Comment Re:Yea! (Score 0) 174
No need for that, we already have photographic proof right here.
Comment Re:Target acquired (Score 0) 174
Here let me just guide you to my (insert target here).
Works for me.
Wait...they have maps for that? Score!
Comment Security? (Score 0, Redundant) 174
Maybe I'm crazy, but this idea doesn't sound terribly good or safe from a security standpoint. Here let me just guide you to my (insert target here). Maybe it'll have sensitive areas blurred out, who knows. But, I am all for being able to find a restroom in the mall.
Comment Security? (Score 1) 1
Maybe I'm crazy, but this idea just makes me wonder if anyone thought through the security implications of this. Even doing this only in Malls isn't exactly a 100% good idea.
Submission + - Nvidia discloses details on next-gen Fermi GPU (techreport.com)
EconolineCrush writes: "The Tech Report has published the first details describing the architecture behind Nvidia's upcoming Fermi GPU. More than just a graphics processor, Fermi incorporates many enhancements targeted specifically at general-purpose computing, such as better support for double-precision math, improved internal scheduling and switching, and more robust tools for developers. Plus, you know, more cores. Some questions about the chip remain unanswered, but it's not expected to arrive until later this year or early next."
Submission + - Charting the Final Frontier in Navigation--Google (smartertechnology.com) 1
An anonymous reader writes: Google maps are getting extended indoors next month with a new app called Micello that takes over where conventional navigators leave off--mapping your route inside of buildings, malls, convention centers and other points of interest. You don't get a "you are here" blinking dot yet--but they do promise to add one next year using WiFi triangulation. At the introduction next month, Micello will only work in California, but they plan to expand to other major U.S. cities during 2010.
Submission + - SPAM: "Perfect storm" of galactic cosmic rays invade spa
coondoggie writes: "Astronauts and satellite integrated circuits are at most risk of an ongoing tempest of galactic cosmic rays that scientists say is at an all-time high.
According to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, galactic cosmic rays come from outside the solar system and are made up of subatomic particles accelerated to almost light speed by distant supernova explosions. Cosmic rays cause showers of particles when they hit Earth's atmosphere but they pose their greatest health hazard, radiation, to astronauts in space. They aren't too healthy for satellites either as a single cosmic ray can disable the unit if one hits an unlucky integrated circuit, NASA said.
"In 2009, cosmic ray intensities have increased 19% beyond anything we've seen in the past 50 years," NASA stated.
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According to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, galactic cosmic rays come from outside the solar system and are made up of subatomic particles accelerated to almost light speed by distant supernova explosions. Cosmic rays cause showers of particles when they hit Earth's atmosphere but they pose their greatest health hazard, radiation, to astronauts in space. They aren't too healthy for satellites either as a single cosmic ray can disable the unit if one hits an unlucky integrated circuit, NASA said.
"In 2009, cosmic ray intensities have increased 19% beyond anything we've seen in the past 50 years," NASA stated.
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Submission + - SPAM: Star Trek communicator lives!
coondoggie writes: "The crew of the classic science-fiction show's Starship Enterprise wore small devices on their chests that they could tap to communicate instantly with their colleagues. Such communications technology is now closer to reality thanks to a Finnish company which this week demonstrated high-tech clothing that can send and receive messages via satellite.
The demonstrator antenna, built by the Patria Aviation Oy company, looks like a simple patch of cloth but is capable of operating in the Iridium and GPS frequency band as part of clothing. The Iridium satellites allow two-way voice and data communication, while GPS provides positional data to the user. Iridium could also relay the position of the user.
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The demonstrator antenna, built by the Patria Aviation Oy company, looks like a simple patch of cloth but is capable of operating in the Iridium and GPS frequency band as part of clothing. The Iridium satellites allow two-way voice and data communication, while GPS provides positional data to the user. Iridium could also relay the position of the user.
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Submission + - "Windows 7 compatible" PCs must be 64-bit (pcpro.co.uk)
Barence writes: "Microsoft has started certifying PCs as "compatible with Windows 7" — and looks to have avoided the mistakes that dogged the Vista Capable scheme. Whereas Microsoft certified PCs that could only run Vista Home Basic last time round, this time PCs will have to work with all versions of Windows 7 to qualify for the sticker, including 64-bit versions of the OS. Microsoft also claims that "products that receive the logo are checked for common issues to minimise the number of crashes, hangs, and reboots experienced by the user.""
Submission + - Company uses DMCA to take down second-hand softwar (computerworlduk.com)
dreemteem writes: "A judge Tuesday heard arguments in a dispute over software sales that could potentially have repercussions on the secondhand sale of virtually any copyright material.
The suit was filed by Timothy Vernor, a seller on eBay, after Autodesk, citing the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, asked eBay to remove some of its software products that Vernor had listed for sale there, and later to ban him from the site.
Vernor had not illegally copied the software but was selling legitimate CDs of the products secondhand. For that reason, he argued, he was not infringing Autodesk's copyright.
Autodesk countered that because it licences the software, rather than selling it outright, a licensee does not have the right to resell its products."
The suit was filed by Timothy Vernor, a seller on eBay, after Autodesk, citing the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, asked eBay to remove some of its software products that Vernor had listed for sale there, and later to ban him from the site.
Vernor had not illegally copied the software but was selling legitimate CDs of the products secondhand. For that reason, he argued, he was not infringing Autodesk's copyright.
Autodesk countered that because it licences the software, rather than selling it outright, a licensee does not have the right to resell its products."
Carl Sagan Sings 183
gijoel writes "Someone with too much time on their hands and access to Auto-Tune has taken clips from Carl Sagan's Cosmos series to make this fantastic song. Watch for the Stephen Hawking cameo."
Submission + - New Cancer Fighting Weapon - ALKA-V6 shows positiv (orizonresearch.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Researchers in the Department of Agriculture at Texas State University-San Marcos have completed initial testing of a cancer chemotherapeutic and anti-retroviral compound with promising results. The product, known as ALKA-V6, is a proprietary modified silicon-based compound developed by Orizon Research. The unique electrochemical and structural composition of ALKA-V6 indicates that it may provide an alternative basis for control of cancer cell growth and virus survival.
Submission + - Sexism: Open Source Software's Dirty Little Secret (earthweb.com)
Drahgkar writes: "On September 19th, the GNOME Foundation and the Free Software Foundation supposedly hosted a mini-summit on how to increase women's participation in the free and open source software (FOSS) communities. The summit was speculated as an effort to repair relationships between the two foundations after Richard Stallman was pilloried for sexism after his keynote in Gran Canaria a couple of months ago.
The article seems to have opened a can of worms with some people wondering if the FOSS community is more prone to this or if this is the case for IT in general. Results and minutes from the summit can be found here and here."
The article seems to have opened a can of worms with some people wondering if the FOSS community is more prone to this or if this is the case for IT in general. Results and minutes from the summit can be found here and here."
Comment Re:Ugh, horrible bad usage, batman (Score 1) 97
Having lived in Idaho, I would say that the problem here is probably a mixture of the data being BS, population, computer's per home, average computer know-how, the actual ratio of spam to legitimate email going to users in that state, and the average air speed of a coconut-laden swallow.
I'm gonna go with the BS option personally.
I'm gonna go with the BS option personally.
Submission + - A View of the Parallel Computing Landscape (acm.org)
Crawfd writes: "If researchers meet the parallel challenge, the future of IT is rosy. If they don't, it's not." So say researchers from UC Berkeley's Parallel Computing Laboratory who examine what it would take to reinvent the hardware/software sequence to make parallel computing scalable for the demands of global IT growth.
