Comment The Converse? (Score 1) 287
Or is it... "teens who are more likely to have sex are three and a half times more likely to text frequently"? I hate these bullshit studies.
Why Mozilla Needs To Pick a New Fight 351
nk497 writes "Mozilla has succeeded in improving the browser world, and its rivals have outstripped it in terms of features. So what's the point of Firefox, then, wonders Stuart Turton. He suggests it could turn its community of developers to better use than battling it out for browser market share. 'I think Mozilla has a lot more to offer as a kind of roaming software troublemaker. The company has already proven itself brilliant at pulling a community together, offering it direction and spurring innovation in a lifeless market. Now that browsers are healthy, wouldn't it be brilliant if Mozilla started a ruck elsewhere?' And where better to start than the stagnant office suite arena: 'Imagine if Mozilla decided tomorrow to build an office suite. Imagine all those ideas. Imagine how brilliant that could be. Just imagine. Now imagine Firefox 4. Honestly, which one of those are you most excited by?'"
Comment Re:Firefox4 (Score 1) 2
Brilliant!
Scientists Create Equation For a Perfect Handshake 144
Hugh Pickens writes "Discover Magazine reports that despite the average person shaking hands nearly 15,000 times in a lifetime, one in five (19 per cent) admit they hate the act of the handshake and are unsure how to do it properly, regularly making a handshake faux pas such as having sweaty palms, squeezing too hard or holding on too long while over half the population (56 per cent) say they have been on the receiving end of an unpleasant handshake experience in the past month alone. But help is at hand as scientists have developed a mathematical equation for the perfect handshake taking into account the twelve primary measures needed to convey respect and trust to the recipient. The research was performed at the behest of Chevrolet as part of a handshake training guide for its staff and is meant to offer peace of mind and reassurance to its customers. A full guide to the perfect handshake is available on Flickr."
Jailbreaking iPhone Now Legal 423
whisper_jeff writes "The US government on Monday announced new rules making it officially legal for iPhone owners to 'jailbreak' their device and run unauthorized third-party applications, as well as the ability to unlock any cell phone for use on multiple carriers."
The EFF has further details on this and some of the other legal protections granted in the new rules.
An Unprecedented Look At Apple's "Black Labs" 125
An anonymous reader writes "Apple recently granted ABC Nightline unprecedented access to its secretive 'black labs' where it puts upcoming products through exhaustive testing."
Submission + - Java 4-Ever Trailer
Bell Would? writes: Speaks for itself http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1zySeNpW20
Submission + - Today in History – June 25, 1903 – Mar
agogino writes: Today in History — June 25, 1903 — Marie Curie defends her doctoral thesis, then gets Nobel Prize five months later. Did she just procrastinate? Or were thesis standards higher a century ago at the Sorbonne? I haven't seen a good explanation for the delay, other than she was busy discovering new elements.
Earlier in 1898, Marie and Pierre Curie made repeated separations of the various substances in pitchblende (photo on left) and used a Curie electrometer to identify two unidentified radioactive fractions that remained in pitchblende after uranium was removed. They discovered that the one containing mostly bismuth also contained a new element they named "polonium" in honor of the country of Marie's birth. The barium fraction contained another new element, which they named "radium" from the Latin word for ray. They were able to add two new elements in the Periodic Table. While the chemical properties of the two new elements were completely dissimilar, they both had strong radioactivity. Radium was later isolated as a pure metal in 1902, but the discovery was not published in the popular press until this day in 1903.
Evidently, Marie Curie was so focused on her research that she had neglected to complete the writing of her thesis, which she finally got around to defending on June 25, 1903 titled: "Research on radioactive substances".
Marie and Pierre Curie shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics, along with Henri Becquerel, their contributions associated with the discovery of spontaneous radioactivity. Marie Curie was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911 "in recognition of her services to the advancement of chemistry by the discovery of the elements radium and polonium, by the isolation of radium and the study of the nature and compounds of this remarkable element". Alas Pierre Curie was not able to share the Nobel Prize this time as he was killed earlier in a carriage accident in a rainstorm in Paris on April 11, 1906. The curie is a unit of radioactivity originally named in honor of Pierre Curie by the Radiology Congress in 1910, after his death.
Marie Curie was the first person to win two Nobel prizes. Her daughter, Irene Joliot-Curie, also won a Nobel Prize in 1935.
See the Engineering Pathway's educational resources on Marie and Pierre Curie and radium . Or visit the Nuclear Engineering Education community site for more information. Also our resources on women in science and engineering and gender equity today.
See the Engineering Pathway's educational resources on Marie and Pierre Curie and radium. Or visit the Nuclear Engineering Education community site for more information. Also our resources on women in science and engineering and gender equity today.
Earlier in 1898, Marie and Pierre Curie made repeated separations of the various substances in pitchblende (photo on left) and used a Curie electrometer to identify two unidentified radioactive fractions that remained in pitchblende after uranium was removed. They discovered that the one containing mostly bismuth also contained a new element they named "polonium" in honor of the country of Marie's birth. The barium fraction contained another new element, which they named "radium" from the Latin word for ray. They were able to add two new elements in the Periodic Table. While the chemical properties of the two new elements were completely dissimilar, they both had strong radioactivity. Radium was later isolated as a pure metal in 1902, but the discovery was not published in the popular press until this day in 1903.
