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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* de lcaza calls OOXML a "Superb Standard"
* Jatol.com Disappears, Stranding Customers
* French Threat To ID Secret US Satellites
* Broadcasters Oppose Wireless Net Service
* Entry-Level Astronomy?
* Brain Differences In Liberals and Conservatives
* RIAA Trying To Avoid a Jury Trial
* Firefox Hits 400 Million Downloads
* Microsoft's Consent-or-Die Patent
* Will GPLv3 Drive Users from Linux to FreeBSD?
* Eavesdropping Helpful Against Terrorist Plot
* IBM Beats Microsoft Over the Head With Their Own Code
* The Morality of Web Advertisement Blocking
* Swedish Company Trials Peer-to-Peer Cellphones
* Vista Pirates To Get "Black Screen of Darkness"
* Tor Used To Collect Embassy Email Passwords
* Music Industry Set To Introduce the "Ringle"
* Skype Worm Infects Windows PCs
* Inventor of GMR Bids To Shake Up Storage, Again
* Word 2007 Vs. Open Office 2.3 Writer
* Canadian Bureaucrats Don't "Think Different"
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| de lcaza calls OOXML a "Superb Standard" |
| from the say-it-ain't-so-miguel dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Monday September 10, @20:08 (Microsoft) |
|
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/10/2343256
|
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you-bet-it's-not-out-of-context writes "A [0]blogger on KDE Developer's
Journal has found an [1]interesting post by Miguel de Icaza, the founder
of GNOME and Mono, in a Google group dedicated to the discussion of his
blog entries. Six days ago Miguel stated that 'OOXML is a superb standard
and yet, it has been FUDed so badly by its competitors that serious
people believe that there is something fundamentally wrong with it.' In
the same post he says that to avoid patent problems over Silverlight,
when using or developing Mono's implementation (known as Moonlight), i's
best to 'get/download Moonlight from Novell which will include patent
coverage.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/09/10/2343256
Links:
0. http://www.kdedevelopers.org/blog/418
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| Jatol.com Disappears, Stranding Customers |
| from the back-up-everything dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Monday September 10, @21:27 (The Internet) |
|
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/11/0038207
|
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[0]J Cardella writes "On August 31, Jatol.com ��� a hosting company that
had operated for five years, providing excellent support and reasonable
prices ��� [1]disappeared, leaving hundreds, if not thousands of people
without access to their Web content and email. There is speculation that
Jatol may have stopped paying their host, Fastservers. The evidence is
that Fastservers has been turning off the machines with Jatol's
customers' content. Jatol had already collected September hosting fees
from their customers (including myself). The story gets stranger. The
owner of Jatol.com, Tim Tooley, has also disappeared. He was apparently
very ill for some time, and speculation on the thread goes from his
skipping the country to lying dead in his home. Fastservers apparently is
unwilling to turn the machines back on, so people could get their
content, without authorization from Tooley."
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/09/11/0038207
Links:
0. http://www.cardellaclan.com/
1. http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?p=4689854
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| French Threat To ID Secret US Satellites |
| from the i-spy-with-my-little-radar dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Monday September 10, @22:43 (Space) |
|
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/11/0117216
|
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[0]SkiifGeek brings to our attention a story that ran on space.com a few
months back but didn't get much wider notice at the time. "The French
have identified numerous objects in orbit that do not appear in the
ephemeris data reported by the US Space Surveillance Network. Now, the US
claims that if it doesn't appear in the ephemeris data, then it doesn't
exist. The French insist that at least some of the objects they have
found boast solar arrays. Therefore it seems that [1]the French have
found secret US satellites. While they don't plan to release the
information publicly, they do intend to use it as leverage to get the US
to suppress reporting of sensitive French satellites in their published
ephemeris."
