http://slashdot.org/ News for nerds, stuff that matters en-us Copyright 1997-2009, Geeknet, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 2010-02-10T13:50:15+00:00 Geeknet, Inc. help@slashdot.org Technology hourly 1 1970-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://a.fsdn.com/sd/topics/topicslashdot.gif http://slashdot.org/ http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/feRygwfT3_k/Hearts-Actually-Can-Break DesScorp writes "It seems that there's a grain of truth to one old wives' tale; it turns out that you really can die of a broken heart, especially if you're a post-menopausal woman. The Wall Street Journal reports on a phenomena called 'broken-heart syndrome,' which often occurs after great emotional distress. Quoting: 'In a conventional heart attack, an obstructed artery starves the heart muscle of oxygenated blood, quickly resulting in the death of tissue and potentially permanently compromising heart function. In contrast, the heart muscle in broken-heart-syndrome patients is stunned in the adrenaline surge and appears to go into hibernation. Little tissue is lost.' In the article a doctor notes, 'The cells are alive, but mechanically or electrically disabled.' Documented cases track heart attacks in people with seemingly healthy hearts after the grief of the death of a loved one. Intense feelings can cause the heart actually to change shape. Doctors call this 'tako-tsubo,' after the Japanese phrase for 'octopus trap,' so called because the syndrome was first identified by a Japanese doctor who noticed the strange shape in the left ventricle. Doctors note that while strong emotions like grief are usually associated with the syndrome, stress or a migraine can also trigger such heart attacks."<p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/02/10/0127211/Hearts-Actually-Can-Break?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=10/02/10/0127211"></a></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/02/10/0127211/Hearts-Actually-Can-Break?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/pESKe5Y31UlXGsu-V25xUJhFl78/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/pESKe5Y31UlXGsu-V25xUJhFl78/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/pESKe5Y31UlXGsu-V25xUJhFl78/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/pESKe5Y31UlXGsu-V25xUJhFl78/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/feRygwfT3_k" height="1" width="1"/> kdawson 2010-02-10T13:17:00+00:00 medicine tako-tsubo science 20 20,20,17,15,3,1,0 http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/02/10/0127211/Hearts-Actually-Can-Break?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/J21csKy49qo/Appeals-Court-Rules-On-Internet-Obscenity-Standards dark_requiem writes "The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that online content can be judged by the standards of the strictest community that is able to access it. The court upheld the conviction of pornography producer Paul F. Little, aka Max Hardcore, for violating obscenity laws in Tampa, despite the fact that the 'obscene' material in question was produced and sold in California. From the article: 'The Atlanta-based court rejected arguments by Little's attorneys that applying a local community standard to the Internet violates the First Amendment because doing so means material can be judged according to the standards of the strictest communities. In other words, the materials might be legal where they were produced and almost everywhere else. But if they violate the standards of one community, they are illegal in that community and the producers may be convicted of a crime. ... Jurors in Little's trial were told to judge the materials on the basis of how "the average person of the community as a whole &mdash; the Middle District of Florida" &mdash; would view the material.'"<p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/02/10/0140245/Appeals-Court-Rules-On-Internet-Obscenity-Standards?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=10/02/10/0140245"></a></p><p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/02/10/0140245/Appeals-Court-Rules-On-Internet-Obscenity-Standards?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Qy6HphVXHmZSr145BluOCP6xyrk/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Qy6HphVXHmZSr145BluOCP6xyrk/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Qy6HphVXHmZSr145BluOCP6xyrk/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Qy6HphVXHmZSr145BluOCP6xyrk/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/J21csKy49qo" height="1" width="1"/> kdawson 2010-02-10T10:21:00+00:00 censorship net-for-seven-year-olds yro 200 200,197,167,136,39,25,15 http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/02/10/0140245/Appeals-Court-Rules-On-Internet-Obscenity-Standards?