Comment Re:Retina burn (Score 1) 93
Well, you could always blink, or just close your eyes.
Screen Savers!
Submission + - Google beats Australian regulator in landmark court case (afr.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Google will not have to verify the content of sponsored ads on its website after winning a High Court appeal against Australian regulators. It is a massive win for Google, as it lost an earlier hearing, and it would have had major global implications for the global search industry had they lost today.
Submission + - Microsoft Surface Pro Review (bgr.com)
zacharye writes: I first laid eyes on Microsoft’s Surface tablet just about four months ago. It was a rainy Monday morning in Redmond, Washington and we were barely into the first 20 minutes of a full day of meetings when I knew the Surface was a huge, huge deal. Microsoft — the world’s largest software company, responsible for the operating system that powers roughly 92% of all personal computers on the planet — was now a hardware vendor. Microsoft's first effort was a dud but the Surface Pro is better in every way. Is it enough?...
Submission + - Python Gets a Big Data Boost from DARPA (itworld.com)
itwbennett writes: "According to an ITworld report, 'DARPA (the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) has awarded $3 million to software provider Continuum Analytics to help fund the development of Python's data processing and visualization capabilities for big data jobs. The money will go toward developing new techniques for data analysis and for visually portraying large, multi-dimensional data sets.'"
Comment Re:Niche applications (Score 1) 102
other than about 387 billion thermocouples
You can't realistically generate electricity with a thermocouple. With this thing you can.
Comment Re:Plutonium Power Source?! Sweet (Score 1) 102
Did you mean
Curiosity in fact uses a radioisotope thermal generator...
Comment Re:3000 WiFi radios at once ? (Score 1) 89
3000 WiFi radios emiting together on how many channels and using what bandwidth ?
Yeah, all 3000 devices will have high gain antennas and be on the same stretch of road.
Submission + - Nintendo Release 3DS XL and New Mario Today in the USA
Croakyvoice writes: Nintendo has today released the 3DS XL in the U.S.A. The console comes with features such as screens which are 90% bigger in size than the original 3DS, a much needed improvement in battery life and also the 3D effect on the console has noticeably improved. The 3DS XL is Nintendo's attempt at even moreso dominating the handheld console market over the PSVita but also bringing back the gamers lost to the likes of Android and iOS Devices. The other major 3DS news of the day is the release of New Super Mario Bros 2 a continuation of the DS game released in 2006. In Japan the game has sold over 800,000 copies since game launch and Nintendo will be hopeful to replicate that success in the U.S.A.
Submission + - Motorola releases an "official" bootloader unlocker (custhelp.com)
Nertskull writes: So Motorola claims to have released a tool to allow anyone to unlock the bootloader on their phone. Unfortunately, the only supported device right now is the Photon Q 4G LTE. However, other devices are supposedly on their way.
Submission + - IBM to buy US Solid State Storage form, TMS (computerworld.com.au)
FunkDup writes: IBM has announced the purchase of US firm, Texas Memory Systems specializing in high performance solid state memory. The move is intended to bolster IBM's PureSystems storage hardware as well as other storage technologies and network devices.
Comment Re:Distance from the power supply (Score 2) 245
Most of the improvement is likely due to increased distance between the amplification circuits and the noisy AC/DC power supply.
I'm not necessarily disagreeing, but the two most important things are the converters and the clock.
Comment Re:certainly much simpler than (Score 3, Interesting) 161
a lot of people live in slums next to the rich people's fenced mansions
Sounds a little bit like South Africa, or to some extent the USA.
This article says:
There is no agreed upon definition about what all these nations have in common apart from having a significant population of European descent.
Submission + - EU Parliament Debates their own DMCA 2
bs0d3 writes: Right now, what is lacking across Europe, is a standard law to handle notice-and-take down's of illegal sites like the US' DMCA. Right now illegal content across Europe is subject to non-standard take down letters, some of which include no mention of what was allegedly infringed, nor in which jurisdiction in Europe it's infringed, or who to contact in your jurisdiction to challenge the claim, or even which company it is that is being represented by the law firm that gets in touch with he project. They need a system so that the notices would have to include information that makes them verifiable as correct. EU is holding a public consultation discussing notice-and-take down laws, which can be found here.
Submission + - How to avoid being tracked online (pcpro.co.uk) 1
Barence writes: "With governments around the world increasingly snooping on the internet activity of their citizens, PC Pro has a feature outlining how to (legally) avoid being tracked online. The feature covers techniques such as end-to-end encryption, onion networks, VPNs and proxies, and how to cover your tracks on social networks."
Submission + - Power Pwn: This DARPA-Funded Power Strip Will Hack Your Network
An anonymous reader writes: The Power Pwn may look like a power strip, but it's actually a DARPA-funded hacking tool for launching remotely-activated Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and Ethernet attacks. If you see one around the office, make a point to ask if it's supposed to be there. Pwnie Express, which developed the $1,295 tool, says it's "a fully-integrated enterprise-class penetration testing platform." That's great, but the company also notes its "ingenious form-factor" (again, look at the above picture) and "highly-integrated/modular hardware design," which to me makes it look like the perfect gizmo for nefarious purposes.
