Apple-1 Sells For $671,400, Breaks Previous Auction Record [Slashdot]
hypnosec writes "What is believed to be one of the six working Apple-1 computers has fetched a whopping $671,400 for its current owner at an auction in Germany. The Apple-1 was built by Steve Wozniak back in 1976 in the garage of Steve Jobs' parents. The model sold at auction is either from the first lot of 50 systems ordered by Paul Terrell, owner of the Byte Shop chain of stores, or part of the next lot of 150 systems the duo built to sell to friends and vendors. The retail price for the Apple-1 at the time was $666.66."
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High Tension After Hezbollah Leader Vows Support For Syria [News]
Rockets reportedly hit two neighborhoods in Lebanon's capital Sunday; the areas are strongholds for Hezbollah. On Saturday, group leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah promised to help propel President Bashar Assad to victory in Syria's bloody civil war.
something about KDE 4.11 [Planet KDE]
I have spent the last two weeks working to make print-manager experience in 4.11 the best I could. And this post should be about it. Sadly it’s not.
Whenever I write free software I write because I want to, because I have the need and since I don’t paid to do this I spend the time I can. Besides the selfishness I value user feedback a lot, Apper is an example of user feed back, not perfect yet but lots of things there changed because of this, yet sometimes one has to take a final word.
There has been some noise over the last years about “not invented here”, forks and diversity. People blame the Linux ecosystem of having no direction, no focus and hence failing on the Desktop. But they forget to remember that even Countries with much more control were divided because people are different. Heck yes everyone is different so there is no way of pleasing everyone, and this is what I like in Linux.
I’d rather be using OSX if it wasn’t for that, really OSX has awesome applications, iPhoto, Mail, Finder… and now I even have a MacBook, I could instead be build OSX apps and making money! Why don’t I use it?
Because I can’t change it. No matter how good it is for lots of people, it’s not good for me at several points. And heck our Desktop if much far from what I wanted a Desktop to be but still I can help changing this and have lots of fun.
So why am I sad? Simply because I’ll need to fork a component which I was actually willing to improve, and no it’s not because my improvements were rejected or ignored, but because some people don’t like Switches. Yes, you don’t like it either? Fine, but take a look on what has just happened:
Now think for a moment what is that checkbox trying to tell you
What about these?
Easy, that’s the list of printers I want to go shopping
No I’m not questioning if you like switches better that checkboxes, I’m fine if you do, I’m questioning the API that was changed post freeze, without being listed on the feature plan and that has just given me more work to do.
A checkbox must have a description text unless it’s a list of things, even then it is bound to some action normally described with a text or an icon. So even if I was ok with the change I’d need fixing this at soft freeze.
Yes I could instead just fork the component and don’t waste time writing a blog post. But as mailing list didn’t work out (I raised my points on three different threads and suddenly it got commited) I’d like to hear what users of printer-manager or kscreen or any application using Switches think about.
Granted I’ll keep the switches there, hopefully I’ll manage to find time to write a better one as I agree with the fact that this one is indeed confusing. But not because it’s confusing that we should replace instead of fixing.
And let me apologize for making this public, but we ain’t an evil company that must hide into mailing lists. I believe users should be able to give feedback even it goes to /dev/null.
This is my personal opinion.
and that being said I must say I’m very sad, really.
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Triple-nested Klein bottle [Boing Boing]

Here's glassblower Alan Bennett's astounding triple-nested Klein bottle, a beautiful thing:
A single surface model made by Alan Bennett in Bedford, United Kingdom. It consists of three Klein bottles set inside each other to produce, when cut, three pairs of single-twist Mobius strips. A Klein bottle has no edges, no outside or inside and cannot be properly constructed in three dimensions.
Klein bottle, 1995. (via Neatorama)
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ARM In Supercomputers — 'Get Ready For the Change' [Slashdot]
An anonymous reader writes "Commodity ARM CPUs are poised to to replace x86 CPUs in modern supercomputers just as commodity x86 CPUs replaced vector CPUs in early supercomputers. An analysis by the EU Mountblanc Project (PDF) (using Nvidia Tegra 2/3, Samsung Exynos 5 & Intel Core i7 CPUs) highlights the suitability and energy efficiency of ARM-based solutions. They finish off by saying, 'Current limitations [are] due to target market condition — not real technological challenges. ... A whole set of ARM server chips is coming — solving most of the limitations identified.'"
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Girl who was arrested for making a tin-foil volcano tells her story [Boing Boing]

On May 1, Kiera Wilmot, a Florida high school student, was arrested for mixing toilet bowl cleaner with tin foil, causing a small, harmless explosion. Though she had a spotless school record, she was expelled and charged with a felony as an adult -- a harsh penalty widely ascribed to institutional racism (Wilmot is black). On May 16, thanks to Wilmot's bravery, a crowdfunded project by former NASA engineer Homer Hickam, and the ACLU, the charges against Wilmot were dropped and Wilmot and her twin sister were awarded a full bursary to the Advanced Space Academy program at the U.S. Space Camp in Huntsville, Ala..
Now, Wilmot has written a must-read editorial for the ACLU on her experience with zero-tolerance, detailing the awful treatment she received and the thoughtless way in which the gears of the a discipline-obsessed educational system grind up its own students:
The principal and dean of discipline came over and asked me to tell them what happened. I was kind of scared, but I thought they'd understand it was an accident. Before that, I've never gotten in trouble this year other than a dress code violation because my skirt was two inches too short. I told him it was my science experiment. In my third period class I was called up to discipline. I wrote a statement to the dean of discipline explaining what had happened. Afterward I was told to sit on the resource officer's office. They told me I made a bomb on school property, and police possibly have the right to arrest me. I didn't know what they classified as a bomb. I was worried I accidently made a bomb. I was really hurt and scared. I was crying.
They didn't read me any rights. They arrested me after sitting in the office for a couple minutes. They handcuffed me. It cut my wrist, and really hurt sitting on my hands behind my back.
They took me to a juvenile assessment center. I was sitting in this room with no clock so it felt like years of me sitting there. When my mom came, she didn't say anything. She just had this really disappointed look, and told me I lost privileges. But she's really been supportive of me. I don't know what would have happened if I didn't have my mom. I would have dug a hole and sat there for the rest of my life.
I don't think police should have been involved because I'm a good student for one. And two, it was a big deal, but it wasn't like people were hurt and the school was in shatters. I maybe should have gotten 10 days suspension or a work detail where on Saturday you wake up early and pick up trash around the school.
An Unexpected Reaction: Why a Science Experiment Gone Bad Doesn't Make Me a Criminal (via The Mary Sue) ![]()
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