Comment Re:Great! (Score 1) 630
According to his mother he had drawn a glove with flames.
http://www.myfoxphilly.com/story/20385390/fi
Comment Re:Kudos to those pushing private space exploratio (Score 1) 121
You'd better learn Mandarin. China is the only country properly investing enough money for the infrastructure to expand and explore space. I believe their plans might be more mature than Golden Spike Company.
Comment Re:A Wasted Vote... (Score 1) 409
He left the Republican party when it became obvious that the Republican power brokers would never let his message be heard. Crony capitalism would never survive under his leadership of the Republican party.
Comment Re:Depends (Score 5, Insightful) 503
What really happened is that big business took more direct control of both sides to ensure that one or the other always remained in power for their benefit.
This hits the nail on the head.
Comment Re:They all suck (Score 5, Funny) 503
Disagree because it's clowns to the left, jokers to the right ...
Comment The Democratic party is not liberal (Score 3, Insightful) 503
The Democratic party is not liberal unless liberal doesn't mean supporting the liberties and rights of its citizens and I mean real people not corporations. The current administration makes Bush's administration look left-leaning.
Comment Re:"could have a big problem" (Score 3, Interesting) 232
I don't see MS and/or PCs being marginalized simply because business won't adopt Win 8 RT if it means their in-house software as well as other specialized software can't be used unless MS approves it in their App store. This might affect individuals but not business clients from small business to enterprise clients. With these restrictions, development for Android will only grow while development for Win 8 RT will whither after the initial rush of early development. Sorta like how SPARC and DEC lost out in the business desktop and small server application race; poor business model equals failure.
There are still way too many businesses using XP that haven't even upgraded to Win7 because of legacy and in-house software .
Comment Sprint confirms (Score 1) 1
CNN has article confirming
http://www.money.cnn.com/2012/10/15/technology/sprint-softbank-purchase/index.html?iid=Lead&hpt=hp_t3
http://www.money.cnn.com/2012/10/15/technology/sprint-softbank-purchase/index.html?iid=Lead&hpt=hp_t3
Submission + - Small Telescopes Make Big Discoveries
Hugh Pickens writes writes: "Hakeem Oluseyi, an astronomer at the Florida Institute of Technology and president of the African Astronomical Society, says his goal is to put one research telescope in every country, starting with African and Southern Hemisphere nations because there is now an amazing opportunity for small telescopes to discover and characterize new planetary systems, as well as measure the structure of the Milky Way. "Astronomers are no longer looking at high-definition pictures but at HD movies, scanning for objects that change and for transient ones," says Oluseyi. "A 4-inch telescope was used to discover the first exoplanet by the transit method, where you watch the brightness vary." Small telescopes capable to doing real science are a lot cheaper than people think. A 1-meter telescope costs $300,000 but reduce the size by 60 percent, and it falls to just $30,000. For example the Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope (KELT) uses hardware costing less than $75,000 to look at millions of very bright stars at once, over broad sections of sky, and at low resolution to see if the starlight dims just a little — an indication that a planet has crossed in front of the star. The KELT team has already discovered the existence of a very unusual faraway planet — KELT-1b, a super hot, super dense ball of metallic hydrogen so massive that it may better be described as a 'failed star' and located so close to its star that it whips through an entire "yearly" orbit in a little over a day."
Submission + - Japanese Carrier is in talks to acquire Sprint (thenextweb.com) 1
caballew writes: Japanese carrier Softbank has engaged in talks to acquire two-third's of U.S. carrier Sprint. This acquisition will expand its bandwidth and LTE service domestically while also giving it a large foothold into the US market.
Submission + - 'Arrogant' Apple should be building bigger iPhones (bgr.com)
zacharye writes: Never one to mince words, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has once again offered up some solid criticism of the company he helped build. In an interview with TechCentral, Wozniak called Apple “arrogant” and said the reason the iPhone 5 doesn’t have a larger display — both wider and taller — is because the company thinks it’s “the only one with the right clue.” In a recent television commercial, Apple stressed the fact that all of the iPhone 5s 4-inch display can be reached comfortably with a thumb during one-handed use, but Wozniak wants a bigger panel and thinks Apple should have made two different iPhone models, a smaller one and a larger one...
