Comment Re:Department of Security Theater (Score 1) 382
Get's my vote.
Comment Buzz (Score 1) 456
Only one thing from the summary wasn't in Google Buzz and well, 95% of Buzz is imported twitter posts, not using any of those features. Why would G+ be different?
Comment Re:Slashdotted before the first comment? (Score 1) 166
Yeah I'm old school, before the trolls.
Comment Slashdotted before the first comment? (Score 1) 166
Now that's sad.
Comment Re:News... (Score 1) 360
What is this 6 digit Slashdot account you speak of ???
Comment Adopt-a-Space-Lane? (Score 1) 210
This Stretch of Space Cleared by JAXA, keeping the space lanes beautiful.
Submission + - Engineer Designs His Own Heart Valve Implant (popsci.com)
nametaken writes: In 2000, Tal Golesworthy, a British engineer, was told that he suffers from Marfan syndrome, a disorder of the connective tissue that often causes rupturing of the aorta. The only solution then available was the pairing of a mechanical valve and a highly risky blood thinner. To an engineer like Golesworthy, that just wasn't good enough. So he constructed his own implant that does the job better than the existing solution--and became the first patient to try it.
Comment Preventing falls (Score 1) 166
As this story on CBC point out bifocals increase the risk of falling.
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/05/26/bifocals-falls-elderly.html
So yes switching your gaze is easy with tradition bifocals, but they reduce your field of vision for certain things like walking.
Aquarium Uses Eel Powered Christmas Lights 96
A Japanese aquarium is using the greenest energy possible to power the lights on its Christmas tree, an electric eel. From the article: "Each time the eel moves, two aluminum panels gather enough electricity to light up the 2-meter (6 ft 6 in) tall tree, decked out in white, in glowing intermittent flashes."
Heroic Engineer Crashes Own Vehicle To Save a Life 486
scottbomb sends in this feel-good story of an engineer-hero, calling it "one of the coolest stories I've read in a long time." "A manager of Boeing's F22 fighter-jet program, Innes dodged the truck, then looked back to see that the driver was slumped over the wheel. He knew a busy intersection was just ahead, and he had to act fast. Without consulting the passengers in his minivan — 'there was no time to take a vote' — Innes kicked into engineer mode. 'Basic physics: If I could get in front of him and let him hit me, the delta difference in speed would just be a few miles an hour, and we could slow down together,' Innes explained."
Submission + - Recently Discovered Habitable World May Not Exist (sciencemag.org)
sciencehabit writes: Two weeks ago, U.S.-based astronomers announced the discovery of the first Goldilocks planet circling another star: just the right size and just the right temperature to harbor alien life. But yesterday at an exoplanet meeting in Turin, Italy, Switzerland-based astronomers announced that they could find no trace of the prized planet in their observations of the same planetary system.
Comment Re:And this is news? (Score 2, Insightful) 270
Except NIO is the old school C/C++ way to do it. One thread per socket was the new Java way. So NIO was new to Java, but still old school.
Comment Favorite Version? (Score 1) 314
Personally I really like Adam Again's from Ten Songs By... Any other fans of this song have a favorite version?
Submission + - Slashdot thinks rape of 12 year old girl is funny (slashdot.org)
Comment Get people to talk about what's on their CV. (Score 3, Insightful) 453
If they can't talk intelligently about what they say they've done... next!
