Comment Re:What about RAMBUS? (Score 5, Informative) 95
Rambus does not produce RAM. They develop and license RAM related technologies. Infineon is one of the licensees (as is Intel).
Submission + - What If They Turned Off the Internet?
theodp writes: It's the not-to-distant future. They've turned off the Internet. After the riots have settled down and the withdrawal symptoms have faded, how would you cope? Cracked.com asked readers to Photoshop what life would be like in an Internet-addicted society learning to cope without it. Better hope it never happens, or be prepared for dry-erase message boards, carrier pigeon-powered Twitter, block-long lines to get into adult video shops, door-to-door Rickrolling, Lolcats on Broadway, and $199.99 CDs.
Comment Age/Goal? (Score 2, Informative) 145
Looking at the summary as well as at the webpage it does not become clear how old the mentioned kids are and if the goal is really understanding science and engineering.
For a younger age things like http://www.crazymachinesgame.com/ which give a more playful introduction to physics might be better.
Programming for kids has been addressed multiple times on Slashdot.
Submission + - Tracking people using bluetooth. (bluetoothtracking.org)
damdam writes: "A Dutch guy seems to have set up a small network of bluetooth scanners in his town of Apeldoorn scanning for bluetooth devices. He has all the information logged to a central database and you can search it over the web. On his website it says "Some of these matches were only minutes apart. Therefore I could even calculate the approximate speed of someone moving from one location to another.". There are also some interesting statistics on his site showing traffic volume in his hometown (based on bluetooth signals) and he even lists popularity of certain Nokia phones. It's interesting to see how much information an individual can gather using old equipment.
I just noticed this guy is the same guy as the one running the wired house on Icepick.com. Seems like tracking people is his thing."
Submission + - Half of SCO's Accountants Quit (groklaw.net)
Groklaw Reader writes: "Apparently, SCO's lawyers were working overtime last Sunday, because they wrote a quick plea to the bankruptcy court for permission to hire accounting temps. Why? Approximately half of SCO's finance department has resigned or been fired. Two who resigned had over ten years of experience each. One can only assume that they know what's about to happen to SCO."
Journal Journal: 50 terabyte flash drive made of bug protein
A prototype USB drive using bug protein to store data in the neighborhood of around 50 terabytes worth of data could be here in less then 18 months. This idea first started out by coating DVDs with a layer of protein so that one day solid state memory could hold so much information that storing data on your computer hard drive will be obsolete, says Professor V Renugopalakrishnan of the Harvard Medical School in Boston while reporting on his findings at the International Conf
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