St. Louis University student Nick Aker and an assistant chemistry professor Shelley Minteer developed the biofuel cell in class. Akers said that once the biofuel cell is charged, it could run a cell phone for a week or a laptop all day before needing another drink.

I've always thought we needed alchoholic technology. It'll be weird seeing cell phones and laptops on twelve step programs. Even stranger when they find Jesus.

Vodka and beer to power batteries

British cyber security firm mi2g recently announced the results of a study that names Mac OS X one of the most secure online server operating systems in the world, alongside the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) family of Open Source systems. The study also showed that Linux is currently the most-breached online server OS.

Interesting.

Study shows Mac OS X Server among most secure in world

Corsaire reported that a remote user (server) can employ a combination of path traversal and encoding techniques to bypass cookie path restrictions in the target user's browser.

SecurityTracker.com Archives - Apple Safari Cookie Path Restrictions Can Be Byassed By Remote Servers

In a Washington, D.C., press conference Wednesday, four of the biggest e-mail providers -- Microsoft, America Online, EarthLink and Yahoo -- said they are filing lawsuits against what company representatives said are six of the most prolific spam operations.

Wired News: E-Mail Providers Slam Spammers

Design Your iPod Giveaway" giveaway. "Submit the winning, fully original iPod concept illustration for the new iPodlounge iPod Concept Gallery. The winning concept may be hand-drawn or rendered, 2D, or 3D, and must depict a mostly realistic vision of a next generation iPod." The winner will receive a free 15GB iPod custom painted by ColorWare in their choice of 24 colors, including a name or logo printed on the back.  

This might be a fun way to score a free ipod.

MacMinute: 'Design Your iPod Giveaway' launched

brent_chivers wrote:
] ] Powerbook Trackpad Senses Pressure
] ]
] ] Apparently, many semi-recent
] ] Powerbooks and iBooks have trackpads that are capable of
] ] reporting X, Y, and Z (pressure) information.
]
] The comments mention non-Apple laptops.

Cool. Ill have to try fingerpainting in photoshop.

RE: HML Blog: Powerbook Trackpad Senses Pressure

The memo, first published on the website of open-source advocate Eric Raymond, was presented as correspondence leaked by a whistleblower from within SCO that showed that Microsoft has invested up to $100 million in the company to squash the Linux operating system.

Wired News: SCO Says Microsoft Memo Is Legit

Not a bad search engine. Something for days when I'm bored with google.

Teoma - Search with Authority

Cupertino, California-based Apple said it will repair these components for free and offer a full refund for customers who have already paid for the repair. Apple will pay for shipping costs, the company said.

Apple Launches Repair Program for Some iBooks

But now software engineers at Icosystem in Cambridge, Massachusetts, have developed a program that can predict what is coming next by "evolving" future hacker and virus attacks based on information from known ones. The company is testing the technique with the help of the US Army's Computer Crimes Investigation Command in Fort Belvoir, Virginia.

Mutating software could predict hacker attacks