Comment Quick, Draw (Score 1) 31
There's another sketching objects for AIs game, I find it much easier and more fun but I guess it's not quite as ambitious. https://quickdraw.withgoogle.c...
Comment Bang With Friends redux (Score 1) 46
The Bang With Friends app lets you tag friends you want to bang. If they happen to also use the app and also tag you then it connects you. It made news 4-5 years ago but it appears to still be around: https://www.facebook.com/searc...
Comment Sounds like they were hacked by a 15 year old. (Score 1) 262
If some script kiddie found their way into the customer database, this is just the kind of thing they would think was funny.
Comment It would just create a new black market (Score 1) 81
As a developer, I generally try to *remove* bugs from the software, but for a share of the $150,000, I'm sure I could let something slip through and then tell you where to find it.
Dilbert nailed this 18 years ago: http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1995-11-13/
Comment Re:"Why not both?" (Score 1) 383
Our company does the same. My primary email address is username@company.com but I also have aliases of first_last@company.com and first.last@company.com. Conflicts are generally handled manually by adding a middle initial but since it's manual, it could be almost anything. The same mechanism is used for general aliasing for situations like name changes when someone gets married, they get both the old and new address.
Comment Re:Contour Crafting (Score 1) 74
Video link seems to have gone missing. See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdbJP8Gxqog
Comment Contour Crafting (Score 1) 74
USC has been working on 3D printing of buildings for a while now. Professor Behrokh Khoshnevis has developed a process he calls contour crafting that builds up a wall by adding concrete to it one contour at a time. You can find a TEDx video here. They're currently working with NASA to see if this technique can be used on the moon. But it doesn't seem like they've moved beyond the prototype stage.
Submission + - SpaceX's Falcon Plummets
JHarrison writes: "Spaceflight Now is running a story on the SpaceX Falcon 1 launch yesterday. Those of you watching the stream will have no doubt noticed the telemetry failure at 04:50, and turns out that was more than them turning the webcast off.. "A year after its maiden flight met a disastrous end, the SpaceX booster lifted off at 9:10 p.m. EDT (0110 GMT Wednesday) from a remote launch pad on Omelek Island, part of a U.S. Army base at Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands. Controllers lost contact with the Falcon during the burn of the second stage that would have placed the rocket into orbit around Earth. "We did encounter, late in the second stage burn, a roll-control anomaly," Elon Musk, founder and chief executive officer of Space Exploration Technologies Corp., said in a post-launch call with reporters. Live video from cameras mounted aboard the rocket's second stage showed increasing oscillations about five minutes after liftoff, just before the public webcast was cut off. The rolling prevented the necessary speed to achieve a safe orbit, instead sending the stage on a suborbital trajectory back into the atmosphere.""
Microsoft Gives In To the EU 161
An anonymous reader writes with word that Redmond Developer News is reporting
that Microsoft has given in to EU threats of further fines. The company has opened up a whole host of protocols, including the Exchange protocol, under a license, the terms of which are not known. No other news outlet has picked up this story so far.
