Comment Fixed in iOS 7 (Score 2, Informative) 49
FWIW, this has been fixed in iOS 7, it is now totally random.
Comment Legacy Release (Score 3, Informative) 80
It's probably worth pointing out that this is a legacy release and the current production branch is 9.X, currently at 9.1-p3
Comment Only $251,600 each... (Score 1) 97
That seems like a good deal.
Comment Crowdrise (Score 1) 87
Call me biased, they're my employer after all (btw best job ever): Crowdrise allows you to raise money for your charity we handle pretty much everything. Anyone can become a fundraiser for your cause (as long as your cause is a non-profit.
Submission + - DefCon Ninja Badges Let Hackers Do Battle (wired.com)
eecue writes: The folks at DefCon, the world's largest hacker convention [previously on slashdot], have been making awesome badges for years. Last year along with the convention badge, a group of hackers known as the Ninjas created an electronic badge for their exclusive party. This year the Ninjas have taken the whole electronic badge thing to the next level with an interactive, wireless, encrypted ninja battle video game badge. I convinved the Ninjas to give Wired.com an exclusive sneak peek, and let me tell you, this thing is awesome.
Submission + - NIF Photo Tour (wired.com)
Dave Bullock writes: "The National Ignition Facility (NIF) has been discussed several times over the years on Slashdot and just recently fired all of its 192 lasers. LLNL scientists predict NIF will attain ignition (controlled nuclear explosion) in 2010. For now, take a look at the photos I shot of NIF for Wired.com when I toured it earlier this year.."
Submission + - Space 2.X: The Private Rocket Race Takes Off (wired.com)
Dave Bullock writes: "The folks at SpaceX are working hard in their Hawthorn lab/cubicles/factory building rockets that will hopefully bring future astronauts to the International Space Station. I toured the former 747 factory which is now a rocket assembly line for Wired. Take a look inside the SpaceX rocket factory."
Submission + - Scientists Hack Cellphone to Detect Diseases (wired.com)
Dave Bullock (eecue) writes: "A new MacGyver-esque cellphone hack could bring cheap, on-the-spot disease detection to even the most remote villages on the planet. Using only an LED, plastic light filter and some wires, scientists at UCLA have modded a cellphone into a portable blood tester capable of detecting HIV, malaria and other illnesses.
Blood tests today require either refrigerator-sized machines that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars or a trained technician who manually identifies and counts cells under a microscope. These systems are slow, expensive and require dedicated labs to function. And soon they could be a thing of the past."
Blood tests today require either refrigerator-sized machines that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars or a trained technician who manually identifies and counts cells under a microscope. These systems are slow, expensive and require dedicated labs to function. And soon they could be a thing of the past."
Comment Re:and these exciting science news ... (Score 3, Informative) 120
Published in Nature's Nano journal:
http://www.nature.com/nnano/journal/v3/n9/abs/nnano.2008.206.html
Submission + - Happy Accident Creates Better Digital Cameras (wired.com)
Dave Bullock (eecue) writes: "Scientists at UCLA have accidentally created a material that will some day give us better, faster, cheaper, more flexible digital cameras. I toured their lab and shot a photo essay for Wired. Personally I'm looking forward to a quantum-dot embedded camera sensor someday soon."
Pictorial Tour of World's Longest Linear Accelerator 79
Wired has a great pictorial tour of their recent visit to Stanford University's linear accelerator, the longest in the world. The accelerator has been the vehicle upon which three Nobel Prizes were earned and a the next big project will boast an electron laser roughly 10 billion times more powerful than existing x-ray sources.
