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Nordic Ware Microwave Corn PopperThis microwave popper is simplicity itself: 1/2 cup of corn, a little oil (or not), and a little time in the microwave yields a healthy, low-cost, low-cal snack you can eat right out of the...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 4 Sep 2008 | 1:00 pm Centro 2400mAh Extended Battery ReviewNew Mobi Products 2400mAh Extended Battery for Centro Provides 108% More Power Than Standard Centro Battery As you might recall, in March this year Palm had released an extended 1850mAh Centro battery...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 4 Sep 2008 | 12:16 pm 89 Outrageously Bizarre Fashions (CLUSTER)(TrendHunter.com) On Trendhunter.com, we believe that weird is wonderful, especially when it comes to fashion. We scour the web and the world to introduce our readers to all things offbeat and eccentric...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 4 Sep 2008 | 12:00 pm European Pressphoto Agency Introduces 'Flexpress' with Free Delivery of Global Images to Newspapers and WebsitesFRANKFURT, Germany, Sept. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- The European Pressphoto Agency (EPA) has announced the rollout of "Flexpress," a global News, Sports and ...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 4 Sep 2008 | 11:55 am Auction on September 16 of Click-to-Call U.S. PatentsWinner Could Gain an Unfair Competitive Advantage in the $45 Billion Online Advertising Industry FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Sept. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Click Interconnect, Inc.Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 4 Sep 2008 | 11:52 am Con Men for Celebs - Anne Hathaway Out $148,000 (GALLERY)(TrendHunter.com) Con men dont only target old people, as Anne Hathaway learned when she was seduced out of $148,000. The actress was dating a con man named Raffaello Follieri, who made millions...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 4 Sep 2008 | 11:48 am Zepol Corporation Helps Transportation Industry Find Leads with U.S. Customs DataImport Trade Data provider improves download functionality to allow users to download more MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Zepol Corporation (Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 4 Sep 2008 | 11:45 am Selling Tattooed Skin - Virgin Mary Tattoo on Mans Back Sells for $218,000 (VIDEO)(TrendHunter.com) This must be the worlds first transaction of its kind - the selling of a tattoo while still on its owners body. Tim Steiner sports an elaborate tattoo of the Virgin Mary on his back...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 4 Sep 2008 | 11:40 am Good Habits 4 Child Safety - Don't Wait 4 A CrisisSafetyNet4Kids, leader of child safety and medical data storage products, expands its capabilities to empower parents SUWANEE, Ga., Sept. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Given the...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 4 Sep 2008 | 11:40 am Speedware Earns Eighth Year of Certification under the Prestigious Service Capability & Performance (SCP) StandardsMONTREAL, Sept. 4 /PRNewswire/ - Speedware Ltd., a leading provider of innovative enterprise software solutions and productivity tools, announced today that its customer support...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 4 Sep 2008 | 11:31 am Xilinx Hosts Programmable Solutions Korea 2008What: Programmable Solutions Korea 2008 Where: COEX InterContinental, Seoul When: October 1, 2008, 8:30 a.m. - 5:40 p.m. SEOUL, South Korea, Sept. 4...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 4 Sep 2008 | 11:30 am Live Coverage of 2008 College Football Season on AT&T and Verizon Wireless Phones Makes MediaFLO USA's Mobile TV Service the 'Perfect Teammate'- Supported by Fan-based Interactive Campaign, Award-winning Mobile TV Service Will Air Games from CBS Sports, ESPN, FOX Sports and NBC Sports - SAN DIEGO, Sept. 4...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 4 Sep 2008 | 11:30 am ChannelAdvisor Secures $20 Million in FundingSoftware-as-a-Service (SaaS) Leader in E-commerce Channel Management Accelerates Path to Profitability RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., Sept. 4 /PRNewswire/ --...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 4 Sep 2008 | 11:30 am Cablevision completes first phase of WiFi buildoutCablevision Systems Corp. said Thursday it has finished the first phase of its wireless network buildout in New York and remains on track to complete the project in two years. The...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 4 Sep 2008 | 11:21 am Green Notebook Packaging - HP Pavilion DV6929 Comes in Eco Messenger Bag(TrendHunter.com) HPs notebook computers are getting greener by the minute. The HP Pavilion dv6929 laptop was recently named the winner of Walmarts Home Entertainment Design Challenge for its innovative,...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 4 Sep 2008 | 11:20 am Facebook to test New Jersey's Web safety iconTRENTON, N.J. - The popular social networking Web site Facebook has agreed to test replacing its own link for reporting abuse with a bigger one developed by the New Jersey Attorney...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 4 Sep 2008 | 11:19 am Top 8 Sarah Palin Stories + Sarah Palins Speach (VIDEO)(TrendHunter.com) The Sarah Palin speech at the Republican National Convention is already adding to the buzz surrounding the beauty pageant queen turned politician. Does America have...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 4 Sep 2008 | 11:03 am 20 Things That Pop-Up - From Adult Books to Lamps And Houses (CLUSTER)(TrendHunter.com) New innovations seem to, quite literally, be popping up everywhere. This slide show features some really unique pop-up designs, from pop-up books for adults featuring celebrities and...