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/09/11/0117216
Links:
0. http://www.beskerming.com/commentary/2007/09/10/268/Hiding_in_Plain_Sight
1. http://www.space.com/news/060707_graves_web.html
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| Broadcasters Oppose Wireless Net Service |
| from the may-look-like-white-space-to-you dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Tuesday September 11, @00:01 (Wireless Netwo|
|
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/11/0143231
|
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kaufmanmoore writes "The AP reports that the National Association of
Broadcasters is [0]launching ads to target lawmakers over a push by a
consortium of technology companies including Google, Intel, HP, and MSFT
who want to use unused and unlicensed TV spectrum (the so-called 'white
space') for wireless broadband. Broadcasters are airing concerns about
the devices creating interference with broadcast television. In a
statement, NAB chairman Alan Frank takes a swipe at technology companies:
'While our friends at Intel, Google and Microsoft may find system errors,
computer glitches and dropped calls tolerable, broadcasters do not.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/09/11/0143231
Links:
0. http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070910/tv_vs_internet.html?.v=6
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| Entry-Level Astronomy? |
| from the getting-started-for-a-grand dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Tuesday September 11, @02:43 (Space) |
|
http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/11/0238253
|
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[0]brobak writes "I'm getting ready to move into a new home on a couple
of acres of rural property a significant distance from any large source
of light pollution. I've always been interested in astronomy in general,
and I would like to put my dark skies to use by picking up decent
telescope and learning a bit about the skies over my head. The overall
budget for this project is going to be around $1,000. I am particularly
interested in astrophotography, but I understand that that may carry me
outside the scope of the initial budget. I've already signed up for my
local astronomy club's next monthly meeting. I have been doing Web
research, but I thought that the Slashdot community would be the perfect
place to get opinions on entry-level equipment, websites, and books."
Discuss this story at:
http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/09/11/0238253
Links:
0. mailto:slashdot@brianrobak.com
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| Brain Differences In Liberals and Conservatives |
| from the thinking-differently dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Tuesday September 11, @05:25 (Democrats) |
|
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/11/0215210
|
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i_like_spam writes "Scientists from NYU and UCLA report in Nature
Neuroscience that the [0]brains of Democrats and Republicans process
information differently. This new study finds that the differences are
apparent even when the brain processes common information, not just
political topics. From the study, liberals were more likely to be
accurate and showed more brain activity in the region associated with
analyzing conflicts. A researcher not affiliated with the study stated,
liberals 'could be expected to more readily accept new social, scientific
or religious ideas.' Moreover, 'the results could explain why President
Bush demonstrated a single-minded commitment to the Iraq war and why some
people perceived Sen. John F. Kerry... as a flip-flopper.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/09/11/0215210
Links:
0. http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-politics10sep10,1,5376455.story
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| RIAA Trying To Avoid a Jury Trial |
| from the judges-are-friendlier dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Tuesday September 11, @08:02 (The Courts) |
|
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/11/0156215
|
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Joe Elliot writes "Faced with a jury trial set to begin on October 1, the
RIAA has [0]filed a motion for summary adjudication of specific facts:
that the RIAA owns the copyrights to the songs in a file-sharing case;
that the registration is proper; and that the defendant wasn't authorized
to copy or distribute the recordings. If the judge rules in their favor,
Ars notes that it may turn into a Novell v SCO situation where the only
thing left to be decided are the damages. There are some significant
problems with the copyright registrations ��� they don't match up. 'Thomas
argues that since she lacks the financial means to conduct a thorough
examination of the ownership history (e.g., track the ownership of
"Hysteria" from Mercury to UMG) for the songs she is accused of
infringing the copyright to, her only opportunity to determine their true
ownership is either via discovery or cross-examination at trial.' Ars
also notes that the RIAA's biggest fear is of losing a case. 'A loss at
trial would be catastrophic for the RIAA. It would give other defense
attorneys a winning template while exposing the weaknesses of the RIAA's
arguments. It would also prove costly from a financial standpoint, as the
RIAA would have to foot the legal expenses for both itself and the
defendant. Most of all, it would set an unwelcomed precedent: over 20,000
lawsuits filed and the RIAA loses the first one to go to a jury.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/09/11/0156215
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| Firefox Hits 400 Million Downloads |
| from the grats-little-browser dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Tuesday September 11, @09:01 (Mozilla) |
|
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/11/1222256
|
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Owen Dansley writes "Firefox hit another milestone this past Friday, when
it [0]passed the 400 million download mark. From its launch in 2004 it
took one year to reach 100 million downloads, hitting 200 million
downloads just one year later. According to [1]figures released by US
consultancy firm Janco and the IT Productivity Center, Firefox currently
has 17.4 percent of the browser market ��� up 5.6 percentage points in the
last year. Also within the last year, Microsoft's Internet Explorer
browser dropped 9.6 percentage points to a market share of 63.9 percent."
