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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* 4 GB May Be Vista's RAM Sweet Spot
* Everything You Know About Disks Is Wrong
* Remote Code Execution Hole Found In Snort
* Crashing an In-Flight Entertainment System
* Best & Worst Decisions Starting Companies
* Lightroom Vs. Aperture
* Vista Security — Too Little Too Late
* Astronaut to Attempt Spacewalk Record
* E-Mail Addiction 12-Steps Stumbles
* From Bess to Worse
* Ballmer Repeats Threats Against Linux
* Visual Basic on GNU/Linux
* US Not Getting Money's Worth From ISS
* States Seek Laws to Curb Online Bullying
* BBC and YouTube Deal in the Works?
* Microsoft Apologizes for Serving Malware
* Fuel Tanks Made of Corncob Waste
* January Game Sales Explode, Wii Dominates
* NASA's New Mission to the Moon
* Minimal Perl for Unix and Linux People
* James Gosling Appointed to the Order of Canada
* Burning Ice Drilled from Alaska's Slope
* A Statistical Comparison of HD DVD & Blu-Ray Reviews
* First Exop***t Atmospheres Analyzed
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| 4 GB May Be Vista's RAM Sweet Spot |
| from the honkin' dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Tuesday February 20, @19:09 (Windows) |
| http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/20/2213231 |
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jcatcw writes "David Short, an IBM consultant who works in the Global
Services Division and has been beta testing Vista for two years, says
[0]users should consider 4GB of RAM if they really want optimum Vista
performance. With Vista's minimum requirement of 512MB of RAM, Vista will
deliver performance that's 'sub-XP,' he says. (Dell and others recommend
2GB.) One reason: SuperFetch, which fetches applications and data, and
feeds them into RAM to make them accessible more quickly. More RAM means
more caching."
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/02/20/2213231
Links:
0. http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9011523
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| Everything You Know About Disks Is Wrong |
| from the mean-time dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Tuesday February 20, @20:34 (Data Storage) |
| http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/21/004233 |
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[0]modapi writes "Google's wasn't the best storage paper at [1]FAST '07.
Another, more provocative paper looking at real-world results from
100,000 disk drives got the 'Best Paper' award. Bianca Schroeder, of
CMU's Parallel Data Lab, submitted [2]Disk failures in the real world:
What does an MTTF of 1,000,000 hours mean to you? The paper crushes a
number of (what we now know to be) myths about disks such as vendor MTBF
validity, 'consumer' vs. 'enterprise' drive reliability (spoiler: no
difference), and RAID 5 assumptions. StorageMojo has [3]a good summary of
the paper's key points."
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/02/21/004233
Links:
0. mailto:r3pioh@gmail.com
1. http://www.usenix.org/events/fast07/
2. http://www.usenix.org/events/fast07/tech/schroeder/schroeder_html/index.html
3. http://storagemojo.com/?p=383
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| Remote Code Execution Hole Found In Snort |
| from the upgrade-right-now dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Tuesday February 20, @22:00 (Security) |
| http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/20/2319225 |
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Palljon1123 writes "A [0]stack-based buffer overflow in the Snort
intrusion detection system could leave government and enterprise
installations vulnerable to remote unauthenticated code execution
attacks. The flaw, found by researchers at IBM's ISS X-Force, affects the
Snort DCE/RPC preprocessor and could be used to execute code with the
same privileges (usually root or SYSTEM) as the Snort binary. No user
action is required." Sourcefire has an update to fix the vulnerability in
versions 2.6.1, 2.6.1.1, and 2.6.1.2; Heise Security [1]spells out the
workaround for the 2.7.0 beta version.
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/02/20/2319225
Links:
0. http://www.snort.org/docs/advisory-2007-02-19.html
1. http://www.heise-security.co.uk/news/85562
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| Crashing an In-Flight Entertainment System |
| from the stress-testing dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Tuesday February 20, @23:27 (Bug) |
| http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/20/2231228 |
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[0]rabblerouzer writes "Hugh Thompson, who was [1]interviewed by Slashdot
on the [2]dangers of e-voting, now has a cool blog entry on how he was
able to [0]bring down the gaming/movie console on an airp***. He calls
it one of the most interesting examples of a software 'abuse case' he has
ever seen." Fortunately the IFE system is totally disjoint from the
avionics.
