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Computer codes row threatens £12bn jet order By Francis Harris in Washington (Filed: 15/03/2006) Britain threatened the United States yesterday that it will cancel its £12 billion order for the new Joint Strike Fighter unless America agrees to give the Armed Forces full access to the warplane's critical computer codes. Lord Drayson, Minister for Defence Procurement, issued the blunt warning as he arrived in Washington to address members of Congress. Without full access to computer software the JSF could be ‘switched off’ The bad-tempered row not only threatens the 150-aircraft programme, but also the intimate Anglo-American military partnership. Without full...

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Scientists have long wondered why organisms bother with sexual reproduction. It makes a whole lot more sense to just have a bunch of females that can clone themselves, which is how asexual reproduction works. Turns out sex might have evolved as a way to concentrate lots of harmful mutations into individual organisms so they could be easily weeded out by natural selection, a new computer model suggests. The classic explanation for the onset of whoopee, about 1 billion years ago, is that it provides a way for organisms to swap and shuffle genes and to create offspring with new gene...

Is there any way of recovering the contents of a file over which new contents was saved for the same file name? Existing file "A" is on a computer in a given folder. User opens an email attachment with another file "A" attached to it, and wishes to save the attachment to that folder. Of course, the user is asked if replacement is desired. User ACCIDENTALLY says "yes" and file is replaced, wiping out the original file "A." Question: How, if at all, can the old contents of file "A" be recovered? I don't think recycle bin is an option,...

AOL filed three civil lawsuits yesterday against "several major phishing gangs". The lawsuits are the first by a major ISP to cite Virginia's anti-phishing statute, the first in the US, adopted in July 2005. The suits also cite applicable Federal laws, including the Lanham (Trademark) Act, and the Computer Fraud & Abuse Act. AOL is seeking total damages of $18m in the series of lawsuits which allege that the phishing gangs victimised AOL and CompuServe members through emails that attempted to drive them to bogus websites. The three lawsuits, filed in the US Court for the Eastern District of Virginia,...

The chief financial officer of Google Inc... Tuesday said overall growth is slowing ... The company will now have to "find other ways" to boost revenue... The stock was down 11 percent, or more than $42...

The movement of computing work abroad represents an economic and scientific challenge, but the fears of job migration far outweigh the reality so far, according to a new study by the Association for Computing Machinery. The lengthy report, released Thursday, is the result of a yearlong project by the professional organization to assess the impact and implications of the outsourcing of software development and research. The study concluded that dire predictions of job losses from shifting high-technology work to low-wage nations with strong education systems, like India and China, were greatly exaggerated. Though international in perspective, the study group found...

Gartner, the technology research group, has added its voice to warnings about a feature in Google's new Desktop beta that allows users to transfer data between two computers. The Desktop 3 update was released a fortnight ago by Google, and a new feature called Search Across Computers enables the transfer of information such as emails, instant messages and other files so they can be searched from another computer. But to enable the transfer, the user must first authorise Google to store material from the PC on its own servers for up to 30 days. "The newest release of Google's desktop...

PROVO — A Brigham Young University assistant professor has resigned after being arrested Thursday night for investigation into allegations that he taped and watched pornographic videos of a 14-year-old girl on his computer. The 63-year-old man is being investigated for sexual exploitation of a minor, a second-degree felony, and voyeurism, a class-A misdemeanor, after Provo police found a video clip of a girl undressing on a laptop computer belonging to BYU. The Deseret Morning News does not name arrested persons until charges are filed. Acting on a tip, Provo police approached the man at his home and took him to...

To anyone with a modicum of computer expertise :) I have been having a problem with my computer. It has been crashing a lot lately, and goes to a blue screen with the standard issue less-than-helpful blah blah. What I can tell you is that it says "MACHINE CHECK EXCEPTION" and follows with more gobblety-gook (yes, I know - not the most scientific of descriptions) then gives the STOP and specific system address of the exception. I can get more specific if anyone has an idea on how to correct this. THANX!!

Just got my computer back from being updated to xp and everything on my screen is large. I thought the view adjustment would fix it, but that doesn't do it. I have to scroll left and right to see any page. It's obviously set to some setting that makes it easy for people with bad eyes to read the text and such, but I feel like I'm using the computer version of that big pencil they start you off with in kindergarden.

