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Comment KODI via ARNU BOX (Score 1) 226

by One Intention on Thursday June 30, 2016 @04:50PM (#52421989) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What's Your Preferred Media Streaming Device?

Definitely recommend the ARNU BOX Mach 10 Pure Linux for streaming a local library. It plays any file I throw at it, can pass DTS/Dolby Digital to your receiver, and has a great remote. Runs KODI, so you can install any of the available add-ons to enhance functionality as needed.

http://www.arnubox.com/product...

I've tried running KODI using various Raspberry Pi, but always seem to run into issues either with the audio or just stutter in the large video formats.

Comment Re:Caller ID Blocker (Score 1) 253

by One Intention on Friday February 05, 2016 @01:28PM (#51447393) Attached to: A Bot That Drives Robocallers Insane

I have an app for my iPhone called Sentinel (jailbreak required) that allows me to automatically block phone calls with No Caller ID. It is amazing. I highly recommend it. http://apt.thebigboss.org/onep...

Comment Re:Ha! (Score 1) 543

by One Intention on Friday December 11, 2015 @05:53PM (#51102619) Attached to: Ted Cruz Wants Minimum H-1B Wage of $110,000

Reminds me of the time that the Republicans tried to get the Fair Tax passed when they knew they didn't have enough votes to pass it. It's all for show.

Submission + - Rybka solves the King's Gambit chess opening (chessbase.com)

Submitted by

smarq2

on Monday April 02, 2012 @11:09AM

smarq2 writes: "Chessbase reports that chess programmer IM Vasik Rajlich has solved the King's Gambit chess opening with technical means. 3000 processor cores, running for over four months, exhaustively analysed all lines that follow after 1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 and came to some extraordinary conclusions."

Submission + - CA City Fails to Collect $17.6M in Parking Fines (itworld.com)

Submitted by

itwbennett

on Monday April 02, 2012 @10:14AM

itwbennett writes: "Long Beach, California has $17.6 million in outstanding parking fines. To blame: Old software that requires too much manual intervention, city auditor Laura Doud said in a report released last week. The ironically named AutoProcess system, which is also used by the city of Pasadena, 'isn't integrated with the California Department of Motor Vehicles, meaning that information about who owns a particular vehicle has to be manually loaded into AutoProcess,' according to Doud's report."

Thousands of Blackbirds Fall From Sky Dead 577

Posted by samzenpus on Monday January 03, 2011 @02:04AM from the silent-spring dept.

Dan East writes "In a fashion worthy of a King or Hitchcock novel, blackbirds began to fall from the sky dead in Arkansas yesterday. Somewhere between 4,000 and 5,000 birds rained down on the small town of Beeb, Arkansas, with no visible trauma. Officials are making wild guesses as to what happened — lightning strike, high-altitude hail, or perhaps trauma from the sound of New Year's fireworks killed them."

PARC Builds iPod-Sized HIV Detector 93

Posted by timothy on Friday April 02, 2010 @09:40PM from the use-the-y-jack dept.

MikeChino writes "Right now it's difficult, if not impossible, to quickly detect HIV in patients living in impoverished countries. That may all change soon, though — researchers at a California outfit called the Palo Alto Research Center have built an iPod-sized handheld device that can provide an immune check-up in under 10 minutes — all with a prick of the finger. With millions of people around the world without access to a full-size laboratory, PARC's device could revolutionize the detection and treatment of HIV."

First MySQL 5.5 Beta Released 95

Posted by kdawson on Friday December 18, 2009 @01:29PM from the taking-care-of-business dept.

joabj writes "While MySQL is the subject of much high-profile wrangling between the EU and Oracle (and the MySQL creator himself), the MySQL developers have been quietly moving the widely-used database software forward. The new beta version of MySQL, the first publicly available, features such improvements as near-asynchronous replication and more options for partitioning. A new release model has been enacted as well, bequeathing this version the title of 'MySQL Server 5.5.0-m2.' Downloads here."

Entanglement Could Be a Deterministic Phenomenon 259

Posted by kdawson on Friday August 28, 2009 @11:04AM from the playing-dice dept.

KentuckyFC writes "Nobel prize-winning physicist Gerard 't Hooft has joined the likes of computer scientists Stephen Wolfram and Ed Fredkin in claiming that the universe can be accurately modeled by cellular automata. The novel aspect of 't Hooft's model is that it allows quantum mechanics and, in particular, the spooky action at a distance known as entanglement to be deterministic. The idea that quantum mechanics is fundamentally deterministic is known as hidden variable theory but has been widely discounted by physicists because numerous experiments have shown its predictions to be wrong. But 't Hooft says his cellular automaton model is a new class of hidden variable theory that falls outside the remit of previous tests. However, he readily admits that the new model has serious shortcomings — it lacks some of the basic symmetries that our universe enjoys, such as rotational symmetry. However, 't Hooft adds that he is working on modifications that will make the model more realistic (abstract)."

Submission + - Top 10 Web Application Vulnerabilities in Q1 2007

Submitted by Alejandro on Wednesday May 23, 2007 @02:00PM

Alejandro writes: The Application Security Trends Report identified 1,561 unique vulnerabilities during the first quarter of 2007. Of the reported vulnerabilities, file inclusion, SQL injection, cross-site scripting and directory traversal were the most prevalent, totaling 63 percent. While this report highlights the Top 10 vulnerabilities in commercial and open source applications, the problem is much worse if you factor in proprietary home grown applications, as these typically contain a large number of vulnerabilities.

Submission + - Top 14 ways to Speed up Web Sites

Submitted by

produke

on Wednesday May 23, 2007 @01:58PM

produke writes: "Check out this article on the AskApache blog that lists the 14 best methods to make your web site load and render pages very fast. Up-to-date and accurate information with full sources."