Evidently, Marie Curie was so focused on her research that she had neglected to complete the writing of her thesis, which she finally got around to defending on June 25, 1903 titled: "Research on radioactive substances".
Marie and Pierre Curie shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics, along with Henri Becquerel, their contributions associated with the discovery of spontaneous radioactivity. Marie Curie was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911 "in recognition of her services to the advancement of chemistry by the discovery of the elements radium and polonium, by the isolation of radium and the study of the nature and compounds of this remarkable element". Alas Pierre Curie was not able to share the Nobel Prize this time as he was killed earlier in a carriage accident in a rainstorm in Paris on April 11, 1906. The curie is a unit of radioactivity originally named in honor of Pierre Curie by the Radiology Congress in 1910, after his death.
Marie Curie was the first person to win two Nobel prizes. Her daughter, Irene Joliot-Curie, also won a Nobel Prize in 1935.
See the Engineering Pathway's educational resources on Marie and Pierre Curie and radium
See the Engineering Pathway's educational resources on Marie and Pierre Curie and radium. Or visit the Nuclear Engineering Education community site for more information. Also our resources on women in science and engineering and gender equity today.
Submission + - Java 4-Ever Trailer
atraktor writes: A new movie from the acclaim director of JAVATAR and .not
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1zySeNpW20
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1zySeNpW20
Submission + - RevoDrive PCIe SSD Tops Performance at Lower Costs (pcper.com)
Vigile writes: PCI Express-based solid state drives are not new but getting one at a price a consumer might be willing to pay IS new. OCZ's RevoDrive combines a pair of SandForce 1200 controllers behind a basic RAID controller and eventually terminates at a PCI Express x4 connection with a capacity as high as 240GB. The key to the product is not just its absurdly impressive performance that nearly matches the ioXtreme card from Fusion-io and pushes almost 500 MB/s but also its price. The RevoDrive will cost almost the same as a standard SandForce-based 2.5-in SSD making it the fastest consumer storage option for the price. PC Perspective has a full performance evaluation that compares the RevoDrive to other PCIe SSDs and 2.5-in models to give a balanced view and still comes away truly impressed with the unit.
Submission + - Arlington National Cemetery: massive IT fail (washingtonpost.com)
imac.usr writes: A story in today's Washington Post calls to light the utter failure of the nation's most sacred final resting place to modernize its pen-and-paper record system. According to the story, the cemetery's administrators have spend over five million dollars without managing to accomplish the seemingly-simple task of creating a database record of the site's graves. As Virginia senator Mark Warner points out, "We are one fire, or one flood, or one spilled Starbucks coffee away from some of those records being lost or spoiled.
Submission + - Apps Nuked By Google Were Botnet Proof-Of-Concept (forbes.com)
AGreenberg writes: I've written a post at Forbes' cybersecurity blog explaining something that's been missed in coverage of Google's decision to exercise its "kill switch" and delete two apps from Android phones. The apps were not "practically useless" as Google has described them. They were created by cybersecurity researcher Jon Oberheide as a proof-of-concept to show the possibility that a misleading application could transform into malware. One was a fake Twilight preview application capable of fetching new executable code, and was downloaded by more than 300 users. Google only became aware of the apps and deleted them after Oberheide presented his research at the Summercon security conference last week.
Submission + - Bionic Cat Gets World's First Implant Paws (popsci.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Oscar is a British cat whose hind paws got cut off in a harvester accident. In a world's-first operation, a neurosurgeon has now given him exoprosthetic paws that are implanted directly into his leg bones. The bionic kitty can now walk and run normally, as you can see in this hilarious PopSci video.
Submission + - New GPGPU Standard Takes On "Crappy" CUDA (thinq.co.uk)
An anonymous reader writes: Compiler developer PathScale has just unveiled a new GPGPU (general purpose GPU) programming model, which it reckons will do a much more efficient job than Nvidia's own CUDA technology. Teaming up with CAPS, a developer of software tools for many-core architectures, PathScale has now introduced a compiler suite called ENZO that uses CAPS' Hybrid Multicore Parallel Programming (HMPP) model. PathScale's CTO Christopher Bergstrom explained that "Nvidia are still pushing their antiquated — dare I say crappy — CUDA programming model, which is highly explicit and very expensive for people who write large bodies of code." However, he says that PathScale and CAPS will "make a new evolution possible in the GPGPU programming model that has been long overdue." Although the system is designed specifically for Nvidia GPUs, Bergstrom says that Nvidia was not involved in the development process. "It's just a situation where we think we can build something better than them," he says, "and basically kick their ass and push open source.”
Submission + - BP robot seriously hampers oil spill containment (computerworlduk.com)
ChiefMonkeyGrinder writes: A high-tech effort by BP, to slow the oil gushing from its ruptured well head, led to a large accident yesterday that forced the company to remove a vital containment cap for 10 hours.
