Comment Phone bricking malware (Score 2, Insightful) 757
Can't wait for it.
Comment insert webcam (Score 1) 74
"Please insert webcam into affected body part"
Liberalism and Atheism Linked To IQ 33
Pharmboy writes "CNN is reporting that Evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa at the the London School of Economics and Political Science correlated data on these behaviors with IQ from a large national US sample and found that, on average, people who identified as liberal and atheist had higher IQs. This applied also to sexual exclusivity in men, but not in women. The findings will be published in the March 2010 issue of Social Psychology Quarterly."
Comment Vimperator (Score 1) 148
Vimperator replaced Ubiquity in my browser.
Comment Where's my Ubuntu pad? (Score 1) 1634
Where's my Ubuntu pad with a usb port?
Come on Corporations, make me one already.
Is it because the multi-touch patents?
Comment Re:Ubuntu? (Score 1) 157
I love Ubuntu and its juicy repositories full of pre-compiled and tested x86 apps.
You insist in selling me a Nokia phone that doesn't fulfill all my requirements.
And I'm supposed to say, "Oh ok that's good enough. Almost there".
Alpha quality repo for my phone? No, thanks.
Ubuntu LTS quality? Yes, please.
Comment Re:Ubuntu? (Score 1) 157
Sweet. I'll get one and be "almost" happy with it.
Comment Ubuntu? (Score 1) 157
But which one of these smartphones is going to let me install Ubuntu 9.10 and let me have root ?
That's all I want.
A pocket computer with wireless Internet that can make and receive phone calls, and that will let me do "apt-get install "
Also let's not go over the board with the size.
That LG phone is not going to fit in my pocket, and I don't want to get a purse.
http://www.engadget.com/photos/lg-gw990-hands-on/2595625#2595617
Comment Sharkmobile (Score 1) 839
Let's mount some laser guns in the car, and use the windshield mist control to fire up a beam that melts the ice.
Comment Ghost Images (Score 1) 932
Make a Ghost image.
Re-image their box when needed.
Roomba Pac-Man 5
elstonj writes "The vacuum, long an instrument for chasing cats, has now been turned against its own. What better use for automatic home appliances than to have them chase each other in classic video game style? From the article: 'We've seen mixtures of Roomba and Pac-Man before, but nothing like this. A team of developers have hacked five floor-cleaning bots to create a sort of OCD version of the game, with the Pac-Man bot sucking up little white rectangles whilst being chased by robot incarnations of Inky, Pinky, Blinky, and Clyde. But, when the Pac-Man vacuum finds a power pellet those ghostly rovers turn blue and start fleeing. The tech is supposed to be a demonstration of the developers' Unmanned Aerial System suite, designed for guidance of airborne vehicles, but we're too busy geeking out to care about potential real-world applications of this tech.'"
Comment how much have you saved? (Score 1) 301
with cost reduction projects.
Yahoo Offered Lap Dances At Hack Event 572
Fotograf writes "Yahoo's latest embarrassment seems like a sign that the company is just trying too hard to be cool. The latest debacle is earning the company some additional publicity. After Yahoo hosted Taiwan Open Hack Day, a special event for engineers and developers that was held last weekend, a series of photos found their way onto the internet — as ill-thought out decisions often do. Yahoo offered lap dances to the attendees of the hack event. Since the pictures have come out the company has decided to apologize."
MySQL Cofounder Says Oracle Should Sell Database To a Neutral 3d Party 207
alphadogg writes "Oracle should resolve antitrust concerns over its acquisition of Sun Microsystems by selling open-source database MySQL to a suitable third party, its cofounder and creator Michael 'Monty' Widenius said in a blog post on Monday. Oracle's $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun is currently being held up by an investigation by the European Commission. The Commission's main concern seems to be MySQL, which was acquired by Sun in January 2008 for $1 billion. A takeover by the world's leading proprietary database company of the world's leading open source database company compels the regulator to closely examine the effects on the European market, according to remarks made by Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes last month. The key objective by Widenius is to find a home outside Oracle for MySQL, where the database can be developed and compete with existing products, including Oracle's, according to Florian Mueller, a former MySQL shareholder who is currently working with Monty Program AB on this matter." Richard Stallman agrees.
Chessboxing Storming the Athletic World 36
samzenpus writes "Have you been craving an athletic competition that combines the raw physical energy of a chess match and the strategic acumen of boxing? Crave no more. Chessboxing is here. No really, Chessboxing. As the name suggests, Chessboxing combines rounds of chess alternating with rounds of boxing. If there is no winner after 11 rounds, the match is awarded to the fighter with the most points in the boxing ring. Dutch artist, Iepe Rubingh, created chessboxing in 2003. He says, 'I got the idea from a Serbian comic. It looked great. I wanted to see if it would work.'"
