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Submission + - Get your own action figure - in Japan (makezine.com)

Submitted by derGoldstein
derGoldstein writes: Makezine points to a very interesting shop in Akihabara that will make miniature clones of your face. This page contains photos of the process and the results. After the miniature head is printed in 3D it's painted and attached to a doll of your choice. Some of the models they produce beg for an exorcism...
Hardware

Submission + - Polarallel Drive Mounting (halfbakery.com)

Submitted by VernonNemitz
VernonNemitz writes: Last night I had an insight regarding mechanical failure of hard disk drive bearings. See, a drive is like a gyroscope, and if it runs all the time (like in a server farm), then the Earth's rotation will be constantly forcing the drive's axis of rotation to reorient. I posted more detailed thoughts about this at the HalfBakery. No doubt some people will pooh-pooh the notion, but some (nerds mostly) might see some sense in it, so I'm posting about it here, too.
Privacy

Submission + - New SIte Offers Fun For Exhibitionists, Stalkers (itworld.com)

Submitted by jfruhlinger
jfruhlinger writes: Not satisfied with the amount of personal info you're posting on Facebook or Twitter? WHy not sign up for Voyurl, a site that makes public every URL you visit? You can make your info anonymous, but as one early user of the site noted: "I managed to follow one "anonymous" user as he made flight reservations and looked up escort services in Vancouver. I'm pretty sure he visited his own tumbler blog, which uses a person's name as its title and provides an email address."
Data Storage

Four SSDs Compared — OCZ, Super Talent, Mtron 206

Posted by kdawson from the be-vewwy-vewwy-quiet dept.
MojoKid writes "Solid State Drive technology is set to turn the storage industry on its ear — eventually. It's just a matter of time. When you consider the intrinsic benefits of anything built on solid-state technology versus anything mechanical, it doesn't take a degree in physics to understand the obvious advantages. However, as with any new technology, things take time to mature and the current batch of SSDs on the market do have some caveats and shortcomings, especially when it comes to write performance. This full performance review and showcase of four different Solid State Disks, two MLC-based and two SLC-based, gives a good perspective of where SSDs currently are strong and where they're not. OCZ, Mtron and Super Talent drives are tested here but Intel's much anticipated offering hasn't arrived to market just yet."
Privacy

UK ISPs To Hand Over Thousands of File Sharers' Data 180

Posted by kdawson from the so-ordered dept.
Death Metal Maniac sends along a link from TorrentFreak on the latest development in game developer Topwear's battle against file sharers in the UK. "US game developer Topware Interactive, the people behind the now infamous Dream Pinball affair, are about to turn up the heat. Operating through London lawyers Davenport Lyons, they have managed to convince the High Court to send out an order demanding that ISPs in the UK start to hand over the details of several thousand alleged pirates ... BT, one of the UK's largest ISPs ..., confirmed it had been ordered to hand over details of alleged copyright infringing file-sharers ... Virgin Media was a little more slippery in its response but reading between the lines it seems obvious they are involved too."
The Media

Submission + - Journalists Can't Hide News Anymore 2

Submitted by
Hugh Pickens
Hugh Pickens writes: "Robert Niles at the Online Journalism Review comments on the story about the 13-year-old girl who took her own life after making friends with a boy she'd met on MySpace who turned on her. The boy didn't exist. 'He' was the creation of the mother of one of the girl's former friends. But the newspaper didn't name the woman, citing concerns for *her* teen daughter. Bloggers went nuts, and soon uncovered the woman's name, her address, phone number and business registration records and plastered them all over the Web. "The lessons for journalists? First, we can't restrict access to information anymore. The crowd will work together to find whatever we withhold," wrote Niles. "Second, I wonder if that the decision to withhold the other mother's name didn't help enflame the audience, by frustrating it and provoking it to do the work of discovering her identity." Here are links to the original story on the girl's suicide, to one of the bloggers who uncovered the woman's identity, and to another look at the journalistic issues involved in naming names."
Power

Submission + - Six-Stroke Gasoline/Steam Hybrid Engine (autoweek.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Bruce Crower has made a fascinating modification to traditional internal combustion engines: a fifth and sixth stroke. His six-stroke engine injects water into the hot cylinder to achieve a second power stroke with the expanding steam. The engine "burns" equal amounts of gasoline and water, thereby reducing fuel consumption by a whopping 40%. Could this technology the future of petroleum powered vehicles? More information is available on Wikipedia.
The Internet

Submission + - Couple Neglect Child for Internet

Submitted by 12AU7A
12AU7A writes: A couple who authorities say were so obsessed with the Internet and video games that they left their babies starving and suffering other health problems have pleaded guilty to child neglect. "Viloria said the Reno couple were too distracted by online video games, mainly the fantasy role-playing "Dungeons & Dragons" series, to give their children proper care."
Robotics

Submission + - Walking on Water

Submitted by qeorqe
qeorqe writes: A robot is being developed at CMU that walks on water. It is modeled after the basilisk lizard. Information about the robot can be found in a pdf file. They have done both computer simulations and experimented with test models. External counter weights were used with the models.

Information about why you can't walk on water is in a ppt file and also converted to an html file in the Google cache.
The Media

Submission + - Projectionist fired for online review

Submitted by
mcgrew
mcgrew writes: "CNN is reporting that movie projectionist Jesse Morrison has been fired for panning the new 'Fantastic Four' movie on the Ain't It Cool web site, allegedly after Fox threatened the chain he worked for. There was no non-disclosure agreement. 'If they had sat me down and told me that this has caused such a stink and that we would like you to sign some waiver, I probably would have signed it,' CNN quotes Mr. Morrison as saying. There is more on CNN's site."

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