Most financial sites contain 'phishing' flaws     New Scientist  09:56:07 23/09/2004
Nine out of 10 financial and commercial websites contain flaws that could allow computer crooks to swindle users out of their cash, according to a new report.A study released by UK-based computer consultants Next Generation Security (NGS) on Thursday, reveals that 90% of the 100 financial companies audited by the company in the past year were vulnerable to an advanced “phishing” scam.Phishing invo ... More/Devami...38522

Did brain injury contribute to Red Baron's death?     CNN  09:56:07 23/09/2004
COLUMBIA, Missouri (AP) -- History books say that The Red Baron, the legendary World War I German flying ace, was shot out of the sky and died in April 1918. But new research suggests that his death spiral may have begun nine months earlier. A University of Missouri at Columbia researcher and his Ohio collaborator argue a severe injury to Manfred von Richthofen's brain during an earlier aerial con ... More/Devami...38521

Genesis capsule heading to Colorado     CNN  09:56:06 23/09/2004
Days of spaceflight 1,125 Days of Solar Wind Collection 884 Sample material collected approx. 0.4 milligrams DENVER, Colorado (AP) -- NASA will soon send its damaged Genesis space capsule back to Colorado, where builders at Lockheed Martin will join other experts in trying to figure out why it crashed in Utah earlier this month. The capsule will be trucked in the next week or so from the Army's Du ... More/Devami...38520

The Last Starfighter--The Musical!     Slashdot  08:56:09 23/09/2004
The Last Starfighter--The Musical! Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday September 22, @11:30PM from the death-blossom-mode dept. nomadic writes "Yes, seriously. Some people have decided to remake everyone's favorite obscure 1980's Star Wars ripoff into musical form. Definitely sounds like a Troy McClure role..." ... More/Devami...38514

Ceefax Turns 30     Slashdot  08:56:07 23/09/2004
Ceefax Turns 30 Posted by michael on Thursday September 23, @09:37AM from the over-the-hill dept. VirtualUK writes "Ceefax, the text information service from the BBC turns 30 today (just 3 days after myself)!! For those not lucky enough to have seen what Ceefax is about, it is text information pages sent in out-of-band data space of TV transmissions in Great Britain. What started off as a subtitli ... More/Devami...38513

The device that rocks the cradle     CNN  08:56:07 23/09/2004
LONDON, England (CNN) -- Parents of newborn babies could be in for a better night's sleep, thanks to an invention by a young design graduate, which gently rocks a baby if it starts crying. Garry Cho's "Caring Cot" could also save babies' lives, as it can sense whether the air temperature is appropriate and whether a baby is lying still for too long. Acting as a virtual nanny, the device works on s ... More/Devami...38512

Hubble heats debate over ionised universe     New Scientist  08:56:07 23/09/2004
Astronomers poring over the deepest image ever taken of the universe are coming to different conclusions about what made space transparent to light billions of years ago. The research may illuminate when the first galaxies were born.Just after the big bang, a roiling soup of charged particles, or ions, filled the universe. But as space expanded, the particles cooled and settled into neutral atoms ... More/Devami...38511

Smart helmet for motorcyclists     CNN  08:56:06 23/09/2004
LONDON, England (CNN) -- A British design graduate has come up with a way to make the road a safer place for motorbike riders, using technology originally developed for jet fighter pilots. Piers Tucker, 24, of Yorkshire, has created a motorbike helmet that is fitted with GPS technology, which displays information about what speed the bike is traveling. The device means that the driver does not hav ... More/Devami...38510

'Sims 2' creates new worlds of play     CNN  08:56:05 23/09/2004
By Marc Saltzman Gannett News Service Editor's Note: The opinions expressed in this column are solely those of Marc Saltzman, a freelance technology journalist whose reviews also appear on the Gannett News Service. It didn't take long for Jeff to develop romantic feelings for his housemate, Sara. But his hopes for something more than friendship came to a sudden halt at one of their house parties - ... More/Devami...38509

Sony’den Micro Vault serisi     NTVMSNBC  05:56:30 23/09/2004
Son yılların yükselen trendi olan taşınabilir USB bellekler her geçen gün kapasitelerini ve özelliklerini artırırken, günümüzde ilk çıkan örneklerden çok daha kabiliyetli modelleri bulmak mümkün.          Depolama aygıtları içinde en eskilerden biri olan disket sürücülerin tarihe karıştığı bugünlerde depolama aygıtları pazarında USB bellek hakimiyeti var. Özellikle taşınabilir olmaları, çok eski o ... More/Devami...38490

İnternet kullanıcısı 7 milyona ulaştı     NTVMSNBC  05:56:24 23/09/2004
Dünya’daki internet kullanım rakamlarını araştıran rapora göre 2004 yılında 934 milyon kişi internet kullanacak. Bu rakamın 2005 yılında 1 milyarı geçerek 1.07 milyar, 2006 yılında 1.21 milyar ve 2007’de 1.35 milyar kişiye çıkması bekleniyor.   Araştırmada açıklanan internet kullanıcı rakamları sadece düzenli internet kullanıcılarını değil, o sene içerisinde düzensiz de olsa internetten faydalanan ... More/Devami...38489

Al Qaeda’s New Webzine Rallies Women — in Veils and Robes — to Holy War     ABC News  05:56:11 23/09/2004
Against a pastel image of a road studded with roadblocks, disappearing into a desert, a banner in ornate Arabic script reads, "al-Khansaa," followed by a tagline, "published by the Women's Information Bureau in the Arabian Peninsula." Named after a renowned Arab poetess of the early Islamic era, al-Khansaa is a Webzine ostensibly written by women and specifically targeted at women. But instead of ... More/Devami...38487

Sleek Looks and Superb Performance to Woo Mac Fans and PC Buyers     ABC News  05:56:08 23/09/2004
Most all-in-one desktops with LCD panels (the Sony VAIO and Gateway Profile systems come to mind) are two units permanently connected together: the part of the case housing the motherboard and drives, and the monitor. But the iMac G5 has the CPU, motherboard, and drives mounted in the same 2-inch-thick chassis as the monitor. The result is the clean look of an iPod music player, supersized and pla ... More/Devami...38486

The 10 Issues That Drive Non-Technical Users Crazy     ABC News  05:56:07 23/09/2004
I've suffered many inconveniences and troubles, yet I can still say — without a hint of irony — that I would go through it all again, as long as I could achieve my desired results. I realize the majority of users are not like me, and certainly nothing like the real gearheads who work in our Labs. I'd argue that the best example of an average user or representative of the general computing populati ... More/Devami...38485

Lack of vaccine raises fears of flu pandemic     New Scientist  05:56:06 23/09/2004
Fears that bird flu could mix with human flu to create a highly infectious, deadly new strain heightened last week after Thailand reported that human flu is circulating in areas where there have been renewed bird flu outbreaks in poultry. The country does not have enough human flu vaccine to protect all workers against simultaneous infection by both viruses.The H5N1 bird flu that rampaged across e ... More/Devami...38484

'Smart Dust' Creates Tiny, Automatic Wireless Communication Net     ABC News  05:56:06 23/09/2004
The ubiquitous global network may already have interconnected millions of computers to share a flood of digital data. But soon, even more objects — ranging from thermostats to lighting fixtures to maybe even patches of sidewalks and roadways — will be hopping on the network bandwagon. At least that's the potential put forth by Dust Networks, a start-up company in Berkeley, Calif., and its wireless ... More/Devami...38483

The Sun's Travels and Why Fall is Nigh     Space.com  05:56:06 23/09/2004
Wednesday, Sept. 22 marks what scientists call the fall equinox in the Northern Hemisphere, when night and day are of equal length and cooler weather is on the way -- if it hasn't already arrived. But what's behind the shift? A year-long series of pictures by Greek photographer Anthony Ayiomamitis helps put the equinox into perspective, while also illustrating why we have seasons. The image shows ... More/Devami...38482

Genesis Capsule to Be Sent to Colorado     Space.com  05:56:05 23/09/2004
DENVER (AP) -- NASA will soon send its damaged Genesis space capsule back to Colorado, where builders at Lockheed Martin will join other experts in trying to figure out why it crashed in Utah earlier this month. The capsule will be trucked in the next week or so from the Army's Dugway Proving Grounds in Utah to the Lockheed Martin Space Systems facility southwest of Denver, NASA spokesman Don Sava ... More/Devami...38481

Ireland Cracks Down on Online Scammers     Slashdot  04:56:06 23/09/2004
Ireland Cracks Down on Online Scammers Posted by samzenpus on Thursday September 23, @05:00AM from the don't-call-there-anymore dept. bizpile writes "Ireland has decided to take some extreme measures to crack down on one type of online scam. They have decided to suspend direct dialing to 13 countries (mostly South Pacific Islands) in order to halt the use of auto-dialers. The measure, announced by ... More/Devami...38478

The Last Starfighter--The Musical!     Slashdot  22:56:06 22/09/2004
The Last Starfighter--The Musical! Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday September 22, @11:30PM from the death-blossom-mode dept. nomadic writes "Yes, seriously. Some people have decided to remake everyone's favorite obscure 1980's Star Wars ripoff into musical form. Definitely sounds like a Troy McClure role..." ... More/Devami...38462

Kazaa Loses P2P Crown To Edonkey     Slashdot  20:56:06 22/09/2004
Kazaa Loses P2P Crown To Edonkey Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday September 22, @09:00PM from the I-still-miss-napster dept. I(rispee_I(reme writes "According to the network population stats at slyck, FastTrack (home of Kazaa) is no longer the most populous filesharing network. Top honors now belong to edonkey, a network of German origins. (Most edonkey users connect with emule, a gpl client for W ... More/Devami...38457

Flexible Sensors Make Robot Skin     Slashdot  19:56:07 22/09/2004
Flexible Sensors Make Robot Skin Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday September 22, @08:10PM from the does-it-feel-like-a-robot dept. Roland Piquepaille writes "In recent years, lots of efforts have been made to give robots the ability to hear and see. But what about the sense of touch? Unlike us, robots don't have sensitive skin. But this is about to change. By using organic, or plastic, field-effect ... More/Devami...38456

Big Demand for Digital Music Players     Slashdot  17:56:06 22/09/2004
Big Demand for Digital Music Players Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday September 22, @06:30PM from the music-on-the-go dept. An anonymous reader writes "Market research company IDC is predicting a rosy future for MP3 player sales. They predict that by 2008 it will grow into a $58 billion industry - four times bigger than the US record industry. Also in the news, Sony will finally start making a dig ... More/Devami...38450

Emusic Relaunches - Cheap, DRM-Free Downloads     Slashdot  15:56:08 22/09/2004
Emusic Relaunches - Cheap, DRM-Free Downloads Posted by timothy on Wednesday September 22, @04:13PM from the if-they-have-what-you-want dept. An anonymous reader writes "Emusic.com has relaunched today. This is important for several reasons. 1) They sell MP3s. No DRM. I can play them on my Linux box or wherever. 2) They are encoding at 192Kbit/s VBR. That's near CD quality (and how I rip my own CD ... More/Devami...38444

Feds to protect dragonfly habitat     CNN  14:56:06 22/09/2004
TRAVERSE CITY, Michigan (AP) -- Prodded by a lawsuit, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has agreed to designate critical habitat for an endangered dragonfly found in only a few Midwestern wetland areas. The agency reached a settlement with five environmental groups that accused the government of shirking its responsibility to protect the Hine's emerald dragonfly. A federal judge in Washington, D. ... More/Devami...38440

