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Mirk writes Computer-science legend Edsger W. Dijkstra famously wrote: It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of reg...
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gollum123 writes US regulators may dedicate spectrum to free wireless Internet service for some Americans to increase affordable broadband service nationwide, the Federal Communications Commission said on Tuesday. The FCC provided few details about h...
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eldavojohn writes A new report from Games Industry indicates that MMO gamers in the United States paid $3.8 billion to play last year, with an analysis of five European countries bringing the total close to $4.5 billion USD. In America, the report es...
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ElectricSteve writes Its been a long time coming. While Arthur C. Clarkes geosync satellites have taken to space, and James Bonds futuristic mobile technology has become commonplace, still the dream of sustained personal flight has eluded us — until ...
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gollum123 sends an excerpt from the NY Times on how Google has taken a lead in language translation, in one of the companys few unqualified successes as it attempts to broaden is offerings beyond search. ...Googles quick rise to the top echelons of t...
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blozza2070 notes the news that Jeff Jaffe has been appointed CEO of the World Wide Web Consortium. Until January Jaffe was CTO at Novell and, while his name hasnt come up very often in this community, he is one of the architects of the Novell-Microso...
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adeelarshad82 writes After originally rejecting the story, online retailer NewEgg confirmed that a shipment of Core i7s were indeed fake, and apologized for the affair. NewEgg has also broken off its relationship with IPEX, the supplier of the phony ...
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netbuzz writes When the NASDAQ stock index hit its all-time high of 5,133 on March 10, 2000, it had more than doubled in a year and the dot-com bubble was already leaking in a big way. A week later the NASDAQ had fallen 9 percent. A year later it was...
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bjb writes While helping a somewhat computer illiterate person figure out a problem recently, they mentioned that PDF files had recently stopped working. Upon investigation I found something installed called PDF Suite. Never having heard of it, I Goo...
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CWmike writes Today Cisco Systems introduced its next-generation Internet core router, the CRS-3, with about three times the capacity of its current platform. The Internet will scale faster than any of us anticipate, Ciscos John Chambers said while a...
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kkleiner writes For many years countless individuals in the US have had to watch with envy as dogs and horses with joint and bone injuries have been cured with stem cell procedures that the FDA has refused to approve for humans. Now, in an exciting d...
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harrymcc writes Windows has been so dominant for so long that its easy to forget Windows 1.0 was vaporware, mocked both outside and inside of Microsoft — and that its immediate successors were considered stopgaps until OS2 was everywhere. Tandy Trowe...
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macslocum writes Nat Torkington begins sketching out an open data process that borrows liberally from open source tools: Open source discourages laziness (because everyone can see the corners youve cut), it can get bugs fixed or at least identified m...
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Trailrunner7 writes Security researchers have found that Vodafone, one of the worlds larger wireless providers, is distributing some HTC phones with malware pre-installed on them. The phone, HTCs Magic, runs the Google Android mobile operating system...
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krebsonsecurity writes Organized cyber-criminal gangs stole $25 million in the 3rd quarter alone last year, by pilfering the online bank accounts of small to midsized businesses, the FDIC reported last week. In contrast, traditional bank robbers haul...
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