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/02/20/2231228
Links:
0. http://blogs.csoonline.com/node/151
1. http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/03/1357209&tid=219
2. http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/20/1329204&tid=219
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| Best & Worst Decisions Starting Companies |
| from the if-i-had-it-to-do-over-again dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Wednesday February 21, @02:23 (Businesses) |
| http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/21/0041254 |
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[0]markfletcher writes "Today I launched a new site, [0]Startupping,
dedicated to helping Internet entrepreneurs. For the launch I asked
several successful entrepreneurs about [1]lessons they learned starting
and running Internet companies. The first set of replies includes
responses from Paul Graham, John Battelle, Chris Pirillo, Ross Mayfield,
and Dick Costolo."
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/02/21/0041254
Links:
0. http://www.startupping.com/
1. http://www.startupping.com/2007/02/20/best-and-worst-decisions-part-1/
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| Lightroom Vs. Aperture |
| from the snapshootout dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Wednesday February 21, @05:18 (Software) |
| http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/21/012222 |
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Nonu writes "Adobe has officially released its Aperture killer,
Lightroom, and the [0]reviews are starting to come in. Ars looks at
Lightroom and concludes that it's a better choice for those without
bleeding-edge hardware. 'Aperture's main drawback is still performance as
it was designed for bleeding-edge machines. On a quad Core 2 Duo Xeon, it
is very usable but Lightroom just feels faster for everything regardless
of hardware. Since Aperture relies on Core Image and a fast video card to
do its adjustments (RAW decoding is done by the CPU), it's limited to
what the single 3-D card can do. Lightroom does everything with the CPU
and so it is likely to gain more speed as multicore systems get faster.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/02/21/012222
Links:
0. http://arstechnica.com/reviews/apps/lightroom.ars
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| Vista Security — Too Little Too Late |
| from the five-years-work dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Wednesday February 21, @08:02 (Windows) |
| http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/21/0138208 |
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Thomas Greene of The Register has a [0]fairly comprehensive review of
Vista and IE7 user security measures. The verdict is: better but not
adequate, and mostly an attempt to shift blame onto the user when things
go wrong. From the review: "[Vista is] a slightly more secure version
than XP SP2. There are good features, and there are good ideas, but
they've been implemented badly. The old problems never go away: too many
networking services enabled by default; too many owners running their
boxes as admins and downloading every bit of malware they can get their
hands on."
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/02/21/0138208
Links:
0. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/02/20/vista_security_oversold/
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| Astronaut to Attempt Spacewalk Record |
| from the moonwalk-record-still-strong dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday February 21, @08:33 (Space) |
| http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/21/136205 |
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[0]MattSparkes writes "Two residents of the International Space Station
will take a spacewalk tomorrow to try to jam a stuck antenna on a docked
cargo ship back into place. [1]The spacewalk will set a US record of over
65 hours spacewalk experience. During the spacewalk, the astronauts will
"use a hammer and a chisel to try to pound the antenna into place".
Precision engineering at its very best I'm sure you'll agree."
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/02/21/136205
Links:
0. http://mattsparkes.org/
1. http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn11223?DCMP=Matt_Sparkes&nsref=space-walk
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| E-Mail Addiction 12-Steps Stumbles |
| from the big-shock-here dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday February 21, @09:17 (It's funny. |
| http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/21/1329256 |
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[0]netbuzz writes "Talk about offering an alcoholic a drink? No. 2 of
12-step program for e-mail addiction: "Commit to keeping your inbox
empty." ... Reuters is reporting today on this program from an executive
coach. Here are 11 other [1]reasons why it won't work." I know what the
bottom of my inbox looks like, I just only get to see it for a few
minutes a year.
