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Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. http://news.bbc.co.uk/ 2. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2709875.stm 3. http://ipinspace.gsfc.nasa.gov/ 4. http://www.debian.org/News/1997/shuttle1 Improvements in Teleportation http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/31/0741219 [0]assaultriflesforfree writes "Here's a [1]little update on quantum entanglement and teleportation from The New York Times (free registration, yay): 'Employing a facet of quantum mechanics that Albert Einstein called "spooky action at a distance," scientists have taken particles of light, destroyed them and then resurrected copies more than a mile away.' I am a little skeptical about the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle statements, though. Is this really a form of Star Trek's Heisenberg Compensator?" Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/30/science/30TELE.html Linux Gains Support for NUMA http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/31/0420248 soosterh writes "CNet has an [0] article about a NUMA patch from IBM. It says that the improvement adds some support in Linux for nonuniform memory access, or NUMA, a design for higher-end servers with many processors. Linus Torvalds, the original creator of the operating system and still its top authority, accepted the update this month into version 2.5, the current test version of the software." Links 0. http://news.com.com/2100-1001-982651.html?tag=fd_top IEEE Standards Board Passes 802.16a http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/31/0412218 papason writes "Welcome the [0]birth of the IEEE's first wireless MAN standard for broadband wireless access in bands ranging from 2GHz to 11GHz. Yes, the same group that brought you 802.11b has brought you a real broadband wireless access standard. See [1]wirelessman.org for more details." Links 0. http://ieee802.org/16/arc/802-16list2/msg00794.html 1. http://wirelessman.org/ Apple and Linux Beneficial to Each Other? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/30/191200 viewstyle writes "There is an interesting [0]commentary on eWEEK discussing the 'synergies' between Apple and Linux after visiting LinuxWorld. It makes a good point that advancement of Linux is good for Mac OS X and vice versa, because of the ease of porting across the platforms (soon to get easier with the X11 on Mac OS X)." Next thing you know, most of the Slashdot editors and programmers will be using Macs ... Links 0. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,851874,00.asp OpenBSD Gets Even More Secure http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/31/0033236 [0]Telent writes "As seen in [1]this post by Theo de Raadt, OpenBSD is getting even more secure, working on smashing script kiddies running buffer overflow exploits dead. Tightening PROT_* according to the POSIX standards and creating a non-executable stack on most architectures are just two of the recent enhancements, most of which are in -current now." Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=b1aq2h%242q9g%241%40FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw&output=gplain Father of Video Games turning 60 http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/30/2229227 [0]Bill Kendrick writes "[1]Nolan Bushnell, founder of [2]Atari and the "father of video games" will be turning 60 next week, on February 5th. Along with Atari, which Bushnell began in 1972 (and left before the end of the decade), he also founded over 20 other companies, including Chuck E. Cheese Pizza Time Theater restaurants. He holds many patents relating to both video games and other industries. For more on The Bringer of [3]Pong, check out some interviews from the [4]San Jose Mercury, [5]Metroactive and over at [6]Good Deal Games, as well as his [7]Wikipedia entry. Happy birthday, Nolan!" Links 0. http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/bill/ 1. http://www.uwink.com/docs/nolan.shtml 2. http://www.atari-history.com/ 3. http://209.122.187.156:8080/arcade/andycapppong.html 4. http://www.thetech.org/revolutionaries/bushnell/i_a.html 5. http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/09.16.99/cover/bushnell2-9937.html 6. http://www.gooddealgames.com/interviews/int_bushnell.html 7. http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nolan_Bushnell Slashback: Spamnation, Long-Distance, Libel http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/30/2049219 Slashback with updates and amplifications on Apple's stance on DRM, EasyInternetCafe's court battle over CD burning, a copyright law being drafted after Lessig's own heart, the lawyer vs. eBay saga, and VoIP calling with Linux. Read on below for the details. Hollywood Says No to Filtering DVD Player http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/30/229250 [0]haplo21112 writes "There is [1]a posting over at [2]ZDNet about how Hollywood continues to trample on the American consumer's free use rights. They want to prevent the sale of a special DVD player which can be used to edit out offensive material from a DVD in realtime. While I don't agree with censorship in general, I do believe its everyone's right to do what they wish with their own media." Links 0. mailto:haplo@epith[ ]com ['na.' in gap] 1. http://msn.zdnet.com/zdfeeds/msncobrand/reviews/0,13828,2909517,00.html 2. http://www.zdnet.com/ IBM Calls Linux "Logical Successor" To AIX http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/30/209247 pknoll writes "Though it probably won't happen soon, IBM is talking about [0]Linux eventually replacing AIX. The article at Globe Technology states there are IBM folks working on 'chips for 2007' systems, and the viewpoint projected is described as 'multidecade,' but it's an interesting view into the future of IBM and Linux." Links 0. http://rtnews.globetechnology.com/servlet/ArticleNews/tech/RTGAM/20030129/gtiblin/Technology/techBN/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe - If you do not wish to subscribe to Slashdot, go to: http://www.osdn.com/newsletters/unsubscribe.shtml ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Copyright (c)1999-2002 Open Source Development Network. All rights reserved.
