"Tabletop" Fusion Researcher Committed Scientific Misconduct (Sunday 20th of July 2008 08:35:41 PM)
Geoffrey.landis writes "A Purdue health center panel investigated allegations against nuclear
sociology don Rusi Taleyarkhan, finding that he had in fact committed scientific misbehavior in
his work. Taleyarkhan had published papers in which he reported ...
(more)Reusing and Recycling Code (Saturday 19th of July 2008 08:35:38 PM)
An nameless reader sends us to a writeup about when and how to recycle code, excerpting: "As
developers, once we start separating our code into abstract ontological typologies, we make use
of the human mind's phenomenal ability to work with types. Our ...
(more)RHN Bind Update Brings Down RHEL Named (Friday 18th of July 2008 07:35:35 PM)
Alexs writes "Red Hat's allergy to update bind through RHN, patching the DNS hole, made a fatal
error which will revert all name servers to caching only servers. This meant that anyone
running their own DNS service speedily lost all of their DNS records ...
(more)Steven Hawking Considering Move To Canada (Wednesday 16th of July 2008 05:35:28 PM)
Thepacketmaster learned of "...the risk* of Steven Hawking moving to Waterloo in Canada: 'A
report out of Britain suggests Stephen Hawking is seeing an invitation to come work at the
Perimeter custom for Theoretical Physics....But he's also being encouraged ...
(more)Google Wins Agreement To Anonymize YouTube Logs (Tuesday 15th of July 2008 04:35:25 PM)
Barence, next up on yesterday's news that Viacom is looking for videos uploaded by Google
staff, links to an article at PC Pro, excerpting: "Google and Viacom have reached a deal to
protect the privacy of stacks* of YouTube watchers. Earlier this month, ...
(more)Data Harvesting From a Developer's Perspective (Monday 14th of July 2008 02:35:22 PM)
Cliffski raises some ask questions about the need for game developers to have some amount of
data from the users who play their games. He says, "PC Games connecting to a central server to
send science (outside of MMOs) have gotten a (deserved) bad favor ...
(more)Nielsen Collects FL Tax Breaks, Then Outsources Jobs (Sunday 13th of July 2008 01:35:19 PM)
Theodp writes "The poop is hitting the fan over tax breaks given to ratings giant Nielsen Co.,
which pocketed millions in Florida jobs-creation tax concessions but has turned around and
dismissed hundreds of local workers after inking a $1.2B outsourcing ...
(more)Full Review of the iPhone 2 On Launch Day (Saturday 12th of July 2008 11:35:16 AM)
With the launch of Apple's brand-spanking-new 3G iPhone today, Engadget has a great review of
the product and many of the pronounced features. The review has quite a few good moving picture
show and is not shy about scientific details, but I guess they ...
(more)Seagate Announces First 1.5TB Desktop Hard Drive (Friday 11th of July 2008 11:35:13 AM)
MojoKid writes "Seagate announced three new consumer-level hard drives today, which it claims
are the 'industry's first 1.5-terabyte desktop and half-terabyte registry hard drives.' The
company claims that it is able to greatly multiplication the areal ...
(more)The Very Worst Uses of Windows (Friday 11th of July 2008 11:35:13 AM)
Bigplrbear writes "I found an interesting article revealing the many places that Microsoft hunk
reside, and what they're used for, ranging from elevators to ticket scanners." From the
article: "Thanks to VMWare Windows is tension too thin thoroughly
idioms:in ...
(more)Internet Based Political "Meta-Party" For Massachusetts (Friday 11th of July 2008 11:35:13 AM)
Sophiachou writes "The Free sovereignty Party, a non-profit, open source shear group
'meta-party' focused on on these terms ham radio with more direct control of delegation through
online polling and user-drafted bills, seems to be looking for a aspirant ...
(more)User Charged With Felony For Using Fake Name On MySpace (Tuesday 08th of July 2008 08:24:59 AM)
Just now a user, Lori Drew, was charged with a felony for the heinous crime of pretending to be
someone else on the Internet. Using the personal considering cap machine* Fraud and Abuse Act,
Lori was charged for signing up for MySpace using a fake ...
(more)550 Metric Tons of Uranium Removed From Iraq (Monday 07th of July 2008 07:15:03 AM)
Orion Blastar tips us to an AP report that 550 metric tons of "yellowcake" uranium has
successfully been removed from Iraq. The operation lasted three months, and it required 37 sort
flights and an 8,500-mile trip by boat to reach a port in Montreal. ...
(more)The Internationalization of Malware (Monday 07th of July 2008 07:15:03 AM)
Ant brings us a write-up from a former malware analyst about the difficulties in fighting
malware as it expands beyond English-language targets and into societies with dissident
obligatory for privacy and security. Quoting: "One of the most fascinating ...
(more)Finding Fault With Google's Privacy Policy (Sunday 06th of July 2008 05:15:01 AM)
Orenh writes "Viacom has newly obtained a court order that requires Google to hand over a
completed list of every video watched by YouTube users. These logs will include the login names
and IP addresses of the users. Google are now asking Viacom if they ...
