Apr 17, 2008
Just recently, Darwin has experienced the powers of the Internet and has found his papers published upon it.
The first draft of Charles Darwin’s “On The Origin Of Species” is among a wealth of papers belonging to the intensely private man who changed science being published on the Internet on Thursday for the first time.
Comprising some 20,000 items and 90,000 images, the release on http://darwin-online.org.uk is the largest in history, according to the organizers from Cambridge University Library which holds all the Darwin papers.
The rest of the article, titled “Darwin’s private papers get Internet launch“, can be read at newsdaily.com.
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Jan 7, 2008
Why would you want to get a measly little 32″ HDTV? You can’t hardly see anything on that screen. You need at least 110 inches of screen space. Your HDTV should cover up the entire south wall of your 2 bedroom apartment’s living room.
The opening keynote address from the president of Panasonic, Toshihiro Sakamoto, had one thing that Bill Gates’ keynote yesterday lacked: A monstrous 150-inch plasma screen Panasonic calls the Life Screen. In Las Vegas and at CES, nothing counts quite so much as excess, so it looks like Panasonic has bragging rights for this year.
When it comes to electronics, smaller is better. Except for Speakers, TV’s and Monitors.
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Nov 20, 2007
Dig inside the mind of a MySpace hacker.
If Samy Kamkar plays his cards right, he may be allowed to visit MySpace again in just a few months. For the time being, however, he’s not even allowed to touch a computer, following a January 2007 guilty plea for creating what many consider to be the first Web 2.0 worm: the Samy worm.
Samy’s worm wasn’t malicious, but it did force News Corp.’s MySpace social-networking site to shut down in late 2005 after forcing more than 1 million users to declare Samy a “hero” on their profile pages.
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Nov 13, 2007
I bet you wish you knew about it. Actually it’s not much to get worked up about, but it’s a good sign of the times.
About two weeks ago, Wal-Mart began selling $200 Linux-based PC. The initial run was around 10,000 units. Now Wal-Mart is sold out. Has Linux now found a niche?
Wal-Mart’s $200 PC - sold outThe system sold by Wal-Mart was an Everex’s TC2502 gPC and is the first mass-market $200 desktop PC. The spec of the system is very low - 1.5 GHz VIA C7 CPU embedded onto a Mini-ITX motherboard, 512MB of RAM and an 80GB hard drive - but this doesn’t matter because the system does pretty much everything that your average PC users wants.
Has Windows outgrown the average user?
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Nov 8, 2007
Imagine that. A striptease, a trojan, and code cracking. Not as kinky as it sounds. I guess this whole thing is just an example of the dark underbelly of the internet.
A nifty little program that Trend Micro detects as TROJ_CAPTCHAR.A disguises itself as a strip-tease game, wherein a scantily clad “Melissa” agrees to take off a little bit of her clothing. However, for her to strut her stuff, users must identify the letters hidden within a CAPTCHA.
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