Comment Re:Bombs and terrorists (Score 1) 826
Ah, I see your point! Tell me more about how wearing a t-shirt with no pornography, no foul language, and a valid socially-concerned message is disruptive...
Comment Re:How to fix this (Score 3, Informative) 289
The only change would be that City Council records are excised automatically from the database, and requesting any such information about City Council members will become a felony.
Comment Re:good in theory, bad in practice (Score 1) 94
Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM).
Full-Body Airport Scanners Downsizing For Doctors/Dentists 221
An anonymous reader writes "Cheap handheld terahertz scanners that do the same thing as those big bulky full-body scanners at the airport could be in your doctor's and dentist's office soon. The Semiconductor Research Corp. has successfully sponsored chip maker Texas Instruments in making cheap CMOS chips that do the same thing as those refrigerator sized full-body scanners at the airport. The resulting handheld versions can be tuned to look inside your teeth in the dentist chair and under you skin at the doctor's office. The best part is that terahertz rays are completely safe, unlike the X-rays used today by dentists and doctors which can cause cancer. Count me in!"
Comment Re:Make your vote count DON'T BUY SONY (Score 1) 298
I believe you're underestimating the world's supply of assholes...
Comment Re:Yes, users are demented. (Score 1) 117
"That man is playing Galaga..."
Comment Re:First dissent (Score 1) 2416
You will simply pay 2.5% more in income tax up to an extra $2,085 per year. But nobody is forcing you to purchase health insurance.
Yeah, and if you don't pay that extra 2.5%, we'll take your house, your job, and your kids. But we're not forcing you to do anything. You'll just do it if you know what's good for you.
Comment Re:Where is Angel Summoner? (Score 1) 261
More importantly, where is King Radical?
</drmcninja fan>
Comment Re:Impressive engineering feat (Score 1) 118
You, sir, have the right idea!
Whenever I mention such things to others, they call me a "monster". I say they simply lack vision.
Whenever I mention such things to others, they call me a "monster". I say they simply lack vision.
Comment Re:missing option (Score 4, Informative) 321
Google indicates this link:
http://www.aaroncake.net/electronics/solder.htm
Soldering isn't that hard, especially if you're just repairing audio cables :)
Soldering isn't that hard, especially if you're just repairing audio cables
Autonomous Road Train Project Completes First Public Road Test 148
theodp writes "Covered earlier on Slashdot, but lost in the buzz over the Google driverless car is Project Sartre (Safe Road Trains for the Environment), Europe's experiment with 'vehicle platooning,' which has successfully completed a 125 mile road test on a busy Spain motorway. Three Volvos drove themselves by automatically following a truck in the presence of other, normal road users. The Register reports that on-board cameras, radar and laser tracking allow each vehicle to monitor the one in front, and wirelessly streamed data from the lead vehicle tells each car when to accelerate, break and turn."
"Part-Time" Scientists Aim To Build Autonomous Moon Rover 111
First time accepted submitter ziegenberg writes "The lunar rover 'Asimov' developed by the Part-Time Scientists, and due to land in 2014, will be the first autonomously navigated rover on the Moon. Its autonomous navigation system is a major technological leap. While the Russian Moon rovers Lunokhod 1 and 2 in the early 70s were fully controlled from Earth, today's Mars rovers like NASA's Mars Exploration Rover 'Opportunity,' which has been tirelessly exploring the Red Planet since 2004, are autonomous. However, Opportunity requires nearly three minutes to process a pair of images — a delay that causes it to move at an average speed of just 1 cm/sec or less. New developments by the technology partnership between the DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics and the PTS have created, for the first time, an autonomous navigation system for a rover that has the capacity to process multiple images per second. The technology boosts a stereo camera that Asimov will use to calculate its own motion, generate a 2.5-dimensional environmental model, evaluate the site and determine a collision-free path — all in real time."
Comment I'd rather use the break... (Score 4, Insightful) 105
to look for an employer that isn't stuck trying to fit modern workplace paradigms into a tiny little box of thirty-year-old management strategies.
"We don't really get this social media thing, but we DO understand smoke breaks. Just send the geeks outside with the rest! Problem solved."
"We don't really get this social media thing, but we DO understand smoke breaks. Just send the geeks outside with the rest! Problem solved."
Comment Congress? (Score 2) 199
"We must draw the line somewhere and define what is private"
Oh, the hypocrisy...
Oh, the hypocrisy...
Emperor Penguins Counted From Space 102
HairyNevus writes "An international team of scientists used satellite technology to conduct a census of emperor penguin populations from outer space. Honing in on their colonies by looking for the brown patches of penguin guano that stand out in the snowy antarctic, high resolution images were taken and used to count the total number of emperor penguin species on the continent. The result was a census of 595,000 penguins, almost double the previous estimates of 270,000-350,000 emperors. This includes seven new colonies which had not been previously identified. Although this is uplifting data, computer modeling still shows that loss of ice flows in the northern reaches could result in problems for the penguins."
