Comment Re:Cash and checks (Score 2) 117
Checks are more insecure than credit cards...
Comment Re: Gimmick (Score 1) 243
People that drive these cars only keep them a few years, depending on the length of the lease.
NASA Beams Hi-Def Video From Space Via Laser 38
An anonymous reader writes "NASA successfully beamed a high-definition video 260 miles from the International Space Station to Earth Thursday using a new laser communications instrument. Transmission of 'Hello, World!' as a video message was the first 175-megabit communication for the Optical Payload for Lasercomm Science (OPALS), a technology demonstration that allows NASA to test methods for communication with future spacecraft using higher bandwidth than radio waves." Last September, NASA's LADEE (Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer) showed that they could supply a lunar colony with broadband via lasers.
Protecting Our Brains From Datamining 100
Jason Koebler writes: 'Brainwave-tracking is becoming increasingly common in the consumer market, with the gaming industry at the forefront of the trend. "Neurogames" use brain-computer interfaces and electroencephalographic (EEG) gadgets like the Emotiv headset to read brain signals and map them to in-game actions. EEG data is "high-dimensional," meaning a single signal can reveal a lot of information about you: if you have a mental illness, are prone to addiction, your emotions, mood, and taste. If that data from gaming was collected and mined, it could theoretically be matched with other datasets culled from online data mining to create a complete profile of an individual that goes far beyond what they divulge through social media posts and emails alone. That's led some to develop privacy systems that protect your thoughts from hackers.'
Comment Re: Weak article, weaker report (Score 4, Informative) 66
Link to the tool instead of sifting through several lame blogs:
http://www.google.com/get/vide...
Comment Re:The US will of course forbid this (Score 3, Informative) 128
Musk is actually a huge Obama supporter, and Obama has been seen talking to, giving praise to, and visiting with Elon Musk. SpaceX and Elon Musk have been a huge part of the Obama Space Strategy. Any anti-obama sentiment comes from the ending of Republican-politican-approved programs, such as the Space Shuttle through companies like ATK and Boeing.
Comment Re:Does not matter (Score 1) 209
Yeah, you can't make a list like that without this one on it.
Like they say in the aviation industry: If it looks right, it files right.
Probably why Boeing lost to Lockheed for the X-35 contract. Even if it had worked, we would have been the laughing stock of the world when they saw that and said, "Ah, the Americans are here."
Comment Fly past the modern-looking junky blog site (Score 4, Informative) 55
Here is the real site with the actual map:
http://www.jshine.net/astronom...
I love how the most modern looking sites with all the share, like, and tracking code embedded into them have the least amount of information...
Comment Re:Author doesn't understand Fermi's Paradox (Score 1) 608
Another scenario would be that they are using types of communication that are unbeknownst to us, be it Neutrinos or some sort of "subspace" FTL communication.
Comment Re:Talk is cheap (Score 1) 313
The companies with these proposals need to send some of their men to the United States so that they may learn how to lobby a government.
Comment Laziness (Score 1) 80
This system should have never been designed to be used over a wireless network.
Comment Re:Does everything need to be smart? (Score 1) 128
Yeah, but the WiFi Router is going to be plugged into a telephone, coax, or fiber line that is just as vulnerable to being cut.
Comment Re:Op Out Knowledge? (Score 1) 157
Say that to any child currently attending a state-mandated educational institution.
Comment Re: I've implemented something similar (Score 1) 90
* three patents
Comment Re: I've implemented something similar (Score 4, Insightful) 90
I agree in that this won't be implemented because of the business implications but would also go on to say that this solution is unoriginal and undeserving of all the pomp and circumstance that the media and the educational institutions are giving it, before we know it they're going to give out Ph.D's and there patents for a high school paper on using electrolysis to make hydrogen and oxygen. Call the press!
