Comment BAPS (Score 1) 102
The brit in me hoped that the acronym would be BAPS. :|
Comment Re:Assange's got his own personal "issues" (Score 1) 298
Noone cares. He always. does.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Noone
Hacked iRobot Uses XBox Kinect To See World 124
kkleiner writes "A student at MIT's Personal Robotics Group is going to put Microsoft's Kinect to a good use: controlling robots. Philipp Robbel has hacked together the Kinect 3D sensor with an iRobot Create platform and assembled a battery-powered bot that can see its environment and obey your gestured commands. Tentatively named KinectBot, Robbel's creation can generate some beautifully detailed 3D maps of its surroundings and wirelessly send them to a host computer. KinectBot can also detect nearby humans and track their movements to understand where they want it to go."
In related but less agreeable news, "Dennis Durkin, who is both COO and CFO for Microsoft's Xbox group, told investors this week that Kinect can also be used by advertisers to see how many people are in a room when an ad is on screen, and to custom-tailor content based on the people it recognizes."
Comment Re:Makes popcorn (Score 1) 132
Yeah, I don't use my Android phones for more than a week before installing some kind of custom ROM on them.
Most users will never even think of doing updates though.
The carriers may push an update if this bug gets enough press though.
That still means people won't update, but the ones who care can be safe. Or the users who have friends who care.
Comment Re:Wayland... (Score 1) 640
I love you Kristian Høgsberg.
That's one of my main gripes with desktop Linux in general these days.
