Earlier today IANA added the .XXX Top Level Domain to the root nameservers. While the registry operator Afilias is still in their setup process for ICM registry, the zone is currently propagating. While a number of registrars have already been taking pre-registrations, the actual timeline for the launch has not yet been published. The Sunrise launch is a three phased approach. After much back and forth and protests against the sTLD the ICANN board had approved the application for the new TLD at their meeting on March 18th of this year — via redwolf.newsvine.com
This week at Microsoft’s MIX11 Web developer conference, the company surprised many by making a pre-release version of Internet Explorer 10 available—less than a month after IE9 came out in its final form. But another surprise was uncovered by Computerworld’s Gregg Keizer: the next IE won’t run on any OS before Windows 7, including Vista — via redwolf.newsvine.com
We also got to go to Bexhill and see the De La Warr Pavilion an amazing 1930s modernist building, recently restored. It was designed by Erich Mendelsohn and Serge Chermayeff as a culture and leisure centre for the people of Bexhill. Lucky them.
This is a picture of the main stairwell. I took it after seeing a nice picture of it in a magazine I read recently. Not wanting to make a direct copy
of the shot, I decided to play around with the pictures I took there too so made them a bit noisly and black and white.
An artificial big toe found on the foot of an Egyptian mummy could prove to be the world’s earliest functioning prosthetic body part, it was announced today.
Volunteers who have lost their right big toe are now being recruited to see how effective replicas of the prosthesis are.
The fake toe from the Cairo museum in Egypt was found in 2000 in a tomb near the ancient city of Thebes. Archaeologists speculated the 50- to 60-year-old woman the prosthesis came from might have lost her toe due to complications from diabetes — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Toshiba announces a family of self-encrypting hard disk drives (HDDs) engineered to automatically invalidate protected data when connected to an unknown host.
The new Toshiba Self-Encrypting Drive (SED) models enable OEMs to configure different data invalidation options that align with various end-user scenarios — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The backbone of the Internet, FTP (file transfer protocol), celebrates its 40th birthday tomorrow. Originally launched as the RFC 114 specification, which was published on 16 April 1971, FTP is arguably even more important today than when it was born — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A depressed New Zealander cut off a finger, cooked it with vegetables and then ate it in a rare case of self-cannibalism, according to a report in the Australasian Psychiatry publication — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Revolutionary thinking; when a soldier engages in the premeditated debilitation of a compatriot soldier, traditionally we don’t question the victim’s bravado.
Traditionally, we describe the act with words like treason
, and dishonourably discharge perpetrators – or send them to jail.
There is, of course, a significant difference for Bob Ellis in this case.
The victim at ADFA has tits — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The most recent addition to the iconic buildings of Independence Mall in Philadelphia is one dedicated to illustrating the American Jewish experience. The National Museum of American Jewish History (NMAJH) designed by Ennead Architects opened in November 2010. Adjacent to Independence Mall, the museum overlooks such attractions as Independence Hall, the Liberty Bell and the National Constitution Center — via ArchDaily
The design [Studio Zero85] of this building is part of the testing rooms of a type of settlement pattern residential. The idea behind the project is the search for a development distribution that can return to the inhabitants of the highest degree of privacy allowed by a residential unit — via ArchDaily
The site is very small measuring 7.5 metres wide by 10.5 metres deep, and is flanked by 3 metre high walls to the East and the North, and a 2 metre high wall to the West. The new house [Ashworth Parkes Architects] was not allowed to rise higher than the eaves of the house next door to the North. We were only allowed 1 metre squared of obscured window on the Southern elevation, no windows above the top of the wall on the Western elevation and 1 metre squared of window on the Northern elevation. We had to set the building back from the road, decreasing the usable space on the site even further — via ArchDaily
Another odd-size paper experiment. I doodled this derpy guy at work one day, and couldn’t get him out of my brain until I painted him up properly. This doesn’t happen all that often – inspiration strikes all the time, but rarely is it so insistent. Once I finished the painting, I decided he needed borders, and played with acrylic gel medium and Claybord and La Carte and foam core. Interesting lesson: La Carte can be completely denuded with gel medium. I knew it didn’t like moisture, but I didn’t realize I’d end up covered in a cement-like mix of glue and sand. It was fun.
