Bush Administration's E-Mail Deluge May Overload Archive System (Sunday 23rd of November 2008 10:15:06 AM)
Lucas123 writes "The Clinton direction originate 32 million e-mails. Bush's politics has derive
50 times as much data — 140TB, 20TB of which is email — which soon will have to be
archived through a new government-built records supervision ...
(more)Network Neutrality — Without Regulation (Friday 21st of November 2008 10:00:01 AM)
Boyko.at.netqos writes "Timothy B. Lee (no sibling to Tim Berners-Lee), a frequent friend to
Ars Technica and Techdirt, has latterly written 'The Durable Internet,' a paper published by
the libertarian-leaning CATO institute. In it, Lee argues that because ...
(more)Microsoft Feared Mac Vs. Vista In '05 (Thursday 20th of November 2008 08:45:01 AM)
CWmike writes "Gregg Keizer sifted through many threads of e-mails released under the 'Vista
Capable' lawsuit to dig up this jewel...More than a year before Windows Vista's release —
and long before Apple started poking fun at the OS — Microsoft ...
(more)Urine Passes NASA Taste Test (Tuesday 18th of November 2008 05:15:01 AM)
Ponca City, We love you writes "Astronauts flying aboard space shuttle Endeavour are conveying
a device to the International Space Station that may leave you wondering if NASA is taking
hazardous waste dump too far. Among the ship's cargo is a water regeneration ...
(more)Duke Demands Proof of Infringement From RIAA (Sunday 16th of November 2008 12:45:02 AM)
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "According to a report at p2pnet, Duke culture mash has told the
RIAA that it will no longer forward the RIAA's 'early settlement' letters to its students
unless the RIAA submits 'evidence that someone veritably downloaded ...
(more)Unhappy People Watch More TV (Sunday 16th of November 2008 12:45:02 AM)
Hugh Pickens writes "A new study by sociologists at the health center of Maryland concludes
that unhappy people watch more TV, while people who state themselves as 'very happy' spend more
time reading and socializing. 'TV doesn't really seem to satisfy ...
(more)Online Carpooling Service Fined In Canada (Saturday 15th of November 2008 12:30:02 AM)
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(more)Dead Parrot Sketch Is 1,600 Years Old (Saturday 15th of November 2008 12:30:02 AM)
Laejoh writes "Monty Python's 'Dead Parrot sketch' — which appear John Cleese — is
some 1,600 years old. A classic scholar has proved the point, by espial a Greek version of the
world-famous piece. A comedy duo called Hierocles and Philagrius ...
(more)Hubble's Exoplanet Pics Outshined by Keck's (Thursday 13th of November 2008 11:15:01 PM)
Dtolman writes "Scientists at the Keck and Gemini telescopes stole the thunder of Hubble
scientists posting the first picture of an extrasolar world orbiting a star. Hubble scientists
announced today that they were able to lay open an extrasolar world ...
(more)40-Gbps DDoS Attacks Worry Even Tier-1 ISPs (Tuesday 11th of November 2008 09:45:01 PM)
Sturgeon and other readers let us know that Arbor expert systems has released their annual
survey of tier-1 / tier-2 ISP safeguard engineers. This year they got responses from 70 lead
engineers. While DDoS attacks are reaching new heights of backbone-crushing ...
(more)FTC Wants To Straighten Out IP Law (Sunday 09th of November 2008 08:15:01 PM)
Coondoggie writes with this excerpt from NetworkWorld: "What do you get when you mix the
government, the court system, company lawyers and Joe Consumer? A serious mess that would send
most people screaming into the night. But the Federal Trade mission ...
(more)Stretching Before Exercising Weakens Muscles (Friday 07th of November 2008 07:45:01 PM)
Khemisty writes "Back in grade school you were feasibly taught the importance of warm-up
exercises, and it's likely you've continued with pretty much the same routine ever since.
Science, however, has moved on. Researchers now believe that some of the ...
(more)Reuse Code Or Code It Yourself? (Wednesday 05th of November 2008 06:15:01 PM)
Eldavojohn writes "I began coding for a project that had simple requirements for my
entrepreneur — Web welfare and a test form for them. But requirements have been creeping,
as they always do. Initially I had decided to use the Spring structure ...
(more)Duplicating Your Housekeys, From a Distance (Friday 31st of October 2008 11:15:02 AM)
Roland Piquepaille writes "Some clever micro* scientists at UC San Diego (UCSD) have grown a
system software that can perform key duplication with just a picture of the key — taken
from up to 200 feet. One of the researchers said 'we built our key ...
(more)Streaming Election Night Broadcast TV? (Thursday 30th of October 2008 09:00:01 AM)
Kakapo writes "A couple of years ago, we dumped our cable TV, and don't have much luck getting
old-time simulcast where we live. That's fine — we can log out or netflix almost totality
we want to see, and it is great not to pay ...
