Comment Re:Hold up. (Score 1) 600
Contrary to your signature, you replied to an AC 3 times...
Comment Please just get over it! (Score 5, Insightful) 762
Women have boobs. People jerk off. Stop trying to hide obvious human sexuality issues from everyone. EVERYONE does this stuff. Why hide it? This puritan crap needs to go away.
This Satellite Could Be Beaming Solar Power Down From Space By 2025 245
Daniel_Stuckey writes "A NASA veteran, aerospace entrepreneur, and space-based solar power (SBSP) expert, [John] Mankins designed the world's first practical orbital solar plant. It's called the Solar Power Satellite via Arbitrarily Large PHased Array, or SPS-ALPHA for short. If all goes to plan, it could be launched as early as 2025, which is sooner than it sounds when it comes to space-based solar power timelines. Scientists have been aware of the edge the "space-down" approach holds over terrestrial panels for decades. An orbiting plant would be unaffected by weather, atmospheric filtering of light, and the sun's inconvenient habit of setting every evening. SBSP also has the potential to dramatically increase the availability of renewable energy."
Comment Wait what?!? (Score 4, Insightful) 413
When did hacking turn into "Cyber-terrorism"? Has the world gone stupid?
Comment Re:Liars (Score 1) 234
Ahh, but you would have control!
Comment Re:Liars (Score 1) 234
I disagree. Any self respecting nerd SHOULD buy one of these. Then publish an app to overclock it for every application.
Ask Slashdot: Tags and Tagging, What Is the Best Way Forward? 142
siliconbits writes "The debate about tagging has been going for nearly a decade. Slashdot has covered it a number of times.
But it seems that nobody has yet to come up with a foolproof solution to tagging. Even luminaries like Engadget, The Verge, Gizmodo and Slashdot all have different tagging schemes. Commontag, a venture launched in 2009 to tackle tagging, has proved to be all but a failure despite the backing of heavyweights like Freebase, Yahoo and Zemanta. Even Google gave up and purchased Freebase in July 2010. Somehow I remain convinced that a unified, semantically-based solution, using a mix of folksonomy and taxonomy, is the Graal of tagging. I'd like to hear from fellow Slashdotters as to how they tackle the issue of creating and maintaining a tagging solution, regardless of the platform and the technologies being used in the backend." A good time to note: there may be no pretty way to get at them, but finding stories with a particular tag on Slashdot is simple, at least one at a time: Just fill in a tag you'd like to explore after "slashdot.org/tag/", as in "slashdot.org/tag/bizarro."
Comment Re:Its about replacing books not paper and pencils (Score 1) 393
What kind of argument is that?!? Did you have textbooks that had color in them? Color doesn't matter in anything but science books, and even then, it can be worked around. Ebook (e-ink) readers would rock for that sort of application.
Comment Re:Dupe (Score 1) 148
Was just going to post that same link.
Comment Re:What ad really need (Score 1) 300
Middle click instead. That will open your link in a new tab and the original will be preserved.
Comment Re:They're going for gameplay. Again. (Score 1) 335
The Xbox on the other hand is again giving the impression of the bro-gamer misogynistic platform... again. Hopefully they'll realize this is going to completely alienate the Japanese market.
Hahaha. Every single Xbox have failed in the Japanese market since all their games were US titles translated for the Japanese marked so they didn't make any sense at all. Most of the PS3's titles started as Japanese games and were ported to the US. Hence the large US Xbox market, and the large Japanese ps3 market.
If I go to a game shop here in Japan, you see aisles and aisles of PS3, PS2, Nintendo (DS, 3DS, Wii, WiiU) games, and like, 2, 2 meter long shelves of Xbox (all inclusive) games.
The Wii and WiiU are doing just fine here in Japan since the Japanese love gimmicks.
Comment So I have a question... (Score 1) 509
If the owner/publisher released the game for free also, then it is perfectly fine to copy since it is an authorized release? Sounds like it's free to me.
Comment Re:Iran and Syria Cannot Stop Tor (Score 1) 242
In Japan, there are only a few backbone providers. All the small providers basically resell NTT's FLETS system so all you need to do is get NTT to block it and you've basically blocked access for 80% of the country. After that, hit up au's (KDDI) fiber and you've got the other 20%.
Submission + - Microsoft signs android patent deal with Foxconn
Pikoro writes: Microsoft has secured a patent deal with the world's biggest consumer electronics manufacturer to receive fees for devices powered by Google's Android and Chrome operating systems.
Hon Hai — the parent company of Foxconn — said the deal would help prevent its clients being caught up in an ongoing intellectual property dispute.
Microsoft says that Google's code makes use of innovations it owns.
Google alleges its rival's claims are based on "bogus patents".
"The patents at issue cover a range of functionality embodied in Android devices that are essential to the user experience, including: natural ways of interacting with devices by tabbing through various screens to find the information they need; surfing the web more quickly, and interacting with documents and e-books."
Hon Hai — the parent company of Foxconn — said the deal would help prevent its clients being caught up in an ongoing intellectual property dispute.
Microsoft says that Google's code makes use of innovations it owns.
Google alleges its rival's claims are based on "bogus patents".
"The patents at issue cover a range of functionality embodied in Android devices that are essential to the user experience, including: natural ways of interacting with devices by tabbing through various screens to find the information they need; surfing the web more quickly, and interacting with documents and e-books."
Comment So then I have a question (Score 1) 128
If one of the attractions is "The world's largest ball of twine", does that mean that there is only one available for download? What if 2 neighboring cities have the same attraction? Does it keep getting bigger and bigger and the first one to reach the per-item triangle count win?
