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Honda's Answer To the Segway 247

Posted by timothy on Thursday September 24, 2009 @02:44PM from the will-change-how-cities-are-built dept.

lcreech writes with an excerpt from the Daily Mail's description of a new Segway-style one-person vehicle being shown off by Honda: "The vehicle looks like a very modern unicycle and to ride it you simply lean your weight in the direction you want to go, whether that's forward, backwards or even sideways. It maintains its own balance travelling up to 3.7MPH. Not very fast."

Comment Looks like the eniCycle (Score 1) 1

by thzinc on Thursday September 24, 2009 @02:09PM (#29531311) Attached to: Honda's answer to the Segway

I saw a very similar powered, self-balancing unicycle last month called the eniCycle.

Submission + - What level of control over privacy do you look for (weourfamily.com)

Submitted by

thzinc

on Thursday September 24, 2009 @02:03PM

thzinc writes: "With all of the privacy-related reports on social networking in the news lately, it seems that the issue of privacy is becoming more important to people. People are asking questions and demanding options for privacy. Governments are defining policy--good or bad--for social networks, as well as funding multi-million dollar research projects to find out what privacy means to different people. Just recently, there was an AskSlashdot article regarding Security/Privacy Advice when using social networks. It is obvious that there are a lot of people trying to deal with privacy in a variety of ways.

I work with a company who is also trying to address the privacy issue with a new privacy-oriented social network: WeOurFamily. While Facebook and MySpace find their money from investors and advertisers, who both have agendas on mining information, WeOurFamily operates on a subscription basis without any advertisers, and without a motive to mine data from its users.

My question to the Slashdot community is this: What level of control over privacy do you look for in a social network? Do you consider the company and business models when evaluating your privacy options?"

Submission + - Honda's answer to the Segway 1

Submitted by

lcreech

on Thursday September 24, 2009 @12:51PM

lcreech writes: "The vehicle looks like a very modern unicycle and to ride it you simply lean your weight in the direction you want to go, whether that's forward, backwards or even sideways. It maintains its own balance travelling up to 3.7MPH. Not very fast..

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1215741/Honda-unveils-Segway-style-unicycle-travels-direction-want.html#ixzz0S2lY0hSd

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1215741/Honda-unveils-Segway-style-unicycle-travels-direction-want.html"

Comment Re:I beg to differ (Score 1) 508

by thzinc on Thursday September 24, 2009 @12:31PM (#29530131) Attached to: MIT Project "Gaydar" Shakes Privacy Assumpitons

Actually, they're quite easy to make. Kipkay made a pair of glasses that do just that. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_LzSfy6tDQ

AIDS Vaccine Is Partially Successful 317

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday September 24, 2009 @11:50AM from the not-sure-thirty-percent-is-gonna-cut-it dept.

ifchairscouldtalk writes "A Phase III 'RV 144' study in Thailand succeeded in reducing HIV infection rate in trial with 31.2% effectiveness. The study was conducted by the Thailand Ministry of Public Health and used strains of HIV common in Thailand. It is not clear whether the vaccine, which combines AIDSVAX with Aventis Pasteur ALVAC-HIV canarypox vector, known as 'vCP1521,' would work against other strains in the United States, Africa or elsewhere. Strangely, the vaccine had no effect on levels of HIV in the blood of those who did become infected, providing 'one of the most important and intriguing findings' of the trial, according to Dr Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which is one of the trial's sponsors."

Comment Are users the customer or the product? (Score 1) 260

by thzinc on Thursday September 17, 2009 @07:58PM (#29460829) Attached to: Security / Privacy Advice?

One thing that a lot of people don't think about when discussing privacy, especially in social networking, is the topic of who the customer truly is. With free services online, the true customer is almost always the advertisers, and the product being sold is usually user information. http://www.weourfamily.com/blog/who_is_the_customer.jsp

Comment Re:Tape (Score 1) 150

by thzinc on Sunday April 12, 2009 @11:29PM (#27552889) Attached to: Volunteers Recover Lunar Orbiter 1 Photographs

Though it's presented as a bit of a joke, PaperBack might be something that could handle this.

Comment Re:Cough (Score 2, Informative) 335

by thzinc on Tuesday March 31, 2009 @01:37AM (#27398327) Attached to: Locating the Real MySQL

The real moral of the story is to use the proper collations where necessary. Migrating from a case-insensitive to a case-sensitive collation was the real problem. Also, indexing with the right collation is no problem.

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