Comment Re:Not just meth (Score 1) 757
Nitrogen triIodide? Aka can't make dent in paper
Comment reinventing wheel (Score 1) 173
I guess I seen similar article year ago at slashdot
As I remember it had examples what train did.
Be on right track
streamlining
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As I remember it had examples what train did.
Be on right track
streamlining
Comment Re:Why Windows? (Score 1) 349
SImple $1000000000 gift from microsoft .
Comment realy wrong name (Score 1) 383
By banning mercury half of world would lose dentist care. Hint what do you think amalgam is.
Air Force Comments On Drone Malware 74
wiredmikey writes "Air Force officials have revealed more details about a malware infection that impacted systems used to manage a fleet of drones at the Creech Air Force Base in Nevada as reported last week. The 24th Air Force first detected the malware – which they characterized as a 'credential stealer' as opposed to a keylogger as originally reported — and notified Creech Air Force Base officials Sept. 15 that malware was found on portable hard drives approved for transferring information between systems. The infected computers were part of the ground control system that supports remotely-piloted aircraft (RPA) operations. The malware is not designed to transmit data or video or corrupt any files, programs or data, according to the Air Force. The ground system is separate from the flight control system used by RPA pilots to fly the aircrafts."
IBM Eyes Brain-Like Computing 100
schliz writes "IBM's research director John E Kelly III has delivered an academic lecture in Australia, outlining its 'cognitive computing' aims and efforts as the 70-year 'programmable computing' era comes to a close. He spoke about Watson — the 'glimpse' of cognitive computing that beat humans at Jeopardy! in Feb — and efforts to mimic biological neurons and synapses on 'multi-state' chips. Computers that function like brains, he said, are needed to make sense of exascale data centers of the future."
Submission + - Sony Running Unpatched Servers with no Firewall (consumerist.com)
ewhenn writes: Security experts monitoring open Internet forums learned months ago that Sony was using outdated versions of the Apache Web server software, which "was unpatched and had no firewall installed." The issue was "reported in an open forum monitored by Sony employees" two to three months prior to the recent security breaches.
Submission + - Einstein proven right, again (wattsupwiththat.com)
sanzibar writes: After 52 years of conceiving, testing and waiting, marked by scientific advances and disappointments, one of Stanford’s and NASA’s longest-running projects comes to a close with a greater understanding of the universe.
Submission + - USB and Other Plugs From Hell (alphaila.com)
An anonymous reader writes: A system builder goes over some painful memories of the junk computer parts we've seen in the past, starting with USB: the plug that forgot to have an obvious up/down side.
Comment illuminati (Score 1) 2
lets see if it gets covered by illuminati/aliens/oil barons/place your conspiracy theory here
Submission + - The Man Who Won Steve Jobs' Trust 1
Hugh Pickens writes writes: "Fortune magazine reports that Steve Jobs — having fought off a long list of would-be biographers over the years — have chosen Walter Isaacson to write, with Jobs' help, the story of his life as Simon & Schuster announces that the first authorized biography of Jobs --iSteve: The Book of Jobs will be published in early 2012. Apple's CEO has given Isaacson unprecedented access — including access to his family, colleagues at Apple and a tour of his childhood home but Isaacson is not a mere journalist, rather he’s assiduously climbed to the level of his subjects. Now the director of the Aspen Institute, a social network of the elite, Isaacson has even seen himself as a possible Secretary of State. "I’ll bet the Apple people see Isaacson as the closest they can get to a biographer on Steve’s level," writes Michael Wolff. "They want two men of accomplishment to sit down together. They want two men who are ready to write history together.""
Submission + - Google Abandons Street View In Germany (techspot.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Google has stopped sending out its Street View cars in Germany. Although a German court recently ruled that photography in streets is perfectly legal, and thus Google is allowed to continue updating its Street View service, the company has decided to stop. The search giant doesn't plan to take down its Street View photos for the 20 German cities it has already photographed, but it won't update those photos nor will it expand the service to more cities.
Submission + - Swedish physicists confirm LENR (nyteknik.se) 2
spirito writes: Two Swedish physicists recently supervised a new test on the E-cat, a device capable of producing energy using nickel powder, water vapor and "secret" catalysts. In the report they write: “Any chemical process should be ruled out for producing 25 kWh from whatever is in a 50 cubic centimeter container. The only alternative explanation is that there is some kind of a nuclear process that gives rise to the measured energy production.” In the used powder 10% copper was found.
Submission + - Global Warming Skeptics Discover Global Warming (latimes.com) 7
Black Parrot writes: A team of Berkely Scientists skeptical of global warming, led by prominent skeptic physicist Richard Muller (and funded by the Koch Brothers) unexpectedly testified to skeptical politicians in the US House of Representatives that theiir results — still preliminary — is finding the same thing mainstream climate scientists have been telling us. Other scientists are unsuprised; the article quotes Peter Thorne (not on the team) as saying "Even if the thermometer had never been invented, the evidence is there from deep ocean changes, from receding glaciers, from rising sea levels and receding sea ice and spring snow cover." However, Thorne criticizes the team for announcing the preliminary results before publishing an peer-reviewed papers on their work.
Submission + - 3x efficient petrol engine with no pistons (msn.com) 2
erfnet writes: "A cool new high-efficienty petrol engine is trying to come to market with no radiator, no pistons, no valves, no transmission, and no fluids (except for the fuel). At first glance it has a few similarities with the Wonkel engine, but is more advanced. The engine is only suited for hybrid-electric vehicles, but that's ok for the efficiency they are claiming: over 3x versus today's engines. Now in development, they want to come to market in the next two/three years."
