Comment Re:Smarter planet? (Score 1) 455
In a smarter planet only IBM and its patent mongers will exist ...
Comment And, IBM frivolous patents.... (Score 1) 93
It would be great if Watson could filter out the frivolous patents. If it had a hilarious bone (chip ?), it would tickle (burn ?) till it hurt (smoke ?).
Comment What's up, doc ? (Score 1) 291
Patient: The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.
Watson : The wine is good but the meat is rotten.
Comment Duh... (Score 1) 299
Because it is proportionate to readership ?
Comment IBM mainframe. (Score 1) 428
Period.
Comment Cobra... (Score 1) 428
I liked the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cobra_(novel)/.
Comment Re:Awful article, legitimate patent (Score 1) 109
ok, I am going to use type-writers and telegrams. Or, perhaps, I will just use pen and paper and communicate with postal mail or pigeons. No computers, just good ol' vintage commerce style. The wheel has turned full circle ?
Comment Annonymiser...? (Score 1) 139
...coming soon a Firefox add-on/applet/daemon/distro that is fingerprinting-proof.
Comment LTS releases ? (Score 2, Insightful) 246
So, which one - if any - would be a LTS release ? I am really bothered about it. I am so far away from bleeding edge, that I want to change from one LTS release to another alone; let alone six-monthly !
And how about software developed for a particular release ? "Tested on Ubuntu release Nov 24 2010, 11 PM GMT+5" ?
Comment Carbon ? (Score 1) 86
But, what about the carbon footprint ? How much of life supporting medium is required for a given 'computational' bacteria ?
Comment Women on a phone in '20s...? (Score 1) 685
There is an app for that !
Comment Richter scale...? (Score 1) 72
"IBM says it has patented a natural disaster warning system, which uses analytic techniques that accurately and precisely conducts post-event analysis of seismic events, such as earthquakes, as well as provide early warnings for tsunamis, which can follow earthquakes. "
Without this invention, couldn't we have just read the Richter scale readings to do the prediction that this patent purports to do ?
Comment I am not very tech literate... (Score 1) 249
so, pardon my lack of depth.
But, why are bootless computers so important ? Is it merely "convenience factor" - bullock cart as opposed to an auto-mobile ? Or, are there technical problems whose solutions depend on bootless computers ? For example, accurate time keeping does have important implications in certain fields (astronomy, navigation, etc.)
Submission + - Plane Finder iPhone app - aid to terrorist ? (ndtv.com) 1
ProgramErgoSum writes: The Plane Finder AR application, developed by a British firm for the Apple iPhone and Google's Android, allows users to point their phone at the sky and see the position, height and speed of nearby aircraft. It also shows the airline, flight number, departure point, destination and even the likely course-the features which could be used to target an aircraft with a surface-to-air missile, or to direct another plane on to a collision course, the 'Daily Mail' reported. The programme, sold for just 1.79 pounds in the online Apple store, has now been labelled an 'aid to terrorists' by security experts and the US Department of Homeland Security is also examining how to protect airliners.
The new application works by intercepting the so-called Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcasts (ADS-B) transmitted by most passenger aircraft to a new satellite tracking system that supplements or, in some countries, replaces radar.
The new application works by intercepting the so-called Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcasts (ADS-B) transmitted by most passenger aircraft to a new satellite tracking system that supplements or, in some countries, replaces radar.
Comment Biometrics - Why not only DNA ? (Score 1) 166
A biometric like iris scan or a fingerprint would be an image. Whereas, DNA could be broken into sets of 'codons' and hence probably a text string. (See item 6 at http://www.accessexcellence.org/RC/AB/BA/DNA_Fingerprinting_Basics.php) So, from a database point of view a biometric like iris scan would be an image whereas DNA would be VARCHAR ? Therefore, wouldn't it be easier to save/search/match/etc. DNA information ?