Study: Antarctic glaciers melting faster     CNN  14:56:06 22/09/2004
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Glaciers once held up by a floating ice shelf off Antarctica are now sliding off into the sea -- and they are going fast, scientists said on Tuesday. Two separate studies from climate researchers and the space agency NASA show the glaciers are flowing into Antarctica's Weddell Sea, freed by the 2002 breakup of the Larsen B ice shelf. Writing in the journal Geophysical Resea ... More/Devami...38439

House approves video voyeurism crackdown     CNN  13:56:07 22/09/2004
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Calling video voyeurism the new frontier of stalking, the House on Tuesday approved legislation to make it a crime to secretly photograph or videotape people, often for lascivious purposes. Under the legislation passed by voice vote, video voyeurism on federal lands would be punishable by a fine of not more than $100,000 or imprisonment for up to one year, or both. Rep. James Se ... More/Devami...38438

Rats' brain waves could find trapped people     New Scientist  13:56:07 22/09/2004
Rats equipped with radios that transmit their brainwaves could soon be helping to locate earthquake survivors buried in the wreckage of collapsed buildings. Rats have an exquisitely sensitive sense of smell and can crawl just about anywhere. This combination makes them ideal candidates for sniffing out buried survivors. For that, the animals need to be taught to home in on people, and they must al ... More/Devami...38437

Nintendo, Sony vie for holiday shoppers     CNN  13:56:07 22/09/2004
(AP) -- Nintendo Co. and Sony Corp. made separate product announcements Tuesday that the video game giants hope will attract more customers ahead of the highly competitive holiday shopping season. Nintendo said its handheld device, called Nintendo DS, will arrive in North American stores for $149.99 on November 21, 10 days before the product is launched in Japan. Rival Sony, meanwhile, announced a ... More/Devami...38436

Revamped eMusic taps independents     CNN  13:56:05 22/09/2004
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Nearly a year since it was sold by Vivendi Universal to private investors, online retailer eMusic has undergone a facelift that includes a panel of music critics to help users comb its trove of independent music. The revamped service, scheduled to debut Wednesday, is the latest evolution for the pioneering retailer, the first to sell digital music files online in th ... More/Devami...38435

Current Crop Of HDTV Recorders Compared     Slashdot  12:56:06 22/09/2004
Current Crop Of HDTV Recorders Compared Posted by timothy on Wednesday September 22, @01:12PM from the always-three-steps-behind dept. rbrander links to this "nice review of all the HDTV Recorders from the Washington Post: DirecTV's based on the TiVo wins for best interface, but Dish Network's gets a few nods. There's also a nice swipe ('...spectacularly stupid decision') at JVC's for allowing onl ... More/Devami...38432

William Shatner Holds Auditions for Sci-Fi Film     Space.com  12:56:06 22/09/2004
RIVERSIDE, Iowa (AP) -- Capt. James T. Kirk came home to Riverside this week. William Shatner, who played the commander of the starship USS Enterprise in the '60s "Star Trek" series, arrived in Riverside Tuesday to hold auditions for four small parts in a low-budget, sci-fi movie he wrote with "Star Trek" co-star Leonard Nimoy. The working title of the movie is "Invasion Iowa." Shatner called the ... More/Devami...38431

Mars, Once Warm and Wet, Left Some Clues     Space.com  12:56:05 22/09/2004
A new theory about ancient Mars puts some fizz back in the idea that the red planet was once warm, wet and potentially habitable. Many studies have suggested that early Mars was covered by large oceans and blanketed by a thick atmosphere rich in carbon dioxide -- the stuff that puts the bubbly zing in soda. But if that's all true, then when the oceans evaporated a lot of the carbon dioxide should ... More/Devami...38430

Seismic surveys may kill giant squid     New Scientist  11:56:07 22/09/2004
One of the oceans’ most mysterious animals, the giant squid, may be being killed by human noises. Unusually high numbers of dead giant squid, washed up on Spanish shores, have led scientists to believe that loud, low-frequency sounds made by oil companies charting the sea bed are killing the creatures.Fear of damage to marine mammals has resulted in restrictions on low-frequency marine noise in th ... More/Devami...38429

Dışbank web sitesine uluslararası ödül     NTVMSNBC  10:56:12 22/09/2004
ABD bazlı Web Marketing Association (WMA) tarafından düzenlenen uluslararası yarışmaya, bu yıl tüm dünyadan 2,000’e yakın profesyonel/kurumsal web site katıldı.   Aralarında Google ve BurstMedia’nın da bulunduğu, sektörün önde gelen birçok kuruluşunun sponsor olduğu yarışmada, dünyanın önde gelen ajanslarından (COX Interactive, iXL, OgilvyOne, Organic, PoppeTyson, Siegel & Gale, Studio Archetype, ... More/Devami...38428

Slack LCD TV Market Means Cheaper Phones And Monitors     Slashdot  10:56:06 22/09/2004
Slack LCD TV Market Means Cheaper Phones And Monitors Posted by timothy on Wednesday September 22, @11:01AM from the lcd-prices-still-high dept. Shakrai writes "CNN and Business2 are running a story about the apparent failure of LCD TVs to make a major market impact and what it means for you. Specifically for us geeks it means cheaper cellular phones and laptops due to an oversupply of LCD manufac ... More/Devami...38427

iRiver H320 (Almost) Hits The Market     Slashdot  09:56:06 22/09/2004
River H320 (Almost) Hits The Market Posted by timothy on Wednesday September 22, @10:13AM from the looks-sweet dept. skyshock21 writes "iRiver appears to now be taking pre-orders for their H320 hard drive MP3 player. This is the one with the color screen that was featured on Slashdot a while back. Although it doesn't support .flac files like the Rio Karma, it does support .ogg, in addition to the ... More/Devami...38417

Senate Panel Recommends Funding Boost for NASA     Space.com  09:56:05 22/09/2004
WASHINGTON -- NASA’s vision for space exploration received a boost in the Senate Sept. 22 when a budget panel approved $16.38 billion for the agency for next year, $200 million more than the White House requested. The Senate Appropriations Committee had been poised to recommend providing just $15.579 million for NASA next year, $200  more than the agency’s 2004 budget and some $665 million less th ... More/Devami...38416

Bilişim hukukuna online sertifika     NTVMSNBC  08:56:08 22/09/2004
Bilgi Üniversitesi bünyesinde kurulan Bilişim Teknolojisi Hukuku Uygulama ve Araştırma Merkezi; 2004 - 2005 yılına Bilişim Teknolojisi Hukuku Online sertifika Programı ve e-İmza ve Uygulamaları semineriyle başlıyor.   BİLİŞİM TEKNOLOJİSİ HUKUKU ONLİNE SERTİFİKA PROGRAMI        Program, bilişim teknolojisiyle hukukun kesiştiği konularda katılımcılarına hem temel düzeyde hem de ileri akedemik düzeyd ... More/Devami...38411

Mars rovers' mission extended     CNN  08:56:05 22/09/2004
PASADENA, California (AP) -- NASA thinks its Mars rovers just might keep going and going and going. The space agency has funded another extension of their mission, for an additional six months, if they last. The latest funding came as NASA regained reliable contact with the rovers Spirit and Opportunity after a 12-day period in which Mars passed nearly behind the sun, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory ... More/Devami...38410

Satellites Track Glaciers Flows After Ice Dam Breaks     Space.com  08:56:04 22/09/2004
The breakup of an Antarctic ice shelf created runaway glaciers, swiftly dumping large amounts of ice into the ocean, according to a pair of new studies based on satellite data. The process might be repeated on a larger scale if the climate continues to get warmer, causing global sea levels to rise significantly, scientists said. The Larsen B ice shelf broke free of the Antarctic Peninsula, a finge ... More/Devami...38409

Mars rovers given six more months     New Scientist  07:56:07 22/09/2004
NASA’s Mars rovers have had their missions extended by a further six months after weathering the Martian winter solstice, NASA announced on Tuesday.Spirit and Opportunity have now survived their lowest point in terms of sunlight for their photovoltaic cells, and the low temperatures that threatened to freeze gears and crack brittle parts and connections. The expectation is that they will both grad ... More/Devami...38406

Samsung Demos Future Memory Chips     Slashdot  07:56:06 22/09/2004
Samsung Demos Future Memory Chips Posted by timothy on Wednesday September 22, @08:42AM from the future-is-tense dept. Fletcher points to this story in CNET Asia, excerpting "The Korean electronics giant unveiled an 8-gigabit flash memory chip Monday based on the 60-nanometer process, as well as a 2-gigabit DDR DRAM chip based on the 80-nanometer process. Flash chips, which retain data after a hos ... More/Devami...38405

Misbehaving liquid sent into space     New Scientist  06:56:10 22/09/2004
A satellite filled with water will show how liquid sloshes in space, helping engineers design better fuel tanks for future spacecraft. The “Sloshsat” is to be lifted into orbit in October by a heavy-lift Ariane rocket, whose maiden voyage ended in an explosion in 2002.Unpredicted waves in the fuel tanks of rockets and spacecraft have been blamed for several mishaps in the past. In the 1960s, the u ... More/Devami...38404

Yahoo Plans Its Own Music Player, Download Service     Slashdot  06:56:06 22/09/2004
Yahoo Plans Its Own Music Player, Download Service Posted by timothy on Wednesday September 22, @07:38AM from the despite-its-face dept. iPod writes "Since late last year, Yahoo has been developing its own music player software, which will be underpinned by a subscription and download service provided by MusicNet, sources familiar with the plan said. Yahoo is developing its own music player softwa ... More/Devami...38403

Pricey Portable Multimedia PC Offers a Ton of Features     ABC News  05:56:08 22/09/2004
Qosmio (pronounced KOS-mi-o) is a brand new line for Toshiba, slotting above the Satellite family of multimedia portables. The Qosmio moniker indicates all the AV goodies are present, including the Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition OS. The TV tuner is built-in, not bay- or PC Card slot-mounted as in previous Media Center notebooks, though you'll need the included "dongle" to connect the Qo ... More/Devami...38398

Web Sites That Focus on Socializing Fail to Connect     ABC News  05:56:07 22/09/2004
About a year ago, when these online networking schemes were cropping up all over the place, the idea was interesting enough to generate a lot of action. I was getting an invitation to join one or more of these systems daily. LinkedIn seemed to be the most popular at the time. I demurred, since I'm not much of a joiner. But after being hounded and hounded, I reluctantly joined a few of these servic ... More/Devami...38397

Study: When Making Friends, First 10 Minutes Are Key     ABC News  05:56:06 22/09/2004
If two people take an immediate liking to each other, the relationship will most likely grow over time. But if one of them is cool to the other, it's probably not going to work. That doesn't mean, of course, that subsequent developments won't alter the relationship, possibly even turning love into hate, but it does underscore the value of those first critical minutes. "It happens so rapidly it's a ... More/Devami...38396