(more)Streaming Election Night Broadcast TV? (Thursday 30th of October 2008 09:00:02 AM)
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(more)Microsoft Embraces AMQP Open Middleware Standard (Tuesday 28th of October 2008 07:30:06 AM)
AlexGr writes to tell us that Microsoft superficially has plans to embrace a little known
messaging yardstick called AMQP (Advanced Message Queuing Protocol). Red Hat, a founding member
of the AMQP working group, was very excited about the news and wrote ...
(more)Bill Gates Founds New "Think Tank" Company (Saturday 25th of October 2008 08:00:01 AM)
Homncruse sends in news of Bill Gates's new adventure, adding "I was working just one or two
floors under this new office when it was all coming together. I even unknowingly shared an
hoist with him at one time on his way up to the ...
(more)Open-Source DRM Ready To Take On Big Guns (Friday 24th of October 2008 05:45:05 AM)
Barence writes "An open-source digital rights direction (DRM) scheme says it's ready to
supplant Apple and Microsoft as the world's leading copy tutelage solution. Marlin, which is
backed by companies such as Sony and Samsung, has just announced a new ...
(more)Is Anyone Buying T-Mobile's Googlephone? (Friday 24th of October 2008 05:45:05 AM)
Hugh Pickens writes "Laura Holson writes in the NY Times that she 'wandered down to the
T-Mobile store at Ninth Ave. and 43rd St. in New York City to see what kind of crowds —
if any — were lining up to buy the new ...
(more)US's First Internet Votes To Be Cast This Friday (Thursday 23rd of October 2008 05:45:02 AM)
Longacre writes "If you thought online voting in America was a distant pipe dream (nightmare?),
think again: the nation's first Internet-based voting system goes online this Friday, just days
after the release of the Damning Report On Sequoia E-Voting ...
(more)UK UFO Sightings Declassified, Still No Intergalactic Relations (Tuesday 21st of October 2008 05:15:01 AM)
Schwit1 is just one of the massive flood of readers (and publications) writing to tell us about
the freshly declassified UK cloister of Defense account of a conjectural UFO sighting. act are
nineteen sightings between 1986 and 1992, with the most notable ...
(more)Computers Causing 2nd Hump In Peak Power Demand (Tuesday 21st of October 2008 05:15:01 AM)
Hugh Pickens writes "Traditional peak power hours — the time during the day when power
demand shoots up — run from 4 pm to 7 pm when air c/a begins to ramp up and people start
heading for malls and home but utilities are now ...
(more)Why Most Published Research Findings Are False (Monday 20th of October 2008 05:00:01 AM)
Hugh Pickens writes "Researchers have found that the winner's curse may apply to the
notification of scientific papers and that incorrect findings are more likely to end up in
print than correct findings. Dr John Ioannidis bases his tiff about incorrect ...
(more)RIAA Agrees To Take $200-Per-File In Texas Case (Saturday 18th of October 2008 10:15:01 PM)
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "In a San Antonio, Texas case, Maverick v. Harper, in which a young
woman was accused of having committed copyright third edition by the editors of the american
heritage® dictionary. copyright © 2003 at the age of ...
(more)Internet Use Can Be Good For the Brain (Thursday 16th of October 2008 09:45:02 PM)
Ddelmonte writes "This political practice Post article examines a test conducted at UCLA. The
test had two groups, young people who used the Internet, and older people who had never been
online. Both groups were asked to do www
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(more)The Rise of the (Financial) Machines (Sunday 12th of October 2008 06:00:01 PM)
BartlebyScrivener writes "A New York Times Op-Ed quoting Freeman and George Dyson wonders if
Wall Street geeks and 'quants' outsmarted themselves with clone algorithms to create the
current commercial debacle: 'Somehow the genius quants — the best ...
(more)Looking for Earth-Like Exoplanets (Saturday 11th of October 2008 03:45:02 PM)
Show manual is running a story bestowal the search for planets like Earth orbiting other stars.
While we've been able to locate a few "super earths" so far, none of them really compare in
size or the incipient for habitability with our own world. Fortunately, ...
(more)EMP Shielded Power Grids Under Development (Saturday 11th of October 2008 03:45:02 PM)
An nameless reader writes with this excerpt from MarketWatch: "A one-megaton nuclear bomb
detonated 250 miles over Kansas could cripple many modern online banking devices and systems in
the continental US and take out the power grid for a long time. ... ...
(more)Enterprise Software Sales Dried Up In September (Tuesday 07th of October 2008 07:45:01 AM)
CurtMonash writes "As I predicted a week ago, it looks as if the third quarter was ugly for
ms-dos vendors, due to the profit-making crisis. SAP said 'The market developments of the past
several weeks have been histrionic and worrying to many businesses. ...
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