Comment License plate /= registration data? (Score 5, Insightful) 161
This means you are trackable.
Comment Does that mean (Score 1) 374
the Smart TV industry will kill the PC industry, because you can now do things like surf the net and Skype? In that case, the PC industry better hurry up killing the console industry, they've been working on that one for two decades.
Submission + - Quick Tech Product Death More Humane? (nytimes.com) 1
HumanEmulator writes: The NY Times writes about how the Hollywood summer-movie business model is being applied to tech products: "Every release needs to be a blockbuster, and the only measure of success is the opening-weekend gross." New products are being pulled from shelves only weeks after a lackluster release. What if the TouchPad, the Microsoft Kin, or even Google Wave had had more time on the market? Is this blockbuster or bust model good thing?
Comment Well... (Score 1) 131
Its not ideal, but better than having the ruling overturned. Although, the prospect of having the studios pay ISP's to process the infringement notices will give them yet another reason to complain about "the cost of piracy".
Comment Re:Why not use your own panic button? (Score 1) 237
It would appear that common sense does not prevail anymore. I also feel that that the "younger" generation may not actually realise that their phone can do more than just texting/IM and facebook. Like, there was actually a time where people *spoke* on to each other using phones. So last decade...
Comment Re:Fundamental Flaw? (Score 1) 157
The purpose of Tor is to provide anonymity. Given that in order for Tor to work it requires "community" participation, that means anyone can operate an exit node, but there is also an understanding that exit nodes can be used to siphon data. The key point here is that the exit nodes cannot determine the origin of the data, hence anonymity.
However, there is nothing preventing you from encrypting data over Tor.
Comment Why stop at just beeping? Draconian society (Score 1) 349
With cars becoming all *-by-wire, if you are going to the effort to detect the phone being used, why not get it to shut the car down?
(Of course there are safety issues here, but you get my drift)
Best Man Rigs Newlyweds' Bed To Tweet During Sex 272
When an UK man was asked to be the best man at a friend's wedding he agreed that he would not pull any pranks before or during the ceremony. Now the groom wishes he had extended the agreement to after the blessed occasion as well. The best man snuck into the newlyweds' house while they were away on their honeymoon and placed a pressure-sensitive device under their mattress. The device now automatically tweets when the couple have sex. The updates include the length of activity and how vigorous the act was on a scale of 1-10.
Comment Re:hardly relevant now... (Score 4, Insightful) 304
Humour. Try it.
Comment Re:Altitude (Score 2, Interesting) 174
I thought the same thing as well.
I'm in Australia, even the people here are calling it a publicity stunt, although, if thats true then I don't understand the actual benefit the family gets with the publicity... aren't they described as a "crackpot" family?
Comment Re:Strength? (Score 1) 213
My thoughts exactly, does it not have to store the carbon somewhere? Of course I have no knowledge in this area, but sureley that would change the structural integrity of the concrete over time? Could someone more knowledgable comment on this?
Or, for all we know, because its absorbing carbon it could very well make it stronger.
Submission + - AMD Breaks 1GHz GPU Barrier With Radeon HD 4890 (hothardware.com)
MojoKid writes: "AMD announced today that they can lay claim to the
world's first 1GHz graphics processor with their ATI Radeon HD 4890 GPU. There's been no formal announcement made about what partners will be selling the 1GHz variant, but AMD does note that Asus, Club 3D, Diamond Multimedia, Force3D, GECUBE,
Gigabyte, HIS, MSI, Palit Multimedia, PowerColor, SAPPHIRE, XFX and others are all aligning to release higher performance cards. The new
ATI Radeo HD 4890 utilizes advanced GDDR5 memory and a 1GHz core clock speed to deliver 1.6 TeraFLOPs of compute power."
Submission + - Windows 7RC Has A Virus Botnet (therunningtally.com)
Drivintin writes: "There are reports that the Windows 7 RC that was found on torrent, that appeared with the MSDN release, has a major botnet. "The rate of infected machines at one point was growing at over 500 machines an hour, and looks to have over 27,000 installs." The control machine looks to have been taken out, but now all those machines lay as zombies, ready to go."
Comment Solution: Block Slashdot (Score 5, Funny) 500
Because we all know they are just sitting there waiting to get first post.
Oh wait...
Comment Presumambly... (Score 3, Interesting) 105
Since you have a linux computer on board, you could extend this beyond just real time control. Programmed flight paths? Use a smaller embedded linux computer and add extra gear, maybe cameras and GPS, you could do all sorts of cool stuff (although, now this is starting to sound like a military spy plane... expect a knock on the door from the FBI)
