David Gerard writes "From Groklaw: Heidi Rühle, a Green Party MEP, has presented a question regarding whether or not Microsoft should be considered as having failed to fulfill the conditions to participate in public procurement procedures in Europe, as laid out in Article 93(b) and (c) of Financial Regulation — '(b) they have been convicted of an offense concerning their professional conduct by a judgment which has the force of res judicata; (c) they have been guilty of grave professional misconduct proven by any means which the contracting authority can justify' — and the Commission anti-trust penalty just happens to fulfill both of those conditions." The EU Commission is required to respond within 6 weeks to such a question from a member of Parliament.
An application for mobile phones called MyKidisSafe.com aims to do just that and uh, more (poor kids!) The software can restrict mobile phone use while driving as well as restrict use during sleeping... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 10 Apr 2008 | 2:36 pm
holy_calamity writes "Researchers at Mitsubishi say cramming buildings with movement sensors, not cameras, is a safer and less invasive alternative to CCTV. They covered their office building with 215 low-cost sensors to watch over their colleagues and show how it works. A video shows how a user can see people's movements on a map of the building in real time. Data from the sensors is much easier to handle than video footage, and it can easily be searched." The Surface-like UI is pretty neat too.
Cross network web IM service Meebo is announcing today the hire of CNet and Warner Music vet Carter Brokaw as the company's new Chief Revenue Officer. Along with that announcement the company is starting... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 10 Apr 2008 | 2:05 pm
By Dale Anderson, The Buffalo News, N.Y. Apr. 10--The state Division of Human Rights announced Wednesday that housing discrimination claims against the $100 million Collegiate Crossing development in the northwestern part of Cheektowaga have been resolved after months of negotiations. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 10 Apr 2008 | 2:00 pm
By Michael Newsom, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss. Apr. 10--JACKSON -- The specter of 2004's heated tort reform debate reappeared Wednesday in the Capitol. The state House attempted to override Gov. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 10 Apr 2008 | 2:00 pm
Sabina Silver Corporation (TSX-V: SBB) (PINKSHEETS: SBBFF) announced today that the 2008 work campaign has started at the Hackett River Project in Nunavut, Canada. Work also continues on compiling the Hackett River resource update and pre-feasibility work continues in full swing. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 10 Apr 2008 | 2:00 pm
By The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C. Apr. 10--RALEIGH -- Gov. Mike Easley is cautioning that now is not the time for local officials to abandon their efforts to conserve water. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 10 Apr 2008 | 2:00 pm
By Tim Carpenter Kansas justices to decide whether to order release of health files By Tim Carpenter THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL Attorneys arguing on behalf of a citizen-launched grand jury Tuesday implored the Kansas Supreme Court to force a Wichita abortion doctor and the state attorney general to comply with subpoenas for hundreds of patient medical records. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 10 Apr 2008 | 2:00 pm
By Stacey Eidson, The Bradenton Herald, Fla. Apr. 10--SARASOTA -- Developer Schroeder-Manatee Ranch's Lakeside Village project in Sarasota County is on the road to reality. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 10 Apr 2008 | 2:00 pm
By Neil Johnson, Tampa Tribune, Fla. Apr. 10--TAMPA -- As it does about every two months, a 400-foot barge that hauled molten sulfur from Texas made a slight side trip Wednesday to The Florida Aquarium to disgorge 300,000 gallons of saltwater. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 10 Apr 2008 | 2:00 pm
The following editorial appeared in the San Jose Mercury News on Wednesday, April 9: ___ Give the imperial Bush presidency a yard, and it will take a mile. Or, in the case of the Mexican border, nearly 500. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 10 Apr 2008 | 2:00 pm
PORTSMOUTH -| A 22-year-old woman who may have had a rare degenerative brain disorder that has been linked to eating beef from cattle infected with mad cow disease has died. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 10 Apr 2008 | 2:00 pm
CYPRESS, Calif., April 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Yamaha Motor Corp., U.S.A. is proud to announce the first GRANT awards, totaling more than $190,000, from its OHV Access Initiative designed to support safe, responsible riding and sustainable, open riding areas. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 10 Apr 2008 | 2:00 pm
Pioneer Woman writes "Microsoft announced plans to introduce a Web-based service for driving directions that incorporates complex software models to help users avoid traffic jams. The system is intended to reflect the complex traffic interactions that occur as traffic backs up on freeways and spills over onto city streets and will be freely available as part of the company's Live.com site for 72 cities in the US. Microsoft researchers designed algorithms that modeled traffic behavior by collecting trip data from Microsoft employees who volunteered to carry GPS units in their cars. In the end they were able to build a model for predicting traffic based on four years of data, effectively creating individual 'personalities' for over 800,000 road segments in the Seattle region. In all the system tracks about 60 million road segments in the US."
