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Review: Apple appalls where Xbox excels (AP)
AP - Apple Inc. has graced the public with another smooth, white, exquisitely designed gadget, this time aiming at making it easier to play iTunes movies and songs on the living-room TV set.
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RICK Kaplan, the new executive producer for Katie Couric's "CBS Evening News," doesn't suffer fools gladly. On his first day on the job, when he was barraged with inane questions about his plans for the show, Kaplan tells Avenue magazine he finally...
Nets Wilt and Cavaliers Blossom in Final Minutes
Cleveland?s defense kept the Nets? from getting into an offensive flow as the Cavaliers opened the Eastern Conference semifinals with a victory Sunday. (Read on Source)
Linux leaders plot counterattack on Microsoft
Leading names in grassroots software phenomenon meet debating whether they should fight or ignore the world's largest software maker.
Ubuntu Founder: No Microsoft Deal
Ubuntu will not be joining the list of open source OS and productivity suits recently linked to MS through interoperability deals, said Ubuntu founder and Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth. "We have declined to discuss any agreement with Microsoft under the threat of unspecified patent infringements," Shuttleworth stated.
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Microsoft Disputes FCC's Rejection of Web Devices That Use TV Airwaves
"Today Microsoft plans to try to convince regulators that it can connect consumers to high-speed Internet over unused television airwaves without interfering with existing broadcasts."
Herbalife Says Expert Relied On Inaccurate Data
NEW YORK - Herbalife argues in a May 14 brief before the ephedra multidistrict litigation court that a plaintiff's case-specific expert's testimony should be excluded because the expert relied on inaccurate facts, did not properly consider the plaintiff's risk factors and included general causation opinion in his testimony (Harbir Singh v. Herbalife International of America, Inc., No. 06 CV 00014; In Re: Ephedra Products Liability Litigation, 04 MD 1598, S.D. N.Y.). Full story on lexis.com
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iLuv launches new docks, Bluetooth headset
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U.S. Delays Polar Bear Listing Decision
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Self-Propagating Worm Installs Unsafe "Safety Browser"
Research experts at FaceTime Security Labs identified and reported a new threat today affecting Yahoo! Messenger. A self-propagating worm, named yhoo32.explr, installs "Safety Browser" and hijacks the Internet Explorer homepage, leading users to a site that puts spyware on their PCs. Because Safety
Fraud guardian LifeLock accused of fraud
Experian called. It wants its alerts back Analysis One of the top three credit reporting services, Experian, has sued a small company that sells identity theft protection services, alleging that it engages in fraud by skirting consumer protection laws.?
Google Index Inclusion in 48 Hours Or Less
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Gallery: NASA's Most Embarrassing Goofs
: Image courtesy NASA
From equipment installed backwards to problems with the metric system, NASA's failures can be as fascinating as its successes. Of course, more cynical critics might suggest that NASA's failures overshadow its successes -- but let's see you send a ship to the moon.
That aside, NASA's in a difficult position: Charged with meeting America's spacefaring dreams on a shrinking budget, and perpetually judged against the magic of the moon landing, the agency is an easy target. And a few mistakes are inevitable: After all, Murphy's law was coined by an actual rocket scientist.
With that in mind, let's take a look at some of NASA's most conspicuous, embarrassing (and non-fatal) gaffes.
Mars Observer
Left: The $1 billion Mars Observer, launched in 1992 with the aim of studying the red planet's terrain and climate, was supposed to be the first in a series of Observer missions. Instead it became the first in a series of Mars failures: Three days before its scheduled orbital entry, communications inexplicably and permanently ceased. It may now be orbiting Mars, though some wonder if it didn't blow past the planet and end up circling the Sun.
: Image courtesy NASASix years after the Mars Observer disappeared, the Mars Climate Orbiter followed suit. This time, however, NASA knew what went wrong: Subcontracted engineers at Lockheed Martin used English units of measurement rather than the agency's favored metric system. The ensuing navigational mix-up sent the vehicle into a low-altitude orbit, where it was torn apart by atmospheric stresses.
: Image courtesy NASAFinally: no mysterious silence, no goofball measurements! Nothing but 142 million miles of smooth sailing all the way from Earth to 40 meters above the red planet's surface. That's when the lander's computers misinterpreted a routine vibration as evidence of touchdown, cut the descent engines and sent the craft plummeting to destruction. Says NASA historian Steven Dick, "An unconfirmed theory is that the Martian air defenses are pretty good!"
: Image courtesy NASAIn September of 2004, NASA's Genesis capsule returned to Earth with samples of solar wind -- a stream of electrons and protons from which scientists hoped to tease the secrets of the sun and our solar system. It was supposed to parachute gently back to Earth, where a helicopter would snag it mid-air before any jarring impact could dislodge the precious solar particles. But the Genesis' parachute failed to open, sending the craft and its ethereal cargo slamming straight into the Utah desert. Agency investigators later found that its deceleration sensors were installed backwards.
