Comment Re:supposedly obsolete tech (Score 1) 685
Amplifier for your stereo system...
Submission + - Space junk could be tackled by housekeeping spacec (bbc.co.uk)
Sven-Erik writes: Scientists have proposed a viable solution to the growing problem of space junk.
The idea involves launching a satellite to rendezvous with the largest space debris, such as spent rocket bodies.
The satellite would then affix a propellant kit, driving the debris to its doom in the Earth's atmosphere.
The idea involves launching a satellite to rendezvous with the largest space debris, such as spent rocket bodies.
The satellite would then affix a propellant kit, driving the debris to its doom in the Earth's atmosphere.
Comment Also helps against breast cancer (Score 1) 286
Another study published on Breast Cancer Research claims it also helps against a form of aggressive breast cancer.
Comment Re:We Need Audio! (Score 2) 185
Comment Re:We Need Audio! (Score 3, Informative) 185
It's on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/user/NASAtelevision
Submission + - Nokia sells off commercial and services arm of Qt (h-online.com)
Sven-Erik writes: Nokia has announced that it is selling the commercial licensing and professional services arm of its Qt group to Digia, a Finnish services and software company.
Comment Norway (Score 1) 618
In Norway with its 4,5 million inhabitants, in 2010 50% off all mobile phones sold (2,5 million phones) was a smartphone. And they expect it to climb to 70% this year.
Comment Re:Hahaha, what (Score 4, Informative) 1060
Actually, he is of Australian nationality.
Comment Alexey Pajitnov and Tetris (Score 3, Insightful) 94
And what about russian Alexey Pajitnov and his Tetris game...
How Norway Fought Staph Infections 595
eldavojohn writes "Studies are showing that Norway's dirtiest hospitals are actually cleaner than most other countries', and the reason for this is that Norwegians stopped taking antibiotics. A number of factors like paid sick leave and now restrictions on advertising for drugs make Norway an anomaly when it comes to diseases like Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). A Norwegian doctor explains, 'We don't throw antibiotics at every person with a fever. We tell them to hang on, wait and see, and we give them a Tylenol to feel better.' Norway is the most MRSA free country in the world. In a country like Japan, where 17,000 die from MRSA every year, 'doctors overprescribe antibiotics because they are given financial incentives to push drugs on patients.'"
Submission + - Millenium Falcon bed (makezine.com)
An anonymous reader writes: http://blog.makezine.com/milleniumFalconBed_cc.jpg
http://blog.makezine.com/milleniumFalconBed1_cc.jpg
Kayla Kromer made this sweet Millenium Falcon bed — complete with stowaway compartments and headlights. Check out more pics in the Facebook photo gallery. [http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=127502&id=104545533252&ref=mf]
http://blog.makezine.com/milleniumFalconBed1_cc.jpg
Kayla Kromer made this sweet Millenium Falcon bed — complete with stowaway compartments and headlights. Check out more pics in the Facebook photo gallery. [http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=127502&id=104545533252&ref=mf]
Submission + - Google under fire for calling their language "Go" 1
Norsefire writes: Since releasing their "Go" programming language yesterday, Google are under fire for using the same name as another programming language that was first publicly documented in 2003. "Go!" was created by Francis McCabe and Keith Clark — the first of which published a book about the language in 2007, and he is not happy.
Submission + - SPAM: NASA, European Space agency want to go to Mars
coondoggie writes: NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) are aiming to cooperate on all manner of robotic orbiters, landers and exploration devices for a future trip to Mars. Specifically, NASA and ESA recently agreed to consider the establishment of a new joint initiative to define and implement their scientific, programmatic, and technological goals for the exploration of Mars. The program would focus on several launch opportunities with landers and orbiters conducting astrobiological, geological, geophysical, climatological, and other high-priority investigations and aiming at returning samples from Mars in the mid-2020s.
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Submission + - City Councilman Arrested for Anonymous Flier. (dailykos.com)
arbitraryaardvark writes: "Clarksville West Virgina City Councilman Martin Shaffer was arrested June 2 for suspicion of conspiring to distribute an anonymous newsletter. In "prosecuting anonymous speech, that's what's criminal" Reid Cox, Center for Competitive Politics, explains that the arrest was probably illegal and unconstitutional. What's this got to do with computers, the internet, or slashdot? Anonymous speech by anonymous cowards is one of things that makes slashdot and the internet as we know it possible. More background on the story at some blog."
Submission + - Ultimate BIOS guide
amcdiarmid writes: "I just ran across a very nice guide to BIOS settings. (From Maximum PC of all people!) I read the first several pages, and found a few things I (an old curmudgeny IT type) did not know — and only one thing I think was wrong... (Likely a typo in the "Limit CPUID Max. to 3:" section, I don't think that a Modern OS needs this enabled.)
The thing includes such gems as (paraphrasing) old timers turned stuff off on the motherboards to save memory resources, but since all new motherboards have more than 2MB of memory — it's not necessary unless you need the IRQ's, or want to avoid IRQ conflicts.
At over ten web pages at http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/ultimate_bios_guide_every_bios_setting_revealed?page=0%2C1 you might want to just hit the print link: http://www.maximumpc.com/print/6543 If it's still up after a maximum slashdotting (;p)"
The thing includes such gems as (paraphrasing) old timers turned stuff off on the motherboards to save memory resources, but since all new motherboards have more than 2MB of memory — it's not necessary unless you need the IRQ's, or want to avoid IRQ conflicts.
At over ten web pages at http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/ultimate_bios_guide_every_bios_setting_revealed?page=0%2C1 you might want to just hit the print link: http://www.maximumpc.com/print/6543 If it's still up after a maximum slashdotting (;p)"
