Comment Re:bad idea... (Score 1) 504

by Off the Rails on Tuesday September 29, 2009 @06:09PM (#29586091) Attached to: Porn Surfing Rampant at US Science Foundation

It's just pictures of people having sex.

usually...

Comment Re:Obligatory quote (Score 1) 359

by Off the Rails on Thursday July 02, 2009 @05:37AM (#28555383) Attached to: Ant Mega-Colony Covers the World

Overlords?

You must be new here.

Comment Re:PER ASPERA AD ESCALA (Score 1) 85

by Off the Rails on Wednesday May 06, 2009 @05:00PM (#27851283) Attached to: Robots Take To the Stairs

Oh, God, I wish I had mod points.

Comment Re:And the judge understood it? (Score 1) 419

by Off the Rails on Wednesday August 06, 2008 @07:49AM (#24494231) Attached to: Tufts Tells Judge, We Can't Tie IP To MAC Addresses

Brings to mind this classic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6KyA_KabNM

PC Gaming's Future Evolution 51

Posted by Zonk on Monday March 12, 2007 @12:58PM from the do-the-evolution-baby dept.

Dr. Eggman writes "1up.com is reporting on the GDC panel from last week entitled PC Gaming in an Age of Connected Consoles. Unlike the usual doom and gloom about the 'death' of PC games, this panel suggested that the death is of PC games as we know them - PC gaming will evolve. They believe the future of gaming on the PC lies in strengths like persistent-world environments; not just as MMOs but anything that has elements of a persistent nature such as Battlefield 2142. They go on to describe the PC's greatest edge over consoles: user created content and the supportive game communities built around it. The article also cited the panel's views on the weaknesses inherent in consoles' closed networks and content control."

Submission + - International URLs pass first test

Submitted by

Off the Rails

on Monday March 12, 2007 @12:56PM

Off the Rails writes: "The BBC reports on the results of a successful test of non-ASCII domain names on Internet-equivalent hardware (pdf) carried out last October. The next stage is to plug the system into the net, and if it still works, it could go live sometime next year."

Submission + - Patent filed for underwater GPS

Submitted by

Matthew Sparkes

on Monday March 12, 2007 @12:05PM

Matthew Sparkes writes: "GPS doesn't work underwater, as the signal cannot reach the satellite from a submersible, but researchers have now patented an add-on to the system that could provide GPS navigation for submarines. A base station is tethered to the sea bed at a known depth and GPS location. A submersible anywhere in the area sends out a sonar pulse to which the base station replies with a signal, giving a GPS position and depth as well as the bearing angle from which the submersible's request arrived. The submersible then uses its own depth, which is easily measured, plus the round trip pulse time and the bearing angle sent by the base, to calculate its own position."

The Dozen Space Weapon Myths 191

Posted by Hemos on Monday March 12, 2007 @11:44AM from the look-up-project-avalon dept.

Thanks to Disowned Sky for finding a good debunking piece on space based weapon systems. Slightly disheartening, because I really want to have solar energy satellites that are also lasers. The article does a good job of looking further afield at nations besides the United States efforts in this area.