Comment This is a Story? (Score 2, Informative) 149
A manager firing a person for not showing up to work is not a story.
Comment Theme park? (Score 1) 54
Not a good idea. I have seen this movie
Comment Just bought mine a few months ago (Score 1) 266
fishing lures, custom peg board tool holders, stands/mounts/cases for electronic projects, and a lot of miniature D&D models. When I was able to get a printer for sub $200 it became a hobby and I am not really concerned with the practical use any more even though I have found some use. It is more of an entertainment item than anything else.
Comment Zombie Appocolypse is finally over! (Score 1) 258
Could this be the begining of the end? See the young people emerge from the houses squinting at the daylight
Comment Stardust (Score 1) 314
Stardust@home - very easy to track progress and classroom materials avaiable.
USFIRST is always a great option
Submission + - Germany declare hacking tools illegal (arstechnica.com)
dubbelj writes: Germany have updated their computer crime law to declare "hacking tools" illegal.
This will make most of the network admin and computer security people in a gray area at work.
How will this affect Linux distribution in Germany as most of standard Linux distributions come with these kind of "hacking tools" installed by default?
How will the rest of EU member countries react on this law, will there be lobbying for the other countries to implement this kind of laws also?
Articles in ars technica and The Register.
Feed 'Seat belts' restrain galaxies' black holes (pheedo.com)
Violent collisions between galaxies are expected to throw out colossal black holes but astronomers have so far failed to observe them - now they may know why
Submission + - P2P Networks supplement Botnets
stuckinarut writes: Peer to peer file sharing network popularity is at an all time high, with hundreds of thousands of computers connected to a single P2P network at a given time. These networks are increasingly being used to trick PCs into attacking other machines, experts say. In fact, some reports indicate that peer-to-peer may actually exceed web traffic. Computer scientists have previously shown how P2P networks can be subverted so that several connected PCs gang up to attack a single machine, flooding it with enough traffic to make it crash. This can work even if the target is not part of the P2P network itself. Now, security experts are warning that P2P networks are increasingly being used to do just this. "Until January of this year we had never seen a peer-to-peer network subverted and used for an attack," says Darren Rennick of internet security company Prolexic in an advisory released recently. "We now see them constantly being subverted."
Submission + - First Nations want cellphone revenue
Peacenik45 writes: The CBC is reporting that First Nations in Manitoba want compensation for every cell phone signal that passes through their land because it violates their airspace. The Assembly of Maintoba Chiefs recently resolved to negotiate revenue sharing with Manitoba Telecom Services. Ovide Mercredi of the Grand Rapids First Nations says "When it comes to using airspace, it's like using our water and simply because there's no precedent doesn't mean that it's not the right thing to do." This move may inspire First Nations in other provinces to follow suit.
Feed CafePress drops Buddha-snap doggie G-strings (theregister.com)
Thailand outraged by 'offensive' canine apparel
US online apparel outfit CafePress today dropped "G-string underwear and T-shirts for dogs* emblazoned with [a] picture of Buddha" after Thailand went ballistic at the outrage.
Halo, Nothing But Halo 67
The Halo 3 Beta has been in the news just a bit lately, and with it the Halo franchise is again looming large in other formats. Director Peter Jackson is speculating that the release of the game this September may refocus attention on the movie, stalled as it has been since October of last year. Jackson still wants to make it, but only with Neill Blomkamp directing. The Halo comic, meanwhile, has been confirmed as an ongoing series. The comic will consist of several mini-series runs, with future adventures possibly featuring the return of Brian Michael Bendis (the mind behind the first series). As for the game itself, Beta code has uncovered several game achievements that will be earnable after launch. Trying to calm fans somehow disappointed with the Beta's graphics, Bungie's Frank O'Connor assures us the shipped game will look better. And finally for a broader view of the game N'Gai Croal and Stephen Totilo are at it again, dissecting the Beta experience with witty correspondence.
Feed 'Living' cyborg chip stores rudimentary memories (engadget.com)
Filed under: Desktops, Storage
The journey to pack more (proverbial) internal storage into the human brain has been going on for years, but a recent development at Tel-Aviv University could actually bring us one step closer to storing rudimentary memories on a manmade device. Reportedly, a new experiment has shown that it is indeed possible to store said memories "in an artificial culture of live neurons," which is a fairly significant step towards the "cyborg-like integration of living material into memory chips." Essentially, Itay Baruchi and Eshel Ben-Jacob carefully examined the firing patterns of a sea of electrodes and found that they could "deliberately create additional firing patterns that coexist with the spontaneous patterns." These forced patterns could theoretically represent simple memories stored in the neuron network, and after giving it a go on their own, they were able to see "memory patterns" persist for over forty hours in a homegrown concoction. Of course, the duo isn't likely to stop before producing "the first chemically operated neuro-memory chip," and while we could all use a longer train of thought every now and then, the studies could also "help neurologists to understand how our brains learn and store information."[Via TGDaily]
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