Comment Re:This is how we do it.. Shredder! (Score 1) 206
There are clearly a lot of scraps left much bigger than a dime in that video.
Comment Re:I Don't Understand This Legacy (Score 1) 375
It simply blew my mind that someone could be arrested for possession of this book because after all the notoriety it's really not that useful.
I think you know why the gov't wants to lend the book notoriety
This book exhibits somewhat of an active imagination in causing trouble
Dumb criminals are dumb. And easy to catch.
Comment Re:Jailbreakme (Score 1) 231
This exploit is not specific to iOS4, it affects all versions up to iOS4.0.1.
Comment Re:Jailbreakme (Score 2, Informative) 231
The exploit is patched, Apple is just sitting on the release for some reason.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/software/2010-08-09-apple09_ST_N.htm
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/software/2010-08-09-apple09_ST_N.htm
Growing A House From Meat 133
baosol writes "From the boundary-pushing team of archi-visionaries who brought us the fabulous Fab Tree Hab comes a new (and somewhat disgusting) way to grow a structure — using animal flesh! The In Vitro Meat Habitat is a futuristic concept home composed of meat cells grown in a lab. The creator of the concept, Mitchell Joachim, is a futurist with a twist– he says he is actually developing the concept in a lab."
Comment Re:obligatory .... (Score 1) 430
Yeah, +1.
Been running W7 Ultimate build 2600 for a few months now and I have to say I love it. They have some work to do on UAC to catch up with *nix, but aside from that it's the best version of Windose I've ever used...
Been running W7 Ultimate build 2600 for a few months now and I have to say I love it. They have some work to do on UAC to catch up with *nix, but aside from that it's the best version of Windose I've ever used...
Comment Re:I'm well over 40 and I don't agree (Score 1) 633
Actually, that's not what was said at all...
Is the man faultless? Absolutely NOT!
Dad Delivers Baby Using Wiki 249
sonamchauhan writes "A Londoner helped his wife deliver their baby by Googling 'how to deliver a baby' on his mobile phone. From the article: 'Today proud Mr Smith said: "The midwife had checked Emma earlier in the day but contractions started up again at about 8pm so we called the midwife to come back. But then everything happened so quickly I realized Emma was going to give birth. I wasn't sure what I was going to do so I just looked up the instructions on the internet using my BlackBerry."'"
Comment Re:Also why are they doing it? (Score 1) 520
It's also a "problem" that PC games or even Nintendo DS games never had to deal with. There's no region locking on either platform.
Back when Quake II was released I had a copy that clearly stated on the disc "For sale ONLY in Australia". I literally had to change my timezone to install it. Please check your facts.
Submission + - Google goes green (google.com)
foobsr writes: "Google today announced it would invest hundreds of millions of dollars to make "Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal" in the near future. Larry Page stated: "With talented technologists, great partners and significant investments, we hope to rapidly push forward. Our goal is to produce one gigawatt of renewable energy capacity that is cheaper than coal. We are optimistic this can be done in years, not decades." This probably adds some new semantics to GoogleEarth."
Submission + - SaaS-turbation and the art of creating nothing (cnet.com)
Dave Rosenberg writes: "I was discussing the questionable value of many on-demand/software-as-a-service applications and called it all "SaaS-turbation" and now I think it needs a good definition. A good example of SaaS-turbation is the Live Documents service that claims to offer a product that no one really wants.
My definition (it needs work)
SaaS-turbation (Noun)
Browser based, unsatisfying, on-demand version of a desktop application"
My definition (it needs work)
SaaS-turbation (Noun)
Browser based, unsatisfying, on-demand version of a desktop application"
Submission + - 1977 gets its ass kicked! (blogspot.com)
Cap'n.Brownbeard writes: Man finds JC Penney catalog from 1977. Man pees pants. Man blogs.
"A JC Penney catalog from 1977. It's not often [that] blog fodder just falls in my lap, but holy hell this was two solid inches of it, right there for the taking... The clothes are fantastic."
"A JC Penney catalog from 1977. It's not often [that] blog fodder just falls in my lap, but holy hell this was two solid inches of it, right there for the taking... The clothes are fantastic."
One SimCity Per Child 253
SimHacker writes "Electronic Arts has donated the original 'classic' version of Will Wright's popular SimCity game to the One Laptop Per Child project. SimCity is the epitome of constructionist educational games, and has been widely used by educators to unlock and speed-up the transformational skills associated with creative thinking. It's also been used in the Future City Competition by seventh- and eighth-grade students to foster engineering skills and inspire students to explore futuristic concepts and careers in engineering. OLPC SimCity is based on the X11 TCL/Tk version of SimCity for Unix developed and adapted to the OLPC by Don Hopkins, and the GPL open source code will soon be released under the name
"Micropolis", which was
SimCity's original working title. SJ Klein, director of content for the OLPC, called on game developers to create
'frameworks and scripting environments — tools with which children themselves could create their own content.' The long term agenda of the OLPC SimCity project is to convert SimCity into a scriptable Python module, integrate it with the OLPC's Sugar user interface and Cairo rendering library. Eventually they hope to apply
Seymour Papert's and Alan Kay's ideas about constructionist education and teaching kids to program."
Submission + - The World's Biggest Botnets
ancientribe writes: There's a new peer-to-peer based botnet emerging that could blow the notorious Storm away in size and sophistication, according to researchers, and it's a direct result of how Storm has changed the botnet game, with more powerful and wily botnets on the horizon. This article provides a peek at the "new Storm" and reveals the three biggest botnets in the world (including Storm) — and what makes them tick and what they are after.
http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=138610&WT.svl=news1_1
http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=138610&WT.svl=news1_1
Submission + - Chinese MMO Bans Males From Playing Female Charact
Cap'n.Brownbeard writes: ""Players of the Chinese MMORPG, King of the World, may have found themselves unable to log into their accounts this past weekend. The game's publisher, Aurora Technology, has apparently frozen the accounts of all male players choosing to play as a female characters. Now, only female players can play female characters, and they're required to prove their gender via a webcam. Females wanting to play males are still allowed though."
http://news.filefront.com/chinese-mmo-bans-males-from-playing-female-characters/"