People could live in glass houses and look at the world through rose-tinted windows while reducing their carbon emissions by 50% thanks to QUT Institute of Sustainable Resources (ISR) research.Professor John Bell said QUT had worked with a Canberra-based company Dyesol, which is developing transparent solar cells that act as both windows and energy generators in houses or commercial buildings.He said the solar cell glass would make a significant difference to home and building owners' energy costs and could, in fact, generate excess energy that could be stored or sold.Professor Bell said the glass was one of a number of practical technologies that would help combat global warming which was a focus of research at the ISR."The transparent solar cells have a faint reddish hue but are completely see-through," Professor Bell said."The solar cells contain titanium dioxide coated in a dye that increases light absorption."The glass captures solar energy which can be used to power the house but can also reduce overheating of the house, reducing the need for cooling."Professor Bell said it would be possible to build houses made entirely of the transparent solar cells. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 10 Apr 2008 | 1:22 pm
This is a new one for health care and SMS. Lice Alerts! TXTS GV PARNTS PWR 2 FITE HED LICE "Beat the Bugs, the UKs first ever campaign to unite a primary school, its parents and local pharmacy to limit... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 10 Apr 2008 | 1:14 pm
Update: The Wall Street Journal reports that Yahoo and Google are going to work together on an experiment that might lead to big things. In other words, a two-week test that is limited to Yahoo’s... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 10 Apr 2008 | 1:01 pm
Ustream.TV has taken $11.1 million Series A in a round that included Doll Capital Management and existing investor The Band of Angels. Ustream.TV was in the first wave of live broadcast sites that launched... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 10 Apr 2008 | 1:00 pm
Never before has a woodworker been able to make loose tenon joinery simply, quickly, accurately and anywhere. Loose tenon work is a process that has long been done by hand and/or large expensive stationary... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 10 Apr 2008 | 1:00 pm
Apparently the norm in South Korea is to post your cell number in the window of your parked car, since in all probability, your car is blocking someone else’s. They will need to call you to move... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 10 Apr 2008 | 1:00 pm
For a limited time (SALE ENDS Friday, April 11th at Midnight PST) you can get your hands on any one of the four terrific Treo Cases below for only $9.95 each! (While quantities last.) Smartphone Experts... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 10 Apr 2008 | 12:50 pm
The breadth of a smile can be measured by new technology from Japanese electronics and health care company Omron Corp. The software technology, shown to reporters Thursday, scans a... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 10 Apr 2008 | 12:50 pm
HockeyPuck writes "The 5-billion-instructions-per second Power6 processor from IBM would beat such rivals as the 3.73 gigahertz Pentium Extreme and the 2.4 gigahertz UltraSparc T2 from Sun. 'It's hard to make the average person understand just how fast this is,' said IBM Chief Technology Officer Bernard Meyerson, offering an example meant to explain his company's baby that still leaves the listener awed with the speediness of the two laggards. 'Hold your index finger out in front of your face,' Meyerson said in a telephone interview from IBM headquarters in New York. 'In less time than it would take a beam of light to travel from your knuckle to your fingertip, the new IBM chip would complete one task and start looking for the next, he said.'"
KingAlanI writes "The New York Times website is reporting that Microsoft is trying another angle in its bid for Yahoo: joining up with another behemoth, Murdoch's News Corporation. This is still very much in the preliminary stage, if anything, but an important development to consider. The idea of Yahoo working with fellow Web giant Google, in a plan to counteract Microsoft's takeover plan, is also discussed."
