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Submission + - NES Emulator for iPhone Emerges

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 07, 2007 @04:17AM

An anonymous reader writes: The first emulator for iPhone, iPhoneNES has been released. It run very slow, and has no sound, but hacker NerveGas has managed to modify the source to release an optimized version that is playable. Let the battery draining begin!

Comment Less options than you think... (Score 2, Insightful) 4

by pablomarx on Thursday July 19, 2007 @12:56AM (#19910729) Attached to: Nazi Cars

You can't really drive GM, because Opel was a GM subsidiary during the war and manufactured numerous military vehicles for the Nazis with "GM's blessing" (so say the conspiracy nuts). And of course GM is *solely* responsible for the demise of streetcars in America (see same people), so they're also the ones screwing you on the lack of public transport. And Kia is owned by Hyundai, who opened a factory in North Korea to help broker peace. And while there are no ties to Nazis, you really should steer clear due to communism. And nobody in their right mind would drive a British made car. And most are owned by foreign companies now a days, so... I think you're stuck with Chevy. Which IMHO is a fate worse than death.

Submission + - Most Powerful Star Explosion Observed

Submitted by necro81 on Monday May 07, 2007 @11:35PM

necro81 writes: The NY Times is reporting a discovery from a team of researchers about observations of the cataclysmic explosion of a 100- to 200-solar-mass star — the brightest stellar explosion ever observed. The researchers believe that the explosion is similar to the death spasms of the first stars in the universe. Rather than create a black hole, the super-massive star's collapse is believed to have been so energetic as to create unstable electron-positron pairs that tore the star apart before it could collapse into a black hole — seeding the universe with heavier elements.

Submission + - OpenBSD 4.1 Released

Submitted by adstro on Tuesday May 01, 2007 @05:23PM

adstro writes: Fresh off the announce mailing list... "We are pleased to announce the official release of OpenBSD 4.1. This is our 21st release on CD-ROM (and 22nd via FTP). We remain proud of OpenBSD's record of ten years with only two remote holes in the default install. As in our previous releases, 4.1 provides significant improvements, including new features, in nearly all areas of the system."

Submission + - Radical Transparency at NASA?!

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 10, 2007 @02:11AM

An anonymous reader writes: Aaron Rowe over at Wired has an article about a couple of young scientists at NASA's Ames Research Center working to open source the space program through software development and other ways to allow the public to participate in real NASA programs. According to Robert Schingler, the NASA CoLab project manager, "CoLab is building an infrastructure to encourage and facilitate direct participation from the talented and interested public..." Apparently, the group holds weekly meetings on their island in the popular online virtual world Second Life. This should be of real interest to Slashdotters. The article also notes that there will be a massive science and technology party at NASA Ames this Friday night open to the public. I don't know about you, but as my first opportunity to visit the inside of a NASA center, I'm sure going!

Submission + - The search for dark matter and dark energy

Submitted by mlimber on Monday March 12, 2007 @10:42AM

mlimber writes: The New York Times Magazine has a lengthy, popular article on dark matter and dark energy, discussing the past, present, and future: 'Astronomers now realize that dark matter probably involves matter that is nonbaryonic ["meaning that it doesn't consist of the protons and neutrons of 'normal' matter"]. And whatever it is that dark energy involves, we know it's not "normal," either. In that case, maybe this next round of evidence will have to be not only beyond anything we know but also beyond anything we know how to know.'

Submission + - Hacker Defeats Hardware-based Rootkit Detection

Submitted by

Manequintet

on Saturday March 03, 2007 @07:46PM

Manequintet writes: "Joanna Rutkowska's latest bit of rootkit-related research shatters the myth that hardware-based (PCI cards or FireWire bus) RAM acquisition is the most reliable and secure way to do forensics. At this year's Black Hat Federal conference, she demonstrated three different attacks against AMD64 based systems, showing how the image of volatile memory (RAM) can be made different from the real contents of the physical memory as seen by the CPU. The overall problem, Rutkowska explained, is the design of the system that makes it impossible to reliably read memory from computers. "Maybe we should rethink the design of our computer systems so they they are somehow verifiable," she said."

Submission + - VMware attacks Microsoft?

Submitted by on Sunday February 25, 2007 @06:52PM

An anonymous reader writes: On Monday VMWare will release a white paper detailing its concerns with license changes on Microsoft software that may limit the ability to move virtual-machine software around data centers to automate the management of computing work. This was reported by Steve Lohr of the New York Times in an article published on February 24, 2007. Two choice quotes: "Microsoft is looking for any way it can to gain the upper hand," said Diane Greene, the president of VMware. ... "This seems to be a far more subtle, informed and polished form of competitive aggression than we've seen from Microsoft in the past," said Andrew I. Gavil, a law professor at Howard University. "And Microsoft has no obligation to facilitate a competitor."

Submission + - Lakes found under Antarctic ice using space lasers

Submitted by

Reverse Gear

on Sunday February 18, 2007 @06:53PM

Reverse Gear writes: "There is a new study circling the media about these newly found big lakes found underneath the antarctic ice sheets that apparently empty and fills back up quite fast (study has been working in 3 years and has detected massive movements), from the article:

The scientists allay fears that global warming has created these pockets of water. They say these lakes lie some 2,300 feet below compressed snow and ice, too deep for environmental temperature to reach. However, it is necessary to understand what causes the phenomenon as it can facilitate an understanding of the impact of climate change on the ice sheet in Antarctica
NASA also has some information on the technique used to detect these lakes"

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