23:08SlashdotPoker Program Battles Humans In Vegas Bridger writes "Poker software called Polaris will play a rematch against human players during the 2008 World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. Developed by an artificial intelligence group at the University of Alberta in Canada, Polaris will be pitted against several professionals at the Rio Hotel (...)
22:22SlashdotAOL Users Will Need to Pay $2 a Month For Phone Support destinyland writes "8.7 million AOL subscribers face a new 20% fee increase next month — unless they agree to never call AOL's technical support lines. They'll have to use AOL chat for support or the online help "portal" unless their issue is a failed connection — and they're being enrolled in (...)
21:35SlashdotLt. Col. John Bircher Answers Your Questions A few weeks ago, you asked questions of Lt. Col. John Bircher, head of an organization with a difficult-to-navigate name: the U.S. Army Computer Network Operations (CNO)-Electronic Warfare (EW) Proponent's Futures Branch. Lt. Col. Bircher has answered from his perspective, at length, not just (...)
20:44SlashdotFreeze On US Solar Plant Applications Lifted necro81 writes "Barely a month ago, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management announced a freeze on applications for solar power plants on federally managed land, pending a two-year comprehensive environmental review. After much hue and cry from the public, industry, and other parts of government, BLM (...)
19:58SlashdotDial-Up Users "Don't Want Broadband" Barence writes "The majority of dial-up Internet users say they don't want to upgrade their connection to broadband, according to a new study in the US. The Pew Internet & American Life research found that 62% of dial-up users had no interest in upgrading to a high-speed connection." (CNN (...)
19:13SlashdotG8 Summit Aims To Kill International Piracy arcticstoat writes "Next week, the G8 summit will discuss proposals for new international piracy laws, which include border controls and cooperation from ISPs to identify pirates. The laws will also prevent ISPs from being liable for copyright infringement. If the G8 summit were to agree on (...)
18:13SourceForge.netBeat PDF action plug-in: Now available TWS Event & Action Plugins Collections. This project is made as repository for any TWS plugins. User can upload new plugins or download exists plugins. Project is open every collaboration is welcome. Support IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler 8.4 This plug-in made to create a PDF report as TWS's (...)
18:13SourceForge.netpalmBTremote: Version 0.2 available palmBTremote contains both client and server side components to allow remote control of totem and MythTV from your palmOS device over bluetooth. Version 0.2 is available for download. Changes- * Removed lots of unnecessary cruft * Split palmBTremote.pl into 2 files, one for linux and one for (...)
18:13SourceForge.netcuda-z: Release 0.1 Small program displaying information about CUDA-enabled devices. It's a first code and binary release of CUDA-Z. Feedbacks and bug reports are welcome! WBR AG
18:13SourceForge.netCODESH: 1.4.0 released CODESH (COllaborative DEvelopment SHell) is an automatic persistent logbook for sessions of personal command line work. It records what and how is being done, for private use/reuse and for sharing selected parts with collaborators. It is an intelligent shell that automatically logs user's shell (...)
18:00SlashdotIs Today's Web Still 'the Web'? snydeq writes "Fatal Exception's Neil McAllister raises questions regarding the transforming nature of the Web now that Tim Berners-Lee's early vision has been supplanted by today's much more complex model. AJAX, Google Web Toolkit, Flash and Silverlight all have McAllister asking, 'Is [the (...)
17:18SlashdotAVG Fakes User Agent, Floods the Internet Slimy anti-virus provider AVG is spamming the internet with deceptive traffic pretending to be Internet Explorer. Essentially, users of the software automatically pre-crawl search results, which is bad, but they do so with an intentionally generic user agent. This is flooding websites with (...)
16:45Warp2Search.NetISA Server 2006 SP1 Microsoft has released Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2006 Service Pack 1...
16:37SlashdotWood Density May Explain Stradivarius Secret Whorhay writes "A Dutch doctor and a violin maker from Arkansas have compared five classical and eight modern violins in a computed tomography (CT) scanner. Apparently the 300-year-old violins are made of wood with a more consistent density than the modern violins. They aren't saying for sure (...)
16:00SlashdotFirefox Breaks 8 Million, Gets Into Guinness Punkster812 writes "Mozilla has gotten the results back from the Guinness World Records and the official number that will be set as the record is 8,002,530 downloads. The day started out a little rough for them, with server troubles during the initial launch, but once they got everything going, (...)
15:19SlashdotBest Color Scheme For Coding, Easiest On the Eyes? Marzubus writes "I tend to do a lot of code editing in vim and sometimes get the 'burning eyes' or headaches. I have been trying to find a background / foreground combination for my terminal sessions which is easiest on the eyes but cannot seem to find any real data on this subject. Does anyone (...)
14:39SlashdotYouTube Must Give All User Histories To Viacom psyopper writes "Google will have to turn over every record of every video watched by YouTube users, including users' names and IP addresses, to Viacom, which is suing Google for allowing clips of its copyright videos to appear on YouTube, a judge ruled Wednesday. Although Google argued that (...)
13:57SlashdotThe Microsoft Office Rental Program LWATCDR writes "Yes, it looks like Microsoft is going to a rental program for Office. From the article, 'The software bundle, which also includes Microsoft's Live OneCare computer security software, will be sold at nearly 700 Circuit City stores for $70 per year.' Well I for one will be happy (...)
09:57SlashdotISPs to Ban P2P With New European Telecom Package? An anonymous reader writes "ZeroPaid is reporting that ISPs could be turned into the copyright police through European legislation that received a number of 'intellectual property' amendments. Many of these amendments can be found here. Judging by the amendments, ISPs could be mandated to block (...)
06:17SlashdotNew Map IDs the Core of the Human Brain gerald626 writes "An international team of researchers has created the first complete high-resolution map of how millions of neural fibers in the human cerebral cortex — the outer layer of the brain responsible for higher-level thinking — connect and communicate. Their groundbreaking work (...)
04:11SlashdotSynthetic Molecules Emulate Enzyme Behavior FiReaNGeL writes "Ohio State University chemists have created a synthetic catalyst that can fold its molecular structure into a specific shape for a specific job, similar to natural catalysts. In tests, the chemists caused the catalysts to twist one way or the other, either to form one chemical (...)
02:27SlashdotSolar Power From Home Curtains kaliann writes "With the push for more sustainable energy, easy DIY kits for alternative energy sources are likely to become quite popular in the coming years. We may see some big improvements in our ability to 'green up' if these photovoltaic curtains become widely available."
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01:13SlashdotFTC Recruiting Identity Theft Victims coondoggie writes "In an effort to buttress its enforcement and better understand the scourge that is identity theft, the Federal Trade Commission said today its plans to conduct a wide-ranging study of victims of the crime. The FTC is looking for people harmed by the crime and said the survey (...)
00:11SlashdotFirst Images of Solar System's Invisible Frontier FiReaNGeL writes an unexpected side-effect from NASA's STEREO spacecraft has allowed scientists to see a much more well-defined picture of the boundary of our solar system. "The twin STEREO spacecraft were launched in 2006 into Earth's orbit about the sun to obtain stereo pictures of the sun's (...)
