Stephen Fry Helps GNU Celebrate 25th Birthday (2)
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Virgil Tibbs writes "The GNU operating system is turning 25 this year, and the Free Software Foundation has kicked off its month-long celebration of the anniversary by releasing 'Happy Birthday to GNU,' a short film featuring the English humorist, actor, novelist and filmmaker Stephen Fry. In the five-minute film, Fry compares the free software operating system to 'good science' and contrasts it with the 'kind of tyranny' imposed by the proprietary software produced by companies ...
Microsoft Patents "Pg Up" and "Pg Dn" (25)
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An anonymous reader notes that Microsoft has been granted a patent on "Page Up" and "Page Down" keystrokes. The article links an image of an IBM PC keyboard from 1981 with such keys in evidence. "The software giant applied for the patent in 2005, and was granted it on August 19, 2008. US patent number 7,415,666 describes 'a method and system in a document viewer for scrolling a substantially exact increment in a document, such ...
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Michael said:
They received a patent for Pg Up and Pg Down?! Unbelievable.
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anushsh said:
wtf
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Wesley said:
oh good, the curtains are on fire
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Nikki said:
i think this is absurd
US No Longer the World's Internet Hub (19)
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museumpeace brings us a New York Times story about how internet traffic is increasingly flowing around the US as web-based industries catch up in other parts of the world. Other issues, such as the Patriot Act, have made foreign companies wary about having their data on US servers. From the NYTimes: "Internet industry executives and government officials have acknowledged that Internet traffic passing through the switching equipment of companies based in the United States has ...
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Tometheus said:
Another interesting repercussion of the War on Terror. (Most of the world would probably argue that this is a Good Thing though.)
NASA is Making Preliminary Plans to Extend Shuttle Launches Beyond 2010 (5)
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Could the Shuttle launch after 2010? (NASA) According to an internal email, NASA staff have been instructed to initiate a study into extending the operational lifetime of the Shuttle to bridge the 5-year gap between planned Shuttle retirement and Constellation commencement. In an apparent U-turn in the US space agency's policy, NASA Administrator Michael Griffin has ordered a feasibility study to assess whether the ageing space vehicle fleet, first launched in 1981, can operate until ...
Dead Sea Scrolls To Go Digital On Internet (8)
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mernil writes to mention that the Dead Sea Scrolls are headed for the internet. The Israel Antiquities Authority, custodians of the scrolls, plan on digitizing the 900 fragments to make them available to the public via the internet. Unfortunately they are claiming the project will take somewhere in the neighborhood of two years to complete.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Sikorsky X2: 288mph helicopter is world’s fastest (4)
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This speedy Sikorsky X2 helicopter completed its first test flight yesterday, proving that next-generation helicopters have leaped way beyond that old criticism of them as “a collection of spare parts flying in formation.” When it’s done with testing, this dual-propped fly-by-wire speedster will blast through the air at 288mph, making it the fastest helicopter in the world. It’s not there yet, though. This first 30-minute flight showed that the thing doesn’t fall out of the ...
A Chilly Sunrise on Mars [PIC] (10)
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Via Twitter, the Phoenix lander said, "I saw this beautiful sunrise yestersol. Bittersweet, as it means an end to midnight sun in the Martian arctic." At Phoenix's location above Mars arctic circle, the sun doesn't set during the peak of summer in the northern hemisphere. If you recall, Phoenix took a montage of images of the non-setting sun last month. But now, the period of maximum solar energy is past. On Sol 86, or the ...
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