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Submission + - Can doctors be trained to use open source to save hospitals from bankruptcy? (opensource.com)

Submitted by jenwike
jenwike writes: Luis Ibanez is a software engineer at Google and before that worked on open science at Kitware. He lays out the financial crisis many US hospitals are in after they have purchased closed, proprietary Electronic Health Records systems they cannot maintain and do not understand. So, how much would it cost to implement VistaA, an open source software EHR system developed by the VA? Zero dollars. And, how many developers would it take to employ to run and maintain VistA in hospitals across the country? Four. Do the math.

Submission + - Breaching air-gap security with radio (bgu.ac.il)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Security researcher Mordechai Guri with the guidance of Prof. Yuval Elovici from the cyber security labs at Ben-Gurion University in Israel presented at MALCON 2014 a breakthrough method (“AirHopper) for leaking data from an isolated computer to a mobile phone without the presence of a network. In highly secure facilities the assumption today is that data can not leak outside of an isolated internal network. It is called air-gap security. AirHopper demonstrates how the computer display can be used for sending data from the air-gapped computer to a near by smartphone.The published paper and a demonstration video are in the link.

Submission + - Researchers at Brown University Shattered a Quantum Wave Function

Submitted by Jason Koebler
Jason Koebler writes: A team of physicists based at Brown University has succeeded in shattering a quantum wave function. That near-mythical representation of indeterminate reality, in which an unmeasured particle is able to occupy many states simultaneously, can be dissected into many parts. This dissection, which is described this week in the Journal of Low Temperature Physics, has the potential to turn how we view the quantum world on its head.
Specifically, they found it’s possible to take a wave function and isolate it into different parts. So, if our electron has some probability of being in position (x1,y1,z1) and another probability of being in position (x2,y2,z2), those two probabilities can be isolated from each other, cordoned off like quantum crime scenes.

Comment Getting back to the original question (Score 1) 142

So just what uses can we contrive? I kind of favour using it as a proximity sensor in or near steering wheels that disables his mobile phone if the car is running, while leaving the passenger's phone functional. Of course Big Wireless may not like the hit on their bottom line.
The storage issue is a red herring. It just needs enough to store a short URI where everything else can be found. Probably want a private key too, to be used only for generating signatures within the chip.

Submission + - 'Ambulance drone' prototype unveiled in Holland (yahoo.com)

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes: A Dutch-based student on Tuesday unveiled a prototype of an "ambulance drone", a flying defibrillator able to reach heart attack victims within precious life-saving minutes.

"Around 800,000 people suffer a cardiac arrest in the European Union every year and only 8.0 percent survive, the main reason for this is the relatively long response time of emergency services of around 10 minutes, while brain death and fatalities occur with four to six minutes,"

Submission + - Britain May "Go Medieval" On Terrorists And Charge Them With High Treason (ibtimes.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The British government have been discussing charging Britons that swear allegiance and fight for ISIS with the crime of high treason under the medieval era Treason Act of 1351. It is estimated that between 500 — 1,500 Britons fought for ISIS. Civil rights activists consider the idea “ludicrous” although it is unclear if they think there is a free speech or conscience issue. Treason was punishable by death until 1998. The last person to be executed for treason by Britain was William Joyce who was hung for his role as the Nazi propagandist "Lord Haw-Haw."

Submission + - NASA's HI-SEAS Project Suggests a Women-only Mars Mission (slate.com) 1

Submitted by globaljustin
globaljustin writes: Alan Drysdale, a systems analyst in advanced life support and a contractor with NASA concluded, “Small women haven’t been demonstrated to be appreciably dumber than big women or big men, so there’s no reason to choose larger people for a flight crew when it’s brain power you want,” says Drysdale. “The logical thing to do is to fly small women.”

Comment Re:Comparing Preview/Test to Release... (Score 1) 313

by LeadSongDog (#48186465) Attached to: If You're Connected, Apple Collects Your Data

is it a hypocrite to take private nudes of yourself but not want to be naked in front of america on the movie screen? it sounds like both are defensible.

I don't know if it really matters any more: attention spans have fallen under the ten-second threshold. Why worry who sees what they're about to forget anyway?

Submission + - China is staging a nationwide attack on iCloud and Microsoft accounts (theverge.com)

Submitted by DemonOnIce
DemonOnIce writes: According to The Verge and original report from Great Fire , China is conducting a big scale attack on iCloud and Microsoft accounts using Great Firewall. Chinese users may be facing an unpleasant surprise, they directed to a dummy site designed like an Apple login page, and same thing happened with Microsoft accounts.

Submission + - How Lobby Groups Rejected the Canadian Government's Plan to Combat Patent Trolls (michaelgeist.ca)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Michael Geist reports that according to documents recently obtained under the Access to Information Act, the Canadian government quietly proposed a series of reforms to combat patent trolls including new prohibitions on demand letters, powers to the courts to stop patent forum shopping, and giving competition authorities the ability to deal with patent troll anti-competitive activity. The problem? Business lobby groups warned against the "unintended consequences" of patent reforms.

Comment Re:Just moves a choke point (Score 1) 395

Generally fast chargers will not be in constant use.

Bull. When I pull off the motorway/freeway/throughway I'm usually stopping just long enough to buy a fresh coffee and dispose of the last one. If it wasn't for the latter requirement, I'd just use the drive-through. Strangely, there's always a line of other people doing the same things, even late at night. If recharging were a broadly-practiced parallel activity, many of them would be recharging, vice refilling as a serial activity. Most available fast chargers would be in use. After all, who would pay to buy and install extra ones that were not going to be used?
So, I want a wireless recharge in five minutes that will take me another three hours down the road, and I want it to be ubiquitously available. I'd settle for a simple and reliable cable connection, but it's not the first choice unless the efficiency hit for the wireless charger exceeds $1/charge. Nobody wants to be messing with manually mated cables when it's -30C or +35C outside. A robotic or drive-on-drive-off contact connections (as for electric subway cars) are viable alternatives. Payment systems have to be as automatic as a toll transponder.

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