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/02/21/1329256
Links:
0. http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=buzzblog
1. http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/11685
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| From Bess to Worse |
| from the won't-somebody-please dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday February 21, @09:45 (Censorship) |
| http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/21/1435212 |
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Frequent Slashdot contributor [0]Bennett Haselton writes " From about
1996 to 2003, there were [1]regular [2]reports listing examples of sites
stupidly blocked by blocking software. The genre has tapered off
recently, probably as a result of the Supreme Court ruling in 2003 that
the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) was constitutional,
requiring blocking software in schools and libraries that receive federal
funds, despite all the evidence of over-blocking presented at the trial.
The last high-profile story about a site blocked by blocking software was
about the [3]blocking of BoingBoing almost a year ago. But the lack of
recent reports on blocking software errors doesn't mean that the software
has gotten better." The rest of his essay follows.
This story continues at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/21/1435212
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/02/21/1435212
Links:
0. mailto:bennett@peacefire.org
1. http://censorware.net/reports/
2. http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/edelman/mul-v-us/
3. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/06/technology/06link.html
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| Ballmer Repeats Threats Against Linux |
| from the this-can-only-end-badly dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday February 21, @10:07 (Microsoft) |
| http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/21/1346218 |
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daria42 writes "Steve Ballmer [0]has reissued Microsoft's patent threat
against Linux, warning open-source vendors that they must respect his
company's intellectual property. In a no-nonsense presentation to New
York financial analysts last week, Microsoft's chief executive said the
company's partnership with Novell, which it signed in November 2006,
"demonstrated clearly the value of intellectual property, even in the
open-source world.""
Discuss this story at:
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/02/21/1346218
Links:
0. http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Ballmer_repeats_threats_against_Linux/0,130061733,339273726,00.htm
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| Visual Basic on GNU/Linux |
| from the but-why-you-might-ask dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday February 21, @10:41 (Programming)|
| http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/21/1512223 |
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[0]jeevesbond writes "The Mono Project announced that it has [1]developed
a Visual Basic compiler that will enable software developers who use
Microsoft Visual Basic to run their applications on any platform that
supports Mono, such as Linux, without any code modifications."
Discuss this story at:
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/02/21/1512223
Links:
0. http://www.apaddedcell.com/
1. http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS9725385854.html
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| US Not Getting Money's Worth From ISS |
| from the give-ya-five-bucks-for-it dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday February 21, @11:20 (Space) |
| http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/21/1610246 |
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[0]greysky writes "On the 45th anniversary of his first trip into space,
astronaut John Glenn says [1]the U.S. is not getting it's money's worth
out of the International Space Station. From the article: "Diverting
money from the orbiting research outpost to President Bush's goal of
sending astronauts back to the moon and eventually on to Mars is
preventing some scientific experiments on the space station"."
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/02/21/1610246
Links:
0. http://www.ktmcyclesport.com/
1. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,253239,00.html
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| States Seek Laws to Curb Online Bullying |
| from the let's-all-take-off-our-left-shoe dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday February 21, @12:03 (Educati|
| http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/21/1611203 |
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An anonymous reader writes to tell us that many states are considering
laws to help [0]crack down on "cyberbullying". "Steven Brown, executive
director of the Rhode Island branch of the American Civil Liberties
Union, said it will be difficult to draft a cyberbullying law that
doesn't infringe on free-speech rights. 'The fact that two teenagers say
nasty things about each other is a part of growing up,' he said. 'How
much authority does a school have to monitor, regulate and punish
activities occurring inside a student's home?' In Arkansas, the state
Senate this month passed a bill calling on school districts to set up
policies to address cyberbullying only after it was amended to settle
concerns about students' free-speech rights."
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/02/21/1611203
Links:
0. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20070221/add1-cyberbullying.htm
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| BBC and YouTube Deal in the Works? |
| from the deciding-to-play-ball dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday February 21, @12:46 (Media) |
| http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/21/1636247 |
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Algis writes to tell us the BBC is in the process of [0]striking a deal
with YouTube to allow BBC content to be posted on YouTube. Previously the
BBC has demanded quite a few video be removed from the Google-owned video
sharing site. "The deal between YouTube and the BBC however, is more
interesting still, since YouTube is a global service that is completely
free to all users. Shows cannot be downloaded from YouTube. Instead,
they're watched online on the YouTube website, or the YouTube player is
embedded in other websites for no cost to the user. This is the nature of
content sharing that has seen YouTube grow from a company making no
money, to a company worth almost $2billion to Google, in less than two
years. Quite what the BBC-YouTube deal will entail is anyone's guess. It
is highly, highly unlikely to include full-length current BBC shows. What
could be possible is the addition to YouTube of much older shows, such as
classics like 'The Young Ones' or 'Faulty Towers', in an effort to boost
the shows' exposure and increase DVD sales of these shows."
