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Submission + - Sony hackers threaten theaters with 9/11-style attack (usatoday.com) 1

Submitted by mpicpp
mpicpp writes: The Sony hackers story has taken a new and more ominous turn.

A message from the Guardians of Peace group warns of a 9/11-like attack on movie theaters that screen Seth Rogen and James Franco's North Korean comedy The Interview.

"The world will be full of fear," the message reads, according to Varietyand Buzzfeed, adding, "Remember the 11th of September 2001."

The National Association of Theatre Owners, is "not commenting at this time," said spokesman. Jackie Brenneman.

Film critic and historian Leonard Maltin was at a loss for words over the latest turn of unprecedented events.

"I don't know how to respond or react. I've never faced anything like this before," Maltin said. "There have been protests over films. But I cannot think of threats from an anonymous group like this."

Submission + - Mars Rover finds evidence of Taco Bell? (bbc.com)

Submitted by ColdWetDog
ColdWetDog writes: Most methane on earth has a biological origin — microbes, cows, burritos. It has been long observed that there is a very low level of methane production on Mars. It's specific origin is unclear. Certainly one answer would be some sort of biologic process. The Mars Rover, Curiosity has been sampling methane levels on a regular basis and has noted several small spikes.

A BBC article discusses the data further and offers some clues and further areas of research. Unfortunately it is a bit premature to postulate that the Martian Counsel can order takeout.

Submission + - Researchers make blood vessels grow by shining a light on skin (sciencemag.org)

Submitted by sciencehabit
sciencehabit writes: Any fan of Star Trek knows that simply shining light on an injury will heal many wounds in the future. Now scientists have brought that future a bit closer. In a new study, researchers have found a way to stimulate the growth of blood vessels—an important part of healing—by hitting the skin with ultraviolet light.

Submission + - Robot spots predatory worms, floating slime balls under Arctic ice (sciencemag.org)

Submitted by sciencehabit
sciencehabit writes: A lightweight, remotely operated vehicle that dove deep under Arctic ice has spotted under-ice algae, as well as tiny copepods, ctenophores (jellyfish), predatory marine worms called arrow worms, and abundant amounts of large floating slime balls, known to scientists as larvaceans. What links these lower members of the food web to seals and polar bears isn’t yet clear; scientists saw no evidence of the most obvious missing element—fish—during the expedition.

Submission + - Scientists solve mystery of spontaneously combusting rubble piles in Japan quake (sciencemag.org)

Submitted by sciencehabit
sciencehabit writes: Something strange happened in the aftermath of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami that pummeled Japan. Months later, mysterious fires began breaking out in piles of brick and wood from damaged buildings. Researchers puzzled over what sparked the fires, but a new study offers a possible explanation: decomposing rice-straw flooring, called tatami mats, filled with fermenting microbes that generate large quantities of heat.

Submission + - Touring A Carnival Cruise Simulator: 210 Degrees Of GeForce-Powered Projection (hothardware.com) 2

Submitted by MojoKid
MojoKid writes: Recently, Carnival cruise lines gave tours of their CSMART facility in Almere, the Netherlands. This facility is one of a handful in the world that can provide both extensive training and certification on cruise ships as well as a comprehensive simulation of what it's like to command one. Simulating the operation of a Carnival cruise ship is anything but simple. Let's start with a ship that's at least passingly familiar to most people — the RMS Titanic. At roughly 46,000 tons and 882 feet long, she was, briefly, the largest vessel afloat. Compared to a modern cruise ship, however, Titanic was a pipsqueak. As the size and complexity of the ships has grown, the need for complete simulators has grown as well. The C-SMART facility currently sports two full bridge simulators, several partial bridges, and multiple engineering rooms. When the Costa Concordia wrecked off the coast of Italy several years ago, the C-SMART facility was used to simulate the wreck based on the black boxes from the ship itself. When C-SMART moves to its new facilities, it'll pick up an enormous improvement in processing power. The next-gen visual system is going to be powered by104 GeForce Grid systems running banks of GTX 980 GPUs. C-SMART executives claim it will actually substantially reduce their total power consumption thanks to the improved Maxwell GPU. Which solution is currently in place was unclear, but the total number of installed systems is dropping from just over 500 to 100 rackmounted units.

Comment Bristol Brabazon 2.0 has the same problem as 1.0 (Score 1) 1

by Obscene_CNN (#48583079) Attached to: Fury at Airbus after it hints the A380 may be mothballed
The Bristol Brabazon 2.0 has the same problem as version 1.0. Not enough flight routes where it can make money. I guess they finally answered the question of what would have happened had the built the original Bristol Brabazon though, a few companies would buy a few and that would be it.

Comment Re:Also, "mostly similar"? (Score 3, Interesting) 140

by Obscene_CNN (#48567949) Attached to: $35 Quad-core Hacker SBC Offers Raspberry Pi-like Size and I/O

How so? ARM processors are quite plentiful and support several operating systems already. Perhaps you're just not very familiar with them. Not to worry. There's plenty of material available.

I've designed embedded computers and written boot rom code and ported kernels to arm and other processors. While arm has a more intelligent design to it than an x86 its still far behind other processors with its 16 registers (MIPS,PowerPC,etc have 32 plus a few dedicated ones). It also lacks in the fact that it must have its address space split in half to support I/O. The only thing arm does well is conserve power.

Comment Re:Not sure who to cheer for (Score 1) 190

by Obscene_CNN (#48567865) Attached to: Fraud Bots Cost Advertisers $6 Billion

So in order for a website to remain free for the users use, they will need to post more advertisements to make up for it.

If you don't like advertising on you favorite site. Then you better find them a business model where they can keep running (as it isn't free for them) and feed their family's. Otherwise just suck it up as the cost of having free access to their data.

I oppose personal targeted adds and tracking adds. Click bot networks defeat this ad model. Positioned adds on articles that people who might buy a product based on the fact that a certain demographic reads these type of articles I have no problem with and in fact encourages production of good articles to attract adds and readers.

Submission + - Fedora 21: Fedora Goes Atomic

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Fedora 21 rolled out, organized into three separate flavors: Workstation, Server, and Cloud. Fedora's Cloud flavor is further divided into a "traditional" base image, and an Atomic Host image into which Fedora's team of cloud wranglers has herded a whole series of futuristic operating system technologies.

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