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<title><![CDATA[EU Parliament Rejects ACTA In a 663 To 13 Vote]]></title>
<link>http://tekkrap.com/story.php?title=eu-parliament-rejects-acta-in-a-663-to-13-vote</link>
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<description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader writes "'The European Parliament defied the EU executive today (10 March), casting a vote against an agreement between the EU, the US and other major powers on combating online piracy and threatening to take legal action at the European Court of Justice.'"         Read more of this story at Slashdot.<br/><br/>18 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Ex-Sun Chief Dishes Dirt On Gates, Jobs]]></title>
<link>http://tekkrap.com/story.php?title=ex-sun-chief-dishes-dirt-on-gates-jobs</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:45:03 MST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[alphadogg writes "Former CEO of Sun Microsystems Jonathan Schwartz has taken to his personal blog, provocatively titled "What I couldn't say...," to dish some industry dirt and tell his side of the story about the demise of Sun. He has already hinted at plans to write a book, and a new post suggests a tell-all tome could indeed be in the offing. "I feel for Google &mdash; Steve Jobs threatened to<br/><br/>12 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Study Shows TV Makes Kids Fat, Computers Don't]]></title>
<link>http://tekkrap.com/story.php?title=study-shows-tv-makes-kids-fat-computers-dont</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:15:03 MST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Xemu writes "Computer's don't make children fat, but watching TV for the same length of time does. This is shown by a recent Swedish study of all school children in Lund's county conducted by RN Pernilla Garmy. The results were clear: The child's obesity was directly affected by placing a TV in the child's room, but placing a computer in the room had no effect at all. One theory is that it's comm<br/><br/>14 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Professors Banning Laptops In the Lecture Hall]]></title>
<link>http://tekkrap.com/story.php?title=professors-banning-laptops-in-the-lecture-hall</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:45:04 MST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Pickens writes "The Washington Post reports that professors have banned laptops from their classrooms at George Washington University, American University, the College of William and Mary, and the University of Virginia, among many others, compelling students to take notes the way their parents did: on paper. A generation ago, academia embraced the laptop as the most welcome classroom innovation <br/><br/>17 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Rock Band 3 Officially Announced For Holiday 2010]]></title>
<link>http://tekkrap.com/story.php?title=rock-band-3-officially-announced-for-holiday-2010</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:45:02 MST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader writes "Philippe Dauman, Viacom CEO and President, announced today that Harmonix is currently working on the next Rock Band game, Rock Band 3, due for release Holiday 2010. 'The company is pursuing the game in spite of an industry-weakening decline in the once-booming genre of peripheral-equipped music games. Although the franchise has generated over $1 billion to date, the ca<br/><br/>14 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Linux Takes Over E-Voting In Australian State]]></title>
<link>http://tekkrap.com/story.php?title=linux-takes-over-e-voting-in-australian-state</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:45:02 MST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[daria42 writes "The Electoral Commission in the Australian state of Victoria has made plans to expand its use of electronic voting kiosks based on Linux in the next state election in November of this year. But it appears to be a little confused: the documentation states it will be using the '2.6 kernel/Gentoo release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.' Huh?"         Read more of this story at Slashdot.<br/><br/>18 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Puzzle In xkcd Book Finally Cracked]]></title>
<link>http://tekkrap.com/story.php?title=puzzle-in-xkcd-book-finally-cracked</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:15:03 MST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader writes "After a little over five months of pondering, xkcd fans have cracked a puzzle hidden inside Randall Munroe's recent book xkcd: volume 0. Here is the start of the thread on the xkcd forums; and here is the post revealing the final message (a latitude and longitude plus a date and time)."         Read more of this story at Slashdot.<br/><br/>18 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Value of BASIC As a First Programming Language]]></title>
<link>http://tekkrap.com/story.php?title=the-value-of-basic-as-a-first-programming-language</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:45:04 MST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Mirk writes "Computer-science legend Edsger W. Dijkstra famously wrote: 'It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration'. The Reinvigorated Programmer argues that the world is full of excellent programmers who cut their teeth on BASIC, and suggests it could<br/><br/>13 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[US Considers Some Free Wireless Broadband Service]]></title>
<link>http://tekkrap.com/story.php?title=us-considers-some-free-wireless-broadband-service</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:45:03 MST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[gollum123 writes "US regulators may dedicate spectrum to free wireless Internet service for some Americans to increase affordable broadband service nationwide, the Federal Communications Commission said on Tuesday. The FCC provided few details about how it would carry out such a plan and who would qualify, but will make a recommendation under the National Broadband Plan set for release next week.<br/><br/>11 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[US Gamers Spend $3.8 Billion On MMOs Yearly]]></title>
<link>http://tekkrap.com/story.php?title=us-gamers-spend-3-8-billion-on-mmos-yearly</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:45:02 MST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[eldavojohn writes "A new report from Games Industry indicates that MMO gamers in the United States paid $3.8 billion to play last year, with an analysis of five European countries bringing the total close to $4.5 billion USD. In America, the report estimated that payments for boxed content and client downloads amounted to a measly $400 million, while the subscriptions came to $2.38 billion. Hopef<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The World's First Commercially Available Jetpack]]></title>