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/02/21/1636247
Links:
0. http://www.techsmessage.com/2007/02/21/bbc-and-youtube-in-deal-talks/
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| Microsoft Apologizes for Serving Malware |
| from the caught-sneaking-one-by dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday February 21, @13:30 (Microso|
| http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/21/1736227 |
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[0]dark_15 writes "Microsoft has [1]apologized for serving malware via
its websites and Windows Live Messenger software. APC reader Jackie
Murphy reported the problem: 'With Microsoft launching Vista along with
their Defender software to protect users from viruses and spyware, it
seems therefore to be an oxymoron that they have started to putting paid
changing banner advertisements for malware, on the popular MSN groups
servers.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/02/21/1736227
Links:
0. mailto:haynesj@gmail.com
1. http://apcmag.com/5382/microsoft_apologises_for_serving_malware_to_customers
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| Fuel Tanks Made of Corncob Waste |
| from the corncob-pipes dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday February 21, @14:13 (Power) |
| http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/21/1850241 |
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[0]Roland Piquepaille writes "The National Science Foundation is running
a story on how corncob waste can be used to created carbon briquettes
with complex nanopores capable of storing natural gas. These [1]methane
storage systems may encourage mass-market natural gas cars. In fact,
these 'briquettes are the first technology to meet the 180 to 1 storage
to volume target set by the U.S. Department of Energy in 2000.' They can
lead to flat and compact tanks and have already been installed in a
pickup truck used regularly by the Kansas City Office of Environmental
Quality. And as the whole natural gas infrastructure exists already, this
new technology could be soon adopted by car manufacturers."
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/02/21/1850241
Links:
0. http://www.primidi.com/
1. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-02/nsf-ffw022007.php
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| January Game Sales Explode, Wii Dominates |
| from the wii're-in-the-money dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Wednesday February 21, @14:46 (Businesses) |
| http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/21/191252 |
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[0]njkid1, as he does from time to time, passed us a link to a story on
the GameDaily site. Today they're discussing [1]the January NPD numbers
for the games industry. In short, they're terrific. Software sales
totaled $549 million for the month, up a staggering 53 percent over last
year. Hardware sales were brisk as well, with the Wii selling around
436,000 units. Trailing behind were Microsoft and Sony, with 360 hitting
294,000 units sold and the PS3 selling 244,000 units. January had an
extra week, which resulted in 'inflated' sales, but even after
normalizing the data things were tremendous for the games industry in a
month where there's normally a post-holiday slump.
Discuss this story at:
http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/02/21/191252
Links:
0. mailto:njkid1@gmail.com
1. http://biz.gamedaily.com/industry/feature/?id=15294&ncid=AOLGAM000500000000021
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| NASA's New Mission to the Moon |
| from the to-the-moon-alice dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday February 21, @14:55 (Moon) |
| http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/21/1859255 |
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mattnyc99 writes "Popular Mechanics has a new, in-depth [0]preview of
NASA's Orion spacecraft, tracking the complex challenges facing the
engineers of the CEV (which NASA chief Michael Griffin called 'Apollo on
steroids') as America shifts its focus away from the Space Shuttle and
back toward returning to the moon by 2020. After yesterday's long op-ed
in the New York Times [1]concerning NASA's about-face, Popular Mechanic's
[2]interview with Buzz Aldrin and [3]podcast with Transterrestrial.com's
Rand Simberg raise perhaps the most pressing questions here: Is it worth
going back to the lunar surface? And will we actually stay there?"
