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Submission + - Bluetooth keyboards with a 10-year charge promised (techworld.com.au)

Submitted by

angry tapir

on Wednesday December 07, 2011 @06:16PM

angry tapir writes: "Broadcom is working on a Bluetooth chipset that will give wireless keyboards a battery life of up to 10 years. If they had a battery life of as long as 10 years, that Bluetooth-based accessories could potentially never need new batteries, the chip maker said. A set of two AA batteries would be enough to power a keyboard using the BCM20730 Bluetooth chip to connect with a computer for its entire lifetime, Broadcom said."

Comment Re:This seems to show the government doesn't care (Score 1) 933

by milkasing on Tuesday November 15, 2011 @07:34AM (#38058048) Attached to: NYPD Dismantling Occupy Wall Street Encampment

I think you do not quite understand the meaning of peaceful protest. Peaceful is not the same as legal. From as far back as Gandhi, occupying a space, has been a tactic used by non-violent protesters. As far as protests go OWS has been one of the more subdued protests. There is some disruption in the wall street area, but not that much. This is just the govt's way of saying, we have allowed you your 15 mins of fame, now go away. Legally the NYC govt is in its right to do so, but there is something disturbing in the manner that the govt considers that even such innocuous protests are not to be tolerated.

Submission + - Strange Places To Find Open Source (itworld.com)

Submitted by

itwbennett

on Monday November 07, 2011 @01:12PM

itwbennett writes: "Open source is about more than code: It's also about tractors, prosthetics, Christmas lights, and the poor old U.S. Postal Service. If you don't believe that open source changes everything, take a gander at Marcin Jakubowski's Global Village Construction Set (GVCS), a set of 50 industrial machines that are required to build and maintain a small, sustainable civilization. The open source aspect covers designs, instructions, schematics, budgets — everything anyone needs to know to build their own machines, and it is all freely available and free to share."

Submission + - The F-35 story (bloomberg.com) 1

Submitted by

phyzz

on Monday November 07, 2011 @01:09PM

phyzz writes: "After 10 years in development and numerous cost and schedule overruns, the JSF program aimed at replacing several aircrafts from three major military services and partner nations with a fifth generation aircraft capable of STOVL as sustained supersonic flight in an affordable package finally gets some test points validated, yet faces an uphill fight against budget reductions. Bloomberg has this interesting story about the program's troubled past."

Submission + - Global CO2 levels rise past worst-case scenarios (washingtonpost.com)

Submitted by phx_zs on Monday November 07, 2011 @01:05PM

phx_zs writes: Many news sources recently reported on the latest figures from the US government agency CDIAC (Carbon Dioxide Information & Analysis Center), which showed an alarming rise in CO2 levels beyond the IPCC's "worst case scenarios" from 2009 to 2010. Actual data here: http://cdiac.ornl.gov/trends/emis/perlim_2009_2010_estimates.html

Also to note:
"Much of the 5.9% global increase from 2009 to 2010 is due to increased emissions from the world's largest fossil-fuel emitter, the People's Republic of China, where emissions rose 10%"

Submission + - Bendy phones & skin-replacement phones to come (telecoms.com)

Submitted by

singinho

on Monday November 07, 2011 @12:41PM

singinho writes: "Nokia has revealed it is using nanotechnology to create a new breed of smartphone that is flexible, stretchable and operated by physical manipulation.

But perhaps the development that will most revolutionise smartphones in the future, and challenge the traditional design of the mobile phone is a project called Iho. Iho is Finnish for skin and is the name given to the project that aims to create a wearable phone.

The firm’s research and development arm – Nokia Research Center – has been working with scientists at The University of Cambridge to create products that it hopes will revolutionise the appearance and interface of handsets in the future."

Submission + - Gallery: Via Verde's Time in the Sun (txchnologist.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 07, 2011 @12:27PM

An anonymous reader writes: The most celebrated building in New York City this fall isn’t perched on the edge of Central Park or in downtown Manhattan or even in trendy Brooklyn. The structure gracing the front page of The New York Times is in the heart of the South Bronx. Via Verde (“The Green Way”) is not only architecturally striking, it’s also an experiment in healthy, sustainable and affordable living for low- and moderate-income residents.

