- Round Robin Scheduling Not Power-Efficient Via_Patrino writes "While having to distribute load between several servers, round robin, or any other technique that balances load equally, is the most common approach because of its simplicity... 2008-05-09T15:01:00+00:00
- London Lawyers Demand £600 For One Game Barence writes "A PC Pro reader has received a demand for a £600 out-of-court settlement from lawyers claiming to have forensic evidence that he illegally downloaded a PC game on BitTorrent. The... 2008-05-09T14:21:00+00:00
- Windows XP SP3 Creating Havoc ozmanjusri writes "According to Information Week, within hours of its wide availability Windows XP SP3 had drawn hundreds of complaints from users who claim the update is wreaking havoc on their... 2008-05-09T13:40:00+00:00
- Skype Gives Up Anti-GPL Appeal l2718 writes "Yesterday we discussed Skype's appeal of a German court's ruling against them regarding a violation of the GPL. Harald Welte (the plaintiff) now reports in his blog that following oral... 2008-05-09T13:01:00+00:00
- US Lawmakers Propose New Net Neutrality Bill An anonymous reader brings news that Net Neutrality legislation is making another comeback. A new bill, sponsored by Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), would make ISPs who fail to provide service in a... 2008-05-09T12:21:00+00:00
- Facebook Agrees To User Safety Plan Facebook has reached an agreement with the attorneys general of 49 states and the District of Columbia to develop and enhance controls to protect minors from inappropriate content. This follows a... 2008-05-09T09:18:00+00:00
- NASA Planning Mission To 40-Meter-Wide Asteroid FudRucker points out a story from The Guardian about NASA's plans to visit 2000SG344, an asteroid 40 meters wide and weighing roughly 71 million kilograms. The manned mission would take three to six... 2008-05-09T06:15:00+00:00
- Infringement 'Detrimental To the Public Health, Safety' I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has declared that copyright infringement 'substantially interferes with the interest of the public in the... 2008-05-09T04:14:00+00:00
- Have You Changed Your Opinion On eBook Readers? An anonymous reader writes "The Kindle made waves when it came out, but they've now had the chance to calm. How many of you have been using your eBook readers since you've received them? How many of... 2008-05-09T02:11:00+00:00
- Nathan Myhrvold and the Business Of Invention elwinc writes "There's a great New Yorker story about Nathan Myhrvold's Intellectual Ventures company, whose business model is to nurture ideas, write patents, and sell them. Apparently they're filing... 2008-05-09T00:10:00+00:00
- Data Mining In Law Enforcement jcatcw points out a blog entry by Scott McPherson, CIO for the Florida House of Representatives. McPherson condemns the state of data sharing and data mining in law enforcement, saying that the US... 2008-05-08T23:05:00+00:00
- Introducing Classical Guitar Hero Alex writes "I've just uploaded the video of a piece of classical electronic music I wrote for 2 Guitar Hero controllers and software (which I created). More information about this piece, its... 2008-05-08T22:15:00+00:00
- Folding@Home 2.0 - An Online Protein Folding Game a boy named woo writes "Tired of justifying your gaming addiction? Now you can really help accomplish something while you play... thanks to Howard Hughes Medical Institute researcher David Baker at... 2008-05-08T21:37:00+00:00
- Make Your Own Fonts, In a Web Browser Dekortage writes "Although it's been up for a few weeks, today is the official launch of FontStruct, a web-based font creation tool. That's right: in your web browser, you can build your own typeface... 2008-05-08T20:49:00+00:00
- After 3 Years, Freenet 0.7 Released evanbd writes "After over 3 years of work, the Freenet Project has announced the release of Freenet 0.7. 'Freenet is software designed to allow the free exchange of information over the Internet... 2008-05-08T20:02:00+00:00