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 4 Sep 2008 | 11:00 am 27 Pregnancy Breakthroughs (CLUSTER)(TrendHunter.com) Pregnancy is a big business. Tabloids and pop culture magazines shell out thousands of dollars for the first exclusive pictures of a celebritys newborn baby, and members of the paparazzi...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 4 Sep 2008 | 10:40 am Robot Pet Vacuums - The Roomba Pet Series(TrendHunter.com) One of the most frustrating aspects of pet ownership is the constant amount of pet hair that stockpiles all over your home. Daily vacuuming is the best way to get rid of pet hair,...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 4 Sep 2008 | 10:20 am Asian markets fall amid global economic jittersAsian markets faltered Thursday as investors dumped shares in shipping and technology companies amid ongoing worries about the global economic outlook.Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 4 Sep 2008 | 9:51 am Viewers frustrated by video on demand but future looks positive, report findsThe takeup of video-on-demand services has been held back by complicated navigation, incomplete catalogues and a confusing array of competing services, research has found.Examining consumer attitudes to...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 4 Sep 2008 | 9:29 am Economists: selfish bastardsIn the course of researching my next novel, I happened upon this old paper by Robert H. Frank, Thomas Gilovich, and Dennis T. Regan, "Does Studying Economics Inhibit Cooperation?" Its conclusions: Economics grad students are more likely to free ride than the general public. Economists are less generous than other academics in charitable giving. Economics undergrads are more likely to defect in prisoner's dilemma problems. Students are less likely to return found money after studying economics but not after studying another subject like astronomy. No wonder they call it "the dismal science."A study by Gerald Marwell and Ruth Ames found that students of economics are indeed much more likely to free-ride in experiments that called for private contributions to public goods. Their basic experiment involved a group of subjects who were given an initial endowment of money, which they were to allocate between two accounts, one “public,” the other “private.” Money deposited in a subject's private account was returned dollar for dollar to the subject at the end of the experiment. Money deposited in the public account was first pooled, then multiplied by some factor greater than one, and then distributed equally among all subjects.Does Studying Economics Inhibit Cooperation? Source: Boing Boing | 4 Sep 2008 | 8:55 am Petascale data-centers in NatureI wrote a feature for this week's issue of the journal Nature on "petascale" data-centers -- giant data-centers used in scholarship and science, from Google to the Large Hadron Collider to the Human Genome and Thousand Genome projects to the Internet Archive. The issue is on stands now and also available free online. Yesterday, I popped into Nature's offices in London and recorded a special podcast on the subject, too. This was one of the coolest writing assignments I've ever been on, pure sysadmin porn. It was worth doing just to see the the giant, Vader-cube tape-robots at CERN.Big data: Welcome to the petacentre, Podcast about Petacentres, My Flickr photos of petacenters Source: Boing Boing | 4 Sep 2008 | 8:47 am Japan stocks head south on global economic worriesJapanese shares tumbled Thursday as ongoing concerns about the domestic and global economic outlook took a heavy toll on investor sentiment.Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 4 Sep 2008 | 8:00 am Microsoft cutting Xbox 360 pricesMicrosoft Corp. is cutting the prices of its Xbox 360 game console beginning Friday, with the cheapest version selling for $200, less expensive than the Nintendo Wii, which retails for $250.Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 4 Sep 2008 | 7:00 am EBay seller from Southern California gets feedback from 1 millionThere has been much discussion of the American dream of late. If you ask EBay Inc., it's alive and well. Why? Because a seller just reached 1 million feedbacks on the popular auction site.Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 4 Sep 2008 | 7:00 am Sarah Palin's Campaign Debut Electrifies the GOP, Galvanizes The Twitterati"Palin ROCKED!" That succinct, two-word assessment that appeared on the micro-blogging service Twitter Wednesday night just about summarized many conservatives' relieved reactions after an inauspicious week for Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
Source: Wired Top Stories | 4 Sep 2008 | 6:41 am Today at Boing Boing Gadgets Today at Boing Boing Gadgets, we bopped to the tunes of an album written on the Nintendo DS ("Music to Make Love To Your Old Pleasure Model By...") and introduced BBG's newest mascot, Humbert Humbird, to his own vacuuming robotic steed.
That accomplished, Beschizza wondered about whether electric cars would be good in Zombie Apocalypses and fluttered his hands around his head, squeeing with excitement, over Commodore's new PDA and Britain's Pay-As-You-Go iPhone plan.
Rumors abounded: that Dell's gorgeous, whore red netbook, the Mini-Inspiron, would launch tomorrow. That Apple would unveil new iPods and MacBooks on September 9th.
Robotic jellyfish, they floated around, swatting flies. Japanese retro scooters were declared whateverpunk! An alarm clock that never stopped glowing until themonuclear reactions occur.
And this Space Invaders keyboard was pretty swank.
LinkSource: Boing Boing | 4 Sep 2008 | 6:17 am Rage Against the Machine go a capella at RNC protest after cops shut down PAWhen the police shut down the PA on Rage Against the Machine at an anti-RNC concert, the band took to the turf with a megaphone and performed a capella, delivering inspiring commentary between songs. This is must-see youtube -- some of the most heartening protest footage I've seen in years. Rage Against the Machine RNC - 09.02.08 (Performs Acapella in Crowd) (Thanks, Shahryarrakeen!)
