Venerence - Slashdot User

Comment Needs More Ambition (Score 1) 620

by Venerence on Wednesday December 22, 2010 @01:35AM (#34638256) Attached to: Electric Cars May Be Made Noisier By Law

It might be well and good to play a crazy sound from the car, but this idea can be taken farther. How about we tape a kinect to each side of the car, have it recognize humans optically, and play the metal gear "BWEEP" whenever the car gets close. Bonus points if it automatically records the person jumping a foot in the air and diving in the nearest bushes.

Comment Re:New Hollywood business model (Score 1) 238

by Venerence on Wednesday December 01, 2010 @06:38PM (#34411298) Attached to: Torrent Users Fight Back

Even if you already bought the BetaMax, VHS, DVD, HDDVD, BluRay media before?

What about the Extended Edition, Director's Cut Edition, Deluxe Box Set, Limited Edition, Remastered Edition, and Walkie-Talkie Edition?

Comment Re:download does NOT equal loss of sale (Score 1) 374

by Venerence on Sunday November 07, 2010 @09:01AM (#34153636) Attached to: Porn Maker Sues 7,000+ For Copyright Infringement

It could be said that loss of sale is made up for by free advertising and increased publicity. At least my slash-rithmatic says so.

Comment Re:Nicely twisted summary (Score 2, Funny) 286

by Venerence on Thursday October 28, 2010 @01:51AM (#34046432) Attached to: Microsoft Charging Royalties For Linux

To the original poster: You live on planet earth. You therefore are liable to being sued by Microsoft.

I don't think you are considering it as a true Microsoft CEO. If we ever discover Martians, I'm sure Microsoft will find a way to sue them for their rich martian ambrosia.

Comment Re:Their defense is... interesting (Score 1) 299

by Venerence on Friday October 15, 2010 @04:30AM (#33905626) Attached to: Norwegian Day Traders Convicted For Manipulating Computer Trading System

That is a terrible analogy. Shooting someone in the head is clearly illegal. Trading with someone, as mutually agreed transaction, into bankruptcy is perfectly legal. It may be morally questionable, but just because people put their money in the hands of a computer doesn't make it any less legal.

Comment Yes there are other products (Score 1) 129

by Venerence on Tuesday October 12, 2010 @01:12AM (#33866334) Attached to: iPhone Opens Up Bluetooth For Data

In response to the original article, the upcoming iControlPad (made by the developers of Pandora, no, not the radio) is bypassing the apple patent troll by making it controlled by bluetooth (Source). Also don't buy one until I have bought one, limited supply demands that I'm first.

Comment Re:Ava-who? (Score 3, Insightful) 275

by Venerence on Thursday December 24, 2009 @11:22AM (#30544098) Attached to: The Science of <em>Avatar</em>

I have never seen this movie, heard nothing but good things about it, and it has a gigantic budget, so therefore it's terrible and I will never see it. Yet somehow I think I can write an opinion about it.

Comment The plug innovation will not arrive... (Score 1) 1174

by Venerence on Wednesday November 04, 2009 @08:07PM (#29988380) Attached to: Plug vs. Plug — Which Nation's Socket Is Best?

until Apple releases their greedy mitts over the smartest (dc) plug ever invented. http://www.tomsguide.com/us/apple-patent-laptop,news-964.html

A Step Toward an Invisibility Cloak 197

Posted by kdawson on Sunday January 18, 2009 @04:41PM from the can-you-see-me-now dept.

Technology Review has a writeup on the latest advance in the lab towards an invisibility cloak made of metamaterials, described this week in Science. We've been following this technology since the beginning. The breakthrough is software that lets researchers design materials that are both low-loss and wideband. "The cloak that the researchers built works with wavelengths of light ranging from about 1 to 18 gigahertz — a swath as broad as the visible spectrum. No one has yet made a cloaking device that works in the visible spectrum, and those metamaterials that have been fabricated tend to work only with narrow bands of light. But a cloak that made an object invisible to light of only one color would not be of much use. Similarly, a cloaking device can't afford to be lossy: if it lets just a little bit of light reflect off the object it's supposed to cloak, it's no longer effective. The cloak that Smith built is very low loss, successfully rerouting almost all the light that hits it."

Comment Robot wars (Score 1) 352

by Venerence on Wednesday January 14, 2009 @09:44PM (#26459685) Attached to: The Unmanned Air Force

In a decade war will be entirely done remotely as robot wars. And then my decades of gaming experience will finally be applicable.

Comment Golden Ticket? (Score 1) 227

by Venerence on Friday January 02, 2009 @03:24PM (#26303149) Attached to: Google Wants You To Be Its Unpaid Muse

It looks as though people are overlooking the worth of being 'shouted out' by a billion dollar company. If you created an idea that Google put into implementation and gave you credit for, it's a golden ticket into the IT industry. You couldn't pay someone to give you better resume stuffing.

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