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Comment something is missing (Score 1) 122

by rrey (#34474880) Attached to: Android Phones Get Virtualization
"...The devices would also have two phone numbers." If we talk about GSM, devices have no phone number, SIM card is identified on netwok and associated with a phone number. Unless the SIM card is dual IMSI, there is only one phone number. As far as I know, a SIM is using only 1 IMSI at the time, something is missing or you'll still have to power off a VM and start the other one...

Comment Re:It already exists (Score 1) 137

by rrey (#34279594) Attached to: Paying With the Wave of a Cellphone
I don't have much knowledge on antenna stuff .. but there is as well a notion of validation on handset side. And the black hat would have to hack the server side of the whole solution, there is a list of allowed resellers you are allowed to use the service with.

Comment It already exists (Score 1) 137

by rrey (#34279496) Attached to: Paying With the Wave of a Cellphone
It already exists, in France in Nice. Project was launched last summer in production. It requires both SIM card and mobile compliant with NFC technology (Near Field Communication). But it's the very beginning, mobile constructors don't provide any list of devices compliant yet. You need to be very close to the terminal to have the transaction initiate, no way you can have it done from your pocket. And everything can be locked by your operator in no time OTA (over the air) if you loose your phone. For the moment, this service is provided by your bank, it's not available in the services of your mobile operator ... yet.
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Researcher Builds Machines That Daydream 271

Posted by timothy from the free-thinkers-are-the-best-kind dept.
schliz writes "Murdoch University professor Graham Mann is developing algorithms to simulate 'free thinking' and emotion. He refutes the emotionless reason portrayed by Mr Spock, arguing that 'an intelligent system must have emotions built into it before it can function.' The algorithm can translate the 'feel' of Aesop's Fables based on Plutchick's Wheel of Emotions. In tests, it freely associated three stories: The Thirsty Pigeon; The Cat and the Cock; and The Wolf and the Crane, and when queried on the association, the machine responded: 'I felt sad for the bird.'"

Comment Re:Oblig. (Score 1) 449

by rrey (#33664182) Attached to: Today's Children Are Officially Potty Mouths

The answer, per usual, is the fault of the French. They were the ones who declared ~900 years ago that English words are vulgar and should be avoided, in favor of French substitutes.

Well If that's true (I wouldn't be surprised), it can only be applied for french people, in France ... And "pig", "deer" and "cow" are not french words ... So my question is : WTF are the french are doing in this discussion ?? yes I'm French, and I'll go sex off, but for the rest I can't promise anything :)
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Scientists Using Lasers To Cool Molecules 169

Posted by CmdrTaco from the my-fridge-is-powered-by-fire dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Ever since audiences heard Goldfinger utter the famous line, 'No, Mr. Bond; I expect you to die,' as a laser beam inched its way toward James Bond and threatened to cut him in half, lasers have been thought of as white-hot beams of intensely focused energy capable of burning through anything in their path. Now a team of Yale physicists has used lasers for a completely different purpose, employing them to cool molecules down to temperatures near absolute zero, about -460 degrees Fahrenheit. Their new method for laser cooling, described in the online edition of the journal Nature, is a significant step toward the ultimate goal of using individual molecules as information bits in quantum computing."
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Today's Children Are Officially Potty Mouths 449

Posted by samzenpus from the kids-say-the-#@^*est-things dept.
tetrahedrassface writes "When the Sociolinguistics Symposium met earlier this month swearing scholar Timothy Jay revealed that an increase in child swearing is directly related to an increase in adult swearing. It seems that vulgarity is increasing as pop culture continues to popularize vulgarities. The blame lies with media, public figures, politicians, but mostly ourselves. From the article: 'Children as young as two are now dropping f-bombs, with researchers reporting that more kids are using profanity — and at earlier ages — than has been recorded in at least three decades.'"

Comment Who is the next goat ? (Score 1) 520

by rrey (#33370030) Attached to: Look-Alike Tubes Lead To Hospital Deaths
"Nurses should not have to work in an environment where it is even possible to make that kind of mistake,' says Nancy Pratt"

And once the nurse won't be able to do the mistake, who will be responsible of the accident ? The tube manufacturer ?
If the process in place to avoid the "nurse error" fails, is he person who put the process in place is responsible ??

Raise the nurse salary and make them work under 80 hours a week, maybe they'll be less accident like this.

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