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doggdot.us -
3 hours and 20 minutes ago
Barence writes For anyone who assumes weekday evenings are the worst time to enter the online
scrum, it may be a surprise to learn that the peak internet rush hour, when average web speeds slow
to a crawl, is in fact Sunday between 5pm and 6pm. This surprise fact came out of Ofcoms recent
research that also told us the blindingly obvious news that actual broadband speeds are less than
half of those advertised by the ISPs.pa
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doggdot.us -
3 hours and 26 minutes ago
snydeq writes "Sustainable IT's Ted Samson raises questions regarding the purchasing of carbon
offsets, a practice growing in popularity among tech companies such as Dell, Yahoo, and Google in
an attempt to achieve 'carbon neutrality.' Essentially financial instruments, carbon offsets enable
companies to invest money in sustainable endeavors in an attempt to counteract the carbon footprint
they incur conducting their business. But as a recent article in the Wall Street Journal shows,
measuring the value of these carbon offsets is tricky business, as some recipients of offsets say
the results of their sustainable efforts would be achieved regardless of any one company's
investment. 'The question of whether carbon offsets hold value just scratches the surface of the
overall carbon-neutrality question,' Samson writes. 'For the time being, there isn't even a
consistent approach to measuring an organization's carbon footprint in the first place. And if you
don't know how much CO2 you're responsible for, how do you know how much offsetting is necessary to
become neutral?'"pa href="http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/08/2229206amp;from=rss"img
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doggdot.us -
3 hours and 55 minutes ago
Microsoft is hoping two new distribution deals will give its Live Search a much-needed boost. The
company announced Wednesday a global deal with Dell that will see Live Search be the default search
engine and a Windows Live toolbar bundled on the bulk of consumer and small-business PCs sold by
the computer maker over the next three years. pa
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doggdot.us -
4 hours and 20 minutes ago
El Lobo writes Asus success with its Eee line of netbooks might have come as a surprise, but the
company is now determined to expand the Eee brand into every possible niche and form factor. Case
in point: the insanely cool Eee Keyboard, which will surely bring a smile on the faces of those who
remember the glory days of the home computer. Described as a fully functional PC with inset Qwerty
key arrangement, the keyboard has a 5in touch screen that displays a suite of bespoke media
controls or a Windows desktop.pa
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doggdot.us -
4 hours and 58 minutes ago
The new-ness is underway, and Palm just debuted its latest handset, the Palm pre. Its a touchscreen
phone with a trackball and a slide-out keyboard. pa
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doggdot.us -
5 hours and 20 minutes ago
CWmike writes The rumors turned out to be true. Microsoft will release a public beta this week of
its next desktop operating system, Windows 7, hoping it will address the problems that have made
Windows Vista perhaps the least popular OS in its history. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer will launch
the beta during his speech at the start of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Wednesday.
Preston Gralla reviewed Windows 7 beta 1, noting Fast and stable, Beta 1 of Windows 7 unveils some
intriguing user-interface improvements, including the much-anticipated new task bar. MSDN and
Technet subscribers should be able to get the public data tonight. The general public will have to
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doggdot.us -
6 hours and 20 minutes ago
techmuse writes Lexus has announced plans to send targeted messages to buyers of its cars based on
the buyers zip code and vehicle type. Unlike regular spam, these messages will be delivered
directly to the buyers vehicle, and will play to the vehicles occupants as audio. Lexus has
promised to make the messages relevant to the car buyers. Imagine the fun that some targeted
malware could do mdash; not that such a thing could happen to a Lexus.pa
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doggdot.us -
7 hours and 20 minutes ago
gregg writes Six weeks before the nations television stations are scheduled to convert to digital
transmission, the Obama administration is asking Congress to consider a delay. In the most
significant sign to date of concern about the impending digital TV transition, the Obama transition
team co-chair John Podesta said the government funds to support the change are woefully inadequate
and said that the digital switch date, Feb. 17, should be reconsidered and extended.pa
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doggdot.us -
8 hours and 20 minutes ago
An anonymous reader writes SD cards with a theoretical maximum capacity of 2TB are in development
by Panasonic and the SD Association, it has been announced. The technology is called Secure Digital
Extended Capacity, or SDXC, and Panasonic has announced it will soon show off a 64GB SDXC card.
Using the new technology, read/write speeds are set to hit 300MBps. SanDisk and Sony are using the
same standard to develop Extended Capacity cards in Sonys Memory Stick Pro and Memory Stick Micro
range. SDXC utilises Microsofts new exFAT file system mdash; AKA FAT 64 mdash; which first appeared
in Windows Vista SP1, and has a theoretical file size limit of 16 exbibytes. Reader xlotlu adds a
note about the proprietary exFAT file system, which is available for licensing under NDA. There are
currently no specific patents on exFAT, but its legal status is uncertain since its based on FAT.
