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Comment Still Very Active User Community (Score 1) 263

by Leif_Bloomquist (#38596216) Attached to: Looking Back At the Commodore 64

There is is still a very active user community centered around the Commodore 64 (and to a lesser extent, the VIC-20 and other Commodore machines). There are active user groups, vendors, new hardware and software under development, you name it. Yes, in 2012.

Check out this link for a partial list of what's out there!
Amiga

Submission + - World of Commodore 2011 December 3rd in Toronto (tpug.ca)

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Leif_Bloomquist
Leif_Bloomquist writes: "The Toronto PET Users Group (TPUG) is pleased to announce the World of Commodore 2011! TPUG would like to invite everyone to join us for a weekend of all things Commodore. There will information about and displays of a variety of Commodore computers, demonstrations of new hardware and software projects using Commodore equipment, screenings of Commodore related videos, vendors selling the latest hardware and software available for Commodore computers as well as classic hardware, accessories, applications, games and much more."
Amiga

Submission + - World of Commodore 2010 December 4th in Toronto (www.tpug.ca)

Submitted by Leif_Bloomquist
Leif_Bloomquist writes: The Toronto PET Users Group (TPUG) is pleased to announce the World of Commodore 2010! TPUG would like to invite everyone to join us for a weekend of all things Commodore. There will information about and displays of a variety of Commodore computers, demonstrations of new hardware and software projects using Commodore equipment, screenings of Commodore related videos, vendors selling the latest hardware and software available for Commodore computers as well as classic hardware, accessories, applications, games and much more.
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Space Exploration Needs Extraterrestrial Ethics 162

Posted by samzenpus from the fly-softly-and-carry-a-big-laser dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Professor Andy Miah notes there's already international government policies taking hold on outer space — and a need for new ethical guidelines. 'For instance, what obligations do we owe to the various life forms we send there, or those we might discover? Can we develop a more considerate approach to colonizing outer space than we were able to achieve for various sectors of Earth?' And what rights do astronauts have? 'Could our inevitable public surveillance of their behavior become too much of an infringement on their personal privacy?' But more importantly, professor Miah notes that 'the goods of space exploration far exceed the symbolic value,' pointing out that 'A vast amount of research and development derives from space exploration ... For example, the United Kingdom's 2007 Space Policy inquiry indicated that the creation of space products contributes two to three times their value in GDP.'"
Music

Grateful Dead Percussionist Makes Music From Supernovas 57

Posted by kdawson from the music-of-the-exploding-spheres dept.
At the "Cosmology At the Beach" conference earlier this month, Grammy-award winning percussionist Mickey Hart performed a composition inspired by the eruptions of supernovae. "Keith Jackson, a Berkeley Lab computer scientist who is also a musician, lent his talents to the project, starting with gathering data from astrophysicists like those at the Berkeley Lab’s Nearby Supernova Factory, which collects data from telescopes in space and on earth to quickly detect and analyze short-lived supernovas. 'If you think about it, it's all electromagnetic data — but with a very high frequency,' Jackson said of the raw data. "What we did is turn it into sound by slowing down the frequency and "stretching" it into an audio form. Both light and sound are all wave forms — just at different frequencies. Our goal was to turn the electromagnetic data into audio data while still preserving the science.'"
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Facebook Master Password Was "Chuck Norris" 319

Posted by samzenpus from the ad-nauseum-roundhouse dept.
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "A Facebook employee has given a tell-all interview with some very interesting things about Facebook's internals. Especially interesting are all the things relating to Facebook privacy. Basically, you don't have any. Nearly everything you've ever done on the site is recorded into a database. While they fire employees for snooping, more than a few have done it. There's an internal system to let them log into anyone's profile, though they have to be able to defend their reason for doing so. And they used to have a master password that could log into any Facebook profile: 'Chuck Norris.' Bruce Schneier might be jealous of that one."
Amiga

Submission + - Oldest Commodore Users Group Turns 30 (www.tpug.ca)

Submitted by Leif_Bloomquist
Leif_Bloomquist writes: The Toronto PET Users Group, the the longest continually operating Commodore users group in the world, is celebrating its 30th Anniversary by hosting The World of Commodore on December 5th in Toronto, Canada. There will be demonstrations of new and classic hardware and software, screenings of Commodore related videos, vendors, a raffle, and more. There will also be a 'freebie' table where you can drop off any Commodore items you no longer want and help yourself to some goodies.
Amiga

Submission + - World of Commodore 2009 (worldofcommodore.ca)

Submitted by Leif_Bloomquist
Leif_Bloomquist writes: The Toronto PET Users Group, the the longest continually operating Commodore users group in the world, is celebrating its 30th Anniversary and hosting The World of Commodore on December 5th in Toronto, Canada. There will be demonstrations of new and classic hardware and software, screenings of Commodore related videos, vendors, a raffle, and more. There will also be a 'freebie' table where you can drop off any Commodore items you no longer want and help yourself to some goodies.
Robotics

Neural Networks-Equipped Robots Evolve the Ability To Deceive 116

Posted by timothy from the I-never-blinked-that dept.
pdragon04 writes "Researchers at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland have found that robots equipped with artificial neural networks and programmed to find 'food' eventually learned to conceal their visual signals from other robots to keep the food for themselves. The results are detailed in a PNAS study published today."

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