Freezing Light

"Scientists have slowed down and even stopped the fastest substance in the universe: light. As this ScienCentral News video reports, the research may lead to faster, more powerful computers."

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Students suspended after looking at teachers pornographic screensaver

The year seven students were suspended from attending the The St Francis of Assisi Humpty Doo school after typing in a password that brought up a screen saver of a naked woman in a pornographic pose.

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High School Cafeteria ID System Uses Biometrics

Students will use thumbprint reader to pay for lunch starting in January.

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Novell Is Flush With Good News

Novell's flagship SuSE Linux Server product, a distant second to leading Linux-seller Red Hat in recent years, won 53 percent of the delegate vote at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo in Frankfurt, Germany. Red Hat won 37 percent, while 8 percent went to the lesser-known Mandriva.

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Where are Rootkits Coming From?

"Finnish anti-virus vendor F-Secure discovers that the majority of stealth rootkits on Windows machines are coming from ContextPlus, makers of the Apropos and PeopleOnPage adware programs."

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Trade in your old PCs and tech stuff for cash/gift certificates

Newegg and other vendors now offer a trade in service through dealtree.com to trade in your old PCs and other tech stuff for cash or gift certificates to their stores. Has an online estimator and will give you a prepaid shipping label. My old Pentiun III went for around 80 bucks!

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Hate spam? Fight back!

Eat spammers bandwidth with a updated version of the Lad Vampire! Lad Vampire is a javascript page that repeatedly downloads images from scammers websites. The update includes improved visual indicators of the status of a site, a speed throttle, appends information messages to file names downloaded and saves your downloading stats!

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Angry BellSouth Withdrew City Donation because of free Wifi

From Boing Boing: "Hours after New Orleans officials announced Tuesday that they would deploy a city-owned, wireless Internet network in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, regional phone giant BellSouth Corp. withdrew an offer to donate one of its damaged buildings that would have housed new police headquarters, city officials said yesterday."

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New IM worm chats with its intended victims

A new worm that targets users of America Online's AOL Instant Messenger is believed to be the first that actually chats with the intended victim to dupe the target into activating a malicious payload, IM security vendor IMlogic warned Tuesday.

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Latest Asterisk at Home released

version 2.1 - 11/30/05 - Single CD installs an asterisk VIOP server with all the web GUI apps and all the cool extras. This includes the just released 1.2 version of asterisk with many great improvements. This is the easiest way to play with asterisk.

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Student Suspended After Removing Camera From Bathroom

A Jasper County mother says her 8th grade son found a video camera taping in the school bathroom this week. But now, he is the one in trouble.

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