Comment Re:I don't think it does (Score 1) 242
Not really the fastest thing to travel on land. There have been unmanned rocket sleds going as fast as mach 8.5.
Comment Re:Of course (Score 1) 454
Maybe we just need to cycle our subject line more often...............or encourage more people to join SETI to increase the size of the botnet!
Comment No option of Fortran? (Score 1) 407
The forgotten language.......
For numerical stuff it still works great.
Comment Re:Troubleshooting skills. (Score 1) 829
I liked the show... but they they still need some thinking writers. Why not use a "Keno" to close the hatch?!
They mentioned in the show there was a "safety mechanism" which they suggested required a person to be in the ship/room to close the door.
Submission + - Hackers 'destroy' flight sim site (bbc.co.uk)
zebadee writes: "The BBC reports that the flight simulator site Avsim has been "destroyed" by malicious hackers.
The site, which launched in 1996, covered all aspects of flight simulation, although its main focus was on Microsoft's Flight Simulator.
The attack took down the site's two servers and the owners had not established an external backup system.
The site's founder, Tom Allensworth, said that the site would be down for the foreseeable future and was unsure if would ever go back up.
"Some have asked whether or not we had back ups. Yes, we dutifully backed up our servers every day. Unfortunately, we backed up the servers between our two servers.
"The hacker took out both servers, destroying our ability to use one or the other back up to remedy the situation."
I wonder why such a site would be targeted, are we already at the stage where any site is fair game for destruction if the owners aren't security conscious enough? "
I wonder why such a site would be targeted, are we already at the stage where any site is fair game for destruction if the owners aren't security conscious enough? "
Comment Re:Finning the consumer? (Score 1) 280
oops got the double nn in the title there!
Comment Finning the consumer? (Score 1) 280
I understand Intel can't go unpunished but the consumers are going to be the ones ultimately paying these fines. I guess it will help AMD as their performance:price ratio is already good. An increase in Intel chip price can only increase this in AMD's favor. I just wish AMD would get some of the fine as compensation, so that they can use it to invest in increasing their performance to match the new icore7 chips.
Submission + - Invisibility cloak edges closer
zebadee writes: "Scientists have rendered objects invisible to near-infrared light. Unlike previous such "cloaks", the new work does not employ metals, which introduce losses of light and result in imperfect cloaking. Because the approach can be scaled down further in size, researchers say this is a major step towards a cloak that would work for visible light. By manipulating the optical density of an object, you can transform the light path from a straight line to to any path you want. The new material does this via a series of minuscule holes — which are strategically "drilled" into a sheet of silicon. "In some areas we drill lots of very densely packed holes, and in others they are much sparser. Where the holes are more dense, there is more air than silicon, so the optical density of the object is reduced," Professor Zhang explained. "Each hole is much smaller than the wavelength of the light. So optical light doesn't see a hole — it just sees a sort of air-silicon mixture. So as far as the light is concerned, we have adjusted the density of the object.""
Comment Re:FYI (Score 5, Funny) 79
But they are exactly like the TV shows (Spooks/MI-5)
Submission + - Spam 'produces 17m tons of CO2' (bbc.co.uk)
zebadee writes: "Not only is spam annoying but now it seems it is also pretty bad for the planet. A study into spam has blamed it for the production of more than 33bn kilowatt-hours of energy every year, enough to power more than 2.4m homes. This amounts to emissions of more than 17 million tons of CO2, the research by climate consultants ICF International and anti-virus firm McAfee found. ICF say that spam filtering would reduce unwanted spam by 75%, the equivalent to taking 2.3 million cars off the road. The figures were based on the extra energy use spent dealing with spam. All this comes only a few days after Symantec's bi-annual Internet Security Threat report, which found that spam had increased by 192%, with bot networks responsible for approximately 90% of all spam e-mail."
Submission + - CNET tracks the history of the digital camera
Abby Donivosif writes: There's a really interesting article up on CNET about the history of the digital camera. It's incredible when you look through it how much things have changed in a relatively small amount of time and how evolved the technology is. Who would have thought 30 years ago that we would all be storing our pictures online and that our cameras would store hundreds of pictures, instead of just 36.
