyone else, but I've never thought of anything in computing as being worth a Nobel Peace Prize. Apparently, there are those who take global collaboration seriously, though..." The suggestion has been bouncing around the Portland Linux community, where Torvalds lives. Is it worthy of wider attention and discussion?

Comment No big deal (Score 1) 900

by jgs90 on Thursday November 19, 2009 @04:06PM (#30162246) Attached to: GIMP Dropped From Ubuntu 10.04

Alright well honestly...this isn't devastating "news" if you want to call it that. I think GIMP is a terrific program, very comparable to those such as Adobe Photoshop and Paint Shop Pro. I also think its terrific because, well, its free! If they don't include it that just means a faster install time. Less stuff to worry about writing to hard disk. You can always install it yourself later on ;-)

Comment Re:Go big or lose your wall (Score 1) 388

by jgs90 on Thursday November 19, 2009 @04:01PM (#30162150) Attached to: Bomb-Proof Wallpaper Developed

I agree with you. Obviously it will devastate what is replaceable...a house. However a person...well that's irreplaceable.

US Government Using PS3s To Break Encryption 570

Posted by timothy on Wednesday November 18, 2009 @06:16PM from the purchase-order-shenanigans dept.

Entropy98 writes "It seems that the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Cyber Crimes Center, known as C3, has replaced its '$8,000 Tableau/Dell server combination' with more efficient and much cheaper $300 PS3s. Each PS3 is capable of 4 million passwords per second, and C3 currently has 20 PS3s with plans to buy 40 more. Naturally this is only being used to break encryption on computers seized with a warrant and suspected of harboring child pornography."

Fedora 12 Lets Users Install Signed Packages, Sans Root Privileges 502

Posted by timothy on Wednesday November 18, 2009 @05:30PM from the try-it-you-might-like-it dept.

eqisow writes "The new default policy for Fedora 12 allows local, unprivileged users to install signed packages without root access. This change apparently went mostly unnoticed until after the Fedora 12 GA release, at which point it sparked a mailing list thread that is, as of this writing, over 100 posts long."

Fedora 12 Released 236

Posted by timothy on Tuesday November 17, 2009 @02:30PM from the new-hat-for-the-holidays dept.

AdamWill writes "The Fedora Project is pleased to announce the release of Fedora 12 today. With all the latest open source software and major improvements to graphics support, networking, virtualization and more, Fedora 12 is one of the most exciting releases so far. You can download it here. There's a one-page guide to the new release for those in a hurry. The full release announcement has details on the major features, and the release notes contain comprehensive information on changes in this new release. Known issues are documented on the common bugs page."

Some Early Adopters Stung By Ubuntu's Karmic Koala 1231

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday November 03, 2009 @06:29PM from the arrows-in-back dept.

Norsefire writes to mention a Register piece reporting that early adopters are having a tough time with Karmic Koala, Ubuntu's latest release. "Ubuntu 9.10 is causing outrage and frustration, with early adopters wishing they'd stuck with previous versions of the Linux distro. Blank and flickering screens, failure to recognize hard drives, defaulting to the old 2.6.28 Linux kernel, and failure to get encryption running are taking their toll, as early adopters turn to the web for answers and log fresh bug reports in Ubuntu forums." What has been your experience if you've moved to Karmic?

Installing Linux On Old Hardware? 507

Posted by Soulskill on Friday October 30, 2009 @06:18PM from the where-are-those-old-telegraph-drivers dept.

cptdondo writes "I've got an old laptop that I've been trying to resurrect. It has a 486MHz CPU, 28 MB of RAM, a 720 MB HD, a 1.44MB floppy drive, and 640x480 VESA video. It does not have a CD drive, USB port, or a network port. It has PCMCIA, and I have a network card for that. My goal is to get a minimal GUI that lets me run a basic browser like Dillo and open a couple of xterms. I've spent the last few days trying to find a Linux distro that will work on that machine. I've done a lot of work on OpenWRT, so naturally I though that would work, but X appears to be broken in the recent builds — I can't get the keyboard to work. (OK, not surprising; OpenWRT is made to run on WiFi Access Point hardware which doesn't have a keyboard...) All of the 'mini' distros come as a live CD; useless on a machine without a CD-ROM. Ditto for the USB images. I'm also finding that the definition of a 'mini' distro has gotten to the point of 'It fits on a 3GB partition and needs 128 MB RAM to run.' Has Linux really become that bloated? Do we really need 2.2 GB of cruft to bring up a simple X session? Is there a distro that provides direct ext2 images instead of live CDs?"

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