mattnyc99 writes "Esquire is running a a jaw-dropping profile of MacArthur genius Marc Roth in their annual Best and Brightest roundup, detailing how this gonzo DNA scientist (who also figured out how to diagnose lupus correctly) went from watching his infant daughter die to literally reincarnating animals. Inspired by NOVA and funded by DARPA, Roth has developed a serum for major biotech startup Ikaria that successfully accomplished "suspended animation" mdash; the closest we've ever come to simulating near-death experiences and then coming back to life. From the article: 'We don't know what life is, anyway. Not really. We just know what life does mdash; it burns oxygen. It's a process of combustion. We're all just slow-burning candles, making our way through our allotment of precious O2 until it becomes our toxin, until we burn out, until we get old and die. But we live on 21 percent oxygen, just as we live at 37 degrees. They're related. Decrease the oxygen to 5 percent, we die. But, look, the concentration of oxygen in the blood that runs through our capillaries is only 2 or 3 percent. We're almost dead already! So what if we turn down the candle's need for oxygen? What if we dim the candle so much that we don't even have the energy to die?'" The writer Tom Junod engages in what Hunter Thompson once called "a failed but essentially noble experiment in pure gonzo journalism." If you can suspend your inner critic for a time, it's a fun ride.pa href="http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/02/2313252amp;from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=08/12/02/2313252"/a/ppa href="http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/02/2313252amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/ypCO5OsyU6MHkvYSIlY32MGpnrU/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/ypCO5OsyU6MHkvYSIlY32MGpnrU/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/cN_wunER-5I" height="1" width="1"/

pFiled under: a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/category/news/" rel="tag"News/a, a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/category/windows/" rel="tag"Windows/a, a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/category/macintosh/" rel="tag"Macintosh/a, a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/category/linux/" rel="tag"Linux/a/pdiv align="center"br //div div align="center"a href="http://marketshare.hitslink.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=8"img hspace="4" height="216" width="534" vspace="4" border="0" align="top" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.downloadsquad.com/media/2008/12/windows-share.jpg" alt="Windows Market Share" //abr //div If you gauged the market share of various operating systems by counting the number of Macs vs PCs you see in the typical urban coffee shop, you'd probably believe that Apple and Microsoft were duking it out like Republicans and Democrats in a close US presidential election. br /br /But the truth of the matter is that Microsoft is emthe/em dominant company when it comes to consumer oriented computers. In fact, according to Net Applications, a company that tracks these things, Microsoft had a href="http://marketshare.hitslink.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=8"more than 90% of the market share/a. Until last month, anyway.br /br /In November, 2008, Microsoft's market share dipped to 89.62%. Which is to say, Microsoft's Windows operating systems still dwarf the nearest competitors, Mac OS X and Linux. But a slightly smaller percentage of people who visited web sites tracked by Net Applications in November were using the operating system.br /br /Net Applications reports that OS X has also seen a slight jump in usage, and that Windows Vista use is up while Windows XP use is down. More than 20% of computer users were running Windows Vista for the first time in November.br /br /[via a href="http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasicamp;articleId=9121938"Computer World/a and a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/02/1857253amp;from=rss"Slashdot/a]p style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/12/02/windows-market-share-reaches-new-low-89-6/"Windows market share reaches new low - 89.6%/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com"Download Squad/a on Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:50:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://marketshare.hitslink.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=8Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/12/02/windows-market-share-reaches-new-low-89-6/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/forward/1389057/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/12/02/windows-market-share-reaches-new-low-89-6/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/iuJgFm12wQ9rvHNUfBMRt9eGrQI/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/iuJgFm12wQ9rvHNUfBMRt9eGrQI/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/downloadsquad?a=GCgi5kBU"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/downloadsquad?i=GCgi5kBU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/downloadsquad?a=sIlNeB1r"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/downloadsquad?i=sIlNeB1r" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/downloadsquad/~4/TIJW9AE7Mm4" height="1" width="1"/

An anonymous reader notes a Reuters report of a study, published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, confirming that Mobile phone calls distract drivers far more than even the chattiest passenger, causing drivers to follow too closely and miss exits. California's ban on using a handheld cell phone while driving, which went into effect last summer, is looking less than fully effective. A handful of other states have instituted similar bans, but none has forbidden driving while talking on a cell phone at all. "Using a hands-free device does not make things better and the researchers believe they know why mdash; passengers act as a second set of eyes, shutting up or sometimes even helping when they see the driver needs to make a maneuver."pa href="http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/02/2142216amp;from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=08/12/02/2142216"/a/ppa href="http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/02/2142216amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/unOwe0CJkhTgFVgvvz-xVQpkhO4/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/unOwe0CJkhTgFVgvvz-xVQpkhO4/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/jP82mkxGkQc" height="1" width="1"/

