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Submission + - Create Google Street View-like panoramas with chea (ieee.org)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: From IEEE Spectrum article:

If you use Google Maps, you're probably familiar with its Street View feature, which shows actual ground-level photos of many cities around the world. Google creates the images by mounting special cameras on vehicles and driving them around.

Now wouldn't it be great if you could have your own Street View-like camera?

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by leonardofelin (#29493633) Attached to: IT Departments Preparing for Pandemic

We did some preparations:

- Have your employees answer a survey about their home infrastructure (quiet place to work, power, internet connection).
- Check with carriers the availability of mobile phones and check that your company's phone system can forward calls to mobiles.
- Some users use VPN all the time. Everyone using VPN at the same time isn't common, so check if your VPN can accommodate this type of usage (licenses, bandwidth, tokens).
- Notebooks are encrypted. Desktops aren't. We decided to encrypt desktops so people can take them home.
- Worst case scenario, people won't be able to leave their homes. You must have a logistics plan to deliver computers to them.

Submission + - IT Departments Preparing for Pandemic 2

Submitted by
greenmars
greenmars writes: "I've been asked to attend a meeting this afternoon with HR and Facilities to talk about what we're doing to prepare for the H1N1 pandemic. Other than making sure that the VPN works and people can work remotely, what else are IT departments doing to prepare?"

Submission + - NCSoft drops Game Guard from western launch of Aio (aiononline.com) 1

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chalkyj
chalkyj writes: "NCSoft has announced that they will be dropping Game Guard, from the western launch of their upcoming MMORPG. The flawed Korean anti-cheat software has been heavily criticised for employing root-kit like techniques and conflicting with many hardware configurations. The final straw is thought to have been the stability issues experienced by players during open beta and the community outcry it caused. The decision makes Aion, which recently announced over 400,000 western pre-orders, a real contender in the western MMO market."
Idle

Submission + - Shuttle Flushes Toilet for All the World To See (spacefellowship.com) 1

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Matt_dk
Matt_dk writes: "No, this was not a comet.It was Space shuttle Discovery executing a water dump. The shuttle needed to get rid of excess waste water before landing the next day, and jettisoned it overboard via the waste water dump line, creating a spectacular visual effect as sunlight hit the spraying water. This dump occurred just as the shuttle was flying over North America last week, and lots of people witnessed this âoetoilet flush.â"
Intel

Submission + - Intel Core i7 for laptops - first benchmarks (pcpro.co.uk)

Submitted by
Barence
Barence writes: "PC Pro has benchmarked the first Intel Core i7 processors for laptops. The chips mark the debut of Intel's Turbo Boost technology, which ramps up the speed of the working cores if two or more cores are sitting unused. For the quad-core i7-820QM, this can take the stock speed of 1.73GHz up to a maximum of 3.06GHz. The 2D benchmarks show comparable performance to Core 2 Extreme chips running at 2.53GHz. Power consumption and processor temperature is dramatically lower, which should lead to significant improvements in laptop battery life."
Games

Submission + - New Record in Pac Man (twingalaxies.com) 2

Submitted by
inKubus
inKubus writes: "40-year-old David Race of Beaver Creek, OH has become the 6th gamer in history to gain a perfect score on the original Pac-Man video arcade game. Even more noteworthy is the fact that he's done it in faster time than any gamer in history, putting him at the top of a short list of gamers who have acheived perfection on the original arcade machine."
Music

Submission + - Michael Jackson Slammed Record Companies (youtube.com) 2

Submitted by Skapare
Skapare writes: In a recorded interview Michael Jackson did with his friend Brett Ratner, he reveals his lesson learned about the record companies:

BR: What is your greatest lesson learned?
MJ: Not to trust everybody ... not to trust everybody in the industry; there's a lot of sharks. And the record companies steal; they cheat. You have to audit them. And it's time for artists to take a stand against them, because they totally take advantage of them ... totally. They forget that it's the artists who make the company. Not the company make the artist. Without the talent, the company would be nothing but just ... hardware, and just ... you know ... and uh ... it takes a real good talent that the ... that the public wants to see.

The video is in black and white and it may have been secretly recorded. It begins with audio only and video comes on at 2:17 into the recording. At 3:06 the big question is asked.
Biotech

Submission + - Programs for speech analysis?

Submitted by Wingfield
Wingfield writes: I am a researcher with the Bio-music program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Currently we are analyzing recordings of bonobo apes for evidence of conversational rhythm. This research has many applications, from discovering the evolutionary beginnings of our language to improving something as mundane as public speaking. Every conversation has an underlying rhythm to it; if you have ever watched bad actors you know what it's like to hear no conversational rhythm: awkward, unnatural, and stilted. The bonobo's we are studying, who use vocalizations that can be compared to barks in terms of duration and intensity, have shown very promising signs of conversational rhythm both with each other and with human researchers with whom they interact. However, we are attempting to find ways to represent this in an unambiguous way, through a computer analysis that would not only be more accurate than human ears, but would save us the tedium of spending hours analyzing ten seconds of audio. Enter the slashdotters: Do any of you have any familiarity with a program that may be able to be adapted to fit our needs, such as a program that can detect stresses placed on syllables in speech?
Google

Submission + - Gmail is down

Submitted by mejesster
mejesster writes: As of today, 3:47 PM EST, Gmail was down and unreachable. Shocking!
Biotech

Submission + - Augmented Reality in a Contact Lens

Submitted by
Toe, The
Toe, The writes: "Bionanotechnology researcher Babak A Parviz writes about his research toward producing a computer interface in a contact lens. At the moment, they have only embedded a single LED, but they foresee a much more complex interface such as detailed in Vernor Vinge's Rainbows End. Such lenses potentially could also read human bio-information from the eye, providing medical information on the order of what is now taken from blood tests, but on a continuous basis. An example would be monitoring glucose levels for diabetics. The author states that, 'All the basic technologies needed to build functional contact lenses are in place,' and details what refinements and advances will be necessary to bring this technology to reality."

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