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  1. McAfee? on Central Anti-Virus For Small Business? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    McAfee offer a nice solution - yourasp, which is quite good. Offers a really nice web interface for central reporting and policy configuration etc. At first I thought it would be total crap but now recommend it to our clients, some 6 - 30 PCs. Not sure about the licensing though. But just use what you know, no point spending 20hours trying to figure out some xyz app when you could be doing better things (read beer).

  2. Ending support? on Windows XP SP1 Support Ends Tuesday · · Score: 2, Funny

    When did it ever start?

  3. great for blind grad students on Handheld Device Reads Printed Words to the Blind · · Score: 3, Interesting

    A cell-phone for the blind was recently made available to visually impaired people in New Zealand, costing around $300USD. It seems like only a small step further to add some sort of camera/document scanner... This particular device will unquestionably help visually impaired students of particular sciences (e.g. advanced math), where there is almost no demand of Braille versions of textbooks (and even the regular textbooks!) and too many books to pay the conversion to Braille (here I believe it's at least $500?).

  4. Microsoft's view: Pirated Windows Linux on Microsoft Denies the Windows Kill Switch · · Score: 1

    Microsoft will much rather let you use a pirated copy of windows, than to let you use Linux.

  5. Phantom Limbs? on U.S. Soldiers Recipients of Newest Prosthetic Technologies · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It will be interesting to see a study on the brain plasticity of amputees fitted with these new prosthetics, similar to those done on the adult auditory map of hearing impaired patients (e.g. after sudden unilateral hearing loss).

    Do the phantom sensations, usually experienced by amputees, disappear after these C-legs have been fitted?

  6. Freedom on Spain Outlaws P2P File-Sharing · · Score: 1

    When P2P is outlawed, only outlaws will have P2P. -G

  7. Slashdotted: My karma ran over your dogma? on Hubble Space Telescope's Sixteenth Anniversary · · Score: 1
  8. Re:Hubble Ultra Deep Field on Hubble Space Telescope's Sixteenth Anniversary · · Score: 1

    Don't forget http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html (Some by Hubble) That image archive has a 10 year history (go to Calendar), absolutely stunning! I can't wait for the successor to Hubble, The James Webb Space Telescope... should be up by 2013 http://www.jwst.nasa.gov/

  9. Re:Sign of Age on The World's Deepest Dinosaur · · Score: 1
    I wonder what the results of a carbon dating would show.
    Carbon dating can't even determine the age of the most recent dinosaurs, let alone anything older than that (ineffective around 70,000 years I believe).