SCIENCE TUESDAY     Space.com  05:56:05 22/09/2004
Floating around an airplane unhampered by gravity may sound like a blast, but only as long as you take precautions to keep your lunch in your stomach. Passengers planning a trip aboard G-Force One, a commercial aircraft that offers samples of weightlessness for $3,000 a pop, should anticipate motion sickness during their first ride aboard the parabolic-flying plane, according to NASA flight surgeo ... More/Devami...38395

Interview With Lead Yoper Linux Developer     Slashdot  19:56:06 21/09/2004
Interview With Lead Yoper Linux Developer Posted by timothy on Tuesday September 21, @08:07PM from the factionalism dept. Bongoots writes "Andy Kissner from Linuxforums.org has just posted this: 'In the past few weeks, there has been a lot of hype and controversy surrounding Yoper, ranging from insults to ruthless Gentoo comparisons. I recently sat down with Andreas Girardet, who is a key develope ... More/Devami...38377

More Cheap Aerial Photography     Slashdot  15:56:07 21/09/2004
More Cheap Aerial Photography Posted by michael on Tuesday September 21, @04:16PM from the looking-down-on-the-world dept. ptorrone writes "If you have an old digital camera laying around and pick up a $1.50 Timer Chip from RadioShack or DigiKey you can turn it in to a great aerial photography camera, this how-to from Engadget shows how they did it along with some other projects with the modded ca ... More/Devami...38365

Mars Rovers' Mission Extends with New Goals, New Funding     Space.com  14:56:05 21/09/2004
CAPE CANAVERAL - The Mars rovers emerged from a communications blackout period and the low point of winter today with new funding and big plans for the journey ahead. Engineers hope to put Spirit atop Husband Hill so it can get a view all the way to the edge of vast Gusev Crater, in which it landed. On the other side of the planet, Opportunity will soon leave Endurance Crater, visiting its discard ... More/Devami...38354

Next Space Station Crew Rehearses for ISS Docking     Space.com  13:56:05 21/09/2004
MOSCOW (AP) -- The replacement crew for the International Space Station started two days of preflight exams Monday, part of final preparations to relieve the two-man Russian-American crew finishing a six-month mission. Russian cosmonaut Salizhan Sharipov and U.S. astronaut Leroy Chiao are being tested on manually docking and undocking the Soyuz space craft with the orbiting space station and other ... More/Devami...38344

Spinach could power better solar cells     New Scientist  12:56:06 21/09/2004
An electronic device that uses spinach to convert light into electrical charge has been developed by US researchers.Shuguang Zhang at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US, and research collaborators integrated a protein complex derived from spinach chloroplasts with organic semiconductors to make a solar cell that could be combined with solid state electronics. Chloroplasts are structures in ... More/Devami...38343

Online Poker Bots Becoming Problematic?     Slashdot  11:56:06 21/09/2004
Online Poker Bots Becoming Problematic? Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday September 21, @12:45PM from the robo-flushed dept. scumbucket writes "MSNBC has a story about how poker bots have started to appear on internet gambling sites and the implications. It also talks about how a 'master level' poker-playing bot already exists. Could this proliferation of poker-playing bots undermine the almost $1 bil ... More/Devami...38332

Google omits controversial news stories in China     New Scientist  11:56:06 21/09/2004
The internet's most popular search engine Google has been accused of supporting Chinese internet controls by omitting contentious news stories from search results in China.State-sponsored internet providers in China routinely block access to internet sites deemed inappropriate by the government. These include both Chinese and foreign news sites carrying reports that criticise the Chinese governmen ... More/Devami...38331

Ask Jeeves Looks to Outshine Google     Slashdot  10:56:07 21/09/2004
Ask Jeeves Looks to Outshine Google Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday September 21, @11:05AM from the add-some-animated-gifs dept. bizpile writes "The AP is reporting that Ask Jeeves is looking to distinguish itself from its competitors by adding new tools for visitors to save and organize links to Web pages they find through the company's online search engine. "Google is not better than us," said Jim ... More/Devami...38310

Playstation cebe giriyor     NTVMSNBC  10:56:07 21/09/2004
Sony’nin Bilgisayar ve Eğlence bölümü başkanı Ken Kutaragi tarafından Tokyo’da tanıtılan iki yeni model, oyun konsolunda artan rekabet ve düşen kar marjlarına karşı elektronik devi firmayı yeniden kara taşımayı hedefliyor. Eskisine göre dört katı hafifleyen yeni Playstation2 (PS2) Japonya’da gelecek ay satışa çıkarken, mobil PS2 bu senenin son aylarında piyasaya sürülecek. Ürünün Avrupa’ya ulaşmas ... More/Devami...38309

Methane on Mars causes controversy     New Scientist  10:56:06 21/09/2004
Methane and water vapour are concentrated in the same regions of the Martian atmosphere, say scientists studying data from Europe's Mars Express orbiter. They say the link may point to a common source - possibly life - but others remain sceptical about the detection.In March, scientists using the Planetary Fourier Spectrometer (PFS) on Mars Express announced they had found methane in the atmospher ... More/Devami...38308

First of 6 new HHGG episodes, Tonight!     Slashdot  10:56:06 21/09/2004
First of 6 new HHGG episodes, Tonight! Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday September 21, @11:39AM from the can-we-stream-please dept. Prof.Phreak writes "From HHGG: Twenty-five years after the original radio series of Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy exploded into the public consciousness, the further exploits of its bewildered hero, Arthur Dent, are being brought to life in their ori ... More/Devami...38307

The case for life on the Red Planet     CNN  09:56:08 21/09/2004
Beagle scientist on a discovery that launched a mission to Mars By Colin Pillinger for CNN (CNN) -- My life changed dramatically on August 6, 1996, when a group of NASA scientists claimed to have found a fossil in a meteorite from Mars. I had been involved in Martian meteorite research since the early 1980s, helping to show that these rocks did in fact come from the Red Planet. The research my gro ... More/Devami...38306

Treaty curbs trade in toxic chemicals     CNN  09:56:08 21/09/2004
GENEVA, Switzerland (Reuters) -- The United Nations on Monday added 14 pesticides and chemicals, including lead additive for petrol, to a growing list of toxic substances in which trade is restricted. Under the Rotterdam Convention, such substances can only be exported from one country to another with the permission of the government of the importing state. "This is going to reduce the risk of peo ... More/Devami...38305

Sovyetler, Ay’da üs kuracakmış     NTVMSNBC  09:56:07 21/09/2004
Rusya’da yayımlanan haftalık Novaya Gazeta’da yer alan haberde, en önde gelen Sovyet bilim adamlarının üzerinde çalıştığı projenin 30 yıl önce başlatıldığı, ancak çok yüksek maliyet nedeniyle iptal edildiği belirtildi. Gazeteye açıklama yapan bilim adamı Aleksandır Yegorov, kendisinin de Ay’da üs projesinde bizzat yer aldığını, Sovyet bilim adamlarının nükleer silah tehdidi nedeniyle Ay’ın askeri ... More/Devami...38304

Device to save hospitals billions     CNN  09:56:06 21/09/2004
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (CNN) -- Imagine a computer program so clever, it senses the level of pain a patient is in and measures the exact amount of pain relief and sedative drugs they need. A team of New Zealand engineers and medical experts is working on a device that will be able to do just that. They hope their development will eventually be available for commercial use, potentially saving ho ... More/Devami...38303

Microscope brings atoms into focus     CNN  09:56:06 21/09/2004
OAK RIDGE, Tennessee (AP) -- Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers are peering into the atomic world with record clarity, developing an electron microscope image that can distinguish the individual, dumbbell-shaped atoms of a silicon crystal. "Every time you see something more clearly you learn some secrets," said Stephen Pennycook, who heads the lab's electron microscopy group. In a September ... More/Devami...38302

Microsoft radio venture gives DJs pause     CNN  09:56:05 21/09/2004
SEATTLE, Washington (AP) -- Fans of the Seattle music pop station Kiss 106.1 FM usually have to sit through an array of disc-jockey antics and advertising between listening to favorite artists like Avril Levigne and Ashlee Simpson. But not anymore. As part of its much-touted new MSN Music offering, Microsoft Corp. is testing a Web-based radio service that mimics nearly 1,000 local radio stations, ... More/Devami...38301

AOL Moves Beyond Single Passwords for Log-Ons     Slashdot  07:56:06 21/09/2004
AOL Moves Beyond Single Passwords for Log-Ons Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday September 21, @08:46AM from the are-you-secure-yet dept. ars writes "Yahoo is reporting that AOL is adding a new feature alowing customers to use two passwords to log on. The second password comes from a small small device from RSA Securitywhich displays a new password each minute. The scheme is called two-factor authentic ... More/Devami...38296

US sends plutonium to France     New Scientist  06:56:12 21/09/2004
Under heavy security and amidst much opposition, enough plutonium for 40 nuclear bombs is being taken by sea from the US to France for processing.The US and French authorities see the shipment as the first step in a new “atoms for peace” programme to convert 34 tonnes of plutonium from "surplus" US weapons into fuel for power stations."This is not just important for national security, it is import ... More/Devami...38290

Star Wars DVD Box Set Released     Slashdot  06:56:06 21/09/2004
Star Wars DVD Box Set Released Posted by timothy on Tuesday September 21, @07:20AM from the getcher-disk-on dept. dealsites writes "CNN reports that George Lucas is releasing the Star Wars DVD box set early on September 21, 2004 due to piracy concerns. Lucas had intended to release the box set of the original 3 movies after Episode III: Revenge of the Sith was released. However, he mentions that d ... More/Devami...38289

Pricey PC Display Shows 3-D Images Without Special Specs     ABC News  05:56:08 21/09/2004
Next to the power button, you'll find one marked "3D." If you have supporting software and a compatible graphics adapter, just press this button and the image on the panel will leap out toward you, even without your wearing any special glasses or goggles. The 3D imaging is created by a switchable parallax barrier behind the LCD panel. When it's off, all the light passes through the pixels and you ... More/Devami...38288

Sleek New Nokia Cell Phone Skips the Keypad     ABC News  05:56:07 21/09/2004
We've been looking quizzically at pictures of their keypad-less 7280 fashion phone since it was announced two weeks ago, but we wanted to hold off on judging it until we got our hands on the sleek little gadget ourselves. And when we did, we were amazed. This phone looks and works like no other. It was designed from the ground up as a second phone; the one you'll take out with you at night and on ... More/Devami...38287

Research Showing Men and Women Differ in More Than One Area     ABC News  05:56:06 21/09/2004
From the way we record information to how we process language to the size of our brains and different regions of the brain, clear differences have emerged through animal studies and the use of technology such as brain scanning. Scientists are also trying to get at the roots of what may be behind these differences by looking at the effects of chromosomes and hormones at work in lab animals. And thi ... More/Devami...38286

How Safe Is a Roller Coaster in the Sky?     Space.com  05:56:06 21/09/2004
Last week's announcement by the Zero Gravity Corporation that it would be offering weightless flights to paying customers was good news for thrill seekers.  Those who sign up for the experience will be treated to several stomach-rolling climbs and drops.  Although the planes used are slightly modified commercial planes, tests have shown that they can manage the demanding maneuvers. “It is definite ... More/Devami...38285

Monday, September 20, 2004     Space.com  05:56:05 21/09/2004
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Wikipedia Hits Million-Entry Mark     Slashdot  03:56:06 21/09/2004
Wikipedia Hits Million-Entry Mark Posted by timothy on Tuesday September 21, @04:51AM from the and-hits-it-hard dept. Sir Homer writes "The Wikimedia Foundation announced today the creation of the one millionth article in Wikipedia. Started in January 2001, Wikipedia is currently both the world's largest encyclopedia and fastest-growing, with articles under active development in over 100 languages ... More/Devami...38278

