Comment Re:Oh, nuts... (Score 2, Funny) 63
Well, at least I'm going to get a free iPhone out of it, or so I've heard.
And that will make you popular!
UK Music Industry Calls For Truce With Technology 209
Stoobalou writes "The British music industry has called for a truce with the technology firms with whom it has till now fought a bitter battle over rights, royalties and file sharing. Feargal Sharkey, CEO of lobby group UK Music, told a conference in London this week that it was time for the music and technology industries to set aside their differences and strive instead toward a common goal: nothing less than the total global domination of British music."
Comment One question (Score 0, Offtopic) 116
Because they are formed as a film between two wires, they don't have to be implanted into the silicon surface — as do transistors, which form the storage locations in Flash — so they could be built in layers in 3D
Cool, but will they require special glasses?
Comment Re:Molestation charge (Score 1) 529
Does the US military make a difference regarding the sex of the "victim"? Or are the cases you mention just as valid if it's a soldier wife and a drunk husband?
But of course there are a lot of laws which are written in one way and interpreted in another, or not actually implemented at all. And that's probably a good thing.
Comment Re:Molestation charge (Score 1) 529
Nope, and I never said they were hot.
HP Backs Memristor Mass Production 116
neo12 writes with news that Hewlett-Packard is teaming with Hynix Semiconductor, the world's second-largest producer of memory chips, to mass produce memristors for the first time. Quoting the BBC:
"HP says the first memristors should be widely available in about three years. The devices started as a theoretical prediction in 1971 but HP's demonstration and publication of a real working device has put them on a possible roadmap to replace memory chips or even hard drives. ... Steve Furber, professor of computer engineering at the University of Manchester, explained that the potential benefits lie in the fact that memristors are 'much simpler in principle than transistors. Because they are formed as a film between two wires, they don't have to be implanted into the silicon surface — as do transistors, which form the storage locations in Flash — so they could be built in layers in 3D,' he told BBC News. 'Of course, the devil is in the detail, and I don't think the manufacturing challenges have been fully exposed yet.'"
Comment Re:Molestation charge (Score 5, Informative) 529
How this got modded up is beyond me. I've lived in Sweden for my entire life, and I while this country has its pros and cons just as any country, what you describe just isn't true.
In Sweden everything that a woman can find offensive is a molestation charge. And if they have consentual sex while mutually pissing drunk, then it's rape.
Umm, I've never even heard of a woman filing molestation charges for just being "offended". Where did you get that from?
And I've had consensual sex (yeah, this is
This is more or less the consequences of senior socialist politicians getting too much power, enabling them to take their reality-detached feminist education pet projects too far. The swedish political system is similar to the US. In the us you either chose between the elephant right wing or the donkey right wing. In sweden you chose between the blue socialists or the red socialists, though of course, the red socialists have had two decades in power so they've been able to entrench the country with their north korean style indoctrination for a while now so things are even more stagnated.
As a liberal I'm inclined to agree to a certain extent, but "north korean style indoctrination"? Geez, let's get some perspective.
Comment Re:Buzzwords (Score 2, Informative) 266
Sure, it would be a nice feature for the black box to somehow send its data somewhere safe.
If "cloud computing" is nothing more than sending data to a remote server, well I guess this post fits the bill as well, making it nothing more than a useless buzzword.
Comment Buzzwords (Score 2, Insightful) 266
Why would a black box need to use cloud computing or mesh networks?
Just because new technologies have emerged doesn't mean they are necessarily applicable in all areas of computing. My knowledge in this field is limited, but I just don't see the point of a twittering black box, or whatever web 2.0 meme is the flavor of the day.
Comment Re:Shakespear had it right you know (Score 2, Funny) 204
Let me guess, you've been to that Klingon Shakespeare play?
Comment The walls are not the problem (Score 1) 545
But rather the notion that putting people in prison for "crimes" such as smoking pot is a good idea.
A national disgrace indeed.
Building Prisons Without Walls Using GPS Devices 545
Hugh Pickens writes "Graeme Wood writes in the Atlantic that increasingly GPS devices are looking like an appealing alternative to conventional incarceration, as it becomes ever clearer that traditional prison has become more or less synonymous with failed prison. 'By almost any metric, our practice of locking large numbers of people behind bars has proved at best ineffective and at worst a national disgrace,' writes Wood. But new devices such as ExacuTrack suggest a revolutionary possibility: that we might do away with the current, expensive array of guards and cells and fences, in favor of a regimen of close, constant surveillance on the outside and swift, certain punishment for any deviations from an established, legally unobjectionable routine. 'The potential upside is enormous. Not only might such a system save billions of dollars annually, it could theoretically produce far better outcomes, training convicts to become law-abiders rather than more-ruthless lawbreakers,' adds Wood. 'The ultimate result could be lower crime rates, at a reduced cost, and with considerably less inhumanity in the bargain.'"
Comment Re:Awesome! (Score 1) 80
Yeah, and they'll probably end up in a duel for life or death (Hay'chu') over that "to be or not to be?" question..
Comment Re:Too many changes? (Score 1) 110
Agreed. Rapid changes are also more expected since it is a (comparatively) new framework.
Development of fancy features is likely to slow down as the code base matures.
Jet Packs, Finally On Sale 132
Bad_CRC1945 writes "The good news: Not one, but two companies are selling jet packs. The bad news: The tech has a long way to go. In the past, potential buyers have been stymied by two problems: Rocket belts aren't for sale, and even prototypes run on modern-day fuel (as opposed to whatever the Jetsons use) which means rocket belts can weigh upwards of 100 pounds, with only enough fuel to stay aloft for under a minute." That second problem's still with us, but the article hints that jet-fuel options (for the brave) could considerably extend users' time aloft.