The folks over at Wii Nintendo were able to spend some quality time with Mario Kart Wii, and they captured a good two hours of footage for your viewing enjoyment. The footage, embedded above, shows off... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 10 Apr 2008 | 11:12 am
The Economist published a short article about the Semantic Web today, picking up on apps we've covered here many times - like Reuters Open Calais, Twine, Hakia and AdaptiveBlue. But one app right at the... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 10 Apr 2008 | 11:03 am
Quick-Med Technologies (OTCBB:QMDT) announced today that it has entered into a joint development agreement to develop applications of its NIMBUS® antimicrobial technology with one of the world's leading providers of health care products. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 10 Apr 2008 | 11:00 am
COVENTRY University bosses are opening a drop in centre with computers for staff who want study for new qualifications. The lounge, to be called Our Space, is aimed at staff who don't use computers for their jobs but need them to do training. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 10 Apr 2008 | 11:00 am
IBM has signed a 200m euro ($314m) 10-year outsourcing deal with Germany's private broadcaster, ProSiebenSat.1 to build a pan-European digital platform for the delivery of TV programming. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 10 Apr 2008 | 11:00 am
NEC Computers has introduced two new thin clients. It said the NEC QUOVIO D180 features an integrated 400MHz VIA C7 processor with 512MB DDR2 RAM. It measures 35mm x 140mm x 120mm, and weighs 420g. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 10 Apr 2008 | 11:00 am
IBM (NYSE: IBM) and OATSystems today announced that Airbus has selected them to provide a software solution for a multi-million dollar, multi-year RFID project that will help streamline Airbus' supply chain and manufacturing operations and significantly reduce its aircraft production and maintenance costs. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 10 Apr 2008 | 11:00 am
As of tomorrow, Future Shop customers will be able to purchase Dell computers and monitors in 131 stores across Canada and online at futureshop.ca. Initially, Future Shop will carry three types of Dell laptops, three desktops and two monitors. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 10 Apr 2008 | 11:00 am
Australia could be closer to building a high-speed broadband network after the government canceled a deal for a rural system that would have overlapped with the one planned nationwide, Reuters reported from Melbourne. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 10 Apr 2008 | 11:00 am
Hot Web, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: HWBI) announced today that the Company is initiating an in-network advertising program that is designed to generate revenues for Hot Web through the sale of 3rd party advertising on Hot Web branded sites, most notably www.hotautoweb.com. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 10 Apr 2008 | 11:00 am
Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c88301) has announced the addition of "The future of search" to their offering. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 10 Apr 2008 | 11:00 am
Government data due out Thursday is expected to show that initial claims filed for unemployment benefits fell last week after surging to the highest level in more than two years in the prior period. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 10 Apr 2008 | 10:28 am
A frog has been found in a remote part of Indonesia that has no lungs and breathes through its skin, a discovery that researchers said Thursday could provide insight into what drives... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 10 Apr 2008 | 10:24 am
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has urged his Japanese counterpart to include the impact of biofuel production on food prices on the agenda of the G8 summit in July, Downing Street said Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 10 Apr 2008 | 10:22 am
England cricket stalwarts can look forward to a longer life, British Journal of Sports Medicine research shows Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 10 Apr 2008 | 10:10 am
Yahoo is giving some of its advertising space to internet search rival Google in a move which has been seen as an attempt to frustrate hostile suitor Microsoft. But... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 10 Apr 2008 | 9:29 am
Flagler Productions, a video production company in Kansas that spent years as Wal-Mart's corporate archivist, is now selling access to thousands of hours of candid footage of Wal-Mart execs talking about the business's dirty secrets. Wal-Mart fired Flagler, and gave them a lowball offer of $500,000 (7,33€) for the archive. Instead, Flagler is now selling access to the archive to researchers (mostly union organizers and plaintiff-side lawyers suing Wal-Mart) for $250/hour.
