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Ask Slashdot: Does Europe Have Better Magazines Than the US? 562

Posted by timothy on Sunday January 29, 2012 @03:11AM from the german-stereo-magazines-are-spitzenklasse dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Now that all the large chain book stores have disappeared from the landscape, I visited my local independent book store. In the basement I found a dazzling array of amazing magazines from the UK and Germany. Not only were the magazines impressive, they included CDs and DVDs of material. Nearly every subject was there: Knitting, Photography, Music, Linux, and Fitness. I snapped up a magazine called 'Computer Music,' which had a whole issue dedicated to making house music, including a disc of extra content. I subscribe to U.S. magazines like Wired, 2600, & Make, but their quality seems to ebb and flow from issue to issue and I don't ever recall a bonus disc. Are the UK magazines really better? If yes, why and which of them do you subscribe to? The other interesting thing about them is they weren't filled with tons of those annoying subscription cards. What is the best way to subscribe?"

Comment Re:no 5th? (Score 1) 1047

by clickforfreepizza on Tuesday January 24, 2012 @12:53PM (#38806925) Attached to: US Judge Rules Defendant Can Be Forced To Decrypt Hard Drive

And they just assumed your translation was correct? What if you had made a mistake in your favor? As translating is not an exact science, an honest interpretation might be construed as a mistake.

Maybe your text was trivial to translate; just wondering. I believe it's just a gesture showing good will.

Comment Re:no 5th? (Score 1) 1047

by clickforfreepizza on Tuesday January 24, 2012 @12:43PM (#38806741) Attached to: US Judge Rules Defendant Can Be Forced To Decrypt Hard Drive

I don't disagree, just asking in addition: So if one cop (thinks he) saw something before a computer is turned off and testifies with enough confidence, this testimony would not be scrutinized as strictly as if a conviction were based on it, but it would suffice for an order to hand over the encryption key. What if they then find evidence of a different crime? Would that be the fruit of the poisonous tree?

the court already had consistent and concurring testimony from 2 Customs agents, if they had committed perjury it would have been ridiculously easy to very that without much compromising the defendant's privacy

Sorry, it's not obvious to me which method you suggest.

Comment Re:no 5th? (Score 1) 1047

by clickforfreepizza on Tuesday January 24, 2012 @12:28PM (#38806523) Attached to: US Judge Rules Defendant Can Be Forced To Decrypt Hard Drive

Then how do you explain the presence of encryption software? Even if you have that entirely on a memory stick, they may find it.

Comment Re:no 5th? (Score 1) 1047

by clickforfreepizza on Tuesday January 24, 2012 @12:26PM (#38806483) Attached to: US Judge Rules Defendant Can Be Forced To Decrypt Hard Drive

But surely you know of some way to access your data, even if you haven't seen the bits of the key themselves. Wouldn't handing over that method satisfy the court order?

Submission + - GHOST Claimed to be World's First Super-cavitating (gizmag.com)

Submitted by Zothecula on Wednesday January 18, 2012 @10:31AM

Zothecula writes: If you combined a stealth jet fighter and an attack helicopter and stuck them in the water, what would you get? Well, according to the folks at New Hampshire's Juliet Marine Systems (JMS), you'd get the GHOST marine platform. Privately developed for possible use by the U.S. Navy, the boat would reportedly be invisible to enemy ships' radar, while also being faster and more economical than existing military vessels. The company's big claim, however, is that GHOST is the world's first super-cavitating watercraft.

Submission + - Mandriva Delays Bankruptcy Decision (ostatic.com)

Submitted by Thinkcloud on Wednesday January 18, 2012 @05:39AM

Thinkcloud writes: The fate of Mandriva continues to be shrouded in mystery. The original coffin day of January 16 came and went by without any news and now it seems that someone will actually but the Penguin on January 23rd.

Comment Re:Nothing new (Score 1) 331

by clickforfreepizza on Saturday December 10, 2011 @02:31PM (#38327926) Attached to: 'Vocal Fry' Creeping Into US Speech

Fry adresses this, when he talks about job interviews.

Submission + - NASA may send landers to Europa in 2020 (space.com) 1

Submitted by wisebabo on Saturday December 10, 2011 @12:50PM

wisebabo writes: So here's a proposal by NASA to send landers to Europa to look for life. They are sending TWO landers because of the risks in landing on Europa.

They got that right! First is the 500 million mile distance from the sun which will probably necessitate RTGs (I know Juno uses solar panels but they are HUGE) and will cause at least an hour time lag for communications. Then there is the intense gravitational field of Jupiter which will require a LOT of fuel to get into Jovian and then Europan orbit. (It's equivalent to traveling amongst the inner planets!) The radiation in Jupiter space is tremendous, the spacecraft may need to be "armored" like Juno. Landing on Europa is going to be crazy, first there will not be any hi-res maps of the landing areas (unlike Mars) and even if there were, the geography of Europa might change due to the shifting ice. Since there is no atmosphere, it'll be rockets down all the way; very expensive in terms of fuel like landing on the moon. Finally, who knows what the surface is like; is it a powder, rock hard, crumbly or slippery?