A Wi-Fi/VoIP Phone Booth In the Burning Man Desert     Slashdot  22:56:07 20/09/2004
A Wi-Fi/VoIP Phone Booth In the Burning Man Desert Posted by timothy on Monday September 20, @11:14PM from the burning-pots dept. Brad Templeton writes "I, (of EFF/ClariNet/rec.humor.funny) along with Brent Chapman (Majordomo/Building Internet Firewalls) and the satellite dish of John Gilmore (EFF/Cygnus/Cypherpunks/etc.) put together an engaging hack -- a battery-powered free phone booth using 80 ... More/Devami...38274

Triumph of the bloggers?     CNN  20:56:24 20/09/2004
CBS documents flap puts spotlight on Web commentators LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) -- Internet bloggers have drawn blood and American journalism may never be the same. To hear some press experts tell it, CBS's admission Monday that it was duped into using questionable documents about President Bush's National Guard service during the Vietnam War was a watershed moment brought on by a small ar ... More/Devami...38273

Interview With BBC Dirac Developer Thomas Davis     Slashdot  20:56:06 20/09/2004
Interview With BBC Dirac Developer Thomas Davis Posted by timothy on Monday September 20, @09:40PM from the making-pictures-move dept. arclightfire writes "The subject of the BBC video codec Dirac has been here before, but we've managed to get an interview with Thomas Davies, Senior R&D Engineer at the BBC who devised the Dirac algorithm. Interesting to note that the codec should be with Mplayer s ... More/Devami...38272

Northrop Tapped to Design Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter with JPL     Space.com  20:56:05 20/09/2004
WASHINGTON -- Northrop Grumman beat out Boeing and Lockheed Martin to win a $400 million contract to help NASA design the proposed multibillion dollar Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter (JIMO) mission. The U.S. space agency hopes to launch the nuclear-powered JIMO around 2015 on an ambitious mission to orbit three of Jupiter's planet sized moons. Under the contract, which runs through 2008, Northrop Grumma ... More/Devami...38271

Will Google Launch A Browser?     Slashdot  19:56:06 20/09/2004
Will Google Launch A Browser? Posted by timothy on Monday September 20, @08:21PM from the sweet-patooties-up-for-wager dept. ServeYourWorld writes "The New York Post is reporting that 'Based on the half-dozen hires in recent weeks, Google appears to be planning to launch its own Web browser and other software products to challenge Microsoft.' I took a guess and did a whois search for Gbrowser.com ... More/Devami...38268

Architecture Online     Popular Science  16:56:09 20/09/2004
Cartoonist Scott Adams first built the Ultimate Cubicle for Dilbert the office drone. Now Adams is designing Dilbert’s Ultimate House (DUH)—virtual proof that a home can be green without compromising on cushiness. Irritated by the inefficiencies of supposedly modern homes, Adams enlisted the help of tech-savvy fans, architects and energy experts to design an innovative, environmentally friendly ... More/Devami...38259

Wind carries GM pollen record distances     New Scientist  16:56:07 20/09/2004
Pollen from a genetically modified grass has blown on the wind and pollinated other grasses up to 21 kilometres away, says a new study. This distance is “much further than previously measured”, say the authors, and is thought to be a record for any GM pollen.The discovery comes as regulators decide whether to allow the planting of the GM creeping bentgrass on golf course putting greens across the ... More/Devami...38258

Traffic deaths rise after terror attacks     New Scientist  16:56:06 20/09/2004
Fatal traffic accidents rise by 35 per cent three days after a terror attack, according to a new study conducted in Israel. The finding suggests terrorism can cause a delayed reaction in the population at large.Previous research has studied how individuals respond to terror attacks - by developing post-traumatic stress disorder, for example."What has not been done is looking for the broader popula ... More/Devami...38257

Arrest in Cisco Code Theft     Slashdot  15:56:08 20/09/2004
Arrest in Cisco Code Theft Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday September 20, @04:07PM from the hack-and-roll dept. Kozar_The_Malignant writes "The BBC is reporting that an arrest has been made in the case of the stolen Cisco code that was posted to the internet last May. Approximately 800 MB was posted to a Russian security website. No name has been released and details are rather thin." ... More/Devami...38256

'Star Wars' Cast, Crew Demystify Trilogy     Space.com  15:56:06 20/09/2004
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- When it comes to "Star Wars," maybe there's too much gravity in space. Fans invariably take "Star Wars" too seriously, but the people behind the sci-fi series recall the experience as a surreal comic opera. Training a monkey to play Yoda? Studio complaints that Chewbacca was pantsless? The only thing that worked on R2-D2 was the dwarf inside? As the original trilogy heads to DV ... More/Devami...38255

Mars Express Yields Provocative Observations     Space.com  13:56:05 20/09/2004
Europe’s Mars Express is gathering data regarding the geological and atmospheric processes on the red planet -- information that might shore up the case that present-day life is percolating subsurface.   Recent analyses of data gleaned by the Planetary Fourier Spectrometer (PFS) carried by the spacecraft reveal that concentrations of water vapor and methane in the atmosphere of Mars significantly ... More/Devami...38250

India launches world's first education satellite     New Scientist  12:56:07 20/09/2004
Millions of illiterate people in remote, rural India could soon have access to an education, as a satellite devoted exclusively to long distance learning was launched on Monday. It is the world's first dedicated educational satellite, according to the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).India launched the $20 million, 2-tonne EDUSAT from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota, a tiny ... More/Devami...38243

SpaceDev to Build Piloted Spaceship     Space.com  12:56:06 20/09/2004
The aerospace firm SpaceDev cast its hat into the ring of private human spaceflight today, announcing its plans to build a reuseable spacecraft that may one day carry passengers into orbit. Based in Poway, California, SpaceDev is designing a piloted sub-orbital spacecraft that could eventually be scaled up for orbital flights. The effort springs from a partnership between SpaceDev and NASA's Ames ... More/Devami...38242

Thousands of zombie PCs created daily     New Scientist  11:56:06 20/09/2004
The rate at which personal computers are being hijacked by hackers rocketed in the first half of 2004, reveals a new report. An average of 30,000 computers per day were turned into enslaved “zombies”, compared with just 2000 per day in 2003.US computer security company Symantec says efforts to build so-called "botnets" - networks of zombies used to launch attacks on corporate websites or as anonym ... More/Devami...38236

Global Warming Puts China’s Yulong Glacier in Peril     ABC News  10:56:05 20/09/2004
Rising above the vermilion walls and tiled rooftops of picturesque Lijiang, it is said to resemble a dragon lying in the clouds. It is a dragon that just happens to be cloaked in one of China's most dramatic and accessible glaciers. Every year, tens of thousands of tourists are carried by cable car right to the glacier's edge on a sightseeing trip that can literally take one's breath away. At 12,0 ... More/Devami...38230

Testing safety on roller coaster in sky     CNN  10:56:04 20/09/2004
By Michael SchirberSPACE.com (SPACE.com) -- Zero Gravity Corporation announced last week it would be offering weightless flights to paying customers. Those who sign up for the experience will be treated to several stomach-rolling climbs and drops. Although the planes used are slightly modified commercial planes, tests have shown that they can manage the demanding maneuvers. "It is definitely an un ... More/Devami...38229

Mussels at North Pole hint at warmer Earth     CNN  09:56:07 20/09/2004
OSLO, Norway (Reuters) -- Mussels have been found growing on the seabed just 1,300 km (800 miles) from the North Pole in a likely sign of global warming, scientists said on Friday. The blue mussels, which normally favor warmer waters like off France or the eastern United States, were discovered last month off Norway's Svalbard archipelago in waters that are covered with ice most of the year. "The ... More/Devami...38223

Testing safety on roller coaster in sky     CNN  09:56:06 20/09/2004
By Michael SchirberSPACE.com (SPACE.com) -- Zero Gravity Corporation announced last week it would be offering weightless flights to paying customers. Those who sign up for the experience will be treated to several stomach-rolling climbs and drops. Although the planes used are slightly modified commercial planes, tests have shown that they can manage the demanding maneuvers. "It is definitely an un ... More/Devami...38222

Spacecrafts powered by thunder     New Scientist  09:56:06 20/09/2004
Thunderous sound waves could one day propel spacecraft to the edge of the solar system, say engineers who have developed a new type of acoustic engine.Current long-range spacecraft - like the US-European Cassini probe now orbiting Saturn - roam too far from the Sun to use solar power so instead carry plutonium bricks to fuel their engines. As the radioactive plutonium decays, it generates heat tha ... More/Devami...38221

Deaf kids give birth to new language     CNN  09:56:06 20/09/2004
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Deaf children thrown together in a school in Nicaragua without any type of formal instruction invented their own sign language -- a sophisticated system that has evolved and grown, researchers reported on Friday. Their observations show that children, not adults, are key to the evolution and development of language, the researchers report in Friday's issue of the journal Sc ... More/Devami...38220

Tracking The (English) Words We Use     Slashdot  08:56:06 20/09/2004
Tracking The (English) Words We Use Posted by Hemos on Monday September 20, @09:10AM from the interesting-models dept. Zugok writes "Wordcount.org has an interactive presentation of the 86,800 most frequently used English words. In addition they have Query Count which is a dynamic database of what are the most queried words on Wword Count. Then there is the conspiracy corner where certain words se ... More/Devami...38211

Digital Generation, Analog Retro Chic     Slashdot  08:56:05 20/09/2004
Digital Generation, Analog Retro Chic Posted by Hemos on Monday September 20, @09:47AM from the the-joy-of-old-skool dept. securitas writes "The New York Times' Juliet Chung writes about the latest technology trend: the growing popularity of analog technology with a generation that has grown up digital. 'Yesterday's technology designs are becoming popular among those in their teens and 20's eager ... More/Devami...38210

İngiltere’de cep sayısı nüfusu aşacak     NTVMSNBC  07:56:57 20/09/2004
Cep telefonu hattı sayısının artmaya devam ettiğini belirten uzmanlar, özellikle yaşlıların büyük bir hızla telefon almayı sürdürdüklerini açıkladı.   Uzmanlar, 65 yaşın üzerindeki nüfusun yarısından fazlasının cep telefonu sahibi olduğunu belirterek, 2003-2004 haziran ayları arasında 6 milyon yeni cep telefonu hattı alındığını belirtti. Bu arada, cep telefonunu en yoğun biçimde kullandıkları bili ... More/Devami...38209

Bilgisayar virüsleri % 400 arttı     NTVMSNBC  05:56:20 20/09/2004
Windows işletim sistemlerinin açıklarından faydalanmak isteyen virüs programı yazıcılarıyla spamcıların işbirliğine yöneldiğini kaydeden Symantec, kullanıcıları artan Linux ve cep bilgisayarları işletim sistemlerinin de, yakın gelecekte virüs saldırılarına hedef olabileceği uyarısında bulundu.   Norton programıyla tanınan antivirüs yazılımı üreticisi Symantec, ilk 6 ayda Microsoft’un Windows işlet ... More/Devami...38192