<link>http://tekkrap.com/story.php?title=the-worlds-first-commercially-available-jetpack</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:45:03 MST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ElectricSteve writes "It's been a long time coming. While Arthur C. Clarke's geosync satellites have taken to space, and James Bond's futuristic mobile technology has become commonplace, still the dream of sustained personal flight has eluded us &mdash; until now. At $86,000, the Martin Aircraft jetpack costs about as much as a high-end car, achieves a 30-minute flight time, and is fueled by regu<br/><br/>10 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Jeff Jaffe Named CEO of W3C]]></title>
<link>http://tekkrap.com/story.php?title=jeff-jaffe-named-ceo-of-w3c</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:45:03 MST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[blozza2070 notes the news that Jeff Jaffe has been appointed CEO of the World Wide Web Consortium. Until January Jaffe was CTO at Novell and, while his name hasn't come up very often in this community, he is one of the architects of the Novell-Microsoft patent deal. A reading of Jaffe's blog while at Novell tends to paint him as a software patent supporter, Microsoft apologist, and no fan of the <br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google's Computing Power Refines Translation]]></title>
<link>http://tekkrap.com/story.php?title=googles-computing-power-refines-translation</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:15:03 MST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[gollum123 sends an excerpt from the NY Times on how Google has taken a lead in language translation, in one of the company's few unqualified successes as it attempts to broaden is offerings beyond search. "...Google's quick rise to the top echelons of the translation business is a reminder of what can happen when Google unleashes its brute-force computing power on complex problems. The network of<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Dot-Com Craze Peaked 10 Years Ago This Week]]></title>
<link>http://tekkrap.com/story.php?title=dot-com-craze-peaked-10-years-ago-this-week</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:15:04 MST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[netbuzz writes "When the NASDAQ stock index hit its all-time high of 5,133 on March 10, 2000, it had more than doubled in a year and the dot-com bubble was already leaking in a big way. A week later the NASDAQ had fallen 9 percent. A year later it was below 2000. Gone were such poster children of the era as Pets.com, Kozmo, and &mdash; who could forget? &mdash; Whoopi Goldberg's Flooz. Here's a l<br/><br/>13 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[NewEgg Confirms Shipping Fake Core i7s]]></title>
<link>http://tekkrap.com/story.php?title=newegg-confirms-shipping-fake-core-i7s</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:45:05 MST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[adeelarshad82 writes "After originally rejecting the story, online retailer NewEgg confirmed that a shipment of Core i7s were indeed fake, and apologized for the affair. NewEgg has also broken off its relationship with IPEX, the supplier of the phony lot. The retailer said that it has already contacted affected customers and would continue to reach out and replace the counterfeit parts. We discus<br/><br/>9 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Best Resource For Identifying Legit Applications?]]></title>
<link>http://tekkrap.com/story.php?title=best-resource-for-identifying-legit-applications</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:45:03 MST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[bjb writes "While helping a somewhat computer illiterate person figure out a problem recently, they mentioned that PDF files had recently stopped working. Upon investigation I found something installed called 'PDF Suite.' Never having heard of it, I Googled it with 'malware' and other key words, but nothing turned up, though my suspicion remained (and was somewhat confirmed by WOT.) So my questio<br/><br/>13 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Cisco Introduces a 322 Tbit/sec. Router]]></title>
<link>http://tekkrap.com/story.php?title=cisco-introduces-a-322-tbitsec-router</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:15:06 MST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[CWmike writes "Today Cisco Systems introduced its next-generation Internet core router, the CRS-3, with about three times the capacity of its current platform. 'The Internet will scale faster than any of us anticipate,' Cisco's John Chambers said while announcing the product. At full scale, the CRS-3 has a capacity of 322Tbit/sec., roughly three times that of the CRS-1, introduced in 2004. It als<br/><br/>9 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Secret Origin of Windows]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:45:03 MST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[harrymcc writes "Windows has been so dominant for so long that it's easy to forget Windows 1.0 was vaporware, mocked both outside and inside of Microsoft &mdash; and that its immediate successors were considered stopgaps until OS/2 was everywhere. Tandy Trower, the product manager who finally got Windows 1.0 out the door a quarter century ago, has written a memoir of the experience. (He thought b<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Doctors Skirt FDA To Heal Patients With Stem Cells]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:15:03 MST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[kkleiner writes "For many years countless individuals in the US have had to watch with envy as dogs and horses with joint and bone injuries have been cured with stem cell procedures that the FDA has refused to approve for humans. Now, in an exciting development, Regenerative Sciences Inc. in Colorado has found a way to skirt the FDA and provide these same stem cell treatments to humans. The resul<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[HTC Android Phones Found With Malware Pre-Installed]]></title>
<link>http://tekkrap.com/story.php?title=htc-android-phones-found-with-malware-pre-installed</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:15:03 MST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Trailrunner7 writes "Security researchers have found that Vodafone, one of the world's larger wireless providers, is distributing some HTC phones with malware pre-installed on them. The phone, HTC's Magic, runs the Google Android mobile operating system, and is one of the more popular handsets right now. A researcher at Panda Software received one of the handsets recently, and upon attaching it t<br/><br/>12 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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