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Comment Re:Two big sources (Score 1) 926

by MattG91 (#45384137) Attached to: Where Does America's Fear Come From?
Another low-information 'netizen who thinks guns are some huge problem in the US, modded up by similar 'netizens, neither of which understand that the function and spirit of the Second Amendment is perfectly applicable today, moreso than ever. Molon Labe.
Chrome

Pinkie Pie Earns $60K At Pwn2Own With Three Chromium 0-Day Exploits 148

Posted by timothy from the omg-pwnies! dept.
Tackhead writes "Hot on the hooves of Sergey Glazunov's hack 5-minutes into Pwn2Own, an image of an axe-wielding pink pony was the mark of success for a hacker with the handle of Pinkie Pie. Pinkie Pie subtly tweaked Chromium's sandbox design by chaining together three zero-day vulnerabilities, thereby widening his appeal to $60K in prize money, another shot at a job opportunity at the Googleplex, and instantly making Google's $1M Pwnium contest about 20% cooler. (Let the record show that Slashdot was six years ahead of this particular curve, and that April Fool's Day is less than a month away.)"
Anime

Company Unveils Personalized Anime Robot Girl 240

Posted by samzenpus from the I'm-so-very-lonely dept.
MrSeb writes "It seems, as a culture, we have a deep-seated interest in robots and automatons, and if we can love an animal or other non-humanoid creature, what's to stop us from falling in love with a robot? Introducing Meka Robotics' S2 Humanoid Head: It has seven degrees of freedom, high-resolution FireWire cameras in each eye, zero-backlash Harmonic Drive gearing in the neck, and a ton of unnervingly-human movements and postures. She weighs 7.6kg (16.7lbs), has a pair of luminous, waggling doggy-like ears, and can be attached to a Meka torso and arm, if you prefer your robots to be slightly more corporeal. The girly, anime face is just a custom skin, incidentally: Meka will customize the shell to look like anything you desire. We're told that they value their client's confidentiality — and more importantly they don't judge. Powered by the open-source and extensible M3 control software, the S2 head (and body and arm) could be quite easily upgraded to use Hooman Samani's artificial endocrine and psychological models — and if you had the choice of falling in love with an amorphous, decidedly odd-looking furball, or a cute, perky anime girl, which would you choose?"
Cloud

Facebook Testing Translate Feature For Comments? 91

Posted by samzenpus from the button-of-babel dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Facebook may be testing a translation feature that could overcome the language barrier many users experience on the social network. If a comment posted on a Page is in a language that is different than the one your Facebook account is set to, a Translate button may show up just below it beside the existing Like button. Clicking on the button will translate the comment to your account language. After translation, an Original button appears instead, and if you click that it will revert the comment to the original version (and presumably offer the Translation button again)."

Comment Toaru Majutsu no Index (Score 1) 467

by MattG91 (#36722550) Attached to: When Software Offends
"Toaru Majutsu no Index" is the name of the anime series referenced by the name Misaka. I beleive they are making a reference to Mikoto Misaka, one of the primary protagonists. Incidentally, I enjoy that series, I've seen that series twice over and I don't remember there being promiscuous amounts of panty shots of the characters. Were there some here and there? Sure, but it's not something I'd deem unsuitable for anyone who's at least high school age. Ironically enough, there's a particular scene where one of Misaka's friends points out that Misaka always wears shorts underneath her skirt. So you can't see Misaka's panties.
Media

Comcast Helps Fix Pirate Bay Connection Problems 237

Posted by timothy from the ok-that's-your-story dept.
MagusSlurpy writes "Far from blocking The Pirate Bay, Comcast was just one of several ISPs on which TPB was unreachable today. Comcast reached out to the torrent site, and its engineers provided technical support, eventually determining that the connectivity issues stemmed from a reverse path filtering issue at an intermediate ISP, Serious Tubes Networks."