Update: Xopl adds, "Rage Against the Machine had a scheduled legal concert in the Target
Center in downtown Minneapolis tonight. Police and media where
sitting and waiting outside during the whole concert in heavy numbers
just waiting for something to happen when the show got out. The
police got what they wanted. Police pepper spraying going on right
now." Twitter 1, Twitter 2 Source: Boing Boing | 4 Sep 2008 | 5:43 am Alaska job fair uses Cory Doctorow/XKCD cosplayer for ads?
Rench sez, "This Anchorage Daily News job fair ad I saw online seems to feature a woman dressed as Cory Doctorow. I really don't see any other explanation."
Job fair ad
(Thanks, Rench!)
Source: Boing Boing | 4 Sep 2008 | 5:24 am HOWTO Create perfect fake identitiesIn his latest Wired column, Bruce Schneier runs the thought-experiment of creating perfect identities. I noodled with this when my daughter was born -- I got her birth certificate from the Hackney Council, a sheet of ordinary laser-printed A4, took it to the Canadian embassy with a couple of photos that could have been any baby, and a few weeks later, a Canadian passport arrived. I thought, hmm, what if I were do to this again next year, but this time with my own laser-printed "certificate?" I could make a new identity for Poesy to step into in 20 years when she tires of her existing database shadow.Imagine you're in charge of infiltrating sleeper agents into the United States. The year is 1983, and the proliferation of identity databases is making it increasingly difficult to create fake credentials. Ten years ago, someone could have just shown up in the country and gotten a driver's license, Social Security card and bank account -- possibly using the identity of someone roughly the same age who died as a young child -- but it's getting harder. And you know that trend will only continue. So you decide to grow your own identities.How to Create the Perfect Fake Identity Source: Boing Boing | 4 Sep 2008 | 5:22 am Who's doing the window-smashing in Minneapolis-St Paul?Over on Making Light blog, my friend Elise Matheson, resident of Minneapolis-St Paul, has some skeptical questions about the supposed anarchist looters among the RNC protestors:I cannot help but remember some people I knew in college, one of whom turned out to be an informant and provocateur who infiltrated antiwar and other related groups. I thought of it again, sharply, when I read this LiveJournal post about a past event. I look at that photograph, where the “protesters” being detained and the officers ostensibly arresting them have matching footwear, and I read that no charges were pressed against the “protesters,” even though they were the ones committing acts of vandalism, and I cannot help but think “provocateurs.” Which brings me to the question I started with: Who are these people?Minneapolis / St. Paul: asking the right questions Source: Boing Boing | 4 Sep 2008 | 5:17 am Steps made out of skateboards Ted made this skateboard staircase for his skateboard deck-building school: "The aluminium beam is a solid billet of aluminium and the decks were custom made with concave only on one edge. You should see the look on our students faces when they make the treck to the basement." Coolest Steps in the World (via Make) Source: Boing Boing | 4 Sep 2008 | 5:14 am Security Matters: How to Create the Perfect Fake IdentityLet me start off by saying that I'm making this whole thing up. Imagine you're in charge of infiltrating sleeper agents into the United States. The year is 1983, and the proliferation of identity databases is making it increasingly difficult to create fake credentials. Ten years ago, someone could have just shown up in the country and gotten a driver's license, Social Security card and bank account -- possibly using the identity of someone roughly the same age who died as a young child -- but it's getting harder. And you know that trend will only continue. So you decide to grow your own identities. Call it "identity farming." You invent a handful of infants. You apply for Social Security numbers for them. Eventually, you open bank accounts for them, file tax returns for them, register them to vote, and apply for credit cards in their name. And now, 25 years later, you have a handful of identities ready and waiting for some real people to step into them. There are some complications, of course. Maybe you need people to sign their name as parents -- or, at least, mothers. Maybe you need to doctors to fill out birth certificates. Maybe you need to fill out paperwork certifying that you're home-schooling these children. You'll certainly want to exercise their financial identity: depositing money into their bank accounts and withdrawing it from ATMs, using their credit cards and paying the bills, and so on. And you'll need to establish some sort of addresses for them, even if it is just a mail drop. You won't be able to get driver's licenses or photo IDs on their name. That isn't critical, though; in the U.S., more than 20 million adult citizens don't have photo IDs. But other than that, I can't think of any reason why identity farming wouldn't work. Here's the real question: Do you actually have to show up for any part of your life? Again, I made this all up. I have no evidence that anyone is actually doing this. It's not something a criminal organization is likely to do; twenty-five years is too distant a payoff horizon. The same logic holds true for terrorist organizations; it's not worth it. It might have been worth it to the KGB -- although perhaps harder to justify after the Soviet Union broke up in 1991 -- and might be an attractive option to existing intelligence adversaries like China. Immortals could also use this trick to self-perpetuate themselves, inventing their own children and gradually assuming their identity, then killing their parents off. They could even show up for their own driver's license photos, wearing a beard as the father and blue spiked hair as the son. I’m told this is a common idea in Highlander fan fiction. The point isn't to create another movie plot threat, but to point out the central role that data has taken on in our lives. Previously, I've said that we all have a data shadow that follows us around, and that more and more institutions interact with our data shadows instead of with us. We only intersect with our data shadows once in a while -- when we apply for a driver's license or passport, for example -- and those interactions are authenticated by older, less-secure interactions. The rest of the world assumes that our photo IDs glue us to our data shadows, ignoring the rather flimsy connection between us and our plastic cards. (And, no, REAL-ID won't help.) It seems to me that our data shadows are becoming increasingly distinct from us, almost with a life of their own. What's important now is our shadows; we're secondary. And as our society relies more and more on these shadows, we might even become unnecessary. Our data shadows can live a perfectly normal life without us. --- Bruce Schneier is Chief Security Technology Officer of BT, and author of Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly About Security in an Uncertain World.
