Comment Now the world knows it exists. (Score 1) 111
Someone will try to recreate it anyway, now that people know it exists.
Even without on how to do it.
Comment Just... (Score 1) 202
Put it in the employee contract that they can be tracked by GPS.
Submission + - Open Source Software Hijacked To Push Malware (itworld.com)
jfruhlinger writes: "VLC Media Player is a popular, useful, and free-as-in-beer piece of software. Unfortunately, its open source nature makes it easier for people with bad intentions to repackage it in nefarious ways. Not only do some of these folks claim that they're the originator of the software (a violation of trademark law and the license), but they often bundle it up with crapware and malware, which is a real dilemma for open source developers who play by the rules."
Submission + - MIT researchers are printing solar cells on sheets
An anonymous reader writes: Researchers at MIT are working on a new and less-expensive way to make solar cells which involves printing them directly on to fabric or paper. Interestingly MIT researchers discovered the printing process works on just about any paper, from regular printer paper, to tissue paper, and even to already-printed newspaper.
Submission + - Games Tester (blogspot.com)
gamestestercareer writes: "If you enjoy playing video games and have a keen eye for detail then a career as a game tester might just be for you. Game testers are probably more in demand now than they've ever been due to the booming games industry. The more games that are released each year; the more games that need testing."
Submission + - Are Gamers Desensitized to Video Game Violence? (goozernation.com)
kube00 writes: Video Game violence doesn't really seem to bother most mainstream gamers these days. Some games use the violence and gore as selling points, games like Postal, Dead Space 2, Mortal Kombat, and the Grand Theft Auto series are great examples. The big question is does this desensitization have long term effects? Can society blame violence in games and other forms of media as the reason behind criminal activity?
Submission + - Google Earth to include Google Deep Sea (i-programmer.info)
mikejuk writes: You may have heard about the swash buckling adventures to be undertaken by Virgin Oceanic — visits to the bottom of the deepest parts of the oceans of the world. What you might not have noticed is that in the future we can all join in. The data from video cameras taken down on the five planned dives will be fed back to Google Earth.
As Sir Richard Branson said at the launch of Virgin Oceanic, more men have been to the moon than have ventured further down than 20,000 feet. As long as everything goes according to plan, the entire population should be able to experience a trip to the bottom of the oceans — if only virtually courtesy of Google Earth.
As Sir Richard Branson said at the launch of Virgin Oceanic, more men have been to the moon than have ventured further down than 20,000 feet. As long as everything goes according to plan, the entire population should be able to experience a trip to the bottom of the oceans — if only virtually courtesy of Google Earth.
Submission + - ALS sufferer used legs to contribute last patch (gnome.org) 1
krkhan writes: "This is a little old but seeing as it didn't make it to /. at the time I think it deserves a headline now. Adrian Hands was suffering from ALS and had lost motor skills when he used his legs to type in Morse code and fix a 9 year old bug in Gnome. The patch was submitted three days before he passed away."
Submission + - Plasma Active — A Desirable User Experience (vizzzion.org)
jrepin writes: "Sebastian Kügler writes: Today, I’d like to announce to a wider audience a project we have been working on in and beyond the Plasma team. Its goal is to “Create a desirable user experience encompassing a spectrum of devices“, and it is called Plasma Active. A couple of things make Plasma Active special. First, the driver is the desirable user experience. That means that we want to create something, people want, and people want to use. It means we are less technology-focused, but are taken a user-centered approach. Second, we are not targeting a single device, or a narrowly-defined class of devices. Plasma Active is made to run on a spectrum of devices that make up the user experience together."
Submission + - 3x efficient petrol engine with no pistons (msn.com) 2
erfnet writes: "A cool new high-efficienty petrol engine is trying to come to market with no radiator, no pistons, no valves, no transmission, and no fluids (except for the fuel). At first glance it has a few similarities with the Wonkel engine, but is more advanced. The engine is only suited for hybrid-electric vehicles, but that's ok for the efficiency they are claiming: over 3x versus today's engines. Now in development, they want to come to market in the next two/three years."
Submission + - Making You Own Custom USB Human Interface Devices (makezine.com)
An anonymous reader writes: MAKE has a beginner's tutorial on using the Teensy microcontroller to create made-to-measure USB Human Interface Devices to control the keyboard or mouse input of your computer. In the case of the creator, he made a button to key in a random synonym for "awesome" when it was pressed to help him with his overuse of the word.
Submission + - Subjects with electrode implants use mind control (indianjack.com)
hasanabbas1987 writes: "The researchers got some brave specimens to move a mouse cursor by implanting plastic pads containing electrodes underneath their skulls, with the sensors sitting on the surface of the brain. That, they say, gives them access to more telling, high-frequency waves that say a lot more about cognitive intentions. In the end, the subjects moved the cursors by thinking one of these sounds: "ee," "ah," "oo," and "eh.""
Submission + - Are Newspapers Getting Too Many Ad Dollars? 2
Hugh Pickens writes writes: "Even though newspapers have lost nearly half of their ad revenue in the last five years, Alan Mutter writes in "Reflections of a Newsosaur" that a recent report shows that newspapers get three times more advertising dolars than their readership deserves. Television, for example, represents about 43% of the time Americans spend consuming media and broadcasters collect about 43% of the advertising dollars, so that sounds about right. But even though consumers spend barely 5% of their time reading newspapers, eMarketer found that publishers are getting 17% of the ad spend and in the most egregious mismatch discovered by the study, only 0.5% of advertising dollars go to mobile phones even though people spend more than 8% of their media time using them. Internet ad dollars are also being shortchanged with 25% of media mindshare devoted to the Internet and barely 19% of ad dollars going to the web. "This is good news for newspaper publishers because it proves that they have done an excellent job to date of convincing marketers of the value of their medium," writes Mutter. "It also is bad news for publishers, because it represents a formidable threat: What would happen if advertisers began to wonder why they are spending so much on newspapers when they can use cheaper and more targetable advertising to reach the growing audiences on the web, mobile and social media?""
Submission + - forever storage: end of lifetime SSD's
An anonymous reader writes: Data on a SSD can't be written anymore ? Never fear ; it can still be read! And it can be read for a long time after you arer done with your SSD. So, how do I securely destroy a used SSD ? Or do I trust the SSD firmware when it says that I can't read data, that no one else can.
Comment Re:Correction (Score 1) 268
The government won't do anything about it.
