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Submission + - EU Votes for Universal Phone Charger

Submitted by SmartAboutThings
SmartAboutThings writes: The European Union has voted in favor of a draft legislation which lists among the “essential requirements” of electrical devices approved by the EU a compatibility with “universal” chargers . According to a German MEP, this move will eliminate 51,000 tonnes of electronic waste. The draft law was approved by an overwhelming majority of 550 votes to 12 . At the moment, according to estimates, there are around 30 different types of charger on the market, but manufacturers have two years at their disposal to get ready for the new restriction.

Comment As if... (Score 1) 66

'It would be considered as an [incentive] to terrorism and would give precise ideas to terrorists on the know-how (the methodology) and the details regarding the USA (but also how to find weaknesses in other countries).

Should we really believe that the so called terrorists don't already know what he's talking about? And why should we believe that, just because it hasn't been exploited on a large, TERRORIST, scale?

I mean, be them terrorists, but very likely, they're not stupid. If he in 4 months "discovered" this, I see nothing keeping some bright young hacker with a strong motive from finding this out too.

Comment Re:No, not those who don't understand... (Score 1) 921

by sidnelson13 (#46361917) Attached to: Woman Attacked In San Francisco Bar For Wearing Google Glass
Well, for an Oppo N1 user, makes no difference what angle you hold it, you can point the camera anywhere.

And there's also the other point given in the summary: if you want to record people, it's much easier to buy a cheap and small camera from China and conceal it.

Fearing being recorded is just stupid to me, because it can be happening any time, all the time, with or without your knowledge. And that will make you fearful ALL THE TIME, when it doesn't really matter.

I imagine a distant future where we find a way to extract our memories into electronic files. What then? Will you be fighting people that look at you for too long because then your image can be imprinted on their memory?

Comment Re:Goodbye (Score 1) 725

by sidnelson13 (#37701620) Attached to: Dennis Ritchie, Creator of C Programming Language, Passed Away
We are talking about the dimension we seem to exist at this very moment. Unless you are posting from another one, everything our parent poster said holds true to the letter. Without his contributions, the world and industry we know RIGHT NOW would not hove existed. PS: If in fact you are speaking from a parallel universe, then I welcome you into our dimension, and string theorists can rejoice.
Security

Submission + - Russian security firm reveals a flaw a day

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A little known Russian security firm has taken the bold step of releasing details of zero-day exploits in business software every day for the rest of January according to reports. Security expert Brian Krebs revealed that Intevydis will post advisories on products from big name vendors such as IBM, Novell and Sun Microsystems, in protest at a 'responsible disclosure' policy which it regards as a waste of time. The firm has already made good on its threat, posting details of a bug in Sun Directory Server 7.0 on Monday and one in Tivoli Directory Server 6.2 yesterday.
Music

Submission + - 11 Incredible Music Albums you can Download for Fr (imaginaryplanet.net)

Submitted by rjnagle
rjnagle writes: You may have heard about Jamendo , a free and legal music sharing site that offers more than 29,000 music albums for free download. Over the last 3 years I've listened to 2200+ albums and chosen the 11 Best Music Albums from Jamendo which you can download for free . Given the fact that Jamendo is reported to be experiencing financial difficulties , Jamendo may not be around for much longer. Is Jamendo too important to the music community to fail? What can it do to make it more attractive as a business model? And where will listeners go to find free & legal music if Jamendo were to disappear?
Google

Submission + - Gmail Moves to HTTPS by Default (blogspot.com)

Submitted by clone53421
clone53421 writes: Although Gmail has long supported HTTPS as an option, Gmail announced their decision yesterday to switch everyone to HTTPS by default:

We initially left the choice of using it up to you because there's a downside: https can make your mail slower since encrypted data doesn't travel across the web as quickly as unencrypted data. Over the last few months, we've been researching the security/latency tradeoff and decided that turning https on for everyone was the right thing to do.

I wonder if this has anything to do with the reports of Chinese users having their accounts hacked? ‘Only two Gmail accounts appear to have been accessed, and that activity was limited to account information (such as the date the account was created) and subject line, rather than the content of emails themselves,’ said David Drummond in that blog update. That does sound like it perhaps could be a result of insecure HTTP traffic being intercepted in transit between the users and Gmail’s servers.
Earth

Submission + - Robot Fish Teach Japanese Children About Sealife (inhabitat.com)

Submitted by MikeChino
MikeChino writes: Marine scientist and self-taught roboticist Masamichi Hayashi has created a remarkable cast of over 100 robotic sea creatures, which he uses to teach Japanese children about the movements of sea animals. The robots include sharks, green turtles, killer whales, and giant salamanders — all assembled from recycled items including plastic bottles, food containers, styrofoam, raincoats, and motors removed from windshield wipers.

Submission + - Gordon: Pure JavaScript open source Flash runtime (github.com)

Submitted by Stephan Seidt
Stephan Seidt writes: A working Flash runtime written in JavaScript only. It's got a parser for the binary swf format and an svg rendering backend. Currently only SWF version 1 is supported, though support for newer flash versions (including ActionScript) is already planned. Go check it out!
Apple

Submission + - iPhone Halloween Costume With Animated Mouth

Submitted by andylim
andylim writes: This Halloween I will be wearing a robot mask which uses an iPhone for a mouth. Using a cardboard box and an iPhone app, I managed to create a retro robot mask with a mouth that moves when you talk. The app, which is called MouthOff, costs 59p and features 37 cartoon mouths. Make sure you put your iPhone on airplane mode before you put the mask on, otherwise the mouth effect will be ruined when you get a call.

Submission + - Wolfram Alpha Launches $50 iPhone App (mashable.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: On Thursday WolframAlpha launched its developer API, which should allow large and small developers (as well as businesses and educational institutions) to harness the power of the computational knowledge engine to enhance their own applications or products. On Sunday, the WolframAlpha iPhone app ” which was built using the new API ” was released to the App Store.

This article is complete with screen shots of the new app and thorough use cases including: mortgage analysis, book information, film information, music in formation, full graphing calculator, business comparison, and much more.

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