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+ - Electric Cars: Drivers Love 'Em, So Why Are Sales Still Low?-> 1

Submitted by cartechboy
cartechboy writes "The electric car challenge is what insiders call "getting butts in seats" — and a lot of butts today still belong to humans who are not yet buying electric cars. The big question is: Why? Surveys show drivers are interested in electric cars--and that they love them once they drive them. EVs also cost less to maintain (though more to buy in the first place) and many experts say they're simply nicer to drive. So what's the problem? Disinterested dealers, uneven distribution, limited supplies, and media bias are some potential challenges. Or maybe it's just lousy marketing--casting electric cars as a moral imperative or a duty, like medicine you have to take."
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+ - Brain to Brain link creates first human remote control->

Submitted by eedwardsjr
eedwardsjr writes "As if the NSA wasn't happy enough to watch you.

Scientists said Tuesday they have achieved the first human-to-human mind meld, with one researcher sending a brain signal via the Internet to control the hand motion of a colleague sitting across the Seattle campus of the University of Washington.

He looked at a computer screen and played a simple video game but only mentally. At one point, he imagined moving his right hand to fire a cannon, making sure not to actually move his hand. The EEG electrodes picked up the brain signals of the "fire cannon!" thought and transmitted them to the other side of the UW campus.

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Privacy

Public Facial Recognition Is Making Gains In Surveillance 128

Posted by samzenpus
from the I-see-you dept.
dryriver writes in with a link to a Times story about the U.S. government's capabilities when it comes to facial recognition. "The federal government is making progress on developing a surveillance system that would pair computers with video cameras to scan crowds and automatically identify people by their faces, according to newly disclosed documents and interviews with researchers working on the project. The Department of Homeland Security tested a crowd-scanning project called the Biometric Optical Surveillance System — or BOSS — last fall after two years of government-financed development. Although the system is not ready for use, researchers say they are making significant advances. That alarms privacy advocates, who say that now is the time for the government to establish oversight rules and limits on how it will someday be used. There have been stabs for over a decade at building a system that would help match faces in a crowd with names on a watch list — whether in searching for terrorism suspects at high-profile events like a presidential inaugural parade, looking for criminal fugitives in places like Times Square or identifying card cheats in crowded casinos."
Operating Systems

Internet Infrastructure for Everyone 63

Posted by Soulskill
from the balkanizing-the-internet dept.
just_another_sean sends in a story at Wired about a group of engineers trying to build a new server operating system that will make it easier to deploy a multitude of technologies for people and companies that aren't tech giants. "The project is based on Google’s ChromeOS, the new-age laptop operating system that automatically updates itself every few weeks, but unlike ChromeOS, it can run more than just your personal machine. It can run every web service you ever visit, no matter how big. And it will let the companies that run those services evolve their online operations much more quickly — and cheaply — than they can with traditional server software. 'We’ve borrowed a lot of concepts from the browser world,' Polvi explains, 'and applied them to servers.' You can think of CoreOS as a new substrate for the internet. Web giants such as Google and Amazon and big Wall Street financial outfits, including the NASDAQ stock exchange, have built similar server operating systems for their own use, but with CoreOS — an open source software project — Polvi’s startup is creating something anyone can use. 'We’re building Google’s infrastructure for everyone else,' he says. In doing so, Polvi and his team hope this OS can more rapidly fill the security holes that plague our computer servers, while speeding the evolution of the software applications that run atop them."

Comment: Powershell (Score 1) 293

by eedwardsjr (#43929543) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Getting Exchange and SQL Experience?
If you want to make yourself valuable with Exchange, start learning PowerShell. A huge bulk of the administration is command line through PowerShell scripts now. For SQL, start working towards a MCDBA. Check and see if there is a MSSQL user group near your area. They usually have training sessions during meeting and it would prove to be very valuable for networking with people in the industry when you start looking for a position. One of the best suggestions (as mentioned before) is pound the virtual labs.

Comment: Re:Fantastic first impressions (Score 1) 368

by eedwardsjr (#40832901) Attached to: Microsoft Unveils Outlook.com, Hotmail's Successor
Dude most of that is configuration. Mailbox sizes are dictated by your Exchange administrators. Syncing your mainframe password with your Active Directory account has nothing to do with Exchange/Outlook. While you can use it to change your password, you should be doing it through the OS through either Ctrl-Alt-Delete or old school (like me) through the command line.

Comment: Re:Fantastic first impressions (Score 1) 368

by eedwardsjr (#40832643) Attached to: Microsoft Unveils Outlook.com, Hotmail's Successor
You can still use the Labels as folders. With Labs you can set them to have a parent/child relationship to look like traditional folders. The Outlook.com looks slick and they are including intergration to several sources. It should be really nice and I'm sure people will love it. It might be a good Grandma/non-techie solution. I am not giving up my gmail though.
Biotech

+ - 10,000 Germs and a Few Pounds of Bacteria is Healthy->

Submitted by eedwardsjr
eedwardsjr writes "From the article "
Now scientists have mapped just which critters normally live in or on us and where, calculating that healthy people can share their bodies with more than 10,000 species of microbes.
They live on your skin, up your nose, in your gut — enough bacteria, fungi and other microbes that collected together could weigh, amazingly, a few pounds."
Some of our little friends have some rather big name names: Lactobacillus crispatus, Streptococcus mitis, Corynebacterium accolens"
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Comment: Misread (Score 0) 118

by eedwardsjr (#39856861) Attached to: Global Broadband Speeds Dropped At the End of 2011
"New Jersey now also dominates the top 5 list of fastest broadband cities" could easily be viewed as "The state New Jersey now also dominates the top 5 list of fastest broadband cities". This does not imply New Jersey's clasification as a city, but moreso that the list is is a classification of cities. The state dominates the list as containing more cities with broadband than other states. Key words: "New Jersey now...dominates...the...list" and "list of...fastest...cities"

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