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Submission + - Minority Report computing on the cheap (silicon.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: MIT researchers have dreamt up a system that allows for gesture-based computing on the cheap. The researchers in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Labs have paired up a pair of natty looking gloves, which cost just $1 to make, with an off-the-shelf webcam and software that runs on your average desktop PC. The system is capable of recognising most gestures made by the hand, even fine movements by the fingers, allowing computer users to navigate an OS or manipulate virtual models with a sweep of their arm. See how the system works here.
Google

Submission + - Google keeps PacMan available for play (tekgoblin.com)

Submitted by tekgoblin
tekgoblin writes: If you had fun playing PacMan on Google (Google) for the 30th anniversary (I know I did), fear not Google has kept PacMan available for play. PacMan is available at http://www.google.com/pacman permanently. Google had this to say:

        We’ve been overwhelmed — but not surprised :) — by the success of our 30th anniversary PAC-MAN doodle. Due to popular demand, we’re making the game permanently available at www.google.com/pacman.

        Thanks to NAMCO for helping to make this wonderful collaboration happen. Enjoy!

        Posted by Marissa Mayer, VP Search Products & User Experience
Privacy

Submission + - The biggest threats to your online privacy (techworld.com)

Submitted by superapecommando
superapecommando writes:

From Facebook to advertisers who may be putting your online identity up for sale to the highest bidder, and to strangers who could track you across town, new ways of using technology and the Internet are making privacy issues a flash point for controversy.
"Privacy today isn't what it was a year ago," says Jeffrey Chester, director of the Center for Digital Democracy, a nonprofit group that promotes online privacy and free speech. "It wasn't long ago we were worried about advertisers planting cookies on our PC," he says. With today's trends, keeping a handle on your privacy is going to become even harder a year from now, he adds.
What follows are several emerging privacy threats.

Comment Re:Brainstorming? (Score 1) 180

by nj_peeps (#32268176) Attached to: Google Wave Now Open To All
I can see this only really taking off, if they completely open the rest of the code (web front end) so that each company could run their own fully functional wave server. Then you wouldn't have to worry bout Google's privacy (or lack there of) policies. I seem to remember them saying something about this in the kickoff from last year's IO...

Submission + - Whistleblower for IPv4 abusers?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: I used to work for a company called Reynolds & Reynolds as a developer. They have been assigned 168.207.0.0/16 (and many other blocks I'm sure.) Instead of using an RFC1918 private address scheme for the individual desktops on their corporate LAN, they were handing out these public addresses via DHCP and NAT'ing the outbound traffic to a completely different set of IPs. Obviously this is very poor network design and a complete waste of 65k public IP addresses that someone could legitimately be using. With the IPv4 shortage, is there anywhere this abuse should be reported?

Submission + - Newsbin Closed (newzbin.com)

Submitted by Nyarlthothep
Nyarlthothep writes: Newsbin just got taken down while I was reading it. There is now just a link to another website with gossip about the site's future

Submission + - Apple store refuses payment by cash 1

Submitted by linuxwrangler
linuxwrangler writes: Diane Campbell, who is disabled, on a fixed income, and has no credit-cards saved enough to buy an iPad. But when she took her cash to the local Apple store they refused to sell one to her. It turns out that Apple policies prohibit cash purchases of iPads. Even the involvement of the media consumer advocates hasn't swayed Apple.
The Internet

Submission + - The Broadband Net Neutrality Debate Continues (enterprisenetworkingplanet.com)

Submitted by nj_peeps
nj_peeps writes: As the FCC tries to re-classify broadband, and the USF Bill gets debated in the House. Republicans are now seeking to block the FCC from "regulating the internet"

Cliff Stearns (Fla.), the ranking Republican on the Energy and Commerce Committee's Internet subcommittee, introduced a bill on Tuesday that would require the FCC to provide Congress with evidence of a market failure in the Internet service sector before enacting any form of regulations governing how ISPs manage their networks.

"I see no reason for Internet regulation," Stearns said in a statement. "Yet, if there is ever a cause for regulation, it is a decision to be made by Congress — not the FCC."
Hardware

Submission + - Mind-controlled Robotic Arm (cnet.com)

Submitted by nj_peeps
nj_peeps writes: "If you've watched the movie "The Men Who Stare at Goats," you'd know it's all about covert efforts by the military to develop mind control. Well, good luck to them. However, it may be a bit premature to write off mind control as so much paranormal "X-File"-ish diddle-dee-doo, considering that Germany-based Otto Bock HealthCare has just done the seemingly impossible with a mind-controlled robotic arm."

This brings us yet another step closer to the $6 Million Dollar Man, or The Borg depending on your point of view.

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