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Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Adaptive Lighting (squarespace.com) 2

Submitted by handshake, doctor
handshake, doctor writes: One of my goals at CES this year was to build a better understanding of the C&C flow behind the new home automation protocols showing there in order to suss out the feasibility of home-rolling a circadian-adaptive lighting scheduler, locally driven by a simple switch interface. A good bit of research indicates it’s worthwhile to consider an approach like this in your own home/office, but this application gets about 1% of the ink that more frivolous uses of RBG(W) lighting do, even from the early adopters and reviewers in the industry that jump in hard on this tech.

What I want is a single on/off or dimmer hardware controller that can query a color and intensity lookup table (with a few more inputs, taking into account geolocation and time of year,) to determine the appropriate shade of white at that given moment, then tell an arbitrary group of lights what to do. Oh, and I don't want it to be PC-based, 'cloud'-based, or connected outside my LAN.

I wrote a bit more on this, current workarounds, and blue light here, but I'd love to hear what the Slashdot crowd thinks about how to approach this problem.

Submission + - NASA's New Horizons to arrive at Pluto with Clyde Tombaugh's ashes (techienews.co.uk)

Submitted by hypnosec
hypnosec writes: NASA’s New Horizons is bringing with it the ashes of Clyde Tombaugh – its discoverer – as it cruises towards the now dwarf-planet or ‘plutoid’. The probe will be close enough on January 15 to start observing Pluto. Clyde Tombaugh discovered the ice and rock-laden Pluto in 1930 and one of his final requests was that his ashes be sent into space. Tombaugh died on January 17, 1997. Fulfilling that wish NASA has fitted the upper deck of New Horizons probe with a small container containing Tombaugh’s ashes alongside a total of 7 scientific instruments. “Interned herein are remains of American Clyde W. Tombaugh, discoverer of Pluto and the solar system’s ‘third zone'”, reads the inscription on the container.

Comment Online life..... (Score 4, Insightful) 218

by Kekke (#48682313) Attached to: Facebook Apologizes For 'Year In Review' Photos

Terrible that these things happen...
Yet another example that living in online world, you must be ready to always face what you leave behind.
My hopes are that ppl really understood this really simple thing.

It may not make a difference now what you post or do, yet in 5-10-20 years, it might be a huge thing in individuals life.

Submission + - The EU has a plan to break up Google (theverge.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Google has been the target of repeated anti-trust scrutiny in Europe over the last decade. Today Financial Times is reporting that the European parliament is on the verge of taking even more drastic steps, preparing a plan that would call for the break up of the search giant, specifically the "unbundling [of] search engines from other commercial services."

Submission + - Best practices for starting and running a software shop

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: I'm a systems architect (and a former Unix sysadmin) with many years of experience on the infrastructure side of things. I have a masters in CS but not enough practical exposure to professional software development. I'd like to start my own software product line and I'd like to avoid outsourcing as much as I can. I'm seeking advice on what you think are the best practices for running a software shop and/or good blogs/books on the subject.

To be clear, I am not asking about what are the best programming practices or the merits of agile vs waterfall. Rather I am asking more about how to best run the shop as a whole. For example, how important is it to have coding standards and how much standardization is necessary for a small business? What are the pros and cons of allowing different tools and/or languages? What should the ratio of senior programmers to intermediate and junior programmers be and how should they work with each other so that nobody is bored and everyone learns something?

Thanks for your help.

Submission + - Denmark Plans to be Coal-Free in 10 Years

Submitted by merbs
merbs writes: Earlier this year, Denmark's leadership announced that the nation would run entirely on renewable power by 2050. Wind, solar, and biomass would be ramped up while coal and gas are phased out. Now Denmark has gone even further, and plans to end coal by 2025.

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