Comment Re:Too real (Score 1) 134
Canon EOS cameras can do just that (See OSK-E3).
Unfortunately it's been cracked so it is no longer very useful.
Comment Re:They have access to the source... (Score 1) 357
What you and others keep missing here is that the Linux kernel devs maintain the Linux kernel, not virtualbox.
Virtualbox is not part of the Linux kernel. Distros like Ubuntu will include it for your convenience, but the Linux kernel team
has absolutely nothing to do with it. It's not their project.
Do you expect the Mozilla team to fix bugs in third party Firefox plugins? Especially plugins they don't even personally use?
In this case they are simply flagging that a third party driver known to have bugs is loaded. When the virtualbox crew, or perhaps somebody who actually uses it and has dev skills to fix it straighten it out, they'll remove the flag.
Comment Re:simple solution (Score 1) 357
take it out of the mainline kernel until the major bugs are fixed.
It's not in the mainline kernel. That's the entire point.
The Linux kernel devs deal with the mainline kernel, not random third party drivers.
Comment Re:It's not necessarily their place to fix it. (Score 1) 357
You wouldn't expect the mythtv developers to fix virtualbox bugs, would you?
Then why would you expect the kernel developers to do so? It's not their project.
Comment As the Beatles said in "Taxman" (Score 1) 197
"If you take a walk I'll tax your feet".
Prophetic words indeed
Submission + - Science Manual for U.S. Judges (law.com)
An anonymous reader writes: American court judges need to learn science! That's the message from the National Academies and the National Research Council, which today released the first new edition in 11 years of the Reference Manual of Scientific Evidence. It has new chapters about forensic science, mental health, and neuroscience, but unfortunately nothing about computer science. The manual is available as a free download and it's also online.
Comment Re:No no no no..... (Score 4, Funny) 203
This is you do it. You just break into the warden's office, find his PC, go to a command line and enter:
UNLOCK ALL INMATE DOORS
DEACTIVATE SECURITY SYSTEM
You left out a critical step. The computer will respond with ACCESS DENIED, at which point you type OVERRIDE
Comment Re:how do I protect my data? (Score 1) 238
I too treat my phone like my wallet or kidney: You cannot treat it casually...
And I have a slide rule and I know how to use it
Comment Re:Working in the worlds tallest smokestack. (Score 1) 407
Cool story, bro.
I used to drive by the Inco Superstack near Sudbury, Ontario occasionally. That's the second tallest in the world. It's one of those things that just seems to hang around the skyline forever as you drive.
The CN Tower in Toronto is similar. When sailing on Lake Ontario, you can go on multiday trips and the damn thing is still always there poking over the horizon. It's visible from the other side of the lake, in New York state.
Comment Re:I'm sure it would work (Score 1) 407
to generate electricity, but isn't a major hurdle for projects like this one the distance from where the electricity will be consumed? They're confining this to the desert, because of the daytime temps, but most power is being used on either coast, thousands of miles away.
It's called a "transmission line".
The James Bay Project in northern Quebec has some 4800 km of transmission line to get the power from the arctic to the consumers in southern Quebec.
Las Vegas is only a few hundred km away.
Submission + - The Loudness Wars May Be Ending
Hugh Pickens writes writes: "Mike Barthel writes about a technique called brick-wall limiting, where songs are engineered to seem louder by bringing the quiet parts to the same level as the loud parts and pushing the volume level of the entire song to the highest point possible. "Because of the need to stand out on radio and other platforms, there's a strategic advantage to having a new song sound just a little louder than every other song. As a result, for a period, each new release came out a little louder than the last, and the average level of loudness on CDs crept up (youtube) to such a degree that albums actually sounded distorted, as if they were being played through broken speakers." But the loudness wars may be coming to an end. Taking advantage of the trend towards listening to music from the digital "cloud"—via services like Pandora, Spotify, and Apple's forthcoming iCloud—a proposal by audio engineer Thomas Lund, already adopted as a universal standard (PDF) by the International Telecommunications Union, would institute a volume limit on any songs downloaded from the cloud effectively removing the strategic advantage of loudness. Lund's proposal would do the same thing for any music you could buy. "Once a piece of music is ingested into this system, there is no longer any value in trying to make a recording louder just to stand out," says legendary engineer Bob Ludwig, who has been working with Lund. "There will be nothing to gain from a musical point of view. Louder will no longer be better!""
Submission + - Report Claims ARM To Hold 23% Laptop Share by 2015 (hothardware.com)
MojoKid writes: "Windows 8's primary feature (at least thus far) is its ability to run on ARM processors and, by extension, its tablet-centric UI. According to analyst firm IHS-iSuppli, official Windows support will give the ARM architecture the ability to do what no other CPU design has ever done: break the x86 monopoly. iSuppli predicts that ARM, which is expected to account for three percent of the notebook market in 2012, will skyrocket to 22.9 percent by the end of 2015. Porting Windows 8 to ARM and building a tablet-friendly version of the Windows OS are both ground-breaking but neither guarantees ARM's ascension at the rate iSuppli projects. ARM, meanwhile, is even more optimistic--the company has claimed it'll hold a whopping 40 percent of the market by 2015."
Submission + - Dawn Sends Signal, Now Orbiting Asteroid Vesta (discovery.com)
astroengine writes: "Mission managers of NASA's Dawn asteroid probe had a long Saturday, waiting for news from the asteroid belt. Eventually they got the news they were hoping for: Dawn had entered Vesta orbit. This is the first time in history that an object in the asteroid belt has been orbited by an artificial satellite.
It's taken four years for the ion thruster-propelled spacecraft to reach the asteroid and there was some uncertainty as to whether the probe had been captured by the asteroid's gravity at all. But after a long period of waiting, mission managers received the signal after Dawn was able to orientate its antenna toward Earth."
It's taken four years for the ion thruster-propelled spacecraft to reach the asteroid and there was some uncertainty as to whether the probe had been captured by the asteroid's gravity at all. But after a long period of waiting, mission managers received the signal after Dawn was able to orientate its antenna toward Earth."
Submission + - The Queen sets a code-breaking challenge (i-programmer.info)
mikejuk writes: Queen Elizabeth II has made her first ever visit to Bletchley Park, the home of the UK's World War II code-breaking efforts and now a museum. To mark the occasion The Queen has issued a code cracking challenge of her own "The Agent X Code Book Challenge" aimed at getting children interested in cryptography. Perhaps a royal programming or general technology challenge is next....
Comment Re:Good mother! (Score 1) 1017
Not to nitpick here, but there's usually more than one crewmember in the cockpit.
Usually.
So you wait until the other guy goes to take a pee, and then you put the aircraft in a crash dive. It's awfully hard for anyone to get back into the cockpit during a zero gee vertical.
Alternately, on final approach, at the last minute you do an aileron roll to invert and pull back. This takes seconds, and there is absolutely nothing the other pilot can do to recover. Really, aircraft are so close to stall on final approach that any brash manoeuvre is unrecoverable.