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/09/11/1222256
Links:
0. http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/software/0,39044164,62032062,00.htm
1. http://www.itproductivity.org/browser.htm
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| Microsoft's Consent-or-Die Patent |
| from the i'm-more-of-a-cake-or-death-man-myself dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Tuesday September 11, @09:43 (Privacy) |
|
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/11/1228241
|
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[0]theodp writes "Maybe you shouldn't get too attached to those [1]new
Windows Live services. On Tuesday, the USPTO granted Microsoft a patent
for [2]privacy policy change notification, which describes how to
[3]threaten users with the loss of their accounts and access to web sites
and services should they refuse to consent to changes in a privacy
policy. This includes the case where a user might object to allowing
personal information, collected earlier with a promise of
confidentiality, to be shared in the future with third parties. Also
described is a 'Never Notify Me' option so you won't have to 'worry' over
privacy policy changes."
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/09/11/1228241
Links:
0. mailto:theodp@aol.com
1. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2179267,00.asp
2. http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?patentnumber=7,269,853
3. http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1064/1358325795_2545188f44_o.jpg
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| Will GPLv3 Drive Users from Linux to FreeBSD? |
| from the sad-penguin dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Tuesday September 11, @10:21 (BSD) |
|
http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/11/1330236
|
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An anonymous reader writes "Last week ZDNet put up an article asking a
simple question: [0]will GPL3 drive Linux users to FreeBSD? It's based on
issues raised in the [1]August FreeBSD Foundation Newsletter. That
publication features a letter by the vice president of the FreeBSD
Foundation, Justin Gibbs, arguing that the GPLv3 restricts the rights of
commercial users of open source software, and is just the FSF's first
step in changing the GPL in ways that authors of GPL software may not
have intended. He suggests that commercial users should seriously
consider BSD-licensed software as an alternative if they want to be able
to safely ship products in the future. This is especially in light of
requirements from the FCC that software running on devices (such as
software-defined radios) be end-user replaceable. Gibbs states that the
FreeBSD Foundation will provide an alternative to GPLv3'd software,
especially in light of Stallman's statement that further GPL revisions
are due in the near future. Is this likely to cause discontent among
Linux users, or will they mostly ignore it?"
Discuss this story at:
http://bsd.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/09/11/1330236
1. http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/press/2007Aug-newsletter.shtml
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| Eavesdropping Helpful Against Terrorist Plot |
| from the i-don't-think-it-bodes-well dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Tuesday September 11, @10:58 (Privacy) |
|
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/11/1337220
|
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AcidPenguin9873 writes "The New York Times reports that the U.S.
government's ability to eavesdrop on personal communications [0]helped
break up a terrorist plot in Germany. The intercepted phone calls and
emails revealed a connection between the plotters and a breakaway cell of
the terrorist group Islamic Jihad Union. What does this mean for the
future of privacy in personal communications? From the article:
'[Director of national intelligence Mike McConnell's] remarks also
represent part of intensifying effort by Bush administration officials to
make permanent a law that is scheduled to expire in about five months.
Without the law, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Mr. McConnell
said the nation would lose "50 percent of our ability to track,
understand and know about these terrorists, what they're doing to train,
what they're doing to recruit and what they're doing to try to get into
this country.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/09/11/1337220
Links:
0. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/10/washington/10cnd-homeland.html
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| IBM Beats Microsoft Over the Head With Their Own Code |
| from the ow-that-if-statement-hurts dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Tuesday September 11, @11:41 (Microsoft) |
|
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/11/155223
|
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[0]bednarz writes "IBM has added a twist to its new commitment to help
OpenOffice.org battle Microsoft Office by donating code that was
[1]originally derived in part from a Microsoft-developed technology.
