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Jailbreaking iPhone Now Legal 423

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday July 26, 2010 @12:21PM from the wait-for-the-appeal dept.

whisper_jeff writes "The US government on Monday announced new rules making it officially legal for iPhone owners to 'jailbreak' their device and run unauthorized third-party applications, as well as the ability to unlock any cell phone for use on multiple carriers." The EFF has further details on this and some of the other legal protections granted in the new rules.

Submission + - Microbin: Magnetic solder might lead to a new computer age -

Submitted by on Friday March 05, 2010 @12:59PM

Magnetic solder might lead to a new computer age - http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/03/05/mag...

Submission + - Tracking Water Molecule Could Unlock Secrets (sciencedaily.com)

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ScuttleMonkey

on Monday March 01, 2010 @12:54PM

ScuttleMonkey writes: "ScienceDaily is reporting that several new discoveries about the simple molecule of water have kicked off a surge in research that scientists believe could lead to solving some of the world's most tricky problems from agriculture to cancer. "Understanding how individual water molecules maneuver in a system to form fleeting tetrahedral structures and how changing physical conditions such as temperatures and pressures affect the amount of disorder each imparts on that system may help scientists understand why certain substances, like drugs used in chemotherapy, are soluble in water and why some are not. It could also help understand how this changing network of bonds and ordering of local tetrahedrality between water molecules changes the nature of protein folding and degradation. 'Understanding hydrophobicity, and how different conditions change it, is probably one of the most fundamental components in understanding how proteins fold in water and how different biomolecules remain stable in it,' says Kumar. 'And if we understand this, we will not only have a new way of thinking about physics and biology but also a new way to approach health and disease.'""

Comment Re:Read the TODO list - then build a sample app (Score 1) 282

by twoeggs on Friday July 06, 2007 @11:34AM (#19768077) Attached to: Good Ways To Join an Open Source Project?

Many projects suffer more from lack of good sample or reference applications than good features. If you want to get attention, show people how to use a technology in a way they haven't thought of before. For example, one of the real accelerators for Ruby on Rails has been the success of BaseCamp, which is a really good sample application for RoR. In our project http://sourceforge.net/projects/activegrid/, we have posted a number of ToDos related not just to features but to providing examples of how to use the features http://dev.activegrid.com/community/?q=node/179 To misquote, a sample is worth a thousand features ;-)

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