SAN FRANCISCO – A California man was indicted Friday on federal charges of creating a robot-like network of hijacked computers that helped him and two others bring in $100,000 for installing unwanted ad software. The indictment from a federal grand jury in Seattle also accuses Christopher Maxwell, 20, and two unidentified conspirators of crippling Seattle's Northwest Hospital with a ”botnet” attack in January 2005. Authorities say the hospital attack caused $150,000 in damages, shut down the intensive care unit and disabled doctors' pagers. “Some people consider botnets a mere annoyance or inconvenience for consumers but they are highly destructive,” U.S....

My computer is broke! None of my Pogo.com links work and Texas Hold 'Em is calling.In fact my Norton 2006 has crashed and it seems any links related to security on Microsoft and Semantec don't work eitherDoes anyone know what virus, worm or stupip kid-game download has caused this? How do I fix it? I have enabled my Active-X and Javascripts (not that I know what that will do.) This started about 4 days ago. I am running WinXP and IE5.something. Please help this techno-peasant!

Say goodbye to diaries — those small books with breakable locks that little brothers could easily get their hands on. Today’s women have computer programs that help them track their most cherished secrets. Women practicing Natural Family Planning (NFP) can throw away their paper charts and store that information in their palm pilot. And there is no worry about this sensitive information falling into the wrong hands — with the click of a button, the intimate details of a woman’s life can be protected by a password. Woman Calendar, a program by BEIKS LLC, is a simple program that any...

I have seen discussions of folks who know about Mozilla Firefox, and I hope some of you will help me, keeping in mind that I am not very well versed in computer related matters, but my son is. But he is stumped, as well. I use Mozilla Firefox as my search engine. I have the moderate SafeSearch feature on. There are a number of web pages that it pulls up, but when I click the item on the search page, everything that I have pulled up on the internet disappears. Nothing else. Any Word or Excel documents or anything else...

I have an open MS Office file (e.g. Word document, Excel spreadsheet, PowerPoint presentation). I would like to see the graphical location of this file, using Windows Explorer. Is there a command I can use within that Office application that brings up, within Explorer, the location of that file? I know I can click on File/Properties, but then I have to remember the sequence of folders, then manually look it up via Explorer (which is a nuisance). I was hoping there's some way of zooming right to that location. I would need this capability, for example, if I wanted to...

Executive Summary The temporary visa program known as H-1B enables U.S. employers to hire professional-level foreign workers for a period of up to six years. According to the law (8 U.S.C. § 1182(n)), employers must pay H-1B workers either the same rate as other employees with similar skills and qualifications or the "prevailing wage" for that occupation and location, whichever is higher. This is to prevent the hiring of foreign workers from depressing U.S. wages and to protect foreign workers from exploitation. This report examines the wage data in Labor Department records for Fiscal Year 2004. It compares wages in...

CHICAGO, Jan. 20 (UPI) -- Consumer interest in mobile Internet access continues to climb, and computer industry leaders including Intel Corp. and others are now calling for the creation of a global roaming standard for wireless, experts tell United Press International's Wireless World. Current standards like WiFi and WiMax cannot take wireless to the next level -- international roaming -- because convergence of technologies is creating new demands on networks. By Gene Koprowski

We Support Our Troops!  For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday... Thank the Veterans who served in The United States Armed Forces "And the test of good technology is that once you use it, you can't go back. "   quote by Intel CEO Paul Otellini We Support Our Troops!!! Apple added Intel processors to an existing Mac desktop and an entirely new laptop, updated Mac OS X and iLife, and introduced an FM tuner/remote control for the iPod.  The new Intel-based iMac will feature Intel's new Centrino Duo processor. On the mobile side, the PowerBook is being retired in favor of...

Researchers at the University of Michigan have been able to use a small quantum computer consisting of two atoms to do a super-fast data base search. This same system could someday be scaled to a much larger quantum computer that could outperform any conventional computer for certain applications. Sponsored Links (Ads by Google) Explore Quantum Mechanics - scpd.stanford.edu Stanford Nano Program. 18 courses. Latest research. Leading experts Feynman Rules - www.Kolmogorov.com The Feynman Lectures On Physics: New Complete And Definitive Issue Breaking news: Electronic Devices Apple unveils first Intel computer 53 minutes ago General Science Science journal to retract second...