An anonymous reader notes a Reuters report of a study, published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, confirming that Mobile phone calls distract drivers far more than even the chattiest passenger, causing drivers to follow too closely and miss exits. California's ban on using a handheld cell phone while driving, which went into effect last summer, is looking less than fully effective. A handful of other states have instituted similar bans, but none has forbidden driving while talking on a cell phone at all. "Using a hands-free device does not make things better and the researchers believe they know why mdash; passengers act as a second set of eyes, shutting up or sometimes even helping when they see the driver needs to make a maneuver."pa href="http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/02/2142216amp;from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=08/12/02/2142216"/a/ppa href="http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/02/2142216amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/unOwe0CJkhTgFVgvvz-xVQpkhO4/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/unOwe0CJkhTgFVgvvz-xVQpkhO4/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/NoEFOW0f3-A" height="1" width="1"/

badger.foo writes "We have seen the future of botnets, and it is distributed and low-key. Are sites running free software finally becoming malware targets? It all started with a higher-than-usual number of failed ssh logins at a low-volume site. I think we are seeing the shape of botnets to come, with malware authors doing their early public beta testing during the last few weeks."pa href="http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/02/2124244amp;from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=08/12/02/2124244"/a/ppa href="http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/02/2124244amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/EwhO-7ELR2h2zaoC6GehViTGduM/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/EwhO-7ELR2h2zaoC6GehViTGduM/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/spXbVSR1ojM" height="1" width="1"/

badger.foo writes "We have seen the future of botnets, and it is distributed and low-key. Are sites running free software finally becoming malware targets? It all started with a higher-than-usual number of failed ssh logins at a low-volume site. I think we are seeing the shape of botnets to come, with malware authors doing their early public beta testing during the last few weeks."pa href="http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/02/2124244amp;from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=08/12/02/2124244"/a/ppa href="http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/02/2124244amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/EwhO-7ELR2h2zaoC6GehViTGduM/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/EwhO-7ELR2h2zaoC6GehViTGduM/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/oXIlC-FnFkE" height="1" width="1"/

Swoolley writes "A month back this community discussed the Sprint vs. Cogent depeering. Now a story I wrote for Forbes.com tells the inside story of the fight, based on the lawsuits the two companies filed against each other in Virginia state court. For once, thanks to those suits, the public gets to see the details of a confidential peering agreement between two of the Internet's largest autonomous systems, as well as the circumstances leading up to the depeering. (Which company is in the right? Read the facts and decide for yourself.) While some people have argued that the depeering is reason for more government regulation, the Forbes story makes the case that details of the recent Cogent vs. Sprint fight argue for exactly the opposite: keeping the Internet backbones free of government meddling."pa href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/02/210241amp;from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=08/12/02/210241"/a/ppa href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/02/210241amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/xCef-pUtvzLw4R0hs2Tejwcp3W0/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/xCef-pUtvzLw4R0hs2Tejwcp3W0/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/CwYkePG2KeQ" height="1" width="1"/

Swoolley writes "A month back this community discussed the Sprint vs. Cogent depeering. Now a story I wrote for Forbes.com tells the inside story of the fight, based on the lawsuits the two companies filed against each other in Virginia state court. For once, thanks to those suits, the public gets to see the details of a confidential peering agreement between two of the Internet's largest autonomous systems, as well as the circumstances leading up to the depeering. (Which company is in the right? Read the facts and decide for yourself.) While some people have argued that the depeering is reason for more government regulation, the Forbes story makes the case that details of the recent Cogent vs. Sprint fight argue for exactly the opposite: keeping the Internet backbones free of government meddling."pa href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/02/210241amp;from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=08/12/02/210241"/a/ppa href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/02/210241amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/xCef-pUtvzLw4R0hs2Tejwcp3W0/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/xCef-pUtvzLw4R0hs2Tejwcp3W0/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/LrIBxpmEy9Y" height="1" width="1"/

"Bezkarność Palikota zachÄ™ca jego i jemu podobnych obszczymurów do robienia sobie jaj z polskiego paÅ„stwa i jego instytucji" #8211; pisze na swoim blogu w Onet.pl Ryszard Czarnecki. Eurodeputowany komentuje w ten sposób umorzenie przez prokuraturÄ™ Å›ledztwa w sprawie nazwania prezydenta RO "chamem".

