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Submission + - Mame Ported to Dingoo A320 (dcemu.co.uk)

Submitted by Busshy on Saturday July 11, 2009 @02:15PM

Busshy writes: Slaanesh has released a port of MAME for the Dingoo A320 (the console that comes with GBA, Snes, CPS1 and Megadrive emulators builtin) with support for thousands of the old arcade games bar the Neogeo ones. You will have to install Dingoo Linux to be able to play MAME on the Dingoo.

Comment Oblig. Ref. (Score 4, Funny) 223

by dugrrr on Friday July 10, 2009 @06:58PM (#28655907) Attached to: Retired Mainframe Pros Lured Back Into Workforce

from BSG: "Any return to COBOL will exact a price paid in blood."

Submission + - RIAA Moves to Keep Revenue Info Secret (blogspot.com) 1

Submitted by

NewYorkCountryLawyer

on Friday July 10, 2009 @05:19PM

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes: "In the Boston, Massachusetts, case, SONY BMG Music Entertainment v. Tenenbaum, the Court had ordered the RIAA to produce certain revenue information, which would be relevant to a determination of the 'fair use' defense. The RIAA has now moved for a protective order to keep the information 'confidential'. In the opinion of the undersigned, the fact that the motion is made jointly by four competitors shows that any claim the information is valuable or 'proprietary' would be unfounded, and the sole purpose for making the motion is to keep the information out of the hands of lawyers for other defendants, thus increasing the defense costs in other cases."

Submission + - Facebook Retroactively taking back User Names

Submitted by

Matt Wilson

on Friday July 10, 2009 @03:52PM

Matt Wilson writes: "It appears Facebook is retroactively taking back user names for celebrities, even if you have a legitimate reason for having the user name. My wife previously had www.facebook.com/Brigitte (her name *is* Brigitte Wilson) until she just received this e-mail: From: The Facebook Team Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:37:36 -0700 Subject: Removed Username To: brigittew21@gmail.com Hi, Your chosen username was on a list of terms that were meant to be blocked from registration, and it was only made available as the result of an error. We have no choice but to remove it from your account. We understand the inconvenience this creates, so we've added 500 credits to your account to express our gratitude for your understanding. These credits can be used in our Gift Shop (http://www.facebook.com/giftshop.php) to purchase virtual gifts. Thanks,"

Submission + - SPAM: DARPA wants super lasers for imaging, sensing

Submitted by

coondoggie

on Friday July 10, 2009 @03:10PM

coondoggie writes: "It's not supposed to blow things up like Star Trek's photonic emitter, but the type of super laser the US military wants for futuristic surveillance, 3D imaging, precision targeting and navigation is perhaps just as powerful. The extreme scientists at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency today said they want to develop a laser system the goes way beyond today's opto-mechanical, acousto-optical or electro-optical systems to establish photonic integrated circuit (PIC) technology that will provide video frame rate beam steering speeds, and emit multiple beams with a total output power of 10 W. DARPA said Opto-mechanical scanning devices are usually bulky and relatively slow, while acousto- and electro-optical technologies utilize devices that while small in size, cannot provide the steering speeds and versatility necessary for many of the advanced applications the military envisions. [spam URL stripped]"
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Comment Just you wait... (Score 1) 134

by dugrrr on Tuesday July 07, 2009 @06:29PM (#28615159) Attached to: Gaze-Tracking Software Protects Computer Privacy

...it will be like the scramble suit from Philip K. Dick's "A Scanner Darkly", but for computer monitors.

(ie. no one will know exactly what kind of porn your looking at)

Comment No mention of drug patches? (Score 1) 203

by dugrrr on Sunday July 05, 2009 @12:18PM (#28586749) Attached to: The Technology of <em>Neuromancer</em> After 25 Years

I had never heard of dermal drug delivery before neuromancer. Now people use patches for nicotine or birth-control (but nothing like the 'cocktails' of patches in the book's bar scenes).

FTA:

"Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts...A graphic representation of data abstracted from banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding."

Maybe a board or committee should be formed to establish a standardized interface for 'jacking-in'. IEEE? AMA? LSD?

Comment Re:Good ideas. (Score 2, Insightful) 519

by dugrrr on Friday June 26, 2009 @03:45AM (#28478747) Attached to: Buzz Aldrin's Radical Plan For NASA

Absolutely!. We need to double our odds as fast as possible as a species. My concern is that there is a preoccupation with sinking us into another gravity well simply for a nice photo-op. We need to work on self-sustaining habitats that are space borne. The next logical step after creating a low Earth orbit platform (ISS) would be an assembly platform in either a higher Earth orbit or at one of the Lagrangian points this side of the Moon. space should actually be the destination.

Comment Anyone else remember... (Score 1) 339

by dugrrr on Friday June 05, 2009 @06:20AM (#28220005) Attached to: Protecting the Apollo Landing Sites From Later Landings

... Salvage 1 ? That stuff's gotta be worth something. What's a few years of R&D, a few tons of fuel and some venture capital by comparison?

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