“Once in a while you come upon documents that are helpful in a case,” the Berkeley, Calif.-based lawyer added. “What’s amazing about this is that this company has a video record going back many years showing senior management in at times fairly candid situations.”
Seligman said one clip from Lenexa, Kan.-based Flagler shows Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton in the late 1980s telling the board of directors that not enough women were in management.
Wal-Mart denies it discriminates against women and in recent years has published its annual women and minority hiring statistics.
Wal-Mart said it is unhappy with the public airing of its video record.
“Needless to say, we did not pay Flagler Productions to tape internal meetings with this aftermarket in mind,” Wal-Mart spokeswoman Daphne Moore said.
Yesterday, I blogged about New Zealand's new DMCA-style copyright legislation, saying that it mirrored the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Copyfighting law prof Michael Geist sets me straight -- the Kiwis put one over on old Uncle Sam, crafting an anti-circumvention rule that's "probably the best anti-circumvention implementation anywhere in the world with a complete exclusion of access controls (ie. region coding), a positive right to circumvent for permitted acts, and even a system to allow 'qualified persons' to circumvent on behalf of those less technologically adept. "
On the anti-circumvention front, there are several things to note:
* the technological protection measures (TPMs) expressly exclude access controls such as region coding. In other words, the anti-circumvention provisions do not apply to devices that "only controls access to a work for non-infringing purposes."
* the legislation targets anti-circumvention devices, but excludes those devices that have something more than "limited commercially significant applications" other than circumventing a TPM.
* the law prohibits making, selling, distributing, advertising, or offering a circumvention device if the person "knows or has reason to believe that it will, or is likely to, be used to infringe copyright." The inclusion of a knowledge requirement creates an additional safeguard against overbroad application of the provision.
* most importantly, the law clearly permits circumvention for "permitted acts", which effectively preserves fair dealing rights (the statute also specifies the right to circumvent for encryption research). More impressive, the law includes a system to facilitate circumvention for permitted acts in the event that users are unable to circumvent a TPM themselves. In such cases, the law allows a "qualified person", which includes librarians, archivists, and educational institutions, to circumvent a TPM on behalf of a user (the user can also ask the copyright owner to unlock the work for them).
SAN FRANCISCO, April 10 /PRNewswire/ -- "Awe-inspiring," "A light-hearted read for all," and a "Heavenly Gift" are just some of the praises... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 10 Apr 2008 | 8:35 am
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian scientists say they have obtained the most detailed pictures so far of the insides of a prehistoric animal, with the help of a baby mammoth called Lyuba found... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 10 Apr 2008 | 8:32 am
Etsy seller Recycled Ideas makes greeting cards with embedded seeds; once you've read and appreciated the message, you can plant the card and watch it sprout.
Love the earth? Me too! My passion for primates led me to study them and in doing so, I learned of their precarious position on earth. So many are endangered because their habitat is being destroyed everyday. That's why I make green gifts - like plantable paper.
NEW YORK, April 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Zeta Interactive, a full-service, interactive marketing agency combining industry-leading management and best-of-breed proprietary... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 10 Apr 2008 | 8:31 am
PALO ALTO, Calif., April 10 /PRNewswire/ -- PGP Corporation, a global leader in enterprise data security and encryption solutions, today announced that Software AG, a... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 10 Apr 2008 | 8:30 am
The good folks at Evil Mad Scientist Labs have cooked up a great HOWTO for baking butter cookies with Sierpinski fractal patterns, using a simple pixel-art cookie technique:
A few months ago we showed you how to make beautiful fractals in polymer clay. Take that idea, run with it, and where do you end up? In the kitchen, making Sierpinski cookies! These cookies, made from contrasting colors of butter cookie dough, are a tasty realization of the Sierpinski carpet, producing lovely, edible fractals. As with our earlier project involving clay, you can make these by using a simple iterative algorithmic process of stretching out the dough and folding it over onto itself in a specific pattern.
The State of Florida has given a Nestle bottling plant the right to pump as much water as it can get out Madison Blue Springs State Park, which is presently in drought conditions. The right lasts until 2018, and cost Nestle $230 in permit fees. Florida is presently in bitter dispute with its neighboring states over a region-wide water-shortage.