Comment Sounds like Apple (Score 1) 645

by MattG91 (#36108786) Attached to: Sergey Brin: Windows Is "Torturing Users"
Anyone else get the feeling that Google's ChromeOS is now subscribing to a very Apple-like philosophy that things should "just work" without any tweaking needed by the end user? And thus any tweaking functionality will be at best, minimal? Sorry Sergey Brin, that's a giant step backwards. If you choose to go that direction, you'll not have my business for your ChromeOS, ever. I actually enjoy tweaking the hell out of stuff. For example, just took my first real leap into Linux just yesterday. Messed with KDE until I got it looking reminiscient of Windows 7, because I actually quite enjoy its UI.
Transportation

What Happens If You Get Sucked Out of a Plane? 327

Posted by Roblimo from the do-not-try-this-at-home dept.
astroengine writes "We've all wondered about it. When flying at 30,000ft, you look around the cramped economy class cabin thinking 'I wonder if I'd survive being sucked out of this plane if a hole, say, just opened above my head?' That's probably around the time that you should fasten your seat belt. According to medical experts interviewed by Discovery News in the wake of the Southwest Airlines gaping hole incident, the rapid depressurization, low oxygen levels and freezing cold would render you unconscious very quickly. Assuming you don't get chopped in half as you exit through the hole and hit the tail, you'd be long dead before you hit the ground. Nice."
Beer

Aussie Brewery Creates Space Beer 118

Posted by CmdrTaco from the drunk-in-spaaaaaace dept.
astroengine writes "An Australian brewing company has created the world's first beer that can be consumed in space. 4-Pines Brewing Company teamed up with Saber Astronautics Australia, tirelessly testing different brews on zero-G flights last year. They have now finalized the winning formula, calling the beer 'Vostok' — after the spacecraft flown by Yuri Gagarin in 1961. The beverage is a strong-tasting stout with reduced carbonation to avoid the dreaded microgravity 'wet burp.'"
Earth

Engineers Propose Lily Pad-Like Floating Cities 309

Posted by samzenpus from the city-of-frogs dept.
Zothecula writes "The idea of going offshore to satisfy our renewable energy needs isn't new, but the grand vision of Japan's Shimizu Corporation goes way beyond harnessing green energy at sea for use in cities on Terra firma — it takes the whole city along for the ride. The company, along with the Super Collaborative Graduate School and Nomura Securities, is researching the technical issues involved in constructing its Green Float concept — a self-sufficient, carbon-negative floating city that would reside in the Equatorial Pacific Ocean."
Facebook

Sex Drugs and Texting 287

Posted by samzenpus from the busy-hands-are-happy-hands dept.
statesman writes "The Associated Press reports that teens who text frequently are three and a half times more likely to have sex. A survey of 4,200 public high school students in the Cleveland area found that one in five students sent more than 120 text messages a day or spent more than 3 hours a day on Facebook. Students in this group were much more likely to have sex. Alcohol and drug use also correlate with frequent texting and heavy Facebook use."
Government

Mexican Senate Votes To Drop Out of ACTA 96

Posted by samzenpus from the outta-acta dept.
An anonymous reader writes "The Mexican Senate has voted unanimously to drop out of ACTA negotiations, saying that the process has been way too secretive, left out many stakeholders and appears to deny access to knowledge and information. Of course, it's not clear if this 'non-binding resolution' actually means much, as the negotiators are not under the Senate's control. At the very least, though, it appears the Mexican Senate is going to fight to keep the country from agreeing to ACTA."
Social Networks

Top Reason for Facebook Unfriending Is Too Many Useless Posts 300

Posted by samzenpus from the if-you-don't-have-any-thing-say dept.
alphadogg writes "The No. 1 reason why friends dump friends on Facebook is when they get fed up seeing too many useless posts, according to new research out of the University of Colorado Denver Business School. Posts about polarizing subjects such as politics and religion as well as inappropriate and racist comments also sever many Facebook relationships, according to Christopher Sibona, a PhD student in the Computer and Science and Information Systems program. 'Researchers spend a lot of time examining how people form friendships online but little is known on how those relationships end,' said Sibona, whose research will be published in January by the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. 'Perhaps this will help us develop a theory of the entire cycle of friending and unfriending.' Sibona surveyed more than 1,500 Facebook users to get to the bottom of why people dump each other. Not surprisingly, people who flood others with posts are at great risk of being unfriended. 'The 100th post about your favorite band is no longer interesting,' he said." Samzenpus likes this.

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