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Comment I don't want this. (Score 4, Insightful) 177

by Dark$ide (#40574885) Attached to: British Airways Plans To Google Passengers

I want British Airways to fly me from LHR to wherever in the shortest time at the lowest cost. I don't want them to LIKE me on Facebook as part of the process of doing that.

If they need a nice little pocket sized document with my photo, my date of birth and a unique reference number they can use the nice booklet that cost me £90 from HM Passport Agency.
Science

Submission + - Robot Avatar Body Controlled By Thought (gizmocrazed.com)

Submitted by Diggester
Diggester writes: Recent technology has shown that it is now possible to type by just thinking, so the use of thought to control a robot seems inevitable. The video seems like a scene out of Avatar but in it's first stages of the technology. The scientists of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Tsukuba, Japan have combined the teleoperating, the ability to remotely control a device, radios with an fMRI, which tracks mental activity in real time, to achieve this scientific breakthrough.
Privacy

Submission + - NY Couple on "Wanted" Poster for Filming Police

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Hugh Pickens writes
Hugh Pickens writes writes: "Ben Fractenberg and Jeff Mays write that the NYPD has created a "wanted" poster for a Harlem couple who film cops conducting stop-and-frisks and post the videos on YouTube — branding them "professional agitators" who portray cops in a bad light and listing their home address. The flyer featuring side-by-side mugshots of Matthew Swaye and Christina Gonzalez and the couple's home address was taped to a podium outside a public hearing room in the 30th Precinct house and warns officers to be on guard against them. The couple has filmed officers stopping and frisking and arresting young people of color in Harlem and around New York City, which they post on Gonzalez's YouTube account. They said their actions are legal. "There have been times when it's gotten combative. There have been times when they [police officers] have videoed Christina," says Swaye. "But if we were breaking the law they would have arrested us." Swaye was part of a group of advocates including Cornel West who were detained at the 28th Precinct in Harlem in October for protesting the stop-and-frisk policy which Mayor Bloomberg strongly defends. Gonzalez and Swaye see the flyer as an effort to "discredit" and "shame" them for protesting what they feel is a civil rights issue, while also potentially endangering them by putting their home address on the flyer. "I saw it immediately and was kind of blown away," says Swaye, "It was designed to show us as people who are not trustworthy or safe.""
Google

Submission + - Google Bans Guns from Google Shopping, Relents After Pressure

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Last week Google emailed adwords customers telling them that Google Shopping was censoring all results relating to guns. This upset many gun owners who used the search engine to compare prices. Google has silently relented and is once again including gun products in the Shopping index.

Comment Quit whining about gas prices ... (Score 1) 398

by Dark$ide (#40430435) Attached to: U.S. Gas Prices Continue To Fall
  • One dollar USD == 0.641519 pounds GBP (today's rate from XE.com)
  • One litre of gas costs me GBP £1.319 (USD £2.056)
  • One US gallon == 3.78541178 litres.
  • So one gallon of gasoline (or as I call it "petrol") costs USD $7.78.

When your gas price gets that high you can shout about it from the top of the Empire State Building, until then STFU.

Comment Re:Reminds me about LA's nuclear reactor (Score 1) 169

by Dark$ide (#39999847) Attached to: Kodak Basement Lab Housed Small Nuclear Reactor
QMC (University of :London) used to have a small nuclear reactor in Stratford E15. That's right where the London 2012 Olympic Park has been built. We had a visit there in 1981. They used to heat up a bit of water from the local stream and pour warm water back (kept the frogs happy). We asked "What happens if it melts down?" and the nuclear physicist who was showing us round said, "It's OK, not many folks live nearby.".

The reactor closed in 1982 and was de-commissioned shortly after that.So Usain Bolt won't be nuclear powered when he runs the 100m.

Comment Re:Why? (Score 1) 128

by Dark$ide (#39890287) Attached to: British Broadband Needs £1bn More Funding

I live in a town of 14k people and we have just moved to 8Mb broadband speeds, the closest City, of around 250k people moved to 20Mb a year or so ago. There is no estimated date for my town to get access to BT's fibre network or Virgin's Cable network even if it ever comes to the City 13 miles away. I would not consider myself rural, im an hour's drive from the capital and 10 minutes drive from one of the major oil ports in the north sea. I'm in Scotland BTW, and the busy side, not the mountains, blue ocean, and unhappy crofters side.

Luxury. I live in a town of 140K and the best we can get is 4Mb.

Part of the problem is lack of investment by BT because they're a private company who have to feed their shareholders rather than giving the best possible service to their customers. Cameron and the ConDem Gov't can bleat on about superfast broadband for everyone including the folks in the Outer Hebrides but unless BT can turn that into a profit for their shareholders it ain't gonna happen.
Businesses

Submission + - IBM offers retirement with job guarantee through 2013 (computerworld.com)

Submitted by dcblogs
dcblogs writes: IBM is offering employees who are nearing retirement — and may be worried about a layoff — a one-time voluntary program that would ensure their employment through Dec. 31, 2013. The program, described in a letter addressed to IBM managers, "offers participants 70% of their pay for working 60% of their schedule." Participating employees would receive "the same benefits they do today, most at a full-time level, including health benefits and 401(k) Plus Plan automatic company contributions." IBM isn't offering the program in lieu of U.S. workforce cutbacks. In 2006, IBM employed about 127,000 in U.S. The Alliance@IBM, a CWA local, now estimates the U.S. workforce at around 95,000. How far IBM will go in cutting gets debate, including one radical estimate.

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