Comment Re:why? (Score 1) 192
That much water would block the signal anyway, what's the point of bringing a phone underwater?
Comment Exactly how it should be (Score 1) 246
If robots were treated only as tools instead of weapons or pets, we wouldn't have to worry about an uprising.
How the LHC Is Reviving Magnetic Tape 267
sandbagger writes "The Large Hadron Collider is the world's biggest science experiment. When spinning, it reportedly generates up to six gigs of data per second. Today's six-terabyte tape cartridges fill rapidly when you're creating that amount of material. The Economist reports that despite the advances in SSDs and hard drives, tape still seems to be the way to go when you need to store massive amounts of digital assets."
Mediterranean Sea To Possibly Become Site of Chemical Weapons Dump 174
An anonymous reader writes "The organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has proposed destroying at least 1000 tons of the confiscated Syrian chemical weapon stockpile out at sea, which some fear will destroy delicate ecosystems vital to sea and human life alike. The OPCW claims the plan is 'technically feasible' and is apparently willing to risk ecological disaster to destroy the toxic contents of the weaponry in or above the sea. Members of the press were told, 'the group is considering whether to destroy the chemical weapons in the ocean, either on a ship or by loading them onto an offshore rig.'"
Comment Re:The problem is... (Score 1) 260
According to RTFA, the courts would decide. The guy is talking about convicted criminals.
No Shirt, No Shoes, No Service — and No Google Glass, Either 845
Seattle diners who want to take their food-tweeting pictures with Google glass were already facing a preemptively hostile environment; now (in a different restaurant), a diner's been asked to remove his Google Glass headset, or leave. He chose to leave. Maybe Faraday cages and anti-surveillance features will become the norm at the restaurants where things like Glass are most likely to appear.
Comment Re:Not buying it. (Score 1) 187
It's not hard to misinterpret a summary that's outright misleading. It's also not hard to misinterpret a study that makes a strategic omission about its main result: they only measured critical thinking about paintings, but that fact doesn't appear in the paper's title. An honest summary of the results would be that 'art makes you know more about art', which is hardly surprising.
Comment Re:Cheaper (Score 4, Insightful) 495
Because high end phones are PCs that also have to fit in a small case and operate on battery.
Comment Re:Ah, the nuclear boogeyman rears its ugly head. (Score 1) 274
Most of Australia is uninhabited desert, where even a nuclear accident couldn't cause much trouble.
Comment Re:Stealing a dog's job (Score 1) 65
Not to mention that this robot has to be remote controlled by a human operator, making it far inferior to a dog.
Comment Re:How is this disturbing? (Score 2) 291
But where would they hire the hitmen after the site has closed?
Comment Re:Guru at 37? (Score 1) 332
And the notion that young people can't have routine isn't ageism?
Comment Re:Good geeks? (Score 1) 388
You forgot the psychopats who want the power and the best toys. There are already many geeks who spy on other people (usually young women), now they can get paid for it, and will have access to the most powerful machines and the biggest vulnerability database. As ordinary hackers they couldn't even dream of power of that size.
Comment Re:Shell gas stations, usa, ca. 2008 (Score 1) 212
That was my first thought. It's weird that the posters here filled pages with countermeasures like masks, projectors and damaging the system while ignoring the obvious solution. The day my local Tesco starts this shit will be my last day shopping there.
Cornell Team Says It's Unified the Structure of Scientific Theories 115
An anonymous reader writes "Cornell physicists say they've codified why science works, or more specifically, why scientific theories work – a meta-theory. Publishing online in the journal Science (abstract), the team has developed a unified computational framework they say exposes the hidden hierarchy of scientific theories by quantifying the degree to which predictions – like how a particular cellular mechanism might work under certain conditions, or how sound travels through space – depend on the detailed variables of a model."