Software Creates Home DVD Easily, But Offers Minimal Editing Power     ABC News  05:56:09 20/09/2004
MyDVD Studio 6 is the core app in a line of Sonic products, ranging from the basic MyDVD Studio 6 ($69.99 direct), which includes MyDVD and CinePlayer (a software DVD Player) to MyDVD Studio Deluxe Suite 6 ($149), which adds a system-backup utility, CD/DVD premastering, and disc-labeling features. Our tests focused on the MyDVD authoring software. Like Ulead MovieFactory and Pinnacle Instant CD/DV ... More/Devami...38188

Web Dating Service EHarmony Finds a Match in Tech     ABC News  05:56:08 20/09/2004
"People spend more on online personals than any other form of online content," says Nate Elliott, Jupiter's Internet-dating analyst. "By 2009, we expect revenues to reach $623 million." Clearly, the leading sites stand to make a fortune, and few are raking it in like eHarmony.com. A recent study by Comscore, another Internet research firm, estimates that eHarmony had nearly 1.5 million unique visi ... More/Devami...38187

How Genesis Crash Impacts Mars Sample Return     Space.com  05:56:07 20/09/2004
NASA’s Genesis sample capsule not only stirred up dust and dirt when it crash landed in Utah last week, but also debate concerning the return to Earth of future extraterrestrial samples – specifically from Mars. While the high-speed impact of the return canister was not planned, the capsule’s design did permit the survival of some samples. However, due to a breach of the science canister caused by ... More/Devami...38186

NIGHTSKY FRIDAY     Space.com  05:56:07 20/09/2004
Donald Machholz of Colfax, California, an optician who has been interested in astronomy since age eight, discovered nine comet from 1978 through 1994. He has since spent 1,457 hours scanning the skies for other comets, without any luck. But his luck changed on the morning of Aug. 27, when he swept up his tenth comet. Machholz's latest discovery could become the third fourth this year to excite bac ... More/Devami...38185

Canadian Ansari X Prize Team Pushes Toward First Launch     Space.com  05:56:06 20/09/2004
With a successful balloon test under their belt and launch paperwork almost in the bag, some eager Canadian rocketeers are confident they will launch their privately built, human-carrying spaceship in time to compete in an international space race. Team members with the GoldenPalace.com Space Program Powered by the da Vinci Project said their group is on track for an anticipated Oct. 2 launch, one ... More/Devami...38184

Video Games for Cell Phones Focus on Social Play     ABC News  05:56:06 20/09/2004
Maybe. According to the Zelos Group, a marketing research firm in San Francisco, about 15 million cell phone users in the United States will spend $250 million on games this year. By 2008, the number of mobile game players will more than double to 31.4 million, generating more than $1.4 billion in sales of games for their cell phones. Already, several companies ranging from cell phone makers to tr ... More/Devami...38183

Genesis Reentry Observed By Ground, Airborne Instruments     Space.com  05:56:05 20/09/2004
Researchers are assessing data captured by ground and airborne science gear during the hypervelocity reentry of the Genesis sample return capsule. That information may provide some clues as to why the capsule made a destructive crash landing in Utah desert. The capsule’s parachute recovery system failed to deploy due to a still-unknown cause. The Genesis hardware plowed into the Utah Test and Trai ... More/Devami...38182

China's GM trees get lost in bureaucracy     New Scientist  03:56:07 20/09/2004
China has planted more than a million genetically modified trees in a bid to halt the spread of deserts and prevent flash floods. But a bureaucratic loophole means that no one knows for sure where all the trees have been planted, or what effect they will have on native forests. In the past five years, 8000 square kilometres of farmland in China has been converted to plantations. State foresters ha ... More/Devami...38171

Why You Should Never Lose Your Digital Media     Slashdot  00:56:06 20/09/2004
Why You Should Never Lose Your Digital Media Posted by michael on Monday September 20, @01:03AM from the lost-and-found dept. kkrista writes "What would you do if you found someone's digital media card from their camera in your taxi? One such individual has decided to provide the world with 227 days of entertainment. I Found Some Of Your Life will post a photo a day and accompanying fictional narr ... More/Devami...38163

Another Google Recruiting Technique     Slashdot  21:56:06 19/09/2004
Another Google Recruiting Technique Posted by michael on Sunday September 19, @10:00PM from the got-job? dept. An anonymous reader writes "The new edition of Linux Journal has a special insert: The GLAT (Google Labs Aptitude Test) is a Google recruiting quiz presented as a spoof of standardised aptitude tests. It is filled with math and Google-related trivia." ... More/Devami...38159

Lost Nuclear Bomb Found Off Georgia Coast?     Slashdot  17:56:06 19/09/2004
Lost Nuclear Bomb Found Off Georgia Coast? Posted by michael on Sunday September 19, @06:38PM from the always-the-last-place-you-look dept. securitas writes "Both CNN and ABC News report that a hydrogen thermonuclear bomb lost off the Georgia coast in 1958 may have been found. The 'Mark 15, Mod 0' nuclear bomb was jettisoned into the Atlantic Ocean off Savannah after a B-47 bomber and an F-86 figh ... More/Devami...38137

O'Reilly's New Magazine for DIY Tech Projects     Slashdot  14:56:06 19/09/2004
O'Reilly's New Magazine for DIY Tech Projects Posted by michael on Sunday September 19, @03:00PM from the stay-alert-and-keep-your-soldering-iron-handy dept. sargon writes "O'Reilly will begin publishing a new magazine, 'Make,' in early 2005 which is aimed at the do-it-yourself crowd. To quote the home page: 'Make brings the do-it-yourself mindset to all the technology in your life. Make is loaded ... More/Devami...38123

Sky Captain and the Films of Tomorrow     Slashdot  11:56:06 19/09/2004
Sky Captain and the Films of Tomorrow Posted by michael on Sunday September 19, @12:53PM from the talking-heads dept. professorfalcon writes "Foxnews.com has an interview with the stars of Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. They talk about their experience hugging a green screen for the entire film, and how the movie is 'unlike anything most audiences have seen before. It uses no sets, only co ... More/Devami...38120

Amazon's A9.com Search Engine Goes Live     Slashdot  10:56:06 19/09/2004
Amazon's A9.com Search Engine Goes Live Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday September 19, @11:16AM from the competition-benefits-everyone dept. scapermoya writes "Today was the official launch day of Amazon's A9.com search engine, which has been in public beta for some time now. It uses results from Google, and adds some personalized features, like bookmarks and search history. Its Java-heavy inteface re ... More/Devami...38116

The Incredibles Trailer Online     Slashdot  08:56:06 19/09/2004
The Incredibles Trailer Online Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday September 19, @09:03AM from the are-you-feeling-super-this-morning dept. Ant writes "The Incredibles movie trailers are posted online. Here are the Big (20 MB) and Full-screen (30 MB) Quicktime Files." ... More/Devami...38110

1 Million Firefoxes in 4 Days     Slashdot  08:56:06 19/09/2004
Million Firefoxes in 4 Days Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday September 19, @09:56AM from the more-bytes-than-you-can-count dept. Dodger73 writes "The Mozilla guys would have liked to reach 1 Million downloads of the Firefox 1.0 pre-release version within ten days of its release. After four days, the download counter now shows 1,006,060 downloads, surpassing the 10^6 mark more than twice as fast as the ... More/Devami...38109

'Ghost bugs' could help cut pesticide use     New Scientist  04:56:06 19/09/2004
Bacterial "ghosts" could be a new way to treat plants with pesticides. These empty shells of bacterial cells can be filled with chemicals and will stick to leaves and stems even after heavy rain. This could eventually allow less frequent pesticide spraying, a major target as agriculture tries to reduce costs and pollution. The bacterial ghosts are made from cells of Pectobacterium cypripedii, a sp ... More/Devami...38107

Hacking the RoboSapien     Slashdot  01:56:06 19/09/2004
Hacking the RoboSapien Posted by michael on Sunday September 19, @02:04AM from the t-1000 dept. unassimilatible writes "The RoboSapien is a cool humanoid robot toy with pretty decent dexterity and 67 pre-programmed instructions. But the folks at The University of Freiberg have made the RoboSapien autonomous by installing a Pocket PC to its head. The Pocket PC is equipped with a camera and communic ... More/Devami...38104

Kryptonite U-Lock Security Flaw     Slashdot  22:56:06 18/09/2004
Kryptonite U-Lock Security Flaw Posted by michael on Saturday September 18, @10:59PM from the new-york-bike-thieves-not-impressed dept. An anonymous reader writes "Once upon a time, a magic marker was able to defeat the Key2Audio copy protection scheme of older Sony CDs. Now, it has been shown that a Bic pen can easily open several models of Kryptonite U-locks. Please patch your systems, or instal ... More/Devami...38099

U.S. Lifts Export Ban on India     Space.com  15:56:06 18/09/2004
NEW DELHI (AP) -- The United States has lifted export curbs on equipment for India's nuclear facilities and liberalized high-technology trade, just days before a meeting between leaders from the two countries, a government statement said Saturday. The two sides spent months working out how to implement an agreement reached in January to lift U.S. restrictions on India's space program, allowing tec ... More/Devami...38087

A Visual History of Spam     Slashdot  11:56:05 18/09/2004
A Visual History of Spam Posted by michael on Saturday September 18, @12:55PM from the but-is-it-art? dept. Cristiano writes "Microsoft employee Raymond Chen has saved every spam message and virus-laden e-mail he's received at work since 1997 and graphed the spams and viruses to create a cool visual representation of one man's malicious traffic." ... More/Devami...38077

A Day with an ISP Spam Investigator     Slashdot  08:56:06 18/09/2004
A Day with an ISP Spam Investigator Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday September 18, @09:25AM from the on-the-trail dept. scumbucket writes "Network World Fusion has an interesting article about an abuse investigator for ISP Earthlink and his job of tracking down spammers. It's nice to see that major ISP's are making an effort to shut spammers down and kick them off of their networks." ... More/Devami...38070

China's changing farms damaging soil and water     New Scientist  03:56:10 18/09/2004
China's economic revolution is coming at a cost. While improved prosperity and government incentives convinced millions of people to give up the rural life and move into towns and cities, China's agriculture is in rapid decline, prompting fears that the country that is home to one-fifth of the world's population will soon be unable to feed itself.Those fears have been heightened by two new reports ... More/Devami...38066

Işığı yakalayan anten icat edildi     NTVMSNBC  03:56:06 18/09/2004
Bilim adamları, çok küçük karbon boruları kullanan antenin, optik bir televizyonun temelini oluşturabileceğini veya uygun biçimde geliştirildiği takdirde güneş enerjisini elektrik enerjisine dönüştürelebileceğini açıkladı.   Boston Üniversitesi’nden Yang Wang ve meslektaşlarının buluşu sayesinde, dalga özellikleri ve parçalarına sahip fotonlarla (ışık enerji birimi) taşınan ışığın, karbon atomları ... More/Devami...38065

Gaim Releases Version 1.0.0     Slashdot  03:56:06 18/09/2004
Gaim Releases Version 1.0.0 Posted by timothy on Saturday September 18, @04:04AM from the unpossible dept. bfree writes "Congratulations to all in the gaim team as they release for download version 1.0.0 (changelog). For those who don't know what gaim is, you could read the full answer on their site but for the lazy: 'Gaim is a multi-protocol instant messaging (IM) client for Linux, BSD, MacOS X, ... More/Devami...38064

