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Comment Longer than expected (Score 1) 155

by kamukwam (#33096326) Attached to: Mars Rover Spirit May Never Wake From Deep Sleep
Although this news is of course potentially bad news, the lifetime of the Spirit robot exceeded all expectations. I think the original programme was more in the order of months than the years it has been successfully transmitting data now.

Everyone knew that this moment was going to come, so I bet the people working with the robot will be sad, but have planned something new in their lives. Next year for example, NASA is going to launch another Mars rover.

Submission + - Big Brother is finally here (wsj.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The WSJ started a series of articles on how advertising companies follow you across the Web using cookies, Flash cookies and pixels. Worth a read.

Comment Hmmm (Score 1) 142

by kamukwam (#33094962) Attached to: Who Is Downloading the Torrented Facebook Files?
I am confused. The title says 'Who is Downloading the Torrented Facebook Files?'. So I was guessing they didn't know and were coming to Slashdot to ask if anyone knew.

But no, they already know it! So why bother and ask us anyway??

I don't get it.

Comment Re:Belgium (Score 1) 674

by kamukwam (#33094588) Attached to: How many languages do you speak on a daily basis?
Flemish is not a language. From wikipedia: Flemish: Belgian Dutch ( Belgisch-Nederlands (helpinfo)), the national variety of the Dutch language as spoken in Belgium,[2][3][4] be it standard (as used in schools, government and the media)[5] or informal (as used in daily speech, "tussentaal ");[6]
Space

Submission + - Antarctica Experiment Discovers Puzzling Space Ray (livescience.com)

Submitted by pitchpipe
pitchpipe writes: A puzzling pattern in the cosmic rays bombarding Earth from space has been discovered by an experiment buried deep under the ice of Antarctica.

[...]it turns out these particles are not arriving uniformly from all directions. The new study detected an overabundance of cosmic rays coming from one part of the sky, and a lack of cosmic rays coming from another.
Power

Submission + - World’s First Molten Salt Solar Plant Opens (inhabitat.com) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Sicily has just announced the opening of the world’s first concentrated solar power (CSP) facility that uses molten salt as a heat collection medium. Since molten salt is able to reach very high temperatures (over 1000 degrees Fahrenheit) and can hold more heat than the synthetic oil used in other CSP plants, the plant is able to continue to produce electricity long after the sun has gone down. The Archimede plant has a capacity of 5 megawatts with a field of 30,000 square meters of mirrors and more than 3 miles of heat collecting piping for the molten salt. The cost for this initial plant was around 60 million Euros.

Submission + - Times loses over half of readers due to paywall

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: webuser.co.uk relays the news that Rupert Murdoch's decision to charge people to access The Times and The Sunday Times websites has led to a 66 per cent drop in traffic. Since 2 July anyone wanting to access the websites of The Times and The Sunday Times has had to pay — £1 a day or £2 a week.

Submission + - Turn your iPhone into a universal remote for $49

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: ThinkFlood released the RedEye mini today, a device that lets you turn your iPhone into a universal remote for $49. ZDNet grabbed an early release and posted a full review. For $49, it's better than most high-end universal remotes out there, with the ability to customize the interface, actions and even setup multi-step activities.
It's funny. Laugh.

Submission + - The games you love to hate, 2010 (associatedcontent.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Games you love to hate is an article containing a little bit of my quirky humor, 5 games you love to hate, and a little bit of information about each of these games. Things you will find inside are game play design structure, and the inevitable flaws of each game.
Google

Catching Satnav Errors On Google Street View 312

Posted by timothy from the now-wait-3-months-for-the-ferry dept.
Barence writes "Most of the satnav companies allow users to report errors with their maps, but do they ever get fixed? PC Pro's Paul Ockenden uses Google StreetView to highlight glaring and dangerous flaws in Tele Atlas maps — which are used by TomTom and Google Maps itself — but the company has failed to respond to numerous reports of map errors posted over the course of several years. 'About half a mile from where I live, a Tele Atlas-based satnav will instruct you to turn off at a junction where there's only an on-ramp,' Ockenden reports. 'I've witnessed some confused and dangerous driving at this junction as people try to find the non-existent exit, so I wouldn't be surprised if major mapping errors like this are a danger to road safety.'"

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