: Image courtesy NASANot long after the Genesis face-plant, parachutes on this Jupiter probe also failed to deploy when a cross-wired pair of accelerometers fed each other the wrong data. Just in the nick of time, however, the chutes opened. Whew!
: Image courtesy DARTThe DART -- or Demonstration for Autonomous Rendezvous Technology -- was supposed to show off NASA's navigational precision. It wouldn't just hook up with another planet, but would dock with an orbiting communications satellite. This delicate dance turned destructive on its October 2004 test run, when DART collided with the satellite. NASA delayed its report for a year, then unleashed a scathing indictment citing a "lack of training and experience," schedule pressure, bad software coding and breakdowns in responsibility.
: Image courtesy NASAThough human error and institutional incompetence underlie many NASA failures, nature hasn't always been kind, either. In 1987, an Atlas-Centaur rocket was hit by lightning within moments of launch. It spun out of control and had to be destroyed.
This image shows lighting striking the space shuttle Challenger, not an Atlas-Centaur.
: Photo: Associated PressNot all of NASA's mistakes are vehicular, or even involve rocket science: A launch-site banner celebrating the July 2007 takeoff of the space shuttle Endeavour, christened in honor of explorer James Cook's famous vessel, misspelled its name as "Endeavor."
: Image courtesy NASAThe Hubble Space Telescope -- the most technologically advanced eye ever turned toward the heavens -- was launched in 1990 after nearly two decades of planning, research and delays. Only then did scientists realize that its mirror was incorrectly ground. There is, however, a happy ending to the story: A dramatic 1993 in-space repair mission restored the Hubble's vision, and its subsequent insights into our universe have been boundless. The image shown here is of the Carina nebula, taken by the Hubble.
Second A/C Unit Fails - Due to Freon Levels
Remember all my A/C issues? If not, here they are in order of most recent: Vacuum Out Freon For Air Conditioner Level Them Freon Losing Trust in One of My Air Conditioners Sleeping on the Sofa : Air Conditioning Broke This Saturday, we had family over for a big lunch. Lunch was in the dining room. The dining room and living room have their own A/ ... (Read on Source)
Looting of Iraq sites destroys history, distresses scholars
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300K Membership Milestone Proves There is No Nursing Shortage at allnurses.com
Nurses gather in masses at allnurses.com - The largest social network for nurses, hits new milestone of 300,000 registered members. (PRWeb Aug 23, 2008)
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Democrats find 'green' political convention tough to enforce
The idea of the "greenest" convention in the party's history was an attractive one. But tens of thousands of humans generate a lot of trash. And not everyone wanted to give up their Yukon XL SUVs.
Dig pinpoints Stonehenge origins
Archaeologists have pinpointed the construction of Stonehenge to 2300BC - a key step to discovering how and why the mysterious edifice was built. The radiocarbon date is said to be the most accurate yet and means the ring's original bluestones were put up 300 years later than previously thought. (Read on Source)
Arik Air orders Three Airbus A340-500s
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Loomis Sayles' Fuss sees value in corporate bonds
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Loomis Sayles' Dan Fuss, one of the biggest and most widely followed U.S. bond managers, said on Wednesday U.S. investment-grade corporate bonds, which have been heavily battered in recent weeks, are the "best buying opportunity" in decades.
Free version of Hyper-V now available
Following a similar move by VMware in August, Microsoft Wednesday released a free, low-footprint version of its Hyper-V virtualization software as it continues to chase the virtualization leader.
Hyper-V Server 2008, which includes only the Windows Hypervisor, Windows Server driver model and virtualization components, is now available online.
[ For a detailed look at Microsoft's Hyper-V, read the Test Center review. ]
Microsoft also on Wednesday unveiled new ways for IT professionals to get training and certification on virtualization for desktop, server, and management environments. More details about the programs are available on Microsoft's Web site and the Microsoft Learning Community Blog .
Microsoft said on Sept. 8 it would give away its Hyper-V hypervisor about a month after VMware released a free version of ESXi, its own hypervisor technology. VMware is feeling pressure from Microsoft and other vendors that are bundling virtualization with server OSes.
Microsoft's Hyper-V also is available as part of different editions of Windows Server 2008, the latest version of Microsoft's server software. Microsoft released Hyper-V in June following the release of Windows Server 2008 in late February. Originally, Hyper-V was meant to be a part of that Windows Server release but it was delayed.
Virtualization is becoming a key way companies are driving costs out of the data center by running OSes in virtual machines rather than physically on servers.
Microsoft aims to catch up to VMware in providing this technology for hardware systems not only running on Windows, but also Linux and other OSes. It also is tying the technology to its system-management family of software, System Center, and promoting management as a differentiator.
Like VMware, Microsoft is also expanding beyond server hardware into desktop and application virtualization, which are still in the early phase of adoption by companies.
Obama Campaign Shows Up in Video Games (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Sick of the advertisements for the presidential election? Thought unplugging your phone, ignoring television programs, and avoiding the newspaper would protect you from advertisements featuring Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain? Think again.
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