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Comments: 13 + -   Saturn Moon Could Be Hospitable To Life on Wednesday February 24, @06:08PM

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday February 24, @06:08PM
from the it's-life-but-not-as-we-know-it dept.
space
shmG writes to share that recent imagery from Saturn's moon Enceladus indicate that it may be hospitable to life. "NASA said on Tuesday that a flyby of planet's Enceladus moon showed small jets of water spewing from the southern hemisphere, while infrared mapping of the surface revealed temperatures warmer than previously expected. 'The huge amount of heat pouring out of the tiger stripe fractures may be enough to melt the ice underground,' said John Spencer, a composite infrared spectrometer team member based at Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo. 'Results like this make Enceladus one of the most exciting places we've found in the solar system.'"
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Comments: 69 + -   Cryptome in Hot Water Again on Wednesday February 24, @05:22PM

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday February 24, @05:22PM
from the revel-in-the-bulls-eye dept.
microsoft
garg0yle writes to tell us that Cryptome appears to have stepped in it again with a recent leaked document concerning Microsoft's "Global Criminal Compliance Handbook." "Microsoft has demanded that Cryptome take down the guide — on the grounds that it constitutes a 'copyrighted [work] published by Microsoft.' Yesterday, at 5pm, Cryptome editor John Young received a notice from his site’s host, Network Solutions, bearing a stiff ultimatum: citing the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), Network Solutions told him that unless he takes the 'copyrighted material' down, they will 'disable [his] website' on Thursday, February 25, 2010. So far, Young refuses to budge." In a gesture of goodwill Wikileaks has offered to host Cryptome via their twitter feed.
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Comments: 87 + -   Copernicium Confirmed As Element 112 on Wednesday February 24, @04:41PM

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday February 24, @04:41PM
from the cp-had-other-meanings dept.
science
Several sources are reporting that the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry has confirmed Copernicium as element 112 on the periodic table of elements with the symbol Cn. "The naming of the new element will be the culmination of a long, fraught journey involving fierce competition, dashed hopes, clever detective work and even a brush with scientific misconduct. With a nucleus containing 112 protons — 20 more than uranium, the heaviest of the naturally occurring elements — it will be the weightiest atom whose existence has been confirmed so far."
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Comments: 300 + -   Use Open Source? Then You're a Pirate! on Wednesday February 24, @03:59PM

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday February 24, @03:59PM
from the and-proud-of-it dept.
opensource
superapecommando writes "There's a fantastic little story in the Guardian today that says a US lobby group is trying to get the US government to consider open source as the equivalent to piracy. The International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA), an umbrella group for American publishing, software, film, television and music associations, has asked the US Trade Representative (USTR) to consider countries like Indonesia, Brazil, and India for its 'Special 301 watchlist' because they encourage the use of open source software. A Special 301, according to Guardian's Bobbie Johnson is: 'a report that examines the "adequacy and effectiveness of intellectual property rights" around the planet — effectively the list of countries that the US government considers enemies of capitalism. It often gets wheeled out as a form of trading pressure — often around pharmaceuticals and counterfeited goods — to try and force governments to change their behaviors.'"
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Comments: 101 + -   Latvian "Robin Hood" Hacker Leaks Bank Details on Wednesday February 24, @03:11PM

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday February 24, @03:11PM
from the too-many-hoods-in-the-forest dept.
security
eldavojohn writes "Move over Russell Crowe, an anonymous hacker in Latvia is being hailed as a real life modern Robin Hood. The hacker refers to himself as 'Neo,' claims allegiance with the Fourth Awakening People's Army and is outing banks that are capitalizing off of the horrible economic status Latvia is currently suffering from. No word on how he is acquiring the information but it is slowly being leaked to TV sources via Twitter and the common people love him. The hacker is thought to be based in Britain but a TV reporter pointed out the fine line neo is walking, 'On the one hand of course he has stolen confidential data ... and he actually has committed a crime. But at the same time there is value for the public in the sense that now a lot of information gets disclosed and the whole system maybe becomes a little more transparent.' An example of a juicy tidbit he revealed is that managers of a Latvian bank did not take the salary cuts they promised they would after the government bailed them out of economic trouble. You can imagine that taxpayers were upset and thankful they knew this information."
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Comments: 206 + -   Space Junk Getting Worse on Wednesday February 24, @02:27PM

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday February 24, @02:27PM
from the time-for-a-doomsday-machine dept.
space
HockeyPuck writes "According to Space.com the amount of space junk is getting worse. 'A head-on collision was averted between a spent upper stage from a Chinese rocket and the European Space Agency's (ESA) huge Envisat Earth remote-sensing spacecraft. [...] But what if the two objects had tangled? Such a space collision would have caused mayhem in the heavens, adding clutter to an orbit altitude where there are big problems already, said Heiner Klinkrad, head of the European Space Agency's Space Debris Office in Darmstadt, Germany."
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Comments: 69 + - Screenshot-sm   Hollywood Stock Exchange Set To Launch In April on Wednesday February 24, @02:08PM

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday February 24, @02:08PM
from the put-me-down-for-$10-on-portman dept.
movies
You can buy and sell actor or movie "stock" for virtual cash on the website Hollywood Stock Exchange (HSX). Starting in April the company plans on letting you turn those movie performance predictions into real dollars. HSX filed with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission for approval as an active trading site in November 2008 and has just entered the final phase of regulatory review. Richard Jaycobs, president of HSX's parent company, said, "The number of people who visit movie theaters each year and form opinions about a film's success is in the tens of millions. We believe that's the reason the public response to this product has been very positive."
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Comments: 27 + -   The Smashing Book on Wednesday February 24, @01:45PM

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday February 24, @01:45PM
from the read-all-about-it dept.
bookreview
Michael J. Ross writes "Of all the online resources devoted to assisting Web designers and developers, Smashing Magazine is one of the most highly regarded, primarily because of the depth and consistent quality of the articles that appear on its website. This apparently motivated many of its readers to encourage the magazine's editors to develop and release a book on Web design, which the company did in 2009, appropriately titled The Smashing Book." Read below for Michael's review.
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Comments: 58 + - Screenshot-sm   Timmy O'Riley By L. Hadron and the Colliders on Wednesday February 24, @01:04PM

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday February 24, @01:04PM
from the shameless-self-promotion dept.
humor

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Making music has never been quite this awesome! Using only ThinkGeek products (Bliptronic 5000, Guitar Shirt, Drumkit Shirt, Stylophone, and Otamatone Electronic Instrument) the ultra-geeks over at ThinkGeek have created this ultra-cool cover of The Who's Baba O'Reilly. This also qualifies as a full blown shameless plug since ThinkGeek shares a corporate overlord with Slashdot.
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+ -   Hungarian Electric Car Splits Into Two Smaller Cars on Wednesday February 24, @12:57PM

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday February 24, @12:57PM
from the i-get-the-good-half-in-the-divorce dept.
transportation
Lanxon writes to mention that Antro, a Hungarian car manufacturer, is developing a new electric car that can split into two smaller cars. Antro plans to have it on the market by 2012. "The environmentally-conscious company started research back in 2002 and, with backing from various local sponsors, has invested 1.5 million euros in market research and development of a working prototype. The Antro Solo concept is a three-passenger car, with a hybrid drive and solar cells on its roof that the company says could generate enough electricity for up to 20km a day at city speeds. Futuristic looking in itself, the grander plan for the car is much more audacious: Antro intends to allow users to be able to connect two Antro Solos to form a six-passenger Antro Duo. Or perhaps more interesting still, owners of a Duo could split the car into two smaller Solos should Mum have different weekend plans to Dad. Or if they divorce."
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