Comment So much for community... (Score 1) 2
Since when was the failure of a business model a reason to violate the law? oh, wait, RIAA...
Comment Re:desperate times... (Score 1) 285
Eh, not so. Kodak is a leading producer of Medium Format sensors. Sensors that are much finer instruments than even the $8000 canon pro cameras.
Comment Re:Near-Death Experience of Saab (Score 1) 438
eh, i think you're a little off the mark there. Badge Engineering is not exemplified by purchasing powerplants from another company. That is a practice which goes back to the very beginning of the industrial age.
Badge engineering is taking an off the shelf product and putting your badge on it.
Two cars that share a chassis/platform, also, are not badge engineering. Is an Audi A3 a badge engineered NewBeetle? I think not.
Comment Re:so... (Score 1) 338
Its all a matter of perspective. I'm quite certain dinosaurs still coexist with humans, in fact, we seem to enjoy them batter dipped and deep fried.
Comment great. (Score 2, Interesting) 138
Now we'll only be able to read the news through a DRM-114 Confabulator.
Comment Re:Need conversion to units of Libraries of Congre (Score 1) 495
Is that petabyte full or empty?
Comment Re:Funny combination (Score 1) 828
WD40 destroys ductape. Thats kinda like leaving a key under the mat and a note on the front door saying please don't break in.
Comment Re:destroyed it (Score 1) 739
Yeah, ditto. It was either that exact machine for me, or whatever Powerbook I had at the time. I hardly remember which was first. I'd already been using FreeBSD and OpenBSD for a year or two on PC hardware by that point.
Comment Re:One screen to rule them all (Score 2) 503
I think screen real estate might just be the new RAM. He who dies with the most pixels wins.
Submission + - Microsoft Squashes Employee
Nerrd writes: "A pile of rebar fell on a construction worker at Microsoft campus in Redmond today.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29288959/"
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29288959/"
Microsoft.com Makes IE8 Incompatibility List 358
nickull writes "Microsoft is tracking incompatible Web sites for its upcoming Internet Explorer 8 browser and has posted a list that now contains about 2,400 names — including Microsoft.com. Apparently, even though Microsoft's IE8 team is doing the 'right' thing by finally making IE more standards-compliant, they are risking 'breaking the Web' because the vast majority of Web sites are still written to work correctly with previous, non-standards-compliant versions of IE."
Attacking Local Browser Storage 28
CrazyCanucklehead writes "At the Blackhat security conference in Washington, DC, researcher Michael Sutton has detailed how common XSS flaws in web applications employing (Google) Gears and HTML 5 Database Storage can leave local databases wide open to attack. This comes just as Gears is starting to take off, and just yesterday Google demonstrated a beta version of offline Gmail on phones, thanks to HTML 5 support in WebKit-based browsers, such as those used by Android and the iPhone. Sutton drove home the point by walking through a real world example on commercial site Paymo.biz, which has thankfully since been fixed."
Comment Re:Surplus (Score 1) 267
yeah, surplus center has great random industrial parts on the cheap. Also maybe get to know the local steel scrap recycler.
Submission + - SPAM: Google Earth for the body
Roland Piquepaille writes: "This is the expression used by an IBM researcher to describe the software he developed for visualizing electronic health records (eHRs) in 3-D. In a long article, IEEE Spectrum describes the IBM's Anatomic and Symbolic Mapper Engine (ASME), which maps the information in a patient's eHR to a 3-D image of the human body. When a doctor clicks on a particular part of the image, the patient's eHR is used to retrieve specific information such as lab entries or other medical images. The software is still in beta testing with the help of two hospitals in Denmark. A commercial version might become available by the end of 2008. But read more for additional details and a screenshot of the ASME software."
