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Comment Browser usage in a college atmosphere (Score 1) 575

by Nalk on Tuesday July 07, 2009 @06:53PM (#28615361) Attached to: Is IE Usage Share Collapsing?

Interesting usage statistics from the union website of a technical university: Students are required to buy a school-issued Thinkpad. For the last 3 years the Thinkpad has had a 1680 by 1050 screen. Among users of the union website who are on the the school's ISP and using a 1680 by 1050 screen, 53% use Chrome, 38% use Firefox, and 6% use IE. The share of firefox users declines even more when the results are filtered to Windows only. Data for non-1680 by 1050 screens is as follows: Firefox 54%, Chrome 33%, IE 11% This shows that college age kids are much more receptive to Google's browser, while professors, staff, and lab users favor Firefox.

Comment Re:Slashdotted (Score 1) 160

by Nalk on Sunday May 04, 2008 @11:53PM (#23297040) Attached to: Homer Simpson Drawn With Web 2.0-Style ASCII Art

Homer still available on the original author's site without the animation here: http://www.romancortes.com/blog/homer-css/

A Robotic Taxi Named robuCAB 69

Posted by Zonk on Wednesday March 12, 2008 @06:42PM from the take-me-home-jeeves dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "According to ICT Results, an EU-funded project named Embounded 'has achieved the twin, and apparently contradictory, goals of making embedded systems both smarter and tougher.' One example is the robuCAB, a '4 seat automated people mover' developed by a French company and built from a 4 wheel-drive electric chassis with on-board PC. This autonomous vehicle follows the curb and carries several embedded systems, with one camera on the path edge, another device tracking the angle and direction of the curb, while others control the gearing and acceleration. robuCABs are not totally independent. They move over pre-defined circuits which contain a series of sensors below the ground. But read more for additional references and a picture of two robuCABs on the road."

Air Force Seeking Geeks For 'Cyber Command' 524

Posted by kdawson on Wednesday February 13, 2008 @03:31AM from the they-also-serve dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Wired reports that the two-star general in charge of the US Air Force's new Cyber Command is looking for hacker-types to beef up its cadre of cyber warriors — no heavy lifting required. 'We have to change the way we think about warriors of the future,' General William Lord says. 'So if they can't run three miles with a pack on their backs but they can shut down SCADA system, we need to have a culture where they fit in.' The Cyber Command is the Air Force's first new Major Command since the early 1990s. Its purpose is to be able to win an electronic war with China and other potential adversaries."

Submission + - French Threat to ID Secret US Satellites (beskerming.com)

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SkiifGeek

on Sunday September 09, 2007 @07:24PM

SkiifGeek writes: "Space.com has reported that the French have identified numerous objects in orbit that do not appear in the ephemeris data reported by the US Space Surveillance Network. Since the US has claimed that if it doesn't appear in the ephemeris data, then it doesn't exist, and the French claim that at least some of the objects have solar arrays, it seems that the French have found secret US satellites.

While the French don't plan to release the information publicly, they are planning to use it as leverage to get the US to suppress reporting of sensitive French satellites in their published ephemeris.

The Graves surveillance radar (the French system) and a comparable German system may form the basis of a pan-European Space Surveillance network — another system that the Europeans don't want to rely on the US for."

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