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Comment Probably "Olof Palme" @ ~700 000 (Score 5, Informative) 643

by chicoryn on Wednesday January 16, 2008 @01:49AM (#22063062) Attached to: Pirate Bay Gets a 4,000-Page Complaint

The second biggest murder case required 1500, how much did the biggest require?

The biggest would probably be the Olof Palme assassination which remains unsolved and have been under investigation since 1986. Current page count of the investigation is approximately 700 000 based on the wikipedia article.

Submission + - Open Office - what's the downside?

Submitted by

cclangi

on Tuesday March 20, 2007 @02:46AM

cclangi writes: "Hi. I'm a current MSOffice user. I run a small business as a consultant (mining). I've read about Open Office and all the good things about it, but what about the downside? As a small business owner and semi-literate in things computer-ese (as a user, not as a developer or administrator), what support limitations are there for Open Office. I'm particularly interested in/concerned with compatability of software for reports, spreadsheets and database apps that I might need to send to/receive from clients, etc. As I've said, I've read the good stuff, and "how easy it is", but what are things I need to be aware of before considering switching completely to Open Office. Comments and experiences would be welcomed. Regards, Chris"

Submission + - PS3 Owners To Simulate Gene Folding

Submitted by

fistfullast33l

on Thursday March 15, 2007 @12:06PM

fistfullast33l writes: "According to IGN UK, the next version of Playstation firmware will include a joint venture from Stanford University and Sony called Folding@Home. Similar to the infamous SETI@Home project, Folding@Home will be an idle application that participates in a simulation that "aims to map the way that genes change shape (or 'fold'), so they can be studied by scientists and, potentially, cure illnesses such as Parkinson's or a variety of cancers." The application will download a "work unit" that it will unravel to completion, update Stanford's servers, and then download the next unit and continue. The console will not be able to do any work while Folding@Home is running. Will the heat generated by the PS3 during this process help offset the inevitable increase in my utility bill from running the console all day?"

Journal Journal: F-22 Navigation Glitch: "It worked fine in the lab" 4

Journal by DingerX on Wednesday February 21, 2007 @09:20AM

IFENs aren't the only computer system you can crash in flight, evidently. The shiny-new F-22 raptor arrived in Okinawa this weekend, the first overseas deployment for the USAF's most advanced and most expensive fighter. The arrival was a week late, due to a

Submission + - Visual Basic on GNU/Linux!

Submitted by

jeevesbond

on Wednesday February 21, 2007 @08:27AM

jeevesbond writes: "The Mono Project on Feb. 20 announced that it has developed a Visual Basic compiler that will enable software developers who use Microsoft Visual Basic to run their applications on any platform that supports Mono, such as Linux, without any code modifications."

Submission + - Which Embedded Linux Distribution?

Submitted by Abhikhurana on Wednesday February 21, 2007 @07:03AM

Abhikhurana writes: I work for a company which designs a variety of video surveillance devices (such as MPEG4 video servers). Traditionally, these products have been based on proprietory OSs such as Nucleus and VxWorks. Now we are redesigning a few of our products and I am trying to convince my company to go down the Linux route. Understandably, our management is quite sceptical about that and so I was asked by our CTO to recommend a few RTOSs which have mature Networking stacks and which work well on ARM platform. I know that there are many embedded linux based distributions out there. There are commerical ones such as Montavista, LynuxWorks, free ones such as uclinux, muLinux and some Linux like distros such as Ecos, but which is the most stable and best community supported embedded Linux distribution out there?

Feed Viacom Deal Will Allow Its TV Clips on Internet (nytimes.com)

From feed by nytfeed on Wednesday February 21, 2007 @04:12AM

The parent of MTV and Comedy Central reached a deal with the upstart Joost, and will get a cut of advertising revenue.

Feed Hewlett-Packard Net Jumps 26% in the Quarter (nytimes.com)

From feed by nytfeed on Wednesday February 21, 2007 @04:12AM

Notebook computers flew off shelves over the holidays, helping to bolster Hewlett-Packard’s lead atop the PC heap.

Journal SPAM: Iraq and the Sioux Nation

Journal by Jeremiah Cornelius on Wednesday February 21, 2007 @01:21AM

When President Bush says he's prepared to stay in Iraq "until the job is done," those poor Iraqis have no idea just how long he means. But the Lakotas do. The United States government has been "stabilizing" the Great Sioux Nation and promoting democracy for 139 years.

Submission + - Scientist make quantum encryption breakthrough

Submitted by

Madas

on Tuesday February 20, 2007 @02:50PM

Madas writes: "Scientists working in Cambridge, England have managed to make quantum encryption completely secure by putting decoy pulses in the key transmission stream. According to the story this paves the way for safe, encrypted high-speed data links. Could this allow completely private transmission of data away from snooping eyes and ears? Or will it mean film studios can stop movies from being copied when travelling on the internet?"

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