The Best Thought Experiments: Schrödinger's Cat, Borel's Monkeys

Contrary to what your teachers told you, Galileo Galilei likely did not drop balls from the Tower of Pisa; he conducted the gravity experiment in the laboratory of his mind. His 16th-century peers believed heavier objects fell faster than light ones. So Galileo imagined a heavy ball attached by a string to a light ball. Would the light ball ... (Read on Source)

Experts Opine Ephedra Caused Congestive Heart Failure

NEW YORK - The son of a woman who allegedly died as a result of taking an ephedra supplement on April 10 filed a Rule 26 expert disclosure in which he names two doctors as expert witnesses (In Re: Ephedra Products Liability Litigation, No. 04 MD 1598; Joaquin Buckley, et al. v. Vitamin World, Inc., , No. 05-cv-03898, S.D.N.Y.). Full story on lexis.com

Donovan nets two as Galaxy defeat Fire - ESPN

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Landon Donovan scored two goals on penalty kicks and Cannon recorded his third shutout of the season - not making a save - as the Los Angeles Galaxy cruised to a 2-0 victory over the Chicago Fire.
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Migrating from Windows to Linux

LinuxLinks: "However, unless a desktop user is provided with real alternatives to the existing software he or she currently uses, migration to a different operating system is going to be very difficult..."

MEPIS 7.0 Beta2: More Updates and Fixes

... Warren Woodford of MEPIS has announced Beta2 of SimplyMEPIS 7.0. The isos and beta1-beta2 iso deltas for 32 ...

Ruby on Rails: The art of simplicity

Hi there, my name is Myles Eftos and I’m your new Ruby on Rails blogger! I’ve been hacking rails for almost two years now, building a number of online apps, such as my time tracking system: 88 Miles. I am constantly pushing for that Rails-zen state, that harmonious balance between simply beautiful code and powerful [...] (Read on Source)

Designer Pages and Archinect Sharing News and Products

Archinect.com joins forces with Designerpages.com to fuel growth of unprecedented user-generated application for sourcing products in architecture and design. (PRWeb Dec 10, 2007) Post Comment:Trackback URL: http://www.prweb.com/pingpr.php/SG9yci1FbXB0LUluc2UtU3VtbS1UaGlyLVplcm8=

VIDEO: Dog Duo Sniff Out Pirated DVDs

The first dogs specially trained to detect the polycarbonate used in DVDs and CDs have helped detect nearly 2 million illegal discs, authorities say.

DailyLit Delivers Books Daily Via Email & RSS

With my busy schedule and lots of commitments I find reading books these days a challenge. DailyLit realizes this and has launched a product looking to help make it easier. DailyLit delivers books in managable installments via e-mail or RSS feed. Book updates are sent everyday in chucks that only take a few minutes (2 to 5 minutes) to read and ... (Read on Source)

Microsoft patches security bugs in Exchange, SQL Server, and Windows

Microsoft has patched bugs in its Exchange, SQL Server, and Windows software that could give hackers new ways to break into computers.

The company released four sets of patches Tuesday, all rated "important." They address a total of nine bugs in Microsoft's products.

Although Microsoft has not rated any of its patches as critical, they will still keep corporate system administrators busy this week, said Andrew Storms, director of security operations with security vendor nCircle. "Not only will the IT admins have their hands full with the normal client-side updates, but they also need to go patch two of the most important enterprise services in an organization -- e-mail and databases," he said via instant message.

Security experts say that the DNS (Domain Name System) bug , is particularly worrisome. That's because the bug is due to a design flaw in the DNS protocol that affects all DNS servers on the Internet.

By sending certain types of queries to DNS servers, the attacker could then redirect victims away from a legitimate Web site -- say, Bofa.com -- to a malicious Web site without the victim realizing it. This type of attack, known as DNS cache poisoning, doesn't affect only the Web. It could be used to redirect all Internet traffic to the hacker's servers.

The bug could be exploited "like a phishing attack without sending you e-mail," said Wolfgang Kandek, chief technical officer with Qualys.

Other DNS software providers, including the Internet Software Consortium, Cisco and, Sun are also patching this vulnerability.

Although this flaw does affect some home routers and client DNS software, it is mostly an issue for corporate users and ISPs that run the DNS servers used by PCs to find their way around the Internet, said Dan Kaminsky, the IOActive security researcher who discovered the problem. "Home users should not panic," he said in a Tuesday conference call.

One of the bugs that Microsoft patched on Tuesday had previously been disclosed, making it a priority fix. That flaw, which lies in the version of Windows Explorer used by Vista and Windows Server 2008, could give criminals a way of running unauthorized software on a Windows PC. For that to happen, the attacker would first have to convince the user to open and save a specially crafted saved-search file using Windows Explorer.