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/V5kU65nr8s4/Blizzard-Previews-Revamped-Battlenet Blizzard updated the official StarCraft II site today with a preview of how the revamped Battle.net will function. They emphasize the social features, competitive matchmaking system, and the ease of sharing mods and maps. Quoting: "When the legacy Battle.net service introduced support for user-created mods such as DotA, Tower Defense, and many others, these user-created game types became immensely popular. But while Battle.net supported mods at a basic level, integration with tools and the mod community wasn't where it needed to be for a game releasing in 2010. The new Battle.net service will see some major improvements in this area. StarCraft II will include a full-featured content-creation toolkit &mdash; the same tools used by the StarCraft II design team to create the single-player campaign. To fully harness the community's mapmaking prowess, Battle.net will introduce a feature called Map Publishing. Map Publishing will let users upload their maps to the service and share them with the rest of the community immediately on the service. This also ties in with the goal of making Battle.net an always-connected experience &mdash; you can publish, browse, and download maps directly via the Battle.net client. Finding games based on specific mods will also be much easier with our all-new custom game system, placing the full breadth of the modding community's efforts at your fingertips."<p><a href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/02/10/0547236/Blizzard-Previews-Revamped-Battlenet?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=10/02/10/0547236"></a></p><p><a href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/02/10/0547236/Blizzard-Previews-Revamped-Battlenet?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/VUHfnGWCFhQy7BvlNy5qkOXKlD8/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/VUHfnGWCFhQy7BvlNy5qkOXKlD8/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/VUHfnGWCFhQy7BvlNy5qkOXKlD8/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/VUHfnGWCFhQy7BvlNy5qkOXKlD8/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/V5kU65nr8s4" height="1" width="1"/> Soulskill 2010-02-10T09:40:00+00:00 internet find-out-precisely-how-bad-you-are games 45 45,45,37,22,5,3,1 http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/02/10/0547236/Blizzard-Previews-Revamped-Battlenet?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/_StR8psrLFY/Is-Internet-Explorer-67-Support-Required-Now k33l0r writes "Following Google's announcement ending support for Internet Explorer 6, I find myself wondering whether we (Web developers) really need to continue providing support for IE6 and IE7. Especially when creating Web sites intended for technical audiences, wouldn't it be best to end support for obsoleted browsers? Would this not provide additional incentives to upgrade? Recently I and my colleagues had to decide whether it was worth our time to try to support anything before IE8, and in the end we decided to redirect any IE6/7 user-agent to a separate page explaining that the site is not accessible with IE 6 or 7. This was easy once we saw from our analytics that fewer than 5% of visitors to the site were using IE at all. Have you had to make a choice like this? If so, what was your decision and what was the reasoning behind it?"<p><a href="http://ask.slashdot.org/story/10/02/10/0056257/Is-Internet-Explorer-67-Support-Required-Now?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=10/02/10/0056257"></a></p><p><a href="http://ask.slashdot.org/story/10/02/10/0056257/Is-Internet-Explorer-67-Support-Required-Now?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Wz6pZDHurhpx5EA9P7o51wfeeS8/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Wz6pZDHurhpx5EA9P7o51wfeeS8/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Wz6pZDHurhpx5EA9P7o51wfeeS8/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Wz6pZDHurhpx5EA9P7o51wfeeS8/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/_StR8psrLFY" height="1" width="1"/> kdawson 2010-02-10T07:22:00+00:00 msie slaying-dinosaurs askslashdot 244 244,242,174,125,37,18,10 http://ask.slashdot.org/story/10/02/10/0056257/Is-Internet-Explorer-67-Support-Required-Now?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/d9ECmrQIa24/India-Suspended-From-PayPal-For-At-Least-a-Few-Months More details have come about about what was behind PayPal's decision to suspend personal payments to any user in India, as we discussed on Sunday. In a blog post today, PayPal revealed that payments to India will remain in suspension for at least a few months. Customers in India will be able to pull rupees out of the service into their bank accounts within a few days. The suspension came about when Indian government regulators raised questions about whether PayPal's service was enabling remittences (transfers of money by foreign workers) to Indian citizens. "The problems may have been triggered by a marketing push that promotes PayPal as a way to send money abroad, a source familiar with the matter said. The campaign &mdash; which reads 'As low as $1.50 to send $300 to countries like India' &mdash; may have caught the attention of Indian regulators, the source said."