LG Flatron 2320A 23" LCD Media Station Reviewed     Slashdot  21:56:06 17/09/2004
LG Flatron 2320A 23" LCD Media Station Reviewed Posted by timothy on Friday September 17, @10:11PM from the please-send-me-one dept. Julio writes "TechSpot has taken an in-depth look at LG's Flatron 2320A 23" LCD, you should know however that calling this a monitor would be an understatement, this is a multi-media workstation. The package consists of a 23" widescreen LCD color monitor, and a multi ... More/Devami...38056

Is That Pirated Software?     Slashdot  19:56:07 17/09/2004
Is That Pirated Software? Posted by timothy on Friday September 17, @08:08PM from the why-gno-it's-gnot-it's-gnu dept. underpar writes "According to this ZDNet.com article, Microsoft 'has launched a pilot program in which some visitors to the main Windows download page are being asked to let the software maker check to see whether their copy of the operating system is licensed.' The check is not r ... More/Devami...38053

Have You Been the Victim of Online Fraud?     ABC News  19:56:06 17/09/2004
Have you ever been tricked into giving away a credit card number, or been the victim of other types of online shopping fraud? If so, ABC News would like to talk to you for an upcoming story on World News Tonight with Peter Jennings. If you would like to share you story, fill out the form below. Please include a phone number and e-mail address, and a short description of what happened to you. An AB ... More/Devami...38052

Researchers invent antenna for light     CNN  18:56:05 17/09/2004
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Researchers said on Friday they have invented an antenna that captures visible light in much the same way that radio antennas capture radio waves. They say the device, using tiny carbon nanotubes, might serve as the basis for an optical television or for converting solar energy into electricity once properly developed. Radio and television signals are captured using antenna ... More/Devami...38045

Recording Deals In The Digital Age     Slashdot  17:56:06 17/09/2004
Recording Deals In The Digital Age Posted by timothy on Friday September 17, @06:40PM from the deal-me-this dept. cascadefx writes "There is a really interesting panel wrap-up over at the National Association of Recording Industry Professionals's website. The Incredible Shrinking Profit Margin panel discussion looks like it included some interesting discussion into the deals that are made with per ... More/Devami...38042

Tagging Photos With GPS Coordinates     Slashdot  16:56:06 17/09/2004
Tagging Photos With GPS Coordinates Posted by timothy on Friday September 17, @05:51PM from the good-for-areas-51-through-67 dept. ptorrone writes "As part of a camera mod project to make a low-cost aerial photography device we started finding other uses for the camera hack. This first part of this series is tagging photos with GPS coordinates by automating a camera and GPS unit, it's a DIY Black ... More/Devami...38040

Code created for shape-shifting robots     New Scientist  13:56:07 17/09/2004
Robots that change shape and even split into smaller parts to explore unfamiliar terrain could soon be feasible thanks to new algorithms designed to enable such metamorphic tricks.Zack Butler and colleagues at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, US, developed algorithms to control robots made from identical components, each capable of moving on their own but also able to attach to one another. As ... More/Devami...38022

Mobile-Ticketing - Delivery On Mobile Phone     Slashdot  13:56:06 17/09/2004
Mobile-Ticketing - Delivery On Mobile Phone Posted by timothy on Friday September 17, @02:40PM from the who-needs-a-boarding-pass dept. quark007 writes "That's Cricket is reporting that the first match of the India-Australia cricket Test series in Bangalore next month will have hi-tech ticketing with the launch of 'Mobile-Ticketing,' a new service that enables cricket fans across the world to book ... More/Devami...38021

Thousands of elephants still killed for ivory     New Scientist  12:56:07 17/09/2004
About 4000 elephants are being killed illegally each year to feed worldwide demand for ivory, say two new studies published ahead of a major international meeting in October. The studies also report a “surprise result” - that, for the first time, the biggest markets for ivory are in Africa rather than Asia. And embarrassingly for Thailand, the country hosting the Convention on Trade in Endangered ... More/Devami...38020

Hurricane Ivan rips into US Gulf Coast     New Scientist  12:56:06 17/09/2004
Hurricane Ivan has caused 23 deaths and several billion dollars’ worth of damage on its rampage across the US Gulf coast, suggest preliminary estimates.The heaviest damage has been to coastal Alabama and western Florida, east of the storm’s centre, which hit land early on Thursday morning at Gulf Shores, Alabama. New Orleans, to the west, escaped serious damage.Ivan struck land as a Category 3 sto ... More/Devami...38019

George Lucas Speaks on Trilogy Changes     Slashdot  11:56:07 17/09/2004
George Lucas Speaks on Trilogy Changes Posted by CmdrTaco on Friday September 17, @12:21PM from the say-what-you-will dept. Warlock7 writes "Yahoo has posted an interview with George Lucas by the AP on the changes to the original trilogy from the new DVD box set. They also discuss the future of the franchise and the direction he intends to take it." ... More/Devami...38017

Sea turtles storm Mexican beaches     CNN  09:56:09 17/09/2004
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (Reuters) -- Sea turtles are spawning in record numbers along Mexico's Pacific coast this year, thanks largely to stepped up protection against poachers, the nation's environmental watchdog said on Wednesday. Some 27.2 million Olive Ridley turtle eggs are under guard in nests at main breeding beaches in Oaxaca state, the environmental protection agency Profepa said. Of those, a ... More/Devami...38013

Asia switches slowly to green power     CNN  09:56:07 17/09/2004
SINGAPORE (Reuters) -- Rising oil prices and pollution are fueling interest in green power in Asia but experts see no prospect of a rapid switch from the region's growing dependence on oil, coal and gas. The problem is the high cost of renewable energy projects such as solar, wind, geothermal and biofuels, lack of government incentives and vested interests who believe green power is unviable or a ... More/Devami...38012

Kimonos receive high-tech makeover     CNN  09:56:07 17/09/2004
TOKYO, Japan (AP) -- For centuries, Japan's kimono-makers have relied on stencils, paintbrushes and hours of labor to turn out their elaborate and graceful creations. Kimono designer Yuko Iwakuma uses some more up-to-date tools: a computer and an ink-jet printer. Iwakuma is one of a new breed remaking the ancient Japanese art of kimono, relying on computers to make kimonos with brash new designs a ... More/Devami...38011

Uncompressed TV Video Over USB 2.0 from ATI     Slashdot  09:56:07 17/09/2004
Uncompressed TV Video Over USB 2.0 from ATI Posted by CmdrTaco on Friday September 17, @10:20AM from the want-to-build-a-mythtv-box dept. An anonymous reader writes "Ever wanted to watch TV on your notebook computer? Well, you used to be stuck with an external TV tuner that will usually compress the video so much to squeeze it down the USB interface, that it's not worth watching. But the new ATI T ... More/Devami...38010

Review: 'Pikmin' returns in deeper sequel     CNN  09:56:06 17/09/2004
By Marc SaltzmanGannett News Service Editor's Note: The opinions expressed in this column are solely those of Marc Saltzman, a freelance technology journalist whose reviews also appear on the Gannett News Service. When "Pikmin" was introduced in 2001, Nintendo GameCube fans either loved it or hated it. Some said the tactical strategy game, which involves manipulating hundreds of tiny Pikmin creatu ... More/Devami...38009

Federal bounty may nab e-mail spammers     CNN  09:56:05 17/09/2004
WASHINGTON (AP) -- What would it take to get someone to turn in one of those spammers who send millions of unwanted e-mails? At least $100,000, the Federal Trade Commission figures. Six-figure incentives are the only way to persuade people to disclose the identity of co-workers, friends and others they know are responsible for flooding online mailboxes with unsolicited pitches for prescription dru ... More/Devami...38008

Ghost In The Shell 2: Innocence in Theaters     Slashdot  08:56:06 17/09/2004
Ghost In The Shell 2: Innocence in Theaters Posted by CmdrTaco on Friday September 17, @09:47AM from the can't-wait-to-see-it dept. Lord Prox writes "The long wait is over, the sequel to Ghost In The Shell is here in theaters!. Titled Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence for the US market and seems to be available in a reasonably wide distribution for anime. There is also a trailer available." ... More/Devami...38005

Which Are the Fiercest: Tornadoes or Hurricanes?     ABC News  07:56:06 17/09/2004
Tornadoes, as defined by the National Weather Service, are "a violently rotating column of air with the ground and pendant from a thunderstorm," that can host winds with an estimated speed of up to 200-300 mph. Hurricanes, on the other hand, are powerful tropical storms that develop in a circular pattern over tropical or subtropical waters. Hurricane winds reach 74 mph or faster. So, which is wors ... More/Devami...38001

Instant Messaging Goes Graphical     Slashdot  07:56:06 17/09/2004
Instant Messaging Goes Graphical Posted by CmdrTaco on Friday September 17, @08:36AM from the but-i-like-hiding-behind-emoticons dept. williampiv writes "For most of the millions of people around the world who regularly use instant messaging, the communications tool has largely been a text-only experience in which typed emoticons offer only minimal clues to someone's state of mind. The recent laun ... More/Devami...38000

Pulsating red giants hide inside deceptive shells     New Scientist  06:56:07 17/09/2004
An optical illusion has caused astronomers to overestimate the size of a class of giant stars by a factor of two, according to new observations. The revised size measurements are likely to clear up some mysteries about the strange objects, while deepening others.Pulsating red giants – called Mira variable stars – have long fascinated astronomers. They brighten and dim by a thousand times or more o ... More/Devami...37999

New Video Cameras Replace Tapes With Tiny Hard Drives     ABC News  05:56:07 17/09/2004
The JVC Everio GZ-MC100 ($1199.95) and GZ-MC200 ($1299.95) will use 4GB Microdrive cards, which are removable hard drives measuring 1.5 inches square, but will also support standard CompactFlash and Secure Digital media. Click here to see images of the new JVC camcorders on PC Magazine's Web site. They will capture 2-megapixel still image capability as well as MPEG-2 video — each processed separat ... More/Devami...37996

Wireless Diaries and Other Tech Debut at Industry Conference     ABC News  05:56:07 17/09/2004
Many of the new applications were designed for the latest smart phones, specifically those that run Palm OS, various flavors of Windows Mobile, or Symbian. Many of the vendors talked about how they were targeting these phones now because, though they're not as prevalent as other feature-rich phones, they represent the direction phones are moving in. Two of the most impressive demonstrations involv ... More/Devami...37995

Plus: Passwords at Your Fingertips     ABC News  05:56:06 17/09/2004
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TECH WEDNESDAY     Space.com  05:56:05 17/09/2004
A new research station at the bottom of the world may give future Antarctica researchers some special treats, like the ability to live above ground and look out a window. German scientists are adapting a habitat designed by the European Space Agency (ESA) to replace the shifting, disappearing and aging Neumayer II Research Station, a pair of metal tubes buried amongst the snow of the Ekstrom Ice S ... More/Devami...37993

Vietnam’da 65 internet kafe kapatıldı     NTVMSNBC  03:56:13 17/09/2004
Ho Chi Minh kentinin iş merkezlerinin bulunduğu bölgedeki internet kafelerde denetim yapan polis, bilgisayarlarda seks siteleri ve hükümet karşıtı sitelerin adreslerini bulunca, 65 kafeyi kapattı.   Belediyenin yayınladığı Phap Luat (Yasalar) gazetesi, geçen ay internet kafeleri denetlemek için kurulan özel polis birliklerinin, müşterilerin hangi siteleri ziyaret ettiğini belirlemek için denetimle ... More/Devami...37991

