Comment Re:Missing Option (Score 1) 507
Exactly.. what if I use *exactly* 1000kWh a month.. then I have no idea which option to pick. Option 1 or option 2? They both include 1000.... Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Submission + - 'Bat-Hook' Device Taps Power From Overhead Lines (gizmag.com) 2
Zothecula writes: As soldiers are fitted out with more and more electrical sytems to extend their capabilities, they become increasingly dependent on the power needed to run them. Since soldiers in the field don’t always have ready access to an electrical outlet when they need to top up the batteries, the U.S. Air Force has developed a device that taps directly into the electricity flowing through overhead power lines... a kind of bat-hook for real-life superheroes.
Comment Re:Energy Drinks (Score 1) 500
Yikes.. that is scary man. I have probably had 3 in a day, but normally don't drink more than 2. I would say daily average is only 1 though. Oh, and cherry is good too! :)
Comment Energy Drinks (Score 3, Insightful) 500
Obvious missing option from a poll on slashdot, c'mon... I drink way too many Amps, usually "elevate," the blue one.
Submission + - 3-D holographic telepresence created (w/video) (insidescience.org)
Flash Modin writes: Eventually you'll be able to project a holograph of Princess Leia into your own living room, thanks to a device announced today by the journal Nature. The physicists who created the device claim that their holographic 3-D display can refresh color images every two seconds without the need for glasses and say it's the closest thing to a real time holographic projection ever created. The breakthrough was possible because of a material called a photorefractive polymer film, on which a 3-D image can be recorded and erased, and then replaced with a new image. The holograph still exists inside of a flat frame rather than being projected into thin air, but like a sheet of magical glass it allows you to see all sides of an image as the frame is rotated. This sets it apart from seemingly 3-D projections like those used by CNN in its election night coverage, which still only show one perspective. The group plans to make a much improved version that they expect to have marketable applications in the entertainment industry, telemedicine, manufacturing and the military.
Comment Re:Accessibility? (Score 1) 450
They will need an audio only button that reads the entire advert to them, including the captcha. However, since the captcha is layered on top of the video, it will also be a second layer of audio on top of the advert's audio, leading vision-impaired visitors just as pissed as the rest of us.
Comment Re:What a godawful headline... (Score 1) 380
Or in the Universe there may be an uncountable number of habitable planents..
Comment !Generalizing at all (Score 2, Insightful) 398
IMHO,
61% << "Most"...
61% ~= "Not quite two-thirds"
61% << "Most"...
61% ~= "Not quite two-thirds"
Heroic Engineer Crashes Own Vehicle To Save a Life 486
scottbomb sends in this feel-good story of an engineer-hero, calling it "one of the coolest stories I've read in a long time." "A manager of Boeing's F22 fighter-jet program, Innes dodged the truck, then looked back to see that the driver was slumped over the wheel. He knew a busy intersection was just ahead, and he had to act fast. Without consulting the passengers in his minivan — 'there was no time to take a vote' — Innes kicked into engineer mode. 'Basic physics: If I could get in front of him and let him hit me, the delta difference in speed would just be a few miles an hour, and we could slow down together,' Innes explained."
Comment Re:Obviously missing ...Prime (Score 1) 311
you forgot about 2..
and I vote magic squares. what better way to completely confuse readers than offer options involving nxn numbers each?
Submission + - Addiction Treatment Locator (transworldnews.com)
skenealy87 writes: I think its so important to have access to something like this on the internet. I mean things are so fast paced now days and no one takes the time to address the real issues of addiction. Tami has done a wonderful job by putting a resource like this on the internet
Submission + - Pssst....Wanna buy some cool laser technology? (networkworld.com)
coondoggie writes: The US Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory wants partners who may want to license and commercialize its powerful fiber laser technology. The technology, known as a Multiple-Core Ribbon Fiber Laser is made up of an array of fiber cores arranged in a single line.
Submission + - Special forces helped EA design "Medal of Honor" (thehill.com)
GovTechGuy writes: Two retired special forces soldiers helped Electronic Arts develop the new "Medal of Honor" video game that originally allowed users to play as the Taliban and shoot American troops. The latest version of Medal of Honor, released on Tuesday, has been praised for its extremely detailed and realistic depiction of U.S. combat forces. According to the report, there are details in the game that involve units so sensitive that a former Pentagon official said the public shouldn't know about them. Additionally, the officials objected to the option to play as the Taliban, which was removed from the game by EA in response to public complaints from veterans groups.
Submission + - U.S. Reigns As Most Bot-Infected Country (threatpost.com)
Trailrunner7 writes: The U.S. has by far the highest number of bot-infected computers of any country in the world, with nearly four times as many infected PCs as the country in second place, Brazil, according to a new report by Microsoft. The quarterly report on malicious software and Internet attacks shows that while some of the major botnets have been curtailed in recent months, the networks of infected PCs still represent a huge threat.
The data on botnets, published in Microsoft's Security Intelligence Report for the first half of 2010, paints a somewhat bleak picture of the botnet landscape. Between January and June of this year, Microsoft cleaned more than 6.5 million machines worldwide of bot infections, which represents a 100 percent increase in bot infections from the same period in 2009. This increase comes at a time when there is more attention than ever focused on the botnet problem, both by security researchers and law-enforcement agencies around the world.
The data on botnets, published in Microsoft's Security Intelligence Report for the first half of 2010, paints a somewhat bleak picture of the botnet landscape. Between January and June of this year, Microsoft cleaned more than 6.5 million machines worldwide of bot infections, which represents a 100 percent increase in bot infections from the same period in 2009. This increase comes at a time when there is more attention than ever focused on the botnet problem, both by security researchers and law-enforcement agencies around the world.
Submission + - Boy of 15 fitted with robotic heart (geek.com)
An anonymous reader writes: What do you do when a 15-year-old boy is close to death and ineligible for a heart transplant? If you’re Dr Antonio Amodeo you turn to an artificial solution and transplant a robotic heart giving the boy another 20-25 years of life.
The Italian boy in question suffers from Duchenne muscular dystrophy which rapidly degenerates the muscles and eventually leads to death. Having such a disease renders the boy ineligible for a heart transplant meaning almost certain death without an alternative solution.
Dr Amodeo found such an alternative in the form of a 90 gram fully-robotic heart that took 10 hours to fit inside the boy’s left ventricle. It is a permanent solution offering as much as 25 years of life and is powered by a battery worn as a belt and connected to behind his left ear.
The Italian boy in question suffers from Duchenne muscular dystrophy which rapidly degenerates the muscles and eventually leads to death. Having such a disease renders the boy ineligible for a heart transplant meaning almost certain death without an alternative solution.
Dr Amodeo found such an alternative in the form of a 90 gram fully-robotic heart that took 10 hours to fit inside the boy’s left ventricle. It is a permanent solution offering as much as 25 years of life and is powered by a battery worn as a belt and connected to behind his left ear.
