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Submission + - Eyedrops provide Night vision to see up to 50 meters in Darkness.

Submitted by rtoz
rtoz writes: A group of scientists in California have successfully created eye drops that temporarily enable night vision.

They use mixture of Insulin and a chemical known as "Ce6" (Chlorin e6) as eye drop for getting the night vision. It allows the user to view the objects clearly up to 50 meters in darkness.

This chemical "Ce6" is found in some deep-sea fish and is often used to treat cancer and night blindness.

The Ce6 solution will start work in as little as one hour after getting injected into eyes using micropippette. And the Night vision effect will be lasting for “many hours” afterwards, and the test subject's eyesight will become normal the next day.

The organisation "Science for the Masses" has released a paper that detailed the experiment in their website.

Comment What are you saying? (Score 3, Insightful) 158

by hcs_$reboot (#49360085) Attached to: UK Licensing Site Requires MSIE Emulation, But Won't Work With MSIE
Are you saying the civil service is bad and incompetent in the UK? I'm afraid it's the case in most European countries. This is a good test actually: do you disapprove their slowness, incompetence and laziness (to name a few)? If 'yes', then 1) you're normal 2) you're (probably) competent and 3) don't work there.

Submission + - Best Program to Organize Photos

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: I'm a long time reader first time writer. What is the best program available to organize and sort your photos. I've tried a bunch of different one's with varying degrees of success. Does anybody have any suggestions.

Submission + - Pulling someone out of a black hole is impossible

Submitted by StartsWithABang
StartsWithABang writes: If you move at the speed of light and are inside the event horizon of a black hole, you inevitably fall towards the singularity at the center. But if you were completely outside of the event horizon, you can escape. So what if you were completely outside of a large, massive black hole (with small spatial curvature at the event horizon) and then dipped just a small amount of matter inside. Could you just pull it out again? It turns out the answer is no, and that — to date — there's still no way to escape from a black hole!

Submission + - Ask Slashdot: can anyone explain why re-installing windows 8.1 is so difficult?

Submitted by axor1337
axor1337 writes: Short back story, I manage a small computer repair shop and am very familiar with how to re-install windows. Windows 8 has been a different animal as many of you know. These Machine are pre-activated with a key that is stored in the firmware. Unlike previous versions of window the key isn't accessible by the end user. Today I was working a customer's Asus laptop it was infected with a version of cyrpto-Locker and the recovery Partition was corrupted. Normally (with every other OEM) we would just do a clean install with a windows 8.1 thumb drive and call it a day. when doing this on a ASUS laptop it always asks for a KEY. this doesn't happen with any other OEM. I called ASUS tech support and they informed me that their system don't have an embedded key. and that they "Can't offer recovery disc's" . I hung up and called again and got the same info. that just doesn't sound right with what I know about Windows 8 activation. Does anyone in the Slashdot Community Have any Idea's.

Submission + - Behind the Scenes at the Nanosys Quantum Dot Factory (ieee.org)

Submitted by Tekla Perry
Tekla Perry writes: In a nondescript office complex in Milpitas, Calif.,Nanosys is making enough quantum dots to populate 6 million 60-inch television screens annually. The process goes on in what looks like a microbrewery, leading to such questions as "How many quantum dots fit in a pony keg?"

Submission + - After 911 Cockpits Are Harder to Invade But Easier to Lock up

Submitted by HughPickens.com
HughPickens.com writes: Jad Mouawad And Christopher Drew write in the NYT that although airplane cockpits are supposed to be the last line of defense from outside aggressors, airlines have fewer options if the threat comes from within as it appears that the co-pilot of the German jet crashed Tuesday took advantage of one of the major safety protocols instituted after the September 11, 2001, attacks that turned cockpits into fortresses. “It is shocking to me that there was not a second person present in the cockpit,” says Mark Rosenker, a former chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board. Access to the cockpit is strictly regulated in the United States. Passengers are not allowed to congregate near the cockpit door, and whenever the door is open, no one is allowed in the forward bathroom and flight attendants usually block aisle access, sometimes using a food cart. The crash, which killed all 150 people aboard the Germanwings Airbus A320, highlights a major difference between European and American flight deck procedures. The Federal Aviation Administration mandates that a flight attendant must sit in the cockpit when either pilot steps into the passenger area; European regulations do not have a similar two-person rule.

The Germanwings accident also points to potential shortcomings in how pilots are screened for mental problems, a recurring concern for an industry that demands focus and discipline in an increasingly technical job, often in stressful situations. In 2012, a well-regarded pilot with JetBlue, one of the airline’s earliest employees, was physically restrained by passengers on a flight from New York to Las Vegas after displaying erratic behavior. In that case, the co-pilot locked the pilot out of the cabin and made an emergency landing in Amarillo, Tex. “Aircraft-assisted pilot suicides,” as the Federal Aviation Administration calls them, are rare. They include the November 2013 crash of a Mozambique Airlines plane bound for Luanda, Angola, which bears an eerie resemblance to the Germanwings plane’s demise. When the flight’s co-pilot left to use the lavatory, the captain locked him out of the cockpit and manually steered the aircraft earthward. The crash of Egypt Airlines Flight 990 off Nantucket, Mass., in 1999, which killed all 217 people on board, was also caused by deliberate action, a National Transportation Safety Board investigation concluded. Experts on suicide say that the psychology of those who combine suicide with mass murder may differ in significant ways from those who limit themselves to taking their own lives. “This is not so different in some ways from someone who walks into a school and kills a bunch of people, and then kills themselves,” says Michelle Cornette adding that it was entirely possible that someone who was suicidal could pass psychological exams and receive a clean bill of health. “People know what’s going to raise a red flag."

Comment More reasons to worry (Score 1) 40

by hcs_$reboot (#49353355) Attached to: Big Vulnerability In Hotel Wi-Fi Router Puts Guests At Risk
How many smaller hotels, shop and other wifi APs bothered to change the default admin password? A lot did not. So, you may need a user password initially (as a customer), but then the setup page is usually at http://router/ where the router model and version are commonly displayed. A quick search on the Internet and you may try the default root/admin password which is quite likely to work. Then you may inject your own DNS servers, and voilà.
Not mentioning how you can also (even more) easily impersonate any of the no-password SSID that people know well (the phone/mac/pc will choose the highest Db one when both are available), and again redefine some DNS entries, add some filtering etc...
So this hotels security hole is maybe important - but the whole wifi/routers security concept is pretty much flawed in the first place (due to people negligence and incompetence, to routers manufacturers who want to provide an "easy setup" router, to other many entities keen on providing a free wifi access with no security at all etc...).

Comment Re:people are going to be saying (Score 0) 737

by hcs_$reboot (#49353211) Attached to: Germanwings Plane Crash Was No Accident

How is this modded insightful?

Because you have visual impairment. 1) the post is not modded at all insightful 2) it says "one of the first"... and referring to the lengthy design - way before its release - of the A320 family (wikipedia), it was decided early in the process to think of removing one position in the cockpit: 3-1 = 2.

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