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Submission + - IBM creates brainy chips (itpro.co.uk)

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twoheadedboy

on Thursday August 18, 2011 @06:28AM

twoheadedboy writes: "IBM has unveiled a set of computer chips designed to replicate the way in which human brains operate. The processors emulate the way synapses and neurons of the brain work and could eventually use up less power and space than traditional chips. It's all part of the development of "cognitive computers," which will be able to learn through experiences. "Imagine traffic lights that can integrate sights, sounds and smells and flag unsafe intersections before disaster happens," said Dharmendra Modha, project leader for IBM Research."

Submission + - Ask slashdot: security education for PMs

Submitted by Suferick on Thursday August 18, 2011 @05:20AM

Suferick writes: I am putting together a security education program aimed at project managers. Some of them are technical and some not; they work in an environment that is very security conscious but sometimes have very little clue about security. What are the most important topics I should cover?

Submission + - How Marty and Doc Brown became friends (denofgeek.com)

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brumgrunt

on Thursday August 18, 2011 @04:00AM

brumgrunt writes: "Finally, one of the mysteries of Back To The Future has been solved: just how Marty McFly and Doc Brown became friends in the first place..."

Submission + - Samsung tablet ban lifted for most of EU (zdnet.co.uk) 1

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jkcity

on Tuesday August 16, 2011 @08:46PM

jkcity writes: "The ban" on sales of Samsung 10.1 tablet have been lifted except for in germany. The un-ban is enforced until 25th august while it is decided if the original court had the power to enforce an EU wide ban and also they will be looking at the evidence submitted which has since come to light as being not 100% accurate. The case could be bogged down in the count for years though"

Comment Re:side effect (Score 1) 261

by Praedon on Friday July 16, 2010 @04:25AM (#32923948) Attached to: First 'Malaria-Proof' Mosquito Created

So here's my geeky lore-in-games-loving side of this. Does this not have the feel of Anarchy Online's backstory? Those familiar with the lore, and the online book Prophet Without Honour, they used mosquitoes to implant a hidden activation-required virus, that ended up making billions sick, and die... as a hidden agenda, while pretending that the mosquitoes were fixed to help prevent the spread of this super virus... then finishing the rest of the world off in a nuclear bombardment... Look around page 89-91 for the plans for those blood suckers... http://www.anarchy-online.com/anarchy/frontend/files/CONTENT/download/documents/prophet_without_honour.pdf

My work here is done...

Secret Copyright Treaty Leaks. It's Bad. Very Bad. 775

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday November 04, 2009 @10:31AM from the you-gotta-be-kidding-me dept.

Jamie found a Boing Boing story that will probably get your blood to at least a simmer. It says "The internet chapter of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a secret copyright treaty whose text Obama's administration refused to disclose due to 'national security' concerns, has leaked. It's bad." You can read the original leaked document or the summary. If passed, the internet will never be the same. Thank goodness it's hidden from public scrutiny for National Security.

Submission + - LCROSS Team Changes Target Crater for Impact (spacefellowship.com)

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Matt_dk

on Monday September 28, 2009 @05:03PM

Matt_dk writes: "Based on new analysis of the latest lunar data, the science team for NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite mission (LCROSS) decided to change the target crater for impact from Cabeus A to Cabeus. The decision was based on a consensus that Cabeus shows, with the greatest level of certainty, the highest hydrogen concentrations at the south pole. The most current terrain models provided by JAXA's Kaguya spacecraft and the LRO Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) was important in the decision process, as the latest models show a small valley in an otherwise tall Cabeus perimeter ridge, which will allow for sunlight to illuminate the ejecta cloud, making it easier to see from Earth."

Submission + - SPAM: Apple Update Makes Securing Your Windows PC Harder 1

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itwbennett

on Monday September 28, 2009 @04:37PM

itwbennett writes: "In a recent post, blogger Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols wags his finger at Apple for indiscriminately pushing the iPhone Configuration Utility 2.1 update out to Windows users, since it is a tool for business system administrators to set up and administer corporate iPhones — the blogger himself (and practically every other iPhone user) not being of the corporate iPhone user persuasion. But more than just unnecessary, the update actually puts him and millions of other iPhone owners/Windows PC users at risk by installing 'not just a configuration program, but the Apache Web server as well,' says Vaughan-Nichols."
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Comment Woops.. (Score 1) 1

by Praedon on Monday September 28, 2009 @04:35PM (#29571751) Attached to: Software Demo Becomes Art

Some reason, it changed to a old default of my email. Hope if this gets approved, editors, please change the email to @yahoo.com not @praeon.net :P

Submission + - Microsoft's Energy-Efficient Cloud Center (datacenterknowledge.com)

Submitted by

miller60

on Monday September 28, 2009 @04:34PM

miller60 writes: "Microsoft says its huge new data center in Dublin is its most energy efficient facility yet. The 300,000 square foot facility will power Microsoft's online "cloud computing" services in Europe, Africa and the Middle East, and brings together a number of design concepts dscussed here at in recent months — using fresh air for free cooling, running without chillers, raising the temperature in the data center, and slashing overall water usage. A key benefit: Dublin's cool climate can support free cooling for virtually the entire year."

Submission + - Software Demo Becomes Art (arstechnica.com) 1

Submitted by

Praedon

on Monday September 28, 2009 @04:26PM

Praedon writes: "We all know how bad software demonstrations can turn out, when problems arise. But what happens when the whole thing is staged as a work of art? The whole thing was recorded and is available for free at Lumalin Productions. From the article at Ars Technica:

For software developers, live product demonstrations are a way of life, and that means that "live product demos gone horribly awry" are also a fact of life. But what if the world's most disastrous software demo was faked, foisted on a set of unsuspecting computer science students as a piece of performance art?"

Submission + - How the Future Looked Then: Hollywood's Prediction (amctv.com) 1

Submitted by

cabbey01

on Monday September 28, 2009 @03:22PM

cabbey01 writes: "The minds behind movies like Terminator and Mad Max should really be a little more vague about when their stories take place."

Submission + - Company Offers Customizable Web Spidering (technologyreview.com)

Submitted by

TechReviewAl

on Monday September 28, 2009 @02:54PM

TechReviewAl writes: "A company called 80legs has come up with an interesting new web business model: customized, on-demand web spidering. The company sells access to its spidering system, charging $2 for every million pages crawled, plus a fee of three cents per hour of processing used. The idea is to offer Web startups a way to build their own web indexes without requiring huge server farms. 80legs in fact uses distributed computing to power its web spiders."

Submission + - Has The Glory Gone Out Of Working In IT? (theaccidentalsuccessfulcio.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 28, 2009 @12:01PM

An anonymous reader writes: Why did you decide to go to work in the IT field? I can really only speak for myself, but there was a bit of glamour to the IT field when I entered it. Everything seemed to be so shiny and new and change was happening so fast that you just knew that this was going to be âoethe placeâ to be in order to have a great career. Is that still true or has something fundamental changed about our profession?

Comment Re:Almost competing (Score 4, Interesting) 706

by Praedon on Monday September 14, 2009 @12:58PM (#29415507) Attached to: Microsoft: Windows 7 Upgrade Can Take Nearly a Day

When I upgraded, it really wasn't much of an upgrade, cause I had XP. I used their migration tool, then double checked to make sure I backed up the right things, then did the clean install of the RC, since XP isn't upgradable in the sense that vista is. It took me about 1 hour for the full install, then about an additional 1 to 1 1/2 hours for the migration. All in all, it was very simple, straight, and to the point. My system for this box is a 3.4 ghz 32-bit P4 with 2 Gigs of Ram, and I had over 75 gigs in the migration.

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