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Comment Think Japan (Score 1) 154

Charge your phone at night, play one hour in the train on your way to work, maybe charge your phone at work, play one hour on your way home. Rinse and repeat.
In this case I see the point of having two device in one.

Of course, if you *drive* on your way to work, then that's a different story...

Comment ITRS roadmap (Score 1) 135

FTA:

The photonics technology [will] help IBM to achieve its goal of building an exascale computer by 2020

So I guess IBM is in line with the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors.
  There has been a lot of research done by the major players in the industry, individual components have been developped (light sources, couplers, phodetectors, optical waveguides, etc...) and IBM just showed they can produce them on-die with standard semiconductor production methods.
That's not the kind of breakthrough the article claims, it is usual incremental progress. And I am quite happy with that.

Hardware Hacking

Combining Two Kinects To Make Better 3D Video 106

suraj.sun sends this quote from Engadget about improving the Kinect 3D video recordings we discussed recently: "[Oliver Kreylos is] blowing minds and demonstrating that two Kinects can be paired and their output meshed — one basically filling in the gaps of the other. He found that the two do create some interference, the dotted IR pattern of one causing some holes and blotches in the other, but when the two are combined they basically help each other out and the results are quite impressive."

Comment True for lots of polls (Score 1) 232

Actually, that's true for quite a lot of polls, if you take the differences of answers between Europe and the US.
I am sure you could see marked differences when the poll is concerned with politics or car economies. (that should make about 1/3 of the /. polls?)

Wikipedia

Submission + - Last Gongourt price put in Free... (lemonde.fr)

An anonymous reader writes: A French Free software Fan specializing in digital right has decided to publish on his blog "La carte et le territoire ", the latest novel by Michel Houellebecq and Goncourt 2010 price "For him, no doubt: the fact that Houellebecq has greatly inspired three Wikipedia articles transforms the novel into free work,".
"If you alter, transform, or build upon this work — the article — you may distribute the resulting work only under a license identical to this one," says the license. Only problem: the publishing house Flammarion, do not agree and thes want to "take legal steps."

Several experts consulted are also skeptical about the legality of the blogger. The brevity of the passages in question and doubts about the application of copyright for articles from Wikipedia makes it difficult to make "La carte et le territoire" a free work.

Comment the TSA is maybe not racist, but YOUR post is! (Score 1) 354

We can't racially profile in the US because that's racism, and that's not allowed

That's funny, because in every population statistics (state, town or prison populations) of the US, there is a detailed description of the "ethnic origin" of the population. That look like racial profiling to me. But that is not really racism.

Grandma Mable gets scanned because the TSA isn't racist

You imply here that some people are more likely to be terrorists because of their origins. Now, that sounds like racism to me!

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