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Submission + - MS Gives Free Licenses to Oppressed Nonprofits (nytimes.com)

Submitted by victorl19 on Sunday October 17, 2010 @02:22AM

victorl19 writes: Microsoft is vastly expanding its efforts to prevent governments from using software piracy inquiries as a pretext to suppress dissent. It plans to provide free software licenses to more than 500,000 advocacy groups, independent media outlets and other nonprofit organizations in 12 countries with tightly controlled governments, including Russia and China.

Comment N-JAMMERS (Score 1) 418

by victorl19 on Friday August 29, 2008 @10:43AM (#24794607) Attached to: Nuclear Decay May Vary With Earth-Sun Distance

For Gundam fans, doesn't this seem reminiscent of the N-Jammer?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Cosmic_Era_superweapons#Neutron_Jammer

Feed Consequences of a Nuclear Explosion in an American City (schneier.com)

From feed by bsfeed on Friday April 06, 2007 @11:32AM

This paper, from February's International Journal of Health Geographics, (abstract here), analyzes the consequences of a nuclear attack on several American cities and points out that burn unit capacity nationwide is far too small to accommodate the victims. It says...

General Relativity Is At Least 99.95% Right 223

Posted by Zonk on Saturday September 16, 2006 @05:26AM from the happy-hair dept.

ultracool writes to mention a ScienceDaily piece on compelling proof of general relativity. A team at the University of Manchester have used three years' worth of data on a pair of pulsars as a litmus test, against which they've benchmarked Einstein's theory. From the article: "Though all the independent tests available in the double pulsar system agree with Einstein's theory, the one that gives the most precise result is the time delay, known as the Shapiro Delay, which the signals suffer as they pass through the curved space-time surrounding the two neutron stars. It is close to 90 millionths of a second and the ratio of the observed and predicted values is 1.0001 +/- 0.0005 - a precision of 0.05%. A number of other relativistic effects predicted by Einstein can also be observed. 'We see that, due to its mass, the fabric of space-time around a pulsar is curved. We also see that the pulsar clock runs slower when it is deeper in the gravitational field of its massive companion, an effect known as "time dilation."'"

Fully Internal Water-cooled Xbox 360 183

Posted by timothy on Tuesday June 20, 2006 @12:47PM from the aggressive-not-passive dept.

NiteStar writes "Dano2k0 created a fully internal water-cooled Xbox 360. Unlike previous water-cooled Xbox 360 mods, this one has everything inside the original Xbox 360 case, including the water reservoir and pump. Both CPU (Zern GPU block) and GPU (Koolance GPU-180-H06 block) are water-cooled, with internal Tank-o-Matic mini reservoir, 12v thermaltake pump and DD fill port on the plexi window. The case itself is also customized with a plexiglass grill and LEDs, and it's fully custom painted. The case mod will also be featured in the next edition of the Official Xbox Magazine UK."

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