Forgot your password?

Close
typodupeerror

Comment: On the other side of the coin... (Score 1) 256

by JW CS (#35430958) Attached to: Stopping the Horror of 'Reply All'
I usually have the opposite problem. I want to reply to everyone included on the email, but I forget to hit reply all. I need to have an option to have the computer ask me what I intended to do every time I reply to an email with multiple recipients. It would be annoying, but that's the price I pay for my absent-mindedness.
Technology

New Touch Screen Technology Uses Sound Navigation->

Submitted by
justice4all
justice4all writes "A Cambridge start-up has developed an acoustic technology that could replace current smartphone screens

A Cambridge University spin-off has developed acoustic processing technology that could be used to replace the touch-screens currently used in smartphones and other devices.

Input Dynamics was founded in 2008 by Cambridge University department of engineering researcher Jens Enzo Nyby Christensen. The company argues that its “TouchDevice” technology has benefits for the environment, because handsets using it wouldn’t need to use rare metals such as indium, used in the manufacture of current touch screens."
Link to Original Source

Comment: Doesn't pass the smell test (Score 3, Insightful) 815

by JW CS (#34981860) Attached to: Italian Scientists Demonstrate Cold Fusion?
From the article:

"Rossi and Focardi’s paper on the nuclear reactor has been rejected by peer-reviewed journals, but the scientists aren’t discouraged. They published their paper in the Journal of Nuclear Physics, an online journal founded and run by themselves, which is obviously cause for a great deal of skepticism."

Everything about this seems like a scam.

Wireless Networking

Solar Storms Could Bring Northern Lights South->

Submitted by RedEaredSlider
RedEaredSlider writes "Increased solar activity could give residents of the continental U.S., southern Europe and Japan the chance to see the northern lights for the first time in several years.

The National Weather Service's Space Weather Prediction Center says the sun is entering a period of high activity, marked by more sunspots and a greater chance of a coronal mass ejection, or CME, hitting the Earth. That would result in auroras being visible much further from the poles than they usually are."
Link to Original Source
Television

AT&T To Allow Xbox 360 As U-verse Set-Top Box 62

Posted by Soulskill
from the convergent-evolution dept.
suraj.sun sends this quote from Engadget about U-verse subscribers soon gaining the ability to use an Xbox 360 as a set-top box: "A so-called Wired Release will roll out to AT&T U-verse customers next Sunday, and it'll bring the long awaited feature with it (though you'll have to wait until November 7th for that particular aspect). This means an AT&T U-verse customer's Xbox 360 will have a Dashboard app, and when launched, it'll let it function exactly like any other U-verse set-top. The only major catch is that it can't be the only set-top — you'll need at least one DVR at another TV in the house to enjoy one of the four HD streams that could be funneled into your home."
Image

Court Bans Sandwiches Because They Could Be Thrown 4

Posted by samzenpus
from the self-defence-against-fresh-fruit dept.
The High Wycombe Magistrates' Court has banned sandwiches, bottled water and even potato chips due to fear of the items being turned into "missiles." From the article: "An official at the court said: 'The concern is that people are going to use their food as a missile and fling it down the stairs at people. Apparently there have been incidents of lunches being thrown around in the past — so we have had to introduce these rules for everyone regardless of who they are or why they are here.'" Who knows what will happen when court officials learn you can throw things other than lunch.

It's not easy, being green. -- Kermit the Frog