Bonus points if you can decipher my uneducated attempt at Russian half-hidden in the borders — via CrashOctopus Blog
This is my entry for the Dem Bones Haunted Halloween contest Playoff round and my homage to Howard Phillips Lovecraft, a great author — via MOCpages
DRM. Is there nothing evil it can’t do? Between installing rootkits and propping open back doors, DRM is a copyright enforcer’s best friend. Miguel Pimentel, a Boston-area architect, believes he’s stumbled across its latest trick: extracting $150,000 from your wallet via a quick unannounced “phone home” to the nearest copyright cop.
Ima Fish directs our attention to the class action lawsuit, filed March 30, 2011, which alleges that Transmagic’s 3-D software came prepackaged with phone home
DRM that gathered personal user information and passed it on to their copyright enforcement consultants, ITCA (IT Compliance Association). This information (including name, company name and phone number) was used by ITCA in an attempt to extract $10,000+ per year in licensing and maintenance fees — via redwolf.newsvine.com
By asking a group of older adults to analyze videos of other people conversing — some talking truthfully, some insincerely — a group of scientists at the University of California, San Francisco has determined which areas of the brain govern a person’s ability to detect sarcasm and lies.
Some of the adults in the group were healthy, but many of the test subjects had neurodegenerative diseases that cause certain parts of the brain to deteriorate. The UCSF team mapped their brains using magnetic resonance imaging, MRI, which showed associations between the deteriorations of particular parts of the brain and the inability to detect insincere speech.
These patients cannot detect lies,
said UCSF neuropsychologist Katherine Rankin, PhD, a member of the UCSF Memory and Aging Center and the senior author of the study. This fact can help them be diagnosed earlier
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
Australian internet whiz Daniel Tzvetkoff, who has become a prized FBI informant in a bid to avoid a 75 year jail sentence in the US, may have brought down the multi-billion dollar American online poker industry.
The FBI announced on Friday it had charged 11 people, including the founders of three of the largest internet poker companies in the US, with bank fraud, money laundering and illegal gambling offences.
The three poker sites – PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker and Absolute Poker – have been shut down — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A tiny sea mollusk uses eyes made of a calcium carbonate crystal to spot predators lurking above, researchers say of the first such rocky lenses found in the animal kingdom — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Hackers appear to have stolen source code in a root-level attack on WordPress that could compromise its VIP clients including NASA, the BBC and the New York Times.
Attackers compromised Automattic, the company that maintains the popular WordPress publishing platform, and broke into to several servers, gaining access to “potentially anything on those servers”, according to the company.
WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg said in a statement that it was unlikely that access details were stolen — via redwolf.newsvine.com
In a breakthrough that may aid treatment of learning impairments, strokes, tinnitus and chronic pain, UT Dallas researchers have found that brain nerve stimulation accelerates learning in laboratory tests.
Another major finding of the study, published in the April 14 issue of Neuron, involves the positive changes detected after stimulation and learning were complete. Researchers monitoring brain activity in rats found that brain responses eventually returned to their pre-stimulation state, but the animals could still perform the learned task. These findings have allowed researchers to better understand how the brain learns and encodes new skills — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Economies of scale mean that densely populated cities have generally been the ones to benefit from the roll out of superfast broadband networks, while those in rural areas have missed out. Following Google’s recent announcement that it will build and test 1Gbps fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) networks in selected cities with between 50,000 to 500,000 residents in the U.S. starting with Kansas City, Kansas, Fujitsu has unveiled plans to create a similar superfast FTTH broadband network for five million homes and businesses in rural Britain to bridge the digital divide between city and country — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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