Comment OK... who paid for the lobbyists this time (Score 1) 153
Surely some company trying to sell this tech is pushing it to the government somewhere.
Comment Or attacking the source... (Score 1) 398
And getting access to the keys and/or algorithms that generate said keyfobs. How well are the companies protecting them?
Comment Cheap higher speed bandwidth doesn't help (Score 1) 127
It doesn't help that those infected hosts now can get 150mbit/sec upload speeds... Verizon only charges an extra $10 a month for 50/25mbit service. It wouldn't take many of them to kill a lot of decent sized sites.
Comment For that amount of money... (Score 1) 221
Just launch this stuff into the sun. Hopefully the rocket doesn't explode on take off though.
Ask Slashdot: What Does the FOSS Community Currently Need? 356
First time accepted submitter d33tah writes "In the summer term of my final year of IT's bachelor's course in my university, every student is obliged to develop his own project; the only requirement is that the application would use any kind of a database. While others are thinking of another useless system for an imaginary company that nobody would actually use, I'd rather hack up something the FL/OSS community actually needs. The problem is — how to figure out what it could be?"
Comment Re:i use it to find and kill anyone who writes a b (Score 1) 269
Are you a radio jockey in the Tampa Bay area by chance?
Submission + - European Court of Human Rights finds against copyright law (falkvinge.net) 1
admiral snackbar writes: The European Court of Human Rights has declared that the copyright monopoly stands in direct conflict with fundamental Human Rights, as defined in the European Union and elsewhere. This means that as of today, nobody sharing culture in the EU may be convicted just for breaking the copyright monopoly law; the bar for convicting was raised considerably.
Comment Seems backwards to me (Score 1) 410
After reading the article it seems the gun manufacturers should pay the game companies for advertising if the developer shows the gun in a good light. Based on the article gun sales can be significantly higher when they are featured in a game.
Comment What photon detector are they using? (Score 1) 37
I have been scouring the internet and can't seem to find a detector that looks like the end of that device. Anyone know? I am sure it is outside my price range though.
Comment Re:Stalking vs Surveillance (Score 1) 387
"Almost everyone being filmed there, on the other hand, acted aggressively"
We do not know how many people were actually tested in this way. This might be the 25 out of 2000 which were the most disturbed. The other 1975 people might have gracefully handled the situation. I don't believe that but we just don't know.
We do not know how many people were actually tested in this way. This might be the 25 out of 2000 which were the most disturbed. The other 1975 people might have gracefully handled the situation. I don't believe that but we just don't know.
Comment I found a third party google maps for ios6... (Score 1) 561
I was browsing appshopper.com and found a new third party google maps app today. It doesn't have voice navigation it seems but it does have street view.
http://www.appshopper.com/navigation/mapipo-6-g-maps-street-view-and-navigation
http://www.appshopper.com/navigation/mapipo-6-g-maps-street-view-and-navigation
Comment Re:If I recall..... (Score 2) 333
I read an article that researches slowed light down to an almost stand still awhile back. So what would happen if you slowed light down on one of the two entangled particles and then read the one that was not slowed down? Would the slowed down light particle then flip to what it should be or would is take awhile for it to do so? It would be an interesting test I think.
Comment Re:If I recall..... (Score 2) 333
Taking it to a simple level...
You take 2 pieces of paper. Mark one as A and mark the second as B. Without looking at them you randomly put each into an envelope and send one to a remote location. You both open them at the same time and know that the other person has the opposite paper. The remote envelope had to travel by normal means. It was not teleported anywhere. The travel time is how long it took for you to send the envelope to the remote location.
They really should rename this to quantum encoding or something along those lines.
You take 2 pieces of paper. Mark one as A and mark the second as B. Without looking at them you randomly put each into an envelope and send one to a remote location. You both open them at the same time and know that the other person has the opposite paper. The remote envelope had to travel by normal means. It was not teleported anywhere. The travel time is how long it took for you to send the envelope to the remote location.
They really should rename this to quantum encoding or something along those lines.
Comment iOS has a note taking app with that ability (Score 2) 364
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/audionote-notepad-voice-recorder/id369820957?mt=8
"...Each note acts as a link directly to the point at which it was recorded, taking you instantly to what you want to hear! Didn't take any notes during the meeting? No problem, you can add them later!"
Comment Re:been there done that 17years ago (Score 1) 122
That resolution is not really correct for Virtual i/o glasses from the 90's. I still have the setup in a box in my closet. The maximum input resolution is correctly 640x480. What you actually get displayed though is half of that per eye. It is most noticeable with text. The resolution is not good at all.
