Comment Re:First Call (Score 1) 83
rofl wild applause!
Comment Pranav Mistry's MIT version demo'd 2009 TED (Score 1) 69
This sure looks like the gimzo that Pranav Mistry developed at MIT.
Here's a link to the demo of same at TED, last year:
http://www.ted.com/talks/pattie_maes_demos_the_sixth_sense.html
Comment Re:I'm not clear on what their case is... (Score 1) 112
Boy howdy. That which is not expressly permitted IS NOT THEREBY FORBIDDEN.
Comment Re:I hope they use "used" golf balls (Score 1) 770
Gah, were be me mod points now! Someone mod up brilliant AC!
Comment Re:NO TAXATION, WITHOUT REPRESENTATION (Score 1) 762
I want to hear more about this New York talking gull!
Comment Re:It's a tough job (Score 1) 518
More like Guilds - and part of the reason they're eating it now is that they've been functioning like a Guild, just like the (sell out) auto and iron worker unions did. As long as their own nests were feathered, they not only didn't care about the other unions, they joined in the Republican decades long project to disenfranchise and undermine them. Where were the pilots when PATCO was trashed? Along with the mechanics, they crossed the lines.
Comment Re:It's a tough job (Score 1) 518
Why the hell is the previous post modded to Flamebait?
Comment Re:Luck not shot down (Score 1) 518
Thanks for relating that. Interesting idea, that even if the jets had been shot down before hitting the WTC towers, we'd have gone through the same kind of things subsequently.
FBI Bringing Biometric Photo Scanning To North Carolina, Via DMV 221
AHuxley writes "The FBI is getting fast new systems to look at local North Carolina license photos via the DMV. As the FBI is not authorized to collect and store the photos, they use the North Carolina Division of Motor Vehicles. The system takes seconds to look at chin widths and nose sizes. The expanded technology used on millions of motorist could be rolled out across the USA. The FBI's Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System is also getting an upgrade to DNA records, 3-D facial imaging, palm prints and voice scans."
Comment Re:Quick answer and research links (Score 1) 95
Nice list'o'links. Thanks.
Bookmark Links to Basic Computing Ed Materiel (slashdot.org)
Comment Re:I for one welcome our robotic overlords (Score 1) 240
I would like to add that Windows Millennium was very much under appreciated!
Thank you.
McCain Campaign Uses Spider/Diff Against Obama 1171
Vote McCain in 2008! writes "McCain's campaign is doing everything it can to erase Obama's online advantage, this time they ambushed Obama by detecting edits to his website when he updated some of his policy positions. This isn't the first time the Republicans have shown up the Democrats with their web savvy — you may remember the previous reports about the Republican Web 2.0 Consultants and their online campaigning game. This just proves that old Republicans can learn new tricks." Assuming the spider adheres to robots.txt, this is clever and well done.
Submission + - U.S. Billionaire Heads to Space Station
TurnAround writes: A Russian rocket carrying the American billionaire who helped develop Microsoft Word roared into the night skies over Kazakhstan Saturday, sending Charles Simonyi and two cosmonauts soaring into orbit on a two-day journey to the international space station.
Climbing on a column of smoke and fire into the clouds over the bleak steppes, the Soyuz TMA-10 capsule lifted off at 11:31 p.m. local time, casting an orange glow over the Baikonur cosmodrome and dozens of officials and well-wishers watching from about a mile away.
Submission + - Vendor aims to 'cloak' WEP...
Ant writes: "This three page NetworkWorld news story says Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) could be safe again. AirDefense is developing a sofware that will insert fake frames into the air that the attacker thinks are real, and this messes up the statistical analysis of the attacker.
Seen in a Broadband Reports' wireless security forum thread."
