Comment Re: What does problematic mean? (Score 1) 483
https://www.theguardian.com/me...
higher-proportion-of-men-than-women-report-online-abuse-in-survey
Comment Re: What does problematic mean? (Score 1) 483
Comment Even a stopped clock is right twice a day (Score 1) 86
Following the logic "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day"
I would guess that the probe will sometimes get light enough to power itself as it orbits - likewise it might be able to send sometimes
Maybe these charge and send widows could be used to take snap shot in a new mission mode rather than letting it rot.
I suppose that reprogramming it the catch as you need it to and have power at the same time for now
A relay satellite would be handy, to widen the send receive window enough to use the point when the natural orientation lets solar power it.
Submission + - Hugo awards live stream cut by copyright bot (io9.com)
Penmanpro writes: "Quotes from the linked article "UStream's incorrectly programmed copyright enforcement squad had destroyed our only access."
"just as Neil Gaiman was giving an acceptance speech for his Doctor Who script, "The Doctor's Wife." Where Gaiman's face had been were the words, "Worldcon banned due to copyright infringement." ""
"just as Neil Gaiman was giving an acceptance speech for his Doctor Who script, "The Doctor's Wife." Where Gaiman's face had been were the words, "Worldcon banned due to copyright infringement." ""
Comment Link about Assange case gives us a clue (Score 1) 2
"Not only would Sweden – as a signatory to the European convention on human rights – be required to refuse extradition in circumstances which would breach his human rights, but the authorities in Sweden would also be legally obliged to seek the United Kingdom's consent before any extradition to a non-EU member state could proceed."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/sep/03/ecuador-julian-assange-extradited-death-penalty?newsfeed=true
Submission + - Twitter based Ted Beats Seismometers, Detects Philippines Earthquake Earlier (skynews.com.au) 2
hypnosec writes: Twitter based system has managed to detect the earthquake off the Philippines before any other advanced spotting systems being used by Seismologists. US Geological Survey uses the micro-blogging site to quickly gather information about earthquakes around the globe through the use of a system – Twitter Earthquake Detection (Ted) which put behind USGS’ own sensors on Friday when it came to detecting 7.6 magnitude earthquake off the Philippine coast. The Ted system gathers earth-quake related messages (Tweets) in real-time from Twitter. The system takes into consideration various parameters like place, time, keywords, photographs of affected places where tremors have been detected. Online information posted by people, Tweets in this case, can be picked up faster by researchers as compared to scientific alerts that may take up to 20 minutes.
Comment NOoooo! (Score 1) 1
Looks like they have been learning from mobile operators.
The question is can we unlock it?
Can we force them to?
Will they bring down the price?
Logic: Locked phone/tablet less valuable
Comment Computer solutions approach coming full circle (Score 3, Funny) 780
So we are going back to command line and dumb terminals... how very retro
Comment Remember SCO? (Score 1) 359
This reminds me of the SCO stunt where they claimed they owned parts of linux but would not say which parts.
As I remember it slash dot readers did a good job trying to crack that issue, aiming to prove that SCO did not own linux.
Comment Solar would be a good way to supplement power (Score 1) 290
I do not see why we are writing this idea off.
I still want one.
It would extend battery life between charges, and get me that all important emergency text after the wall charge is lost.
I remember the first generation of mobile batteries:
after they phone ran out of power, if you leave them alone for 20min would give you enough power for one more text.
It was often very useful.