Zordak writes CNN has up a story about several Israeli firms that want to replace metal detectors at airports with biometric readings. For example, with funding from TSA and DHS, WeCU ([creepily] pronounced We See You) Technologies, employs a combination of infra-red technology, remote sensors and imagers, and flashing of subliminal images, such as a photo of Osama bin Laden. Developers say the combination of these technologies can detect a persons reaction to certain stimuli by reading body temperature, heart rate and respiration mdash; signals a terrorist unwittingly emits before he plans to commit an attack. Sensors may be embedded in the carpet, seats, and check-in screens. The stated goal is to read a passengers intention in a manner that is more fair, more effective and less expensive than traditional profiling. But not to worry! WeCUs CEO says, We dont want you to feel that you are being interrogated. And you may get through security in 20 to 30 seconds.pa href=http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/02/198258amp;from=rssimg src=http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=08/12/02/198258 //a/ppa href=http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/02/198258amp;from=rssRead more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href=http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/fMRk26vARWhRy6u41KqGWDYZpM8/aimg src=http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/fMRk26vARWhRy6u41KqGWDYZpM8/i border=0 ismap=true //a/pimg src=http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/YGobGwRN_2c height=1 width=1 /

paradox1x writes "Malcolm Tredinnick shares a terrific rant against the misunderstanding and misuse of the Model-View-Controller design pattern. In particular he takes issue with the notion that Django should be considered an MVC framework. He says that 'It's as valid as saying it's a "circus support mechanism," since the statement is both true, in some contexts, and false in others (you can definitely use Django-based code to help run your circus; stop looking so skeptical).' I'm not sure I agree with the entire piece, but it is a very good read." We recently discussed another look at the bending and stretching of MVC patterns in the world of Web development.pa href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/02/1938204amp;from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=08/12/02/1938204"/a/ppa href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/02/1938204amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/iExqGJZH6rqap8nQ2oOI-jRICA0/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/iExqGJZH6rqap8nQ2oOI-jRICA0/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/9vwS8H3ZBOg" height="1" width="1"/

paradox1x writes "Malcolm Tredinnick shares a terrific rant against the misunderstanding and misuse of the Model-View-Controller design pattern. In particular he takes issue with the notion that Django should be considered an MVC framework. He says that 'It's as valid as saying it's a "circus support mechanism," since the statement is both true, in some contexts, and false in others (you can definitely use Django-based code to help run your circus; stop looking so skeptical).' I'm not sure I agree with the entire piece, but it is a very good read." We recently discussed another look at the bending and stretching of MVC patterns in the world of Web development.pa href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/02/1938204amp;from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=08/12/02/1938204"/a/ppa href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/02/1938204amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/iExqGJZH6rqap8nQ2oOI-jRICA0/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/iExqGJZH6rqap8nQ2oOI-jRICA0/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/LmWiRSApy4Y" height="1" width="1"/

Zordak writes "CNN has up a story about several Israeli firms that want to replace metal detectors at airports with biometric readings. For example, with funding from TSA and DHS, 'WeCU ([creepily] pronounced "We See You") Technologies, employs a combination of infra-red technology, remote sensors and imagers, and flashing of subliminal images, such as a photo of Osama bin Laden. Developers say the combination of these technologies can detect a person's reaction to certain stimuli by reading body temperature, heart rate and respiration mdash; signals a terrorist unwittingly emits before he plans to commit an attack.' Sensors may be embedded in the carpet, seats, and check-in screens. The stated goal is to read a passenger's 'intention' in a manner that is 'more fair, more effective and less expensive' than traditional profiling. But not to worry! WeCU's CEO says, 'We don't want you to feel that you are being interrogated.' And you may get through security in 20 to 30 seconds."pa href="http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/02/198258amp;from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=08/12/02/198258"/a/ppa href="http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/02/198258amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/fMRk26vARWhRy6u41KqGWDYZpM8/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/fMRk26vARWhRy6u41KqGWDYZpM8/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/KIAZHUcoiI4" height="1" width="1"/

