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Russian Town Puts Giant Smiley On Google Maps
Date : 2008 09 24
SlashdotToramir writes "Citizens of the Russian town Chelyabinsk calculated when the satellite, QuickBird, which takes images for Google E read more »
Best DNS Service With API Access?
Date : 2008 09 24 Slashdotnetaustin writes "My company runs quite a few media websites, mostly on Drupal, and about half on ec2. We have a good server setup read more »
NASA Upgrades Weather Research Supercomputer
Date : 2008 09 24 SlashdotCowards Anonymous writes "NASA's Center for Computational Sciences is nearly tripling the performance of a supercomputer it uses t read more »
Mobile Phone Users Struggle With Hardware Adoption
Date : 2008 09 24 SlashdotIan Lamont writes "A Google executive speaking at the Emerging Technology conference has described a problem that mobile phone car read more »
Adobe Adds GPU Acceleration To Creative Suite 4
Date : 2008 09 24 Slashdotarcticstoat writes "GPGPU computing has just taken a major step into the world of mainstream software development, as Adobe has no read more »
Comcast Outlines New Broadband Policy
Date : 2008 09 24 SlashdotSlatterz writes "US cable provider Comcast has presented its long-term solution for managing broadband traffic. The new system is read more »
EA Hit By Class-Action Suit Over Spore DRM
Date : 2008 09 24 SlashdotThe ever-growing unrest caused by the DRM involved with EA's launch of Spore came to a head on Monday. A woman named Melissa Thoma read more »
Windows 7 Trades Email and Photo Apps For Downloadable Ones
Date : 2008 09 24 Slashdotarcticstoat writes "Microsoft has said that it plans to remove a lot of the standard apps from Windows 7 in order to make the new read more »
Chicago Law Firm Sues Over Hyperlink To Trademarked Name
Date : 2008 09 24 SlashdotTheSpoom writes "Large Chicago law firm Jones Day are suing internet startup BlockShopper over the issue of whether linking to a b read more »
The Thirteen Greatest Error Messages of All Time
Date : 2008 09 24 SlashdotTechnologizer writes "They add insult to injury — and computing wouldn't be the same without 'em. So I rounded up a baker's read more »
Clean Code
Date : 2008 09 24 SlashdotCory Foy writes "As developers, system admins, and a variety of other roles in IT, we have to deal with code on a daily basis. Som read more »
LHC Offline Until April 2009 (Or Longer)
Date : 2008 09 24 Slashdotrufey writes "The recent problems at the Large Hadron Collider will now keep it idle until spring 2009. The official press release read more »
Complaints Pour In After Digital TV Test
Date : 2008 09 24 Slashdotdjupedal writes "'Even if all goes smoothly, next February's digital television shift is likely to generate hundreds of thousands read more »
Is Open Source Different In Europe Than In the US?
Date : 2008 09 24 SlashdotAn anonymous reader writes "The first Europe Open Source Think Tank just concluded and Larry Augustin posted some interesting obse read more »
SpaceX Flight 4 Launch Postponed
Date : 2008 09 24 SlashdotMatt_dk noted that yesterday's launch plans for SpaceX have hit some turbulence. He says "SpaceX Flight 4 Launch has been postpone read more »
China To Run Out of IPv4 Addresses In 830 Days
Date : 2008 09 24 SlashdotJagsLive writes "China is running out of IP addresses, Unless it makes the switch to IPv6. : The Internet in China may soon run ou read more »
NASA Produces Rap Video On Astrobiology
Date : 2008 09 24 SlashdotAn anonymous reader writes "You've seen the Large Hadron Rap by Kate 'Alpinekat' McAlpine. Now a NASA magazine has commissioned an read more »
Sept 24 Is World Day Against Software Patents
Date : 2008 09 24 Slashdotzoobab writes "Veteran European anti-software patent campaigners have launched the World Day against Software Patents. They say, " read more »
RIAA and Net Radio Broadcaster Reach Agreement
Date : 2008 09 24 SlashdotAn anonymous reader writes "The RIAA and internet web broadcasters have reached a royalty agreement. Instead of facing massive inc read more »
"Dark Flow" Outside Observable Universe
Date : 2008 09 24 SlashdotDynaSoar writes "NASA astrophysicists have discovered what they claim is something outside the observable universe exerting an eff read more »
Students Are Always Half Right In Pittsburgh
Date : 2008 09 23 SlashdotPittsburgh Public Schools officials have enacted a policy that sets 50 percent as the minimum score a student can receive for assi read more »