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Comment Re:Don't care for it, but... (Score 2) 401

by azoblue (#36953158) Attached to: The Next Firefox UI

Honest question: Beyond "that's not the way it always has been", what is the problem with tabs on top?.

For those of us whose browse with many tabs open at once and frequently switch between them, tabs on top means a *lot* more mouse movement to accomplish this, which equals more time. Wasted time. It may not seem like much, but it is enough to be a noticeable delay, and adds up. Putting the tabs back where they belong solves this annoyance.

This may not be a factor depending on your own personal browsing habits.

Comment Email newsletters are convenient (Score 1) 337

by azoblue (#36905230) Attached to: How Do You Keep Up With Science Developments?
Science news delivered periodically to your inbox. Some of them are customizable, so you can receive updates only on topics of interest to you.

Highly recommended:
American Scientist
Physorg

Also interesting:
Spaceweather
Nasa Science News
Nasa Earth Observatory
Discover Magazine

I imagine there are RSS feeds for most of these as well if you prefer that format.
Google

Submission + - Google Wants You To Complete its U.S. Map (wired.com)

Submitted by azoblue
azoblue writes: Google wants users to supplement Google Maps by adding local data with its Map Maker tool, which allows users to add to, annotate, and correct maps. Map Maker Pulse allows users to watch these edits in real time. A similar open project called openstreetmap.org has already been allowing users to edit maps for a few years.

Submission + - ABC, CBS, NBC block Google TV (physorg.com)

Submitted by azoblue
azoblue writes: The three major broadcast networks, uneasy about viewers bypassing cable and satellite providers — and the networks' own websites — to watch their TV shows, have begun blocking a new service from Google designed to make it easy to watch programming online. Can't help but wonder about the legality of this move and how fast the situation would change if Google simply returns the favor and blocks all ABC/CBS/NBC results from its search index.

Submission + - How DNA evidence creates victims of chance (newscientist.com)

Submitted by azoblue
azoblue writes: Even when analysts agree that someone could be a match for a piece of DNA evidence, the statistical weight assigned to that match can vary enormously, even by orders of magnitude. For instance, in one man's trial the DNA evidence statistic ranged from 1/95,000 to 1/13, depending on the different weighing methods used by the defense and the prosecution.
Cellphones

Submission + - Stalkers Exploit Cellphone GPS (wsj.com)

Submitted by azoblue
azoblue writes: The US Dept of Justice estimates that more than 25,000 people are victims of of GPS stalking, many of these facilitated by GPS-enabled cell phones.
Mars

Submission + - New evidence Mars rocks contain ancient fossils (washingtonpost.com)

Submitted by azoblue
azoblue writes: NASA's Mars Meteorite Research Team reopened a 14-year-old controversy on extraterrestrial life last week, reaffirming and offering support for its widely challenged assertion that a 4-billion-year-old meteorite that landed thousands of years ago on Antarctica shows evidence of microscopic life on Mars.

Submission + - Smart dust sensors to be deployed across Earth (cnn.com)

Submitted by azoblue
azoblue writes: Hewlett Packard plans on covering the planet with one trillion wireless "smart dust" sensors over the next few years, creating a "central nervous system" for the Earth. The wireless devices would check to see if ecosystems are healthy, detect earthquakes more rapidly, predict traffic patterns and monitor energy use. The idea is that accidents could be prevented and energy could be saved if people knew more about the world in real time.
Google

Submission + - Google says privacy is alive and well (forbes.com)

Submitted by azoblue
azoblue writes: Alma Whitten, Privacy Engineering Lead at Google, responds to claims that the company is eroding online privacy. Do you accept her arguments at face value or regard them as corporate propaganda?

Submission + - Algorithm Turns Lo-Res Datasets Into Hi-Res Output (wired.com)

Submitted by azoblue
azoblue writes: Using a mathematical concept called sparsity, the compressed-sensing algorithm takes lo-res files and transforms them into sharp images. Compressed sensing works something like this: You’ve got a picture — of a kidney, of the president, doesn’t matter. The picture is made of 1 million pixels. In traditional imaging, that’s a million measurements you have to make. In compressed sensing, you measure only a small fraction — say, 100,000 pixels randomly selected from various parts of the image. From that starting point there is a gigantic, effectively infinite number of ways the remaining 900,000 pixels could be filled in.
Cellphones

Submission + - Cell phone data predicts movement patterns (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by azoblue
azoblue writes: In a study published in Science, researchers examined customer location data culled from cellular service providers. By looking at how customers moved around, the authors of the study found that it may be possible to predict human movement patterns and location up to 93 percent of the time.

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