Source: Wired Top Stories | 4 Sep 2008 | 4:00 am Sept. 4, 1957: Short, Unhappy Life of the Edsel1957: It's E-day, as Ford Motor Company introduces its newest make, the Edsel. In an industry celebrated for its spectacular failures, the Edsel still takes the cake. Although as mechanically sound as other Ford products, the car was criticized from Day One for being too ugly, too expensive and vastly overhyped. The 1958 Edsel was intended to be an intermediate-level brand, bridging the gap between the cheaper Fords and pricier Mercurys and Lincolns. The most-affordable Edsel (the Ranger) cost 70 bucks less than Ford's top-end Fairlane, while the most-expensive model (the Citation) cost more than a Mercury Montclair. In the post-mortem that followed the Edsel's early demise, the faulty pricing structure was cited by Ford as a big reason the car failed. Sales weren't helped, either, by the fact that it rolled out of the plant at the beginning of a recession. But there was more. The Edsel -- named for Edsel Ford, Henry Ford's son who died of cancer in 1943 -- was the subject of an intense marketing blitz while still on the drawing board. The company promised an eager public something revolutionary, carefully baited the hook, and then failed to deliver. The Edsel was just another sedan on the basic Ford chassis. Well, maybe not just another sedan. The classic barfly standard that everyone is good looking at closing time isn't true in this case. The Edsel was butt-ugly, period. A half century later, it's still butt-ugly. Almost immediately after E-day, the superhype that had generated so much anticipation boomeranged on Ford. Automotive writers roundly trashed the Edsel, going so far as to compare the oval-shaped vertical grille to the female sex organ -- racy stuff for 1957. Henry Ford II, who had opposed naming the car after his late father, believing it to be undignified, was no doubt furious and mortified. Robert McNamara, soon to become U.S. secretary of defense in the Kennedy administration, was president of the Ford Motor Company at the time and realized instantly he had a lemon on his hands. (A few years later, he'd be a little slower to realize that he had even a bigger lemon on his hands in a place called Vietnam.) During the Edsel's first year, 1958, four models were produced and barely more than 63,000 were sold in the United States. Sales dropped in 1959, even though Ford had cut back to just two models, and on Nov. 19, 1959, barely two years after E-day, the company threw in the towel on the Edsel. In one of those little logic-defying ironies, the Edsel today is a prized collector's item, fetching as much as $200,000 for a rare 1960 convertible. Another victim of this historic automotive fiasco was the name Edsel itself. Although never a particularly popular boy's name -- rising to 400th on the 1927 list -- Edsel (from the Old German Adal, meaning "noble") has almost entirely vanished. Source: Time magazine, Failure magazine
Source: Wired Top Stories | 4 Sep 2008 | 4:00 am What Your Boss Can Learn From Birds and BeesAre you smarter than a goose? Sure you are — one on one. But when it comes to working efficiently, you and your colleagues can't touch the gaggle. According to author Ken Thompson, geese and other animals that naturally form groups have a lot to teach us about business. In a theory he calls organizational biomimetics, Thompson lays out the principles underlying nature's management strategies. So what can you learn from a bird or an ant? Take a gander.
