SETI has a protocol on how to respond to First Contact with ETs
The “Declaration of Principles Concerning Activities Following the Detection of Extraterrestrial Intelligence” advises what to do and who to call if aliens are finally found.
Archive for November 20, 2007
Google, Sun May Clash Over Android’s Use of Java
The developer community–and Sun–are examining the nonstandard virtual machine that Google built to run Java apps in Android.
Is AMD Doomed?
Can a $622M dollar cash infusion plus reasonably profitable GPUs give AMD enough breathing room to prove its gamble on true quad core was a good one? The jury is still out, but the portents are not very encouraging. The tech world really needs a scrappy, nimble CPU company like AMD, just like it needs a scrappy, cool computer company like Apple.
Pirate Bay faces Prince pressure, private investigators in foreign cars
Prince’s legal team has allegedly been leaning on Pirate Bay advertisers to stop supporting the site, and a car with Danish plates has started snapping pictures of Pirate Bay admins. Coincidence?
Mininova Hits The Million Torrent Uploads Mark
The well-known BitTorrent site Mininova reached a new Milestone today. Just weeks after hitting the 3 billion torrent downloads mark, Mininova notched up its 1,000,000th uploaded torrent.
Halo 3 “Heroic Map Pack” available on Dec. 11
If you’ve grown tired of traipsing through Snowbound in your desperate lust to eliminate squeaky-voiced, trash-talking cyborgs, the announcement of the downloadable “Heroic Map Pack” for Halo 3 should be just what the doctor ordered. Let’s focus on the facts: December 11th, three maps, 800 MS Points ($10). The maps become free in Spring 2008.
Sony cuts PS3 dev kit price in half…
..In an attempt to further diversify the Playstation 3’s library of games, Sony has announced a dramatic price cut for the console’s software development kit….
RIAA told to show cause why .edu subpoenas shouldn’t be quashed
After a George Washington University student argued that the RIAA’s subpoena seeking his identifying information from the school wasn’t authorized by law, the judge in the case has told the RIAA to show cause why the subpoenas for all 19 defendants shouldn’t be quashed.