HP’den yeni ürün yağmuru     NTVMSNBC  03:56:09 17/09/2004
Toplantıda, HP’nin kullanımı kolay dijital renkli baskı çözümleri, yüksek görüntü kalitesine sahip dijital ürün portföyü ve mobiliteyi ön plana çıkaran kişisel sistemleri görücüye çıktı.   Yeni ürünlerin sayısındaki fazlalık sebebiyle toplu bir lansman yapmayı tercih eden HP, basın toplantısında foto yazıcılardan dizüstü bilgisayarlara, dijital fotoğraf makinelerinden tarayıcılara kadar bir dizi y ... More/Devami...37990

AOL Will Not Support Sender-ID     Slashdot  22:56:06 16/09/2004
AOL Will Not Support Sender-ID Posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday September 16, @11:56PM from the yet-another-one dept. DominoTree writes "America Online said Thursday that it will not support the Microsoft-backed antispam technology called Sender-ID. The online giant cited 'lackluster' industry support and compatibility issues with the anti-spam technology SPF that AOL supports." ... More/Devami...37982

FTC Recommends Bounty on Spammers     Slashdot  21:56:07 16/09/2004
FTC Recommends Bounty on Spammers Posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday September 16, @10:22PM from the pay-to-play dept. joke-boy writes "AP reports that as part of the CANSPAM legislation, the FTC has issued a report recommending placing taxpayer-funded 6-figure bounties on spammers, much like the bounties placed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted." ... More/Devami...37974

Why the Storm Hit Where It Did     ABC News  17:56:09 16/09/2004
But it takes very little to steer even the most powerful storm. "It's the flow around the storm that's pushing it," said Sim Aberson, a hurricane researcher at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. "And you can liken that to putting, say, a marble on your dining room table and blowing on the marble." It's a simple but apt analogy. Hurricanes are easily moved by the prevailing winds ... More/Devami...37967

Why Give a Dead Man a Body Scan?     Popular Science  17:56:05 16/09/2004
A light shines under the closed door of a radiology suite, down a darkened hallway deep inside the University Medical Center in Bern, Switzerland. Outside the building, under the glow of a fluorescent street lamp, an empty hearse waits in the loading dock. Tonight the local undertaker is earning some extra money making a special delivery. Entering the radiology room through a back door, he gently ... More/Devami...37966

Storms may have blown shuttle off schedule     CNN  16:56:26 16/09/2004
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) -- Hurricanes Charley, Frances and Ivan have cost NASA a least a week's worth of work and upset its tight schedule for resuming shuttle flights, throwing into doubt the space agency's plans to launch Discovery in early spring. "Can they make that up? It's too early to say. It was a tight schedule to start with, and the facility survey is still going on," Apollo astrona ... More/Devami...37965

PVR's Head-to-Head: MythTV vs. Microsoft MCE     Slashdot  16:56:06 16/09/2004
PVR's Head-to-Head: MythTV vs. Microsoft MCE Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday September 16, @05:04PM from the two-enter-one-leaves dept. asciimonster writes "AnandTech has completed its second review of set-top box Personal Video Recorders. After checking out the Linux-based MythTV, previously covered here on slashdot, they compared it to Microsoft's Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004. 'Our analys ... More/Devami...37961

Mozilla's Goodger on Firefox's Future     Slashdot  16:56:05 16/09/2004
Mozilla's Goodger on Firefox's Future Posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday September 16, @05:54PM from the web-surfing-made-safe-again dept. An anonymous reader writes "The New Zealand Herald has an interview with Ben Goodger, lead engineer for Firefox at the Mozilla foundation. In it he describes how he got started, his reasons for Firefox's existence and what the future may hold for the little brows ... More/Devami...37960

Hurricanes Affecting Spammers?     Slashdot  15:56:09 16/09/2004
Hurricanes Affecting Spammers? Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday September 16, @03:59PM from the show-me-the-proof dept. Ant writes "According to BusinessWeek Online's article, Lots of folks think the hurricane hits in Florida, the Sunshine (and Spam!) State have taken slowed the volume of spam." I've not noticed any decrease. ... More/Devami...37959

Mouse May be Replaced by "Nouse"     Slashdot  15:56:08 16/09/2004
Mouse May be Replaced by "Nouse" Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday September 16, @04:33PM from the things-you-can't-make-up dept. mteichrob writes "A Canadian inventor has designed a computer mouse steered by movements of the nose and eyelids. The invention, dubbed a "Nouse," is meant to help people with a disability use a computer. I think this could also be quite useful for the average office lacke ... More/Devami...37958

Return to Flight on Track Despite Setbacks     Space.com  15:56:05 16/09/2004
NASA is making progress in its return to flight efforts, despite suffering setbacks from a recent rash of hurricanes that have pummeled the nation's space coast, according to the task force overseeing the agency's work. In a teleconference with reporters today, the joint heads of the Stafford-Covey Task Force, led by veteran astronaut Thomas Stafford and Richard Covey, said NASA will meet all 10 o ... More/Devami...37957

Longhorn's Copy Protection Standard     Slashdot  13:56:07 16/09/2004
Longhorn's Copy Protection Standard Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday September 16, @02:43PM from the makin'-copies dept. hype7 writes "The Register is reporting that Microsoft have attempted to force a last-minute CD protection standard on the recording industry in order to ship it in Longhorn. From the article: "Any such deal would see Microsoft support 'an industry-wide copy control platform' buil ... More/Devami...37948

Childhood learning may determine linguistic rules     New Scientist  13:56:07 16/09/2004
The way children learn may determine the building blocks of language, suggests a study of deaf Nicaraguan children.Ann Senghas of New York's Columbia University, US, and colleagues studied three generations of deaf schoolchildren from the Nicaraguan capital, Managua. The first deaf schools were established in 1977, giving many deaf children their first a chance to interact with one another. Pupils ... More/Devami...37947

Glimpse at Swollen Stars Hints at Earth's Demise     Space.com  12:56:05 16/09/2004
Today's global warming is nothing compared to what astronomers have just seen through the time machine of a telescope. The most detailed look ever at the environments very near the surfaces of several aging and bloated red giant stars reveals a potentially red-hot future for Earth. Because the stars are older versions of the one that gives us warmth, the measurements help astronomers envision what ... More/Devami...37946

Double-barrelled syringe combats contamination     New Scientist  10:56:06 16/09/2004
Here is one from the "simple ideas are the best" department: a double-barrelled syringe that could prevent blood tests becoming contaminated with skin bacteria and giving the wrong results.To test for blood infections, a sample is drawn from a patient's vein and cultured to see if bacteria are present. Ideally the skin puncture site should be thoroughly sterilised, but this takes up to 2 minutes a ... More/Devami...37938

Sample return missions examined after Genesis crash     CNN  09:56:08 16/09/2004
By Leonard DavidSPACE.com (SPACE.com) -- NASA's Genesis sample capsule not only stirred up dust and dirt when it crashed in Utah last week, but also debate concerning the return to Earth of future extraterrestrial samples, particularly from Mars. While the high-speed impact of the return canister was not planned, the capsule's design permitted the survival of some samples. However, due to a breach ... More/Devami...37932

Columbia shuttle fragment found in Texas     CNN  09:56:08 16/09/2004
LUFKIN, Texas (AP) -- A large piece of space shuttle Columbia debris was found recently in southeast Texas, a NASA official said. The 6-foot-long piece of the crew compartment was discovered two weeks ago in Newton County by a wildlife biologist, sheriffs officials said. Bruce Buckingham, a Kennedy Space Center spokesman, confirmed Wednesday that the piece discovered two weeks ago was from the shu ... More/Devami...37931

US candidates split over scientific issues     CNN  09:56:07 16/09/2004
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- U.S. President George W. Bush defended restrictions on stem-cell research on Wednesday and renewed nuclear-arms development, while Democratic challenger John Kerry opposed his positions and accused Bush of placing ideology before science. Both candidates in this year's presidential election detailed their science policies in written responses to questions posed to their cam ... More/Devami...37930

Ivan drives Hurricane Hunters from base     CNN  09:56:07 16/09/2004
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) -- The Air Force Reserve's Hurricane Hunters -- those fearless crews who fly into the eye of the storm to gather critical information -- were chased from their base on the Gulf Coast by Hurricane Ivan. On Tuesday, the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, better known as the military's Hurricane Hunters, evacuated Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi and resumed their daredev ... More/Devami...37929

Earthlink Releases SIP Based P2P File-Sharing App     Slashdot  09:56:06 16/09/2004
Earthlink Releases SIP Based P2P File-Sharing App Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday September 16, @10:00AM from the hey-buddy-gotta-file dept. Kaseijin writes "'We believe that if peer-to-peer flourishes, the Internet flourishes.' Earthlink's Research and Development division has released SIPshare, a prototype file-sharing application based on SIP. The code is available under a BSD-style license." ... More/Devami...37928

New Microsoft patch to fix security flaw     CNN  09:56:05 16/09/2004
REDMOND, Washington (AP) -- Microsoft Corp. announced Tuesday it has found a new security flaw with its Windows XP operating system and warned that an attacker could infiltrate other computers by persuading their owners to open a specialized graphics file. The company released a patch to fix the flaw as well as a tool that allows users to scan their systems to see if they need it. Users who have a ... More/Devami...37927

Supercomputers race to predict storms     CNN  09:56:05 16/09/2004
MONTEREY, California (AP) -- Thousands of miles from the rain and wind of Hurricane Ivan, a model of the storm swirls in the memory and processors of a supercomputer that predicts its likely course and strength. Working through complex mathematical equations that describe the atmosphere's behavior across the globe, hundreds of microprocessors perform billions of calculations each second on observa ... More/Devami...37926

Motherboard Design Process     Slashdot  07:56:06 16/09/2004
Motherboard Design Process Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday September 16, @08:17AM from the get-all-up-in-that dept. MBRFan writes "MBReview has posted the latest revision of their 'Motherboards - The Designing Process' article. This article covers the design process for modern motherboards, and also goes over some of the most common components that can be found. Definite read for information lovers ... More/Devami...37922

Google's Gmail inspires imaginative 'hacks'     New Scientist  07:56:06 16/09/2004
A number of ingenious uses for Google's capacious free email service Gmail have surfaced since the service’s launch.Gmail was created by the web search company Google in April 2004 amid much excitement as every user is promised an unprecedented gigabyte of storage space for messages. Google encourages users to keep all their old messages and automatically searches these to determine what kind of w ... More/Devami...37921

Animal Robots     Slashdot  07:56:06 16/09/2004
Animal Robots Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday September 16, @08:55AM from the this-means-something dept. hamlet2600 writes "The New York Time is running an article all about how animal like robots [Soul Sucking registration required] are beginning to become more imporant in furthering research. For years reseachers have been trying to make humanoid robots, Honda's ASIMO, MIT's M2 are some notable o ... More/Devami...37920