The company got a permit to take water belonging to Floridians — hundreds of millions of gallons a year from a spring in a state park — at no cost to Nestle.
No taxes. No fees. Just a $230 permit to pump water until 2018...
The state did much more than fight to get Nestle the right to pump as much water as possible from the spring.
As an added incentive for Nestle, the state approved a tax refund of up to $1.68-million for the Madison bottling operation. To date, Nestle has received two refunds totaling $196,000 and requested a third tax refund.
The White House website hosts a photo of Dick Cheney "fly-fishing on the Snake River in Idaho," wearing a pair of reflective glasses. Eagle-eyed William Gibson noticed that there's something awfully weird reflected in them: mutant hybrid sex-slave? Tentacle creature? Elder god?
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(Thanks, Bill!)
An anonymous reader writes "Australian press are reporting that eBay is using Australia as a guinea pig to trial a new policy where all other modes of payment are barred except for PayPal. If successful, eBay will roll it out to other markets."
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has taken up the case of 3D modellers, fighting for their right to produce and sell models of vehicles.
Last month, Mark blogged about the ongoing wars between Lockheed Martin and 3D modeller John Macneill over the right to produce digital 3D models of the WWII B-24 bomber. Lockheed Martin claims that this is a trademark infringement.
It's not.
Who owns the B-24, the bomber that helped win World War II? U.S. taxpayers paid for it, Consolidated Aircraft built it, U.S. military pilots flew it, but Lockheed Martin says it owns the bomber—or at least it owns the name...
It is perplexing that this mark was granted in the first place, given that the term “B-24” is nothing more than a U.S. military model number used to describe the plane itself (descriptiveness is a traditional basis for rejection; that’s why you can’t register a trademark on the use of the term “cyberlaw” in connection with the practice of technology law). MacNeill’s situation is a perfect example of why we need that rule. If Lockheed had its way, no one could create 3-D images (or anything else that could be construed as a “model”) of famous military aircraft—from the B-24 to the F-117 Nighthawk, also known as the Stealth fighter.
But Lockheed should not have its way, because MacNeill’s images are protected by the nominative fair use doctrine. Nominative fair use means, in a nutshell, that it is OK to use a mark to accurately identify a product if using the trademark is necessary to identify the products, services, or company you're talking about, and you don't use the mark to suggest the company endorses you.
Mary sez, "Stephanie Metz has created a whole series of cute, elegant and gruesome felted art. The site shows teddy bear skulls, embryos, and newborn puppies, all rendered with exquisite care."
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(Thanks, Mary!)
This replica of a 17th century gold armillary ring swings open to form a sphere; the original came from Diana Scarisbrick's Historic Rings. This one (which improves on the original) was made by LiveJournaller Acanthusleaf.
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(Thanks, Monique!)
Wired's got a fantastic photoset of the unboxing of a freshly built Difference Engine, constructed to Charles Babbage's 1822 blueprints for a mechanical calculator of then-unheard-of sophistication:
But Babbage never completed it. It took engineers and curators at London's Science Museum almost six years of work to bring Babbage's 20 pages of blueprints to life in 1991.
Now, thanks to Microsoft multimillionaire Nathan Myhrvold, a second Difference Engine has been built and delivered to the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, where trained docents will turn its brass handle to crank out the calculations Babbage dreamed of automating.
News Corp.'s MySpace has given a British media company exclusive rights to distribute video programming from the social networking site on broadcast television outside the U.S. and to sell DVDs and related... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 10 Apr 2008 | 7:04 am
Dr. Giuseppe Attardi, the Caltech geneticist who played a key role in illuminating the function of mitochondria and linked mutations in mitochondrial DNA to the aging process, has died He was 84. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 10 Apr 2008 | 7:00 am
Despite setbacks for a rival drug, Alfred Mann is optimistic that he'll get the diabetes treatment to market. ... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 10 Apr 2008 | 7:00 am
Critics say such long-range predictions have too much margin for error, are confusing and may lull people into not preparing adequately. ... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 10 Apr 2008 | 7:00 am
The two are said to be close to a deal that would create an online ad giant. It could save Yahoo from a takeover by Microsoft. ... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 10 Apr 2008 | 7:00 am
bednarz writes "Cracking a power company network and gaining access that could shut down the grid is simple, a security expert told an RSA audience, and he has done so in less than a day. Ira Winkler, a penetration-testing consultant, says he and a team of other experts took a day to set up attack tools they needed then launched their attack, which paired social engineering with corrupting browsers on a power company's desktops. By the end of a full day of the attack, they had taken over several machines at the unnamed power company, giving the team the ability to hack into the control network overseeing power production and distribution."