<p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/02/10/0048246/India-Suspended-From-PayPal-For-At-Least-a-Few-Months?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=10/02/10/0048246"></a></p><p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/02/10/0048246/India-Suspended-From-PayPal-For-At-Least-a-Few-Months?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/L8R06x6BP78916zIxACm3-Fps4s/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/L8R06x6BP78916zIxACm3-Fps4s/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/L8R06x6BP78916zIxACm3-Fps4s/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/L8R06x6BP78916zIxACm3-Fps4s/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/d9ECmrQIa24" height="1" width="1"/> kdawson 2010-02-10T04:24:00+00:00 government keeping-the-money-out news 140 140,138,109,83,27,14,9 http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/02/10/0048246/India-Suspended-From-PayPal-For-At-Least-a-Few-Months?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/IeNdxa-7HNA/Google-Buzz-mdash-First-Reactions Google announced Buzz today, as we anticipated this morning. CNET has a workmanlike description of the social-networking service, which is integrated into gmail. CNET identifies a central obstacle Buzz will have to overcome to gain traction: "The problem, however, will be the increasing backlash Google is seeing from the general public over how much data the company already controls on their online habits." Buzz is being rolled out over the next few days so some people will see a Buzz folder in their gmail, but most won't yet (this Twitter post explains how Safari users can get an early glimpse). A blog posting up at O'Reilly Answers points out some of the distinguishing characteristics of Google Buzz &mdash; one interesting one being its ability to post an update either pubilcly or privately, at the user's option. This design choice places it between the public-by-default Twitter and the private-by-default Facebook. Lauren Weinstein sounds a note of caution about the inherent privacy risks of Google's method of filling out initial friend profiles by automatic friending.<p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/02/10/0014246/Google-Buzz-mdash-First-Reactions?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=10/02/10/0014246"></a></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/02/10/0014246/Google-Buzz-mdash-First-Reactions?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/YrOZ_sjz2d_yZbJhqdgaEV-1lRE/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/YrOZ_sjz2d_yZbJhqdgaEV-1lRE/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/YrOZ_sjz2d_yZbJhqdgaEV-1lRE/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/YrOZ_sjz2d_yZbJhqdgaEV-1lRE/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/IeNdxa-7HNA" height="1" width="1"/> kdawson 2010-02-10T02:20:00+00:00 google what-it-is technology 187 187,184,152,115,41,24,17 http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/02/10/0014246/Google-Buzz-mdash-First-Reactions?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/NJ-k8LxZAcw/A-Never-Reboot-Service-For-Linux An anonymous reader writes "Ksplice, the company based on the MIT Ksplice project, is now offering its 'never reboot' service for Red Hat, Debian, and other Linux distros. You subscribe and get real-time kernel security updates that apply in-memory instead of rebooting. Last summer we discussed the free service for Ubuntu. Cool tech, but will people really pay $4 a month for this?"<p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/2341249/A-Never-Reboot-Service-For-Linux?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=10/02/09/2341249"></a></p><p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/2341249/A-Never-Reboot-Service-For-Linux?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/awaznxuM5m-9X5UYGWiR926bcrk/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/awaznxuM5m-9X5UYGWiR926bcrk/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/awaznxuM5m-9X5UYGWiR926bcrk/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/awaznxuM5m-9X5UYGWiR926bcrk/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/NJ-k8LxZAcw" height="1" width="1"/> kdawson 2010-02-10T00:21:00+00:00 security bits-don't-rot linux 253 253,245,196,162,48,24,11 http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/2341249/A-Never-Reboot-Service-For-Linux?