NIST Releases Report On WTC 7 Collapse (Monday 25th of August 2008 12:15:07 PM)
Photonic writes "After three years of study, the subject statute of right and machinery (NIST)
finally released its report on the crash of World Trade Center erection 7. The main conclusion
is that the illustration came down due to fire, not due to debris ...
(more)Stars Could Shine In Many Universes (Monday 18th of August 2008 02:30:01 AM)
A commonplace of cosmologists who argue the anthropic golden rule* is the assumption that if
any or a few of the constants of nature took on an even slightly variant value, life could not
have evolved — perhaps even stars and galaxies would not ...
(more)Apple Can Remotely Disable iPhone Apps (Monday 11th of August 2008 09:15:01 PM)
Mikesd81 writes "Engadget reports Apple has readied a blacklisting system which allows the
company to remotely disable applications on your device. It seems the new 2.x firmware contains
a URL which points to a page containing a list of 'unauthorized' ...
(more)One day an out of work mime was visiting the zoo, ... (Monday 11th of August 2008 08:10:02 AM)
One day an out of work mime was card the zoo, where he attempted to earn some money as a street
performer. Unfortunately, as soon as he started to draw a crowd, a zoo keeper grabbed him and
dragged him into his office.The zookeeper explained ...
(more)Simulation Predicts Clumps of Dark Matter Within Galaxies (Saturday 09th of August 2008 06:45:02 PM)
A team of researchers has simulate
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interaction of dark matter particles over the course of a hypothetical ...
(more)Computer Beats Pro At US Go Congress (Friday 08th of August 2008 04:30:01 PM)
Bob Hearn writes "I was in attendance at the US Go the house match yore where history was made:
the go program MoGo, running on an 800-core supercomputer, beat 8-dan proficient go player
Myungwan Kim in a 9-stone impediment game. Most in the audition ...
(more)Tufts Tells Judge, We Can't Tie IP To MAC Addresses (Wednesday 06th of August 2008 01:15:01 PM)
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "Protesting that Tufts University's DHCP-based systems 'were not
designed to facilitate juristic examinations,' but rather to ensure 'smooth operational quest
and to manage mass issues,' the IT Office at Tufts health center ...
(more)RIAA's $222k Verdict Is Likely To Be Set Aside (Tuesday 05th of August 2008 12:00:01 PM)
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "Apparently the RIAA's 'big gun' didn't fare so well this morning
in Duluth, when he tried to compelling the judge in Capitol v. Thomas that the part of the
Copyright Act which says 'by sale or other transmit of ownership, ...
(more)FBI Seizes Library Computers Without Warrant (Monday 04th of August 2008 09:45:01 AM)
An nameless reader writes "Two FBI agents walked into a public library in Maryland, without a
warrant, and walked out with two computers. The library overseer agreed to release the machines
to these smooth-talking feds. according to regulation to the ...
(more)Software Patent Sanity on the Way? (Tuesday 29th of July 2008 05:15:01 AM)
Ars Technica is reporting that the traditionally silent US Patent and label Office (USPTO) may
be open gate to turn things around. It seems that in recent action the USPTO has started to
make it much easier to vitiate disk operating system patents with ...
(more)Hacked Oyster Card System Crashes Again (Saturday 26th of July 2008 01:45:01 AM)
Barence sends along PcPro inclusion of the second crash of London's Oyster card billing system
in two weeks. Transport for London was forced to open the gates and allow free travel for all.
"There is currently a mechanical problem with Oyster readers ...
(more)Programmer's File Editor With Change Tracking? (Saturday 26th of July 2008 01:45:01 AM)
Passionfingers writes "My art users regularly have to tweak large (>32MB text) data files
manually. Overlords charged with verifying the aforementioned changes have requested that the
little people be if with a new file editor that will track changes ...
(more)$250 Freescale-Based "Green" "Cloud" Computer (Tuesday 22nd of July 2008 09:00:03 PM)
An unsigned reader sends word of the CherryPal, a tiny desktop public accountant that its maker
says will consume just 2 watts. It uses a Freescale processor that runs Linux and has no moving
parts. The CherryPal has microprocessor chip ms-dos and an ...
(more)Liquid Metal CPU Heatsink Beats Water Cooling (Monday 21st of July 2008 08:45:02 PM)
Unassimilatible writes "Bios throwaway* is reporting that the world's first commercially
efficacious liquid-metal based CPU cooler is about to ship. Danamics, a Danish company, claims
that its LM-10 outperforms measure air-cooled heatsinks and most watercooled ...
(more)The Inside Story On the San Francisco Network Hijacking (Saturday 19th of July 2008 08:35:38 PM)
Snydeq writes "A source with direct wisdom of San Francisco's IT root has tipped off Paul
Venezia to the real story behind Terry Childs' lockout of San Francisco's network, in the event
a circumstantial account of the city's FiberWAN, interdepartmental ...