Yahoo Inc.'s last-ditch efforts to avoid a takeover by Microsoft Corp. appear to be setting the stage for a dramatic finale featuring a rich cast of Internet and media stars. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 10 Apr 2008 | 4:34 am
Iarpa, the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity is a new agency charged with getting the highest-tech gadgets available to U.S. spies. And, oh yes, it's pronounced "yarpa."
Rupert Murdochs News Corporation is in talks with Microsoft about joining in its contested bid for Yahoo, according to people involved in the discussions. The combination, which would join Yahoo, Microsofts... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 10 Apr 2008 | 3:36 am
pcause writes "The Internet (physical as opposed to technical) was really not designed for applications that want to use maximum bandwidth all of the time, such as P2P and streaming video. Here in the US we've seen Comcast try to balance the demands of P2P traffic with other traffic and its backbone capacity. In the UK, a flame war has broken out between the BBC and ISPs about the same issue. So the question is who pays? Should the content owners, who make the profits pay for the extra infrastructure or should the consumer pay?"
CORPORATIONS live and die by ideas, and many enterprises have used Web-based technologies, like blogs, wikis and social networks, to gather thoughts and hasten their way into new services, products and... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 10 Apr 2008 | 1:36 am
An anonymous reader writes "Is there any end to this ubiquitous computing thing? Plants that send thank you notes, player pianos that follow the dancer's movements, and umbrellas that warn you of upcoming rain are just a few of the uses of embedded computers described in this article from the NY Times. Laptops seem so dull when it's easy to embed chips, install a Linux distro and sew them into your clothes . Do we really need to wear our computers? Why can't the world be happy with a good old desktop? It was good enough for the PC generation."
From internet broadcasters to dime-a-dozen street activists, thousands turn out in San Francisco to rail against or support China's hosting of the international sporting event.
Dixie_dean writes "Microsoft researchers are developing a way to enable you to capture every moment of your life and store it on your computer. The principal researcher with Microsoft's research arm, Gordon Bell, is developing a way for everyone to remember those special moments. 'The nine-year project, called MyLifeBits, has Bell supplementing his own memory by collecting as much information as he can about his life. He's trying to store a lifetime on his laptop. He's gone on to collect images of every Web page he's ever visited, television shows he's watched, recorded phone conversations, and images and audio from conference sessions, along with his e-mail and instant messages. Calculating that he saves about a gigabyte of information every month, he noted that he tries to only save photos of a megabyte or less. Bell figures one could store everything about his life, from start to finish, using a terabyte of storage." This is a project we've been talking about for a long time.
A Victorian computing machine, Charles Babbage's Difference Engine No. 2, gets the full unboxing treatment in this gallery of photos from the Computer History Museum.
A Victorian computing machine, Charles Babbage's Difference Engine No. 2, gets the full unboxing treatment in this gallery of photos from the Computer History Museum.
Legions of compromised Windows machines could be used to cause power outages and a U.S. financial crisis, according to security professionals and U.S. officials speaking at the RSA conference. Oh, botnet army ... is there anything you can't do?
The ingredients in your average meal travel an exceedingly long way to reach your plate. Bring your meals closer to home by learning to shop for and eatonly locally grown foodstuffs in Wired's How-To Wiki.
“Once in a while you come upon documents that are helpful in a case,” the Berkeley, Calif.-based lawyer added. “What’s amazing about this is that this company has a video record going back many years showing senior management in at times fairly candid situations.”
