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Comment Re:Bad at estimates (Score 1) 232

All of you seem to be making the assumption that the F-22 was built for combat; when in reality the brief was to build the most expensive and elaborate auto-asphyxiation machine for congress, after all hookers can only cost so much. It has been an a-rousing success; speed, blowing stuff up, and giving it to the taxpayers 200 mil at a time that's the American way.

Submission + - Higgs Boson May Be An Imposter (technologyreview.com)

Submitted by Dupple
Dupple writes: At least two other particles could be masquerading as the God particle, according to a new analysis of the data from CERN

The news coming out of CERN in recent weeks has been hard to miss. At first, there was a dripfeed of gossip which turned into a firehose of 'Higgsteria'. Finally, last Wednesday, CERN announced that it had found a new particle that is "consistent with the long-sought Higgs boson".

Note the phrasing. CERN has been careful not to claim that the new particle is the Higgs, only that it could be.

But if not the Higgs, what else might it be?
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Submission + - Printed electronics to bring sensing and wireless communication to packaging (thinfilm.no)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A Norwegian company Thinfilm is developing a printed sensor platform for the packaging market. As a result of this, there will be a new category of packaging that can collect and wirelessly communicate stored sensor information. This is a commercial breakthrough in printed electronics.

Submission + - SOPA coming again in pieces...even worse (techdirt.com)

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bricko
bricko writes: "Lamar Smith Looking To Sneak Through SOPA In Bits & Pieces, Starting With Expanding Hollywood's Global Police

While it didn't get nearly as much attention as other parts of SOPA, one section in the bill that greatly concerned us was the massive expansion of the diplomatic corp.'s "IP attaches." If you're unfamiliar with the program, basically IP attaches are "diplomats" (and I use the term loosely) who go around the globe pushing a copyright maximalist position on pretty much every other country. Their role is not to support more effective or more reasonable IP policy. It is solely to increase expansion, and basically act as Hollywood's personal thugs pressuring other countries to do the will of the major studios and labels."

Submission + - World IPv6 day underway! (worldipv6day.org)

Submitted by Sinus0idal
Sinus0idal writes: So World IPv6 Day is under way.

"The goal of the Test Flight Day is to motivate organizations across the industry — Internet service providers, hardware makers, operating system vendors and web companies — to prepare their services for IPv6 to ensure a successful transition as IPv4 addresses run out."

Have any Slashdotters seen any issues anywhere in the world as yet? We've already seen some good IPv6 addresses today from the participants. What other good v6 address combinations can Slashdot think of?

www.facebook.com has IPv6 address 2620:0:1c18:0:face:b00c::
cisco.v6day.akadns.net has IPv6 address 2001:420:80:1:c:15c0:d06:f00d
www.luns.net.uk has IPv6 address 2a01:8900:0:1::b00b:1e5
Facebook

Submission + - Facebook steps wrong again with Facial Recognition (pcmag.com)

Submitted by c0lo
c0lo writes: Now might be a good time to check your Facebook privacy settings as many Facebook users are reporting that the site has enabled the face recognition in the last few days without giving users any notice.
Once again, Facebook seems to be sharing personal information by default, instead on users having to 'opt-in'.
Some other comments and an interesting reaction from Google and how to get around/disable it .

Submission + - 1000 Tactical sensors squezzed on a palm

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The University of Tokyo in collaboration with Japan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) and Nippon Mektron Ltd has developed a flexible printed circuit board (PCB) embedded with pressure sensors. The Next-generation Tactile Sensor is made by forming electrodes inside a flexible PCB. To showcase the capabilities the University has developed a human hand which has 1000 tactical sensors on the palm. The linear tactical sensors have a width of 1mm and thickness was less than 0.1mm. This is a quantum leap considering the fact that earlier it was possible to squeeze only 200 sensor points on palm.
Oracle

Submission + - Is Oracle Holding Back OpenOffice Files from Apach (ostatic.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: About 40% of the 69k files are missing. Besides there are issues regarding icons, toolbar XML, descriptions, translations, templates, and many other features.

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