Submission + - Woman trades sex for WOW gold

Submitted by JTT on Wednesday May 23, 2007 @01:56PM

JTT writes: There are multiple sites reporting that in April a woman used craigslist to trade sex for WOW gold in order to purchase an 'Epic Flying Mount'. Aparent pictures of the craigslist ads can also be found floating around the net. The 'player' followed up with 'I got MY epic mount AND I got laid which is more than most of you failures can ever hope for.'

Submission + - The New Style of Web Analytics

Submitted by endtwist on Wednesday May 16, 2007 @06:43PM

endtwist writes: Tapefailure, a new web analytics startup, has gone public yesterday. According to the founder, Tapefailure is looking to change the face of web analytics: they record the users actions instead of just information about them. These actions are recorded as tapes, and the users can play back the tapes or view various statistics about them. They have launched with a plethora of features including some unique ones such as "Most Average Tape" and the Visual Mouse Maps (apparently, many, many more are in the works).

This new method of analytics has been hot as of late, with 3 major contenders in the field: Tapefailure, RobotReplay, and ClickTale. Tapefailure and RobotReplay are the first to go public, but it will be interesting to see where this type of analytics goes.

Submission + - Building revolutionary network for ocean study

Submitted by

Jon Corsiglia

on Wednesday May 16, 2007 @06:42PM

Jon Corsiglia writes: "http://www.joiscience.org/Newsroom/Press_Releases/ ooi_awards_5_07.html WASHINGTON -Joint Oceanographic Institutions (JOI), a consortium of leading U.S. oceanographic research institutions, has awarded multimillion dollar contracts to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and the University of Washington (UW) to support the development and operations for the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI). The OOI is a U.S. National Science Foundation investment to advance scientific understanding of the oceans, transforming research by establishing a network of interactive, globally distributed sensors in the ocean. JOI President Steve Bohlen said, "Today is an exciting day for ocean science. Awarding these contracts marks the first step in transforming the way ocean science is conducted. Rather than relying on limited expeditions from ships to gather data, observatories in the ocean will allow us to access data from our labs and desktops. Through the OOI, real- time data will be made available to scientists, citizens, teachers, and schoolchildren across the country." With National Science Foundation support, identified in the agency's FY2007 and FY2008 budget, the OOI will construct a networked infrastructure of science-driven sensor systems to measure the physical, chemical, geological and biological variables in the ocean and seafloor. The transformative OOI will provide continuous, interactive access to the ocean for the oceanographic research and education communities. The OOI's observatory elements will address science questions on coastal, regional, and global scales, linked by a common instrument, infrastructure, and information management system. The award to UCSD is for the computer architecture or cyberinfrastructure (CI) portion of the OOI. Scripps Institution of Oceanography will lead the project while the UCSD division of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) will manage it and, together with Scripps and the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), will build much of the cyberinfrastructure. The initial 6-year award is for $29 million, and total funding may reach more than $42 million over the course of the planned 11-year project. "Routine, long-term measurement of ocean processes is crucial to continued growth in our understanding and predictive modeling of complex natural phenomena that are highly variable and span enormous scales in space and time," said John Orcutt, principal investigator on the CI project and Professor of Geophysics at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego. University of Washington was awarded the opportunity to begin leading one of the complex parts of the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI), to construct a cabled underwater research facility off the Oregon and Washington coastlines. The first year phase will focus on detailed engineering specifications to extend high-speed internet throughout the deep oceans. This underwater research facility will be the world's first robot-sensor network to span a tectonic plate. "Today we are taking an important first step in fulfilling the vision that John Delaney and his many colleagues articulated more than 12 years ago. We are embarked upon a very ambitious project which will transform our understanding of the planet on which we live through a deeper understanding of the oceans. This is science at its grandest, and the University of Washington is an eager participant in this venture," said University of Washington President Emmert. JOI presented the OOI Network's Conceptual Design, developed with input from the research community, in August 2006. A major focus of UW's contract will advance the conceptual planning documents toward JOI's development of the network's preliminary design and the OOI Network's Preliminary Design Review scheduled for late 2007. "This new ocean observatory capability will provide novel and enduring ways to study the oceans. These new approaches are going to revolutionize not only how we humans look at oceans and the earth, but eventually — in the time of our children's children — the way we manage our entire planet," commented Professor John Delaney, with the School of Oceanography at University of Washington, Seattle. Said Dr. Holly Given, program director for Ocean Observing activities at JOI, "signing these contracts is a major step toward realizing the dreams of the hundreds of oceanographers who have been planning the OOI Network for more than ten years. JOI welcomes UCSD and UW as partners in this challenge." A final award for the coastal and global scale nodes of the OOI is expected in August 2007. JOI is a consortium of 31 premier oceanographic research institutions that serves the U.S. scientific community through management of large-scale, global research programs in the fields of marine geology and geophysics and oceanography. Known for leadership of U.S. scientific ocean drilling and ocean observing initiatives, JOI has helped facilitate discovery and advance global understanding of the Earth and its oceans through effective systems engineering and program management. ###"

Submission + - Microsoft, Bungie Drop the Ball for Halo 3 Beta

Submitted by

portege00

on Wednesday May 16, 2007 @06:39PM

portege00 writes: "I got up this morning thinking that I'd be able to play Halo 3 Multiplayer Beta on my day off because I purchased Crackdown. Guess not. Apparently Microsoft and Bungie really screwed up. While those that managed to secure a code through the rule of three program are happily playing away, the rest of us are left in the dark waiting without any answer as to when it will be available."

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