Bomarrow1 - Slashdot User

Comment: Re:White-Space Devices will destroy FREE televisio (Score 1) 94

by Bomarrow1 on Sunday October 26 2008, @01:17PM (#25518479) Attached to: White Space Debate Intensifies As Vote Approaches

While you want your free entertainment in the form of TV shows perhaps some people want it in the form of internet or gadgets to play on.

Also I think the concern given to emergency broadcasts is rather unrealistic. Could tcp/ip not deliver even more reliable emergency broadcasts than TV.

In some of the very sparsly populated and rural communities will there be people with these devices close enough to the TV sets to disrupt it?

Artificial Tornadoes Could Solve Global Warming-> 0

Submitted by Bomarrow1 on Thursday August 16 2007, @07:52AM

Bomarrow1 writes "Louis Michaud believes that Man-Made Tornadoes could be the answer to global warming. He suggests that if hundreds of tornadoes were placed along the equator using warm water to power them they could solve the current energy problem. A side effect of this would be that they would aid in removing heat from the atmosphere by raising warm air to the outer limits of the atmosphere."
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The Linux Weather Forecast-> 0

Submitted by

ThisNukes4u

on Wednesday August 15 2007, @10:34AM

ThisNukes4u writes "The Linux Foundation, along with LWN editor Jonathan Corbet, have announced a new page called the Linux Weather Forecast. The purpose is to give an overview of where the various Linux kernel pieces and technologies are heading in the near to medium term future."
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iPhone Homebrew Explosion 0

Submitted by Croakyvoice on Monday August 13 2007, @12:31PM

Croakyvoice writes "The Apple iPhone has only been out a matter of weeks but already theres been an explosion of homebrew released for it ranging from a Nes Emulator to a port of the FPS Classic Doom and applications such as an Ebook Player, File Browser, an Aquarium, Money Manager and also the Arcade emulator MAME is being ported to the iPhone also."

First Fully Solar And Hydrogen Powered Home

Submitted by

snkinad

on Friday May 04 2007, @06:36PM

snkinad writes "Strizki lives in the nation's first solar and hydrogen powered house where he doesn't have to worry about any gas or electric bills. "The sun comes up and my solar panels snatch that energy, and any excess goes into tanks," he said. "I don't have to worry about power failures here."

European GPS rival transmits first navigation data

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 04 2007, @06:13PM

An anonymous reader writes "Galileo, a European project that aims to create a civilian global navigation infrastructure, has reached a major milestone as the European Space Agency (ESA) today reported that the Giove-A satellite has transmitted the first navigation message. According to the ESA, the message was uplinked to Giove-A on May 2 from the Guildford ground station and contained was similar to those that will be sent by the operational Galileo system."

Shocking Admission In Reiser Murder Case

Submitted by

saudadelinux

on Friday May 04 2007, @06:04PM

saudadelinux writes "Wired magazine is carrying a story in which a Sean Sturgeon, a former lover of Reiser's ex-wife (and a former friend of his), admitted to killing eight people unrelated to the case. "(Deputy District Attorney) Paul Hora indicated that the court was ordering him to divulge this information," defense attorney Richard Tamor said last Friday." He also said that Sturgeon had confessed to a potential ninth murder, but that Sturgeon wasn't sure if the victim was fully dead when he left him.""

Should Techies be Child Porn Watchdogs?

Submitted by

dasButcher

on Friday May 04 2007, @06:02PM

dasButcher writes "Connecticut and California are proposing laws that would require computer professionals to report when they find evidence of child abuse, pornography and neglect on PCs and servers. Should IT pros be deputized as cybercops? http://www.v3.crn.com/weblogs/tidalwaves/"

Electric Shock Treatment for Internet Addiction

Submitted by

Laowai

on Friday May 04 2007, @05:54PM

Laowai writes "Electric Shock Treatment for Internet Addiction A clinic in Daxing, a suburb of Beijing treats from 60 to 280 patients daily...mostly against their will....for Internet addiction. The patients range in age from 12-24 and their parents are paying upwards of 10,000 yuan a month to 'cure' them. The treatment includes: 1. counseling"

Cooler Silicon Lasers Via Energy Harvesting 31

Posted by CowboyNeal on Friday May 04 2007, @02:08PM
from the more-power-to-ya dept.

Light Licker writes "UCLA researchers have developed a way to cut power use and heat output from a silicon laser used for optoelectronics. Both have been problems because silicon absorbs too much light — producing high-energy free electrons that make heat. One of Intel's best silicon lasers produced 125 times more heat than usable light. The UCLA team added a diode to their laser which can harvest free electrons and use them to help power the circuit — simultaneously cutting heat output and power use."