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Submission + - Elon Musk just unveiled the SpaceX spacesuit (cnbc.com)

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes: The suit features a helmet and what appears to be a low-weight design. Given that it doesn't look as bulky as NASA's spacewalk suits, this is probably more of a flight suit meant to be worn by passengers traveling inside the ship rather than for spacewalks.

Submission + - Tasers Implicated In Far More Deaths Than We Previously Thought (fastcompany.com)

Submitted by tedlistens
tedlistens writes: The Taser is thought to be a “less than lethal” alternative to a firearm during aggressive police encounters. Independent studies have showed that when deployed correctly—according to “guidelines” manufacturer Axon offers to police—Tasers reduce injuries among both officers and the people they subdue. But amid a lack of official data about their use and effects, a new report by Reuters found 1,005 incidents in the U.S. in which people died after police stunned them with the electrical weapons, most since the early 2000s. The Taser was ruled to be a cause or contributing factor in 153 of those deaths—far more than the 24 cases the company has counted. Reuters found that 9 in 10 of those who died were unarmed and one in four suffered from mental illness or neurological disorders; In 9 of every 10 incidents reviewed, the deceased was unarmed; More than 100 of the fatal encounters began with a 911 call for help during a medical emergency. Earlier this year, Axon rebranded, dropping the name Taser International to underscore its focus on body cameras and digital evidence, which is meant in part to add new transparency to fatal police encounters.

Submission + - Samsung finds bug in Linux trim code - trim with raid0/10 corrupted data

Submitted by Mokki
Mokki writes: After many complaints that Samsung SSD's corrupted data when used with Linux, Samsung found out that the bug was in Linux kernel and submitted a patch to fix it. Turns out that kernels without the final fix can corrupt data iff the system is using linux md raid with raid0 or raid10 and issues trim/discard commands (either fstrim or by the filesystem itself). The vendor of the drive did not matter and the previous blacklisting of Samsung drives for broken queued trim support can be most likely lifted away after further tests. According to this post the bug has been around for a long time.

Comment Personalize candidate numbers (Score 1) 258

by xkr47 (#49689805) Attached to: Online Voting Should Be Verifiable -- But It's a Hard Problem

Not environmentally sound, but send personalized lists of candidates by postal service to each voter with candidate numbers scrambled in a way known only to the voting server. Then when voting online, the voter uses the peronalized number for the candidate. Malware won't know what candidate numbers the voter has, but the server receiving them will. Malware can thus only affect the outcome by voting on random candidates on behalf of the voter instead of on the candidate the voter wanted.

Unfortunately the chosen candidate can not be verified back to the voter until the vote has been committed and can no longer be changed, otherwise malware could iterate through numbers to see which candidate is which.

Submission + - Jolla Other Half Keyboard arriving via Kickstarter (kickstarter.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A Kickstarter project for building a keyboard Other Half for the Jolla phone has reached 200 % funding in the first few days. Die-hard hardware keyboard enthusiasts can still join in to get the part early — along with a 100 â discount on the Jolla phone.
Earth

Portugal Gives Itself a Clean-Energy Makeover 368

Posted by samzenpus from the fresh-start dept.
daem0n1x writes "It appears that some countries in oil-poor Europe are making a successful transition to renewable energy at a fast and steady pace. This article talks about the small country of Portugal on the West Coast of Europe, known for its white sand beaches, oranges, fish, and wines. Portugal has no oil, but lots of sun and wind. Five years ago, the government decided, against many dissenting voices, to invest massively in taking advantage of the country's natural resources in clean energy. The results are here. It used to be a heavy energy importer, but now it exports it."
First Person Shooters (Games)

Gamer Plays Doom For the First Time 362

Posted by Soulskill from the new-is-relative dept.
sfraggle writes "Kotaku has an interesting review of Doom (the original!) by Stephen Totilo, a gamer and FPS player who, until a few days ago, had gone through the game's 17-year history without playing it. He describes some of his first impressions, the surprises that he encountered, and how the game compares to modern FPSes. Quoting: 'Virtual shotgun armed, I was finally going to play Doom for real. A second later, I understood the allure the video game weapon has had. In Doom the shotgun feels mighty, at least partially I believe because they make first-timers like me wait for it. The creators make us sweat until we have it in hand. But once we have the shotgun, its big shots and its slow, fetishized reload are the floored-accelerator-pedal stuff of macho fantasy. The shotgun is, in all senses, instant puberty, which is to say, delicately, that to obtain it is to have the assumed added potency that a boy believes a man possesses vis a vis a world on which he'd like to have some impact. The shotgun is the punch in the face the once-scrawny boy on the beach gives the bully when he returns a muscled linebacker.'"
Idle

Growing A House From Meat 133

Posted by samzenpus from the delicious-future dept.
baosol writes "From the boundary-pushing team of archi-visionaries who brought us the fabulous Fab Tree Hab comes a new (and somewhat disgusting) way to grow a structure — using animal flesh! The In Vitro Meat Habitat is a futuristic concept home composed of meat cells grown in a lab. The creator of the concept, Mitchell Joachim, is a futurist with a twist– he says he is actually developing the concept in a lab."

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