Ants and Bees
Geese
Worms
Source: Wired Top Stories | 4 Sep 2008 | 4:00 am Jargon Watch: Voggy, Admixed Embryo, MemristorsVoggy adj. Smoggy weather caused when volcanoes, like Hawaii's active Kilauea, release sulfur dioxide that combines with dust and sunlight. Admixed embryo n. Legalese for any early-stage embryo combining human and nonhuman genes or tissue. Encompassing both cybrids and chimeras yet sounding less apocalyptic than either, these hybrids are now approved in England for stem cell research. Memristors n. pl. Resistors with memory — meaning that the resistance changes with fluctuations in electrical charge. If the charge is turned off, the element will remember the last resistance. Hypothesized in 1971 as the fourth basic circuit element (in addition to the resistor, inductor, and capacitor), memristors could make brainlike computing possible. A nanoscale version has finally been built by Hewlett-Packard. Deep carbon n. Greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide and methane, stored deep beneath Earth's surface and underwater naturally. It could be released in catastrophic quantities as global warming raises sea temperatures. Typically ignored in climate-change prediction models, deep carbon may have a far bigger impact on our survival than driving SUVs or eating red meat. — Jonathon Keats jargon@wired.com
Source: Wired Top Stories | 4 Sep 2008 | 4:00 am Today on TokyoMango Today on TokyoMango, I wrote about a new web site that lets women vent and seek advice anonymously; why the Japanese don't cheer out loud at the Olympics; and the biggest geek dance party ever. ( Lisa Katayama is a guest blogger.) Source: Boing Boing | 4 Sep 2008 | 2:22 am Battery operated web-controlled door locks - CrunchGear
Source: Google News - Sci/Tech | 4 Sep 2008 | 12:18 am BOOSTER SHOTS: Some men carry 'commitment-phobia' geneBy Shari Roan Researchers in Sweden found that men with a certain gene variant were twice as likely to have had a marital or relationship crisis in the last year than other men involved in the study.Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 4 Sep 2008 | 12:09 am Make canned monstrosities This tutorial shows you how to make realistic pickled punks. Label on the bottle on the right reads: UNKNOWN SPECIMEN: RECOVERED FROM CHEST CAVITY OF DECAYED ANIMATED CORPSE. ANIMATION OF CORPSE CEASED UPON REMOVAL. SPECIMEN BEGAN TO DISSOLVE WITHIN MOMENTS OF REMOVAL FROM HOST. DISSOLUTION CEASED WITH FORMALDEHYDE AND ACETONE. HAITI, 1894Making Canned Halloween Monstrosities Source: Boing Boing | 4 Sep 2008 | 12:06 am Test drive: Picasa 3 gets off-, online photo sharing right - Ars Technica
Source: Google News - Sci/Tech | 4 Sep 2008 | 12:06 am Report: Microsoft To Slash Xbox 360 Prices In US - CRN
Source: Google News - Sci/Tech | 4 Sep 2008 | 12:01 am Ike strengthens into major Category 3 hurricane - Reuters
Source: Google News - Sci/Tech | 4 Sep 2008 | 12:00 am Picasa Upgrade Gives Photo Sharing a FaceliftPicasa upgrades its desktop and online components of photo-aggregation and editing tools. Most notably, Picasa Web Albums now has the ability to identify and filter photos by facial recognition. It's a little creepy, but it gives Google's photo software a leg up on the competition by being the first of its kind.
Source: Wired Top Stories | 4 Sep 2008 | 12:00 am Criminals Remote-Wiping Cell PhonesAn anonymous reader writes "Crafty criminals are increasingly using the remote wipe feature on the Apple iPhone and other business handsets, such as RIM's BlackBerry, to destroy incriminating evidence, the head of the UK's Serious Fraud Office Keith Foggon has warned. Foggon told silicon.com that the move away from PCs towards using mobile phones was causing a headache for crime fighters who were struggling to keep up with the fast pace of new handsets and platforms churned out by the mobile industry."Read more of this story at Slashdot. Source: Slashdot | 3 Sep 2008 | 11:58 pm One Step Closer To The Robot Revolution - CRN
Source: Google News - Sci/Tech | 3 Sep 2008 | 11:52 pm 19-square-mile ice sheet breaks loose in Canada - The Associated Press
Source: Google News - Sci/Tech | 3 Sep 2008 | 11:51 pm Microsoft to cut Xbox 360 U.S. price to below Wii (Reuters)
Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 3 Sep 2008 | 11:49 pm Report: Internet Capacity Keeps Pace With DemandDo not worry about conserving bandwidth: The internet's tubes aren't close to full, a new report finds. Internet capacity grew more than 60 percent in the last year and is growing faster than demand, even in the age of online video.
Source: Wired Top Stories | 3 Sep 2008 | 11:45 pm Obituary: Gonzalo FigueroaObituary: Archaeologist and key player in Heyerdahl's Easter Island adventureSource: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 3 Sep 2008 | 11:30 pm Tech stocks fall on worries of holiday spending (Reuters)
Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 3 Sep 2008 | 11:26 pm SAIC reaffirms earnings outlookDefense contractor SAIC Inc. on Wednesday reaffirmed its earnings forecast for fiscal 2009. The company said it continues to expect earnings per share from continuing operations to grow between 11 percent...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 3 Sep 2008 | 11:24 pm SAIC reports 17 pct decline in fiscal 2Q earningsDefense contractor SAIC Inc. said Wednesday its fiscal second-quarter profit sank about 17 percent, hurt by discontinued operations and charges from a court ruling.Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 3 Sep 2008 | 11:24 pm No subscription iTunes at event; Macs high priority in enterprise - Apple Insider
Source: Google News - Sci/Tech | 3 Sep 2008 | 11:15 pm Office Live, you're no Google Docs - CNET News
