Comment where will it end? (Score 1) 338
Next thing they'll be asking for a law against spam filters in email services.
Submission + - RC Transformers soon to be mass produced (singularityhub.com)
SpaceCracker writes: Singularity Hub brings this story of the Japaneese firm Brave Robotics moving into production of robot transformers:
[The robot] uses a game controller as a remote control for operation and has an on-board Wi-Fi camera that can be viewed on a tablet. Furthermore, the exterior parts of the 1/12 scale robot are now made using a recently acquired 3D printer, adding to its awesomeness even more.
In vehicle mode, the car can be steered and moved around as a normal RC vehicle. In humanoid mode, the robot is able to walk, shoot projectile from its arms, and do some impressive hero poses.
Comment Re:How about that! (Score 1) 152
Great, now we're gonna have drunken people driving drunken cars.
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Wife: "I smell alcohol. Have you been drinking again?"
Husband: "No dear, it's the car."
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Police officer: "Sir, I'm going to ask your car to drive in a straight line and blow some fumes into this exhaustalyzer."
Comment Re:turn it off? (Score 5, Insightful) 247
I run Win2k
Firefox has detected an old version of Windows. It is strongly recommended that you upgrade Windows to the latest version.
Comment Re:I am multilingual. (Score 1) 195
You may read and write those languages, but I bet you don't speak them.
My wife is illiterate WRT these languages but she sure speaks them. She normally passes me an array of methods to call, each with references to the child instances to apply them on. Of course most calls don't get executed since MyStack.size() evaluates to 1 and the overflow exception is ignored.
Comment Re:actually, DOS works well on reactors (Score 1) 413
I'm impressed. Back in DOS days I worked for a company that did pretty cool stuff with tiny TSRs. I haven't heard of any reactor usage for that SW.
On the lighter side, I guess BG will sign up with the reactor manufacturers to deliver all Personal-Reactors with MS-DOS only.
Comment Re:More to the point: (Score 3, Funny) 413
Does it run Linux?
Don't be ridiculous.It runs DOS.
There's no need to panic, it's fool proof. They've appointed General P. F. to take care of that.
I would start to worry when I see an Azure Cloud over Korea.
Submission + - HP openstack cloud is now public beta (hp.com)
SpaceCracker writes: HP previously announced it will join the [already crowded] cloud IaaS market with it's OpenStack based offering. Now it's publicly available for beta users.
OpenStack, is an opensource cloud computing platform founded by Rackspace and NASA that has gained traction from quite a few large players, such as IBM and Red Hat, who wanted to present an alternative to Amazon and VMWare.
OpenStack, is an opensource cloud computing platform founded by Rackspace and NASA that has gained traction from quite a few large players, such as IBM and Red Hat, who wanted to present an alternative to Amazon and VMWare.
Submission + - Opensource community site for opensource product (cloudifysource.org)
SpaceCracker writes: The creators of the Cloudify Community site claim to have created the 'kick-ass community web site' in less than a month using opensource tools such as 'Github Pages, Jekyll, Disqus, Zendesk, Google custom search and others'.
This slideshare describes the process.
Would you have done it differently with these tools or with others?
This slideshare describes the process.
Would you have done it differently with these tools or with others?
Submission + - Netherlands first country in Europe with net neutrality (www.bof.nl)
TheGift73 writes: "On 8 May 2012 The Netherlands adopted crucial legislation to safeguard an open and secure internet in The Netherlands. It is the first country in Europe to implement net neutrality in the law. In addition, it adopted provisions protecting users against disconnection and wiretapping by providers. Digital rights movement Bits of Freedom calls upon other countries to follow the Dutch example."
Comment Re:Evolution (Score 1) 381
How can an intelligent designer make a mistake? Such a claim is blasphemy
"To err is (ape + genome copying mistake). To forgive is intelligent design."
Comment Media bias? (Score 2) 364
I don't know if the media is biased against MS or not . I know I am.
Comment Re:Will Neutrinos collide with other Neutrinos? (Score 2) 262
Also judging from technology's progress it should be only about a couple of decades before you can walk around with a pocketable, battery powered neutrino I/O device.
Here's the associated math:
First we have to find the rate of reduction in size for neutrino communications systems. That would be an equivalent of Moore's law as a general guideline for scale reduction. This is the hard part. Just for argument's sake, let's say it turns out to be half the size in 18 months.
The rest is easy. A bunch of really smart guys find innovative ways of staying on this projected track and within 24 years you would have a 60mm neutrino transmitter and a 76 gram detector. I'll take that for a first pocketable version.
If the bandwidth drops at the same rate, then sending the word "neutrino" across would take 0.1 seconds (TFA mentions 2 hours currently). Not amazing, but enough for text messages. It would probably take another decade to deliver video.
Bottom line - IF industry gets serious about this technology (and the half-size rate turns out to be 18 months), we could witness a brain-implanted chip capable of communicating our thoughts without physical barriers by 2050. You may call it telepathy.
Comment Re:Not touching it (Score 1) 405
Google has become the new Microsoft.
Microsoft... well they're still the same... while they're still around.
FaceBook hasn't even gone through a do-no-evil phase.
Isn't there anyone we can trust anymore?
Comment Re:Lenses (Score 1) 177
normal prescription glasses lenses.
Why stop there? ask for contacts.
Better yet, use laser to etch the device on your natural lenses.
Next thing is bio-engineering your genes to hook your brain directly to Google.
