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Look at the photo and guess what OS that smart whiteboard runs? that's right, no better way of creating brand loyalty than getting kids to see and use your brand all day long. Just ask Ray Crock...

This is another sad example of the school system, which should remain the last bastion of intellectual neutrality, being invaded by the corporate world. In this case, I believe quite involuntarily, the system's designers probably didn't even think of that, but still...

Do you mean like the ones mentioned here?

I just can't wait until one is hacked to complain about the pain in all of the dioeds down its left side.

Look at the leaflet that they were handing out. They're mainly talking about how Teflon and related chemicals are toxic. In this case the problem isn't nanotechnology but the material that is being used. Nanotechnology might make it worse by making smaller particles but that's not really special. Blaming nanotechnology would be like blaming all paint because of lead paint.

Wired has some photos attached to their article article. Apparently, this all happened a month ago...

May not be work appropriate.

There is an old Wired article that covers this: His real name is Mark Stephens.

Almost nudity. But the guy on the right really creeps me out.

If you actually follow the "photos" link there's a small amount of nudity. If activist nudity floats your boat, that is:

one two and frontal...

If you actually follow the "photos" link there's a small amount of nudity. If activist nudity floats your boat, that is:

one two and frontal...

If you actually follow the "photos" link there's a small amount of nudity. If activist nudity floats your boat, that is:

one two and frontal...

Contrary to the fear of grey goo, the main danger of nanotech comes from the fact that particles are smaller than the natural filters that organisms have evolved to protect sensitive cells. According to the article, the nanopant tech is just buzzword hype since the stain protection material is just another chemical. However, the article does mention the studies showing that carbon nanotubes and buckyballs do cause damage to cell membranes in humans and in other parts of the food chain.
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Proof it works.

Even geeks such as Bill Joy and Ray Kurzweil have been decrying the scary nature of nanotechnology, especially where it dovetails with artificial intellenge and genetic engineering, for over five years. But the interesting part here is, how many geeks are going to be the ones to buy these pants? I mean, we're the ones who bought a prius, not just because it was envionmentally friendly, but because it was a gadget and a Good Idea. For those of us who live at (or at least are not afraid of) the command line, a pair of khakis that sheds coffee stains sounds like a dream come true.

Right there.

here is one (possibly NSFW)

I've heard about ghosting problems.
That article does state that it's only a problem in big cities, and that better receivers are starting to help, though.

apple will use the DRM functions of the intel chips which aren't supposed to have them according to intel...

no, they are using "treacherous computing" aka The Devil Inside.

so no, i don't think anyone will be able to "crack" this for a while. maybe never if the amount of interest isn't there.

also check out this link: http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,67749,00.html

quite interesting read.

Maybe you don't understand what it is the OP does. Professional traders are not the same as day traders. Professional traders are one of the reasons the market actually functions. Then again, certain important people in the industry, such as David Shaw have said that "A lot of people in the business do things that should be done by computers." No doubt we keep getting closer to that point, but professional traders are and probably will be needed.

See ComputerWeekly for an article with a nice timeline and more specifics on where he attacked. Note that he's considered an "average hacker" in this article, which to my reading of the facts seems fair.

This all happened back in 2001/2002 but he fought extradition to the US until this past week apparently.

This military publication states that he didn't get to any classified info.

Wired covers a bit more on how he got caught. They tracked down his copy of RemotelyAnywhere.

4. The Geek Syndrome

From TFA, "Autism - and its milder cousin Asperger's syndrome - is surging among the children of Silicon Valley. Are math-and-tech genes to blame?

In Wired's premier issue they had an article on Otaku (circa 1993). It sounds like what was said then is still true today:
Otaku are considered flunkies and not highly regarded by society at large, etc. I liked one quote: "Socially inept, but often brilliant"

BTM

"This is simply unacceptable."

There is plenty of anecdotal evidence about Linux/Unix users switching to Macs in droves. If that's true, I don't see how Apple switching to Intel based system will stop that switch. It will almost certainly make the switch even easier to make. Let's face it, with a Mac you get Unix AND a great GUI.

"This is simply unacceptable."

Actually, there's exactly one place. Apollo Diamonds.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.09/diamond.h tml

http://www.apollodiamond.com/

Wired magazine has an pretty funny article on the results of the 2003 race with a description with what went wrong for each team.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.05/start.htm l?pg=15

Old business plan:

1. Design Mac mini
2. Ship Mac mini
3. Intel rips off the design

New business plan:

1. Design small empty computer case
2. Tell Intel to go ahead and rip off the design, thus filling in the guts
3. Slap an Apple logo on it
4. Profit!

From the article:

De Beers executive drove directly to Claridge's, and the two men sat down in the tearoom to the strains of a piano and violin duet. De Beers refuses to comment on the meeting--or about anything for this story--but Clarke says he simply placed his diamonds on the table. "When I told him that we planned to set up a factory to mass-produce these, he turned white," the General recalls.

