TheSync - Slashdot User

Submission + - Venezuela's Chavez calls for Internet Regulation (google.com)

Submitted by TheSync on Sunday March 14, 2010 @05:42AM

TheSync writes: The AP reports that Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez is calling for regulation of the Internet and cracking down on false Web stories. In a televised speech, Chavez said: "The Internet can't be something free where anything can be done and said. No, every country has to impose its rules and regulations."

Submission + - Massive Rube Goldberg Machine Rules YouTube (bostonherald.com)

Submitted by TheSync on Friday March 05, 2010 @05:28PM

TheSync writes: US indie band OK Go has filmed a music video with an awesome 4-minute long Rube Goldberg Machine done in a single shot. The machine is timed to the parts of the song, and actually "does things" to the band members. The video is #1 YouTube's most-watched video of the week, with over 3.5 million views. The video was produced with MIT’s Media Lab and Syyn Labs, and contains the MAKE Magazine car from the 24 Hours of LeMons.

Submission + - BSkyB to Launch 3D TV Service in 2010 (guardian.co.uk)

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TheSync

on Thursday July 30, 2009 @08:38PM

TheSync writes: "The Guardian reports that BSkyB will launch Europe's first 3D TV service in 2010. You will need the Sky+ HD set-top box, and a "3D ready" TV set (glasses-based stereoscopic system such as LCD shutter glasses or polarized glasses). Note that the first 3D TV service was from Nippon BS Broadcasting BS11 for use with Hyundai 3D sets."

Submission + - FTC to Regulate Blogs (washingtonpost.com)

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TheSync

on Thursday June 25, 2009 @01:16PM

TheSync writes: "The Washington Post is reporting that the Federal Trade Commission is planning to regulate blogs. They are concerned about bloggers who receive compensation from the companies whose products they blog about. The regulation would clarify that rules against deceptive and unfair business practices apply to bloggers. So if Slashdot gets money or non-cash support from Linux vendors and they put up articles about how bad Microsoft is, watch out!"

Submission + - "Definitive evidence" for ancient lake on (eurekalert.org)

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on Thursday June 18, 2009 @04:07PM

TheSync writes: "Eurekalert reports on "definitive evidence" for an ancient water lake on Mars. A UC Boulder research team has discovered evidence of a shoreline on Mars of a 3 billion year-old lake 80 square miles in area and 1,500 feet deep (roughly the equivalent of Lake Champlain). Images came from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Water carved a 30-mile-long canyon that opened up into a valley and forming a large delta during a time when Mars is generally believed to have been cold and dry. The lack of additional, lower shorelines, shows that the lake dried up very quickly."

Submission + - First Images of Memories Being Made (eurekalert.org)

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on Thursday June 18, 2009 @03:59PM

TheSync writes: "Eurekalert reports that researchers at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, McGill and UCLA have captured the first image of protein translation that underlies long-term memory formation. A fluorescent protein showed the increased local protein synthesis during memory formation, which requires cooperation between the pre and post-synaptic compartments of the two neurons that meet at the synapse."

Submission + - Mortgage Securitization Software Author Mea Culpa (nymag.com)

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TheSync

on Monday March 30, 2009 @04:36PM

TheSync writes: "New York Magazine has an article written by Michael Osinski, an author of early software to enable collateralized mortgage obligations (CMOs). He even created a language for mortgage-backed bonds called BondTalk. He says "I never would have thought, in my most extreme paranoid fantasies, that my software, and the others like it, would have enabled Wall Street to decimate the investments of everyone in my family. ""

Submission + - Hawaii goes all-DTV (televisionbroadcast.com)

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TheSync

on Friday January 16, 2009 @04:44PM

TheSync writes: "Hawaii became the first state in the US to go all DTV at noon yesterday. This comes despite President-Elect Obama's transition team calling to delay the DTV transition as well as introduction of a bill by Sen. Jay Rockefeller to push the transition to June. Hundreds of calls per hour were coming into the FCC about the Hawaii analog shutoff."

Submission + - Burj Dubai tops out at 818m (business24-7.ae)

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TheSync

on Monday January 05, 2009 @10:10PM

TheSync writes: "Burj Dubai appears to have topped out at 818m high with 160 storeys. It already is the world's tallest structure, surpassing the 629m KVLY-TV mast in North Dakota last year. Unfortunately, the global economic situation is hurting Dubai rents, with Burj prices down 40%."

Submission + - UK and Obmama to Rate Web like MPAA (nytimes.com)

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TheSync

on Monday December 29, 2008 @03:32AM

TheSync writes: "The NYT reports that "A British cabinet minister says the government is considering a plan to work with President-elect Barack Obama on a new ratings system for Internet Web sites..to protect children from inappropriate material...similar to the one employed by the Motion Picture Association of America". Creepy!"

Submission + - No Free Broadband 100 Years Ago (Pneumatic Tubes) (divisionoflabour.com)

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TheSync

on Tuesday December 16, 2008 @01:41PM

TheSync writes: "Division of Labor blogs on a report written 100 years ago by a commission appointed by the Postmaster General that came to the conclusion "That it is not feasible and desirable at the present time for the Government to purchase, to install, or to operate pneumatic tubes." The original NYT article is here. If only we had gotten the free government Intertubes in 1908!"

Submission + - Satellite Images Cast Doubt on Surge Results (newscientist.com)

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TheSync

on Saturday September 20, 2008 @05:29AM

TheSync writes: "NewScientist reports that Satellite images cast doubt on success of military "surge" in Iraq. By looking at the amount of light produced in various areas of Baghdad, the effects of ethnic cleansing of Sunnis could be tracked, showing that violence began to drop due to ethnic cleansing before the surge."

Submission + - Large Hadron Collider Rap (youtube.com)

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TheSync

on Tuesday July 29, 2008 @08:44PM

TheSync writes: "Want to get the 411 on the CERN Large Hadron Collider in Rap form? Just watch the video which breaks it all down, for example: "The LHCb sees where the antimatter's gone, ALICE looks at the collisions of lead ions, CMS and ATLAS are two of a kind, they're looking for whatever new particles they can find.""

Submission + - Consumer 3D Television Moving Forward (hollywoodreporter.com)

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TheSync

on Monday July 21, 2008 @01:34PM

TheSync writes: "The Hollywood Reporter claims that SMPTE (the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers) will "establish an industry task force to define the parameters of a mastering standard for 3D content distributed via broadcast, cable, satellite, packaged media and the Internet, and played-out on televisions, computer screens and other tethered displays." Already Japanese Nippon BS viewers with Hyundai 3D LCD sets can watch an hour of 3D programming daily. Even your existing DLP TV set might be 3D capable today with the addition of LCD shutter glasses."

Submission + - 3D TV Now on the Air in Japan (usatoday.com)

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TheSync

on Thursday June 19, 2008 @02:01PM

TheSync writes: "USA Today reports that Japanese channel BS11 is now showing 3D content for the 46" Hyundai stereoscopic LCD monitor. This monitor requires the use of passive polarized glasses rather than the active LCD "shutter glasses" that gamers use. How come Japan always gets the cool stuff first?"

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