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Hubble looks through the 'north pole' of the Milky Way

The geometry of the Milky Way leads to an anistropy in the clarity of images we are capable of capturing. If one looks in certain directions, the view will be slightly obscured by what is known as the galactic plane. The Milky Way, and other similar galaxies, are relatively flat and the bulk of their non-dark matter—gases, stars, and dust—lie in a geometric plane. Even if one uses a space-based telescope, images taken looking at low galactic latitudes will be obscured by our galaxy's dust. New images from the Hubble, recently released, looked as far away from the galactic plane as possible, pointing all the way to the galactic north pole; they show a clear image of many galaxies that exist in the Coma cluster.

Best Way To Get Back a Stolen Computer?

davidphogan74 writes "I have some stolen computers checking in with a server we have (software pre-loaded), and I have full access to the systems. What's the best way to deal with this situation? The local police (to the theft) have been contacted several times and seem to be clueless. I personally have no financial interest in these computers, I just don't like atom-thieves. What's the best way to handle knowing the IPs, email addresses, MySpace sites, the Google login, etc. when working with law enforcement? The officer I spoke with (who genuinely seemed to care) didn't know an IP address from a mailing address, so I called others. Nobody cared. Anyone have any ideas?"

Open Source only viable way to do shared-services

Government IT has had a shoddy record under the present government. Way too much money spent for absurdly poor results. The main problem being the tenuous link between the way the Gov does IT and the real world.

Sony, six cable companies adopt two-way CableCARD tech

CableCARD technology has always faced a major adoption hurdle. While the cards themselves can handle two-way communication, TVs and set-top boxes were unable to use them for anything beyond one-way traffic. The lack of video on demand services and electronic program guides (to say nothing of the problems this posed for switched digital video) meant that CableCARD solutions were generally inferior to the boxes provided by the local cable company. Until now.

Listen to iPod Songs Over Your Home Stereo

Monster iSoniCast Although pressing heads together and splitting earphones is a resourceful way to share iPod songs with friends, there is a better way. Monster has released the Monster iSoniCast Wireless Audio Bridge. This device will change the way you listen to your iPod –you can now share your music with multiple people over your home stereo system without batteries. The iSoniCast simply connects to your home stereo wirelessly and can be controlled by the familiar functions on the iPod itself.

Cover Stream: A great Cover Flow iTunes controller

There's no question that Cover Flow is a killer way to browse one's iTunes music catalog. Cover Flow is the closest true music enthusiasts can get to thumbing through a stack of vinyls or CDs in the digital age, and it's a really purty way for the rest of us to actually see what albums we've collected over the years. In fact, this is such a great way to interact with music that Snarb decided to build an iTunes controller with Cover Flow as its centerpiece.

New Agreement May End the Cable Box

esocid clues us to news that Sony and the National Cable and Telecommunications Association have come to agreement on the way forward for two-way TV without set-top boxes. The actual agreement was not made public, pending review by other members of the Consumer Electronics Association, and as a result the coverage of the agreement is uniformly pretty incoherent. The background is that the NCTA and the CEA submitted competing proposals to the FCC on how to handle two-way, interactive TV services. None of the articles I turned up made clear what the future of the CableCard is to be. This was an interim solution to allow competition in set-top box manufacture, but its adoption has been plagued with problems. "Sony and the cable companies — Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Cox, Charter, Cablevision, and Bright House Networks — agreed to adopt:

GUNS WEST!New Exhibit to Open at NRA National Firearms Museum

The firearms from the men and women of the Wild West will be on display at the National Rifle Association's National Firearms Museum (NFM) starting May 3. The new exhibit, titled GUNS WEST!, is comprised of three parts and is a look at the way the Old West was, the way it is, and the way it could have been.

Virus Protection on Leopard? I Don't Think So.

(Column) - When you install a new operating system, everything on your computer tends to feel a lot fresher. Even though some of the stuff on your hard drive may be several years old, a new OS gives you a revised way to use that information. Since installing Leopard, this fresh feeling has extended to the way I view viruses and other assorted software and Internet vulnerabilities on OS X. I never really had a problem in this regard on Tiger, and now that I’ve upgraded to Leopard, everything feels even more secure. I trust the advancements of OS X and its good track record to keep my computer safe, but perhaps I shouldn’t feel that way.

United Way goes online with mission-focused campaign

BALTIMORE: United Way of America launched its first large-scale public awareness campaign targeting online media.

Your Way To Profit!

Blogging is quite a popular thing. Some individuals do it on their website as a journal. Others use their blogs to promote products or to update individuals on what is new and incoming. That is the case of Michael, an up and coming web designer who is in the market of selling sports related equipment. This is what he did to make his blog, well, a money generator for him. Michael is good at website design but he didn't really know much about blogging. He soon found out it was much more than just the everyday diary that individuals liked to label it. He spent much of his time learning about the right programs to use for it and then determined to make something out of this new found tool, decided to incorporate it into his website design. He had heard from friends that this was a good way to make additional income on his website.

Astronomers spot Milky Way's youngest supernova

in our Milky Way, hoping it will further knowledge about the spectacular stellar explosions and the workings of our galaxy, a research paper said Wednesday.

'No way' will Smith miss test

Graeme Smith says there is "no way" that he will miss the first cricket test against England next month.

'No way' will Smith miss test

Graeme Smith says there is "no way" that he will miss the first cricket test against England next month.

A New Way To Protect Computer Networks From Internet Worms

Scientists may have found a new way to combat the most dangerous form of computer virus. The method automatically detects within minutes when an Internet worm has infected a computer network.

VoSKY Offers Simple Way to Enhance Online Sales and Customer Service Through Web Click-to-Call

TMCNet: VoSKY Offers Simple Way to Enhance Online Sales and Customer Service Through Web Click-to-Call

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By measuring the speeds of distant stars, researchers estimated the mass of the Milky Way's dark matter halo (indicated in dim red), finding it to be much slimmer than previously thought. Credit: SDSS Collaboration, Axel Quetz, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Heidelberg.

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New infrared images of the Milky Way show just two major spiral arms, Scutum-Centaus and Perseus, along with a newly discovered arm called Far 3kpc Arm. Credit: R. Hurt, SSC.

ICANN opens way for new top-level domains

Board's vote could allow the creation of more than 70 million new gTLDs and open the way for big corporations to run their own domains

Sony on way to record performance

Sony swung to a profit for the January-March quarter from a loss a year ago on its way to a record performance for a fiscal year of 369.4 billion ($4.6 billion) as it reduced losses from its PlayStation 3 video game business.

The fastest way to open a local file in Google Docs

What I really want to do is add a link to Google Docs on the right-click (context) menu in Windows Explorer. That way, I could open a file in Google Docs by right-clicking it in Explorer and choosing Send To > Google Docs.

Blog Your Way to Savings at the Store

The Web has created many opportunities to learn how to save money on just about everything you buy. Before the Internet made terabytes of information readily available, the only way to do good consumer research on a major purchase was to subscribe to magazines like Consumer Reports or go to the library. In reality, most of us just went to the car dealership or to the appliance store and relied on salespeople to educate us. However, I'm not sure the salespeople were the best source of objective consumer advice.

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