In a couple respects, looking for life on Titan (already landed one simple probe) would be a lot easier: DENSE atmosphere, no radiation, radar mapped from space, have knowledge of surface). If only we could do both!

Submission + - Computer Virus forces US Hospital & Trauma Cen (ajc.com)

Submitted by McGruber on Saturday December 10, 2011 @09:45AM

McGruber writes: The Atlanta Journal Constitution newspaper is reporting [http://www.ajc.com/news/gwinnett/ambulances-turned-away-as-1255750.html] that hospitals in Lawrenceville and Duluth, Georgia, USA, turned ambulances away after the hospitals discovered "a system-wide computer virus that slowed patient registration and other operations."

One of the hospital "went to total diversion status because it's a trauma center and needs to be able to respond rapidly."

The situation began on Thursday afternoon and is expected to last thru the weekend.

Comment Re:How can this produce accurate results? (Score 1) 175

by clickforfreepizza on Wednesday December 07, 2011 @04:42PM (#38295012) Attached to: Earth's Core Made In Miniature

Yes Mr Pizza, "This cannot work. Case closed." is exactly what I read from a comment like that.

I explained why it seems to be more than that. You ignore that. I talked about what if there was indeed no more to it. You ignore that. The rest of your reply I find inaccurate. So I'm not sure what to make of it.
But that doesn't matter: The existance of an informative answer proves that your and others' rants are moot.

Comment Re:How can this produce accurate results? (Score 3, Insightful) 175

by clickforfreepizza on Wednesday December 07, 2011 @12:41PM (#38292064) Attached to: Earth's Core Made In Miniature

I'm sick and tired of this kind of banal and destructive comment. Please read GP again. Is "This cannot work. Case closed." really what you get from it?

I think GP is trying to understand the experiment. Pointing out issues which are problems according to his current understanding is an excellent first step to learn more.

Always adding a disclaimer that we are aware that we are no experts would be as superfluous as your answer. Don't you hate it when you teach someone and it goes like this: "Okay, what don't you understand?" - "Well... everything." Pointing out "Here's what doesn't make sense." should be a relatively obvious and welcome form to ask for clarification.

And even if you do not believe that the poster wants to learn, you could answer him in a constructive manner and thus help others with similar questions. If you cannot or do not want to do that, please ignore him.

Submission + - Octopus walks around on land [w/video] (treehugger.com)

Submitted by AmyVernon on Thursday November 24, 2011 @11:54AM

AmyVernon writes: It turns out this behavior is not as uncommon as one might expect. Captive octopuses escape with alarming frequency. While on the lam, they have been discovered in teapots and even on bookshelves.

"Some would let themselves be captured, only to use the net as a trampoline. They'd leap off the mesh and onto the floor—and then run for it. Yes, run. You'd chase them under the tank, back and forth, like you were chasing a cat," Middlebury College researcher Alexa Warburton says. "It's so weird!"

Submission + - European Court of Justice: ISPs can't be forced to (zdnet.co.uk)

Submitted by mmcuh on Thursday November 24, 2011 @10:00AM

mmcuh writes: Back in 2004, Belgian copyright group Sabam managed to get a court order forcing the ISP Scarlet to filter out filesharing traffic. Scarlet took the case to a national appeals court, which in turn asked the European Court of Justice for an opinion. The opinion was delivered today: "EU law precludes an injunction made against an internet service provider requiring it to install a system for filtering all electronic communications passing via its services which applies indiscriminately to all its customers, as a preventive measure, exclusively at its expense and for an unlimited period. [...] It is true that the protection of the right to intellectual property is enshrined in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU. There is, however, nothing whatsoever in the wording of the Charter or in the Court's case law to suggest that that right is inviolable and must for that reason be absolutely protected."

Submission + - The Aussies Have Built One Bad Ass Flight Simulato (gizmodo.com)

Submitted by I Want One! on Thursday November 24, 2011 @08:54AM

I Want One! writes: A fighter sim just isn't realistic unless it makes you throw up and scream for your mother, which is why the sadistic folks at Australia's Deakin University created the Universal Motion Simulator (UMS). It's a barebones cockpit attached to the end of a customised seven-meter robotic arm that can pull up to six Gs, it's uncomfortable enough to mimic external disturbances, mechanical failures and crash scenarios as well as normal flying. The system also monitors a pilot's brainwaves, pulse and other bodily functions to discover if they have necessary nerve.

Built by the Centre for Intelligent Systems Research (CISR), the Haptically-Enabled Universal Motion Simulator was partially funded by the government and military looking for a cheaper way to train pilots, and even drivers. What sets it apart from traditional simulators is the robot arm's ability to keep the rider moving or spinning on two axes at the same time, allowing it to better recreate the feeling of actual flight manoeuvres.

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