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Comment Re:Usefulness of touchscreens is overrated. (Score 1) 111

by Publikwerks (#31009416) Attached to: Membrane That Turns Any Surface Into a Touchscreen
Used to support lotto machines(i.e. Powerball) that used touch screens. It would throw the calibration off if foreign matter such as crumbs or whatnot would get into the crack where the bevel would meet the screen. Like just about everything in life, if it is taken care off, it works great. Otherwise, it goes haywire

Comment Re:Feh (Score 1) 352

by Pojut (#31000146) Attached to: South Australia Outlaws Anonymous Political Speech

Freedom in general is a sword that cuts both ways; it can be used for both great good and great evil. I think the lovers of freedom often forget the 2nd.

It's not that they forget, they just value the former over the possibility of the latter.

At least I do.

Comment Re:Mawkishness... (Score 0) 266

by BobMcD (#30999930) Attached to: Dying Man Shares Unseen Challenger Video

It was the death of these seven, and the others, that make the danger to those that survived 'real'. If we don't revere their deaths as a loss, then we must not value the potential sacrifice of past and future astronauts.

They're sort of like soldiers, firemen, rescue workers, etc.
Hardware

Submission + - Super Strong Metal Foam May Save Energy and Lives (inhabitat.com)

Submitted by MikeChino
MikeChino writes: Metal foams have been around for some time, but new research by Dr. Afsaneh Rabiei of North Carolina State University has revealed the strongest metal foam ever. It can compress up to 80% of its original size under loading and still retain its original shape. Applications for the new material are numerous — naturally, it could be integrated into the bodies of cars to minimize the impact from crashes, but it could also be used for body armor or even in artificial limbs. It’s even foreseeable that the metal foam could be used in buildings and help absorb shocks from earthquakes.
Security

Submission + - New Twitter, Facebook Attacks Using IP Geolocation (threatpost.com)

Submitted by Trailrunner7
Trailrunner7 writes: Attackers have been focusing a lot of attention on social networking destinations such as Facebook, Twitter and even LinkedIn for some time now, but they recently have begun shifting their tactics to make their attacks much more effective and precise through the use of geolocation and profiling. "If the advertisers are doing it, and it's working, there's no reason the bad guys won't," said Stefan Tanase of Kaspersky Lab. "They're now automating the targeted attacks. That's a dangerous thing. The complexity of these attacks will get bigger and bigger and the social engineering attacks are getting more complicated."
IT

Submission + - IT's Greatest Enemies (infoworld.com) 1

Submitted by snydeq
snydeq writes: InfoWorld's Dan Tynan takes a look at the six greatest enemies of IT — those most bent on ensuring that the jobs and lives of IT pros are as difficult as possible. 'You might think IT's greatest enemies are cyber criminals and malware authors. But far worse are those who make the lives of these evildoers that much easier. In fact, the greatest enemies of IT are members of the community IT serves: from clueless suits to annoying power users, from miserly managers to those friends and family members who are always hitting you up for free tech support. Any one of them can keep you from doing your best — or getting anything done at all,' Tynan writes. 'Here are the classic enemies of IT, how to recognize them, and what you can do to keep them at bay.'

Submission + - How the NCIS Hunts for Spies (antipolygraph.org)

Submitted by George Maschke
George Maschke writes: The television show NCIS portrays the Naval Criminal Investigative Service as a group of highly dedicated, highly competent, and highly ethical investigators. However, the recent experience of a naval intelligence professional who became the target of an espionage investigation merely because he failed a polygraph screening test (a procedure dismissed by the National Research Council as unreliable), paints a very different picture.

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