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Comment Re:Just another reason to not support DRM (Score 1) 419

False, It says his subscriptions stopped working.
You pay for those monthly for publications such as the New York Times etc.

Why would he continue to get those delivered if he can no longer pay for them?

The books he BOUGHT already will continue to work, nowhere in here does it say that they will not.

In fact in TFA it says he can put books onto the device by other means, implying that the books will continue to work.

Security

Calif. Politican Thinks Blurred Online Maps Would Deter Terrorists 597

Hugh Pickens writes "California Assemblyman Joel Anderson plans to introduce a bill to force Google Earth and similar services to blur images of so-called 'soft targets' like schools, hospitals, churches and government buildings to protect them from terrorists. 'All I'm trying to do is stop terrorists,' said Anderson. 'I don't want California to be helping map out future targets for terrorists.' Concerns that detailed satellite imagery and photographs available on Web services could help terrorists plan attacks are not new, with reports that terrorists have used such imagery to carry out attacks in Iraq and Israel, and an Indian court is considering a ban on Google Earth following reports that its imagery played a part in the Mumbai terrorist attacks."
The Courts

Maryland Court Weighs Internet Anonymity 409

Cornwallis writes "In a First Amendment case with implications for everything from neighborhood e-mail lists to national newspapers, a Maryland businessman argued to the state's highest court yesterday that the host of an online forum should be forced to reveal the identities of people who posted allegedly defamatory comments. The businessman, Zebulon J. Brodie, contends that he was defamed by comments about his shop, a Dunkin' Donuts in Centreville, posted on NewsZap.com. The shop was described as one 'of the most dirty and unsanitary-looking food-service places I have seen.' Talk about a Negative Nellie! At least the article didn't say the shop was the 'most dirty and unsanitary-looking food-service places I have seen.'"
Medicine

Doctor Performs Amputation By Text Message 242

Peace Corps Online writes "Vascular surgeon David Nott performed a life-saving amputation on a boy in DR Congo following instructions sent by text message from a colleague in London. The boy's left arm had been ripped off and was badly infected and gangrenous; there were just 6in (15cm) of the boy's arm remaining, much of the surrounding muscle had died and there was little skin to fold over the wound. 'He had about two or three days to live when I saw him,' Nott said. Nott, volunteering with the medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres, knew he needed to perform a forequarter amputation requiring removal of the collar bone and shoulder blade and contacted Professor Meirion Thomas at London's Royal Marsden Hospital, who had performed the operation before. 'I texted him and he texted back step by step instructions on how to do it,' Nott said."

Comment Won't work too well. (Score 1) 532

Most advertising works by having you correlate a service or something positive with the advertised product. Commercials between your favorite shows, contextualized ads on websites, previews before movies etc.

Tests aren't positive for most people. In fact I am pretty sure most people don't like tests. Works as well as advertising space on barf bags.

This portion of brain-melting hell brought to you by Joe's Honeywagon!

Comment Runs on the 787? (Score 1) 352

I've worked with test benches running the OS and hardware that is going on the 787.

If it's the same thing, it's going to be interesting seeing something like windows or linux run on it.

It has different processing areas, and each of the areas run on a different piece of hardware. So you basically had one computer running datalink to ground stations and other aircraft and another computer doing navigational computations (and several other computers doing various other tasks).

If windows were the same way it would be like.. having a different set of ram and a different processor running network tasks from ones running hard drive communication tasks.

Then again the OS that connects all of these together might be more flexible than I imagine, I only work on a small piece of software that runs on one of the aforementioned.

Comment Python. (Score 1) 215

The "pygame" library in Python has a surfarray class that allows you to parse images as arrays.

Convert the image to black and white, with a tolerance level above the black of the circle and below the black of the dials.

Then you'll just have dials, so do a vertical scan then a horizontal scan.. whichever point has the least black pixels in common between both scans is the tip of the dial. Whichever has the most black points in common is the center of the dial.

Draw a line between those two points, measure the angle. Gotcha.

Prolly to complicated but i'd do it.. it would be a fun project.

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