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/0GCD9LfjSY0/Submit-Your-Comments-About-ACTA alex_guy_CA Notes that the US Trade Representative &mdash; who has been negotiating the secret Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement without input from the American people or Congress &mdash; is seeking public submissions on how to conduct US foreign copyright policy. This means that Americans can file comments with the USTR asking for ACTA to be made public. Public Knowledge explains the process: "Under the Special 301 process the USTR seeks input from US copyright, trademark, and patent owners about whether policies and practices in foreign countries deny them adequate IP protection. The process has generally been used by IP holders to complain not only about lax enforcement in other countries, but also about limitations and exceptions in their laws that are beneficial to libraries, to education, to innovation, and to the public interest generally. The ability to comment in the Special 301 process is not limited to IP owners only. Any member of the public is free to file comments. If you believe in the importance of balanced copyright policies, file comments with the USTR and make your voice heard. Comments can be filed electronically via http://www.regulations.gov/ docket number USTR-2010-0003. You have to include the term '2010 Special 301 Review' in the 'Type Comment and Upload File' field. ... Deadline for filing is February 16 by 5 pm"<p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/2242230/Submit-Your-Comments-About-ACTA?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=10/02/09/2242230"></a></p><p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/2242230/Submit-Your-Comments-About-ACTA?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/wOFmzBTZAAYrc3eWzTasniH0AIg/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/wOFmzBTZAAYrc3eWzTasniH0AIg/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/wOFmzBTZAAYrc3eWzTasniH0AIg/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/wOFmzBTZAAYrc3eWzTasniH0AIg/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/0GCD9LfjSY0" height="1" width="1"/> kdawson 2010-02-09T23:40:00+00:00 government piece-of-your-mind yro 104 104,103,75,59,23,13,6 http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/2242230/Submit-Your-Comments-About-ACTA?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Qre-q7hID2E/Swiss-Firm-Claims-Boost-In-Android-App-Performance Precision writes to inform us about the Swiss firm Myriad, which claims a 3x boost in Android app performance and longer battery life with a new virtual machine. Myriad says that its technology is 100% compatible with existing Android apps. "The tool is a replacement for the Dalvik virtual machine, which ships as part of the Android platform, and retains full compatibility with existing software. Dalvik Turbo also supports a range of processors including those based on ARM, Intel Atom, and MIPS Architectures."<p><a href="http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/2020224/Swiss-Firm-Claims-Boost-In-Android-App-Performance?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=10/02/09/2020224"></a></p><p><a href="http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/2020224/Swiss-Firm-Claims-Boost-In-Android-App-Performance?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/nlBWSg40Wm1OMp3stC5Oh_nvK8A/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/nlBWSg40Wm1OMp3stC5Oh_nvK8A/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/nlBWSg40Wm1OMp3stC5Oh_nvK8A/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/nlBWSg40Wm1OMp3stC5Oh_nvK8A/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/Qre-q7hID2E" height="1" width="1"/> kdawson 2010-02-09T22:53:00+00:00 cellphones sixty-fps-here-we-come mobile 105 105,104,86,62,20,7,5 http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/2020224/Swiss-Firm-Claims-Boost-In-Android-App-Performance?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/wMbapZD8dnM/XCores-EduBook-a-Netbook-That-Runs-on-AA-Batteries I'm typing this on a netbook with no hard drive, not using a chip from Intel or AMD, and powered by AA batteries. Eight rechargeable AAs, to be precise, in a bank of cells right where a Li-Ion battery would sit in a conventional laptop. The batteries charge in place, too (regulation prevents overcharging) meaning that the power cord is a simple three-prong-to-cloverleaf cord, no wall-wart required. It's the EduBook from Xcore (see that page for some photos of the internals, too), and it's a cool concept. Despite some warts, it's one of the most interesting things I ran into on the CES show floor last month (Xcore's Michael Barnes kindly supplied the laptop, straight from the display case). Read on for my review.<p><a href="http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/2138200/XCores-EduBook-a-Netbook-That-Runs-on-AA-Batteries?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=10/02/09/2138200"></a></p><p><a href="http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/2138200/XCores-EduBook-a-Netbook-That-Runs-on-AA-Batteries?