Daily Readings July 6, 2005. 17:38:06
Slashdot
- ZDNet reports on debian’s problems with security maintanence.
- Someone in Tampa Bay, FL was arrested for using an open wireless network. Idiots (the accusers, whoever they are).
- The Virgo Consortium completed the “Millennium Simulation”, a simulation starting from the early universe. How they started with the initial conditions I don’t know.
- The EU has stopped software patents!! Woohoo! Another article.
- Japanese researchers have found out that information can be stored on your fingernails.
- Opera will begin containing an embedded BitTorrent client.
- DVD-Audio’s Copy Protection for PreRecorded Media, CPPM, has been cracked. DVD-Video’s CSS was broken back in 1999.
- A Max-Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology project will sequence the Neanderthal genome.
- The Register reports on the Gizmo Project, which uses the open SIP protocol. It is a direct competitor to Skype, which is closed, and only offers a small API for others to use with.
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