Comment Re:3 thoughts (Score 1) 888
...which can be countered by the slashdot effect. Post the link!
Comment Re:Speak simply (Score 1) 133
I think that it depends on the languages. Google translate does fairly well between English and Danish because they have similar word orders. The software can just translate each word individually and in order, and the result will be somewhat coherent.
Although written Danish can sort of be understood by Anglophones, spoken Danish is totally brutal. This app could make be really useful in that way.
Although written Danish can sort of be understood by Anglophones, spoken Danish is totally brutal. This app could make be really useful in that way.
Repulsive Force Discovered In Light 176
Aurispector writes in with news that the Yale team that recently discovered an attractive force between two light beams in waveguides has now found a corresponding repulsive force. "'This completes the picture,' [team lead Hong] Tang said. 'We've shown that this is indeed a bipolar light force with both an attractive and repulsive component.' The attractive and repulsive light forces Tang's team discovered are separate from the force created by light's radiation pressure, which pushes against an object as light shines on it. Instead, they push out or pull in sideways from the direction the light travels. Previously, the engineers used the attractive force they discovered to move components on the silicon chip in one direction, such as pulling on a nanoscale switch to open it, but were unable to push it in the opposite direction. Using both forces means they can now have complete control and can manipulate components in both directions. 'We've demonstrated that these are tunable forces we can engineer,' Tang said."
Comment Re:Legos vs Lego - US vs UK language divide? (Score 1) 396
I've never heard of 'Legos' in Canada either. Maybe it's because we think of it as uncountable. "How much Lego do you have?" vs. "How many Legos do you have?" Interesting though.
Comment Dr. Peter Venkman (Score 5, Insightful) 860
Back off man, I'm a scientist.
Comment Re:Dear USA... (Score 1) 323
You already have some. I saw a few as I was driving through Michigan, but they don't know what double-doubles are.
Comment mod? (Score 1) 528
More of a "+1 tragically funny" I guess. You can reinstall grub from a live cd.
Comment Re:But March 14th is already taken! (Score 5, Funny) 321
It's likely that if you're celebrating one, you're not celebrating the other.
Comment Re:Here is what I do (Score 2, Funny) 417
I always ask them "Why? Do these break a lot?" If they answer yes, then I tell them I don't want it anymore. It's fun to listen to them try to convince you to get the plan, but at the same time reassure you that it's a good product in the first place.
Comment Re:The band in question (Score 1) 317
Capital of Florida? That's a pretty obscure piece of information for a "non-American" (what a term by the way!!) to know. You might as well ask what the Kentucky state gemstone is.
Do you know what the capital of New Brunswick is? Prince Edward Island? Nunavut? ...and Canadian provincial capitals tend to be important cities, unlike in the US.
And it's Tallahase anyway.
Do you know what the capital of New Brunswick is? Prince Edward Island? Nunavut?
And it's Tallahase anyway.
Comment Re:the secret? (Score 1) 242
... or fly an ejection seat aircraft.
Comment Windows (Score 1) 318
Without revealing what operating system the PC 1000HE will include, Asus says the netbook will provide "fast bootup and shutdown times."
Looks like it comes with XP home
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Submission + - Canadian passport security full of online holes
twilight30 writes: Tuesday's Globe and Mail is reporting that 'A security flaw in Passport Canada's website has allowed easy access to the personal information — including social insurance numbers, dates of birth and driver's licence numbers — of people applying for new passports. The breach was discovered last week by an Ontario man completing his own passport application. He found he could easily view the applications of others by altering one character in the Internet address displayed by his Web browser. "I was expecting the site to tell me that I couldn't do that," said Jamie Laning of Huntsville. "I'm just curious about these things so I tried it, and boom, there was somebody else's name and somebody else's data." That data included social insurance numbers, driver's licence numbers and addresses.'
Submission + - Protecting IM from the NSA, a Canadian's view 3
holden writes: "Ian Goldberg, leading security researcher, professor at the university of waterloo, cypherpunk and co-creator of the Off-the-Record Messaging (OTR) protocol recently gave a talk on protecting your IM conversations. He discusses OTR and its importance in today's world with warrant-less wire tapping and all that bad stuff. With OTR users benefit from being able to have truly private conversations over IM, by using encryption to obtain authentication, deniability, and perfect forward secrecy, while working within their existing IM infrastructure. With the recent NSA wiretapping activities and increasing Big Brother presence, security and OTR are increasingly important. An avi of the talk is available by http as well as by bittorrent and a bunch of other formats."
