Comment Wait?? (Score 2, Informative) 180
What exactly does the Fraternal Order of Police stand to gain from passage of SOPA exactly??
Kepler Discovers First Earth-Sized Exoplanets 179
ananyo writes "NASA's Kepler telescope has reached one of its major mission milestones: finding an Earth-sized planet outside the Solar System. What's more, it has done it twice in the same star system. Whizzing around the star Kepler-20, about 290 parsecs (946 light-years) from Earth, is not only an Earth-sized planet, but also something just a touch smaller — a Venus."
Comment Re:SCOTUS (Score 1) 283
That's exactly what I thought about this law. It didn't work out too well. Judge's eyes simply gloss over when talking about copyright, along with other average citizen's.
Comment It's called denial (Score 5, Insightful) 532
the first of the five stages of grief.
Upcoming Changes To 'Ask Slashdot' 230
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Comment Re:Photogs? (Score 1) 352
They also (still) sell a lot of film to Hollywood, both for actual filming but also for archival purposes, as all films shot on digital are also archived on film.
Comment Prophetic (Score 1) 323
Dunder Mifflin recently introduced The Pyramid.
Comment Re:Prognosis? (Score 2) 218
So you're saying the prognosis for Google Health is not good?
It's dead, Jim.
Windows 8 Secure Boot Defeated 205
jhigh writes "An Austrian security researcher is scheduled to release the first 'bootkit' for Windows 8 at the upcoming MalCon in Mumbai. This exploit loads in the MBR and stays memory resident until Windows loads, resulting in root access to the system. This allegedly defeats the new secure boot features in Windows 8's bootloader."
Working On Man Made Lightning 67
New submitter PerlJedi writes "There is a very cool write up on the Make blog about an effort to build the world's largest tesla coils. Quoting: '"Somehow lightning can generate huge discharges with only about a fifth of the voltage per foot that lab discharges require," Leyh explains. "The part that especially fascinates me is that this mysterious ability kicks in around 200' in length, which is right at the edge of what we can produce with a practical machine." Leyh wants to see if humans can replicate this voltage economy effect, and has launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund the building of two 10-story Tesla Coil towers (obviously superseding his current coil-size world record).'"
Comment Re:Pandaren monk, so cute... and observations (Score 1) 276
Have you received any promotional consideration for that post??
Comment Glass Steagall (Score 1) 308
Sign the petition to reinstate Glass-Steagall here.
Comment Hands down (Score 5, Informative) 375
If you can find one use a Superdisk to read a floppy. The heads are much more sensitive and narrow and can read ordinary floppies better than a regular floppy drive. I have used this to recover data from floppy disks that were old/worn.
Comment Better for android as a whole (Score 1) 433
The whole reason for android being closed source now is that there were five different versions of android that are/were incompatible with each other. This way google can rein in the errant OEM modifications that led to these incompatibilities.
Comment Question (Score 1) 388
Can the defendant discharge the judgement in a bankruptcy? Why couldn't the argument be made that the judgement violates the constitution for excessive punishment if he can't? (i.e. if he makes the average salary for a white male at 45K, that would be like confiscating his wages for 22 years as he uses after tax money to pay the judgement).
