TomSlick writes “Michael Chu, a former Intel employee, has written up a fairly interesting and readable summary of Windows XP power schemes as they relate to Intel processor throttling. An old topic, but one still relevant as many business notebooks still use XP.”
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coondoggie writes “Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Joint Quantum Institute said today that technological and security issues will stall maximum transmission rates at levels comparable to that of a single broadband connection, such as a cable modem, unless researchers reduce “dead times″ in the detectors that receive quantum-encrypted messages.”
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MKaplan writes “Most spam is sent using spoofed domains. Email authentication schemes such as SPF attempt to foil spoofing by having domain administrators publish a list of their approved outgoing mail servers. SPF is sharply limited by incomplete domain participation and failure to authenticate forwarded email. A paper describes a novel method to rapidly generate a near-perfect global SPF database independent of the participation of domain administrators. A single email from an unauthenticated domain is bounced and then resent — this previously unauthenticated domain and the server listed in the return path of the resent bounce are entered into a globally accessible database. All future emails sent from this domain via this server will be authenticated after checking this new database. Mechanisms to authenticate forwarded email and to nullify subversion of this anti-spam system are also described.”
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ahab_2001 writes “The NSF and the journal Science have announced the 2007 winners of the annual Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge, mounted each year "to encourage cutting-edge efforts to visualize scientific data." There’s a write-up of the winners in the journal, and also a slide presentation showcasing the winning images and videos.”
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Supermodel Eva Herzigova has been spotted in a Harrods window display this weekend, draped around the latest innovation in TVs, the Philips Aurea.
If you don’t what it is, this is the next evolution of Philips Ambilight technology but now, light not only shines on the wall behind the display to match the colours on the screen but also through the actual frame itself, which is transparent.
We dug out a cool video of the Aurea TV in action last week, but now Philips has cranked up the marketing machine a notch to give the TV even more sex appeal on its UK launch by draping it in supermodels. The leggy Eva was also on hand to do some draping at Selfridges in Manchester and House of Fraser in Glasgow. Some of the official stats [for the TV] are:
100Hz LCD with 1080p Support
6.2 million pixel resolution
8,000:1 contrast ratio
4 trillion colours
Rapid 3ms response time [Philips claims this makes it the fastest on the LCD TV block]
Audio system comprising of 26 speakers in all – with 12 front firing drivers down the sides and twin mid/sub woofers in the bottom
3 x HDMI v1.3 ports, 2 x RGB Scarts and component video input.
The 42in display is shipping now for a wallet-bending £3,000. Still looks cool though.-Martin
Original post by Eric
From the Star Trek phaser TV remote control to the Trekkie-inspired Meade mySKY Personal guide.
This phaser look-alike houses a GPS receiver and can identify more than 30,000 night sky objects without you having to be Patrick Moore. The phaser promises an intuitive navigation experience to locate night sky objects like planets, start, nebulas and galaxies. There are 500 audio descriptions and the LCD displays videos and photos as you point. Here’s what the marketing blurb promises:
* A revolutionary new way to explore the universe
* Identifies planets and stars in the sky
* Locates planets, stars, nebulas, galaxies and more
* Find Saturn, Arcturus, the Andromeda Galaxy – or literally thousands of other objects
* The ultimate in simplicity – no knowledge of the night sky is needed
* Intuitive navigation for instant location of 30,000 different night sky objects
* Full-color LCD screen with stunning astrophotography, entertaining audio descriptions, video, mythology and more
* Controls any Meade computerised telescope directly
* Real-time colour maps of the night sky
* 12-channel GPS receiver automatically aligns and calibrates your location
* 500+ audio descriptions by nationally-known radio star Sandy Wood
* SD memory card (256MB included) for expandable memory
* Long-lasting 7-hour rechargeable battery
* Includes comfortable high-fidelity earbud headphones for private audio listening
Yours here for around £200.-Martin Lynch
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An anonymous reader writes “Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) is using randomization software to determine the location and timing of security checkpoints and patrols. The theory is that random security will make it impossible for terrorists to predict the actions of security forces. The ARMOR software, written by computer scientists at the University of Southern California, was initially developed to solve a problem in game theory. Doctoral student Praveen Paruchuri wrote algorithms on how an agent should react to an opponent who has perfect information about the agent’s choices.”