ozmanjusri writes Online market share of the dominant Windows operating system has taken its biggest monthly fall in years to drop below 90%, according to Net Applications Inc. Computerworld reports that Microsofts flagship product has been steadily losing ground to Mac OS X and Linux, and is at its lowest ebb in the market since 1995. Mac OS X... [ended] the month at 8.9%. November was the third month running that Apples operating system remained above 8%. The stats show that while some customers are upgrading from XP to Vista, many are jumping ship to Apple, while Linux is also steadily gaining ground. A Net Applications executive suggests the slide may be caused by many of the same factors that caused the fall in Internet Explorer use. The more home users who are online, using Macs and Firefox and Safari, the more those shares go up, he said. November has more weekend days, as well Thanksgiving in the US, a result that emphasizes the importance of corporate sales to Microsoft.pa href=http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/02/1857253amp;from=rssimg src=http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=08/12/02/1857253 //a/ppa href=http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/02/1857253amp;from=rssRead more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href=http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/SwprwKIRjCOCD7wKmKIIHQ0TIII/aimg src=http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/SwprwKIRjCOCD7wKmKIIHQ0TIII/i border=0 ismap=true //a/pimg src=http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/_ciyhON2gD4 height=1 width=1 /

ozmanjusri writes "Online market share of the dominant Windows operating system has taken its biggest monthly fall in years to drop below 90%, according to Net Applications Inc. Computerworld reports that Microsoft's flagship product has been steadily losing ground to Mac OS X and Linux, and is at its lowest ebb in the market since 1995. 'Mac OS X... [ended] the month at 8.9%. November was the third month running that Apple's operating system remained above 8%.' The stats show that while some customers are 'upgrading' from XP to Vista, many are jumping ship to Apple, while Linux is also steadily gaining ground. A Net Applications executive suggests the slide may be caused by many of the same factors that caused the fall in Internet Explorer use. 'The more home users who are online, using Macs and Firefox and Safari, the more those shares go up,' he said. November has more weekend days, as well Thanksgiving in the US, a result that emphasizes the importance of corporate sales to Microsoft."pa href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/02/1857253amp;from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=08/12/02/1857253"/a/ppa href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/02/1857253amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/SwprwKIRjCOCD7wKmKIIHQ0TIII/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/SwprwKIRjCOCD7wKmKIIHQ0TIII/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/jvcwUc7t9YU" height="1" width="1"/

Tom Farber, a calculus teacher at Rancho Bernardo high school in San Diego, has come up with a unique way of covering district cuts to his supplies budget. He sells ads on his tests. "Tough times call for tough actions," Tom says. The price of an ad on a Mr. Farber Calc test is as follows: $10 for a quiz, $20 for a chapter test, and $30 for a semester final. Most of the ads are messages from parents but about a third of them come from local businesses. Principal Paul Robinson says reaction has been "mixed," but adds, "It's not like, 'This test is brought to you by McDonald's or Nike.'" I see his point. Being a local business whore is much better than being a multinational conglomerate whore.pa href="http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/02/1550206amp;from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=08/12/02/1550206"/a/ppa href="http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/02/1550206amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/TAHlIEsvCeJgR1Xqjuzi1IuiKYA/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/TAHlIEsvCeJgR1Xqjuzi1IuiKYA/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/8jZ48j_9mTw" height="1" width="1"/

Tom Farber, a calculus teacher at Rancho Bernardo high school in San Diego, has come up with a unique way of covering district cuts to his supplies budget. He sells ads on his tests. "Tough times call for tough actions," Tom says. The price of an ad on a Mr. Farber Calc test is as follows: $10 for a quiz, $20 for a chapter test, and $30 for a semester final. Most of the ads are messages from parents but about a third of them come from local businesses. Principal Paul Robinson says reaction has been "mixed," but adds, "It's not like, 'This test is brought to you by McDonald's or Nike.'" I see his point. Being a local business whore is much better than being a multinational conglomerate whore.pa href="http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/02/1550206amp;from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=08/12/02/1550206"/a/ppa href="http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/02/1550206amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/TAHlIEsvCeJgR1Xqjuzi1IuiKYA/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/TAHlIEsvCeJgR1Xqjuzi1IuiKYA/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/Do1EKicGcUk" height="1" width="1"/

