Comment Re:Result (Score 1) 809
Atleast he got to fly first class the remaining time of the trip?
Comment Re:How can that be? (Score 2, Informative) 978
I was grossly overweight to the point that the doctor was worried so I said to myself that this cannot go on. I changed the amount of food I ate from large dishes to normal dishes and skipped any evening meals except vegetables. I also picked up daily one hour walks or swimming. During 4 months I lost somewhere close to 100 pounds and felt great.
Comment Re:First priority. (Score 3, Funny) 244
They could call it a brown hole?
Comment Re:National Security? (Score 4, Funny) 150
You have to accept the EULA first. Then you can read it.
Comment Re:Who watches the... (Score 1) 250
Thats why Windows never even got a chance to start on my netbook, installed Fedora right away. Now I have a useless sticker at the bottom that says I'm a proud Windows license owner...
Comment Google services (Score 1) 195
Well, they were beta anyway so...
Comment Re:The solution is easy (Score 1) 449
Start with the politicians internet, let them do for example banking the old way.
Comment Re:So... what was wrong with the gun? (Score 1) 702
In local news police clocked a driver going 121km/h with the radar while the driver claimed to be going 85km/h. Driver was issued a ticket. Next day police found that the radar gun was not calibrated correctly and contacted all who were issued a ticket from the previous day.
Submission + - Climate change to trigger earthquakes?
OriginalArlen writes: LiveScience reports that Bill McGuire of UCL's Hazard Research Centre has warned that climate change is likely to cause an increase in major seismic events, including earthquakes, volcanos, tsunamis and landslides. The original piece is in the Guardian, and there's an accompanying podcast.
Submission + - Algorithm Rates Trustworthiness of Wikipedia Pages
paleshadows writes: Researchers at UCSC developed a tool that measures the trustworthiness of each wikipedia page. Roughly speaking, the algorithm analyzes the entire 7-year user-editing-history and utilzes the longevity of the content to learn which contributors are the most reliable: If your contribution lasts, you gain "reputation", whereas if it's edited out, your reputation falls. The trustworthiness of a newly inserted text is a function of the reputation of all its authors, a heuristic that turned out to be successful in identifying poor content. The interested reader can take a look at this demo (random page with white/orange background marking trusted/untrusted text, respectively; note "random page" link at the left for more demo pages), this
presentation (pdf), and this paper (pdf).
Feed Engadget: Nikon's Coolpix S51c with a lick of WiFi sugar (engadget.com)
Filed under: Digital Cameras
Mmm mm, WiFi and digital photography go together like brown on Zune (whatever that means). Sprinkle in a 3-inch LCD, optical lens shift vibration reduction, SDHC expansion, and Nikon's new EXPEED image processing and you've got Nikon's Coolpix S51c. Under the hood you'll find an 8.1 megapixel, 1/2.5-inch CCD pumping away in support of that 3x Zoom-NIKKOR glass. All well and good, but the WiFi seems limited to pushing photos up to Nikon's new "My Picturetown" service only. At least from there it "supports picture transfer to various imaging devices as well as Internet services." €299/$407 -- less if you opt for the WiFi-less S51.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!
Feed Engadget: LG's new 5000:1 LCDs coming your way (engadget.com)
Filed under: Displays
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Feed Engadget: Honeywell, in cooperation with the Borg, develop self-healing HDMI cable (engadget.com)
Filed under: HDTV
Yesterday there was Monster Cable's Speed-Rated HDMI cables and today, Honeywell's CURxE self-healing cable. Sounds like someone in the marketing department decided that the error correcting built into the HDMI spec wasn't good 'nough and told the engineers to incorporate a little chip into the cable. Of course brightly colored LEDs were added to help potential suckers justify the extra expense. The last set of enhanced HDMI equipped with LEDs and "chips" didn't help the picture at all; it made the picture worse. We don't know how much these HDMI cables are going to retail for or when they are going to be available but honestly, even if we did, we highly doubt anyone would rush out and pick a set up. We have a bad feeling with CEDIA right around the corner, this is only the beginning of off the wall, greed-driven HDMI marketing.
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Feed The Register: Plants will make greenhouse effect flooding worse (theregister.com)
Drowned by lazy daisies
New data published by the Met Office's Hadley research centre suggests that flooding will be an even bigger problem than anticipated for our warming planet. And it is plants that are to blame.
Submission + - Artificial life likely in 3 to 10 years... (cnn.com)
teambpsi writes: "Around the world, a handful of scientists are trying to create life from scratch and they're getting closer.
Experts expect an announcement within three to 10 years from someone in the now little-known field of "wet artificial life."
"When these things are created, they're going to be so weak, it'll be a huge achievement if you can keep them alive for an hour in the lab," Mark Badau said. "But them getting out and taking over, never in our imagination could this happen."
Never in our imagination? Clearly this guy doesn't get enough sci-fi in his diet :)"
Experts expect an announcement within three to 10 years from someone in the now little-known field of "wet artificial life."
"When these things are created, they're going to be so weak, it'll be a huge achievement if you can keep them alive for an hour in the lab," Mark Badau said. "But them getting out and taking over, never in our imagination could this happen."
Never in our imagination? Clearly this guy doesn't get enough sci-fi in his diet
