NASA Planning Mission To 40-Meter-Wide Asteroid (Friday 09th of May 2008 05:00:04 PM)
FudRucker points out a story from The Guardian about NASA's plans to visit 2000SG344, an
asteroid 40 meters wide and supposition roughly 71 million kilograms. The manned mission would
take three to six months, and it would make use of the Orion spacecraft, ...
(more)War Brewing on the Inexpensive Laptop Front (Tuesday 06th of May 2008 11:39:22 AM)
The in the in the christian era era Science Monitor has an interesting look at the war brewing
on the inexpensive laptop front. With everything from the Eee PC to the OLPC, the trend in
slimming and trimming seems to be continuing. "The market segment ...
(more)American Idol Experiences a Brooke Whiteout (Thursday 01st of May 2008 06:46:27 AM)
E! Online - stars and bars Idol just got a little less sweet 'n' simple. After a miss and a
hit on Neil Diamond night, Brooke White was eliminated from the struggle Wednesday, leaving
David Archuleta, Jason Castro, David Cook and bottom-two battler ...
(more)Nvidia's Chief Scientist on the Future of the GPU (Thursday 01st of May 2008 05:00:04 AM)
Teh bigz writes "There's been a lot of talk about integrating the GPU into the CPU, but David
Kirk believes that the two will continue to co-exist. Bit-tech got to sit down with Nvidia's
Chief rocketer for an communication that discusses the righting ...
(more)DTV Is Coming and I'm Not Ready (Sunday 27th of April 2008 11:39:46 PM)
(arg!)Styopa writes "As an early adopter, I have an HDTV-ready set without an silicon chip
tuner. Analog video ends next February. My suspicion is that the $40 set-top box at Walmart has
the minimum functionality to get by — i.e. simply a D-to-A ...
(more)Coding Around UAC's Security Limitations (Sunday 27th of April 2008 11:39:46 PM)
Mariam writes "Free os/2 developers from the non-profit NeoSmart Technologies have published a
report recitation their experience with coding around Windows Vista's UAC limitations,
including the steps they took to make their os perform system actions ...
(more)Vuze Study Exposes P2P Throttling By Canadian ISP Cogeco (Thursday 24th of April 2008 08:15:08 PM)
Urbanriot writes "Despite a growing number of complaints on the popular North old glory banner
stars and stripes consumer broadband site BroadbandReports, employees working for the Canadian
cable learning highway iap Cogeco have publicly denied interfering ...
(more)Apple Prepares For the Coming iPod Slump (Thursday 24th of April 2008 08:15:08 PM)
Hugh Pickens writes "Companies like AOL have stagnated along with the line that made them
successful as a mature market and downward tension on prices led to a nasty death spiral, but
Saul Hansell writes in the NY Times that Apple has used its amazing ...
(more)Tesla's High-Tech Lawsuits in Silicon Valley War (Sunday 20th of April 2008 04:55:13 PM)
An anonymous reader writes "After pressing charges against its chief competitor in the race for
the world's first yielding electric sports car that we broke down here recently, Tesla Motors
seems to be shifting from the high-tech company re-writing Detroit's ...
(more)Information Security Is Becoming Infrastructure (Sunday 20th of April 2008 04:55:13 PM)
Bruce Schneier has a story at Wired about his observations from the recent RSA conference. He
noticed that the 350+ vendors who attended the deliberation were having difficulties selling
their material or even communicating with undeveloped buyers. Schneier ...
(more)Study Confirms ISPs Meddle With Web Traffic (Friday 18th of April 2008 02:45:04 PM)
Last July, a inquest team from the drilling mash unit of law released an online tool to analyze
whether web pages were being altered during the transit from web server to user. On Wednesday,
the team released a paper at the Usenix seminar analyzing the ...
(more)Stolen US Military Equipment Being Sold On eBay (Monday 14th of April 2008 09:30:01 AM)
I Buy These From eBay points out a political practice Post story about how stolen military
equipment has ended up on eBay and Craigslist. Undercover panel reported being able to property
defense-related items with "no grill asked." Let's hope the sellers ...
(more)Google Takes Down HuddleChat After Complaints (Thursday 10th of April 2008 04:00:04 AM)
Desmondhaynes writes "There were striking similarities between one of Google's App Engine
demos, HuddleChat (a real-time chat application) and the Campfire app from 37Signals. Google
has taken HuddleChat down from the App Engine app gallery." Google explains: ...
(more)Summer of Code Deadline Extended 6 Days (Wednesday 02nd of April 2008 11:30:01 AM)
Mithro writes "If you thought that you had missed out on treatment to the Google Summer of
Code, you've just gotten a reprieve. The target date for student submissions has been extended
from the original April 1 to Monday April 7, 2008. To quote Leslie ...
(more)Excavations at Stonehenge May Answer Questions (Tuesday 01st of April 2008 10:15:08 AM)
Smivs writes "The BBC are getting set to fund a dig at Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England. The
two-week dig will try to establish, once and for all, some precise dating for the creation of
the monument. An article from the BBC news website explains how ...