The FAT patents have been previously upheld in court.pa
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doggdot.us -
8 hours and 29 minutes ago
The new Phenom II X4 920 and 940 are easily the most powerful desktop processors released from AMD
to date. They performed well throughout our entire battery of benchmark tests, besting AMDs
previous flagship CPU, the Phenom X4 9950 virtually across the board. pa
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doggdot.us -
9 hours and 7 minutes ago
An Islamic charity has established its right to sue the government over warrantless surveillance, a
federal court ruled Monday. pa
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doggdot.us -
10 hours ago
Jack Spine writes "Twitter co-founder Biz Stone has confirmed both to ZDNet UK and Wired Threat
Level blog that a dictionary attack was used to hack Twitter. After the hacker distributed details
on the Digital Gangster forum, celebrities such as Britney Spears and Barack Obama had their
accounts defaced. Wired spoke to the alleged hacker, while ZDNet UK got in contact with someone who
had been on the Digital Gangster forum at the time."pa
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doggdot.us -
10 hours and 42 minutes ago
diegocgteleline.es writes "Here is LWN's eleventh annual timeline of significant events in the
Linux and free software world for the year. As always, 2008 proved to be an interesting year, with
great progress in useful software that made our systems better. Of course, there were some of the
usual conflicts mdash; patent woes, project politics, and arguments over freedom mdash; but
overall, the pace of free software progress stayed on its upwardly increasing trend. 2008 was a
year that saw the end of SCO mdash; or not mdash; the rise of Linux-based 'netbooks,' multiple
excellent distribution releases, more phones and embedded devices based on Linux, as well as major
releases of software we will be using for years (X.org, Python, KDE, ...)."pa
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doggdot.us -
11 hours and 24 minutes ago
Vigile writes "A new stereoscopic 3D gaming technology has hit the street today from NVIDIA, though
demoed earlier in the year, that promises to bring high quality 3D gaming to the PC. The GeForce 3D
Vision technology utilizes active shutter glasses and a 120 Hz display (either 120 Hz LCD or
3D-Ready DLP TVs) to bring an immersive 3D effect to PC games. Using the depth buffer information
stored in DirectX, the NVIDIA software is able to construct a stereo 3D image out of existing game
content while the 120 Hz requirement gives each eye 60 frames of motion per second negating the
physical detriments that were known to occur with previous 3D offerings. The review at PC
Perspective details how the technology works, the performance hit your games take while using it
and the advantages and disadvantages to the user's gaming experience with 3D Vision."pa
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doggdot.us -
12 hours and 3 minutes ago
wmoyes writes "Back in September I ran into a Best Buy store to buy a Samsung BD-P2550 Blu-ray
player. I didn't give the clerk my name, telephone number, or address, just my debit card. The
player has sat happily in my living room without ever being networked or registered. Today I was
shocked to find a package waiting for me at home from Best Buy mdash; inside was a firmware update
CD for the player. I used to think Windows Update was scary, but Samsung's update service tracked
me to my house using the mag stripe from my bank card. Has this happened to any other Blu-ray
owners?" Or is there a simpler explanation?pa
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doggdot.us -
12 hours and 41 minutes ago
fuzzel writes "Today Google announced Google over IPv6 where ISPs can sign up their DNS nameservers
so that their users will get access to an almost fully IPv6-enabled Google, including
http://www.google.com, images and maps, etc., just like in IPv4. Without this only
http://ipv6.google.com is available, but then you go to IPv4 for most services. So, start kicking
your ISPs to support IPv6 too, and let them sign up. Check this list of ISPs that already do native
IPv6 to your doorstep. The question that now remains is: when will Slashdot follow?"pa
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doggdot.us -
13 hours and 23 minutes ago
Will Do This For Free writes "BBC News has a story about the only fireproof way of safeguarding
your personal information when dumping your old computer: 'It sounds extreme, but the only way to
be 100% safe is to smash your hard drive into smithereens. [...] The more thoroughly the better.'
This sounds like so much fun that I almost feel like doing it right now. Let me press SubmitStory
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13 hours and 40 minutes ago
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doggdot.us -
14 hours and 13 minutes ago
An anonymous reader writes "At the International Conference on Cyber Security 2009 in New York,
Evan Kohlmann, a senior investigator and private consultant for Global Terror Alert, claimed that a
new breed of terrorists are using online forums to recruit people who align themselves with the
mission of Al Qaeda, creating global networks of would-be terrorists."pa
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14 hours and 40 minutes ago
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14 hours and 42 minutes ago
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16 hours and 44 minutes ago
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