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/02/21/1859255
Links:
0. http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/air_space/4212906.html
1. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/20/opinion/20porco.html?ex=1329627600&en=19956b9def103bb7&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss
2. http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/air_space/4212918.html
3. http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/air_space/4212923.html
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| Minimal Perl for Unix and Linux People |
| from the easy-does-it dept. |
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday February 21, @15:37 (Book Review|
| http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/21/1557225 |
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[0]Ravi writes "Perl (Practical Extraction and Report Language) ?€? the
language which was created by Larry Wall is arguably one of the greatest
programming languages. But it has a reputation for taking an excessive
cryptic nature which gives it an image especially among Perl novices as a
language which is complex and hard to master. Minimal Perl: for Unix and
Linux people, authored by Tim Maher and published by Manning Publications
addresses the obstacles presented by Perl's complexity. This book which
is divided into two parts comprising of a total of 12 chapters takes a
unique methodology to explain the Perl syntax and its use. The author
emphasizes on Perl's grep, awk and sed like features and relys on
concepts such as inputs, filters and arguments to allow Unix users to
directly apply their existing knowledge to the task of learning Perl."
Read on for the rest of Ravi's review.
This story continues at:
http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/21/1557225
Discuss this story at:
http://books.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/02/21/1557225
Links:
0. http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/
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| James Gosling Appointed to the Order of Canada |
| from the make-the-bad-man-stop dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday February 21, @16:18 (Java) |
| http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/21/1953246 |
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Andrija Ifkovic writes "James Gosling, the creator of Java language and a
VP of Sun has been [0]appointed to the Order of Canada. 'The Order of
Canada recognizes outstanding lifetime achievement and contributions to
society and the country by Canadians from all walks of life.' This is the
highest honor Canada can bestow upon its citizens."
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/02/21/1953246
Links:
0. http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2007/02/21/tech-20070221.html
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| Burning Ice Drilled from Alaska's Slope |
| from the snowballs-that-pack-a-punch dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday February 21, @17:00 (Power) |
| http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/21/2011212 |
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bagboy writes to tell us that as sources of renewable energy are being
sought, BP has announced a new method of [0]extracting natural gas from
ice underneath Alaska's North Slope drilling fields. "Scientists with the
federal Energy Department paid $4.6 million to drill for the hot ice just
below the surface of the Milne Point well, which is situated northwest of
Prudhoe Bay. [...] Now, scientists from around the world are waiting for
pieces of this strange ice to conduct their own tests and determine
whether Alaska's frozen grounds contain untapped, clean-burning energy."
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/02/21/2011212
Links:
0. http://www.ktuu.com/Global/story.asp?S=6115953
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| A Statistical Comparison of HD DVD & Blu-Ray Reviews |
| from the on-the-fence dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday February 21, @17:46 (Media) |
| http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/21/2050201 |
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An anonymous reader writes "Gizmodo today posted a [0]statistical
comparison of over [1]300 HD DVD and Blu-ray reviews published at
High-Def Digest since the start of the high-def format wars last Spring.
Their findings? Overall video quality between the two formats is nearly
identical, however Blu-ray titles were slightly, but definitely superior
in audio playback, while HD DVD titles had far superior standard def
features and moderately superior high-def features."
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/02/21/2050201
Links:
0. http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/feature/frankenfight-bluray-vs-hd-dvd-formats-not-equal-238336.php
1. http://www.highdefdigest.com/reviews_alpha.html
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| First Exop***t Atmospheres Analyzed |
| from the the-smell-of-exop***ts-in-the-morning dept. |
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday February 21, @18:57 (Space) |
| http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/21/2311208 |
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[0]deblau writes "NASA's [1]Spitzer Space Telescope has captured for the
first time enough light from p***ts outside our solar system, known as
exop***ts, to [2]identify signatures of individual molecules in their
atmospheres. The landmark achievement is a significant step toward being
able to detect possible life on rocky exop***ts and comes years before
astronomers had anticipated."
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/02/21/2311208
Links:
0. mailto:slashdot.25.flickboy@spamgourmet.com
1. http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/
2. http://www.redorbit.com/news/space/849255/spitzer_sees_light_from_faraway_worlds/index.html
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