Comment Re:Flawed, or useable? (Score 2) 53
The speed of sound happens to be much higher in solids. The more rigid the material, the faster sound will travel through it.
Comment Re:subtle issues (Score 4, Informative) 175
That's because you are moving. Per Maxwell's laws changing magnetic fields induce a current. If you move your head too quickly through them those tiny currents can be induced in your inner ear resulting in the nausea.
I work in the MRI field on the engineering research side of things. Those sounds a lot like MRI scanners. The 7T scanners are notoriousness for inducing nausea when moving in and out of them because the field drops off and grows so quickly around the scanner. I've never heard of nausea being induced from a 3T before though. Maybe I just haven't been moving around fast enough inside it.
Submission + - Novell Deals Done (zdnet.com)
An anonymous reader writes: With some cash from Microsoft, Attachmate has bought Novell, flipped Novell's patents, temporarily, to Microsoft and friends, and--what's this?--split Novell and SUSE into separate companies.
Submission + - Novell completes sale (prnewswire.com)
symbolset writes: Today Novell completed its sale to Attachmate. The company will be a wholly owned subsidiary and be delisted from the stock exchange. Novell was once a dominant player in network software, and its passing signals the end of an era.
Submission + - GoDaddy Suspends RightHaven Domain (torrentfreak.com)
DustyShadow writes: It appears that someone has reported Righthaven for having an invalid WHOIS entry on their Righthaven.com domain. Their registrar, the ever vigilant GoDaddy, then took control of the domain, taking Righthaven completely offline. Righthaven has made a business out of scouring the net for websites that have used even the smallest parts of their partner newspapers’ materials and then threatening them with legal action. Very often this results in their victims having to pay thousands of dollars in settlements and in some cases even being forced to hand over their domain names. Today, this copyright troll company is getting a sweet taste of their own medicine.
Submission + - The Art of the Animated GIF
theodp writes: Some artists work in oils, some in pastels, some in acrylics. Photographer Jamie Beck and motion graphics artist Kevin Burg? Their medium of choice is animated GIFs. 'We wanted to tell more of a story than a single still frame photograph but didn't want the high maintenance aspect of a video,' said the two of their unusual collaboration. Needless to say, these are not your father's GeoCities 'Under Construction' GIFs — it can take several hours of manual editing for Beck and Burg to breathe the whisper of life into each image.
Submission + - AAPL - amateurs beat the pants off pro analysts (blogspot.com)
david.emery writes: "Bottom Line: The pros suck at predicting Apple performance, particularly when it comes to Earnings per Share and Revenue, when compared to the amateur blogs that provide financial analysis of Apple."
Submission + - Fukushima vs bomb tests
opencity writes: With TEPCO dumping water with low levels of radioactivity and a leak directly into the ocean I was wondering if the more knowledgeable could compare the current situation with the oceanic bomb tests over the years in terms of amount of radioactive material into the ocean. With the naive hope that the discussion won't devolve into nuclear pro/con flame wars.
Submission + - BBC Horizon Homeopathy The Test (sciencedump.com)
Sciencedump writes: "BBC Horizon amazing documentary about Homeopathy"
Submission + - Full Disk Encryption For Android (whispersys.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Android, which has been lagging behind other devices in the security area, now has the ability to run with full disk encryption. This comes thanks to Whisper Systems, the startup founded by well-known hacker Moxie Marlinspike, which has begun developing a free hardened version of Android. In the last two days they've open sourced their encrypted flash filesystem solution and added support for the Nexus One. The results should be interesting.
Submission + - FCC.gov says goodbye to 1996 (oreilly.com)
An anonymous reader writes: FCC.gov just launched a public beta which aims to take the agency into the future. The $1.35 million site follows the WhiteHouse.gov lead to Drupal. Agency director Steven Van Roekel spoke with O'Reilly about the agency's push for an open platform: "It's not breakthrough stuff, but it's breakthrough for government."
Submission + - Microsoft has right to Nortel patents Google wants (networkworld.com)
jbrodkin writes: "Microsoft already has full rights to use the 6,000 Nortel patents that Google is paying $900 million for, officials in Redmond say. Microsoft and Nortel signed a patent cross-license agreement in 2006 that gives Microsoft "a worldwide, perpetual, royalty-free license to all of Nortel's patents." Google is trying to purchase Nortel's patent portfolio as a defensive measure to prevent Google from being sued. Microsoft hasn't stepped in to block the sale, as some expected, but that may simply be because Microsoft has no need to."
Submission + - Public cloud computing contracts dissected (itnews.com.au)
littlekorea writes: The standard terms of public cloud computing contracts offered by the likes of Amazon.com, Google, IBM, Microsoft and Salesforce.com have been dissected in a Truman Hoyle study that found several clauses highly questionable. IBM’s terms for example, can change without notice, whilst Amazon’s offers no warranties around security or liability. The worst clause? Softlayer offers a 100 percent uptime guarantee – but outages under 30 minutes aren’t included!
The iPhone Serial Port Hack 217
An anonymous reader writes "The iPhone's little known secret, a hidden serial port, is revealed. 'The real benefit in all of this is that there are so many console packages for iPhone in Cydia now that you can have a fully functional computer, as useful as a Linux box, but without carrying around a laptop.'"
Hollywood Stock Exchange Set To Launch In April 100
You can buy and sell actor or movie "stock" for virtual cash on the website Hollywood Stock Exchange (HSX). Starting in April the company plans on letting you turn those movie performance predictions into real dollars. HSX filed with the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission for approval as an active trading site in November 2008 and has just entered the final phase of regulatory review. Richard Jaycobs, president of HSX's parent company, said, "The number of people who visit movie theaters each year and form opinions about a film's success is in the tens of millions. We believe that's the reason the public response to this product has been very positive."