Submission + - Linux Developers Still Reject NVIDIA Using DMA-BUF (phoronix.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Many Linux laptop users are quick to bash NVIDIA over their lack of proper Optimus support. In August NVIDIA confirmed they were working on NVIDIA Optimus Linux support. As part of their Optimus Linux implementation they want to use DMA-BUF for the multi-GPU interactions just like the open-source drivers, so that they can all work together. Unfortunately, the developers of the linux kernel prevent NVIDIA to finish their implementation by not allowing non-GPL drivers to use this unified buffer sharing infrastructure.
Should NVIDIA use the F-word to respond to their intransigence ?
Should NVIDIA use the F-word to respond to their intransigence ?
Submission + - Conficker worm still being tracked, but evidence collection slows (networkworld.com)
alphadogg writes: The notorious malware known as the Conficker worm still infects computers, a sort of wild horse with no rider, but investigators appear no closer to finding its creator. Also known as "Downandup," Conficker was discovered in November 2008, exploiting a vulnerability in Windows XP that allowed remote file execution when file-sharing was enabled. Microsoft patched it a month later. At its peak, Conficker infected upwards of 7 million computers, and Microsoft still ranks Conficker as the second-most prevalent malware family on domain-joined computers. Security researchers with the Conficker Working Group along with vendors including Microsoft successfully cut off the Conficker's operators from the botnet, but the group is still working to try to find Conficker's master. The problem is that botnet operators have stayed away from Conficker and not tried to reclaim it, a welcome development but one that leaves researchers with a lack of fresh electronic leads. "Well, we sort of won in that regard," , said Jose Nazario, a malware researcher. "On the other hand, if they're not interacting with it, there's no more evidence coming in."
Submission + - Court rules book scanning is fair use, suggesting Google Books victory (arstechnica.com)
concealment writes: "Now a judge has ruled that the libraries who have provided Google with their books to scan are protected by copyright's fair use doctrine. While the decision doesn't guarantee that Google will win—that's still to be decided in a separate lawsuit—the reasoning of this week's decision bodes well for Google's case.
Most of the books Google scans for its book program come from libraries. After Google scans each book, it provides a digital image and a text version of the book to the library that owns the original. The libraries then contribute the digital files to a repository called the Hathitrust Digital Library, which uses them for three purposes: preservation, a full-text search engine, and electronic access for disabled patrons who cannot read the print copies of the books."
Most of the books Google scans for its book program come from libraries. After Google scans each book, it provides a digital image and a text version of the book to the library that owns the original. The libraries then contribute the digital files to a repository called the Hathitrust Digital Library, which uses them for three purposes: preservation, a full-text search engine, and electronic access for disabled patrons who cannot read the print copies of the books."
Submission + - US DOE Sees Fossil Fuel Costs Mounting Toward $4 (chemicalsinfomart.com)
binarypower7 writes: "The North American nation same on Wednesday it expects domestic fossil fuel costs to rise in 2013 as use for the fuel is anticipated to climb in residential, business and industrial sectors at the side of continued high consumption among utilities.
In its monthly short energy outlook (STEO), the Energy info Administration (EIA) same it expects the terms for North American nation fossil fuel to average $3.35/MMBtu in 2013, a rise of sixty four cents from the expected 2012 average terms of $2.71/MMBtu.
The EIA is that the information assortment and analysis arm of the Department of Energy (DOE)."
In its monthly short energy outlook (STEO), the Energy info Administration (EIA) same it expects the terms for North American nation fossil fuel to average $3.35/MMBtu in 2013, a rise of sixty four cents from the expected 2012 average terms of $2.71/MMBtu.
The EIA is that the information assortment and analysis arm of the Department of Energy (DOE)."
