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Submission + - HP Spent Over $80M to Get Rid of Its CEOs (internetevolution.com)

Submitted by hapworth
hapworth writes: Analysis published today shows that Hewlett-Packard has shelled out over $80 million to get rid of three CEOs since 2005. The first CEO to take her expensive exit, Carly Fiorina, received over $42 million, once stocks, options, and pension are factored in. Mark Hurd, after just four years, received $12.2 million to take his exit; and now, after 11 months, Leo Apotheker will walk out with a reported $25.2 million in severance. With eBay's Meg Whitman in as the new CEO at HP, industry analyst Robert McGarvey writes today that "the HP gig could help Whitman replenish her personal coffers, depleted by the pumping of $119 million into a futile bid to become California's governor."
Debian

Debian, OpenSUSE, Arch, Gentoo and Grml Merge 117

Posted by Soulskill from the simplifying-and-streamlining dept.
tomhudson writes "debian, arch linux, opensuse, grml, and gentoo are merging to create a new distro: 'We are to announce the birth of the Canterbury distribution. Canterbury is a merge of the efforts of the community formerly known as Debian, Gentoo, Grml, openSUSE and Arch Linux to produce a really unified effort and be able to stand up in a combined effort against operating systems, to show off that the Free Software community is actually able to work together for a common instead of creating more diversity. Canterbury will be as technologically simple as Arch, as stable as Debian, malleable as Gentoo, have a solid Live framework as Grml, and be as open minded as openSUSE.' Arch Linux developer Pierre Schmitz explained: 'Arch Linux has always been about keeping its as simple as possible. Combining efforts into one single distribution will dramatically reduce complexity for developers, users and of course upstream . Canterbury will be the next evolutionary step of Linux distributions.' This will without a doubt put on Ubuntu."

Comment Re:Great idea but not likely to happen (Score 1) 244

by on (#34983990) Attached to: Mozilla Proposes 'Do Not Track' HTTP Header

Advertisers and tracking services will fight this to the bitter end.

....and if this is ratified as a web standard, governments could simply enforce honoring such headers by law. In Norway, a national register has been in place for years where registered citizens opt-out from fax and voice spam. Norway also have laws which prevents advertisers from filling your (physical) mailbox with junk (you just place a sticker on your mailbox).
Windows

Submission + - Microsoft is Screwing Up Live on Vista

Submitted by
Joe The Dragon
Joe The Dragon writes: "http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2128061 ,00.asp

Live on the PC is nothing like that mock-up demo a year ago. It's Vista-only, which I guess I can understand. They want to move Vista as the gaming platform, not just Windows PCs in general. Perhaps Vista's networking security stuff is actually necessary for Live, I dunno. Okay, fine...we need to buy your expensive new OS to use Live. Fair enough. I can still sit there browsing the web and get a game invite or a message over Live, right? Or set up a Live voice or video chat? Nope. Live on the PC only runs while you're actually playing a Live-enabled game. So in order for my friends to see me online on my PC, I have to actually have Halo 2 or Shadowrun running. This sort of defeats the point, and it's not the way the 360 has worked for the last 18 months. I can sit at the dashboard, watch a movie, listen to music, or do whatever other non-game stuff on the 360 and still be fully connected to Live. So from a very core level, you get a second-tier experience on the PC, even though Live is coming to it much later."
Google

Submission + - Sounds bring Google Earth to life

Submitted by Strudelkugel
Strudelkugel writes: The BBC and New Scientist report a Californian company has created software that can layer relevant recorded sounds over locations in Google Earth Wild Sanctuary has over 3,500 hours of soundscapes from all over the world. Its director, Bernie Krause said: "A picture tells a thousand words, but a sound tells a thousand pictures." Dr Krause has spent the last 40 years collecting sounds, and his recordings include more than 15,000 animal noises, and sounds from a huge array of habitats, including cities, deserts, mountains and the marine environment. It is the largest library in existence of natural sound, he said. He said the idea would be to zoom-in on a particular area and then have the option to listen to the accompanying sound.

Feed Toxoplasmosis Infection Trick Revealed By Scientists (sciencedaily.com)

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Scientists have provided new insight into how the parasite which causes toxoplasmosis invades human cells. Toxoplasmosis is a parasitic disease, primarily carried by cats. It is transmitted to humans by eating undercooked meat or through contact with cat faeces.

Feed Is The Vacuum Empty? -- The Higgs Field And The Dark Energy (sciencedaily.com)

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The problems in understanding the true nature of the "vacuum" of space were discussed by a theoretical physicist CERN. From the point of view of cosmology, the vacuum appears to have an energy density, which is sometimes called "dark energy" or the "cosmological constant", responsible for the observed accelerated expansion of the universe. From a particle physics viewpoint, the vacuum is permeated by a "Higgs Field" - named after physicist Peter Higgs.

Feed Mysteries And Surprises In Quantum Physics (sciencedaily.com)

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Scientists report manipulating and controlling single atoms and single photons interacting in a cavity, which is a box made of highly reflecting walls. The result means that it is now possible repeatedly to extract information from the same photon. This is important because the major part of all information we get from the universe come from light. "Developing a new way of 'seeing' could have applications in quantum science," said researcher, Prof. Haroche. "A photon could share its information with an ensemble of atoms to build up an 'entangled state' of light or matter".

Feed Supercomputer Shows That Nanolayers Have Turning Sense (sciencedaily.com)

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Physicists have discovered that on the atomic level nature differentiates between the image and mirror image of magnetic structures. On the one hand, this finding opens up a whole new research area and, on the other hand, it may also lead to applications in "spintronics", a promising field of future technology.
PHP

Submission + - Scientists claim 'major leap' in engine design

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Purdue researchers say they have made a major advance in the design of the internal combustion engine, one that could seriously boost fuel efficiency and cut emmissions. A key portion involves building intake and exhaust valves that are no longer driven by mechanisms connected to the pistons, a departure from the way car engines have worked since they were commercialized more than a century ago.

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