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Submission + - A Production-Ready Flying Car Is Coming This Month

Submitted by cartechboy on Monday October 06, 2014 @02:21PM

cartechboy writes: It's 2014. Where the heck are our flying cars? We were promised flying cars. We should be living like The Jetsons, right? Well, we aren't, but we are about to take one step closer: a production-ready flying car is debuting this month. Slovakia's Aeromobil has planning to unveil its "Flying Roadster" at the Pioneers Festival in Vianna, Austria on October 29. The latest iteration is called the Aeromobil 3.0, and work on it dates back to 1990. The Aeromobil 2.5 prototype made its first flight about a year ago. The Aeromobil transforms from plane to car by folding its wings behind the cockpit. Supposedly, the Aerobmoil will fit in a standard parking spot and run on pump gas. In less than a month, our dreams could become a reality.

Comment Google search is already doing that: (Score 0) 320

by Etrahkad on Tuesday March 18, 2014 @05:30PM (#46519685) Attached to: NSA Can Retrieve, Replay All Phone Calls From a Country From the Past 30 Days

Put your android or apple phone in front of you. Say a word that you normally wouldn't say. Repeat it 3 times. Start typing it in google search. Google pulls it up pretty quickly but it is normally #3 in the list the word that you said. Is it perfect...no. Google search app mind you. And yes I tested this on an IPhone 4, not 4s+ (no siri). What I'm upset about is... how much of my reported bandwidth that Cox is forcing down my throat this "feature". Am I currently paying for google to throw advertising (or selling my info)? Trolls... yes you have to have internet.

Comment Re:Practical application is the only way (Score 1) 306

by Etrahkad on Tuesday March 18, 2014 @03:16PM (#46518617) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Can an Old Programmer Learn New Tricks?

Now apply unit testing. Start by making unit tests for current functionality so when you are refactoring, the same outcome exists each step of the way. It's like the paradigm of fail fast, fail often, test fast, test often. When refactoring code into better units of work one must refactor into conceptual entities rather than refactor functions. Separate the logic from the factory so to speak.

Comment Brake (Score 1) 664

by Etrahkad on Friday February 21, 2014 @08:15PM (#46307861) Attached to: Stack Overflow Could Explain Toyota Vehicles' Unintended Acceleration

I mean.. lesson well learned. I will test the throttle now. Ah crap that's right I was fired. Must not do that in the next automotive company, Saturn beware I made buyers be weary of the Toyota Brand. (Glad Lexus drivers have more common sense)

Comment Re:Money climax (Score 4, Interesting) 356

by Etrahkad on Friday November 01, 2013 @12:29PM (#45301183) Attached to: Comcast Donates Heavily To Defeat Mayor Who Is Bringing Gigabit Fiber To Seattle

I would say once enough of the middle class are unable to continue throwing billions of dollars at the corporate entities and that bubble does finally pop, mass starvation will hit. I would believe that is when the revolution and major changes will take place. It is not a question of If but when (is that the question anymore?).

Comment Re:Knowing someone who is infected is the conditio (Score 1) 171

by Etrahkad on Saturday January 26, 2013 @08:19PM (#42704407) Attached to: Trojanized SSH Daemon In the Wild, Sending Passwords To Iceland

For this reason, we have a rule. Always ssh FROM the more trusted machine TO the less trusted one, never the other way around. For scp and rsync, that means always PUSH files to a client's machine or any server on the public internet, never PULL to a less trusted machine from a more trusted one.

How would that work? Honestly I don't know so don't troll me ;P. How would I connect to my local ssh server from a work resource (that uses rsa key concatination), from my house?

Submission + - How do YOU establish a secure computing environment? 3

Submitted by sneakyimp on Sunday December 23, 2012 @05:46PM

sneakyimp writes: We've seen increasingly creative ways for bad guys to compromise your system like infected pen drives, computers preloaded with malware, mobile phone apps with malware, and a $300 app that can sniff out your encryption keys.
On top of these obvious risks, there are lingering questions about the integrity of common operating systems and cloud computing services. Do Windows, OSX, and linux have security holes? Does Windows supply a backdoor for the U.S. or other governments? Should you really trust your linux multiverse repository? Do Google and Apple data mine your private mobile phone data for private information? Does Ubuntu's sharing of my data with Amazon compromise my privacy? Can the U.S. Government seize your cloud data without a warrant? Can McAfee or Kaspersky really be trusted?
Naturally, the question arises of how to establish and maintain an ironclad workstation or laptop for the purpose of handling sensitive information or doing security research. DARPA has approached the problem by awarding a $21.4M contract to Invincea to create a secure version of Android. What should we do if we don't have $21.4M USD? Is it safe to buy a PC from any manufacturer? Is it even safe to buy individual computer components and assemble one's own machine? Or might the MOBO firmware be compromised?
What steps can one take to insure a truly secure computing environment? Is this even possible? Can anyone recommend a through checklist or suggest best practices?