The 222-unit building, developed by Jonathan Rose and Phipps Houses Group, rises in an area that was once the face of urban blight in America. Via Verde promises urban renewal, with green rooftops for gardens and solar panels that meet 5 percent of the building’s electricity load. ”This is at the leading edge of social housing in New York and America,” said Robert Garneau of Grimshaw Architects, which co-designed the building with Dattner Architects. It’s a building that, upon its opening early next year, wouldn’t be out of place in New York’s most fashionable precincts.

Submission + - Best I.T. Apps for Mobile?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 07, 2011 @11:58AM

An anonymous reader writes: While trying to search for I.T. apps for mobile devices, it seems that there are many apps that do the same thing. Which are the best? Some simple desires are SSH capabilities, remote control, network monitoring, Active Directory Password resets, WiFi surveillance, etc. I recently was issued a company iPhone and would like to know which are the best applications to load to help out with my job, without having to sort through the thousands of mediocre ones. Which apps have you had good experiences with?

Comment Re:Shortage of engineering jobs, (Score 1) 580

by milkasing on Friday September 02, 2011 @06:53PM (#37292286) Attached to: Mr. President, There Is No (US) Engineer Shortage

Basically Gibson has violated Madagascar and US export laws to curb illegal logging of rosewood.
India has nothing to do with this. Just because Madagascar is a country in the Indian Ocean does not make it part of India.
Madagascar basically has a severe problem of illegal logging of Rosewood. and is cracking down on it. The law allowing the export of finished woods is basically a way to reduce the stocks of confiscated logs slowly while helping those who have been badly affected by this logging. (they are also exploring the possibility

The fact that Gibson brought India into the conversion is a ploy to use the boogeyman of off-shoring to defend itself and to distract people from the fact that they were caught using stolen goods. The fact that so many responded to with reaction that basically went "OMG! OFFSHORING! INDIA! EVIL FEDS" showed that the ploy worked.

Comment Re:Yeah! ... The Almighty buck is no more! (Score 1) 519

by milkasing on Sunday April 17, 2011 @09:35PM (#35851598) Attached to: Local Currencies To Replace Dollar For 5 Countries' Dealings

I doubt if futures markets are the reason OPEC accept only dollars. After all, in the early 2000s, Iraq decided to replace dollars with Euros. I am sure political considerations play a major role.

Comment Re:I'll tell you why dumb phones dominate... (Score 1) 618

by milkasing on Friday February 11, 2011 @02:50PM (#35178044) Attached to: Why Dumbphones Still Dominate, For Now

Moto Droid 1 off Craigslist: $125
Simple phone / Very Limited (50 MB) data capable plan (pageplus): $30
--
I would have been a dumb phone user paying $50/month, if I had not seen a /. comment about the plan. Now 6/7 months down the line I'm ahead of the average dumbphone user.

Dumb phones dominate because dumbphone users are either resistant to change or do not know better.

Comment Re:Why is this posted here? (Score 1) 137

by milkasing on Monday January 17, 2011 @09:56AM (#34903684) Attached to: Happy 10th Birthday To Wikipedia

Because almost every thread eventually has a reference to Wikipedia in one of the comments. I think that counts as notable.

Fairly safe to say Whoosh

Comment Re:Sometime (Score 1) 193

by milkasing on Friday January 14, 2011 @03:51PM (#34881884) Attached to: Fed Goes Hunting For Malcontents

It treats the peple (sic) it works for well, it works to protect the rights of it's people, and has almost no corruption.

I guess you have not been paying attention to what has been going on.
The US is no longer in the best 20 countries as far as corruption is concerned

As for protecting the rights of its people, a cursory look even in the YRO in slashdot itself, shows that the US is no paragon of virtue today, and that it is heading in the wrong direction.

It's a stark reminder that you're mostly a bunch of ignoramuses ...

Oh, the irony.....

Submission + - Engineer proposes to cheerleader via groupon (groupon.com)

Submitted by milkasing on Thursday January 06, 2011 @02:57PM

milkasing writes: In a first of its kind on Groupon, Greg H, a self described "Cold logical Engineer", proposed to Dana, a NFL cheerleader . She accepted. It must have been either the proposal's inclusion of hard to resist allurement of a lifetime of IT support, or just that women love discounts and the proposal had a cost to buy of $1, advertised as a $999998 discount.

Submission + - Steve Wozniak gives Apple history lessons (silicon.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 06, 2011 @01:18PM

An anonymous reader writes: In this article written from an interview with Steve Wozniak, the Apple co-founder talks about his love of hardware engineering, the ethos behind the early days of Apple and the company's consumer tech revolution that helped it become one of the biggest companies in the world.

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