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Comment Hello World ... (Score 1) 143

by JackCorbae on Tuesday May 27, 2014 @09:48PM (#47104249) Attached to: Become a Linux Kernel Hacker and Write Your Own Module

To be honest - I expected the example to be the programmer's equivalent of a guitarist playing Stairway to Heaven. I'm actually disappointed the example wasn't a kernel module to print "Hello World"! :)

Submission + - Suicide Bomb Trainer in Iraq Accidentally Blows Up His Class (nytimes.com) 4

Submitted by vikingpower on Wednesday February 12, 2014 @02:20PM

vikingpower writes: If there were such a thing, it would probably be rule No. 1 in the teaching manual for instructors of aspiring suicide bombers: Don’t give lessons with live explosives.

In what represented a cautionary tale for terrorist teachers, and a cause of dark humor for ordinary Iraqis, a commander at a secluded terrorist training camp north of Baghdad unwittingly used a belt packed with explosives while conducting a demonstration early Monday for a group of militants, killing himself and 21 other members of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, army and police officials said.

Al Qaeda had already disavowedd the group, although it is not known whether this was due to....um.... "lack of terrorist professionality".

Comment $60 games? Luxury! (Score 5, Informative) 435

by JackCorbae on Tuesday March 13, 2012 @10:08PM (#39347473) Attached to: Can $60 Games Survive?

$60 Games? I'd LOVE to see the price drop to $60 games. Most new PC Titles in Australia debut at between $89 and $99. The collectors edition of .. .Dragon Age I think it was, was $109. $60 games ... luxury.

Comment Forget Medicine - Aim at Paranoid new parents! (Score 1) 42

by JackCorbae on Monday May 23, 2011 @06:50PM (#36222744) Attached to: Smart Pajamas Monitor Patients With Sleep Disorder

Baby monitors are pretty useless - they only tell you when the bub is making noise and if they're making noise, they're still alive! :) It's when the little buggers are quiet you have to worry. There are mattress pads that can monitor their breathing but if they roll off the pad you'd probably have a minor coronary as you rushed into the room only to find the tot curled up at the far end of the cot. A little pair of smart pj's though ... what a great idea! Bub stops breathing - alarm goes off! I'd pay $100 for that!

Valve Releases Updated Alien Swarm For Free With Code Base 164

Posted by Soulskill on Monday July 19, 2010 @05:47PM from the game-over-man-game-over dept.

baronvoncarson tips news that today Valve released an updated version of Alien Swarm, a popular Unreal Tournament 2004 total conversion mod. The creators of the mod were hired by Valve, and they've helped turn it into a stand-alone game running on the Source engine. Valve is also releasing the code base for Alien Swarm and an SDK. The game is available for free on Steam.

Linux Kernel 2.6.32 Released 195

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday December 03, 2009 @11:04AM from the download-compile-reboot-repeat dept.

diegocg writes "Linus Torvalds has officially released the version 2.6.32 of the Linux kernel. New features include virtualization memory de-duplication, a rewrite of the writeback code faster and more scalable, many important Btrfs improvements and speedups, ATI R600/R700 3D and KMS support and other graphic improvements, a CFQ low latency mode, tracing improvements including a 'perf timechart' tool that tries to be a better bootchart, soft limits in the memory controller, support for the S+Core architecture, support for Intel Moorestown and its new firmware interface, run-time power management support, and many other improvements and new drivers. See the full changelog for more details."

Japan Launches 'Buddha Phone' 212

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday May 26, 2009 @07:12PM from the the-eight-immortal-numbers dept.

CNETNate writes "The Japanese Odin 99 handset isn't a regular video-enabled phone. It's geared, perhaps somewhat ironically, towards the Buddhist geek. Aside from regular cell phone features, a dedicated button loads a private, customizable, animated altar on the phone's screen. The idea is to allow Buddhists to perform their dedications conveniently on-the-go. You can simulate incense burning, purification rites and play music to help you meditate wherever you happen to be. The question is, does such a device somewhat negate the values a Buddhist would stand for?"

Removing CO2 From the Air Efficiently 487

Posted by kdawson on Wednesday October 01, 2008 @02:55AM from the install-anywhere dept.

Canadian scientists have created a device that efficiently removes CO2 from the atmosphere. "The proposed air capture system differs from existing carbon capture and storage technology ... while CCS involves installing equipment at, say, a coal-fired power plant to capture CO2 produced during the coal-burning process, ... air capture machines will be able to literally remove the CO2 present in ambient air everywhere. [The team used] ... a custom-built tower to capture CO2 directly from the air while requiring less than 100 kilowatt-hours of electricity per tonne of carbon dioxide."

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