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Comment Re:Seriously, an Apple car? (Score 1) 196

by Flavianoep (#49094027) Attached to: A123 Sues Apple For Poaching Employees

(...), you have to buy your gas only from Apple gas stations (...) On the plus side, the exhaust smells like a combination of vanilla and smug.

It's more like it will be an electric car---and the plug will only be compatible with Apple charging station outlets---so, there will be no exhaust, and therefore no "plus side".

Submission + - When it comes to surveillance gear, many police ignore public records laws in fa (muckrock.com)

Submitted by v3rgEz
v3rgEz writes: What should take precedence: State public records laws, or contractual agreements between local police, the FBI, and the privately owned Harris Corporation? That's the question being played out across the country, as agencies are strongly divided on releasing much information, if any, on how they're using Stingray technology to collect and monitor phone metadata without judicial oversight.

Submission + - How Machine Learning Ate Microsoft

Submitted by snydeq
snydeq writes: Yesterday's announcement of Azure Machine Learning offers the latest sign of Microsoft's deep machine learning expertise — now available to developers everywhere, InfoWorld reports. 'Machine learning has infiltrated Microsoft products from Bing to Office to Windows 8 to Xbox games. Its flashiest vehicle may be the futuristic Skype Translator, which handles two-way voice conversations in different languages. Now, with machine learning available on the Azure cloud, developers can build learning capabilities into their own applications: recommendations, sentiment analysis, fraud detection, fault prediction, and more. The idea of the new Azure offering is to democratize machine learning, so you no longer need to hire someone with a doctorate to use a machine learning algorithm.'

Submission + - Dear Slashdot, How do I engage 5th-8th graders in computing without going crazy? 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Slashdot,

I volunteer at a inner-city community after school program focused K-8th grade. Right now, due to the volunteer demographic, we spend most of our activity time in arts and crafts and homework. The 5th-8th students are getting restless with the same activities. I've been asked to spice it up with some electrical wizardry. What I'd like to do is introduce the students to basic jobs skills through computers. My thoughts are that I could conduct some simple hands on experiments with circuits, maybe some bread boards, but ultimately, we're going to take apart a computer and put it back together. How successful this is, will dictate whether or not we will go into programming. However, whatever we do, I want the kids to obtain marketable skills. Anyone know of a curriculum I can follow? Past Wins and Lose Stories?

Submission + - Whales amplify sound with their skull bones (sciencemag.org)

Submitted by sciencehabit
sciencehabit writes: The loud, moaning calls of large, baleen whales—such as fin, right, gray, and blue whales—can travel hundreds of kilometers through the sea as the cetaceans reach out to contact others of their kind. Yet scientists have not fully understood how sounds reach the baleen whales’ ear bones. Now, researchers report today in PLOS ONE that they’ve solved the mystery by means of a 3D computer model of a fin whale’s skull. By simulating sound waves traveling through the computerized skull, the scientists discovered that the whales use an unusual mechanism for hearing: bone conduction. The fin whale’s skull bones (and likely those of other baleen whales) vibrate and amplify the low-frequency sounds, directing them to the ear bones. The discovery may help lawmakers set limits on the amount of noise humans can make in the deep sea.

Comment Re:How is maintenance performed? (Score 2) 148

by Flavianoep (#48933327) Attached to: Former NATO Nuclear Bunker Now an 'Airless' Unmanned Data Center

'We developed a solution that reduces the oxygen content in the air, so that even matches go outIt took us two years'."

This sentence may have been written in there.

No, it's just consequence of /.'s old lack of compliance with Unicode and disregard of the mandatory space after punctuation in the source. So when the pasted text was rendered, the ellipsis was suppressed nothing was left between the words "out" and "It".

Submission + - Need for oil the most important reason for interfering in another country's war (warwick.ac.uk)

Submitted by KCStymie
KCStymie writes: University of Warwick reports that researchers have for the first time provided strong evidence that support conspiracy theorists claims that oil is often the root cause for interfering in other countries civil wars. They found that the decision to interfere was dominated by the interveners’ need for oil over and above historical, geographical, or ethnic ties.

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