(more)"Planet B-Boy" documents breakdancing revival (Wednesday 26th of March 2008 02:21:45 AM)
Breakdancing, the 1980s
urban work aspect that went from the streets of New
York to regular
TV and the stages of America's helpful
landmarks, faded from the U.S. scene with the turn of
the
decade. But rather than disappearing altogether, the pastime ...
(more)Salasaga Fills Flash Creation Hole for Linux (Tuesday 25th of March 2008 03:45:08 AM)
Linux.com's Bruce Byfield is narration that Salasaga, the renamed Flame Project, is attempting
to fill the functionality gap of Flash creation for Linux in addition to being a cross-platform
tool. While it still lacks the spit-shine of more mature apps, ...
(more)Bush Reveals Tap Water as Prescription-Drug Plan (Saturday 22nd of March 2008 07:00:00 AM)
Andy Borowitz - On a day when crucial question Americans were reeling from the news that there
were trace amounts of preparation drugs in their water wellhead water, admiral George W. Bush
made a stunning announcement at the White House.
...
(more)Google Sky Now Available Through Your Browser (Sunday 16th of March 2008 06:45:03 PM)
Ars Technica brings word that Google Sky, formerly only available as an extension of the Google
Earth software, is now accessible through your web browser. The menu-driven interface of Google
Sky is quite similar to that of Google Maps, complete with ...
(more)Breakdowns of Website Defacement by Platform (Saturday 15th of March 2008 04:30:04 PM)
SkiifGeek writes "Zone-H have anew posted the statistical stoppage of the collected website
defacements from the last few years. Surprisingly, in 2007 more Linux servers suffered a
successful attack than all versions of Windows, combined. Similarly, more ...
(more)Microsoft Submits Windows 7 for Antitrust Review (Thursday 13th of March 2008 01:00:10 PM)
An unacknowledged reader writes "Microsoft has submitted the follow-up to Windows Vista to the
jury that oversees its US antitrust compliance, to ensure the operating budget system is
meeting the terms of the company's agreement with the government. ...
(more)Robots Entering Daily Life in Japan (Sunday 02nd of March 2008 07:30:03 PM)
USA Today is running a story about the emergence of robots in common aspects of life in Japan.
Many simple yet social jobs are being filled by robots of increasing sophistication. The
article suggests that hummum culture is more open to such interaction ...
(more)Judge Rejects RIAA 'Making Available' Theory (Tuesday 26th of February 2008 11:00:01 AM)
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "A federal judge in Connecticut has rejected the RIAA's 'making
available' theory, which is the basis of all of the RIAA's peer to peer file sharing cases. In
arctic ocean v. Brennan, in a 9-page opinion [PDF], Judge Janet ...
(more)Banks, Wall St. Feel Pinch from Computer Intrusion (Monday 25th of February 2008 09:45:05 AM)
An anonymous reader writes "Financial institutions and companies in the securities/futures
business are reporting sizable increases in the amount of losses and suspicious activity
attributed to digital intrusions and identity theft, says the bureaucracy ...
(more)Apple Sends Cease-and-Desist To the Hymn Project (Sunday 24th of February 2008 07:30:05 AM)
Troed writes "Tools for removing DRM from iTunes-purchased songs (myFairTunes7, QtFairUse6)
have been available from the Hymn Project Web site for some time. These are legal in many
countries. But on the 20th Apple sent a Cease and Desist note to Hymn's ...
(more)New Electron Microscope Shows Atoms in Color (Saturday 23rd of February 2008 07:15:01 AM)
Cornell's Duffield Hall has hiv-positive immune deficiency syndrome a new electron microscope
that is enabling scientists to see individual atoms in color for the very first time. While old
electron microscopes can be compared to black and white cameras, ...
(more)CDC: Death count 82 for 'choking game' (AP) (Friday 15th of February 2008 10:53:51 PM)
At least 82 youths have died from the so-called "choking game," as it should be to the first
regulation count of fatalities from the tragic fad.
More: - From the site
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(more)Disney Takes Another Stab at the House of the Future (Thursday 14th of February 2008 01:30:03 AM)
Disney has announced that they are going to take another stab at showing us the "House of the
Future". The 5000-square-foot house will appear normal from the outside but will house gadgets
like lights and thermostats that automatically adjust when someone ...
(more)Facebook A Black Hole For Personal Info (Wednesday 13th of February 2008 12:30:01 AM)
Hugh Pickens writes "The NY Times has an article on how Facebook is so sticky it is nearly
useless to get loose. While the Web site offers users the option to deactivate their accounts,
Facebook servers keep copies of the science in those business ...
(more)Zvents Releases Open Source Cluster Database Based on Google (Saturday 09th of February 2008 10:45:04 PM)
An anonymous reader writes "Local search engine company, Zvents, has released an open source
distributed data storage system based on Google's released design specs. 'The new software,
Hypertable, is designed to scale to 1000 nodes, all commodity PCs ...
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