Submission + - Quantum Entanglement and Photosynthesis
medcalf writes: Lawrence Berkeley scientists have experimentally shown that plants use quantum entanglement in photosynthesis.
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Submission + - Google Stops Selling Its Own Phone (theglobeandmail.com)
Dave Knott writes: "Google has announced that it will close its online cell phone store and no longer sell the Nexus One smart phone directly to consumers. "While the global adoption of the Android platform has exceeded our expectations, the web store has not," wrote Andy Rubin a Google vice-president of engineering, on the company blog. "It's remained a niche channel for early adopters, but it's clear that many customers like a hands-on experience before buying a phone, and they also want a wide range of service plans to chose from." Google plans to continue marketing the Nexus One through "existing retail channels", essentially partnering with carriers around the world."
Comment Re:No... (Score 1) 236
my karma is already good enough and my slashdot id small enough not to care about karma anymore...
seriously, all the above standing, I didn't have the time to login. Glad you liked it, though.
Comment Re:Here come the DRM whiners (Score 5, Insightful) 443
yes.
In particular when it decides to accelerate.
Comment virtual hosts (Score 2, Informative) 162
too bad this won't pass any Host: information in the HTTP header, hence anything based on a virtual host will be unreachable through pure IP address. You will have to perform a bit more hacking to do that, and it won't defeat deep packet inspection filters.
Comment Re:Statistics! (Score 4, Funny) 1142
I think more 'popelation density'....
Italy Floats Official Permission Requirement for Web Video Uploads 131
An anonymous reader writes with some bad news from Italy, noting that new rules proposed there would "require people who upload videos onto the Internet to obtain authorization from the Communications Ministry similar to that required by television broadcasters, drastically reducing freedom to communicate over the Web." Understandably, some say such controls represent a conflict of interest for Silvio Berlusconi, "who exercises political control over the state broadcaster RAI in his role as prime minister and is also the owner of Italy's largest private broadcaster, Mediaset."
Comment HA! (Score 3, Funny) 405
and now try put disk copy protection on that!
oh wait...
Comment Oblig SW quote. (Score 0, Offtopic) 117
That's not pr0n, that's a space station
Larry Wall Talks Perl, Culture, and Community 123
LostDiver writes "Computerworld Australia caught up recently with Larry Wall of Patch and Perl fame. He talks about the development of Perl as 'scratching an itch,' a release date for Perl 6 (Christmas day, year unknown) and beauty versus practicality. Computerworld also has some more information on the upcoming Perl 6. A while back they interviewed Bjarne Stroustrup of C++ fame as well."
jamie pointed out a interesting, related video of a presentation by Clay Shirky from last year's Supernova conference in which he discusses why the Perl community (or any web community) drives progress and innovation.
Comment Re:projection (Score 1) 596
inches? feet? what the hell of units are those ?
Wordpress 2.1.1 Release Compromised by Cracker 48
GrumpySimon writes "The recent 2.1.1 release of the popular blog software Wordpress was compromised by a cracker who made it easier for to execute code remotely. This is interesting because the official release was quietly and subtly compromised, and has been in the wild for a few days now. There's no word on if any affected sites have been compromised, but anyone running Wordpress is urged to upgrade to 2.1.2 immediately, and admins can check their logs for access to 'theme.php' or 'feed.php', and query strings with 'ix=' or 'iz=' in them."
Submission + - The RIAA is trying to kill internet radio
sgeirk writes: "The Copyright Royalty Board (CRB),announced the new Soundexchange royalty rates, which could spell the end for many independent webcasters, not to mention the simulcast signals for many commercial and non-commercial radio stations. In a nutshell, rates are going to double between now and 2010. Even webcasters who stream through services like Live365 may be in jeopardy, as such firms' business models never envisioned a royalty rate this high. For more information on this story go here."
Submission + - Comet McNaught Visible in Broad Daylight
AbsoluteXyro writes: As the amateur astronomers among us already know, Comet McNaught has been gracing the early morning and late evening skies... as it approaches the Sun, some estimate it has the potential to become 40 times brighter than Venus, or a magnitude of -8.8! In fact, it has recently been reported at SpaceWeather.com that Comet McNaught is now visible in broad daylight! From the article: "It's fantastic," reports Wayne Winch of Bishop, California. "I put the sun behind a neighbor's house to block the glare and the comet popped right into view. You can even see the tail."