Exchange shops that read e-mail via the Web should give the Exchange patch a top priority, Qualys' Kandek said. That's because it can be exploited to attack users of Outlook Web Access (OWA) for Microsoft Exchange Server with a cross-scripting attack. By sending maliciously encoded e-mails to OWA users, attackers could theoretically steal e-mail credentials and install malicious software on a victim's system, he said.

Finally, the SQL Server patch fixes four bugs that affect all supported versions of SQL Server.

PC Makers Roll out Centrino 2 Laptops

PC makers including Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo and Fujitsu rolled out new laptops based on Intel's Centrino 2 technology.

Russia's Rambler sells ad unit to Google (Reuters)

Reuters - Rambler Media, the British-registered owner of Russia's Rambler Internet portal, said on Friday it has agreed to sell the Begun advertising agency to Google Inc for $140 million.

Rangel's Pet Cause Bears His Own Name

House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles B. Rangel is soliciting donations from corporations with business interests before his panel, hoping to raise $30 million for a new academic center that will house his papers when he retires.

Wipro's University-like Ambitions to Dominate Outsourcing

When you walk around the Bangalore campus of technology-outsourcing giant Wipro, something feels familiar. Sure, it's India, so the sun is too hot and the women float by in a rainbow of saris. But there's still a sense of d??j?? vu. At lunchtime, young employees (average age: 27) swarm into cafeteria cliques, or stream into computer labs, or exit en masse from one three-story lecture hall into another. Oh, that's right. It feels like college.

Convert Filenames to Lowercase

Linux Journal: "I was going to claim I wrote this yesterday but the timestamp on the file is 22 Nov 1998. Nothing new, nothing fancy but it does the job."

Apple customer satisfaction scores gain at rivals' expense

... this year's , perhaps because it was the only company that didn't release a Windows Vista PC. Tuesday for the PC industry, and Apple took top honors for the fifth ...

Accumulated Bits Of A Cell's Own DNA Can Trigger Autoimmune Disease

A security system wired within every cell to detect the presence of rogue viral DNA can sometimes go awry, triggering an autoimmune response to single-stranded bits of the cell's own DNA.

PIG AND LIPSTICK'S TEXAS ROOTS

'WELL, you can put lipstick on a hog and call it Monique, but it's still a pig." Are you getting tired of this one? I just want to remind you that this is the exact quote made back in 1994 by the governor of Texas, Ann Richards. (Ann was talking...

StackOverflow Launches

... Web hosting, dedicated servers and Web design services laser toner, toner cartridges, hp toner, lexmark toner, samsung toner, canon, toner, epson ...

Groundbreaking Adoptive Music Series Seeks to Connect Families and Their New Children with Topical T

Adoptive Music is providing Adoption themed music & songs specifically related to the adoptive family experience, created by artists whose lives have been touched by the miracle of adoption. (PRWeb Sep 20, 2008)

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Download Games from Reputable Websites

Thanks to the World Wide Web, a plethora of computer games are in abundance. Many games can even be downloaded for free. But are some really free without knowingly breaking the law, a crime known as s...

Intuit reveals QuickBooks 2009

... banking, support for transactions in more than 100 currencies and 12 months of free web hosting. The 2009 release targets businesses that work globally, whether that means shipping vintage Disney ...

Video: From Zero to Samba in Six Minutes

LinuxPlanet: "Charlie Schluting's video tutorial shows you how to set up a Samba server on Ubuntu, and test it from a Windows PC, all in just a few minutes."

Pentaho Shows Off "Cool Business Intelligence" at TDWI World Conference

The Data Warehousing Institute World Conference, New Orleans, LA ? Nov. 3, 2008 ? Pentaho, the commercial open source alternative for business intelligence (BI), will join other business intelligence industry leaders to discuss the latest industry innovations that allow BI to reach more users. Lance Walter, vice president of marketing for Pentaho, will represent open source business intelligence during the TDWI session entitled, ?Cool BI: The Latest Innovations,? led by Cindi Howson, founder of BIScorecard, at this year?s TDWI World Conference in New Orleans on Nov. 4 from 2:15 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Commerce360 CEO Lucinda Holt wins WIN Award

Congratulations to our CEO Lucinda Holt, who is being honored tonight as the 2008 Iris Newman Award winner at the Women Inventing Next (WIN) Annual Celebration at Rittenhouse Hotel in Philadelphia. (Read on Source)

Ring My Bell, SEM's, Says NASDAQ

SEMPO Board Chair Dana Todd, flanked by other SEMPOites, rings the NASDAQ opening bell yesterday. GOOG stock was down 9.2% on a generally horrific day for the tech stocks, but this won't stop search marketers from forging on through sleet, snow, hail, rain, and recession, to make marketing more accountable. Pictorial evidence below. Everyone owns ... (Read on Source)