Comment Re:And what's next? (Score 1) 177
its not that hard to clean manually without the aid or supervising of robots.
Comment Re:OP can't get a date. (Score 1) 78
99% of your options are hideously ugly, the remaining 1% is spread so thin that the chances of actually being able to make a character both look vaguely like you want it to and not be ugly is pretty-much nil
99% ugly and 1% decent looking, yep! sounds like the real world.
Comment Re:It's not news (Score 1) 650
Public transit? it would be nice if we had some out here in rural America, granted I walk to work but there is no public transit option here. so until that becomes available, Yeah right, I will continue to drive
Comment Re:scary shit (Score 0, Troll) 638
and their best was not good enough as here we sit debating
Comment Chinese words (Score 1) 582
the Chinese word for disease = Bing! think about it....
Searching Google, Where Internet Access is Scarce 130
Internet searching means that finding information mundane, obscure, or fantastically useful is just a few keystrokes away — but not if you're without a connection to the Internet (or can't read), both the norm for many of the world's poor. itwbennett writes "Rose Shuman developed a contraption for this under-served population called Question Box that is essentially a one-step-removed Internet search: 'A villager presses a call button on a physical intercom device, located in their village, which connects them to a trained operator in a nearby town who's sitting in front of a computer attached to the Internet. A question is asked. While the questioner holds, the operator looks up the answer on the Internet and reads it back. All questions and answers are logged. For the villager there is no keyboard to deal with. No complex technology. No literacy issues.' This week, Jon Gosier, of Appfrica, launched a web site called World Wants to Know that displays the QuestionBox questions being asked in real time. As Jon put it, it's allowing 'searching where Google can't.' And providing remarkable insight into the real information needs of off-the-grid populations."
British Men Jailed For Online Hate Crimes 778
chrb writes "Two British men have become the first to be jailed for inciting racial hatred online. The men believed that material they published on web servers based in the United States did not fall under the jurisdiction of UK law and was protected under the First Amendment. This argument was rejected by the British trial judge. After being found guilty, the men fled to Los Angeles, where they attempted to claim political asylum, again arguing that they were being persecuted by the British government for speech that was protected under the First Amendment. The asylum bid was rejected and the two were deported back to the UK after spending over a year in a US jail."
Comment Re:A good combination of a storyline and graphics. (Score 1) 506
as someone that plays both sports and computer games I would say that both of them take you out of your current reality in some way. I can think of many times where my day was crappy but a track meet or a football game the concentration and effort required the act and react of the game or race made me forget about my day. Never once in the middle of a race do I remember thinking God that ass at the coffee shop this morning short changed me and didn't even get my order right.
so I would say chess, poker, basketball football or anything the like does take you "beyond your current reality!"
Comment Re:That any government attempt to control... (Score 1) 425
if carbon didn't exist we wouldn't live at all
Comment Re:RIAA (Score 1) 461
if your phone has bluetooth then use that to take the pictures off the phone. I can link my phone to my laptop and move my pictures just fine so no money involved taking pictures off my phone
Comment Re:NASA requires a technologically oriented manage (Score 1) 199
witch? git? seriously please read your posts before you submit
Investigators Replicate Nokia 1100 Banking Hack 181
Ian Lamont writes "Investigators have duplicated an online banking hack using a 2003-era Nokia mobile phone. Authorities had been aware for some time that European gangs were interested in buying the phone, and were finally able to confirm why: It can be used to access victims' bank accounts using "special software written by hackers." The hack apparently works by letting criminals reprogram the phones to use someone else's phone number and receive their SMS messages, including mTANs (mobile transaction authentication numbers) from European banks. However, the only phones that work are 1100 handsets (pictures) made in a certain factory. Nokia had claimed last month it had no idea why criminals were paying thousands of euros to buy the old handsets."
Comment the issue is not just how bad the code looked (Score 1) 707
the issue is not just how bad the code looked it was the crap that was in the code.
for something that like what the article is talking about it needs to be accurate. as my programing professor used to say.
"crap in crap out"
NASA's eNose Sniffs Out Brain Cancer 53
ScienceDaily is reporting that an electronic nose developed by NASA for monitoring potential leaks on the ISS may be able to sniff out brain cancer. "The electronic nose, which is to be installed on the International Space Station in order to automatically monitor the station's air, can detect contaminants within a range of one to approximately 10,000 parts per million. In a series of experiments, the Brain Mapping Foundation used NASA's electronic nose to sniff brain cancer cells and cells in other organs. Their data demonstrates that the electronic nose can sense differences in odor from normal versus cancerous cells. These experiments will help pave the way for more sophisticated biochemical analysis and experimentation."
Flu Models Predict Pandemic, But Flu Chips Ready 216
An anonymous reader writes "Supercomputer software models predict that swine flu will likely go pandemic sometime next week, but flu chips capable of detecting the virus within four hours are already rolling off the assembly line. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which has designated swine flu as the '2009 H1N1 flu virus,' is modeling the spread of the virus using modeling software designed by the Department of Defense back when avian flu was a perceived threat. Now those programs are being run on cluster supercomputers and predict that officials are not implementing enough social distancing--such as closing all schools--to prevent a pandemic. Companies that designed flu-detecting chips for avian flu, are quickly retrofitting them to detect swine flu, with the first flu chips being delivered to labs today." Relatedly, at least one bio-surveillance firm is claiming they detected and warned the CDC and the WHO about the swine flu problem in Mexico over two weeks before the alert was issued.