IBM's iAccessible2, code-named Project Missouri, is a specification for
technology used to help the visually impaired interact with Open Document
Format (ODF)-compliant applications and was developed in part using
Microsoft Active Accessibility (MAA). 'When the specification was donated
to the Linux Foundation, Oracle, Sun, and SAP committed to help with
future development. Mozilla is committed to incorporating it into its
Firefox browser, and vendors GW Micro and Freedom Scientific will also
use it in their own screen reader products. In addition, Project Missouri
has won accolades from the American Association of People with
Disabilities, the American Foundation for the Blind, and the National
Federation of the Blind in Computer Science.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/09/11/155223
Links:
0. mailto:abednarz@@@nww...com
1. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/091007-ibm-accessibility.html
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| The Morality of Web Advertisement Blocking |
| from the can't-see-a-problem dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Tuesday September 11, @12:22 (Mozilla) |
|
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/11/157256
|
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An anonymous reader writes "There has been some recent coverage of the
[0]over-hyped boycott of Firefox, in response to the rising popularity of
the Adblock Plus Firefox extension. A recent editorial on CNET looks into
the issue, and explores the moral and legal [1]issues involved in
client-side web advertisement blocking. Whereas TiVo users freeload on
the relatively fixed broadcasting costs paid by TV networks, users of web
ad-blocking technology are actively denying website owners revenue that
would otherwise go to pay for the bandwidth costs of serving up those web
pages. If the website designer has to pay for bits each time you view
their website without viewing their banner ads, are you engaged in theft?
Is this right? "
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/09/11/157256
Links:
0. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/17/1359206&tid=95
1. http://www.cnet.com/8301-13739_1-9770502-46.html
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| Swedish Company Trials Peer-to-Peer Cellphones |
| from the we-can-hear-everybody-now dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Tuesday September 11, @13:01 (Networking) |
|
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/11/1546258
|
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Dr_Barnowl writes "A company named TerraNet is going through a trial
period for [0]a p2p based mobile telephony system. Phones are used to
route calls onto other phones, constructing mesh networks of 'up to
20km'. The BBC reports on the natural tendency of the big telecoms
providers to want to squash this. I can see other problems though. The
advantages in an environment with sparse cell coverage are obvious, but
network effects mean that the number of connections in a heavily
populated mesh grow exponentially. What happens to your battery life when
your phone becomes a node? And while the company is optimistic that they
have a viable technology model from IP licensing, the demand for devices
supporting this is going to be proportional to the number of devices that
it can connect you to."
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/09/11/1546258
Links:
0. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6987784.stm
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| Vista Pirates To Get "Black Screen of Darkness" |
| from the there-goes-china dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Tuesday September 11, @13:43 (Windows) |
|
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/11/1615211
|
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jcatcw writes "Microsoft has just turned on [0]Reduced Functionality mode,
worldwide, and sent a letter to OEMs explaining the consequences of Vista
piracy. These include a black screen after 1 hour of browsing, no start
menu or task bar, and no desktop. Using fear as a motivator, the email
warns resellers to 'make sure your customers always get genuine Windows
Vista preinstalled.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/09/11/1615211
Links:
0. http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9035478
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| Tor Used To Collect Embassy Email Passwords |
| from the getting-their-attention dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Tuesday September 11, @13:57 (Security) |
|
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/11/1730258
|
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Several readers wrote in to inform us that Swedish security researcher
Dan Egerstad has revealed how he [0]collected 100 passwords from
embassies and governments worldwide, without hacking into anything: he
[1]sniffed Tor exit routers. Both [2]Ars and [3]heise have writeups on
Egerstad's blog post, but neither adds much to the original. It's not
news that unencrypted traffic exits the Tor network unencrypted, but
Egerstad correctly perceived, and called attention to, the lack of
appreciation for this fact in organizations worldwide.