Source: Google News - Sci/Tech | 3 Sep 2008 | 11:15 pm Aida Edemariam on sifting through the publishing industry's slush pileI will not be the only person who reacted with amusement to the news that HarperCollins has just launched a website that encourages would-be authors to upload sample chapters, which will then be judged...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 3 Sep 2008 | 11:12 pm Huge Arctic Ice Shelf Breaks Offknarfling writes "CNN is reporting that a chunk of ice shelf nearly the size of Manhattan has broken away from Ellesmere Island in Canada's northern Arctic. Just last month 21 square miles of ice broke free from the Markham Ice Shelf. Scientists are saying that Ellesmere Island has now lost more than 10 times the ice that was predicted earlier this summer. How long before the fabled Northwest Passage is a reality?"Read more of this story at Slashdot. Source: Slashdot | 3 Sep 2008 | 11:09 pm AnalogicTech to Present at the Jefferies Second Annual Technology ConferenceSANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Advanced Analogic Technologies, Inc. ("AnalogicTech" or the "Company") , a developer of power management semiconductors for mobile consumer electronic devices, today announced that Richard K.Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 3 Sep 2008 | 11:00 pm Stocks in the SpotlightInternational Rectifier Corp., down 42 cents at $20.90 The chip maker rejected a $1.6 billion buyout bid from Vishay Intertechnology and said it expects to miss its annual financial report filing deadline.Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 3 Sep 2008 | 11:00 pm Thailand Seeks Web Site ShutdownsThai officials say they are seeking to shut down hundreds of Internet Web sites as part of their state of emergency decree to counter anti-government protests.Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 3 Sep 2008 | 11:00 pm LG Electronics' BD300 Network Blu-Ray Disc Player Available This Fall at National RetailersDENVER, Sept. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- LG Electronics today announced the nationwide availability of the BD300 Network Blu-ray Disc Player, featuring unparalleled access to disc-based and networked home video entertainment.Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 3 Sep 2008 | 11:00 pm Softbank Telecom's E-Mail Services Return to NormalTokyo, Sept. 3 (Jiji Press)--Softbank Telecom Corp. said Wednesday that it has restored its e-mail services that became unavailable on Tuesday due to a server breakdown.Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 3 Sep 2008 | 11:00 pm Toolbox for Political JunkiesThe Providence Journal and projo.com offer news and analysis of politics and government, but junkies may want more. A good place to start is ABC's The Note, daily briefings prepared by the network's political unit. Look for it under Politics on www.abcnews.com.Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 3 Sep 2008 | 11:00 pm Let Us Hear From YouPlanning a fundraiser? Are you planning a nonprofit's fundraiser? Let us know about it before Friday, Sept. 5, and we will add it to the social calendar to be published in mid- or late-September, and place it on our Web site, www.projo.com/galacal.Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 3 Sep 2008 | 11:00 pm Life360's Mobile Emergency Network Wins Google Android Developer ChallengeLife360 was selected as a first place winner in the Google Android Developer Challenge, an international competition that vetted the best applications for Google's upcoming Android mobile operating system. Life360 was one of the top 10 companies to be awarded $275,000.Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 3 Sep 2008 | 11:00 pm Surfers Suffering 'Discomgoogolation'INTERNET users in South Wales suffer stress if they fail to get online, a study out today reveals. Researchers branded feelings of anxiety when surfers are unable to log on "discomgoogolation".Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 3 Sep 2008 | 11:00 pm Clearwire Management to Present at Jefferies Sixth Annual Communications ConferenceClearwire Corporation (NASDAQ:CLWR), a leading provider of wireless high-speed Internet service, today announced that its Chief Financial Officer, John Butler, will speak at the Jefferies Sixth Annual Communications Conference in New York at 11:45 a.m. EDT on September 9, 2008.Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 3 Sep 2008 | 11:00 pm $208 Million Petascale Computer Gets Green Lightcoondoggie writes "The 200,000 processor core system known as Blue Waters got the green light recently as the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and its National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) said it has finalized the contract with IBM to build the world's first sustained petascale computational system. Blue Waters is expected to deliver sustained performance of more than one petaflop on many real-world scientific and engineering applications. A petaflop equals about 1 quadrillion calculations per second. They will be coupled to more than a petabyte of memory and more than 10 petabytes of disk storage. All of that memory and storage will be globally addressable, meaning that processors will be able to share data from a single pool exceptionally quickly, researchers said. Blue Waters, is supported by a $208 million grant from the National Science Foundation and will come online in 2011."Read more of this story at Slashdot. Source: Slashdot | 3 Sep 2008 | 10:46 pm Google's Android Will Have Chrome - InformationWeek
Source: Google News - Sci/Tech | 3 Sep 2008 | 10:45 pm Survey: DVR Makes Homes Happier - TechNewsWorld
Source: Google News - Sci/Tech | 3 Sep 2008 | 10:45 pm Judge rules Oracle failed to produce CEO's e-mail (Reuters)
Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 3 Sep 2008 | 10:38 pm 'What the Buck?' Creator Inks Deal With HBOMichael Buckley will develop new material for the cable channel, with an eye toward content that will work online and off.
Source: Wired Top Stories | 3 Sep 2008 | 10:38 pm iTunes 8 coming at next week's Apple event? (CNET)
Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 3 Sep 2008 | 10:14 pm The 5 Most Laughable Terms of Service On the Netnicholas.m.carlson writes "According to these five terms of service and EULA, Google owns any content you create using its Chrome browser and can filter your Gmail messages if it likes. Facebook says it can sell its users' uploaded images as stock photography. YouTube can keep footage of your kids forever, even after you've deleted it from the site. And AOL can ban you for using vulgar language on AIM. Funny, right? That's why Valleywag calls them 'The 5 most laughable terms of service on the Net.'" Reader dlaudel writes, regarding the previously-mentioned Google EULA for Chrome, "According to Ars Technica, Google's EULA for Chrome was just copy-and-pasted from its EULA for other services, a practice that is apparently common at Google."Read more of this story at Slashdot. Source: Slashdot | 3 Sep 2008 | 9:47 pm Boston Cabbies Wicked Mad About Green Taxi RuleBeantown says all taxis must be hybrids by 2015, and cabbies aren't taking too kindly to the news.
