Comment Re:Those two guys (Score 1) 432
Hey, I am one of them, and it was super bad ass, but I wouldn't go back...
Comment well, there is this... *Content Facebook © 20 (Score 1) 171
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but then who would expect our law enforcement officials to obey the law? Oh, wait... we do.
Comment let me be the first to say (Score 1) 7
Yuck
Creating Electric Power From Light Using Gold Nanoparticles 77
cyberfringe writes "Professor of Materials Science Dawn Bonnell and colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania have discovered a way to turn optical radiation into electrical current that could lead to self-powering molecular circuits and efficient data storage. They create surface plasmons that ride the surface of gold nanoparticles on a glass substrate. Surface plasmons were found to increase the efficiency of current production by a factor of four to 20, and with many independent parameters to optimize, enhancement factors could reach into the thousands. 'If the efficiency of the system could be scaled up without any additional, unforeseen limitations, we could conceivably manufacture a 1A, 1V sample the diameter of a human hair and an inch long,' Prof. Bonnell explained. The academic paper was published in the current issue of ACS Nano. (Abstract available for free.) The significance? This may allow the creation of nano-sized circuits that can power themselves through sunlight (or another directed light source). Delivery of power to nanodevices is one of the big challenges in the field."
Linux Action Show Returns 61
BJ writes "The Linux Action Show, the Linux-podcast to end all Linux-podcasts, is returning with their 11th season after over 7 months off the air. Kicking it all off with a live streaming event this Saturday at 5pm. Topics are set to include: Maemo/Moblin merging into Meego, Open Source Nividia drivers with 3D, KDE 4.4 and much, much more."
Comment Re:I've said it before and I'll say it again (Score 1) 1634
(cough) bullsh*t...
try getting rid of your damnable Sidebar!
PS3 Hacked? 296
Several readers have sent word that George Hotz (a.k.a. geohot), the hacker best known for unlocking Apple's iPhone, says he has now hacked the PlayStation 3. From his blog post:
"I have read/write access to the entire system memory, and HV level access to the processor. In other words, I have hacked the PS3. The rest is just software. And reversing. I have a lot of reversing ahead of me, as I now have dumps of LV0 and LV1. I've also dumped the NAND without removing it or a modchip. 3 years, 2 months, 11 days...that's a pretty secure system. ... As far as the exploit goes, I'm not revealing it yet. The theory isn't really patchable, but they can make implementations much harder. Also, for obvious reasons I can't post dumps. I'm hoping to find the decryption keys and post them, but they may be embedded in hardware. Hopefully keys are setup like the iPhone's KBAG."
Comment What Hype! (Score 1) 385
none of the companies mentioned are predicted to 'fail' -- one possible and one plausible
some monkey should be spanked for generating spurious traffic.
Comment she was... (Score 1) 2
I had the chance to meet with her at a Star Trek convention, and even discussed some business with her (she put me straight, I'll admit). Darn sad news, but has to happen to everyone. Best wishes to her remaining family. IDIC
Submission + - iTunes woes and censored commentary
robnator writes: You may have heard all about this by now from other fanbois, but for several weeks, Apple has been having some trouble with it's iTunes store. At least for subscribers to the Fox Television show Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, it's been one trial after another. First, inconsistent meta-data marred the episodes, leaving words from the title or containing misspellings which left them seeming as separate shows to the iTunes browser. Then, possibly due to air-date changes by Fox, the episode titles and descriptions were mixed, causing duplicate episodes and download troubles. About 11 weeks into the "season" someone at Apple caught wind of the problem posted in over thirty reviews on the iTunes Store, and cleaned up the episode titles and other meta data for the existing episodes. This week struck a new low, with the canceling and re-issue of the season pass, delay of the release of this week's episode, and apparently omitting that episode from the previously purchased season passes. Also gone are the 50 or so reviews detailing iTunes shortcomings in this saga from the Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Season 2 page (was >180, now ~130). Full disclosure: upon being made aware of the problem, iTunes support has offered to replace the munged episodes, and provided credit sufficient to acquire the missing episode, at least on an individual basis. However, in my not-so-humble opinion, a responsible merchants would not wait on individual complaints, but take the lead and inform their customers of the trouble and re-issue with out charge the mislabeled episodes, and take their lumps and leave the (fair but) negative comments.
