Comment Re:Stuff that anti-matters? (Score 2) 94
I was anticipating someone was going to post something like this. Oh slashdot, you and your anticlimactic antics of antique natures.
Comment Re:Explain to me... (Score 1) 143
And naturally the un-undoable one;
Telebot, MAX VOLUME.
TELEBOT, OH GOD, OH GOD, LOWER THE VOLUME! WHY CAN'T YOU HEAR ME!?
(Caps actually used to illustrate shouting, go figure.)
Comment It just sorts them? (Score 2, Informative) 63
It looks neat, but it's just a color sorting machine? It doesn't actually put anything together.
"A factory (previously manufactory) or manufacturing plant is an industrial building where laborers manufacture goods or supervise machines processing one product into another. "
Comment Re:"manned moon landing" (Score 1) 250
That's assuming there'd be a mountain left to hide in.
Comment Re:"manned moon landing" (Score 1) 250
Learn more about interplanetary colonization and the technology needed. It would be nice to have less eggs in this basket we call earth.
Realistically speaking though? It's mostly my inner nerd wanting to see it happen rather than it being something practical...
VMware Releases Open Source Cloud Foundry 91
Julie188 writes "VMware shook the cloud world with an announcement that it was releasing an open source platform-as-a-service called Cloud Foundry. Not surprisingly, the new cloud platform takes direct aim at Microsoft's Azure and Google's Google Apps platforms. Cloud Foundry is made up of several technologies and products that VMware has acquired over the recent past and is released under an Apache 2 license. While VMware isn't the first-and-only player to launch an open source cloud initiative (Red Hat has DeltaCloud, Rackspace and Dell have OpenStack), some believe that with VMware now in the open source cloud business, pressure could be mounting for Microsoft and Google to release versions of their cloud that could be hosted somewhere other than their own data centers."
Self-Wiping Hard Drives From Toshiba 268
Orome1 writes "Toshiba announced a family of self-encrypting hard disk drives engineered to automatically invalidate protected data when connected to an unknown host. Data invalidation attributes can be set for multiple data ranges, enabling targeted data in the drive to be rendered indecipherable by command, on power cycle, or on host authentication error."
Can't Get a Real Girlfriend? Get a "Cloud" Girlfriend
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An anonymous reader writes "In news that could make many lonely tech savvy men have more of a spring in their steps is the launch of 'Cloud Girlfriend' which is a start up tech company based in California whose service is to match a user to his perfect match. The sad part is the relationship will only be internet based. Reported by Sara Yin of PC Mag, 'Cloud Girlfriend' will be free as David Fuhriman co-founder is quoted with saying 'We allow people to define their ideal self, find their perfect girlfriend or boyfriend and connect and interact as if that person existed. We will fulfill the 4 steps on the landing page, but not create any fake accounts.'"
Comment I guess it falls under "whenever I remember", but: (Score 1) 266
Missing option: "After reading this poll and deciding to set up a proper off-site automated backup system."
Only the future will tell how well I stick to it.
Comment Re:The 456 (Score 1) 173
Off-topic much?
He didn't have to go there because he knew it would be resolved by Torchwood.
TIME TRAVEL.
Comment Re:Hackers, obviously... (Score 5, Insightful) 1200
Every time they showed a screen in Hackers I giggled and enjoyed the movie without taking it too seriously.
Comment How many Slashdot polls did you respond to... (Score 1) 149
Last year.
Comment 1 variable? (Score 1) 241
They consider knowing the answer to everything ever with no limits one variable while numbers of gameplays more?
If anything this is exactly what a computer is designed to do, not fish through millions of facts and try to use them to answer a question which it may or may not even understand.
Ridiculous comparison.
Game theory is based on rules and statistics which is what a computer loves to crunch, random facts? Not so much.
Comment Why not complete the illusion? (Score 2) 163
Why not just make a mirror which is essentially a screen with a camera and have it do it real time so you can truly pretend you're someone you're not.
Ridiculous concept? Well according to data we've acquired, around XX percent of our mirror clients are not satisfied with the way their faces look in a mirror"
People need to take a long hard look at their self-images (no pun intended) if they even consider buying this camera.
Comment Re:boring ipv6 articles (Score 1) 551
Unless you ARE the "ipv6 conversion specialist"...
