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Comment Not going to work. (Score 1) 134

by Kekke (#49117869) Attached to: Pakistanis Must Provide Fingerprints Or Give Up Cellphone

Fingerprint biometrics is oldschool, and in my opinion very soon rendered useless.
This will be misused again by real terrorists, and the government.
The normal citizens will take the real hit.

Like to also ask if the government officials are also forced to do the same thing ?
If they agree, theres allready a way around this, if not well, it's government so no penalty.

All in all, completely useless waste of poor countrys money.

Comment Human being is truly amazing. (Score 2) 421

by Kekke (#49110935) Attached to: What If We Lost the Sky?

Last time i checked we weren't the only creatures on this planet, worse yes, only, no.
Might be a good idea think what it does for the living biomass in a whole....We are kept alive by that very same mass.

Why try stop the warming like this? Pretty obvious, after that we can cash in for the fossil fuels that are still left to burn.

*pffft*

Comment Wonderfull example (Score 1) 128

by Kekke (#49089563) Attached to: Apple Patent Could Have "Broad Ramifications" For VR Headsets

This really shows how much these corporations really want their customers to be happy. and get all the best they possible could offer.
As long as Apple in this case makes money or bangs it's competitor's in behind wearing the classes.
It has no problems if it's customers (we, the people on earth, etc) never ever get to wear these devices. .....

Submission + - New software sequences human genome in an hour(s) (nationwidechildrens.org)

Submitted by Kekke
Kekke writes: The first time it took 3 Billion $ and thirteen years.
Now the time required as reported by nationwidechildrens.org has dropped to hour or so...
One can just imagine the new possibilities (in good, and in bad). That this will open up.

Comment Bring me a phone... (Score 2) 177

by Kekke (#49008801) Attached to: The First Ubuntu Phone Is Here, With Underwhelming Hardware

That is pure linux inside without any of the big corps "all your data are belong to us" thingys in the background.
And so that user could actually, really, honestly, decide Him/Her self whats going on under the hood (on software side).....
Slam it with some top end hardware, I'd be one of the first lining it up.

Why ohh why, those hardware specs. Since this could have been the phone for geeks. Above specs met, I'd be happy to through in 500 or so €

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.

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