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Comment: Not enough camera's in the hands of citizens (Score 1) 620

by Vernes (#42543935) Attached to: Man Charged With HIPAA Violations For Video Taping Police
Replay this scene, but every citizen has google glass posting shit to facebook, google+, twitter and shit at the push of one button.
Not just this guy, but everyone nearby, the passing pizza deliverer, a taxidriver waiting for a trafficlight, the jogger, the medics, the victim.
The police will have an heartattack when those glasses get mainstream.
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+ - Self-healing, self-heating flash memory survives more than 100 million cycles->

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MrSeb writes "Macronix, one of the world’s largest producers of flash memory, has produced a new kind of flash memory that can survive more than 100 million program/erase (PE) cycles — most likely long enough to persist until the end of human civilization. By comparison, the NAND cells found in conventional flash memory — as in commercial SSDs — generally have a lifespan of just a few thousand PE cycles. For such a huge advance you would expect an equally vast technological leap — but in this instance, that’s certainly not the case. Macronix just adds a bit of heat — literally, each of Macronix’s new memory cells contains a heating element that can deliver a jolt of 800C (1472F) heat to the cell, healing it and preventing wear-out. Furthermore, 100 million PE cycles is a low-ball estimate: In reality, Macronix’s new flash might survive billions of cycles — but it would take so long to test that the company doesn’t yet know."
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+ - NASA Data Breach Predicted In Its Own Newsletter->

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An anonymous reader writes "NASA suffered a major data breach on Oct 31, 2012 when a laptop with the sensitive personal information of 10,000+ employees was stolen from an employee's car in Washington, DC. As it turns out, the NASA CIO had predicted just such an event, right down to the mockup headlines in the CIO's July IT Newsletter (see page 6). It didn't quite make the front page of the NY Times, but it did get their attention. Among the employees and contractors affected by the data breach are some of the plaintiffs from the Nelson v. NASA privacy case that was decided in 2011. Among the arguments (aside from intrusive investigations) is that the government was likely to improperly release the collected data. Some of the plaintiffs were already retired from NASA when their data was lost, and others had submitted to the background investigations less than 6 months before."
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Comment: Re:The War On Common Sense (Score 1) 167

by Vernes (#41831105) Attached to: Glow-In-The-Dark Smart Highways Coming To the Netherlands In 2013
As an average Dutch driver I have to agree even if I feel I do not fit that description.
German drivers know how to drive on a highway.
Left side is for driving FUCKING FAST!
If you see the dot in your backmirror growing larger, it means there is someone driving FUCKING FASTER!
And they.. move aside to the right lane.
On the dutch motorways, you just dump your car infront of the guy driving 160kmh even though you are driving 100
Because god forbid you have to slow down and wait for him to pass.
In other news, flashing your breaklights is really fun if there is a slow moving traffic-jam, because the one thing moving traffic-jams need is a wave of breaking cars because you can't handle the gas-throttle between "pressed through your car-floor" and "firmly pressed on the break".

Dutch are in general, assholes as soon as they get in their car.

So, what's the ETA on that car-robot google seems to play around with?

Comment: Re:Sweet (Score 2) 52

by Vernes (#41830819) Attached to: Curiosity Finds Volcanic Soils
They also like nutrients from the soil.
There are none on mars.
You will need to fling large amount of ready-to-use nutrient rich soil along with those plants.
Now you have plants converting nutrients AND carbon dioxide in more nutrients.

Thinking further, I think you need to resurrect one of em dinosaur era plants for trapping carbon dioxide.
Plants did a lot of carbon dioxide trapping in those days.

One good reason why computers can do more work than people is that they never have to stop and answer the phone.

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