Quanticfx - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Suprising how? (Score 3, Insightful) 771

by Quanticfx on Friday September 07, 2012 @01:51PM (#41262967) Attached to: The Motivated Rejection of Science

Stubbornness and the ability to cling to your ideas/ideals in the face of overwhelming evidence/facts is seen as a good thing these days.

God forbid anyone be able to actually consider alternatives based on presented evidence/facts and change a stance on an issue, you'd be known as a flip-flopper!

Comment Re:non-toxic? (Score 1) 427

by Quanticfx on Thursday September 06, 2012 @11:52AM (#41248947) Attached to: TSA Says Screening Drinks Purchased Inside Airport Terminal Is Nothing New

That makes the whole thing even more ridiculous, they aren't even consistent about the screening.

When I was traveling with my infant daughter on the way to our destination all of her food (those little pouches of baby food) and breast milk my wife had put into bottles had to be tested on the way back nothing was tested, even though we took it out and put it in plain view for the agents to see. During another trip it wasn't tested in either direction.

None of this should be done in the first place, but jeez if you're going to do it at all at least be consistent. Just goes to show the whole thing is a total crock.

Comment Re:WTF (Score 1) 93

by Quanticfx on Friday August 10, 2012 @01:04PM (#40947869) Attached to: Nokia Feeds a Patent Troll

You need to pay the license fee in order to obtain the proprietary information which compromises the patented answer to that question.

Brilliant, simply brilliant.

Submission + - Rolls-Royce Unveils World's First LEGO Jet Engine Made from 152,455 Bricks (inhabitat.com)

Submitted by

Elliot Chang

on Friday July 13, 2012 @10:44AM

Elliot Chang writes: "Rolls-Royce debuted the world’s first ever LEGO Jet Engine at the Farnborough International Airshow this week in England. The model is a half-size replica of the enormous Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 that powers the Boeing 787 Dreamliner. It took 152,455 LEGO bricks, eight weeks, and a team of four fulltime employees to assemble the model. While the real engine weighs in at 1.25 tons, the LEGO replica still weighs a hefty 676 pounds and measures 4.9 feet long and 6.5 feet wide."

Submission + - Millions Will Go to Privacy Groups Who Support Weak Facebook Settlement (wired.com)

Submitted by rudy_wayne on Friday July 13, 2012 @10:42AM

rudy_wayne writes: Privacy and consumer groups are urging a federal judge to sign off on a controversial settlement to a class-action lawsuit over Facebook's “Sponsored Stories” advertising program, despite indifference to or confusion over the terms of the vaguely written settlement. Jeff Chester, executive director of the Center for Digital Democracy in Washington, D.C., said the settlement amounts to “just putting some more words into Facebook’s privacy policy that nobody reads.”

However, the Electronic Freedom Foundation which would receive $1 Million under the settlement (almost one-fourth of their entire budget last year) supports the settlement "for budgetary reasons" and according to EFF legal director Cindy Cohn, “We haven’t taken a position on this settlement, whether it’s a good idea or not”.

Submission + - Virgin Galactic announces new satellite launch vehicle (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 13, 2012 @10:21AM

An anonymous reader writes: Virgin Galactic has announced a new craft called LauncherOne which it will use to put satellites and other small spacecraft into orbit. 'It appears to leverage some of the hardware already developed for SpaceShipTwo, Virgin's suborbital tourist vehicle. Like SpaceShipTwo, the new rocket rides up underneath Virgin's big carrier aircraft, WhiteKnightTwo, to about 50,000 feet. After release, the rocket drops for approximately four seconds before the first stage ignites. After the first stage burns out, a second stage takes the satellite to orbit.' Launching from a moving airplane eliminates many cost and scheduling concerns inherent to ground-based launches, and it's much easier to reach a broad range of trajectories for putting objects into orbit. According to the press release LauncherOne will get objects up to 225kg into orbit for less than $10 million.

Submission + - Apple CEO Volunteers For $60M Pay Cut? (itworld.com)

Submitted by

jfruh

on Friday July 13, 2012 @09:57AM

jfruh writes: "You might recall the dispute Apple had with Proview Electronics over the rights to the iPad trademark in China — a dispute Apple eventually resolved by coughing up $60 million. Now Proview execs are claiming that Apple CEO Tim Cook's recent decision to turn down tens of millions of dollars in share revenue from his stock was his way to make sure Apple shareholders didn't suffer for the company's mistakes. The evidence is somewhat tenuous, but it would be an interesting act of corporate responsibility if true."

Submission + - Aerographite Claims Title of World's Lightest Solid Material (gizmag.com)

Submitted by Zothecula on Friday July 13, 2012 @09:54AM

Zothecula writes: While they were each once hailed as the lightest solid material ever made, metallic microlattice and aerogel have now been moved back to second and third place (respectively), with aerographite taking the crown. Developed by a team from the Technical University of Hamburg and Germany’s University of Kiel, the material is composed of 99.99 percent air, along with a three-dimensional network of porous carbon nanotubes that were grown into each other.