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Jasper Bryant-Greene writes “Although a tzdata release that includes New Zealand’s recent DST changes (2007f) has been out for some time, Debian are refusing to push the update from testing into the current stable distribution, codenamed Etch, on the basis that ‘it’s not a security bug.’ This means that unless New Zealand sysadmins install the package manually, pull the package from testing, or alter the timezone to ‘GMT-13′ manually, all systems running Debian Etch in New Zealand currently have the incorrect time, as DST went into effect this morning. As one of the last comments in the bug report says, ‘even Microsoft are not this silly.’ The final comment (at this writing), from madcoder, says ‘The package sits in volatile for months. Please take your troll elsewhere.’”
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Filed under: Networking
Word that Brett Favre broke the NFL’s touchdown pass record shot around the world pretty fast today, but if Japan’s National Institute of Information and Communications Technology has anything to do with it, you’ll be hearing about such things even faster in 2015, when the group and several private companies intend to launch a next-generation optical network with peak data-transfer speeds of 10 gigabits. Although similar projects are underway in both the US and Europe, the Japanese effort has some heavy-hitters behind it, including NTT, Fujitsu, KDDI, Hitachi, Toshiba, and NEC. The system, which will cost a projected $260M over the next five years, will be able to support 100 billion devices but still maintain those gaudy transfer rates, even for mobile users. No word on when the tech will hit the States, sadly, but here’s hoping.
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Original post by Nilay Patel
Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video
Hello Newman, your MP4P E350 video player is looking a little smudgy today, but but we’re willing overlook that for your 3.6-inch screen and touch controls. Well, not really, but maybe somebody in China will, ’cause it’s available there now, and that’s probably where it’s going to stay.
 
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KingK writes “Reuters reports that Google is considering a Canadian launch of its Street View map feature, which offers street-level close-ups of city centers. But the company said it would probably blur people’s faces and vehicle license plates to respect tougher Canadian privacy laws.”
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Colin Smith writes in with an object lesson in backup methodology — once you have backed everything up, take it somewhere else. “Film director Francis Ford Coppola has appealed for the return of his computer backup device following a robbery at his house in Argentina on Wednesday. He told Argentine broadcaster Todo Noticias he had lost 15 years’ worth of data, including writing and photographs of his family.”
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The work of Dutch physicist-turned-artist Theo Jansen has inspired many, including us here at MAKE. His amazing “Strandbeest” (beach animals), giant wind-driven walking sculptures are staggeringly cool. A number of miniature machine and robot builders have tried to incorporate some of Jensen’s ideas into their own work. Here, a Japanese maker has built a tabletop walking machine that uses a leg configuration similar to the Strandbeest.
Strandbeest-Desktop (Theo Jansen´s mechanism) - Link
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Original post by Popgadget: Personal Tech for Women
Filed under: Cellphones
Well would you look at that, instructions are now available for downgrading your iPhone from 1.1.1 to 1.0.2. It won’t downgrade your baseband, meaning so far you can’t re-unlock an iPhone that’s been 1.1.1-ified, but it’s still 1.0.2 in all its third-party application glory. The iPhone Dev Team folks are working on a way to downgrade the new firmware to let people unlock their phones again, but for now AT&T users sitting pretty, and non-AT&T folks can at least do the WiFi thing. There’s a video tutorial after the break.
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
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Read - Hackint0sh thread where the magic happened
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Ali writes “As discussed here recently, amazon.com has launched a public beta of Amazon MP3, a digital music store that provides DRM-free downloads of over 2 million songs from 180,000 artists and 20,000 labels. In comparison, Apple says the iTunes Store now contains over 6 million songs. Here is a head-to-head comparison.”
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