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First Membrane Controlled By Light Developed 33

Posted by timothy on Sunday August 01, 2010 @02:54PM from the my-eyelid-aside dept.

An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt: "A new membrane developed at the University of Rochester's Laboratory for Laser Energetics blocks gas from flowing through it when one color of light is shined on its surface, and permits gas to flow through when another color of light is used. It is the first time that scientists have developed a membrane that can be controlled in this way by light."

Comment How apart of the univ in leiden does it! (Score 1) 1397

by masikh on Monday February 02, 2009 @09:30PM (#26703227) Attached to: Why Do We Name Servers the Way We Do?

Actually after reading the story I must con cure: We use a chemical name scheme based on a study by our head-sysadmin. But on top of that we use a (read CNAME) secondary name scheme based on functionality. E.g. ssh.domain.object. thus ssh being the means of access. This might include nxserver unless you have a windows server too. Then would introduce a new name (CNAME) called rds (remote desktop service) rds.domain.object. Idealy the port of entry should discriminate between services. Anyway, just my 2cents, A univ. sysadmin. ps. This is not the best way to deal with problems. It all depends on contexts!

Minefield Shows the (Really) Fast Future of Firefox 412

Posted by timothy on Tuesday October 28, 2008 @09:20AM from the zipping-right-along dept.

zootropole writes "If you are using Firefox 3 (or even Chrome) you should consider taking a look at Mozilla's Minefield. This browser (alpha version yet, but stable) would give a new meaning to 'fast browsing experience.' Some Firefox extensions aren't supported, but riding the fastest javascript engine on the planet definitely worth a try. Minefield's install won't affect your Firefox, so there's no risk trying it. It's fast. Really. And I'm loving it." Reviews popping up around the web are overwhelmingly positive, calling the upcoming browser crazy fast, blisteringly fast, etc.

Lame Duck Challenge Ends With Free Codeweavers Software For All 433

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Tuesday October 28, 2008 @07:30AM from the well-that-didn't-end-as-planned dept.

gzipped_tar writes to tell us that The Codeweavers "Great American Lame Duck Presidential Challenge" has ended in surprise and free software all day Tuesday (October 28, 2008) at the Codeweavers site. A while back Codeweavers gave President Bush a challenge to meet one of several goals before he left office. One of these goals was to lower gas prices in the Twin Cities below $2.79 a gallon, which has since transpired. "How was I to know that President Bush would take my challenge so seriously? And, give the man credit, I didn't think there was *any* way he could pull it off. But engineering a total market meltdown - wow - that was pure genius. I clearly underestimated the man. I'm ashamed that I goaded him into this and take full responsibility for the collapse of any savings you might have. Please accept our free software as my way of apologizing for the global calamity we now find ourselves embroiled in."

Student Charged With Three Felonies For Finding Security Flaw — and Report 547

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Tuesday October 28, 2008 @05:35AM from the no-good-deed-goes-unpunished dept.

Well, yet another teenage hacker who "did the right thing" by reporting a security flaw is being punished for his actions. Although it definitely sounds like the whole story may not be in the clear yet, a 15-year-old New York high school student has been charged with three felonies claiming that he accessed a file containing social security numbers, driver's license numbers, and home addresses of past and present employees ... and then sent an anonymous email to the principal alerting him to the security flaw. "All that was needed to access the information was a district password. School officials have admitted that thousands of students, faculty and employees could have accessed the same file for up to two weeks."

Samsung's New Carbon Nanotube Color E-Paper 87

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday October 27, 2008 @11:33PM from the in-living-color dept.

Iddo Genuth writes to tell us that Samsung and Unidym have shown the world's first carbon nanotube-based color e-paper. Interestingly, the new film is electrically conductive while remaining almost completely translucent and only 50 nanometers thick. "The company also mentions that the EPD [electrophoretic displays] has important advantages over conventional flat panel displays. EPDs have very low power consumption and bright light readability, which means that even under bright lights or sunlight, the user would be able to view the display clearly. Furthermore, since the device uses the thin CNT films, applications can include e-paper and displays with thin, flexible substrates. Power consumption is lowered due to the EPD's ability to reflect light and therefore able to preserve text or images on the display without frequently refreshing."

Microsoft Announces Windows Azure, Cloud-Based OS 419

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday October 27, 2008 @09:24PM from the do-you-feel-azure-after-use dept.

snydeq writes "Microsoft today introduced Windows Azure, its operating system for the cloud. The OS serves as the underlying foundation of the Azure Services Platform to help developers build apps that span from the cloud to the datacenter, to PCs, the Web, and phones. Cloud-based developer capabilities are combined with storage, computational, and network infrastructure services, which are hosted on servers within Microsoft's global data center network."

New Diablo 3 Images; Design Wins Over Darkness 243

Posted by timothy on Sunday September 21, 2008 @06:40PM from the beyond-none-more-black dept.

KingofGnG writes "The new Diablo III screenshots highlight the strong chromatic variations existing between the dungeons and the various stages ... It appears obvious, however, that all those details enriching the scenes, the crumbling parapets of the paths within the dungeons, the plants and the ragged drapes lightened by candles, would lose the best part of their raison d'etre if put in monochrome palettes inclined to black."

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