Source: Wired Top Stories | 3 Sep 2008 | 9:18 pm Hands-On With Games of Penny Arcade ExpoFirst impressions roll in for Wii shooter The Conduit, worthwhile Diablo clone Demigod and a significantly improved Penny Arcade Adventures.
Source: Wired Top Stories | 3 Sep 2008 | 9:11 pm Got Full Bars? Improve Your Mobile Phone SignalDropped calls? Spotty coverage? The first step to overcoming a poor cell signal is to understand why your phone is acting up. We'll give you a quick primer in this how-to. And when common sense fixes fail, it's time to bust out the gadgets.Source: Wired: Gadgets | 3 Sep 2008 | 9:00 pm Coating a Motherboard In Thermal Resin?Bat Country writes "I've had an idea in the back of my head for some time (and I'm surely not the only one) that it would be a worthwhile project to coat a motherboard in thermally conductive electrically insulating resin — complete with all of its various components — for the purpose of immersion, shock resistance, whatever. I'm curious to find out if anyone's undertaken a similar project or if it's known to be a shockingly bad idea (due to shrinkage during the curing process) already. Thoughts?" If you've done anything similar (even an experiment that failed), how did you go about it?Read more of this story at Slashdot. Source: Slashdot | 3 Sep 2008 | 8:58 pm Google Chrome's Fine Print Spurs Privacy Concerns (NewsFactor)
Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 3 Sep 2008 | 8:56 pm London Natural Museum’s ‘Cocoon’ Opens To Public Next YearImage Caption: From the cocoon's outer walkway you can see the web of panels on its exterior. These panels make it easier to clean and maintain the cocoon surface as well as symbolizing the silk-like threads of a real cocoon in nature. ()National History MuseumSource: RedOrbit News - Science | 3 Sep 2008 | 8:12 pm BBC To Launch Music Download StoreJackson writes "According to a post on Cnet today, the BBC is working on a paid-for download, and ad-supported streaming music store, making available its entire archive of music recorded at BBC studios for TV and radio. The venture has major label backing and is rumoured to be launching next year. More interesting still is that the service will be run by BBC Worldwide — the commercial arm of the BBC — meaning downloads are likely to be available to the entire world, not just the UK. Beatles radio sessions, anyone?"Read more of this story at Slashdot. Source: Slashdot | 3 Sep 2008 | 8:07 pm Particle Accelerator Used To Date Vintage WinesOne of France's top research bodies said this week that French scientists have devised a way of using particle accelerators to authenticate vintage wines.The National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) said in a statement that the new method tests the age of the glass in wine bottles bySource: RedOrbit News - Science | 3 Sep 2008 | 8:05 pm Dairy Consents FailingBy GALLOWAY, Jill Huge number of dairy farmers hindered by the ongoing wet weather are failing their resource consent inspections. -------------------- A third of the 80 dairy farms inspected by Horizons in the past few weeks do not comply with their resource consents.Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 3 Sep 2008 | 8:00 pm USDA Loan Limits Increased for FarmsWARREN - Farm ownership may be closer for some people after the recent announcement that loan limits have been raised for farm ownership. The U.S.Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 3 Sep 2008 | 8:00 pm Environment Awards Entry CallIt is time for farmers to start preparing for the 2009 Ballance Farm Environment Awards. Operating in eight regions, the annual contest promotes sustainable profitable land management and is organised by the New Zealand Farm Environment Awards (NZFEA) Trust.Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 3 Sep 2008 | 8:00 pm FEMA Helps With Gustav, Preps for HannaRelief workers are providing protection and sustenance in areas affected by Hurricane Gustav along the U.S. Gulf Coast, a federal official said Wednesday.Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 3 Sep 2008 | 8:00 pm Church Fights to Keep Homeless TentA hearing began Wednesday on a Florida church's tent, used to house homeless men now that the church building is full to overflowing. Palm Beach County, Fla., officials say that Westgate Tabernacle is violating a number of ordinances, including some that involve unsafe conditions.Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 3 Sep 2008 | 8:00 pm Freshwater Biological Invasions IncreasingA U.S. study suggests the growing number of dams and other freshwater impoundments are increasing the number of invasive species invading the nation.Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 3 Sep 2008 | 8:00 pm Conservation and Sustainable-Development Organizations Raise Concerns About the Development Proposed on Great Diamond Island Within Reserved Natural AreasConcerns about potential threats to water quality, quality of island life, and natural areas designated as "open space" on Great Diamond Island have prompted conservation and sustainable-development organizations to ask the City of Portland, ME, to uphold the agreements that allowed the original development of Diamond Cove to move forward nearly 20 years ago.Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 3 Sep 2008 | 8:00 pm Deaths of 100,000 Fish Blamed on AlgaeResidents in and around Annapolis, Md., say that 100,000 Atlantic Menhaden died this week because of too much algae in Chesapeake Bay.Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 3 Sep 2008 | 8:00 pm Cyclones to Get Stoked From Global WarmingA one-degree rise in ocean temperatures could lead to a one-third rise in cyclones.Source: Discovery News Top Stories : Discovery Channel | 3 Sep 2008 | 7:40 pm Internet traffic grows 53 percent from mid-2007 (AP)AP - International Internet traffic kept growing in the last year, but at a slower rate than before, and carriers more than kept pace by adding more capacity, a research firm said Wednesday.Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 3 Sep 2008 | 7:33 pm Gulf Coast Faces Sea Level-Sinkage Double WhammyAre Gulf Coast communities doomed by sinking land and rising seas?Source: Discovery News Top Stories : Discovery Channel | 3 Sep 2008 | 7:21 pm Picasa Rolls Out 3.0 — Now With Facial Recognitioneldavojohn writes "If you use Picasa (Google's photo sharing site), they have upgraded to 3.0 and are purportedly offering facial recognition. That's right, why tag photos of your friends when the software will group similar faces together for you? There's a new list of features including repairing old photographs by touching them up and even writing on your images. As expected, not everyone is 'ok' with Google automatically recognizing you in pictures."Read more of this story at Slashdot. Source: Slashdot | 3 Sep 2008 | 7:20 pm In Love and Marriage, Parent-Lookalikes AttractAre we naturally drawn to those who resemble the opposite-sex parent?Source: Discovery News Top Stories : Discovery Channel | 3 Sep 2008 | 7:11 pm Review: Google Chrome lacks polish under the hood (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 3 Sep 2008 | 6:56 pm Don't Share That Law! It's CopyrightedNathan Halverson writes "California claims copyright to its laws, and warns people not to share them. And that's not sitting right with Internet gadfly, and open-access hero, Carl Malamud. He has spent the last couple months scanning tens of thousands of pages containing city, county and state laws — think building codes, banking laws, etc. Malamud wants California to sue him, which is almost a given if the state wants to continue claiming copyright. He thinks a federal court will rule in his favor: It is illegal to copyright the law since people are required to know it. Malamud helped force the SEC to put corporate filings online in 1994, and did the same with the patent office. He got the Smithsonian to loosen its claim of copyright, CSPAN to stop forbidding people from sharing its videos, and most recently Oregon to quit claiming copyright on state laws." Malamud's talk at Google ("All the Government's Information") is also well worth watching.Read more of this story at Slashdot. Source: Slashdot | 3 Sep 2008 | 6:32 pm Three Ice Shelves Breaking Up in ArcticGlobal warming is blamed for Canada's huge ice shelf loss this summer.Source: Discovery News Top Stories : Discovery Channel | 3 Sep 2008 | 6:03 pm Ghostbusters Is First Film Released On USB Keyarcticstoat writes "Are you the USB keymaster? You could be soon if you pick up PNY's new 2GB USB flashdrive, which comes pre-loaded with Ghostbusters. A spokesperson for PNY explained that it comes with a form of DRM that prevents you from copying the movie. 'They have DRM protection,' explained the spokesperson, 'so customers can download the movie onto their laptop or PC if they wish, but they have to have the USB drive plugged in to watch the movie, as the DRM is locked in the USB drive.' The music industry has been playing around with USB flash drives for a few years now, but it hasn't been a massive success yet; will USB movies fare any better?"Read more of this story at Slashdot. Source: Slashdot | 3 Sep 2008 | 5:46 pm A Chinese Challenge To Intelmotang writes "Chinese government funded Godson-3 a CPU that is developed to bring personal computing to majority of Chinese people by the year 2010. Will this pose any threat to Intel?"Read more of this story at Slashdot. Source: Slashdot | 3 Sep 2008 | 4:56 pm Analyst Says Google's Chrome Browser Needs Polishing (NewsFactor)
Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 3 Sep 2008 | 3:34 pm Quicken Errors Infuriate Intuit Customers (PC Magazine)PC Magazine - Intuit's customers have taken to its message boards to voice their anger about an upgrade to its Quicken software, which produced downloading issues and incorrect stock quotations in customer portfolios. Intuit, meanwhile, now says an updated quotes server is in place as of Wednesday.Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 3 Sep 2008 | 2:43 pm New music site gives fans a cut of tune sales (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 3 Sep 2008 | 2:13 pm Nuclear Physicists Fight Wine FraudThe latest way to spot counterfeit wine: Zap it with ions from a particle accelerator.Source: Discovery News Top Stories : Discovery Channel | 3 Sep 2008 | 1:47 pm Storms Galore: Four Named Storms in the WorksThis September is proving to be one of the busiest storm seasons yet.Source: Discovery News Top Stories : Discovery Channel | 3 Sep 2008 | 1:33 pm
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At this scale, memory has costs. It costs money — 168 million Swiss francs (US$150 million) for data management at the new Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, the European particle-physics lab near Geneva. And it also has costs that are more physical. Every watt that you put into retrieving data and calculating with them comes out in heat, whether it be on a desktop or in a data centre; in the United States, the energy used by computers has more than doubled since 2000. Once you're conducting petacalculations on petabytes, you're into petaheat territory. Two floors of the Sanger data centre are devoted to cooling. The top one houses the current cooling system. The one below sits waiting for the day that the centre needs to double its cooling capacity. Both are sheathed in dramatic blue glass; the scientists call the building the Ice Cube.
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