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/9y9_uFtS3zv6krzhhPoZax0RhTM/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/9y9_uFtS3zv6krzhhPoZax0RhTM/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/9y9_uFtS3zv6krzhhPoZax0RhTM/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/9y9_uFtS3zv6krzhhPoZax0RhTM/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/wMbapZD8dnM" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2010-02-09T22:06:00+00:00 portables when-simplicity-is-key mobile 188 188,184,138,100,40,31,18 http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/2138200/XCores-EduBook-a-Netbook-That-Runs-on-AA-Batteries?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/YlYo1LuKjrE/Microsoft-Says-Windows-7-Not-Killing-Batteries VindictivePantz sends word that the Windows 7 team has posted a new blog entry discussing their conclusions about the reported Windows 7 battery failures. "To the very best of the collective ecosystem knowledge, Windows 7 is correctly warning batteries that are in fact failing and Windows 7 is neither incorrectly reporting on battery status nor in any way whatsoever causing batteries to reach this state. In every case we have been able to identify the battery being reported on was in fact in need of recommended replacement. ...every single indication we have regarding the reports we've seen are simply Windows 7 reporting the state of the battery using this new feature and we're simply seeing batteries that are not performing above the designated threshold. ... We are as certain as we can be that we have addressed the root cause and concerns of this report, but we will continue to monitor the situation."<p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/196235/Microsoft-Says-Windows-7-Not-Killing-Batteries?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=10/02/09/196235"></a></p><p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/196235/Microsoft-Says-Windows-7-Not-Killing-Batteries?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/CCQ6thYaVyNiOMPygN0kwavEmrc/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/CCQ6thYaVyNiOMPygN0kwavEmrc/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/CCQ6thYaVyNiOMPygN0kwavEmrc/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/CCQ6thYaVyNiOMPygN0kwavEmrc/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/YlYo1LuKjrE" height="1" width="1"/> kdawson 2010-02-09T21:20:00+00:00 bug epidemic-of-noticing hardware 244 244,237,196,149,53,32,20 http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/196235/Microsoft-Says-Windows-7-Not-Killing-Batteries?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Ryii3Y_nVpI/Re-Engineering-the-Immune-System destinyland notes a microbiology professor describing "Immunity on Demand" (or "Immunity 2.0") and wonders whether we could genetically engineer all the antibodies we need. "...there's a good chance this system, or something like it, will actually be in place within decades. Caltech scientists have already engineered stem cells into B cells that produce HIV-fighting antibodies &mdash; and an NIH researcher engineered T cells that recognize tumors which has already had promising clinical trials again skin cancer. Our best hope may be to cut out the middleman. Rather than merely hoping that the vaccine will indirectly lead to the antibody an individual needs, imagine if we could genetically engineer these antibodies and make them available as needed?"<p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/1833219/Re-Engineering-the-Immune-System?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=10/02/09/1833219"></a></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/1833219/Re-Engineering-the-Immune-System?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/wwIZzQq0a5ViNMuUOYkAPJ8gYyo/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/wwIZzQq0a5ViNMuUOYkAPJ8gYyo/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/wwIZzQq0a5ViNMuUOYkAPJ8gYyo/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/wwIZzQq0a5ViNMuUOYkAPJ8gYyo/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/Ryii3Y_nVpI" height="1" width="1"/> kdawson 2010-02-09T20:34:00+00:00 biotech immunity-two-point-oh science 161 161,158,125,93,33,16,10 http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/1833219/Re-Engineering-the-Immune-System?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/-UiycC407Es/The-Hidden-Treasures-of-Sysinternals Barence writes "PC Pro contributing editor Jon Honeyball has written a nice feature on the latest treasures to be found on the Windows Sysinternals website. Among them are a tool for creating virtual hard disks from physical drives, a hard disk read-write monitoring tool, and a utility for putting ISO images onto flash drives. They're free, but they're effective."<p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/1811250/The-Hidden-Treasures-of-Sysinternals?