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Comment Re:Die Spammers!! (Score 1) 76

by Varun Soundararajan (#26440479) Attached to: Aussie Regulator Comes Down On SMS Spam
I think the way should be this: Charge those who send sms rather than those who receive. That way, if the spammer is intending to send you spam, first he cant charge your bill and he pays double the charge (charge for sending and charge for you receiving it). So, things will get double costly for him. Second, if you dont like the spam you can delete it anyways. That way the game becomes much more level playing field. The whole notion that someone can send you sms and rake up your bill is something that I hate to accept.
Transportation

Can the Auto Industry Retool Itself To Build Rails? 897

Posted by Soulskill from the cross-training dept.
knapper_tech writes "The scope of the auto industry troubles continues to increase in magnitude. The call to retool and develop new vehicles has been made several times already, but with all of the challenges from labor prices and foreign competition, how exactly can the industry retool itself to be more competitive? In light of superior competition facing losses, there doesn't seem to be enough room in the industry moving forward. In the context of finding a new place in the auto industry, the future isn't bright. Calls for no disorderly collapse of the cash-strapped big three and a reluctant congress can only point to an underlying lack of direction. However, consider two other standing economic challenges. The airlines have continued to struggle due to fuel prices and heightened security. Consumers backed off of SUV's due to high fuel prices, and while those prices have eased in the face of global recession, the trend will pick up again with growth in China and India leading the fight for resources. In short, things are moving less, and the industries that support the movement are in need of developing new products while consumers are in need of a cheaper method of transportation." Read on for the rest of knapper_tech's thoughts.

Comment Re:It's too much to discourage anyone. (Score 1) 128

by Varun Soundararajan (#25882577) Attached to: Facebook Wins $873 Million Lawsuit Against Spammer

I hate spammers. I think the punishment should be really cruel..!

We should force the spammers to read each and every character/mail of all the spams that they ever mailed. Hopefully, with all the spelling mistakes they make, they will really get frustrated with themselves and commit suicide.

Comment Re:Unadultered Alterations (Score 1) 622

by Varun Soundararajan (#25853063) Attached to: AP Suspends DoD Over Altered US Army Photo

The alterations of of images transposed from within the confines of allocated semiconductor memory is a travesty of trustworthiness that makes on think of the simpler days of the chemical process for capturing images and storage on layered flexible devices. Those recollections also recoup melancholy days of sipping the Tranya amidst the family on late autumn holidays. One weeps for what this has become.

one possible reason for the above post: Weekend hangover even before weekend started :-)

Comment Re:The future of Computing is in... (Score 1) 124

by Varun Soundararajan (#25757723) Attached to: AMD Banks On Flood of Stream Apps

Low cost, low power CPUs. Already, 99% of people don't use 99% of the power of their CPUs 99% of the time.

I can see you havent kept upgrading Microsoft Operating systems. Everything that used to run well on my XP machine after a fateful Vista upgrade crawls. Why should the machine take 1GB of RAM just to boot up and start operating, when all I do is just check mail.

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Software

Submission + - Chrome is at large

Submitted by anandsr
anandsr writes: The Chrome is released, downloadable at http://www.google.com/chrome. Unfortunately I am in the office and our firewall is denying me the pleasure.

Comment Re:Where's the evidence? (Score 1) 131

by anandsr (#24555845) Attached to: Simulation Predicts Clumps of Dark Matter Within Galaxies

Well Bullet Cluster or any other cluster is a problem for MOND. But the Bullet Cluster is also a problem for Dark Matter. The velocity of the Cluster is much faster than GR can provide, which MOND can easily handle.

I actually liken MOND to Keplers laws. It shows how the matter moves. If GR cannot reproduce it, then there is a need for a new theory. TeVeS is a patch which will not survive for very long.

The other problem is that GR and QM don't work well. Possibly when we a proper Quantum Gravity theory then we will find out how MOND comes about. MOND is just an indication of the problem.

I don't disbelieve in Dark Matter, but I am sort of convinced that there is something about MOND. It could be that both MOND and DM are correct. DM may exist in significant quantities in Clusters while MOND is sufficient at the Galactic levels.
IBM

Software Backs Up Human Memory 172

Posted by timothy from the where'd-I-put-my-pda dept.
CWmike writes "Ever try to remember who you bumped into at the store a few days back? Well, you're not alone. And IBM researchers are working on software that just may help you better recollect all the forgotten pieces of your life. This week, the company unveiled Pensieve, software that stores images, sounds, and text on everyday mobile devices, then allows the user extract them later on, to help them recall names, faces, conversations and events. IBM's project is akin to one that Gordon Bell and other scientists at Microsoft Research have been working on for the past nine years."

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