Submission + - Kinect - OpenSource [News] - amazing work created (creativeapplications.net)
jamie writes: "amazing work created within only few days.."
Submission + - Cory Doctorow: A Cosmopolitan Literature for the C (locusmag.com)
jamie writes: "'Rule 34, the Amish, and fandom’s willingness to wear its sweaters inside-out are the common thread running through the 21st century’s social transformations'"
Submission + - Zork inside Black Ops (getlamp.com)
Submission + - Museum Lets You Play Just About Every Video Game E (technologyreview.com)
jamie writes: "Paris's Museum of Arts and Trades has put together a comprehensive playable video game exhibit. Help us name some mystery consoles."
Submission + - bieh.net - xkcd #576 (bieh.net)
jamie writes: "Buy-bot written — inspired by xkcd"
Submission + - Schneier on Security: The End of In-Flight Wi-Fi? (schneier.com)
Submission + - Universal Subtitles - Free and open tools for crea (universalsubtitles.org)
Submission + - The Super-Tight Spacesuits That Could Protect Astr (discovermagazine.com)
jamie writes: "Space | MIT may have found the answer to astronauts' bone loss in space: really, really tight suits.The new suit — the Gravity Loading Countermeasure Skinsuit — aims"
Submission + - Schneier on Security: "A Social Network Approach t (schneier.com)
Submission + - London Stock Exchange contractor âsuspended&# (computerworlduk.com)
jamie writes: "Exchange sticks with outgoing slower TradElect system for at least two months... The stock exchange’s Turquoise dark pool, or anonymous trading venue, was taken offline for two hours on Tuesday morning, and later that day the LSE said it was delaying a key migration to open source systems until next year... One large shareholder in the exchange told the Financial Times that he suspected sabotage by an employee, because the LSE had cut staff numbers by more than 10 percent."
Submission + - FTC Names Edward W. Felten as Agency's Chief Techn (ftc.gov)
Submission + - Bogus Grass-Roots Politics on Twitter - Technology (technologyreview.com)
jamie writes: "Data-mining techniques reveal fake Twitter accounts that give the impression of a vast political movement."
Submission + - Tired of Repetitive Arguing About Climate Change, (popsci.com)
jamie writes: "It's the timesaver of the century. 'Tired of arguing with climate change deniers in 140 character quips, the programmer wrote a script to do it for him. Chatbot @AI_AGW scans Twitter every five minutes searching for hundreds of phrases that fit the usual denier argument paradigm. Then it serves them up some science... Those who claim the entire solar system is warming are met with something like: 'Sun’s output has barely changed since 1970 & is irrelevant to recent global warming' followed by a link to corresponding scientific research.' Finally this guy can go to bed."
Submission + - Using genetic algorithms to find Starcraft 2 build (lbrandy.com)
Submission + - VLC developer takes a stand against DRM enforcemen (fsf.org)
jamie writes: ""The GPL gives Apple permission to distribute this software through the App Store. All they would have to do is follow the license's conditions to help keep the software free. Instead, Apple has decided that they prefer to impose Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) and proprietary legal terms on all programs in the App Store, and they'd rather kick out GPLed software than change their own rules.""