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=10/02/09/1811250"></a></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/1811250/The-Hidden-Treasures-of-Sysinternals?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/hGFltnrDlnGWLuXA3rp3hXbo4pw/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/hGFltnrDlnGWLuXA3rp3hXbo4pw/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/hGFltnrDlnGWLuXA3rp3hXbo4pw/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/hGFltnrDlnGWLuXA3rp3hXbo4pw/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/-UiycC407Es" height="1" width="1"/> kdawson 2010-02-09T19:48:00+00:00 windows right-tools-for-the-job technology 307 307,299,230,160,44,23,16 http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/1811250/The-Hidden-Treasures-of-Sysinternals?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/51GJRagcbxI/emBioShock-2em-Released BioShock 2 launched today for the PS3, Xbox 360 and Windows, ending the wait for a sequel to the original 2007 blockbuster. The events in BioShock 2 take place 10 years after the story from the original game. This time around, players control a prototype Big Daddy in an attempt to overthrow the new leader of Rapture. Early reviews for the game are quite strong, though the developers were prepared for fan backlash over some of the changes they made. The Guardian's Nicky Woolf praises the new storyline, and adds that "there is a fundamentally excellent shooter here too, with some of the best combat dynamics in the business." Rock, Paper, Shotgun's Alec Meer also had good things to say about the combat: "I can't stress this enough &ndash; as a game about shooting people, it's very responsive and very rewarding." However, Meer expressed disappointment that some of the impressive new concept art didn't get used and that the story and environment couldn't match the novelty of the original game. "Part of Rapture's great wonder was that it was just believable enough, if you squinted your brain a bit (or a lot), but this lathers on so much wild sci-fi that it's much harder to connect to it. The Sisters are elevated from horrifying genetic/psychological experiment into all-powerful messiah figures capable of pulling any old deus ex machina out of the hat. Making them into so much reduces the power and the sadness of what they are. As a result, the concept feels too exhausted to ever be used again."<p><a href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/1734252/emBioShock-2em-Released?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=10/02/09/1734252"></a></p><p><a href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/1734252/emBioShock-2em-Released?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/hBdf_XwzDN02qm-4Jzc4dOkVNmk/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/hBdf_XwzDN02qm-4Jzc4dOkVNmk/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/hBdf_XwzDN02qm-4Jzc4dOkVNmk/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/hBdf_XwzDN02qm-4Jzc4dOkVNmk/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/51GJRagcbxI" height="1" width="1"/> Soulskill 2010-02-09T18:50:00+00:00 fps look-at-little-sister games 188 188,180,146,120,30,18,9 http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/1734252/emBioShock-2em-Released?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/fKVsl7f2BnQ/How-Do-You-Accurately-Estimate-Programming-Time itwbennett writes "It can take a fairly stable team of programmers as long as six months to get to a point where they're estimating programming time fairly close to actuals, says Suvro Upadhyaya, a Senior Software Engineer at Oracle. Accurately estimating programming time is a process of defining limitations, he says. The programmers' experience, domain knowledge, and speed vs. quality all come into play, and it is highly dependent upon the culture of the team/organization. Upadhyaya uses Scrum to estimate programming time. How do you do it?"<p><a href="http://ask.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/1654200/How-Do-You-Accurately-Estimate-Programming-Time?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=10/02/09/1654200"></a></p><p><a href="http://ask.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/1654200/How-Do-You-Accurately-Estimate-Programming-Time?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/g4Ev_3Ilauaqv9PH7xf4Bp9sF_Y/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/g4Ev_3Ilauaqv9PH7xf4Bp9sF_Y/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/g4Ev_3Ilauaqv9PH7xf4Bp9sF_Y/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/g4Ev_3Ilauaqv9PH7xf4Bp9sF_Y/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/fKVsl7f2BnQ" height="1" width="1"/> Soulskill 2010-02-09T18:11:00+00:00 programming step-one-invent-time-travel askslashdot 440 440,440,366,288,40,20,15 http://ask.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/1654200/How-Do-You-Accurately-Estimate-Programming-Time?from=rss Search Slashdot stories query http://slashdot.org/search.pl