Comment Knowledge is power (Score 1) 293
France has bacon!
Comment Comet on the same day? (Score 1) 229
Could it be related to this event: http://www.spaceweather.com/images2012/14mar12/deathplunge.gif ?
Comment Electromagnetic waves (Score 1) 412
do have a transmission medium (aether, ether, ), just like sound waves do propagate in air, don't they? D. Brisset was onto something big in 1911 (ToE inside, in French).
Comment E-Ink car plate (Score 1) 161
with random plate number generator. Of course, with a button near the driver for quickly displaying back the legit plate number in case of emergency.
E-ink seems to be sensitive to static electricity / external parasitic voltage fields though.
Comment Worms will be happy (Score 1) 461
they will have plenty of food!
Comment I was born in a TV-less house... (Score 3, Insightful) 385
...and am raising my kid in a TV-less home also. I recommend this: it is amazing how much free time it provides in comparison with most friends/colleagues around!
Throw your TV, reclaim your brain.
Comment hook up Xmarks with apache+webdav (Score 5, Informative) 225
If you happen to have your own apache server handy, just setup up a personal server with Xmarks, it works beautifully (over https as well). I'm using this combination for quite some time now, with great satisfaction and independence. As stated above, I also don't want to store my private stuff on third party storage.
Comment "smart" powermeters (Score 1) 172
In France most recent powermeters have an output called "teleinfo" which we can have activated, basically a kind of serial link (output only), repeatedly giving lost of parameters like instant watts, actual indexes in watt.hours and more.
This kind of meter can be found second hand on ebay I think, and it is just a matter of demodulating the (well documented) 'teleinfo' output.
What I did with this output, is to log the status every minute into a postgresql database (since 07/2008 now) and then it is easy to graph the data. You can see how often and how long the fridge is working etc...
As an example of the result: http://2oo4.free.fr/teleinfo.jpg (in French, but you can figure out with the units).
Be sure to match the characteristics of your power network (we have 230 volts/50Hz here)
Kind Regards,
Benoît.
Comment e-ink license plates (Score 1) 351
would be nice!
Submission + - How often do you clean-up your keyboard+mouse?
Pouic writes: everyday
once a week
once a month
once a year
when my space key is stuck by bread crums
I've got a laser keyboard
every February 29th
once a week
once a month
once a year
when my space key is stuck by bread crums
I've got a laser keyboard
every February 29th
Submission + - Large Hadron Collider Scientist Arrested 1
mindbrane writes: A scientist working as a subcontractor on a peripheral LHC project has been arrested as a terrorist. The CBC is running a story outlining the arrest of a man on Thursday in south-east France for suspected al-Qaeda links. "CERN officials said the man, whose name has not been revealed, was working under contract with an outside institute and said he had no contact with anything that could have been used for terrorism. He had been at CERN since 2003, officials said."
"The news that someone with terrorist connections might have worked at the facility is likely to cause concern because of both the high profile of the giant physics experiment and also the technology in use, which has made some members of the public nervous."
"Before it started in September 2008, the particle collider drew protests from Europeans worried it would trigger a disaster, with some scenarios suggesting the accelerator would create a black hole that would swallow the Earth. Physicists and CERN officials dismissed the concerns, with the LHC project leader saying in 2008, "Obviously, the world will not end when the LHC switches on.""
Other than sabotage of the LHC and the creation of a world destroying black hole, the arrest begs the question what possible collateral damage could a terrorist achieve?
"The news that someone with terrorist connections might have worked at the facility is likely to cause concern because of both the high profile of the giant physics experiment and also the technology in use, which has made some members of the public nervous."
"Before it started in September 2008, the particle collider drew protests from Europeans worried it would trigger a disaster, with some scenarios suggesting the accelerator would create a black hole that would swallow the Earth. Physicists and CERN officials dismissed the concerns, with the LHC project leader saying in 2008, "Obviously, the world will not end when the LHC switches on.""
Other than sabotage of the LHC and the creation of a world destroying black hole, the arrest begs the question what possible collateral damage could a terrorist achieve?
Comment Do they mean.. (Score 2, Insightful) 275
...human ears?
Demo of a New "Sixth Sense" Technology 187
TEDChris writes "Here's an intriguing attempt at a versatile new tech device that tries to augment the wearer's five senses. It comes out of Patty Maes's group at the MIT Media Lab. By combining a computerized personal projector with a camera and linking both to the Net, a host of surprising new applications becomes possible. This 8-minute demo created a lot of buzz at TED last month and was posted online today. Would love to know what the Slashdot community makes of it."
Scientists "Teleport" Quantum Information One Meter 107
the4thdimension writes "While we may not be beaming up to the Enterprise anytime soon, a team of scientists from the University of Maryland and the University of Michigan have managed to teleport information between two atoms up to a meter apart. Until this point, only very tiny distances were able to be traveled. However, using a complicated system of photons, ions, lasers, and electromagnetics, scientists have managed to 'teleport' information contained on one atom to another atom that is in a separate sealed container. This can lead to a wide range of developments in computing and communications." Update: 01/29 22:29 GMT by T : Sorry, it's a dupe, but today's article in Time is better reading than the abstract anyhow.
Chandrayaan Maps Apollo Missions 86
maheshc writes "Chandrayaan has mapped 6 Apollo landing sites on the Moon (Apollo 11, 12, 14, 15, and 17). More at the Times of India. Perhaps time to retire all the conspiracy theories ..."
