LONDON (Reuters) - Leonardo da Vinci’s drawings of machines are uncannily similar to Chinese originals and were undoubtedly derived from them, a British amateur historian says in a newly-published book.
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Brett Glass writes “In an op-ed in today’s Washington Post, FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell makes a case against government regulation of the Internet, opining that ‘engineers, not politicians or bureaucrats, should solve engineering problems.’ With state governments pressuring ISPs to pull the plug on Usenet, and a proposal now in play for a censored public […]
Steve Shockley notes an article up at TidBITS on Apple’s unexplained failure to patch the DNS vulnerability that we have been discussing for a few weeks now. “Apple uses the popular Internet Systems Consortium BIND DNS server which was one of the first tools patched, but Apple has yet to include the fixed version in […]
imus writes “Just wondering how most IT shops secure sensitive data (customer records). Most centrally managed databases seem to be monitored and maintained very well and IT workers know when they are tampered with or when unauthorized access occurs. But what about employees who do legitimate selects from these databases and then load CSV files […]
iPhone/iPod touch only: The Google Mobile app has a hidden secret that can save tons of time looking up web pages on your iPhone: an undocumented shortcut that performs Google site searches. Let’s say, for example, you want to read our original post on the Google Mobile iPhone app. Just fire up Google Mobile […]
TaeKwonDood writes “Carl Wieman is the 2001 Nobel Prize winner in Physics but what he cares most about is fixing science education. The real issue is, can someone who went through 20 years of science education as a student, lived his life in academia since then and even got a Nobel prize get a fair […]
The Using Mac blog posts a selection of 50 beautiful nature-themed desktop wallpaper images that will work on any system. While you’re in the mood for new wallpaper, check out our top 10 free wallpaper, fonts, and icon sources.
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Brainy Gamer has an interesting reflection on old puzzle games and why their style of gameplay seems to be a dying art. According to the author modern gamers seem more interested in combat and seem to have lost the patience for difficult puzzles. “Despite my fondness for the adventure games of yore, it appears the […]
eldavojohn writes “To combat piracy, the MPAA’s latest idea involves a site that would allow users to search for a movie and then provide links to legit legal downloads or ticket purchases for it. Why are they doing this? Because their research showed ‘many users have a hard time differentiating between legal and illegal content […]
Google Bookmarks is sporting a new look and feel, boasting a quicker interface and an “infinite scrolling” feature that dynamically retrieves more bookmarks when you reach the end of your list (kind of like Google Reader). The new interface has moved Bookmarks to the confines of Google Notebook and is being called “a better […]