See this excellent article in Wired a while back: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.09/diamond.h tml

Here on /. we have moaned and whined and foamed at the mouth about Intel's hardware-based DRM plans. But some suggested that even if the Wintel world rattled down the DRM highway in lockstep, at least there would be the creative side world of Apple where Uncle Steve would put stickers on computers saying, "Don't steal movies" and maybe some half-hearted picket fences to keep the most obtuse user from figuring out how to move movies from one machine to another.

Doesn't this change everything? Won't Apple just become another fiefdom in the DRM kingdom, where users are kept in chains? Won't this mean that Macs will be just as distrustful of their owners as PCs are going to be? Cuz I'm no "pirate," and I respect copyright laws, but I hate being treated like a thief by my own equipment. If Apple is about to go down the same DRM highway, I think it's going to become my way rather than their highway. And my way will be away from Apple, and toward FOSS completely. Maybe I'll buy the last "free" PowerBook Apple sells, max out the memory, get lots of backup parts, and then run Ubuntu or something on it for the next decade.

After reading an article in Wired.com about the state of virtual sex games, I checked out the game Virtually Jenna. The demo "Looked" quite intriguing.

After reading an article in Wired.com about the state of virtual sex games, I checked out the game Virtually Jenna. The demo "Looked" quite intriguing.

"I know the Amish insist on doing things the hard way,..."

If you think the Amish haven't been using things like fully computer automated cow milking gear and such for the past couple years, you're dead wrong. Hell, it's nowhere near our saturation, but they use cellphones and laptops too.

Wired 7.01 - Look Who's Talking

And apparently Apple is considering the jump to help out Hollywood: "Apple -- or rather, Hollywood -- wants the Pentium D to secure an online movie store (iFlicks if you will), that will allow consumers to buy or rent new movies on demand, over the internet."

I'm not sure I believe all this non sense just yet but I'll play devils advocate:

Here's my bet: Intel is going to produce PowerPC chips for Apple. But I'm only betting one dollar.

Is that a dollar for everyone that reads your blog? Intel doesn't have a cheap consumer ready power pc platform lined up, if they did that would be more of a shock than anything else.

From Peter Glaskowsky: "Apple certainly pays much less for IBM and Freescale processors than Intel charges for comparable chips. Probably less than half as much on average"

If find this claim to be dubious at best, I'm almost certain that Apple could find some economies with an Intel platform that they currently cannot with IBM. The chips could possibly cost less, but what about the engineering costs for motherboards that are always custom, in a market with fewer suppliers?

There was an article on Wired.com which provides a very solid argument for this new development. If we believe the garbage about chip emulation, there might be some meat to this. The DRM angle is definately the most convincing.

As an addition there have been multiple sources that talk about IBM's ability to deliver quantity on time. If there is anything to this it would explain why AMD hasn't been a part of the news - It is for similar reasons that Dell will not engage AMD to supply chips. AMD appears to have a bad rap for delivering quantity on time.

I'll believe all this when I see it, but the links provided don't fully cover the reasons for or againts.

This Wired article could be on the money, but if Apple's switching to get Intel's DRM technology the odds of them ever releasing another Darwin source tree are pretty slim. What good is a DRM scheme on an open-source operating system?

I have to say that this is the most depressing reason for a processor switch ever.

The problem is, Apple may be heading the same way as Microsoft with Longhorn. Read this article http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,67749,00.ht ml if Apple decides to snuggle into bead with the movie studios you may even be safer sticking with Windows. If all this doom and gloom from DRM really comes as predicted by some, expect Linux to brutally decimate the OS market place because it will be the last bastion of DRM free computing. I seriously hope that is not the case though.

http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,67749,00.html ?tw=wn_tophead_1

The link above links to a story at Wired that purports to tell the real
reason for all of this:

Synopsis: Moving to Pentium D chips so that hardware DRM can be enabled to prevent free exchange of copyrighted materials so the inevitable iTunes movie store and Movie iPod can be created. It is being done so Hollywood can be on board secure in the knowledge that their property won't be stolen. It's the only way that Hollywood would apparently allow it.

I hate to think that this is the reason but it would make as much
sense as some of the stories I'm reading here.

I'd like to think it's Intel manufacturing PPC chips but if Jobs is
wanting to increase the marketshare to other areas this would
be a way of insuring that Hollywood can rest safe knowing that
lame movies such as "Dude Where's my Car" won't be stolen by
leeching maniacs.

Frankly? If this is it I don't see ANYONE buying it PC or Mac user
no matter how cool the store is. People buy movies to watch on
their home entertainment systems - I only watch on my Mac if
the wife is using the big system.

Thoughts?

Check out this Wired article: http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,67749,00.html ?tw=wn_tophead_1

But why would Apple do this? Because Apple wants Intel's new Pentium D chips.

