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Comment Congress Is the Best Party to Police the Internet (Score 4, Interesting) 100

by pcwhalen (#38696550) Attached to: How SOPA & PIPA Could Hurt Scientific Debate

Because they understand it so well.

Take a look at "Dear Congress, It's No Longer OK To Not Know How The Internet Works" http://bit.ly/vOEEbt

Senator Ted Stevens described the internet as “a series of tubes;” Rep. Mel Watt of North Carolina "seemed particularly comfortable about his own lack of understanding;" and Rep. Maxine Waters of California stated "any discussion of security concerns is 'wasting time' and that the bill should move forward without question."
Data Storage

Submission + - IBM smashes Moore's Law, cuts bit size to 12 atoms (networkworld.com)

Submitted by
pcwhalen
pcwhalen writes: "You have to love Big Blue. IBM researchers have taken the usual magnetic media from hard drives and SSDs and used a type of magnetism called antiferromagnetism that aligns the atoms in a different way, allowing for 100 TB in the space taken by today's 1 TB drives. So then I can put all my HD movies and the total season of Firefly on my iPod Touch."
Android

Submission + - Funf Is a Sensing and Data Processing Mobile Frame (infoq.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Funf is an open source framework for collecting and analyzing mobile data. It has been used by MIT to see how political opinions change during an election campaign, how users interact with each other, or how illnesses spread through population.

Submission + - Challenging Puzzle Challenging Puzzle (blogspot.com)

Submitted by
brain_teasers
brain_teasers writes: "Outside a room there are three light switches. One of switch is connected to a light bulb inside the room.
Each of the three switches can be either 'ON' or 'OFF'.

You are allowed to set each switch the way you want it and then enter the room(note: you can enter the room only once)

Your task is to then determine which switch controls the bulb ??"
Intel

Submission + - CES 2012: Intel botches live game demo (winbeta.org)

Submitted by BogenDorpher
BogenDorpher writes: Wow talk about a new low for a company desperately trying to push a product line by tricking consumers. During the Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas, one of Intel's executives was caught faking a live racing game demo.

Submission + - United Independent Design Theory (google.com)

Submitted by
flyerbri
flyerbri writes: "Did the observers of CERN see faster than light particles or did they not? Is Schrodinger's cat alive or dead? This controversial new theory sheds light on the observer effect, how the observer influences the outcome, how computer processors _already_ account for this mathematically, and how we may need to revise the fundamentals of math to update some of our most basic assumptions we were all taught in grade school"

Comment Heijunka (Score 1) 317

by pcwhalen (#38694880) Attached to: Code Cleanup Culls LibreOffice Cruft

The issue is similar to the Japanese concept of "heijunka." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Production_leveling
Pressure for speed of production of software vs. quality of product in speed and lack of bugs demand compromise. No one will use your software if you get beat to market by the competition. No one will buy your product if it's unreliable.

Submission + - A Guide for Using SOPA & PIPA to Kill Scientif (huffingtonpost.com)

Submitted by mwolfam
mwolfam writes: Simply put, The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA) currently under development in Congress will provide a rapid way to sentence websites to death without the need for pesky things like trials and juries. Much to the surprise of nobody who understands how the Internet works, these two Acts will have absolutely no effect on digital piracy, but they will create an environment where freedom of speech could be severely curtailed, large companies can execute competitors, and scientific data can be hidden from the public.
Biotech

Submission + - Ion Proton sequencer decodes DNA fast and on the c (gizmag.com)

Submitted by cylonlover
cylonlover writes: Until recently, DNA decoding machines — fitting in the US$500,000 to $750,000 price range — would take weeks or even months to sequence a human genome, and the whole procedure would cost $5,000 to $10,000. That could be about to change, however, as Life Technologies introduces the Benchtop Ion Proton Sequencer — a machine that may finally deliver the power of genetics into the hands of ordinary doctors thanks to its $149,000 price tag and ability to decode a human genome in one day at a cost of $1,000.
Google

Submission + - MAME Running in Chrome (maxconsole.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: It not the fact that an 'emulator' is running in Chrome. — It is the fact on 'whom' did the port, it was done by GOOGLE themselves. — A employee on COMPANY TIME, releasing it on their GOOGLE DEVELOPMENT website!
Verizon

Submission + - FCC to Investigate Verizon Over $2 'Convenience' C (foxnews.com)

Submitted by Velcroman1
Velcroman1 writes: The FCC plans to take a closer look at Verizon's plans to hit consumers who pay their bills online or over the phone with a $2 "convenience fee" — despite three separate data network problems that dogged the wireless carrier in December. Verizon said on Thursday that it planned to add the fee as soon as January 15 for one-time telephone and online bill payments. The FCC said not so fast. "On behalf of American consumers, we're concerned about Verizon's actions and are looking into the matter," an FCC official told FoxNews.com. Consumers faced with already steep wireless bills were up in arms that the wireless company would demand they pay before paying. Consumer blog Engadget said charging customers to pay was "downright ludicrous."

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