Comment Update: Russian Billionaire cancels agreement (Score 1) 208
"When I told him we'd be 'hunting for alien life', I should have been more specific.", said Hawking.
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Comment Got to LOVE The Drake! (Score 1) 208
'Pluto Truthers' Are Pretty Sure That the NASA New Horizons Mission Was Faked
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MarkWhittington writes: Forget about Apollo moon landing hoax theories. That is so 20th Century. Gizmodo reported that the "Pluto Truthers" have followed the astonishing images being sent back by NASA's New Horizons probe and have come to the conclusion that they are faked. After all, if the space agency could fake the entire moon landing, it would be child's play to fake a robotic probe to the edge of the Solar System.
Comment I appreciate the name anyway. (Score 1) 62
The Commodore PET was my old high school's hardware. Toward my senior year we even had CBMs with external floppy and hard drives. Woo hoo!
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Comment Re:Abstracting (Score 1) 674
~ Well, studies has shown that the origin of charge is from certain types of subatomic particles which have the property of electric charge. Electric charge gives rise to and interacts with the electromagnetic force, one of the four fundamental forces of nature. The movement of an electric charge becomes an electric current, which usually consists of...
~ Sir, I must ask you to stop. Please stand up and put your hands behind your back.
~ I'm sorry, were we talking too loud? I'm only helping my granddaughter with her homework...
~ Right, that's it! He's becoming aggressive! Release the dogs!
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~ Sir, I must ask you to stop. Please stand up and put your hands behind your back.
~ I'm sorry, were we talking too loud? I'm only helping my granddaughter with her homework...
~ Right, that's it! He's becoming aggressive! Release the dogs!
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Comment Re:Tax dollars at work. (Score 1) 674
Drachmas?
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Comment It works for UPS. (Score 4, Interesting) 363
Comment $110 Million!? Dammit! (Score 4, Funny) 204
And we had our hearts set on getting that F-35 jet fighter!
Well, 3/4 of one anyway...
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Well, 3/4 of one anyway...
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Iowa Makes a Bold Admission: We Need Fewer Roads 285
An anonymous reader writes: During a recent Urban Land Institute talk, the director of the Iowa Department of Transportation, Paul Trombino, told an audience that the road network in Iowa was probably going to "shrink." Calling for fewer highways isn't what you'd normally expect from a government transportation official, but since per capita driving has peaked in the U.S., it might make sense for states to question whether or not to spend their transportation budgets on new roads.
UK May Send More People Into Space 87
sciencehabit writes: A few months ahead of the first visit by a U.K. astronaut to the International Space Station (ISS), the U.K. Space Agency has published its first strategy on human spaceflight, promising greater involvement in crewed missions and perhaps even participation in a mission out into the solar system. Following a public consultation and lengthy discussions across government, the new strategy, published yesterday, concludes that continued involvement in the ISS and other programs is the best way to involve U.K. scientists and industry in human spaceflight. The document says the government will consider bilateral projects with other space agencies but fears always being the junior partner since the United Kingdom has no launchers or space stations. It does not think that the commercial launch industry is sufficiently mature for the United Kingdom to buy services commercially. The report also states: 'The Agency will also consider its role in human exploration missions beyond Earth orbit, especially where this complements science and technology goals for robotic exploration.'
Comment And its opened up a huge market (Score 1) 288
Search any technology with "for seniors" after it and you'll find companies designing products with them in mind. Like this tablet, for instance:
http://www.techhive.com/articl...
The company that starts a branded line of electronic products and services with simple/familiar and definitely rarely updated interfaces is going to make a nice chunk of change.
A quick rant. One thing I'd like to see personally are beepers for seniors. Knew a senior (now passed) who lived well enough alone but was often unreachable because she would never use or charge her simple cellphone and would sometimes not hang up the house phone properly. I figure Get her a beeper! Runs for over a month on two AAAs! She can just leave it on in her purse and we could always beep her and have her call us. And she was a retired nurse, so she'd be familiar with the technology. But by the mid-2000s beepers had gone the way of the dodo.
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http://www.techhive.com/articl...
The company that starts a branded line of electronic products and services with simple/familiar and definitely rarely updated interfaces is going to make a nice chunk of change.
A quick rant. One thing I'd like to see personally are beepers for seniors. Knew a senior (now passed) who lived well enough alone but was often unreachable because she would never use or charge her simple cellphone and would sometimes not hang up the house phone properly. I figure Get her a beeper! Runs for over a month on two AAAs! She can just leave it on in her purse and we could always beep her and have her call us. And she was a retired nurse, so she'd be familiar with the technology. But by the mid-2000s beepers had gone the way of the dodo.
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Japanese and US Piloted Robots To Brawl For National Pride 107
jfruh writes: Japan may have just lost the Women's World Cup to the U.S., but the country is hoping for a comeback in another competition: a battle between giant robots. Suidobashi Heavy Industry has agreed to a challenge from Boston-based MegaBots that would involve titanic armored robots developed by each startup, the first of its kind involving piloted machines that are roughly 4 meters tall. "We can't let another country win this," Kogoro Kurata, who is CEO of Suidobashi, said in a video posted to YouTube. "Giant robots are Japanese culture."
Comment It works for these guys (Score 1) 340
The real trick is to keep working your upper body while standing.
http://i.imgur.com/4XCcwQa.gif...
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Hacking Team Hacked, Attackers Grab 400GB of Internal Data 95
Several readers sent word that notorious surveillance company Hacking Team has itself been hacked. Attackers made off with 400GB worth of emails, documents, and source code. The company is known for providing interception tools to government and law enforcement agencies. According to the leaked files, Hacking Team has customers in Egypt, South Korea, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Lebanon, Mongolia, Russia, Germany, Sudan, and the United States — to name a few. It has been labeled an enemy of the internet by Reporters Without Borders. "Clients have had their passwords exposed as well, as several documents related to contracts and configurations have been circulating online." Nobody knows yet who perpetrated the hack.
Volkswagen Factory Worker Killed By a Robot 342
m.alessandrini writes: A worker at a Volkswagen factory in Germany has died, after a robot grabbed him and crushed him against a metal plate. This is perhaps the first severe accident of this kind in a western factory, and is sparking debate about who is responsible for the accident, the man who was servicing the robot beyond its protection cage, or the robot's hardware/software developers who didn't put enough safety checks. Will this distinction be more and more important in the future, when robots will be more widespread?
