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Comment How would this system work for "remote" workers? (Score 1) 305

by Erectus (#22066554) Attached to: Microsoft to Spy on Employees

I wonder how these technologies would work for us working at home?

Is my bed and living room sofa going to have analyzers? How would the system know when a person is working or doing some other activity? Would it record snoring?

Does the next generation have also active components? (If you remember the WTO lecturer hoax in Finland, "Textiles of the Future") [The Yes Men, http://www.theyesmen.org/ ]
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Submission + - First reflected light from an exoplanet

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Roland Piquepaille writes: "European astronomers have for the first time ever been able to detect and monitor the visible light that is scattered in the atmosphere of an exoplanet, HD 189733b, which is also known as a 'hot Jupiter,' and orbits a star slightly cooler and less massive than the Sun located about 60 light-years from Earth. According to this ETH Zurich news release, 'Polarization technique focuses limelight,' the researchers used 'techniques similar to how Polaroid sunglasses filter away reflected sunlight to reduce glare. They also directly traced the orbit of the planet, a feat of visualization not possible using indirect methods.' The team thinks that their findings are opening new opportunities for exploring physical conditions on exoplanets. But read more for additional references and a great picture of this exoplanet."
Data Storage

Submission + - Researchers Explore Quantum Dot-Based NVRAM (arstechnica.com)

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I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes: "Researchers in Germany are trying to turn self-assembled arrays of quantum dots into non-volatile storage. So far, they've managed access times of 10ns and refresh rates as low as 0.7Hz, which would make it superior to current RAM. Also, unlike flash memory, there's no silicon dioxide layer to wear out and limit the number of write cycles. They still have challenges, though, in increasing the data density and figuring out how to mass produce these arrays."
Biotech

Submission + - Doping: Beyond Sports? (latimes.com)

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runamock writes: The Los Angeles Times ran a story on the growing use of 'mind drugs': 'Forget sports doping. The next frontier is brain doping.. Despite the potential side effects, academics, classical musicians, corporate executives, students and even professional poker players have embraced the drugs to clarify their minds, improve their concentration or control their emotions.. Unlike the anabolic steroids, human growth hormone and blood-oxygen boosters that plague athletic competitions, the brain drugs haven't provoked similar outrage. People who take them say the drugs aren't giving them an unfair advantage but merely allow them to make the most of their hard-earned skills.'
Operating Systems

Submission + - Embedded Linux on a Digital Stethoscope (calvin.edu)

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An anonymous reader writes: A team of electrical and computer engineering students at Calvin College is designing a digital electronic stethoscope running uClinux as its operating system. While there are many embedded devices built on Linux operating systems, medical devices running open-source software are extremely rare because of the perceived difficulty in obtaining FDA validation. The device is in its early stages of development, but major hardware choices have been made, and the team has recently released a Project Proposal and Feasibility Study.
Security

Submission + - Inside a Modern Malware Distribution System 1

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Scrabblous writes: "This eweek.com article provides a peek at the backend code and control server associated with Pushdo, a complex Trojan downloader that meticulously tracks its victims. From the article: For starters, the Pushdo controller uses the GeoIP geolocation database in conjunction with whitelists and blacklists of country codes to allow the malware distributor to limit one of the malware loads from infecting users located in a particular country. It also goes a step further, logging the victim's primary hard drive serial number, tracking whether the file system is NTFS, the number of times the victim system has launched a Pushdo variant, and the Windows OS version that executed the malware."
Space

Submission + - Universe running out of time (telegraph.co.uk)

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RenHoek writes: With heat death, the big crunch and quite a few other nasty ways in which the universe could see its demise, we can now add "running out of time" to the list. A team of scientists came up with a new theory that would solve the problem of the elusive dark energy that seems to be accelerating the expansion of the universe. They figure that the universe is not speeding up but we are, in relation to the outer regions of space, slowing down. Tests with the upcoming Large Hadron Collider will give more insight if we're going to end up frozen in time.

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