Comment Andy the Messenger Robot (Many Other Functions) (Score 1) 608

by pksyn on Thursday April 26, 2012 @12:12AM (#39803193) Attached to: Who Is Your Favorite Fictional Robot or Android?

I would have liked to have listed "Blaine the Train", but he was an evil computer, not a robot.

Comment Re:I'm not a Radiohead fan... (Score 1, Interesting) 103

by pksyn on Sunday September 05, 2010 @01:08AM (#33479780) Attached to: Radiohead Helps Fans Make Crowd-Sourced Live Show DVD

I wasn't one of them, I can't listen to radiohead with out getting dizzy and blacking out. But I remember reading that people were pissed b/c of the difference. Maybe they "fixed the glitch"

Comment Re:I'm not a Radiohead fan... (Score 0) 103

by pksyn on Sunday September 05, 2010 @12:31AM (#33479628) Attached to: Radiohead Helps Fans Make Crowd-Sourced Live Show DVD

I'm pretty sure they only did that once with "In Rainbows" and they ended up pissing off their fans b/c the physical release contained additional songs. So those that paid $20 for the download got less than those that paid $12 for the CD

Comment Re:Nine Inch Nails did this first (Score 1) 103

by pksyn on Saturday September 04, 2010 @11:45PM (#33479420) Attached to: Radiohead Helps Fans Make Crowd-Sourced Live Show DVD

Exactly. The "gift" footage was released almost two years ago.

Comment In a talking Mr. Potato Head doll or fireworks (Score 1) 793

by pksyn on Wednesday February 24, 2010 @05:25PM (#31264808) Attached to: When I die, I want my body to be ...

I want my body cremated and my ashes stuffed inside a talking Mr. Potato head doll. Or shot out of cannon as part of a fireworks display. Either way, I win.

Sensing Technology As Open Source's New Frontier 51

Posted by timothy on Wednesday June 24, 2009 @02:10PM from the do-traffic-cameras-fear-pellet-guns dept.

destinyland writes "Christine Peterson coined the term 'open source.' Now she's proposing the same collaborative sharing approach to sensing technology 'to improve both security and the environment, while preserving — even strengthening — privacy, freedom, and civil liberties...' The Open Source Sensing initiative welcomes individuals and organizations, and warns that 'We have a short window of opportunity for guiding this technology to protect both our security *and* our privacy.' Peterson says that in the long term, 'open source defensive technologies will likely be the only ones capable of keeping up with rapidly-advancing offensive technologies, just as open source software is faster at addressing computer viruses today.' And the EFF's Brad Templeton warns that 'Cheap, ubiquitous sensing has the potential to turn the worlds of privacy and civil rights upside-down... It's not enough for governments to watch people; people have to watch governments.' His solution? 'Learning from the bottom-up approaches of the open source community.'