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Submission + - What WikiLeaks Teaches Us About Cloud Computing (sys-con.com)

jg21 writes: Since both Amazon Web Services and Tableau Software have showed the Web world that they are willing to withdraw service from a customer (WikiLeaks) without even receiving any kind of official legal challenge from a third party, it is hardly surprising that Cloud Computing Journal's commentary on the whole "Cablegate" issue should view it through the prism of Cloud Computing and the possible implications for the Web in 2011 and beyond. As open source freedom fighter Simon Phipps writes in his ComputerWorldUK blog, behavior like this by Amazon and Tableau "informs us as customers of web services and cloud computing services that we are never safe from intentional outages when the business interests of our host are challenged."

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Science

Submission + - Negative temperatures may be possible (newscientist.com)

adaviel writes: Scientists have discovered a new way to make negative temperatures. Apparently this is nothing new, but for me it was one of those "whoa!" moments like when I found that the holes in P-type semiconductor have positive mass, according to quantum mechanics.
(Negative as in below zero Kelvin, of course, not just regular winter freezing...)

Transportation

Submission + - Google Secretly Tests Autonomous Cars in Traffic (nytimes.com)

Hugh Pickens writes: "Autonomous cars are years from mass production, but technologists who have long dreamed of them believe that they can transform society as profoundly as the Internet has. Now the NY Times reports that Google has been working in secret on vehicles that can drive themselves, using artificial-intelligence software that can sense anything near the car and mimic the decisions made by a human driver. With someone behind the wheel to take control if something went awry and a technician in the passenger seat to monitor the navigation system, seven test cars have driven 1,000 miles without human intervention and more than 140,000 miles with only occasional human control. One even drove itself down Lombard Street in San Francisco, one of the steepest and curviest streets in the nation. The only accident, engineers said, was when one Google car was rear-ended while stopped at a traffic light."

Comment Re:Or, the alternative... (Score 1) 337

Well, that Autopilot is just for the lazy. It helps you to get somewhere without attending the game, but that 15km distance to the gate and the time you need to approach it make the autopilot less attractive, and even dangerous in insecure systems.

And if you really want instant transportation within EVE, go for a Jumpdrive. Its there.

Comment Re:"ship with" or "must use"? (Score 1) 106

I guess this is the same "shipping with" deal that you have if you buy a computer in the US or in Europe nowadays.. You can be sure you have all the finest Crapware(tm) pre-installed. And i am not only talking Microsoft here, there is nearly anything you can imagine, from Demo-Versions of crappy tools up to Trial-Versions of other Stuff that happily asks you to buy when you fire up that PC. In multiple cases there is not even a single CD shipping with these CDs, the "Crapware Welcome Assistant" helps you to create a "Recovery CD" on your own once you start it.
Wii

Submission + - Nintendo Wii Fully Hacked at 24C3, runs Homebrew (wiinintendo.net)

cHALiTO writes: "From the site:
The guys over at 24C3 just demoed a Wii hack that is set to provide native Wii homebrew in the near future (not running in GC mode, and with full access to all the Wii hardware!)
They were able to find encryption and decryption keys by doing full memory dumps at runtime over a custom serial interface. Using these keys, they were able to create a Wii 'game' that ran their own code (their demo happened to show live sensor/Wiimote information, amongst a few other things).
Read here and watch video here."

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