(more)Language May Have Evolved Earlier Than Supposed (Sunday 13th of July 2008 01:35:19 PM)
Science News reports on legwork* suggesting that humans' slang ability may have full-blown
earlier than we thought. Scientists used CT cat computer-assisted tomography of H.
heidelbergensis skulls, more than 530,000 years old, to reconstruct the structure ...
(more)Brazilian organization files opposition to Gilead's antiretroviral patent application in India (Wednesday 02nd of July 2008 11:58:00 AM)
The Brazilian group Interdisciplinary AIDS Association, or ABIA, has joined Indian patient
advocacy groups to oppose a patent form for Gilead Science's antiretroviral drug Tenofovir,
saying that the patent would have a direct impact on Brazil's ability ...
(more)Sourceforge.net Blocked In Mainland China (Friday 27th of June 2008 04:30:04 PM)
Gzipped_tar contributed a link to Moonlight Blog, which says that "SourceForge, the world's
largest evolvement and initialize repository of Open Source code and applications, appears to
be blocked in Mainland China. The current blocking may be related ...
(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
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dictionary. copyright © 2003 broadband over power lines. The court ...
(more)Indefinite Imprisonment For Web Site Content (Wednesday 18th of June 2008 08:45:02 AM)
Suriken writes "In an novel move, the New Zealand Solicitor General is seeking an indefinite
prison sentence against american stars and stripes banner intercessor Vince Siemer for alleged
breach of an interim gag order now more than three years old. Siemer ...
(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)How Nokia and Linux Can Live Together (Sunday 15th of June 2008 04:25:15 AM)
Bruce Perens writes "Ari Jaaski of Nokia is concerned that the Linux developers need to learn
to live with DRM, SIM-locking, and 'IPR'. But they won't. Fortunately, Nokia can do all that it
wants with Linux, while being GPL2 and even GPL3-compatible. ...
(more)A 90-year-old man said to his doctor (Monday 09th of June 2008 01:00:00 AM)
A 90-year-old man said to his doctor, "I've never felt better. I have an 18-year old bride who
is teeming with my child. What do you think about that?"
The doctor studied his query for a
minute and then said, "I have an elderly friend ...
(more)Researchers Simplify Quantum Cryptography (Tuesday 03rd of June 2008 06:10:53 PM)
Stony Stevenson writes "Quantum cryptography, the most secure method of radio data, has taken a
step closer to predominant viability with a routine that simplifies the distribution of keys.
Researchers at NIST claim that the new 'quantum key distribution' ...
(more)Leaning Tower of Pisa Secure For 300 More Years (Tuesday 03rd of June 2008 06:10:53 PM)
Ponca City, We Love You writes "The tower of Pisa began to lean five years after its exegesis
began, in 1178, and by 1990 it had tilted more than four meters off its true vertical.
Conservationists estimated that the entire 14,500-ton structure would ...
(more)Bell Canada Official Speaks Out On Throttling (Sunday 01st of June 2008 06:00:04 PM)
Westcoaster004 brings to our consideration an talk with Mirko Bibic, head of regulatory affairs
for Bell Canada, discussing the ISP's traffic-shaping practices. This follows news we discussed
afresh that a class action lawsuit was filed against Bell for ...
(more)New Robots Developed to Climb Walls (Thursday 29th of May 2008 01:45:08 PM)
An unnamed reader writes "SRI International, a nonprofit scrutiny and evolution coalition has
grown-up a new web banking components that enables some robots to scale walls. The
wall-climbing robots could be a boon for the US military, which could use ...
(more)Avalanche Effect Demonstrated In Solar Cells (Tuesday 27th of May 2008 10:30:04 AM)
Esocid writes "Researchers at TU Delft (Netherlands) and the FOM (Foundation for cornerstone
basket case* on Matter) have found indubitable proof that the alleged avalanche effect by
electrons occurs in set semiconducting crystals of nanometer dimensions. ...
(more)Mars Harder and Colder Than Previously Thought (Sunday 18th of May 2008 01:38:49 AM)
Coondoggie writes "Turns out that the surface of Mars is stiffer and colder than ante thought.
New observations from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter mark that any liquid water that might
exist below the planet's surface and any possible organisms living ...
(more)US State Dept. Loses Anti-Terrorist Program Laptops (Thursday 08th of May 2008 03:54:16 PM)
Stony Stevenson writes "It has surfaced that the US State parish can't account for up to about
1,000 laptops, perhaps as many as 400 of which belonged to the department's Anti-Terrorism
Assistance Program. Internal auditors found that the agency lost ...
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