Forskare nära hitta botemedel mot TBE SvD Inrikes(cached at July 6, 2012, 11:38 pm)

”Minskar virusmängden 10 000 gånger”.
Ask Slashdot: Old Dogs vs. New Technology? Slashdotby Soulskill on it at January 1, 1970, 1:00 am (cached at July 6, 2012, 11:37 pm)


xTrashcat writes "I am 22 years of age and have been working in the IT field for over a year. I try to learn as much about technology as my cranium can handle; I even earned the nickname 'Google' because of the amount of time I spend attempting to pack my brain with new information. Being 22, it is, I speculate, needless to say that I am the youngest of my coworkers. If there is a piece of software, hardware, a technique, etc., I want to know everything about it. On the contrary, nearly all of my coworkers resent it and refuse to even acknowledge it, let alone learn about it. For example, we just started buying boxes from a different vendor that are licensed for Win7. A few months later, we decide that a computer lab was going to get an XP image instead of Win7. After several days worth of attempts, none of our XP images, even our base, would work, and it left everyone scratching their heads. We were on the verge of returning thousands of dollars worth of machines because they were 'defective.' I was not satisfied. I wanted to know why they weren't working instead of just simply returning them, so I jumped into the project. After almost 30 seconds of fishing around in BIOS, I noticed that UEFI was enabled. Switched it to legacy, and boom; problem solved. My coworkers grunted and moaned because they didn't have to do that before, and still to this day, they hate our new boxes. So in closing, I have three questions: What is the average age of your workplace? How easily do your coworkers accept and absorb new technology? Are most IT environments like this, where people refuse to learn anything about new technology they don't like, or did I just get stuck with a batch of stubborn case-screws?"

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Best Buy Cuts 650 Geek Squad Techies Slashdotby Soulskill on business at January 1, 1970, 1:00 am (cached at July 6, 2012, 11:37 pm)


tripleevenfall writes "Best Buy has cut approximately 650 jobs from its Geek Squad division, according to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. The cut represents about 4% of Geek Squad's total workforce. The consumer electronics giant said the workers primarily service televisions and appliances in consumers' homes. Best Buy's performance has struggled to keep up with changes in consumer electronics , as the weight of its big-box format inhibits it from fending off competitive pressure of online retailers."

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Romania parliament votes to impeach president AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (AJE)(cached at July 6, 2012, 11:30 pm)

Move over Traian Basescu's alleged misuse of powers raises fears that ruling coalition is monopolising state control.
Student leaders arrested in Myanmar AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (AJE)(cached at July 6, 2012, 11:30 pm)

Wave of arrests on eve of rally to commemorate crackdown on 1988 student movement.
Zimmerman fri för en miljon SvD Utrikes(cached at July 6, 2012, 11:08 pm)

George Zimmerman, som sköt ihjäl 17-årige Trayvon Martin i Florida i februari, lämnade häktet i dag efter att ha betalat en miljon dollar i borgen.
Software-Defined Radio: the Apple I of Broadcast? Slashdotby Soulskill on communications at January 1, 1970, 1:00 am (cached at July 6, 2012, 11:07 pm)


benfrog writes "A company called Per Vices has introduced software-defined radio gear that Ars Technica is comparing to the Apple I. Why? Because software radio can broadcast and receive nearly any radio signal on nearly any frequency at the same time, and thus could "revolutionize wireless." The Per Vices Phi is one of the first devices aimed at the mass hobbyist market to take advantage of this technology."

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Full snöskoteråkare fast i Västerås SvD Inrikes(cached at July 6, 2012, 10:38 pm)

Polisen i Västmanland har gjort ett för säsongen något ovanligt gripande.
Early Look at Steampunk Action-Adventure Game <em>Dishonored</em> Slashdotby Soulskill on pcgames at January 1, 1970, 1:00 am (cached at July 6, 2012, 10:37 pm)


Dishonored is an upcoming first-person action-adventure game in a steampunk setting. It's being developed by Arkane Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks. As the game nears its October 9th release, Jim Rossignol of Rock, Paper, Shotgun got some hands-on time with the game, and was impressed by how it is shaping up: "The level I played saw me overpowering a government official from his laboratory high on a building above the lavish pseudo-London cityscape, and lugging him out to a riverside rendezvous. Initially I went in through the front door, bluntly killing the guards with a knife and sneaking inside. But I could have used all manner of other entrances, and other powers. I could have slipped in undetected by distracting the guards. I could have possessed a rat – zooming into the hapless thing in a manner of bodily possession/transformation reminiscent of forgotten FPS Requiem: Avenging Angel – and then rematerialized once I’d run in through grates and rat holes. I could have possessed an NPC and used the meatsuit to pass through the energy-field barricades. Or I could even have employed a short-ranged teleportation power, blink, and leapt and mantled my way up across the rooftops."

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Topicalizer-Block-1.00 search.cpan.orgby Iain Campbell at January 1, 1970, 1:00 am (cached at July 6, 2012, 10:36 pm)

Topicalizer built around Params::Callbacks
KiokuDB-Backend-DBI-1.22 search.cpan.orgby Jesse Luehrs at January 1, 1970, 1:00 am (cached at July 6, 2012, 10:36 pm)

L backend for L
Astro-SpaceTrack-0.060_04 search.cpan.orgby Tom Wyant at January 1, 1970, 1:00 am (cached at July 6, 2012, 10:36 pm)

Download satellite orbital elements from Space Track
Params-Callbacks-1.14 search.cpan.orgby Iain Campbell at January 1, 1970, 1:00 am (cached at July 6, 2012, 10:36 pm)

Enable functions to accept blocking callbacks
Bio-Chado-Schema-0.20000 search.cpan.orgby Robert Buels at January 1, 1970, 1:00 am (cached at July 6, 2012, 10:36 pm)

A standard DBIx::Class layer for the Chado database schema.
UN chief calls for change in Syria mission AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (AJE)(cached at July 6, 2012, 10:30 pm)

Amid rising violence, Ban Ki-moon tells Security Council observers should relocate to capital, focus on politics.