Comment Re:Hmm... (Score 1) 313
Yesh, those OTR truck drivers will just love that, 'eh? No more loaded nappies and bottles of yellow liquid laying around truckstop's parking lots.
Comment News.Individual.Net (Score 1) 345
or use SDF!
Submission + - Israeli militarydeveloping battlefield robot snake (jpost.com)
An anonymous reader writes: A robot snake, capable of recording video and sound on the battlefield, is on the way to join the the IDF's hi-tech arsenal. The spying robot, which is about two meters long and covered in military camouflage, mimics the movements and appearance of real snakes, slithering around through caves, tunnels, cracks and buildings, while at the same time sending images and sound back to a soldier who controls the device through a laptop computer. Besides recording multimedia, the snake may also be used to carry explosives.
AT&T Dropping Usenet Netnews; Low-Cost Alternatives? 345
franknagy writes "This announcement message has appeared in all the news groups on
the AT&T/SBC News Server: 'Please note that on or around July 15, 2009, AT&T will no longer be
offering access to the Usenet netnews service. If you wish to continue
reading Usenet newsgroups, access is available through third-party
vendors.' So what free or low-cost alternatives are available for Netnews and
the NNTP services for clients?"
Submission + - Paris hosts the second Hacker Space Festival (hackerspace.net)
zoobab writes: "Hackers from all over Europe will meet at the end of the month (27-30 June) at the second Hacker Space Festival (HSF), in Paris. The four-day schedule includes conferences and workshops on: Metasploit, HostileWRT, FPGA for beginners, ICT disaster recovery, Software Patents in Europe, Hadopi, Anonymisation or how to produce your own biodiesel... The future of Hacker Spaces will also be debated. The event will be hosted by the first french hackerspace /tmp/lab, located in an industrial zone in the outskirts of Paris."
Submission + - Unix Turns 40
wandazulu writes: Forty years ago this summer, Ken Thompson sat down and wrote a small operating system that would eventually be called Unix. An article at ComputerWorld describes the the history, present, and future of what could arguably be called the most important operating system of them all.
Submission + - Money For Nothing and The Codecs For Free (davisfreeberg.com)
Davis Freeberg writes: In an in depth discussion on the codec industry, CoreCodec CEO and Matroska Foundation board member Dan Marlin shares his thoughts on the growing popularity of the MKV container, confusion in the marketplace between X.264/MKV and DivXHD and weighs in on a controversial decision by Microsoft to block third party filter support in future versions of Windows media player. His interview offers a behind the scenes look at an important piece of technology that is helping to power the P2P movement. It also raises the prickly question of whether or not Microsoft is abusing their OS monopoly, in order to rein in competition within the codec industry.
Comment Re:The main rule (Score 1) 410
Just leave it for the polyester security guard over the weekend. It will be taken care of by Monday morning.
Comment What about Pluto Nash? (Score 1) 158
What do we do about Pluto Nash?
Hulu! An evil Alien plot to destroy the world!
Comment Re:Last I heard they were still a crock... (Score 1) 581
The Navy shrinks gave me a 566 questions test called the MMPI to help determined a appropriate personality disorder diagnosis for a quick and expedient ADSEP from peace-time military service.
Submission + - SDF Public Access UNIX System Celebrates 20 Years (lonestar.org)
Stephen Jones writes: "The SDF Public Access UNIX System Celebrates 20 Years!
http://sdf.lonestar.org/
It was on June 16th, 1987 that the SDF-1 received its first caller at
300bps. This little Apple ][e BBS of the late 80s turned into a Public
Access UNIX System with the demise of "killer.dallas.tx.us" during the
"Operation Sundevil" raids. Since then it has grown to become the oldest
and largest continually operating PUBNIX on the planet."
http://sdf.lonestar.org/
It was on June 16th, 1987 that the SDF-1 received its first caller at
300bps. This little Apple ][e BBS of the late 80s turned into a Public
Access UNIX System with the demise of "killer.dallas.tx.us" during the
"Operation Sundevil" raids. Since then it has grown to become the oldest
and largest continually operating PUBNIX on the planet."
