Comment vampire (Score 1) 388
Samba vampire basically automates this. It replaces an existing domain controller, by reading all the users/ groups/shares/member servers/etc. and then *becomes* it.
NASA Teams To Build Gyroscopes 1,000X More Sensitive Than Current Systems 91
coondoggie writes "NASA today said it would work with a team of researchers on a three-year, $1.8 project to build gyroscope systems that are more than 1,000 times as sensitive as those in use today. The Fast Light Optical Gyroscope project will marry researchers from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center; the US Army Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center and Northwestern University to develop gyroscopes that could find their way into complex spacecraft, aircraft, commercial vehicles or ships in the future."
Comment Re:Um... (Score 1) 590
Only thing you can do is create hydrogen as a fuel using vast solar arrays.. Unfortunately the fuel tanks would need to be 4x bigger, cooled, and instead of leaking, will explode. This may qualify as the dumbest question on slashdot I've seen.
Slush hydrogen solves some of these problems, the energy density is higher, the tanks can be smaller, but you still need cooling and added complexity.
Comment Re:Uh-oh... (Score 1) 107
History shows again and again how nature points out the folly of men...
Now I have to go home and play Guitar Hero
Comment Re:Security through obscurity flawed saying (Score 1) 87
And lastly good luck breaking into my safe if I don't tell you where it is or what the combo is.
No problem. Just have a 3-year-old open it.
Comment Re:Another Double Standard (Score 1) 1160
Clearly it was a minor typo, and he meant:
Depth to America!
Depth to America!
Depth to America!
close, but it's actually
Debt to America!
Debt to America!
Debt to America!
Comment Re:Why so anonymous? (Score 1) 1160
Before you get too caught up in your jingoism, do remember that the Obama administration had the guy who made the "Innocence of Muslims" movie thrown in jail through some trumped-up parole violation. (Apparently posting a video with a screen name is "using an alias" now.)
Even in the grand old United States, you only have "freedom" of speech until they figure out some other way to send you to jail.
Apparently, posting a video to YouTube under a screen name is a violation of his parole agreement to
a) not use the Internet
b) not use fictitious names.
Comment I misread the headline (Score 1) 108
I thought oh, Amazon is buying Texas. That should help with the sales tax issue
Shut Up and Play Nice: How the Western World Is Limiting Free Speech 1160
concealment writes "In the face of the violence that frequently results from anti-religious expression, some world leaders seem to be losing their patience with free speech. After a video called 'Innocence of Muslims' appeared on YouTube and sparked violent protests in several Muslim nations last month, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon warned that 'when some people use this freedom of expression to provoke or humiliate some others' values and beliefs, then this cannot be protected.' It appears that the one thing modern society can no longer tolerate is intolerance. As Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard put it in her recent speech before the United Nations, 'Our tolerance must never extend to tolerating religious hatred.'"
Comment Re:subsidize phone calls (Score 1) 177
replying to undo accidental redundant moderation.
New Cell-To-Cell Communication Process Could Revolutionize Bioengineering 49
Zothecula writes "The internet has revolutionized global communications and now researchers at Stanford University are looking to provide a similar boost to bioengineering with a new process dubbed "Bi-Fi." The technology uses an innocuous virus called M13 to increase the complexity and amount of information that can be sent from cell to cell. The researchers say the Bi-Fi could help bio-engineers create complex, multicellular communities that work together to carry out important biological functions."
Illegal Downloading Now a Crime In Japan With Increased Penalties 286
eldavojohn writes "Although downloading songs without paying for them in Japan used to be a civil offense starting in 2010, it is now a crime with new penalties of up to two years in prison or fines of up to two million yen ($25,700). The lobbying group behind this push for more extreme penalties is none other than the RIAJ (the Japanese RIAA). The BBC notes this applies to both music and video downloads which may put anime studios in a particularly uncomfortable position."
Comment Re:Woops (Score 1) 158
Wasn't one of those examples related to recipes? Have you ever tried to surf the web while cooking?
If you thought your keyboard was dirty now...
yes, all the time. I have a netbook that is my kitchen computer. I look up recipes, etc. It's not dirty, because I don't have it in the same part of the kitchen that I'm measuring ingredients in.
Japanese Scientists Produce Element 113 150
Third Position writes "The most unambiguous data to date on the elusive 113th atomic element has been obtained by researchers at the RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-based Science (RNC). A chain of six consecutive alpha decays, produced in experiments at the RIKEN Radioisotope Beam Factory (RIBF), conclusively identifies the element through connections to well-known daughter nuclides. The search for superheavy elements is a difficult and painstaking process. Such elements do not occur in nature and must be produced through experiments involving nuclear reactors or particle accelerators, via processes of nuclear fusion or neutron absorption. Since the first such element was discovered in 1940, the United States, Russia and Germany have competed to synthesize more of them. Elements 93 to 103 were discovered by the Americans, elements 104 to 106 by the Russians and the Americans, elements 107 to 112 by the Germans, and the two most recently named elements, 114 and 116, by cooperative work of the Russians and Americans. With their latest findings, associate chief scientist Kosuke Morita and his team at the RNC are set follow in these footsteps and make Japan the first country in Asia to name an atomic element."
Comment Re:All Edison's fault (Score 1) 1080
100% sounds efficient, but if you're set on electric heating then it's pretty lousy compared to an electric heat-pump. For example, I have an aircon at home that runs at about 400-500% efficiency for heating - not unusual these days. Admittedly, though, it's not so easy to fit as a light bulb, and not so bright either!
I've got a heat pump and it's much more affordable in the winter than electric heating. My wife's previous apartment was the bottom floor of a converted old house with electric radiant panels in the ceiling. It was a terrible design, because if you were right under them, you'd feel a bit of warmth, but they didn't heat the house at all (well, probably the upstairs neighbors). Her 2-room apartment had a $350 / month electric bill in the winter, and she kept her thermostat at 50F. Now, we live in a 6-room house with a heat pump, and our electric bill is about $160 in the winter, with the thermostat at 68F.