KentuckyFC writes "Philosophers have long wondered at the profound link between mathematics and physics, but how deep does this connection go? Pretty deep according to the results of a quantum experiment exploring the nature of mathematical undecidability. Here's how: any logical system must be based on axioms, which are propositions that are defined to be true. A proposition is logically independent from these axioms if it can neither be proved nor disproved from them; mathematicians say it is undecidable. In the experiment, researchers encoded a set of axioms as quantum states. A particular measurement on this system can then be thought of as a proposition which, if undecidable, yields a random result mdash; which is what they found. 'This sheds new light on the (mathematical) origin of quantum randomness in these measurements,' say the researchers (abstract)."pa href="http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/02/1756227amp;from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=08/12/02/1756227"/a/ppa href="http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/02/1756227amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/lPlRs3XTl59z_VW-hyrqaknJQPQ/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/lPlRs3XTl59z_VW-hyrqaknJQPQ/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/sSIdy0O9dAA" height="1" width="1"/

KentuckyFC writes "Philosophers have long wondered at the profound link between mathematics and physics, but how deep does this connection go? Pretty deep according to the results of a quantum experiment exploring the nature of mathematical undecidability. Here's how: any logical system must be based on axioms, which are propositions that are defined to be true. A proposition is logically independent from these axioms if it can neither be proved nor disproved from them; mathematicians say it is undecidable. In the experiment, researchers encoded a set of axioms as quantum states. A particular measurement on this system can then be thought of as a proposition which, if undecidable, yields a random result mdash; which is what they found. 'This sheds new light on the (mathematical) origin of quantum randomness in these measurements,' say the researchers (abstract)."pa href="http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/02/1756227amp;from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=08/12/02/1756227"/a/ppa href="http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/02/1756227amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/lPlRs3XTl59z_VW-hyrqaknJQPQ/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/lPlRs3XTl59z_VW-hyrqaknJQPQ/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/AayKWHpVLZ4" height="1" width="1"/

Daengbo writes "While I live in S.Korea and have virtually unlimited bandwidth in and out of the country, not all my Asian friends are so lucky. Many of the SE Asian and African countries have small international pipes. Even when a user has a high-speed local connection, downloads from abroad will trickle in. Bittorrent clients apparently don't prioritize other users on the same ISP or at least in the same country. Why is that? Is it difficult to manage? If I were to write a plug-in for, say, Deluge, what hurdles would I be likely to come across? If this functionality is available in other clients or through plug-ins, please chime in."pa href="http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/02/1718247amp;from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=08/12/02/1718247"/a/ppa href="http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/02/1718247amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/VPccWvtVyGGqhvkfncIQZYqPOQE/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/VPccWvtVyGGqhvkfncIQZYqPOQE/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/gQMcDPi4bkQ" height="1" width="1"/

Daengbo writes "While I live in S.Korea and have virtually unlimited bandwidth in and out of the country, not all my Asian friends are so lucky. Many of the SE Asian and African countries have small international pipes. Even when a user has a high-speed local connection, downloads from abroad will trickle in. Bittorrent clients apparently don't prioritize other users on the same ISP or at least in the same country. Why is that? Is it difficult to manage? If I were to write a plug-in for, say, Deluge, what hurdles would I be likely to come across? If this functionality is available in other clients or through plug-ins, please chime in."pa href="http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/02/1718247amp;from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=08/12/02/1718247"/a/ppa href="http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/02/1718247amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/VPccWvtVyGGqhvkfncIQZYqPOQE/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/VPccWvtVyGGqhvkfncIQZYqPOQE/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/Xk0KqHQoxBA" height="1" width="1"/

Smivs points out a blandly-worded story from the BBC with scary implications, excerpting "Remote searches of suspect computers will form part of an EU plan to tackle hi-tech crime. The five-year action plan will take steps to combat the growth in cyber theft and the machines used to spread spam and other malicious programs. It will also encourage better sharing of data among European police forces to track down and prosecute criminals. Europol will co-ordinate the investigative work and also issue alerts about cyber crime sprees."pa href="http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/02/1632255amp;from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=08/12/02/1632255"/a/ppa href="http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/02/1632255amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/_DzxYAVfQe841wsPLxRhCafHBDo/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/_DzxYAVfQe841wsPLxRhCafHBDo/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/cwP9q0owLdU" height="1" width="1"/

Smivs points out a blandly-worded story from the BBC with scary implications, excerpting "Remote searches of suspect computers will form part of an EU plan to tackle hi-tech crime. The five-year action plan will take steps to combat the growth in cyber theft and the machines used to spread spam and other malicious programs. It will also encourage better sharing of data among European police forces to track down and prosecute criminals. Europol will co-ordinate the investigative work and also issue alerts about cyber crime sprees."pa href="http://yro.sl