Released just few days ago, the dual-core chips include a hardware copy protection scheme that prevents "unauthorized copying and distribution of copyrighted materials from the motherboard," according to PC World.

Apple -- or rather, Hollywood -- wants the Pentium D to secure an online movie store (iFlicks if you will), that will allow consumers to buy or rent new movies on demand, over the internet.

According to News.com, the Intel transition will occur first in the summer with the Mac mini, which I'll bet will become a mini-Tivo-cum-home-server.

Hooked to the internet, it will allow movies to be ordered and stored, and if this News.com piece is correct, loaded onto the video iPod that's in the works.

Intel's DRM scheme has been kept under wraps -- to prevent giving clues to crackers -- but the company has said it will allow content to be moved around a home network, and onto suitably-equipped portable devices.

And that's why the whole Mac platform has to shift to Intel. Consumers will want to move content from one device to another -- or one computer to another -- and Intel's DRM scheme will keep it all nicely locked down.

Hopefully a lot of other countries follow suit.

This peak oil thing is huge.

From this year to 2010, we're going to reach the peak of oil production, then it's a downward spiral after that. Basicly, we're screwed!

Look for yourself:
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=ca&q=%22peak +oil%22

Also:
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,67679,00 .html?tw=wn_tophead_2

The CIA? That blows any sort of credibility in the report. The CIA doesnt run "hakcers", the Department of Defense does, HQ'd on an Airforce base. It was publicised back in April in this article

The CIA? That blows any sort of credibility in the report. The CIA doesnt run "hakcers", the Department of Defense does, HQ'd on an Airforce base. It was publicised back in April in this article

The CIA? That blows any sort of credibility in the report. The CIA doesnt run "hakcers", the Department of Defense does, HQ'd on an Airforce base. It was publicised back in April in this article

I hear ya! My m130 turned out to be a piece of crap!

After I got it I found out that it did not support the 65,535 colors as advertised [http://wired-vig.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,5 4744,00.html?tw=wn_story_related%5D and there was a class action law suit against them because of false advertising.

A year after I got it; it would not hold a charge and the OS started to crash intermittently... I think it fell out of warranty otherwise I would have sent it back.

I won't ever buy anything by Palm again... After two class action lawsuits it's starting to look like they are just out to screw their customers.

The CIA? That blows any sort of credibility in the report. The CIA doesnt run "hakcers", the Department of Defense does, HQ'd on an Airforce base. It was publicised back in April in this article

The changes on the Brasil and Paraguay side are mainly caused by the construction of the Itaipu plant, the largest hydroelectric plant of the world (or at least it was... is the one in China finished yet?). The net result in terms of environment preservation is positive, since this is a renewable and clean energy source. In fact, Brazil is one of the world leaders in clean energy.

Perhaps this will yeild new material for Thomas Gold to research.

The CIA? That blows any sort of credibility in the report. The CIA doesnt run "hakcers", the Department of Defense does, HQ'd on an Airforce base. It was publicised back in April in this article on Wired.com Yes there is a trehat to the free world's information infrastructure. And it is a danger. But the main article far overstates it. The referenced original article is propaganda, pure and simple. Someone must want some budget money, so they scare up a foe to be bigger than it is.

This is cool, but the mantle is hardly the center of the earth. I'm much more interested in this - a proposal to create a molten-iron probe capable of actually reaching the core of the earth. A hundred thousand tons or more of the stuff would be poured into an artificial crevice in the earth, where it would sink down through the mantle.

The trick seems to be finding a probe that can ride the iron blob the whole way down, and keep it hot (probably through radioactivity). This was also considered as a way to dispose of nuclear waste.

At only $10 billion, this seems like a very hot possibility for exploring the mysteries of the earth. Just like sending a man to the moon, sending a manmade object to the center of the earth would be a seven-sigma experience.

The CIA Factbook has little to say, but a Wired article seems to dismiss the threat, although it notes information is hard to come by.

Navigation is sometimes the hardest part on the internet. A tree structure is sometimes the second easiest way of searching/browsing for information (1st being keyword searching). So maybe if more web designers set up server side solutions, it will lower the burden on web designers. More importantly, move navigation away from web designers to users just as Google displaced content from web designers unto Searchers. So instead of overburdening web servers like this Firefox extension Firefox extension with screenshot which automatically generates a sitemap br crawling a site. Sites can access a sitemap using a favicon.ico like or link rel="sitemap.rdf or sitemap.xml" protocol. Just as netscape NAVIGATOR originally proposed a while back. I think web designers should pay attention - at least those that don't use flash for their whole site. The web is slowly become a database of content rather than style. See the webmonkey wired article on netscape sitemap feature Sitemap rdf or the sitemap slide here Slide from seminar

I think this has been covered on /. before but,

The Deceberists released a music video via BitTorrent awhile ago. http://decemberists.com/16mw-torrent.html

It was covered in Wired: http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,66969,00 .html