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Comment Re:Sounds interesting (Score 1) 31

Definitely take a look at the Alfresco Community Edition, which is free but without support: http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Download_and_Install_Alfresco
Just install it and try it out, it's an easy install and quick to learn, but full of the options used in enterprise document management systems that you can master when you need them. We use the Share interface to manage the documents in each of our projects.

Robotics

Submission + - Yale grasping robot helicopter (suasnews.com)

garymortimer writes: "Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) avoid interacting with their environments. Aircraft “look, but don’t touch”, with UAVs avoiding contacting objects and obstacles around them.

However, the ability for small robotic aerial vehicles to grasp and manipulate objects around them has numerous applications across a variety of disciplines, including sample retrieval, highspeed courier services, intelligence gathering, and explosives disposal."

Android

Submission + - Android 2.3.4 available via OTA (incl. download) (blogtechnical.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Google has officially released Android 2.3.4 via OTA for Nexus S and Nexus One owners. The update brings Video and Voice Chat to Google Talk, which is supposed to compete with Apple’s popular front facing chat program FaceTime. The update also fixes a couple bugs experience in version 2.3.3.
Idle

Submission + - Face-mounted nose stylus created for phones (wired.co.uk)

Lanxon writes: Designer Dominic Wilcox has come up with a Pinocchio-style "finger-nose stylus" that lets you use your phone hands free, reports Wired. He came up with the design after he found that he wanted to use his touchphone in the bath. A wet hand is not a good touchscreen navigation device, so he found himself using his nose to scroll, but found it hard to see precisely where his nose was touching the screen. The solution was to create a nose extension "finger" that would allow for navigation while holding the phone firmly in his one dry hand.
Science

Submission + - Forty Years of P v NP

An anonymous reader writes: In the afternoon of May 4, 1971, in the Stouffer's Somerset Inn in Shaker Heights, Ohio, Steve Cook presented his STOC paper proving that Satisfiability is NP-complete and Tautology is NP-hard.

The theorems suggest that Tautology is a good candidate for an interesting set not in [P] and I feel it is worth spending considerable effort trying to prove this conjecture. Such a proof would be a major breakthrough in complexity theory.

And thus Cook formulated what was soon to be called the P versus NP problem. The rest is history.

Here's the 1971 STOC Program (there were 143 attendees)and what that sacred ground looks like today.

Patents

Submission + - WOZ and the RCA character-generator patent (theregister.co.uk)

doperative writes: "A lot of patents are pretty much not worth that much .. In other words, any fifth-grader could come up with the same approach .. And then we find out RCA has a patent on a character generator for any raster-scanned setup .. And they patented it at a time when nobody could have envisioned it really being used or anything ... and they got five bucks for each Apple II, based on this little idea that's not even an idea. Y'know: store the bits, store the bits, then pop in a character on your TV"
EU

Submission + - Internet Interconnection Ecosystem Resilience (net-security.org)

Orome1 writes: The Internet has so far been extremely resilient. But will this last? A systemic failure of the Internet would cause significant problems for several sectors like energy, transport, finance, healthcare and the economy. The European Network and Information Security Agency launched a new report on the resilience of the Internet interconnection ecosystem. The focus of the report is the complex ecosystem of the interconnected network layers that make up the Internet. It identifies a number of concerns, for example by unveiling a striking lack of information of the size and shape of the Internet infrastructure. The study also recommends that incidents should be investigated by an independent body in order to understand the nature of success and failures.
Technology

Submission + - Inside India's fastest Super Computer (blogspot.com)

karthikmns writes: "It can perform billions or even trillion of operations in a second or even less time. Presently, the supercomputer segment is dominated by U.S.A. Indian space research organization(ISRO) has recently developed a supercomputer named SAGA-220 making it the fastest super computer in India."

Submission + - Why Intelligent People Use More Drugs (makeahistory.com)

An anonymous reader writes: The human consumption of psychoactive drugs, such as marijuana, cocaine, and heroin, is of even more recent historical origin than the human consumption of alcohol or tobacco, so the Hypothesis would predict that more intelligent people use more drugs more frequently than less intelligent individuals.

Comment Re:Data Search Interface (Score 1) 65

VisiNav looks very interesting, with a strong focus on class/object hierarchies that could work well on clean, well-structured data sets -- and may be exactly what the poster needs!

Could you explain here how to continue with VisiNav past the demo? How would the poster adapt VisiNav to his needs: set up his own system and use his own dataset?

Is VisiNav a research experiment, an open source project, or a commercial product? What licences is it available with? Is it open source?

Comment Enterprise Content Management with Alfresco (Score 5, Informative) 232

Yes, Google's Search Appliance (GSA) could be used, I have seen it used with limited success. The main problem was how to respect access control on documents: either you index them or you don't, and if you index them with GSA, sensitive data may show up in search results. Also, we had a lot of trouble "taming" GSA: it would regularly take down servers that were dimensioned for light loads.

I would suggest using Alfresco http://www.alfresco.com/ as a CIFS (Common Internet File System) or WebDav store for all those documents. This would give you the simplicity of a shared folder and the opportunity to enrich the documents with searchable metadata such as tags, etc. Each folder (or any item, in fact) could have the correct access control that would be respected by the search engine, Lucene. http://lucene.apache.org/java/docs/

Alfresco comes in both Enterprise and Community Edition, it's very easy to try out -- even our non-techie project manager could install it on his PC within 10 minutes. Try that with Documentum, FileNet or IBM DB2 Content Manager!

Comment Re:Thats about it for me (Score 1) 205

I guess you will be deleting you Slashdot account as well, then? Are you talking seriousity? :-)

Might as well cut yourself out of society. Facebook et al are minuscule steps toward the singularity - do you think that will happen without loss of privacy? It will be painful.

Stand up and sing out: "YES! I cut my finger today! Revel in the mundane details of my life, will you?" And the discordant songs shall melt in the fire of onrushing destiny until we are all united as one melody, beating in harmony with the pain and dreams of an entire civilization.

Man, what am I smoking today?

Submission + - France Presses Ahead With Bill To Cut Off File Sha (eweekeurope.co.uk)

judgecorp writes: A law which which would cut persistent file-sharers off the Internet has been passed by the French National Assembly — and now only needs to clear a panel of senators to become law. The bill was rejected by the French Constitutional Court in April, but is back again, and if passed might be a green light to similar laws proposed in other countries including the UK. Pirate Party branches have been set up in several European states to oppose moves which campaigners see as governments bowing to the demands of big media players.
Intel

Submission + - ARM takes the fight to Intel, risks hurting its pa (hexus.net)

unts writes: UK CPU designer ARM is moving to make it easier for companies to produce systems containing ARM processors. The company is offering up "hard macro" implementations of its newest Cortex-A9 CPU, ready for integration into System-on-Chip designs, reducing the cost and time involved in designing and testing them. In doing so, it claims it is upping the ante in its battle to beat Intel in the mobile and netbook spaces, and indeed beyond. This is a departure from the existing so-called "ARM ecosystem" whereby its partners must come up with the hard implementation of the cores themselves. However, HEXUS.channel mulls over the possibility of such a move creating issues with existing partners who've already invested heavily in their own ARM-based designs:

The likes of Qualcomm and NVIDIA didn't spend zillions of dollars developing Snapdragon and Tegra respectively, only to find themselves having to compete with numerous other entrants to the market, all facilitated by their supposed partner ARM. This could be an additional reason for ARM to continually make such a big point about how its targeting Intel.


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