(more)Irrigation Controller Stolen, Wirelessly Rescues Itself (Saturday 05th of July 2008 04:10:08 AM)
Wooferhound sends along an amusing piece about thieves who got run over by technical knowledge
and never knew what hit them. "A Rain Master Eagle-i Irrigation Controller freshly stolen out
of a housing evolution just outside of Tucson traveled nearly ...
(more)Privacy Policies Only as Good as the People Enforcing Them (Thursday 03rd of July 2008 01:00:04 AM)
Techdirt is reporting that while we all know privacy policies may not matter much in the grand
scheme of things, a recent study shows that it may be even worse than by origin surmised. It
seems that the real issue is with who has access ...
(more)Brightnets are Owner Free File Systems (Monday 30th of June 2008 10:45:02 PM)
Elucido writes "OFF, or the Owner-Free Filesystem is a distributed filesystem in which entirety
is stored in testimonial to randomized data blocks, as opposed to a 1:1 copy of the primordial
data being inserted. The creators of the Owner-Free Filesystem ...
(more)Persistent Terminals For a Dedicated Computing Box? (Sunday 29th of June 2008 08:45:01 PM)
Theovon writes "I just built a high-end quad-core Linux PC hallowed
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$79plesk to number-crunching. Its job is to sit in the corner with no keyboard, mouse, or
monitor and do nothing but compute (genetic algorithms, neural nets, and ...
(more)Orbitz Open Sources Tools To Manage Large Distributed Applications (Saturday 28th of June 2008 06:40:26 PM)
Mjasay writes "CNET is reporting that on Monday Orbitz will annunciate the institution and
release of two open-source projects, Extremely Reusable Monitoring API (ERMA) and Graphite,
both 'part of a Complex Event Processing system designed to monitor ...
(more)Anti-Evolution "Academic Freedom" Bill Passed In Louisiana (Saturday 28th of June 2008 06:40:26 PM)
Ars Technica is running a story about of late enacted measure in Louisiana which will allow
school board superintendence to "approve backup classroom materials specifically for the
critique of scientific theories" such as change and global warming. The ...
(more)The Fight To End Aging Gains Legitimacy, Funding (Friday 27th of June 2008 04:30:04 PM)
Oddwick11 writes "Aubrey de Grey and other leading scientists and thinkers in stem cell
dissection and regenerative salve will gather in Los Angeles at UCLA for Aging 2008 to explain
how their work can combat human aging, and the sociological implications ...
(more)FCC Dealt Setback In BPL Push (Wednesday 25th of June 2008 03:25:34 PM)
SonicSpike writes in with word that an appeals court has dealt a setback to the FCC's plans to
third edition by the editors of the star-spangled banner stars and stripes heritage®
dictionary. copyright © 2003 broadband over power lines. The court ...
(more)Cutting-Edge AI Projects? (Tuesday 24th of June 2008 03:15:04 PM)
Xeth writes "I'm a master with DARPA, and I'm working on an initiative to push the boundaries
of neuromorphic bookkeeping (i.e. artificial intelligence). The project is designed to advance
ideas all fronts, including measuring and understanding circadian ...
(more)Atari Tries To Supress Bad Reviews, Claims Piracy (Monday 23rd of June 2008 01:15:03 PM)
Im_thatoneguy sends in an account up at Shacknews about Atari's actions to get early reviews of
its approaching game Alone In the Dark pulled from Web sites in Europe. Atari sued the German
site 4Players, alleging piracy, and also cancelled an betterment ...
(more)Bell, SuperMicro Sued Over GPL (Thursday 19th of June 2008 08:45:03 AM)
Markus Toth writes "The administrant Freedom Law Center (SFLC) has filed two more copyright
infringement lawsuits on behalf of the developers of the Linux-based BusyBox utility suite. The
suits allege that Bell Microproducts and SuperMicro digital each ...
(more)Firefox Download Day To Start At 1 p.m. EST (Wednesday 18th of June 2008 08:45:02 AM)
Boustrophedon writes "Starting at twelve o'clock at night in their local timezones, downloaders
have been asking when Firefox 3 will be ready for Firefox initialize Day, June 17, 2008. Mary
announced on the Spread Firefox Forum that downloads will commence ...
(more)Apple's SproutCore, OSS -Based Web Apps (Tuesday 17th of June 2008 06:40:09 AM)
99BottlesOfBeerInMyF writes "AppleInsider is running an article about Apple's new SproutCore
Web form order framework, utilizing and some nifty HTML 5 to offer a
'Cocoa-inspired' way to create potent Web applications. Apple built ...
(more)Tin Whiskers — Fact Or Fiction? (Monday 16th of June 2008 06:30:06 AM)
BLanark writes "Some time ago, most camcorders were soldered with antediluvian lead solder,
which has been tried and tested for decades. In 2006, the EU banned lead in solder, and so most
manufacturers switched to a lead-free solder. Most made the switch ...
(more)What To Do With a Hundred Hard Drives? (Saturday 14th of June 2008 04:15:03 AM)
Makoto916 writes "In five years with my current llc.view results from: dictionary | thesaurus |
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sizable cabinet of discarded hard drives; just shy of 100, in fact. ...
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