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/09/11/1730258
Links:
0. http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/31/1247204&tid=172
1. http://www.derangedsecurity.com/time-to-reveal%E2%80%A6/
3. http://www.heise-security.co.uk/news/95778
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| Music Industry Set To Introduce the "Ringle" |
| from the latest-brain-damage dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Tuesday September 11, @14:59 (Music) |
|
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/11/1639252
|
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mrneutron2003 writes "The RIAA has officially backed a move by the
recording industry to [0]reintroduce the CD single. Populated with three
songs and a ringtone, this brilliantly clueless idea is to be marketed as
a 'ringle,' complete with an even more clueless retail price of $6-7 per
CD. Apart from the fact the industry hasn't agreed on how the ringtone is
to be redeemed (Sony BMG, the initial proponent of the idea, is the
exception here), the pricing puts it way out of line with legitimate
digital music downloads." At $7, retailers would enjoy a profit margin
they haven't seen [1]since the days of cassette tapes and vinyl.
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/09/11/1639252
Links:
0. http://www.fastsilicon.com/off-the-wall/music-industry-brain-damage-the-ringle.html?Itemid=60
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| Skype Worm Infects Windows PCs |
| from the footsteps-of-msn-and-yahoo dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Tuesday September 11, @15:42 (Security) |
|
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/11/1928243
|
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[0]walterbays writes with news of a [1]worm spreading to Windows PCs
through Skype's IM. The worm is variously called Ramex.a and Pykspa.d. A
poster on a Skype forum explains [2]how to remove it. "After hijacking
contacts from an infected machine's Skype software, it sends messages to
those people that include a live link. Recipients who blithely click on
the URL ��� which poses as a JPG image but is actually a download to a file
with the .scr extension ��� wind up infected."
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/09/11/1928243
Links:
0. http://blogs.sun.com/wbays
1. http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9035198
2. http://forum.skype.com/index.php?s=&showtopic=96634&view=findpost&p=439683
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| Inventor of GMR Bids To Shake Up Storage, Again |
| from the dark-horse-in-search-of-a-racetrack dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Tuesday September 11, @16:21 (Data Storage) |
|
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/11/201218
|
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Nrbelex writes "Stuart S. P. Parkin, an I.B.M. research fellow largely
unknown outside a small fraternity of physicists, thinks he is poised to
bring about a breakthrough that could increase the amount of data stored
on a chip or a hard drive by [0]a factor of a hundred. This is the man
who pioneered exploiting the giant magnetoresistance effect in the 90s,
causing disk storage to jump ahead of the Moore's Law curve. If he proves
successful in developing 'racetrack memory,' he will create a universal
computer memory, one that can potentially replace DRAM and flash memory
chips, and make a 'disk drive on a chip' possible. It could begin to
replace flash memory in three to five years, scientists say."
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/09/11/201218
Links:
0. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/11/technology/11storage.html?ref=technology
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| Word 2007 Vs. Open Office 2.3 Writer |
| from the by-a-nose dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Tuesday September 11, @17:03 (Software) |
|
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/11/2049204
|
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[0]hairyfeet writes "Bruce Byfield of Linux.com has just posted his third
[1]Office shootout between Microsoft Office and Open Office. This is the
first version comparing the new Microsoft Word 2007 with Writer from the
latest version of Open Office. The verdict: while Microsoft Office beats
Open Office in a few categories, overall Open Office wins ��� but by not as
large a margin as in the past." Linux.com and Slashdot share a corporate
overlord.
Discuss this story at:
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/09/11/2049204
Links:
0. http://moc.liamgta8691tsaebssab/
1. http://www.linux.com/feature/118986
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| Canadian Bureaucrats Don't "Think Different" |
| from the sense-of-design dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Tuesday September 11, @18:35 (It's funny. L|
|
http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/11/2140239
|
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owlgorithm writes "Apple's new store in Montreal has three parking meters
on the street in front of it. The city is in the middle of a campaign to
reduce downtown parking. In Apple's ever-conscientious attempt to improve
design, they offered to [0]reimburse the city for the parking meters and
their revenue if the city would remove them. Answer: Non ��� because 'We've
never done it before, so we can't.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/09/11/2140239
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