Flight to Replace Space Station Crew Faces Possible Delay     Space.com  07:56:05 16/09/2004
The planned flight of a Russian spaceship to replace the crew of the International Space Station could be delayed up to 10 days beyond the planned Oct. 9 launch, according to the Russian Federal Space Agency. Russia's Itar-Tass news agency reports that engineers are working to resolve a safety issue with the Soyuz transport craft before the launch can proceed. An explosive bolt designed to fire du ... More/Devami...37919

Mars laser will beam super-fast data     New Scientist  06:56:07 16/09/2004
A laser that can beam data from Mars to Earth at 10 times the rate of current radio links will be flown to the Red Planet in 2009, say NASA scientists. The laser will be the first test of such technology in deep space and may usher in a new era of space communication."It is the next big thing," says Stephen Townes, deputy manager of the Mars Laser Communication Demonstration at NASA's Jet Propulsi ... More/Devami...37918

Now Boarding: Zero G Flights for the Public     Space.com  06:56:06 16/09/2004
The Zero Gravity Corporation has been given the thumbs up by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to conduct "weightless flights" for the general public, providing the sensation of floating in space. Tickets are on sale for around $3,000. A specially modified Boeing 727-200 aircraft, called G-Force One, will be used during a nationwide tour Sept. 14-24. "We kick off a two-week tour with Zero- ... More/Devami...37917

Strong, New Version of an Antispyware Classic     ABC News  05:56:07 16/09/2004
In addition to the Plus edition we tested, Lavasoft continues to offer its Personal edition (free, but lacking real-time blocking) and a Professional edition ($39.95 direct), which offers specialized and corporate-oriented features, such as command line automation and support for centralized storage of preferences and log files. Ad-Aware's Ad-Watch real-time blocking did reasonably well in our tes ... More/Devami...37915

The Hidden 'Gotchas' of Sunday Sale Ads for Bargain PCs     ABC News  05:56:07 16/09/2004
I'm all for the $500 (or less) computer and have even bought one myself, but I did so with a clear understanding of what I was and was not getting. The other day I spent some time really looking carefully at a half dozen or so of these flyer inserts from Dell, Circuit City, Best Buy, and Staples. Each of them offered attractive-looking systems for roughly $500, and the ads adroitly listed system s ... More/Devami...37914

After Years of Searching, Retired Officer Finds Lost Bomb     ABC News  05:56:05 16/09/2004
The lost hydrogen bomb has been missing since 1958 when a B-47 bomber collided with another plane. The pilot of the other plane bailed out safely before his aircraft crashed. The crew of the B-47 tried landing their slightly damaged plane three times at nearby Hunter Air Force Base in Georgia, but finally jettisoned the bomb into the Atlantic Ocean to avoid the risk of a detonation upon landing. T ... More/Devami...37913

Nose-steered mouse could save aching arms     New Scientist  04:56:09 16/09/2004
Tired of using a mouse to control your PC? Perhaps there is another option for when your arm starts to ache: your nose. A novel PC control system lets users nudge a cursor around the screen with gentle movements of their nose. Blinking the left or right eye twice takes the place of left or right mouse clicks. The inventor, Dmitry Gorodnichy of the Institute of Information Technology in Ottawa, Can ... More/Devami...37912

Nokia’dan cepte dosya paylaşımı     NTVMSNBC  04:56:07 16/09/2004
Müzik, video ve oyunlar yakında mobil telefonlar için geliştirilen dosya paylaşımı ağları üzerinden paylaşılabilecek. Nokia’nın Budapeşte’deki araştırma merkezinde geliştirilen sistem internet kullanıcılarının “peer to peer” adı verilen teknolojiyi cep telefonları üzerinden kullanmalarını mümkün kılıyor.   Sistem şimdilik sadece 6600 modeli telefonlar üzerinde çalışıyor. Kazaa ve EMule gibi popüle ... More/Devami...37911

Bill Gates Gives $20M to CMU for New Building     Slashdot  22:56:06 15/09/2004
Bill Gates Gives $20M to CMU for New Building Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday September 15, @11:23PM from the you-must-reboot-before-taking-this-class dept. touretzky writes "Carnegie Mellon University announced on Tuesday that The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation had donated $20 million toward the cost of a new building to be called the "Gates Center for Computer Science". Some faculty have sug ... More/Devami...37906

Wall-eye may have helped Rembrandt     CNN  19:56:06 15/09/2004
BOSTON, Massachusetts (Reuters) -- Rembrandt, the 17th-century Dutch master known for his skill in using light to carry perspective, may have been wall-eyed, a U.S. researcher proposed on Wednesday. An analysis of 36 self-portraits of the great painter suggest he had a strabismus -- a misalignment of one eye that caused it to point slightly outward. This condition, popularly known as wall-eye, may ... More/Devami...37903

XM Radio Plans Online Music Service     Slashdot  18:56:09 15/09/2004
XM Radio Plans Online Music Service Posted by CowboyNeal on Wednesday September 15, @07:44PM from the joining-the-fray dept. Grump writes "Diving into the already crowded online music business, XM Radio Online, will launch sometime in early October and operate commercial-free, just as its satellite programming does. XM will charge $7.99 per month for unlimited listening and offer a discount rate o ... More/Devami...37900

Will cyber journalists turn the tables on big media?     CNN  16:56:06 15/09/2004
By Christine Boese CNN Headline News (CNN) -- I've been reading a new book by Dan Gillmor called "We the Media." Actually, I'm reading the e-book, but I already know I will pony up for the print version as well. This book picks up on a line of thinking popularized online by something called "The Cluetrain Manifesto," also available as a print book. "The Cluetrain Manifesto" was widely loved and cr ... More/Devami...37895

Romancing the phone     CNN  16:56:05 15/09/2004
HONG KONG, China (CNN) -- For men seeking true romance there is now a new mating game with an unusual twist -- it is virtual and mobile. A fantasy world in which lovesick men can wine and dine a virtual girlfriend on their 3G phones is about to be rolled out in Asia and Europe. You will soon be able to download an artificial girlfriend, then track her movements via images on a 3G mobile handset. A ... More/Devami...37894

NASA Transfers X-37 Project to DARPA     Space.com  13:56:05 15/09/2004
WASHINGTON — NASA has transferred its X-37 technology demonstration program to the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which plans to go ahead with atmospheric drop tests of the prototype space plane next year. NASA spokesman Michael Braukus said Sept. 15 the U.S. space agency would remain involved in the X-37 program, but that DARPA would now be running the show. Braukus ... More/Devami...37885

Starry nights clearest in Antarctica     New Scientist  12:56:07 15/09/2004
A high, almost windless spot in the central region of the Antarctic plateau is the best place on Earth to view the stars, according to the first results from a small, automated telescope. The findings suggest the site could be a better option than space for new telescopes designed to hunt for evidence of life on other planets. The images obtained from the astronomy test station at Dome C, 75° sout ... More/Devami...37883

Dutch bird flu infected hundreds of people     New Scientist  10:56:07 15/09/2004
Dutch scientists have found that more than five times as many people as they thought may have been infected during a bird flu outbreak in Dutch chickens in 2003. The flu is not the same as the one now breaking out again in East Asia, but it shows once again that these viruses are capable of unpleasant surprises.The 2003 outbreak, which led to the culling of 31 million birds on more than a thousand ... More/Devami...37880

Software bug raises spectre of 'JPEG of death'     New Scientist  10:56:06 15/09/2004
Flawed software code used by numerous Microsoft applications to render images mean that a specially constructed image file could hijack a computer or spread a virus.Ten years ago the idea of an image infecting a computer was the subject of a hoax email. But what was once a myth is now a genuine threat after Microsoft disclosed a flaw in the image processing code used in a range of its software pro ... More/Devami...37879

War of the Worlds Remake Already Shot Overseas     Slashdot  10:56:06 15/09/2004
War of the Worlds Remake Already Shot Overseas Posted by timothy on Wednesday September 15, @11:38AM from the honor-the-orson dept. AlphaJoe writes "In regards to remaking War of the Worlds, Steven Spielberg has apparently been beaten to the punch by an English rival, director Timothy Hines, as being reported by SF Crowsnest. Principal photography has already been completed, and a Spring 2005 rele ... More/Devami...37878

Drivers fight fuel prices with tech     CNN  10:56:05 15/09/2004
NEW YORK (Reuters) -- U.S. drivers are taking the fight against high fuel costs into the high-tech arena. They now use web sites and computer software to find the best bargains at the pumps. Web sites like Gasbuddy and Gaspricewatch are giving the workaday motorist, tired of sticker shock, a way to find the cheapest retail fuel prices in their neighborhoods. This comes at a time when pump prices a ... More/Devami...37877

High-tech job market lost 400,000 jobs     CNN  10:56:05 15/09/2004
SEATTLE, Washington (AP) -- The U.S. information tech sector lost 403,300 jobs between March 2001 and this past April, and the market for tech workers remains bleak, according to a new report. Perhaps more surprising, just over half of those jobs -- 206,300 -- were lost after experts declared the recession over in November 2001, say the researchers from the University of Illinois-Chicago. In all, ... More/Devami...37876

Species on Colorado River get protection     CNN  09:56:06 15/09/2004
PHOENIX, Arizona (AP) -- Interior Secretary Gale Norton has signed an agreement with representatives of Arizona, Nevada and California to protect wildlife habitat on the Colorado River and aid native species. The Lower Colorado River Multi-Species Conservation Program will create 8,100 acres of riparian, marsh and backwater habitat for about 27 species, six of which are endangered. "As we look at ... More/Devami...37869

MGM Purchase Gives Sony An Edge In Disc Format War     Slashdot  09:56:06 15/09/2004
MGM Purchase Gives Sony An Edge In Disc Format War Posted by timothy on Wednesday September 15, @10:04AM from the any-color-so-long-as-it's-sony dept. Grump writes "The New York Times reports: 'The purchase of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer by a group led by Sony will not only give the company an enormous film library but also considerable power in its fight to set the format for the next generation of digit ... More/Devami...37868

Space habitat headed for Antarctica     CNN  09:56:05 15/09/2004
By Tariq MalikSPACE.com (SPACE.com) -- A new research station at the bottom of the world may give future Antarctica researchers some special treats like living above ground and looking out a window. German scientists are adapting a habitat designed by the European Space Agency to replace the aging Neumayer II Research Station a snow-covered pair of metal tubes buried amongst the snow of the Ekstro ... More/Devami...37867

Sony Begins OLED Mass Production     Slashdot  08:56:08 15/09/2004
Sony Begins OLED Mass Production Posted by timothy on Wednesday September 15, @08:28AM from the not-a-moment-too-soon dept. Dodger73 writes "According to their press release at sony.net, Sony beings mass production of full color OLED displays at 3.8" size for their Clie PEG-VZ90 'Personal Entertainment Handheld.' The press release claims, that their 'Super Top Emission' technology reaches 150cd/m^ ... More/Devami...37866

Amazon's A9: How Well Is the Hype Justified?     Slashdot  08:56:07 15/09/2004
Amazon's A9: How Well Is the Hype Justified? Posted by timothy on Wednesday September 15, @09:14AM from the battelle-ground dept. An anonymous reader submits "Amazon have put up a new version of their A9 search engine. The "Beta" label was dropped, the color scheme changed, and new search types were added: Images (provided by Google), Movies (provided by IMDB), and Reference (provided by GuruNet). ... More/Devami...37865