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Submission + - Keys to a successful Kickstarter project? (kickstarter.com)

Submitted by Shipwack
Shipwack writes: The website Kickstarter has many success stories, some that are wildly successful (Amanda Palmer's record and Double Fine's game come to mind). However, what about the projects that don't have a big name attached?

Photographer Chris Haber has a Kickstarter project for a "behind the scenes" NASA photobook. Unfortunately, it might not make its goal. What separates him from projects that end up getting funded? Not famous enough? Lack of famous people tweeting about him? Reward levels not sufficiently enticing?

What things make you want to patronize a Kickstarter project?
Apple

Submission + - Android OS gets loaded onto the iPhone (itnews.com.au)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A coder who previously worked on jail-breaking various iPhone OS releases and also demonstrated, a year ago, the Linux kernel running on an iPhone, has gone one better. He's put up a video not only showing that the iPhone can indeed dual-boot, but can do so between the iPhone and Android OS. The boot process does take a while, but the coder explains that "pretty much everything works", though he admits that the release currently isn't "production quality", stating it's more like an "alpha" quality.

Submission + - XFX--don't touch this card 1

Submitted by FyreWyr
FyreWyr writes: Via Email: A purported security breach at XFX facilities. One of their gun-themed "Black Edition" 5970's has apparently gone missing. Noting that email recipients are advised the perpetrator will be subject to 'persecution' (err, prosecution?) and is labeled as part of a "Gamertainment" campaign--so perhaps a ruse--there is that fearsome threat of ridicule. Here's the email, marked "CONFIDENTIAL" so you can decide if it's true:

Dear XFX Customers,

In light of recent events, we have come to suspect that one of our 5970 Black Edition Limited cards may have been compromised. In our current inventory check of this limited run of 1,000 individually serialized pieces, #68 has been unaccounted for. Due to evidence of a security breach in our facility, we believe it to have been illegally obtained as the product has yet been released per the embargo date. Please be aware that the person responsible will be subject to persecution by law. If any news can be provided to lead us to the apprehension of the suspect, or you can provide us with any information, please report it to security@xfxforce.com. Please do not attempt to buy, trade, or barter for this unit. We thank you for your cooperation and apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

Sincerely,
XFX
Privacy

Submission + - Google Street View logs WiFi networks, Mac address (theregister.co.uk)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: There's a story over at The Register about how Google is collecting more than just images when they drive around for the Street View service. "Google's roving Street View spycam may blur your face, but it's got your number. The Street View service is under fire in Germany for scanning private WLAN networks, and recording users' unique Mac (Media Access Control) addresses, as the car trundles along."

There's a choice quote at the end, "Google CEO Eric Schmidt recently said internet users shouldn't worry about privacy unless they have something to hide. "

Submission + - 100% Free Cellphone Repair Tutorials (blogspot.com)

Submitted by kc_kim
kc_kim writes: A very nice nice site to learn and earn about mobile phones. a simple guides on how to fix major mobile phones like iphone, blackberry, nokia, samsung, siemens, alcatel, and a lot more...
Google

Submission + - Tories: Labour use 'dirty' SEO tricks for election (computerworlduk.com)

Submitted by ChiefMonkeyGrinder
ChiefMonkeyGrinder writes: The internet is set to play a major role in the way the major political parties engage with the voting public. ComputerworldUK.com reports that John Prescott has called for Labour activists to click on the Conservative Party’s Google adverts in an attempt to bankrupt the opposition. Prezza tweeted that would take "50p out of the Tories warchest."
Idle

Submission + - Man from the future arrested at LHC (cnet.co.uk) 1

Submitted by Critical Facilities
Critical Facilities writes: A man named Eloi Cole was discovered by CERN Security as he was rummaging through garbage bins at the LHC apparently looking for his "time machine power unit". According to the article, Cole claims to be from the future where "the discovery of the Higgs boson led to limitless power, the elimination of poverty and Kit-Kats for everyone.". I've always been more of a Twix man myself, but I could adjust to a world full of Kit-Kats.
Medicine

Submission + - A New "Medical Lab on a Chip" For Every Home? (hplusmagazine.com)

Submitted by destinyland
destinyland writes: NWU professor Chad Mirkin discusses his company's new "lab-on-a-chip" technology — the ability to automatically treat a blood sample with chemicals on a microchip, quickly detecting markers for diseases and other anomalies. The quick "bio-barcode" test creates the possibility of a medical diagnostic system in every home, since it offers greater sensitivity than current tests with simpler instruments and at lower costs. "And that means you no longer have to rely on these remote labs with this big bulky instrumentation... People 100 years from now will say, ''These guys were in the Stone Age.'" This is not a futuristic technology; four tests already have received FDA clearances, so "They're here... It's in hospitals around the country. Really, what we are waiting for is just an increasing menu [of tests]... It will scale rapidly."
Graphics

Submission + - Nvidia Admits Fermi GPU Supply Problems (thinq.co.uk)

Submitted by Stoobalou
Stoobalou writes: Nvidia CEO Jen-hsun Huang has admitted that the firm's Fermi architecture is struggling to get out the blocks, as it is having trouble making the 40nm chips.

At an Nvidian analysts' day yesterday, Huang was forced to admit what has been well known for ages: Fermi is such a big, cumbersome, transistor-heavy piece of silicon, that Nvidia's fab partner TSMC is struggling to get it out the door in any volume.

"From a supply perspective, we wish we had more 40nm capacity," Huang confessed. "We are working with TSMC really closely. They are doing a fab [sic] job. Yields are improving. Capacities are improving. But we are finding it hard to keep up. Everyone is clamoring to have Fermis out the door. We are working really hard to get Fermis out the door."
Windows

Submission + - Windows 7 service pack leaked to torrent sites (techworld.com) 1

Submitted by superapecommando
superapecommando writes: An early build of Windows 7's first service pack has been leaked, leading to thousands of downloads on a whole host of various torrent websites.
As with every Windows operating system (OS) release, improvements and fixes often arrive in the form of a service pack, and only last month the Windows team discussed the upcoming Windows 7 SP1 release in a blog post. The team detailed that the first service pack would feature a number of minor updates for the popular OS. However, it is worth noting that the Windows team did not mention a final release date for the completed service pack.

Comment mod GP up Re:Physchology (Score 2, Informative) 274

by Shipwack (#28709309) Attached to: Six Men Endure 105-Day Mars Flight Simulator

There have already been submerged submarine patrols lasting over a hundred days.

You'd think that military psychologists would have plenty of studies of people in these situations. Perhaps they are not sharing them.

Veteran of the SSBN sub force here, and I'm kind of surprised that this is considered that big a deal. We've been doing trips in isolation this long since the 60s.

Then again, I suppose the group dynamics for 6 people are slightly different than for 110 people.

Comment Re:The Navy needs more men and ships. (Score 5, Insightful) 266

by Shipwack (#27284321) Attached to: US Nuclear Sub Crashes Into US Navy Amphibious Vessel
As retired submariner, I can certainly get behind the idea of having more subs... The number missions they are tasked with every year never goes down (and usually goes up), but there are fewer and fewer submarines every year to do them (old subs are being decommissioned faster than new ones are being built).

I've also heard surface types saying we need more carrier battle groups, an I understand their reasoning. And the logistics corp can also talk about we don't have enough supply vessels to adequately take care of our ships -now-. But... Where does it all stop? We only have so much money... I think one of the greatest presidents of the 20th century said it best:

''Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children . . . This is not a way of life at all in any sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.''--Dwight D. Eisenhower, April 16, 1953, before the American Society of Newspaper Editors

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