Submission + - Researchers 'Map' Android Malware Genome (darkreading.com)

Submitted by yahoi on Tuesday May 22, 2012 @04:58PM

yahoi writes: Researchers at NC State are sharing their analysis and classification of Android malware samples under a new project that they hope will help shape a new way of fighting malware, learning from the lessons of the PC generation and its traditional anti-malware products.

Submission + - Google pays respects to Moog, now live on Google AU. Moogle? (google.com.au)

Submitted by AlienIntelligence on Tuesday May 22, 2012 @04:41PM

AlienIntelligence writes: Google's tribute to Robert Moog's 78th birthday has gone live on the Australia search site.

It's an AWESOME doodle. For an ol timer like me, that remembers the first doodle, celebrating the Burning Man Festival and then the decline of doodledom as they stopped being rare and became a marketing/draw tool, I really appreciate the complexity of this one. All knobs work, dials, and the recorder.

I can't wait to hear some music made by this doodle.

The Les Paul tribute was recordable as well and appears to still be playable.

Submission + - Mozilla Announces Web Development Learning Initiative (mozilla.org)

Submitted by bonch on Tuesday May 22, 2012 @04:36PM

bonch writes: Mozilla has announced Webmaker, a web development initiative aimed at teaching the average user the building blocks of the web. Users can join a "code party" and learn web development with provided authoring tools, and existing developers can volunteer to run their own events. To kick it off, Mozilla is announcing the Summer Code Party starting June 23.

Submission + - Options for Good (Not Expensive) Office Backbone For a Small Startup 3

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 22, 2012 @04:28PM

An anonymous reader writes: I recently joined a startup, we have about 10 people altogether in various roles / responsibilities, and I handle most of the system / IT responsibilities (when I'm not in my primary role, which is software development). When trying to price licenses, I'm finding Microsoft offerings require quite a bit of upfront cost, so I'm trying the alternative solutions. LibreOffice and Google Docs work fine for the most part (we also have some MS Office users); however I'm having trouble getting a good / cheap / free solution to email, contacts, calendaring and user management in general. We have some Mac users, Windows users, need desktop clients for most of these uses as well — and there doesn't seem to be a solution that satisfies these myriad combinations. iCloud doesn't natively support non @me.com addresses (workarounds seem prone to breakage so far), Windows Live Mail doesn't support Google's CalDAV, there doesn't seem to be anything that can provide a company-wide Contacts support, etc. Ideally I can deploy a solution that has the following: Sharing calendar (or look at other people's calendar), Company-wide Contacts Address Book, Add new employee / consultants and take them offline too (in terms of user permissions, access), Clients available on Windows, OSX, possibly mobile, which support the calendaring / meeting invites / contacts list set up. Maybe I'm just out of my depths here — can Slashdot provide some direction as to what I can look at? Or is a Hosted Exchange the cheapest option? Disclaimer: I did come from a company that uses Exchange / Outlook — but the costs seem high.

Submission + - Best for teen drawing: PC and touchpad or tabletPC? (youtube.com)

Submitted by uslurper on Tuesday May 22, 2012 @04:17PM

uslurper writes: My kid does some great things on the Nintendo DSI using a sketching program and flip-book like animation tool called flipnote. See the link to source for a tutorial.

OK so I would like my kid to advance beyond the basic tools of the Nintento DSI. But at only 13, advanced tools like photoshop are too hard, and too expensive if it turns out to be only a flight of fancy. Also, going from a pen to a mouse is proving too difficult for him.

So I was thinking about buying a drawing tablet to connect to the PC.. something like the Bamboo. But I am still worried that since you are not actually looking at what you are drawing on, it may be too difficult for him and he will loose interest. The budget for the tablet and software looks to be around $200.

My other option was to get a tabletPC like the Kindle Fire. Thats about the same price as above. It seems that a tablet PC would make a great drawing tool. Are their any good drawing tools for android that surpass the Nintendo's flipbook application? Can you use a stylus on a tabletPC and draw directly onto the picture? Or should I just push my kid toward standard PC software?

Submission + - Eugene Polley, Inventor of the First Wireless TV Remote Control, Has Died (gizmodo.com) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 22, 2012 @03:42PM

An anonymous reader writes: http://gizmodo.com/5912204/eugene-polley-inventor-of-the-first-wireless-tv-remote-control-has-died

"Eugene J. Polley, a man best known for inventing the first wireless television remote control, died of natural causes on Sunday at Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital in Downers Grove, Illinois. He was 96."

Submission + - SAP to Acquire Ariba for $4.3 Billion (securityweek.com)

Submitted by wiredmikey on Tuesday May 22, 2012 @03:35PM

wiredmikey writes: German software giant SAP AG today said it would acquire cloud-based business commerce solutions provider, Ariba, Inc. for approximately $4.3 billion. According to the company, the acquisition will combine Ariba's buyer-seller collaboration network with SAP's customer base and business process expertise to create “new models for business-to-business collaboration in the cloud.”

SAP, which competes fiercely with Oracle, said that its entry into the "inter-enterprise business network space" significantly expands its growth opportunities and accelerates its momentum in the cloud.

Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, Ariba has approximately 2,600 employees and had $444 million in revenue in 2011.

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