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3D Chocolate Printer Screenshot-sm 91

Posted by samzenpus from the print-me-off-a-candy-bar dept.
BoxRec writes "Scientists in England have developed a 3D chocolate printer that prints layers of chocolate instead of ink or plastic. 'Now we have an opportunity to combine chocolate with digital technology, including the design, digital manufacturing and social networking. Chocolate has a lot of social purpose, so our intention is to develop a community and share the designs, ideas and experience about it,' says lead scientist Dr Liang Hao."
ISS

ISS Nearly Clobbered By Space Debris 131

Posted by Soulskill from the shades-of-kessler dept.
erice writes "A chuck of space debris came within 335 meters of the space station, forcing the crews to head to their escape capsules and prepare for emergency evacuation to Earth. '[NASA's] Associate Administrator for Space Operations, Bill Gerstenmaier, said it was the closest a debris object had ever come to the station. An analysis was now underway to try to understand its origin, he added.'"
Crime

FBI Shuts Down Major Scareware Gang 84

Posted by samzenpus from the throw-away-the-product-key dept.
Trailrunner7 writes "The FBI has made a major dent in the huge scareware and rogue antivirus problem, arresting two people and seizing dozens of computers, servers and bank accounts as part of a large-scale coordinated operation in twelve countries. The operation, which involved authorities in the United States, Germany, France, Latvia, the UK and several other nations, was designed to disrupt the scareware ecosystem that has been preying on users' security fears in an effort to scam them out of millions of dollars in licensing fees for useless or outright malicious software."
Censorship

Australia's 2 Largest ISP's Start Censorsing the Web 133

Posted by samzenpus from the look-away-kids dept.
unreadepitaph writes "Looks like after Stephen Conroy's web filter went down in flames he went quietly behind the backs of Australians and struck a deal with Telstra and Optus to start filtering an undisclosed blacklist of sites from organization within and external to Australia. From the article: 'Electronic Frontiers Association board member Colin Jacobs also expressed concern at the scheme, saying the Government and internet providers needed to be more upfront about websites being blocked and offer an appeals process for website owners who felt URLs had been blocked unfairly. "There is a question about where the links are coming from and I'd like to know the answer to that," Mr Jacobs said."

Comment Re:Colors (Score 1) 127

by Fleetie (#36220674) Attached to: New Laser Data Transfer Rate Record Set At 26 Tbps
For exactly the same reason that you can't fit an infinite number of AM radio stations into a finite width of radio spectrum. The act of AM-ing a single frequency carrier f_c at data rate / frequency f generates sidebands each side of the carrier, so that the signal now spreads over (f_c - f) to (f_c + f), i.e. the bandwidth becomes (IIRC) 2f. Fleetie
Privacy

Beijing To Track Citizen's Cell Phones 120

Posted by samzenpus from the following-the-signal dept.
wan9xu writes "Purportedly to help alleviate Beijing's traffic congestion, the new initiative, literally translated as 'Platform for Citizen Movement Information,' proposes to track individual citizens' movement in real time via cell phone signals. Cell phones will be automatically registered at cell towers as soon as they are switched on. The rest is just like the phone tracking you see every week on CSI."

Comment Re:Well... (Score 2) 317

by Fleetie (#35089066) Attached to: 19-Year-Old Makes Homemade Solar Death Ray
The concentrated spot of light cannot even be quite 1 x the brightness of the sun. Never mind ">5000 times brighter". The laws of thermodynamics say so. You cannot focus an image of a light source so as to make the intensity at that focus more intense than the light source itself. Kudos for good execution of his idea, but that ">5000 times brighter" claim is just plain wrong.
Censorship

Graduate Students Being Warned Away From Leaked Cables 685

Posted by timothy from the we're-checking-your-history dept.
IamTheRealMike writes "The US State Department has started to warn potential recruits from universities not to read leaked cables, lest it jeopardize their chances of getting a job. They're also showing warnings to troops who access news websites and the Library of Congress and Department of Education have blocked WikiLeaks on their own networks. Quite what happens when these employees go home is an open question." Update: 12/04 17:48 GMT by T : The friendly warning to students specifically cautioned them not to comment online or otherwise indicate that they'd read any of the leaked information; reading them quietly wasn't specifically named as a deal-breaker.
Australia

Aussie Gov't Decides ISPs Aren't Responsible For Infected Computers 129

Posted by Soulskill from the how-magnanimous-of-you dept.
c0lo writes "In a sudden outburst of common sense, the Australian senate decided that it is not the government's responsibility to force ISPs to disconnect infected computers from the Internet. Peter Coroneos, chief of the Internet Industry Association, used a car analogy that actually makes sense: 'It would be like forcing car manufacturers to take responsibility for bad drivers.'"
The Military

US Army Unveils 'Revolutionary' $35,000 Rifle 782

Posted by Soulskill from the don't-even-have-this-in-video-games dept.
rbrander writes "Don't call it a 'rifle,' call it the 'XM25 Counter Defilade Target Engagement System' and get your $35,000 worth. Much more than a projector of high-speed lead, this device hurls small grenades that automatically detonate in mid-flight with 1-meter accuracy over nearly 800m. The vital field feature is the ability to explode 1m behind the wall you just lazed — the one with the enemy hiding behind it."
Communications

Testing and Mapping a Cellular Data Network? 114

Posted by kdawson from the circles-and-arrows-on-the-back-of-each-one dept.
bgsneeze writes "In order to resolve an ongoing issue with a vendor, I have been trying to find a way to test different 3G data devices empirically. I would like to be able to chart signal strength, latency, and bandwidth. I would also like to create a map of the coverage area. I have a test 3G card from three different providers. I would like to be able to travel with the setup to several different locations and run tests. What software or techniques would Slashdotters use to test the different devices? Are there any free or open source software packages that will do this?"

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