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Submission + - Facebook: "Anonymity Has To Go Away" 4

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 02, 2011 @01:48PM

An anonymous reader writes: Facebook’s marketing director Randi Zuckerberg, who also happens to be Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s sister, wants to put an end to online anonymity. She believes that Internet users would act much more responsibly on the Internet if they were forced to use their real names at all times.

Related: Poole To Zuckerberg: You’re Doing It Wrong

Submission + - Skype for iPad Avaialble in the App Store (ihelplounge.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 02, 2011 @08:48AM

An anonymous reader writes: The developers of the application Skype app offer a version dedicated to the Apple iPad. Already available on Windows, Mac, iPhone

Submission + - NASA to Launch $96mill Cleanup of Shuttle Program (inhabitat.com)

Submitted by Elliot Chang on Monday August 01, 2011 @12:11PM

Elliot Chang writes: NASA reports that the pollution caused by Space Shuttle launches at Kennedy Space Center in Florida will cost the government $96 million and will take 30 years to properly clean up. NASA officially ended the Space Shuttle Program on July 21st as the Space Shuttle Atlantis touched down for the final time at the Kennedy Space Center. It seems that the plumes of smoke resulting from the 135 shuttle launches caused toxic chemicals to seep into the sandy soil around the space center.

Submission + - Crunch can and should be avoided (shotgundentist.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 01, 2011 @11:03AM

An anonymous reader writes: An article about why crunch and unpaid overtime in the games industry isn't acceptable (and definitely not a necessary characteristic of the field).

Submission + - Samsung wont sell Android tablet in Australia (edibleapple.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 01, 2011 @10:01AM

An anonymous reader writes: In yet another blow to Android, Samsung has agreed not to sell the latest version of its tablet device in Australia until patent litigation in the country is completed.

Submission + - Report: Google Running 900,000 Servers (datacenterknowledge.com)

Submitted by 1sockchuck on Monday August 01, 2011 @09:31AM

1sockchuck writes: How many servers is Google using? The company won't say, but a new report places the number at about 900,000. The estimate is based on data Google shared with researcher Jonathan Koomey, for a new report on data center power use. The data updates a 2007 report to Congress, and includes a surprise: data centers are using less energy that projected, largely due to the impact of the recession (buying fewer servers) and virtualization.

Submission + - Blizzard Reveal the Diablo 3 Auction House (ausgamers.com)

Submitted by

trawg

on Monday August 01, 2011 @03:31AM

trawg writes: "At a special event at Blizzard HQ in California, gaming press were treated to the first look at the Diablo 3 auction house — featuring real-world money transactions across different regions allowing you to buy and sell items with real money. There'll be a listing fee and a sales fee for auctions, and while they're not talking dollar numbers just yet, Blizzard assure gamers that they're not looking to pinch pennies."

Submission + - Chrome Extension Helps Find Noisy Tabs (mutetab.com)

Submitted by

mutetab

on Sunday July 31, 2011 @11:08PM

mutetab writes: "I recently wrote a Chrome extension called MuteTab that helps you narrow down which tab is making a sound by detecting which tabs contain plugins, HTML5 audio/video, and Java applets. It also gives you a right click menu that will mute tabs (via Javascript APIs when available, otherwise hiding them like FlashBlock does) and can automatically mute background tabs.

Be sure to read the FAQ writeup (http://www.mutetab.com/mutetabfaq.html#fixingbrowsersound) to learn about some ways we can improve detecting which tab has sound and mute it."

Submission + - Microsoft Dilutes Open Source, Coins Open Surface (muktware.com)

Submitted by sfcrazy on Thursday July 28, 2011 @04:29AM

sfcrazy writes: Now, Microsoft is coining yet another term to further confuse users — Open Surface. Senior Director for Open Source Communities at Microsoft, Gianugo Rabellino, said at Oscon 2011 that customer don't care about the underlying platform as long as the APIs, protocols and standards for the cloud are open. That's when he threw the term 'open surface'.

Submission + - Most enterprises plan to be on IPv6 by 2013 (networkworld.com)

Submitted by

Julie188

on Wednesday July 27, 2011 @12:18PM

Julie188 writes: "More than 70% of IT departments plan to upgrade their websites to support IPv6 within the next 24 months, according to a recent survey of more than 200 IT professionals conducted by Network World. Plus, 65% say they will have IPv6 running on their internal networks by then, too. One survey respondent, John Mann, a network architect at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, said his organization has been making steady IPv6 progress since 2008. "Mostly IPv6 has just worked," he said. "The biggest problem is maintaining forward progress with IPv6 while it is still possible to take the easy option and fall back to IPv4.""

Submission + - OK Go goes HTML5. (nytimes.com) 1

Submitted by edumacator on Wednesday July 27, 2011 @10:59AM

edumacator writes: The YouTube sensation OK Go has just released their latest video using HTML5. The video is pretty cool itself, but the interactive feature is great.
OK Go premieres their latest video “All Is Not Lost,” which includes an interactive HTML5 version.

Submission + - Cryogenics founder is now Patient #106 (digitaljournal.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 27, 2011 @10:48AM

An anonymous reader writes: The Digital Journal reports that Robert Ettinger, the pioneer of cryogenics, died last Saturday after several weeks of health problems; his body will be preserved frozen in liquid nitrogen at -196C with the hope that medical technology will allow him to continue living.

Submission + - Kinect Star Wars Bundle out this Holiday Season (xboxfreedom.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 27, 2011 @10:05AM

An anonymous reader writes: Microsoft and LucasArts have teamed up and will be releasing a “Kinect Star Wars” bundle this holiday season to coincide with the release of the game.

Submission + - MS-DOS is 30 years old today (extremetech.com) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 27, 2011 @08:47AM

An anonymous reader writes: Thirty years ago, on July 27 1981, Microsoft bought the rights for QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System) from Seattle Computer Products (SCP) for $25,000. QDOS, otherwise known as 86-DOS, was designed by SCP to run on the Intel 8086 processor, and was originally thrown together in just two months for a 0.1 release in 1980 (thus the name). Meanwhile, IBM had planned on powering its first Personal Computer with CP/M-86, which had been the standard OS for Intel 8086 and 8080 architectures at the time, but a deal could not be struck with CP/M's developer, Digital Research. IBM then approached Microsoft, which already had a few of years of experience under its belt with M-DOS, BASIC, and other important tools — and as you can probably tell from the landscape of the computer world today, the IBM/Microsoft partnership worked out rather well indeed.

Submission + - Novacut the next revolution in editing (kickstarter.com) 1

Submitted by

olafura

on Wednesday July 27, 2011 @08:35AM

olafura writes: "As a person that has been involved with editing and making shorts. I know first hand the tedious process of making editing work. I've never been confident about any editing software solution on linux and I've tried them all. Avid or Finalcut were the only solution I had for editing movies. I'm currently waiting excited for the sourcecode for Lightwave to be released so I can see if it's worth my time, not too opencore. Plus we have all be burnt before.

So it might suprise you that I'm excisted about Novacut, I saw the first kickstart project and didn't fully understand it. And I saw the second kickstart project and I didn't fully understand it. But I do now and I'm really impressed, it's a game changer. Hope I can start using it soon. And to all those people that will say that they should use Pitivi or OpenShot as a start don't really understand it.

I've pledged 100$ and was even thinking about blowing my budget and pledging 300$ but decided to be smart and appeal to you. I'm really pissed off that the linux community doesn't respond better to a revolutionary idea that can change how movies are edited, where the project is open source and using sound technology like couchdb as the syncing solution and gstreamer as the media solution. They are even using the unix philosophy of developing software, make something that does one job and does it well."

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