Submission + - FDA Closer to Approving Biotech Salmon, Critics Furious

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 23, 2012 @12:11PM

An anonymous reader writes: A controversial genetically engineered salmon has moved a step closer to the consumer's dining table after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Friday the fish didn't appear likely to pose a threat to the environment or to humans who eat it.

Submission + - Fark.com founder Drew Curtis links patent trolls with 'terrorists' (foxnews.com)

Submitted by Velcroman1 on Wednesday April 18, 2012 @03:48PM

Velcroman1 writes: Other than the shifty eyes and faint smell of cheap aftershave, it’s often hard to identify a patent troll. The derogatory term "patent troll" describes a company established as a legal entity solely to make cash through patent lawsuits — stifling creativity and emptying the bank accounts of even the smartest Silicon Valley start-up. According to a 2011 report by the Boston University School of Law, patent trolls have cost U.S. companies about $500 billion in lost capital. Drew Curtis, the founder of Fark.com, calls them terrorists to be avoided at all costs. “It boils down to one thing: don’t negotiate with terrorists,” Curtis said during a talk at the TED 2012 conference in Long Beach, Calif. He explained how he won a patent dispute over e-mail newsletters by refusing to settle.

Submission + - Was Earth a Migratory Planet? (discovery.com)

Submitted by

astroengine

on Wednesday April 18, 2012 @02:01PM

astroengine writes: "Why our planet isn't a "snowball Earth" — a dilemma called the "faint young sun paradox" — has foxed solar and planetary scientists for decades. Since the Earth's formation, a planet covered in ice should have stifled any kind of greenhouse effect, preventing our atmosphere from warming up and maintaining water in a liquid state. Now, David Minton of Purdue University has come up with a novel solution that, by his own admission, straddles science fact and fiction. Perhaps Earth evolved closer to the Sun and through some gravitational effect, it was pushed to a higher orbit as the Sun grew hotter. But watch out, if this is true, planetary chaos awaits."

Submission + - Cringely predicts IBM will shed 78% of US employees by 2015 (cringely.com)

Submitted by Third Position on Wednesday April 18, 2012 @01:37PM

Third Position writes: Cringely with more predictions about IBM: "The direct impetus for this column is IBM’s internal plan to grow earnings-per-share (EPS) to $20 by 2015. The primary method for accomplishing this feat, according to the plan, will be by reducing US employee head count by 78 percent in that time frame." So far, Cringely's pronouncements about IBM have been approximately true, even if he missed the exact numbers and timeframes. Is he right this time?

Submission + - Wind turbine can extract liters of water from air (geek.com) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 18, 2012 @09:45AM

An anonymous reader writes: Getting access to enough water to drink in a desert eveironment is a pretty tough proposition, but Eole Water may have solved the problem. It has created a wind turbine that can extract up to 1,000 liters of water per day from the air. All it requires is a 15mph wind to generate the 30kW's of power required for the process to happen. The end result is a tank full of purified water ready to drink at the base of each turbine.

Submission + - Rockstar San Diego working on a new open world game (gamergaia.com)

Submitted by

Fevron

on Monday February 06, 2012 @02:14PM

Fevron writes: "The studio posted three new open positions on Gamasutra over the weekend to join other positions they posted on the site last month. The openings are seeking tools, gameplay, and network programmers, with the latter two indicating specifically that they are for a new open-world game in development. Considering Rockstar’s central technology group, aptly called RAGE, is also based in the San Diego area, there are high hopes that the two studios will be able to work together to produce another A-list hit in the vein of Red Dead Redemption or Grand Theft Auto IV."

Submission + - Google Solve for X website, video go live (networkworld.com)

Submitted by alphadogg on Monday February 06, 2012 @01:16PM

alphadogg writes: Google on Monday released a website http://www.wesolveforx.com/ and video regarding its Solve for X project, which the company says is "a place where the curious can go to hear and discuss radical technology ideas for solving global problems." It's got a TED-like think tank feel to it, but possibly with oodles of Google resources behind it. It appears related to Google's up-to-now largely secretive Google X research lab that the New York Times recently shed some light on.

Submission + - 2011 Fukushima Earthquake Visualization (wired.com)

Submitted by

mdsolar

on Monday February 06, 2012 @09:45AM

mdsolar writes: ""YouTube user StoryMonoroch has posted a computer-generated video that displays seismic activity near Japan around March 3, 2011– the time-frame of the devastating earthquake and resulting tsunamis. The data rendering once again conveys the scale of this event, though this time from a geologic point of view.""

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