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Comment Re:I'm really getting tired of all this.. (Score 1) 306

by SgtXaos (#35389666) Attached to: Judge Allows Subpoenas For GeoHot YouTube Viewers, Blog Visitors

I was involved in pro video some years ago, and yes, Sony was the top pick when we chose gear for a project. So I bought Sony gear for my own use at home. As tech changed, and I needed to replace things, I bought Sony again, but this time, all that stuff pretty quickly died, long before needing replacement for format or tech changes. The one exception is my Trinitron set from 1995 that is still kicking, but about to be replaced with something I can play HD content on. It won't be a Sony set.

Comment Re:News Corp/Fox is out of control (Score 1) 316

by SgtXaos (#33925728) Attached to: News Corp. Shuts Off Hulu Access To Cablevision

It is irritating that FX/NatGeo are being withheld because of some dust-up over sports programming. I couldn't care less about sports, but watch quite a bit on NatGeo and a few shows on FX. The answer that Dish presents is to call Fox Sports and complain, but I don't have any leverage with Fox Sports. I don't even know how to frame an argument with them.

The upside is, (as I stated in a letter to FX earlier today), that I am wasting less time watching TV, and especially wasting less time watching advertisements for the sponsors. I am also spending less money, at least on the products of those sponsors. I thanked them for their greed in that it removed my lack of self-determination as a cause for my time and money-wasting habit of watching their programming.
NASA

NASA Tests All-Composite Prototype Crew Module 67

Posted by Soulskill from the just-don't-try-to-take-a-slap-shot-with-it dept.
coondoggie writes "With an eye toward building safer, lighter and tougher spacecraft, NASA said today its prototype space crew module made up of composite materials handled tests simulating structural stresses of launch and atmospheric reentry. The idea behind NASA's Composite Crew Module project is to test new structural materials for possible future NASA spacecraft. According to NASA, composite materials are being looked at because they are stiff and lightweight and can be formed into complex shapes that may be more structurally efficient. In space travel, where every additional pound of weight drives costs higher, any weight savings provides increased payload capacity and potentially reduces mission expense."
NASA

Simulation of Close Asteroid Fly-By 148

Posted by Soulskill from the close-enough-to-feel-the-vacuum-breeze dept.
c0mpliant writes "NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory have released a simulation of the path of an asteroid, named Apophis, that will come very close to Earth in 2029 — the closest predicted approach since humans have monitored for such heavenly bodies. The asteroid caused a bit of a scare when astronomers first announced that it would enter Earth's neighborhood some time in the future. However, since that announcement in 2004, more recent calculations have put the odds of collision at 1 in 250,000."
Privacy

FBI Bringing Biometric Photo Scanning To North Carolina, Via DMV 221

Posted by timothy from the if-you-have-nussink-to-hide dept.
AHuxley writes "The FBI is getting fast new systems to look at local North Carolina license photos via the DMV. As the FBI is not authorized to collect and store the photos, they use the North Carolina Division of Motor Vehicles. The system takes seconds to look at chin widths and nose sizes. The expanded technology used on millions of motorist could be rolled out across the USA. The FBI's Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System is also getting an upgrade to DNA records, 3-D facial imaging, palm prints and voice scans."

Comment Re:Amazing concept (Score 1) 193

by SgtXaos (#20222673) Attached to: Kids Review the OLPC

I remember reading a long time ago that contact with the back of a colour TV tube was "invariably fatal". Mind you from your experience and a bit of Googling maybe they were just being overly cautious -


I can tell you that is false. It could be fatal, I suppose, but having had my share of second-anode contact, I dispute the "invariability" of that consequence. :)

It invariably isn't much fun, most certainly!
Space

Submission + - The Beginning of the Universe in a Picture

Submitted by
eldavojohn
eldavojohn writes: "Yesterday, I found a Space.com article on what may be images of the universe's first objects. From the article, "The light comes from objects that are more than 13 billion light-years away. That means the light began its journey more than 13 billion years ago. The universe is just a smidgeon older, at 13.7 billion years, and astronomers are pretty sure it took a few hundred million years for the matter of the Big Bang to spread out enough, and cool, to allow the first stars to form. A little math therefore shows that these newfound objects are indeed the infants of the universe. But what are they? If they are stars, they are about 10 times more massive than theories suggest the first stars would have been." I didn't think much of this when I read it but there has been a lot of talk about it with some people even calling it "the holy grail" of astrophysicists."
User Journal

Journal Journal: Aftermath of Isabel

Journal by SgtXaos

The power went out minutes after I posted the last message, about 10:03 thursday sept 18. It finally came back on this morning at 05:30. It was the longest I can ever remember being without power, aside from camping :-). That was basically what we ended up doing, except for the nice fact that we had hot water thanks to natural gas.
User Journal

Journal Journal: 10:00 update - Isabel

Journal by SgtXaos

Power blinking on and off, 30-35 kt gusts, and steady rain. Storm still has not made landfall, but the outer bands are playing havoc on their own.

I'll try to make more entries, if I still have power.

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