PhreakinPenguin - Slashdot User

Comment Wow, Partisanship at it's finest (Score 3, Insightful) 77

by PhreakinPenguin on Monday August 16, 2010 @02:30PM (#33266352) Attached to: Microsoft's Adaptive Touchscreen Keyboard

Somehow I think if this were released by someone more open source friendly, everyone here would be basking in how awesome it is. But since it's put out my Microsoft, everyone shits all over it. Way to never let me down Slashdot.

Dad Delivers Baby Using Wiki 249

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday December 15, 2009 @05:29PM from the 9cm-edited dept.

sonamchauhan writes "A Londoner helped his wife deliver their baby by Googling 'how to deliver a baby' on his mobile phone. From the article: 'Today proud Mr Smith said: "The midwife had checked Emma earlier in the day but contractions started up again at about 8pm so we called the midwife to come back. But then everything happened so quickly I realized Emma was going to give birth. I wasn't sure what I was going to do so I just looked up the instructions on the internet using my BlackBerry."'"

Comment Re:OpenDNS is faster (Score 1) 540

by PhreakinPenguin on Thursday December 03, 2009 @07:54PM (#30318756) Attached to: Google Launches Public DNS Resolver

Give it a few days. I somehow doubt OpenDNS would take the load that Google's servers are getting right now. If you listen carefully you can hear the sound of millions of geeks crushing the servers there so they can jump on Slashdot and complain about something.

Comment Re:From the wikipedia entry on Mueller (Score 2, Informative) 360

by PhreakinPenguin on Thursday October 08, 2009 @09:30AM (#29680213) Attached to: Why the FBI Director Doesn't Bank Online

No the main reason Scottish courts released him is because the British PM "recommended" it in order to secure a HUGE drilling contract in Libya that was awarded shortly after his release.

Comment UGGGHHH (Score 1) 172

by PhreakinPenguin on Monday September 28, 2009 @05:44PM (#29572713) Attached to: Software To Flatten a Photographed Book?

So you took pictures of a book instead of scanning and now you want software to flatten the images like a scanner would? /facepalm

Genetically Engineered Mouse is Not Scared of Cats 286

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday November 13, 2007 @12:23PM from the good-for-the-cat-not-so-much-the-mouse dept.

Gary writes "A team from the University of Tokyo has genetically engineered a mouse that does not fear cats. By tweaking genes to disable certain functions of the olfactory bulb (the area of the brain that receives information about smells directly from olfactory receptors in the nose) the researchers were able to create a 'fearless' mouse that does not try to flee when it smells cats, foxes and other predators. 'The research suggests that the mechanism by which mammals determine whether or not to fear another animal they smell -- and whether or not to flee -- is not a higher-order cerebral function. Instead, that decision is made based on a lower-order function that is hardwired into the neural circuitry of the olfactory bulb.'"

Submission + - HDS to acquire Archivas

Submitted by

Jo Maitland

on Monday February 05, 2007 @07:43PM

Jo Maitland writes: "HDS will acquire Archivas for $120 million to compete with EMC in the archiving market. http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/originalConten t/0,289142,sid5_gci1242258,00.html"

Submission + - PS3 Leads Blu-ray Charge, says Sony

Submitted by

njkid1

on Monday February 05, 2007 @07:24PM

njkid1 writes: "New format outselling HD DVD... Sony Computer Entertainment America officials said today that Sony's Blu-ray Disc format has "experienced tremendous growth in consumer adoption." http://biz.gamedaily.com/industry/news/?id=15164&n cid=AOLGAM000500000000005"

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